JUDGES: 2.10–13: 40/28–29
1. Cor. 5. [1531]
JEREMIAH: 25.1–13:40/30–32
MATTHEW: 23.2: 40/10–11, 41/2–3, 92/22–23
2 PETER: 2.3: 23/10–11,27/20–21, 41/5,41/27–28
90/9
the testament . . .
bloude. Cf. Heb. 10.29, 13–20.
they] om.
1573
90/12
maide of kent.
Prudently, More never mentions the Maid of Kent in Dialogue or Confutation. Here and in
Obedience (T4), Tyndale refers to
this politically dangerous case. After a cure in 1526 attributed to
Mary, Elizabeth
Barton became a Benedictine nun in Canterbury. Her pious
visions turned political when she declared that Henry VIII
would die seven months after he married Anne Boleyn. Fisher believed her
revelations, but More counselled her not to meddle in public
affairs. See Ep. 192, To Elizabeth Barton,
Chelsea, Tuesday <1533?> (More, Correspondence 464–66). For his connection with
Barton, Fisher was fined 300 pounds, one year's revenue from his
diocese, but More's caution won him exemption from penalty.
See Alan Neame, The Holy Maid of Kent: The Life of
Elizabeth Barton, 1506–1534 (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1971). Barton was executed, together with five
priests,
on 20 April 1534, the day that the guildsmen
of London were called upon to take the oath of
succession. Cf. Richard Rex, "The Execution of
the Holy Maid of Kent," Historical Research 64
(1991) 216–20, esp. 219. Three days earlier, Fisher and More had gone to
the Tower because they refused to take the oath which implicitly
rejected papal authority.
In her trances, locutions and fasts the Maid of Kent showed some of the
characteristics of hysteria. Cf. Nicholas P.
Sanos, "Witchcraft in Histories of Psychiatry," Psychological Bulletin 85 (1978) 417–39; rpt. in
Articles on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology 3.212. In her defense, see
Diane Watt, "Reconstructing the Word: the Political
Prophecies of Elizabeth Barton (1506–1534),"
Renaissance Quarterly 50.1 (Spring 1997)
136–63.
MATTHEW: 16.6: 41/14
Mat. 16.[1531]
LUKE: 11.52: 41/16–17, 45/26–27
Mat. 23.[1531]
MATTHEW: 23.13: 41/17–19, 45/27–28
heven] ed., even 1531, heauen 1573