The "Fasciculi Zizaniorum" in the Rolls Series with the documents appended to it is a work of primary authority for the history of Wyclif and his followers: a selection from his English tracts has been made by Mr.T.Arnold for the University of Oxford, which has also published his "Trias." The version of the Bible that bears his name has been edited with a valuable preface by the Rev.J.Forshall and Sir F.Madden.William Langland's poem, "The Complaint of Piers the Ploughman" (edited by Mr.Skeat for the Early English Text Society), throws a flood of light on the social state of England after the Treaty of Bretigny.
The "Annals of Richard the Second and Henry the Fourth," now published by the Master of the Rolls, are our main authority for the period which follows Edward's death.

They serve as the basis of the St.Albans compilation which bears the name of Walsingham, and from which the "Life of Richard" by a monk of Evesham is for the most part derived.

The same violent Lancastrian sympathy runs through Walsingham and the fifth book of Knyghton's Chronicle.

The French authorities on the other hand are vehemently on Richard's side.

Froissart, who ends at this time, is supplemented by the metrical history of Creton ("Archaeologia," vol.xx.), and by the "Chronique de la Traison et Mort de Richart" (English Historical Society), both works of French authors and published in France in the time of Henry the Fourth, probably with the aim of arousing French feeling against the House of Lancaster and the war-policy which it had revived.