Throughout the fourteenth and into the fifteenth century a good number of English prelates visited Avignon and participated in the customary preaching there, either at the papal curia or at various religious houses, and in several cases their sermons have been preserved in our collections. Thus FitzRalph, on his occasionally very extended visits, gave sermons before the pope and the cardinals and to the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Carmelites. Brinton similarly left at least two sermons that must have been preached in Avignon. Another important figure was the English Benedictine Adam Easton, a great scholar who got enmeshed in papal politics and nearly lost his life, but ended up as cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, where he lies buried. He must have given many sermons, but none seem to have survived. In its final stages, the Great Schism also drew several Englishmen to the councils. Thus, Richard Fleming, bishop of Lincoln and founder of an Oxford college, is known to have preached at Constance (1417) and at Siena (1423), and several of his sermons are extant. Other English prelates were with him there or later attended the council of Basel, though only one or two of their sermons seem to have been preserved.

Closer to home, sermons likewise graced major public events beyond the normal liturgical life of the Church.