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By the time of the Council of Basel a curious distortion of FitzRalph’s thought had come about by seeing him as closer to Wyclif than he was in reality. The Bohemian Reform took Wyclif’s notion of grace-based dominium and shifted it from the role of secular rulers in the reform of the Church to the absolute elimination of all clerical lordship. FitzRalph was not an author that had figured in the university debates but after the death of Hus, Wyclif receded into the background and FitzRalph comes to the fore. Peter Payne, who had come under the influence of Wyclif when at Oxford in the early 1400s, became involved in the discussions on the Hussite side but could not mention Wyclif by name because he had been formally condemned as a heretic. This meant that he attributed his arguments for the necessity of evangelical poverty for the clergy to FitzRalph’s De Pauperie Salvatoris. Ultimately, regarding the vexed question of the clerical ownership of property, it was agreed with the Hussites that all must recognise that while the Church might exercise civil dominium over temporal goods, the goods of the Church are but a means by which the clergy can carry out their ministry. This was in fact, the situation as described by FitzRalph in De pauperie Salvatoris VI and in fact as it turned out FitzRalph had been used to effect the compromise.