Mabwenzi ndi omuchirikiza Wycliffe anakakamizika kugonja, ndipo kunayembekezeredwa ndi chidaliro kuti wokonzansoyo mwiniyo, mu ukalamba wake, yekha ndi wopanda mabwenzi, adzagwadira ku ulamuliro wophatikizidwa wa korona ndi nduwira. 
The friends and supporters of Wycliffe had been forced to yield, and it had been 89 confidently expected that the Reformer himself, in his old age, alone and friendless, would bow to the combined authority of the crown and the miter.