Editing John Wycliffe (section)

==== ''De incarcerandis fedelibus'' ====

Wycliffe then wrote his ''De incarcerandis fedelibus'' (On the Incarceration of the Faithful), with 33 conclusions in Latin and English. Wycliffe did not think that incarceration should be a permitted form of excommunication.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wycliffe |first1=John |last2=Pollard |first2=Alfred W. (Alfred William) |last3=Sayle |first3=Charles |title=Tractatus de officio regis |date=1966 |publisher=New York [etc.] : Johnson Reprint ; Frankfurt am Main : Minerva |url=https://archive.org/details/tractatusdeoffic00wycl/}}</ref>{{rp|xxvii}} In the book he demanded that it should be legal for the excommunicated and incarcerated to appeal to the king and his council against the excommunication or incarceration.{{what|date=April 2025}}{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}   

Some ordinary citizens, some of the nobility, and his former protector, John of Gaunt, rallied to him. Before any further steps could be taken in Rome, Gregory XI died in 1378.