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and opposition to clerical possessions from charges of "newfangledness," the husbandman introduces what he takes to be a century-old treatise; i.e., a late-fourteenth-century
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Lollard treatise which is attached at the end with little done to make a transition; it is revised to function as contemporary anti-Roman polemic.
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