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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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But aftir that the deuell was broken lowse
and the bisshopes beganne to purchace / and the deacons to
scratch all to them / and the spiritualtie to clime an hye: then
because the laboure semed to tediouse and paynfull / to appose
the childern one by one / they axed
the prestes that presented them only / whether the
childern were taught the profession of their baptim. And they
answered ye. And so vppon their wordes they confirmed them with
out apposinge.
When they no lenger apposed them / the prestes no
lenger taught them / but committed the charge to their
godfather and godmothers
/ and they to the father and mother / dischargynge
them selues
by theyr awne auctorite with in halfe an houre.
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121/7–8
kinge henry . . .
Eton. Henry VI (king, 1422–61) founded Eton College and King's
College, Cambridge. The last Lancastrian king, he was defeated at
Tewkesbury by the Yorkist Edward IV (king, 1461–83), murdered in the
Tower, and buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. After Richard
III (king, 1483–85) was overthrown by Henry VII (king, 1485–1509), the
latter promoted the cult of Henry VI. As steps to canonization,
Alexander VI (pope, 1492–1503) and Julius II (pope, 1503–13) authorized
inquiries into the sanctity and alleged miracles of "Blessed
Henry." The process continued until the late 1520s when the matrimonial
troubles of Henry VIII foreshadowed his break with Rome. Cf. John W McKenna, "Piety and Propaganda: The Cult
of King Henry VI," in Chaucer and Middle English
Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (Kent State UP,
1974), 72–88. In Historia Richardi Tertii
(c1513), though not in the English version, More judges Henry VI
to be more innocent than wise: Rex innocentior esset
quam sapientior
(CWM 2.6/12–13).
Prelates notes the influence of good Duke
Humphrey (F5) and crafty Cardinal Beaufort (G1v), and laments the
unprofitable marriage to Margaret of Anjou (G2). Cf. The Brut of The Chronicles of England , ed. Friedrich W.D. Brie, EETS Original Series 136
(London: Kegan Paul, 1908) 511–12.
121/11
no ieopardy . . .
damned. Cf. CWM 6/1.223/10–12.
121/14–16
no ieopardie . .
. erre. Cf. CWM 6/1.224/11–14. More argues that the Holy Spirit
guarantees the validity of this consensus (CWM
6/1.224/15–17).
14 When] So when 1573
121/16–18
when . . .
Iewes. Cf. CWM 6/1.220/13–15.
121/17–18
Israhelites . .
. Iewes. Cf. 1 Kings 12.21. The Southern kingdom of Judea was
formed by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin ; the Northern
kingdom of Israel by the other ten tribes.
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And the father and mother taught them a monstrous laten pater
noster and an Aue and a crede. Which gibbresh euery
popiniaye speaketh with a sundrye pronunciacion and facion / so
that one pater noster semeth as many languages all most as
there be tonges that
speake it. How be it / it is all one / as longe as
they vnderstonde it
not. And in processe as the ignoraunce grewe / they
brought them
to confirmacion streight from baptim: so that now
oftimes they be volowed and bysshoped both in one daye / that
is / we be confirmed in blindenesse to be kept from knowlege
for euer. And thus are we come in to this damnable ignoraunce
and ferce wrathe of god
thorow oure awne deseruinge / because when the
trueth was told vs
we had no loue therto. And to declare the full &
sett wrath of god vppon vs / our prelates whom we haue exalted
ouer vs to whom we
haue geuen al most al we had / haue perswaded the
wordly princes (to whom we haue
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121/22
image of a
calfe. Cf. 1 Kings 12.28–30.
121/23
arcke of
testimonie. Cf. 1 Kings 8.1–9.
121/24–25
Iewes . . .
temple. Cf. 2 Kings 21.
121/24–26
Iewes . . .
Prophetes. Cf. CWM 6/1, 220/10–12. More comments briefly on the
punishment of the Jews for idolatry.
28 when] 1573, wh/en 1531
121/29
captiue out of the
lande. The Assyrians conquered Samaria and deported Israelites
in 721 BC (cf. 2 Kings 18.11–12). The
Chaldeans captured Jerusalem and deported the
leading citizens of Judea in three stages: 598 BC (cf. 2 Kings
24.12–16), 587/6 BC (cf. 2 Kings 25.8–21; Jer. 39.8–10, 52.12–34) and
582–81 BC.
121/31
open multitude
called Gods church. For the wheat and tares, cf. Matt.
13.24–30; for the dragnet, cf. Matt. 13.47–50.
31 wordly] worldly 1573
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