124/23–26
if . . .
nother. Cf. CWM 6/1.232/12–16.
124/26–27
oure lady of
walsynggam. Walsingham is located a few miles from the coast of
Norfolk, 117 miles NE of London. Early in his reign, Henry VIII walked
the last mile of pilgrimage barefoot ; he visited the shrine
again in January 1511 to give thanks for the birth of a son. Catherine
of Aragon prayed there after the victory at Flodden Field in
1513. Recalling his own visit in 1512, Erasmus satirized the shrine's
claim to possess milk of the Virgin. Cf. "A Pilgrimage for Religion's
Sake," February 1526, Colloquies (ASD 1/3.478/277
to 482/434; CWE 40.632/13 to 636/21). The shrine was suppressed in 1538.
Cf. J.C. Dickinson, The
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (Cambridge UP, 1956)
141–44.
124/27
oure lady of
Ipswich. The statue in the Lady Chapel in the parish church of
St. Matthew was greatly venerated. In 1525 Wolsey received a grant of a
papal indulgence for those who on specified days prayed for him and his
parents and gave alms at this chapel in his native city, cf. Lunt, Papacy 503.
124/27–28
our lady of
wilsdon. The pilgrimage church of Willesden
northwest of London in Middlesex County contained a wooden statue of
Mary, which had been partly burnt. In 1508 the accused Lollard Elizabeth
Sampson declared that "if [Mary] might have holpen men and women who go
to her on pilgrimage, she would not have suffered her tail to have been
burnt" (Foxe 4.126). See Margaret Aston, "Lollards and Images," in Lollards and Reformers
(London: Hambledon, 1984) 135–92. A certain Edmund Peerson accused Thomas Bilney of preaching that the crown, rings, and
beads offered to this madonna "were bestowed amongst harlots ,
by the ministers of Christ's church" (Foxe 5.43). More may have visited
the shrine while visiting his stepdaughter, Alice Alington,
in the months before his arrest. Cf. Ep. 192*,
To John Harris , Willesden, Sunday <January—April 1534>
(More, Selected Letters
185–88 and n33).
124/33–125/1
wemen . . .
churches. Cf. CWM 6/1.235/37–236/ 5.
125/3
will not amend the
abuse. On 1 September 1523, Cuthbert Tunstall as the new bishop
of London decreed that all the churches of his diocese should
celebrate on 3 October the anniversary of their dedication to reduce the
occasions for drinking and dancing , cf. Wilkins 3.701–2.