 In 1378, in the ambassadors' presence, he delivered an opinion before Parliament that showed, in an important ecclesiastical political question (the matter of the right of asylum in Westminster Abbey), a position that was to the liking of the State.He argued that criminals who had taken sanctuary in churches might lawfully be dragged out of sanctuary.The books and tracts of Wycliffe's last six years include continual attacks upon the papacy and the entire hierarchy of his times.