answers he gave them, were incendiary. Revenues were flooding into the Church from all compass points and from a variety of cleverly invented streams. Wycliffe, however, could find no justification in Scripture for the “organization of the church as a feudal hierarchy, or for the rich endowments the Church enjoyed.”4 He felt that the Church should be stripped of its coin and that it should distribute its wealth among the poor. “God gave his sheep to be pastured,” he wrote, “not to be shaven and shorn.”5