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a powerful magnate and power broker who was the third son of King Edward III, although that connection may have started as early as 1371. Soon after his return from Bruges he began to write tracts and longer works, being no longer satisfied with just using his college chair to promote his ideas. In his book De civili dominio ("On Civil Dominion"), concerning the government of God and the Ten Commandments, he attacked the temporal rule of the clergy, the collection of

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