the bishops had returned the names of the delinquents into the court of Chancery.” When Richard II. was deposed, and the crown usurped by Henry IV. in order to gain the good-will of the clergy, it was farther enacted, in the second year of his reign, “that if any persons were suspected of heresy, the ordinary might detain them in prison till they were canonically purged, or did abjure their errors; provided always, that the proceedings against them were publicly and judicially ended within three