It wasn't translating the Bible that was the problem so much as the Lollards being independent and highly critical of the official church. There were two Popes from 1378 till 1415, one in Rome and tthe other in Avignon, and the first attempt to heal the breach resulted in a situation where there were three Popes at once! The wealth and corruption of the hierarchy was scandalous, feudalism was collapsing, and northern Europe, which had a different culture anyway, became a hotbed of protest. Right across Europe there were unofficial underground churches being created,and the Lollards were part of this. Eventually, of course, some 'moderate' (meaning acceptable and not too revolutionary) reformers in northern Europe made alliances with the merchants and the princes and made the Reformation, while the peasants were crushed.
