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Christian Heritage Tour Around London - First Team Day

------------------------------------- Key: route taken Transcript of Ben Virgo's Speech -------------------------------------- Standing at the top of the stairs at the front of St Paul’s Cathedral  1300s - the time of John witcliffe Minister of churches in London back then didn’t know the 12 commandments, where they were in the Bible nor who wrote the Lord’s Prayer. Different to them Whitcliffe was born again from reading the gospel and then preached it - ‘the God against whom you’ve sinned has taken the punishment for you and is coming again. He was arrested. His trial happened here in St Paul’s for heresy. They burned him alive. John of Gaunt was in charge of Whitcliffe’s trial with Lord Percy: The conversation between them is said to have gone like this: Percy: Whitcliffe would you like to be seated? Bishop: Are you inviting the heretic to be seated? Percy: do you know who I am? Bishop: do you know whose house this is? And a riot breaks out Wh