Excerpt from Epistolae Academicae Oxon, (Registrum F), Vol. 2: A Collection of Letters and Other Miscellaneous Documents Illustrative of Academical Life and Studies at Oxford in the Fifteenth Century; (1457-1509) Israel would have perished hy the wrath of God had not Moses stood hefore them in the gap.' We are sure that, as a faitlful leader, you also will not fail to stand forth in defence of the people committed to your charge, and (y' the faith of the church in peril; and we have heen assured that you have commenced an efort to repress the widening breach in the rule (y' faith at this time existing, especially among the more ignorant people. Let us not therefore he deemed to impute luhewarmness to your grace, for we solemnly declare we have no such intention our aim is only to add fuel to the flame of your zeal. We achnowledge that the errors of faith in question had their origin among us, and that we did not at first tahe active measures to correct them. But now we desire to do so, and we are ready to die, if need he, for the true faith of the Church. In the meantime we heg that the writings of the learned hut erring doctor of this University, which are the source of the trouble, may he suhmitted to us for discussion and refutation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.