VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

LOCATION
KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
xiiij.

xiiij.] The xiiij. Chapter. 1573

M. Wicleffe was the occasion of the vttur subuersion of the realme of Bohem / both in faith and good liuynge and of the losse of many a thousand liues. T. the rule of their faith ar christes promises / and the rule of their liuynge gods lawe. And as for losse of liues / it is trouth that the pope slew I thynke an hundred thousande of them because of their faith and that they wold no lenger serue him. As he slew in englonde many a thousande / and slew the true kynge and sett vpp a false vn to the effusion of all the noble bloude and murtherynge vpp of the cominaltie / because he shulde be his defender.

M. The constitucion of the bisshopes is not that the scripture shall not be in englysh / but that no man maye translate it by his awne auctorite or reade it / vntill they had approued it. T. if no translation shalbe had vntill they geue licence or till they approue it / it shall neuer be had. And so it is al one in effecte to saye there shalbe none at all in englysh / and to saye / tyl we admitte it / seinge they be so maliciouse that they wil none admitte / but fayne al the cauellacions they can / to proue it were not expedient. So that if it be not had spite of their hertes it shal neuer be had. And therto / they haue done their best to haue had it enacted by parlament / that it shuld not be in englysh.

neuer] 1573, ueuer 1531

xv.

xv.] The xv. Chapter. 1573

He iesteth out hunnes deeth with his poetrie where with he bylte vtopia. Many greate lordes came to baynardes castell (but all namelesse ) to examen the cause (as the