VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE
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And as for there raylynge loke in their excomunicacion / and se whether they spare kinge or emproure or the testament of god. And as for obedience to father and mother / Nay / they be immediatly vnder god and his holy vicar the pope / he is their father and on his ceremonies they must wayte. And as for vnthankefull / they be so kynde / that if they haue receaued a thousand pound londe of a man / yet for all that they wold not receaue one of his offspringe vn to a nightes herber at his nede / for their founders sake. And whether they be vngodly or no I reporte me vn to the parchment. And as for churlishnesse / se whether they will not haue their causes venged / though it shuld cost hole regions / ye and al christendome / as ye shall se and as it hath cost halfe christendome all redie. And as for their promise or trucebreakynge / se whether any appoyntement maye endure for their dispensacions / be it neuer so lawfull / though the sacrament were receaued for the confirmacion. And se whether they haue not broken all the appoyntementes made betwene them and their founders. And se whether they be not accusers and traytours al so of all men / and that secretly and of their very awne kynges and of their awne nacion. And as for their heedinesse / se whether they be not prone / bold and runne hedelonge vn to all mischeue / with out pitie and compassion or caringe what misery and destruccion shuld fall on other men / so they maye haue their present pleasure fulfilled. And se whether they loue not their lustes / that they will not be refrayned from them ether by any law of god or man. And as for their apperaunce of godlynesse / se whether all be not gods seruice that they fayne / and se whether not

Railars [1531]

Disobedient [1531]

And as for . . . wayte. Cf. Mark 7.10–13.

] Mark

Vnthankefull [1531]

Vngodlye [1531]

Churlysh [1531]

causes venged. An example of vindictive conquest by the higher clergy was the series of campaigns mounted by northwest German bishops, led by Archbishop Gerhard II of Bremen, against the recalcitrant peasants of the lower Weser in 1232–34. Gregory IX (pope, 1227–41) issued a crusade-bull in support. Cf. Konrad Algermissen, "Stedinger," LThK 9.1027–28. Other examples of use of the crusade for political causes are given by Hans Wolter in Jedin and Dolan 4.284f.

trucebreakynge. During the summit meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Wolsey celebrated Solemn High Mass for Henry VIII and Francis I (king, 1515–47) on Saturday, 23 June 1520. The kings did not receive the Eucharist, but both kissed the pax (LP 3 /1, no. 870). In spite of this pledge of peace, England declared war against France on 29 May 1522 (LP 3/2, no. 2292). English troops then undertook a campaign of burnings in northern France in September 1522 (LP 3/2, no. 2530). For the pax, cf. [F3v, “kyssynge of the pax” and commentary note].

Promysebrakers [1531]

whether ... founders. Dispensations (cf. [M7v, “dyspensacyons” and commentary note]) also served to remove legal impediments to the rise of ecclesiastics from lower-paying dioceses, offices, and benefices to more lucrative ones. One could be dispensed from the prohibition against holding a plurality of beneficed positions, and dispensations from higher authorities could allow the diversion of bequests to ends other than those stipulated by the original donors, cf. [D7, “vnions and tot quottes” and commentary note].

Accusars [1531]

Heedye [1531]

Louinge lustes [1531]

Apperaunce of godlinesse [1531]