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+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><b>To</b><br /><i>my Godfathers in English Literature</i>,</p>
+<p class="center">HENRY MORLEY, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><small><span class="smcap"><i>Professor of English Literature</i></span>,</small></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;"><small><span class="smcap">University College, London</span>.</small></span></p>
+<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">AND</span></p>
+<p class="center">HENRY PYNE, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;"><small>Late <span class="smcap"><i>Assistant Tithe Commissioner</i></span>,</small></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><small><span class="smcap">St. James&#8217;s Square, London</span>.</small></span></p>
+<p class="center"><i>this</i><br />
+<b>Old Series</b><br />
+<i>is,</i><br />
+<i>with blended admiration and gratitude,</i><br />
+<i>filially</i><br />
+<b>Inscribed.</b></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/halftitle.png" alt="The English Scholar's Library etc." /></div>
+<p class="center"><b>No. 4.</b></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><big><i>A Supplication for the Beggars.</i></big></p>
+<p class="center">[Spring of 1529.]</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/title.png" alt="The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works." /></div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><big>[SIMON FISH,</big><br />
+of Gray&#8217;s Inn, Gentleman.]</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><big><i>A Supplication for the Beggars.</i></big><br />
+[Spring of 1529.]</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc.,<br />
+<small><i>LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE ETC.,</i></small><br />
+<small><i>UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.</i></small></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N.<br />
+<small>15 August 1878.</small><br />
+<small>No. 4.</small><br />
+<small>(<i>All rights reserved.</i>)</small></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><i>CONTENTS.</i></h2>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/flower.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="contents">
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td align="right"><span class="smcaplc">PAGE</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2">Bibliography</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_vi">vi</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="smcap">Introduction</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_vii">vii-xviii</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><i>A Supplicacyon for the Beggers</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">1.</td><td><i>The yearly exactions from the people taken by this greedy sort of
+sturdy idle holy thieves</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>They have a Tenth part of all produce, wages and profits</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>What money pull they in by probates of testaments, privy tithes, men&#8217;s
+offerings to their pilgrimages and at their first masses; by masses and
+<i>diriges</i>, by mortuaries, hearing of confessions (yet keeping thereof no
+secrecy), hallowing of churches, by cursing of men and absolving them for
+money; by extortion &amp;c.; and by the quarterage from every household to
+each of the Five Orders of begging Friars, which equals &pound;43,333 6s. 8d. [
+= <i>over &pound;500,000 in present value</i>] a year</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>400 years ago, of all this they had not a penny</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>These locusts own also one Third of the land</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Or in all more than half of the substance of the realm</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Yet they are not in number, one to every hundred men, or one in every four
+hundred men women and children</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Neither could the Danes or Saxons haue conquered this land, if they had
+left such a sort [<i>company</i>] of idle gluttons behind them; nor noble King
+<span class="smcap">Arthur</span> have resisted the Emperor <span class="smcap">Lucius</span>, if such yearly exactions had been
+taken of his people; nor the Greeks so long continued the siege of Troy,
+if they had had to find for such an idle sort of cormorants at home; nor
+the Romans conquered the world, if their people had been thus yearly
+oppressed; nor the Turk haue now so gained on Christendom, if he had in
+his empire such locusts to devour his substance</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">2.</td><td><i>What do they with these exactions?</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Nothing but to translate all rule, power &amp;c. from your Grace to
+themselves, and to incite to disobedience and rebellion</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">3.</td><td><i>Yea, and what do they more?</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Truly nothing but to have to do with every man&#8217;s wife, every man&#8217;s
+daughter &amp;c.</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">4.</td><td><i>Yea, who is able to number the great and broad bottomless ocean sea
+full of evils, that this mischievous and sinful generation is able to
+bring upon us? unpunished!</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">5.</td><td><i>What remedy? Make laws against them?</i> I am in doubt whether ye are
+able. Are they not stronger in your own parliament house than yourself</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>So captive are your laws unto them, that no man that they list to
+excommunicate may be admitted to sue any action in any of your Courts</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Neither have they any coulour [<i>pretence</i>] to gather these yearly
+exactions but they say they pray to GOD to deliver our souls from
+purgatory. If that were true we should give a hundred times as much. But
+many men of great literature say there is no purgatory: and that if there
+were and that the Pope may deliver one soul for money, he may deliver him
+as well without money; if one, a thousand; if a thousand, all; and so
+destroy purgatory.</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">6.</td><td><i>But what remedy? To make many hospitals for the relief of the poor
+people?</i> Nay, truly! The more the worse. For ever the fat of the whole
+foundation hangeth on the priests&#8217; beards</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">7.</td><td>Set these sturdy loobies abroad in the world to get themselves wives,
+to get their living with their labour in the sweat of their faces,
+according to the commandment of GOD</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr></table>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></p>
+<h3><i>BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIMON FISH&#8217;S WORKS.</i></h3>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/supplication.png" alt="A Supplication for the Beggers." /></div>
+
+<p class="center">ISSUES IN HIS LIFETIME.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A. <i>As a separate publication.</i></p>
+
+<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="bibliography">
+<tr><td valign="top">1.</td><td>[1529. Printed abroad.] 8vo. See title at <i>p.</i> 1. Wholly printed in a clear italic type.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">2.</td><td>1529. [Printed abroad.] 4to. Klagbrieff oder supplication der armen
+d&uuml;rfftigen in Engenlandt &#124; an den K&#333;nig daselb gestellet &#124; widder die
+reychen geystlichen bettler. [A Letter of Complaint or Supplication of the
+necessitous poor in England shewn to the King thereof against the rich
+spiritual beggars] M.D.XXIX. [with a preface by <span class="smcap">Sebastian Franck</span>.] Black letter.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">3.</td><td>1530. [Printed abroad.] 8vo. Supplicatorius Libellus pauperum, et
+egentium nomine, Henricho VIII. Serenissimo Angli&aelig; regi etc. oblatus,
+contra quotidianas religiosorum ibidem iniurias et impiam auariciam. Ex
+Anglico in latinum versus. M.D.XXX.<br /><br />
+In the same type and style as No. 1. and with an engraved framework on the
+title page that may eventually lead to a knowledge of the foreign printer
+of both the editions.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="center"><br />B. <i>With other Works.</i></p>
+<p class="center">None known.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">ISSUES SINCE HIS DEATH.</p>
+<p class="center">A. <i>As a separate publication.</i></p>
+
+<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="bibliography">
+<tr><td valign="top">4.</td><td>1546. [London] Fol. A supplication of the poore Commons. Prov. 21 Chap.
+&para; Whereunto is added the Supplication of Beggers, [In the same style and
+type as No. 3. below, and therefore printed by <span class="smcap">William Hyll</span>.] In the
+heading the &#8220;Supplicacyon of Beggers&#8221; is assigned to 1524, which is wrong by five years.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">5.</td><td>1845. London. 8vo. A Supplicacyon for the Beggers. [100 copies only printed.]</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">6.</td><td>1860. Fol. See Woods <i>Ath. Oxon.</i> i. 59. Ed. 1813.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">7.</td><td>15. Aug. 1878 Southgate, London, N. 8vo. The present impression.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><br />B. <i>With other Works.</i></p>
+
+<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="bibliography">
+<tr><td valign="top">8a.</td><td colspan="2">1563. London. Fol. This tract is reprinted, with notes by <span class="smcap">John Fox</span> in
+his <i>Actes and Monumentes etc.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top" align="right">8b.<br />8c.<br />8d.</td><td align="left">1570. London. Fol.<br />1576. London. Fol.<br />1583. London. Fol.</td><td><span class="bracket2">}</span>And so in all later editions of the <i>Book of Martyrs.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">9.</td><td colspan="2">1871. London. 8vo. <i>Early English Text Society. Extra Series. No. 13</i>,
+1871. &#8220;Four Supplications. 1529-1553 <span class="smcaplc">A.D.</span>&#8221; The first of these is &#8220;A
+Supplicacyon for the Beggers written about the year 1529, by <span class="smcap">Simon Fish</span>.
+Now re-edited by <span class="smcap">Frederick J. Furnivall</span>.&#8221;</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/summe.png" alt="The Summe of the Scripture." /></div>
+
+<p class="center">ISSUES IN HIS LIFETIME.</p>
+
+<p class="center">A. <i>As a separate publication.</i></p>
+<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="bibliography">
+<tr><td valign="top">1.</td><td>[Winter of 1529-1530. Printed abroad.] 8vo. The only copy at present
+known is in the British Museum. C. 37. 2/2. The title page is torn off, apparently for the safety of the first possessors.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">B. <i>With other Works.</i></p>
+<p class="center">None known.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">ISSUES SINCE HIS DEATH.</p>
+<p class="center">A. <i>As a separate publication.</i></p>
+
+<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="bibliography">
+<tr><td valign="top">2.</td><td>1547. London, <span class="smcap">W. Herbert</span>, <i>Typ. Amt.</i> i. 616, <i>Ed.</i> 1785, quotes an
+edition by <span class="smcap">John Day</span>.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">3.</td><td>11. Dec. 1548. [London.] 8vo. The summe of the holy Scripture, and
+ordinarye of the Chrystian teachyng, the true christian fayth, by the
+whiche we be all iustified. And of the vertu of Baptisme, after the
+teachynge of the Gospell and of the Apostles, With an information howe all
+estattes should lyue according to the Gospell very necessary for all
+Christian people to knowe. &para; Anno. M.d.xlviii.<br /><br />
+[<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>]: Imprynted at London, at the signe of the Hyll, at the west
+dore of Paules. By Wyllyam Hill. And there to be sold. Anno 1548. The 11
+of Decembre. <i>Cum Gratia et Privilegio ad Imprimendum solum.</i> The press
+mark of the British Museum copy is 4401. b. 2.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">B. <i>With Other Works.</i></p>
+<p class="center">None known.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/border.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+<h1>INTRODUCTION.</h1>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/creature.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/caps.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="S" /></span><span class="smcap">ir Thomas More</span>,
+who at that time was but Chancellor of the Duchy of
+Lancaster, was made Lord Chancellor in the room of Cardinal <span class="smcap">Wolsey</span> on
+Sunday, the 24th of October 1529.</p>
+
+<p>The following undated work&mdash;the second of his controversial ones&mdash;was
+therefore written, printed and published prior to that day, and while as
+yet he held the lower dignity of the ducal Chancellorship.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> The supplycacyon of soulys Made by syr Thomas More knyght councellour to
+our souerayn lorde the Kynge and chauncellour of hys Duchy of Lancaster.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Agaynst the supplycacyon of beggars.</p>
+
+<p>At fol. xx. of this work occurs the following important passage, which,
+while crediting the Reformers with a greater science in attack, and a more
+far-reaching design in their writings than they actually possessed: fixes
+with precision the year of the first distribution in England of <span class="smcap">Simon
+Fish</span>&#8217;s <i>Supplicacyon for the Beggers</i>, and with that its sequence in our
+early Protestant printed literature&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>For the techyng and prechyng of all whych thyngys / thys beggers proctour or
+rather the dyuels proctour with other beggers that la[c]k grace and nether
+beg nor lo[o]ke for none: bere all thys theyr malyce and wrathe to the
+churche of C[h]ryste. And seynge there ys no way for attaynyng theyr
+entent but one of the twayn / yat ys to wyt eyther playnly to wryte agaynst
+the fayth and the sacramentys (wheryn yf they gat them credence and
+obtaynyd / they then se[e] well the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</a></span> church must nedys fall therwyth) or els
+to labour agaynst the church alone / and get the clergye dystroyd /
+whereuppon they parceyue well that the fayth and sacramentes wo[u]ld not
+fayle to decay: they parceyuyng thys / haue therfore furste assayd the
+furst way all redy / sendyng forth Tyndals translacyon of the <i>new
+testament</i> in such wyse handled as yt shuld haue bene the fountayn and
+well spryng of all theyr hole heresyes. For he had corrupted and purposely
+changed in many placys the text / wyth such wordys as he myght make yt
+seme to the vnlerned people / that the scripture affirmed theyr heresyes
+it selfe. Then cam sone after out in prynt <i>the dyaloge</i> of freere Roy and
+frere Hyerome / <i>betwene ye father and ye sonne</i> [<i>Preface dated
+Argentine</i> (Strasburg), <i>31 August, 1527</i>] agaynst ye sacrament of ye
+aulter: and the blasphemouse boke entytled <i>the beryeng of the masse</i>
+[i.e. <i>Rede me and be not wroth</i> / printed at Strasburg early in 1528].
+Then cam forth after Tyndals wykkyd boke of <i>Mammona</i> [<i>Dated Marburg, 8
+May 1528</i>] / and after that his more wykkyd boke of obydyence [<i>Dated
+Marburg, 2 October 1528</i>]. In whych bokys afore specyfyed they go forth
+playnly agaynst the fayth and holy sacramentis of Crystys church / and
+most especyally agaynst the blyssed sacrament of ye aulter / wyth as
+vylanous wordes as the wre[t]ches cou[l]d deuyse. But when they haue
+perceuyd by experyence yat good people abhorred theyr abomynable bokes:
+then they beyng therby lerned yat the furst way was not ye best for ye
+furtherance of theyr purpose / haue now determined them selfe to assay the
+secunde way / that ys to witte yat forberynge to wryte so openly and
+dyrectly agaynste all the fayth and the sacramentys as good crysten men
+coulde not abyde the redyng / they wolde / wyth lyttell towchyng of theyre
+other heresyes / make one boke specially agaynst ye church and loke how
+that wold proue.</p>
+
+<p>The previous controversial work produced by Sir <span class="smcap">Thomas More</span> had but
+recently appeared under the title of</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</a></span><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> A dialoge
+of syr Thomas More knighte: one of the counsayll of oure
+souerayne lorde the kyng and chauncellor of hys duchy of Lancaster. Wherin
+be treatyd diuers matters / as of the veneration and worshyp of ymagys and
+relyques / prayng to sayntys / and goyng on pylgrymage. Wyth many othere
+thyngys touchyng the pestelent sect of Luther and Tyndale / by th[e] one
+begone in Saxony / and by th[e] other laboryd to be brought in to Englond.</p>
+
+<p>[<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>]. Emprynted at London at the sygne of the meremayd at Powlys
+gate next to chepe syde in the moneth of June the yere of our lord.
+M.C.C.XXIX. <i>Cum priuilegio Regali.</i></p>
+
+<p>Of this extraordinarily scarce first edition, there is a copy in the
+Corporation Library, London.</p>
+
+<p>As Sir <span class="smcap">Thomas More</span> felt it necessary to write this second work, of the
+<i>Supplicacyon of Soulys, after</i> he had composed his <i>Dialogue</i> the
+printing of which was finished in June 1529; and as his <i>Supplicacyon</i>
+certainly was written and published prior to his advancement on the 24th
+October following: it is conclusive that S. Fish&#8217;s tract had not appeared
+<i>before</i> he was writing the <i>Dialogue</i>, and therefore that the date of its
+distribution must by this internal evidence, be fixed as in the spring or
+summer of 1529; however that date may conflict with early testimony, such
+as incorrect lists of prohibited books, assigning it to 1524, 1526, etc.</p>
+
+<p>Yet <span class="smcap">John Fox</span> in his <i>Actes and Monumentes</i>, [Third Edition] <i>fol.</i> 987,
+<i>Ed.</i> 1576, states that was</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&#8220;Throwen and scattered at the procession in Westminster vpon
+Candlemas day [? <i>2nd February 1529</i>] before kyng Henry the viij, for
+him to read and peruse.&#8221;</p></div>
+
+<p>We have been unable to verify this procession at Westminster on this
+particular date, and think that if it had been so, Sir <span class="smcap">Thomas More</span> would
+have surely noticed to the <i>Supplicacyon</i> while writing the <i>Dialogue</i>,
+the printing of which was in progress during the next four months. He may,
+however, have thought it necessary to write a special book against <span class="smcap">S.
+Fish</span>&#8217;s tract, with its distinct line of attack as he has accurately stated
+it.</p>
+
+<p>It will be seen from the Bibliography that this date of the Spring of 1529
+quite harmonizes with those of the contemporary German and Latin
+translations; which, naturally, would be prompt. It is also not
+inconsistent with the following allusion at p. 30 to Cardinal <span class="smcap">Wolsey</span>&#8217;s
+still holding the Lord Chancellorship.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[Pg x]</a></span><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> And this
+is by the reason that the chief instrument of youre lawe ye[a]
+the chief of your counsell and he whiche hath your swerde in his hond to
+whome also all the other instrumentes are obedient is alweys a spirituell
+man.</p>
+
+<p>So much, then, as to the certain approximate date of the publication. <span class="smcap">Fox</span>
+is quite wrong in assuming as he does in the following paragraph that this
+work was the occasion of Bishop <span class="smcap">Tonstal</span>&#8217;s <i>Prohibition</i> of the 24th
+October 1526, <i>i.e.</i> more than two years previously.</p>
+
+<p>After that the Clergye of England, and especially the Cardinall,
+vnderstoode these bookes of the <i>Beggars supplication</i> aforesayd, to be
+strawne abroade in the streetes of London, and also before the kyng. The
+sayd Cardinall caused not onely his seruauntes diligently to attend to
+gather them vp, that they should not come into the kynges handes, but also
+when he vnderstode, that the king had receaued one or two of them, he came
+vnto the kynges Maiesty saying: &#8220;If it shall please your grace, here are
+diuers seditious persons which haue scattered abroad books conteyning
+manifest errours and heresies&#8221; desiryng his grace to beware of them.
+Whereupon the kyng putting his hand in his bosome, tooke out one of the
+bookes and deliuered it vnto the Cardinall. Then the Cardinall, together
+with the Byshops, consulted <i>&amp;c.</i></p>
+
+<p class="right"><i>Eccles. Hist. &amp;c., p. 900. Ed. 1576.</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>II.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capw.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="W" /></span>e now
+come to the only authoritative account of our Author, as it is
+recorded in the same Third Edition of the <i>Actes and Monumentes &amp;c., p. 896. Ed. 1576</i>.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> <i>The story of M</i>[<i>aster</i>]. <i>Simon Fishe.</i></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capb.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="B" /></span>efore the
+tyme of M[aster]. Bilney, and the fall of the Cardinall, I
+should haue placed the story of Symon Fish with the booke called the
+<i>Supplication of Beggars</i>, declaryng how and by what meanes it came to the
+kynges<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[Pg xi]</a></span> hand, and what effect therof followed after, in the reformation of
+many thynges, especially of the Clergy. But the missyng of a few yeares in
+this matter, breaketh no great square in our story, though it be now
+entred here which should haue come in sixe yeares before.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Fox</span> is writing of 1531, and therefore intends us to understand that the
+present narrative begins in 1525.</p>
+
+<p>The maner and circumstaunce of the matter is this:</p>
+
+<p>After that the light of the Gospel workyng mightely in Germanie, began to
+spread his beames here also in England, great styrre and alteration
+followed in the harts of many: so that colored hypocrisie and false
+doctrine, and painted holynes began to be espyed more and more by the
+readyng of Gods word. The authoritie of the Bishop of Rome, and the glory
+of his Cardinals was not so high, but such as had fresh wittes sparcled
+with Gods grace, began to espy Christ from Antichrist, that is, true
+sinceritie, from counterfait religion. In the number of whom, was the sayd
+M[aster]. Symon Fish, a Gentleman of Grayes Inne.</p>
+
+<div class="sidenote"><i>Ex certa relatione, vivoque testimonio propri&aelig; ipsius coniugis.</i></div>
+
+<p>It happened the first yeare that this Gentleman came to London to dwell,
+which was about the yeare of our Lord 1525 [<i>i.e. between 25 Mar. 1525 and
+24 Mar. 1526</i>] that there was a certaine play or interlude made by one
+Master Roo of the same Inne Gentleman, in which play partly was matter
+agaynst the Cardinal Wolsey. And where none durst take vpon them to play
+that part, whiche touched the sayd Cardinall, this foresayd M. Fish tooke
+upon him to do it, whereupon great displeasure ensued agaynst him, vpon
+the Cardinals part: In so much as he beyng pursued by the sayd Cardinall,
+the same night that this Tragedie was playd, was compelled of force to
+voyde his owne house, and so fled ouer the Sea vnto Tyndall.</p>
+
+<p>We will here interrupt the Martyrologist&#8217;s account, with <span class="smcap">Edward Halle</span>&#8217;s
+description of this &#8220;goodly disguisyng.&#8221; It occurs at <i>fol.</i> 155 of the
+history of the eighteenth year of the reign of Henry VIII. [22 April 1526<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[Pg xii]</a></span>
+to 21 April 1527] in his <i>Vnion of the two noble and illustrate families
+of Lancastre and York &amp;c.</i> 1548.</p>
+
+<p>This Christmas [1526] was a goodly disguisyng plaied at Greis inne, whiche
+was compiled for the moste part, by Master Jhon Roo, seriant at the law.
+[some] xx. yere past, and long before the Cardinall had any aucthoritie,
+the effecte of the plaie was, that lord Gouernaunce was ruled by
+Dissipacion and Negligence, by whose misgouernance and euil order, lady
+Publike Wele was put from gouernance: which caused <i>Rumor Populi</i>, Inward
+Grudge and Disdain of Wanton Souereignetie, to rise with a greate
+multitude, to expell Negligence and Dissipacion, and to restore Publike
+Welth again to her estate, which was so doen.</p>
+
+<p>This plaie was so set furth with riche and costly apparel, with straunge
+diuises of Maskes and morrishes [<i>morris dancers</i>] that it was highly
+praised of all menne, sauing of the Cardinall, whiche imagined that the
+plaie had been diuised of hym, and in a great furie sent for the said
+master Roo, and toke from hym his Coyfe, and sent hym to the Flete, and
+after he sent for the yong gentlemen, that plaied in the plaie, and them
+highley rebuked and thretened, and sent one of them called Thomas Moyle of
+Kent to the Flete. But by the meanes of frendes Master Roo and he were
+deliuered at last.</p>
+
+<p>This plaie sore displeased the Cardinall, and yet it was neuer meante to
+hym, as you haue harde, wherfore many wisemen grudged to see hym take it
+so hartely, and euer the Cardinall saied that the kyng was highly
+displeased with it, and spake nothyng of hymself.</p>
+
+<p>There is no question as to the date of this &#8220;disguisyng.&#8221; Archbishop
+<span class="smcap">Warham</span> on the 6th February 1527, wrote to his chaplain, <span class="smcap">Henry Golde</span>, from
+Knolle that he &#8220;Has received his letters, dated London, 6 Feb., stating
+that Mr. Roo is committed to the Tower for making a certain play. Is sorry
+such a matter should be taken in earnest.&#8221; <i>Letters &amp;c. <span class="smcap">Henry VIII</span>.</i> Ed.
+by <span class="smcap">J. S. Brewer</span>, <i>p.</i> 1277. <i>Ed.</i> 1872.</p>
+
+<p>It would seem however that <span class="smcap">Fish</span> either did not go or did not stay long
+abroad at this time. <span class="smcap">Strype</span> (<i>Eccles. Mem. I. Part II, pp. 63-5. Ed.
+1822</i>)<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[Pg xiii]</a></span> has printed, from
+the Registers of the Bishops of <span class="smcap">London</span>, the
+Confession in 1528 of <span class="smcap">Robert Necton</span> (a person of position, whose brother
+became Sheriff of Norwich in 1530), by which it appears that during the
+previous eighteen months, that is from about the beginning of 1527, our
+Author was &#8220;dwellyng by the Wight Friars in London;&#8221; and was actively
+engaged in the importation and circulation of <span class="smcap">Tyndale</span>&#8217;s <i>New Testaments</i>,
+a perfectly hazardous work at that time.</p>
+
+<p>Possibly this Confession was the occasion of a first or a renewed flight
+by <span class="smcap">Fish</span> to the Continent, and therefore the ultimate cause of the present
+little work in the following year.</p>
+
+<p>We now resume <span class="smcap">Fox</span>&#8217;s account, which was evidently derived from <span class="smcap">Fish</span>&#8217;s wife,
+when she was in old age.</p>
+
+<p>Vpon occasion wherof the next yeare folowyng this booke was made (being
+about the yeare 1527) and so not long after in the yeare (as I suppose)
+1528 [<i>which by the old reckoning ended on the 24 Mar. 1529</i>]. was sent
+ouer to the Lady Anne Bulleyne, who then lay at a place not farre from the
+Court. Which booke her brother seyng in her hand, tooke it and read it,
+and gaue it [to] her agayne, willyng her earnestly to giue it to the kyng,
+which thyng she so dyd.</p>
+
+<p>This was (as I gather) about the yeare of our Lord 1528 [-1529].</p>
+
+<p>The kyng after he had receaued the booke, demaunded of her &#8220;who made it.&#8221;
+Whereunto she aunswered and sayd, &#8220;a certaine subiect of his, one Fish,
+who was fled out of the Realme for feare of the Cardinall.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>After the kyng had kept the booke in his bosome iij. or iiij. dayes, as is
+credibly reported, such knowledge was giuen by the kynges seruauntes to
+the wife of ye sayd Symon Fishe, yat she might boldly send for her
+husband, without all perill or daunger. Whereupon she thereby beyng
+incouraged, came first and made sute to the kyng for the safe returne of
+her husband. Who vnderstandyng whose wife she was, shewed a maruelous
+gentle and chearefull countenaunce towardes her, askyng &#8220;where her husband
+was.&#8221; She aunswered, &#8220;if it like your grace, not farre of[f].&#8221; Then sayth
+he, &#8220;fetch him, and he shal come and go safe without perill,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[Pg xiv]</a></span> and no man
+shal do him harme,&#8221; saying moreouer, &#8220;that hee had [had] much wrong that
+hee was from her so long:&#8221; who had bene absent now the space of two yeares
+and a halfe,</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Which from Christmas 1526 would bring us to June 1529, which
+corroborates the internal evidence above quoted. <span class="smcap">Fox</span> evidently now
+confuses together two different interviews with the King. The first
+at the Court in June 1529; the other on horseback with the King,
+followed afterwards by his Message to Sir <span class="smcaplc">T. MORE</span> in the winter of
+1529-30, within six months after which <span class="smcaplc">S. FISH</span> dies. His wife never
+would have been admitted to the Court, if she had had a daughter ill
+of the plague at home.</p></div>
+
+<p>In the whiche meane tyme, the Cardinall was deposed, as is aforeshewed,
+and M[aster]. More set in his place of the Chauncellourshyp.</p>
+
+<p>Thus Fishes wife beyng emboldened by the kynges wordes, went immediatly to
+her husband beyng lately come ouer, and lying priuely within a myle of the
+Court, and brought him to the kyng: which appeareth to be about the yeare
+of our Lord. 1530.</p>
+
+<p>When the kyng saw hym, and vnderstood he was the authour of the booke, he
+came and embraced him with louing countenance: who after long talke: for
+the space of iij. or iiij. houres, as they were ridyng together on
+huntyng, at length dimitted him, and bad him &#8220;take home his wife, for she
+had taken great paynes for him.&#8221; Who answered the kyng agayne and sayd, he
+&#8220;durst not so do, for fear of Syr Thomas More then Chauncellor, and
+Stoksley then Bishop of London. This seemeth to be about the yeare of our
+Lord. 1530.</p>
+
+<p>This bringing in of <span class="smcap">Stokesley</span> as Bishop is only making confusion worse
+confounded. <span class="smcap">Stokesley</span> was consecrated to the see of London on the 27th
+Nov. 1530. By that time, <span class="smcap">S. Fish</span> had died of the plague which occurred in
+London and its suburbs in the summer of 1530; and which was so severe,
+that on 22nd June of that year, the King prorogued the Parliament to the
+following 1st October. <i>Letters &amp;c. <span class="smcap">Henry VIII</span>.</i> Ed. by <span class="smcap">J. S. Brewer,
+M.A., IV</span>, Part 3, No. 6469. <i>Ed.</i> 1876.</p>
+
+<p>The Martyrologist, throughout, seems to be right as to his facts, but
+wrong as to his dates.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[Pg xv]</a></span>The kyng takyng his signet of[f] his finger, willed hym to haue hym
+reommended to the Lord Chauncellour, chargyng him not to bee so hardy to
+worke him any harme.</p>
+
+<p>Master Fishe receiuyng the kynges signet, went and declared hys message to
+the Lord Chauncellour, who tooke it as sufficient for his owne discharge,
+but asked him &#8220;if he had any thynge for the discharge of his wife:&#8221; for
+she a litle before had by chaunce displeased the Friers, for not sufferyng
+them to say their Gospels in Latine in her house, as they did in others,
+vnlesse they would say it in English. Whereupon the Lord Chauncellour,
+though he had discharged the man, yet leauyng not his grudge towardes the
+wife, the next morning sent his man for her to appeare before hym: who,
+had it not bene for her young daughter, which then lay sicke of the
+plague, had bene lyke to come to much trouble.</p>
+
+<p>Of the which plague her husband, the said Master Fish deceasing with in
+half a yeare, she afterward maryed to one Master James Baynham, Syr
+Alexander Baynhams sonne, a worshypful Knight of Glo[uce]stershyre. The
+which foresayd Master James Baynham, not long after, [1 May 1532] was
+burned, as incontinently after in the processe of this story, shall
+appeare.</p>
+
+<p>And thus much concernyng Symon Fishe the author of the <i>booke of beggars</i>,
+who also translated a booke called <i>the Summe of the Scripture</i> out of the
+Dutch [<i>i.e. German</i>].</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<p>Now commeth an other note of one Edmund Moddys the kynges footeman,
+touchyng the same matter.</p>
+
+<p>This M[aster]. Moddys beyng with the kyng in talke of religion, and of the
+new bookes that were come from beyond the seas, sayde &#8220;if it might please
+hys grace, he should see such a booke, as was maruell to heare of.&#8221; The
+kyng demaunded &#8220;what they were.&#8221; He sayd, &#8220;two of your Merchauntes, George
+Elyot, and George Robinson.&#8221; The kyng [ap]poynted a tyme to speake with
+them. When they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">[Pg xvi]</a></span> came before his presence in a priuye [<i>private</i>] closet,
+he demaunded &#8220;what they had to saye, or to shew him&#8221; One of them said &#8220;yat
+there was a boke come to their hands, which they were there to shew his
+grace.&#8221; When he saw it, hee demaunded &#8220;if any of them could read it.&#8221;
+&#8220;Yea&#8221; sayd George Elyot, &#8220;if it please your grace to heare it,&#8221; &#8220;I thought
+so&#8221; sayd the kyng, &#8220;for if neede were thou canst say it without booke.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The whole booke beyng read out, the kyng made a long pause, and then sayd,
+&#8220;if a man should pull downe an old stone wall and begyn at the lower part,
+the vpper part thereof might chaunce to fall vpon his head:&#8221; and then he
+tooke the booke and put it into his deske, and commaunded them vpon their
+allegiance, that they should not tell to any man, that he had sene the
+booke.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>III.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capt.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="T" /></span>o this
+account we may add two notices. Sir <span class="smcap">T. More</span> replying in his
+<i>Apology</i> to the &#8220;Pacifier&#8221; [<span class="smcap">Christopher Saint Germain</span>] in the spring of
+1533, gives at <i>fol.</i> 124, the following account of our Author&#8217;s death&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><br />And these men in the iudgement of thys pytuouse pacyfyer be not dyscrete /
+but yet they haue he sayth a good zele though. And thys good zele hadde,
+ye wote well, Simon Fysshe when he made the supplycacyon of beggers. But
+god gaue hym such grace afterwarde, that he was sory for that good zele,
+and repented hym selfe and came into the chyrche agayne, and forsoke and
+forsware all the whole hyll of those heresyes, out of whiche the fountayne
+of that same good zele sprange. [Also at <i>p.</i> 881, <i>Workes. Ed. 1557</i>.]</p>
+
+<p>This is contrary to the tenour of everything else that we know of the man:
+but Sir <span class="smcap">T. More</span>, possessing such excellent means of obtaining information,
+may nevertheless be true.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvii" id="Page_xvii">[Pg xvii]</a></span>Lastly. <span class="smcap">Anthony &agrave; Wood</span> in
+his <i>Ath. Oxon.</i> i. 59, <i>Ed.</i> 1813, while giving
+us the wrong year of his death, tells us of his place of burial.</p>
+
+<p>At length being overtaken by the pestilence, died of it in fifteen hundred
+thirty and one, and was buried in the church of St. Dunstan (in the West).</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Tyndale</span> had often preached in this church.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>IV.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capw.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="W" /></span>hat a
+picture of the cruel, unclean and hypocritical monkery that was
+eating at the heart&#8217;s core of English society is given to us in this terse
+and brave little book? Abate from its calculations whatever in fairness
+Sir <span class="smcap">T. More</span> would have wished us to deduct; we cannot but shudder as we
+try to realize the then social condition of our country; and all the more,
+when we remember that the fountain of all this unmercifulness, impurity
+and ignorance was found in the very persons who professed to be, and who
+should have been the Divine Teachers of our nation. It argues, too, much
+for the virility of the English race, that it could have sustained, in
+gradually increasing intensity, such a widespread mass of festering and
+corroding blotches of vice, and could by and bye throw it off altogether;
+so that in subsequent ages no other nation has surpassed us in manhood.</p>
+
+<p>It is marvellous to us how the ecclesiastical fungus could have ever so
+blotted out of sight both the royal prerogative and the people&#8217;s
+liberties. Was not <span class="smcap">Henry VIII</span> the man for this hour? A bold lusty and
+masterful one, imperious and impatient of check, full of the animal
+enjoyment of life; yet a remarkable Theologian, a crafty Statesman, a true
+Englishman. Often referred to in the literature of this time as &#8220;our Lord
+and Master.&#8221; Had England ever had such a Master! ever such a Lord of life
+and limb since? A character to the personal humouring and gratification of
+whom, such an one as <span class="smcap">Wolsey</span> devoted his whole soul and directed all the
+powers of the State.</p>
+
+<p>How necessary was so strong a ruler for our national disruption with Rome!
+It is not easy for us to realize what an amazingly difficult thing that
+wrench was. <span class="smcap">Moddys&#8217;</span> story witnesses to us of the King&#8217;s great perplexity.
+By what difficult disillusions, what slow and painful thoughtfulness did
+<span class="smcap">Henry</span>&#8217;s mind travel from the <i>Assertio</i> of 1522 and the consequent
+<i>Defensor fidei</i>, to the destruction of the monasteries in 1536. Truly, if
+in this &#8220;passion&#8221; he vacillated or made mistakes; we may consider the
+inherent difficulty of disbelief in what&mdash;despite its increasing
+corruptions&mdash;had been the unbroken faith of this country for a thousand
+years.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xviii" id="Page_xviii">[Pg xviii]</a></span>We call the disillusionists,
+the Reformers; but <span class="smcap">Fish</span> describes them as</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>men of greate litterature and iudgement that for the love they haue
+vnto the trouth and vnto the comen welth haue not feared to put theim
+silf ynto the greatest infamie that may be, in abiection of all the
+world, ye[a] in perill of deth to declare theyre oppinion.... <i>p.</i>
+10.</p></div>
+
+<p>Undoubtedly <span class="smcap">Henry</span> personally was the secular Apostle of the first phase of
+our Reformation. The section of doctrinal Protestants was politically
+insignificant: and it may be fairly doubted whether the King could have
+carried the nation with him, but that in the experience of every
+intelligent Englishman, the cup of the iniquity of the priesthood was full
+to overflowing. He was aided by the strong general reaction of our simple
+humanity against the horrid sensuality, the scientific villany offered to
+it by the supposed special agents of Almighty GOD in the name of, and
+cloaked under the authority believed to have been given to them from the
+ever blessed Trinity.</p>
+
+<p>Morality is the lowest expression of religion, the forerunner of faith. No
+religion can be of GOD which does not instinctively preassume in its
+votaries the constant striving after the highest and purest moral
+excellence. It is an intolerable matter, beyond all possible sufferance,
+when religion is made to pander to sensuality and extortion. How bitter a
+thing this was to this barrister of Gray&#8217;s Inn, may be seen in the strange
+terms of terror and ravin with which he characterizes these &#8220;strong,
+puissant, counterfeit holy, and idle beggars.&#8221; To the untravelled
+Englishman of Henry VIII&#8217;s reign, &#8220;cormorants&#8221; must have meant some like
+devouring griffins, and &#8220;locusts&#8221; as a ruthless irremediable and fearful
+plague without end. By such mental conceptions of utter desolation,
+impoverishment and misery does our Author express the bitterness of the
+then proved experience by Englishmen, of the combined hierarchy and
+monkery of Rome.</p>
+
+<p>All which is for our consideration in estimating the necessity and policy
+of the subsequent suppression of the monasteries.</p>
+
+<p>These representations are also some mitigation of what is sometimes
+thought to be the Protestant frenzy of our great Martyrologist, whose
+words of burning reprobation of the Papal system of his time seem often to
+us to be extravagant; because, by the good providence of GOD, we are
+hardly capable of realizing the widespread and scientific villany of the
+delusions and enormities against which he protested.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h2><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> A Supplicacyon for the Beggers.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+<h2><span class="gesp">TO THE KING OVRE</span></h2>
+<h3>souereygne lorde.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capm.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="M" /></span>ost lamentably
+compleyneth theyre wofull mysery vnto youre highnes youre
+poore daily bedemen the wretched hidous monstres (on whome scarcely for
+horror any yie dare loke) the foule vnhappy sorte of lepres, and other
+sore people, nedy, impotent, blinde, lame, and sike, that live onely by
+almesse, howe that theyre nombre is daily so sore encreased that all the
+almesse of all the weldisposed people of this youre realme is not halfe
+ynough for to susteine theim, but that for verey constreint they die for
+hunger. And this most pestilent mischief is comen vppon youre saide poore
+beedmen by the reason that there is yn the tymes of youre noble
+predecessours passed craftily crept ynto this your realme an other sort
+(not of impotent but) of strong puissaunt and counterfeit holy, and ydell
+beggers and vacabundes whiche syns the tyme of theyre first entre by all
+the craft and wilinesse of Satan are nowe encreased vnder your sight not
+onely into a great nombre, but also ynto a kingdome. These are (not the
+herdes, but the rauinous wolues going in herdes clothing deuouring the
+flocke) the Bisshoppes, Abbottes, Priours, Deacons, Archedeacons,
+Suffraganes, Prestes, Monkes Chanons, Freres, Pardoners and Somners. And
+who is abill to nombre this idell rauinous sort whiche (setting all
+laboure a side) haue begged so importunatly that they haue gotten ynto
+theyre hondes more then the therd part of all youre Realme. The goodliest
+lordshippes, maners, londes, and territories, are theyrs. Besides this
+they haue the tenth part of all the corne, medowe, pasture, grasse, wolle,
+coltes, calues, lambes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> pigges, gese, and chikens. Ouer and bisides the
+tenth part of euery seruauntes wages the tenth part of the wolle, milke,
+hony, waxe, chese, and butter. Ye[a] and they loke so narowly vppon theyre
+proufittes that the poore wyues must be countable to theym of euery tenth
+eg or elles she gettith not her ryghtes at ester shalbe taken as an
+heretike. hereto haue they theire foure offering daies. whate money pull
+they yn by probates of testamentes, priuy tithes, and by mennes offeringes
+to theyre pilgremages, and at theyre first masses? Euery man and childe
+that is buried must pay sumwhat for masses and diriges to be song for him
+or elles they will accuse the de[a]des frendes and executours of heresie.
+whate money get they by mortuaries, by hearing of confessions (and yet
+they wil kepe therof no counceyle) by halowing of churches altares
+superaltares chapelles and belles, by cursing of men and absoluing theim
+agein for money? what a multitude of money gather the pardoners in a yere?
+Howe moche money get the Somners by extorcion yn a yere, by assityng the
+people to the commissaries court and afterward releasing th[e] apparaunce
+for money? Finally, the infinite nombre of begging freres whate get they
+yn a yere? Here if it please your grace to marke ye shall se a thing farre
+out of ioynt. There are withyn youre realme of Englond. lij. thousand
+parisshe churches. And this stonding that there be but tenne houshouldes
+yn euery parisshe yet are there fiue hundreth thousand and twenty thousand
+houshouldes. And of euery of these houshouldes hath euery of the fiue
+ordres of freres a peny a quarter for euery ordre, that is for all the
+fiue ordres fiue pens a quarter for every house. That is for all the fiue
+ordres. xx.d. a yere of euery house. Summa fiue hundreth thousand and
+twenty thousand quarters of angels.</p>
+
+<p>That is. cclx. thousand half angels. Summa. cxxx. thousand angels. Summa
+totalis. xliij. thousand poundes and. cccxxxiij. li. vi.s. viij.d.
+sterling. wherof not foure hundreth yeres passed they had not one peny. Oh
+greuous and peynfull exactions thus yerely to be paied. from the whiche
+the people of your nobill predecessours the kinges of the auncient Britons
+euer stode fre And this wil they haue or els they wil procure him that
+will not giue it theim to be taken as an heretike. whate tiraunt euer
+oppressed the people like this cruell and vengeable generacion? whate
+subiectes shall be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> abill to helpe theire prince that be after this facion
+yerely polled? whate good christen people can be abill to socoure vs pore
+lepres blinde sore, and lame, that be thus yerely oppressed? Is it any
+merueille that youre people so compleine of pouertie? Is it any merueile
+that the taxes fiftenes and subsidies that your grace most tenderly of
+great compassion hath taken emong your people to defend theim from the
+thretened ruine of theire comon welth haue bin so sloughtfully, ye[a]
+painfully leuied? Seing that almost the vtmost peny that mought haue bin
+leuied hath ben gathered bifore yerely by this rauinous cruell and
+insatiabill generacion The danes nether the saxons yn the time of the
+auncient Britons shulde neuer haue ben abill to haue brought theire armies
+from so farre hither ynto your lond to haue conquered it if they had had
+at that time suche a sort of idell glotons to finde at home. The nobill
+king Arthur had neuer ben abill to haue caried his armie to the fote of
+the mountaines to resist the coming downe of lucius the Emperoure if suche
+yerely exaction had ben taken of his people. The grekes had neuer ben
+abill to haue so long continued at the siege of Troie if they had had at
+home suche an idell sort of cormorauntes to finde. The auncient Romains
+had neuer ben abil to haue put all the hole worlde vnder theyre obeisaunce
+if theyre people had byn thus yerely oppressed. The Turke nowe yn youre
+tyme shulde neuer be abill to get so moche grounde of cristendome if he
+had yn his empire suche a sort of locustes to deuoure his substance. Ley
+then these sommes to the forseid therd part of the possessions of the
+realme that ye may se whether it drawe nighe vnto the half of the hole
+substaunce of the realme or not, So shall ye finde that it draweth ferre
+aboue. Nowe let vs then compare the nombre of this vnkind idell sort vnto
+the nombre of the laye people and we shall se whether it be indifferently
+shifted or not that they shuld haue half.</p>
+
+<p>Compare theim to the nombre of men, so are they not the. C. person.
+Compare theim to men wimen and children, then are they not the. CCCC.
+parson yn nombre. One part therfore yn foure hundreth partes deuided were
+to moche for theim except they did laboure. whate an vnequal burthen is it
+that they haue half with the multitude and are not the. CCCC. parson of
+theire nombre? whate tongue is abill to tell that euer there was eny comon
+welth so sore oppressed sins the worlde first began?</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> And whate
+do al these gredy sort of sturdy idell holy theues with these
+yerely exactions that they take of the people? Truely nothing but exempt
+theim silues from th[e] obedience of your grace. Nothing but translate all
+rule power lordishippe auctorite obedience and dignite from your grace
+vnto theim. Nothing but that all your subiectes shulde fall ynto
+disobedience and rebellion ageinst your grace and be vnder theim. As they
+did vnto your nobill predecessour king Iohn: whiche forbicause that he
+wolde haue punisshed certeyn traytours that had conspired with the frenche
+king to haue deposed him from his crowne and dignite (emong the whiche a
+clerke called Stephen whome afterward ageinst the kinges will the Pope
+made Bisshoppe of Caunterbury was one) enterdited his Lond. For the whiche
+mater your most nobill realme wrongfully (alas for shame) hath stond
+tributary (not vnto any kind temporall prince, but vnto a cruell
+deuelisshe bloudsupper dronken in the bloude of the sayntes and marters of
+christ) euersins. Here were an holy sort of prelates that thus cruelly
+coude punisshe suche a rightuous kinge, all his realme, and succession for
+doing right.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Here were a charitable sort of holy men that coude thus enterdite an
+hole realme, and plucke awey th[e] obedience of the people from theyre
+naturall liege lorde and kinge, for none other cause but for his
+rightuousnesse. Here were a blissed sort not of meke herdes but of
+bloudsuppers that coude set the frenche king vppon suche a rightuous
+prince to cause hym to lose his crowne and dignite to make effusion of the
+bloude of his people, oneles this good and blissed king of greate
+compassion, more fearing and lamenting the sheding of the bloude of his
+people then the losse of his crowne and dignite agaynst all right and
+conscience had submitted him silf vnto theym. O case most horrible that
+euer so nobill a king Realme, and succession shulde thus be made to stoupe
+to suche a sort of bloodsuppers. where was his swerde, power, crowne, and
+dignitie become wherby he mought haue done iustice yn this maner? where
+was their obedience become that shuld haue byn subiect vnder his highe
+power yn this mater? Ye[a] where was the obedience of all his subiectes
+become that for mainteinaunce of the comon welth shulde haue holpen him
+manfully to haue resisted<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> these bloudsuppers to the shedinge of theyre
+bloude? was not all to gither by theyre polycy translated from this good
+king vnto theim. Ye[a] and what do they more? Truely nothing but applie
+theym silues by all the sleyghtes they may haue to do with euery mannes
+wife, euery mannes doughter and euery mannes mayde that cukkoldrie and
+baudrie shulde reigne ouer all emong your subiectes, that no man shulde
+knowe his owne childe that theyre bastardes might enherite the possessions
+of euery man to put the right begotten children clere beside theire
+inheritaunce yn subuersion of all estates and godly ordre. These be they
+that by theire absteyning from mariage do let the generation of the people
+wher by all the realme at length if it shulde be continued shall be made
+desert and inhabitable.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> These be they that haue made an hundreth thousand ydell hores yn your
+realme whiche wolde haue gotten theyre lyuing honestly, yn the swete of
+theyre faces had not theyre superfluous rychesse illected theym to vnclene
+lust and ydelnesse. These be they that corrupt the hole generation of
+mankind yn your realme, that catche the pokkes of one woman. and bere
+theym to an other, that be brent wyth one woman, and bere it to an other,
+that catche the lepry of one woman, and bere it to an other, ye[a] some
+one of theym shall bo[a]st emong his felawes that he hath medled with an
+hundreth wymen. These be they that when they haue ones drawen mennes wiues
+to such incontinency spende awey theire husbondes goodes make the wimen to
+runne awey from theire husbondes, ye[a], rynne awey them silues both with
+wif and goods, bring both man wife and children to ydelnesse theft and
+beggeri.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Ye[a] who is abill to nombre the greate and brode botomles occean see
+full of euilles that this mischeuous and sinful generacion may laufully
+bring vppon vs vnponisshed. where is youre swerde, power, crowne, and
+dignitie, become that shuld punisshe (by punisshement of deth euen as
+other men are punisshed) the felonies, rapes, murdres, and treasons
+committed by this sinfull generacion? where is theire obedience become
+that shulde be vnder your hyghe power yn this mater? ys not all to gither
+translated and exempt from your grace vnto theim? yes truely. whate an
+infinite nombre of people might haue ben encreased to haue<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> peopled the
+realme if these sort of folke had ben maried like other men. what breche
+of matrimonie is there brought yn by theim? suche truely as was neuer sins
+the worlde began emong the hole multitude of the hethen.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> who is she that wil set her hondes to worke to get. iij.d. a day and may
+haue at lest. xx.d. a day to slepe an houre with a frere, a monke, or a
+prest? what is he that wolde laboure for a grote a day and may haue at
+lest. xij.d. a day to be baude to a prest, a monke, or a frere? whate a
+sort are there of theime that mari prestes souereigne ladies but to cloke
+the prestes yncontinency and that they may haue a liuing of the prest
+theime silues for theire laboure? Howe many thousandes doth suche
+lubricite bring to beggery theft and idelnesse whiche shuld haue kept
+theire good name and haue set theim silues to worke had not ben this
+excesse treasure of the spiritualtie?? whate honest man dare take any man
+or woman yn his seruice that hath ben at suche a scole with a spiritual
+man? Oh the greuous shipwrak of the comon welth, whiche yn auncient time
+bifore the coming yn of these rauinous wolues was so prosperous: that then
+there were but fewe theues: ye[a] theft was at that tyme so rare that
+Cesar was not compellid to make penalte of deth vppon felony as your grace
+may well perceyue yn his institutes. There was also at that tyme but fewe
+pore people and yet they did not begge but there was giuen theim ynough
+vnaxed, for there was at that time none of these rauinous wolues to axe it
+from theim as it apperith yn the actes of th[e] appostles. Is it any
+merueill though there be nowe so many beggers, theues, and ydell people?
+Nay truely.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" />; whate remedy: make lawes ageynst theim. I am yn doubt whether ye be
+able: Are they not stronger in your owne parliament house then your silfe?
+whate a nombre of Bisshopes, abbotes, and priours are lordes of your
+parliament? are not all the lerned men in your realme in fee with theim to
+speake yn your parliament house for theim ageinst your crowne, dignitie,
+and comon welth of your realme a fewe of youre owne lerned counsell onely
+excepted? whate lawe can be made ageinst theim that may be aduaylable? who
+is he (though he be greued never so sore) for the murdre of his auncestre
+rauisshement of his wyfe, of his doughter, robbery, trespas, maiheme,
+dette, or eny other offence dare ley it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> theyre charge by any wey of
+accion, and if he do then is he by and by by theyre wilynesse accused of
+heresie. ye[a] they will so handle him or he passe that except he will
+bere a fagot for theyre pleasure he shal be excommunicate and then be all
+his accions dasshed. So captyue are your lawes vnto theym that no man that
+they lyst to excommunicat may be admitted to sue any accion in any of your
+courtes. If eny man yn your sessions dare be so hardy to endyte a prest of
+eny suche cryme he hath or the yere [<i>ere he</i>] go out suche a yoke of
+heresye leyd in his necke that it maketh him wisshe that he had not done
+it. Your grace may se whate a worke there is in London, howe the bisshoppe
+rageth for endyting of certayn curates of extorcion and incontinency the
+last yere in the warmoll quest. Had not Richard hunne commenced accyon of
+premunire ageinst a prest he had bin yet a lyue and none heretik at all
+but an honest man.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Dyd not dyuers of your noble progenitours seynge theyre crowne and
+dignite runne ynto ruyne and to be thus craftely translated ynto the
+hondes of this myscheuous generacyon make dyuers statutes for the
+reformacyon therof, emong whiche the statute of mortmayne was one? to the
+intent that after that tyme they shulde haue no more gyuen vnto theim. But
+whate avayled it? haue they not gotten ynto theyre hondes more londes sins
+then eny duke in ynglond hath, the statute notwithstonding? Ye[a] haue
+they not for all that translated ynto theyre hondes from your grace half
+your kyngdome thoroughly? The hole name as reason is for the auncientie of
+your kingdome whiche was bifore theyrs and out of the whiche theyrs is
+growen onely abiding with your grace? and of one kyngdome made tweyne: the
+spirituall kyngdome (as they call it) for they wyll be named first, And
+your temporall kingdome, And whiche of these, ij. kingdomes suppose ye is
+like to ouergrowe the other, ye[a] to put the other clere out of memory?
+Truely the kingdome of the bloudsuppers for to theym is giuen daily out of
+your kingdome. And that that is ones gyuen theim comith neuer from theim
+agein. Suche lawes haue they that none of theim may nether gyue nor sell
+nothing.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> whate lawe can be made so stronge ageinst theim that they other with
+money or elles with other policy will not breake and set at nought? whate
+kingdome can endure that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> euer gyuith thus from him and receyueth nothing
+agein? O howe all the substaunce of your Realme forthwith your swerde,
+power, crowne, dignite, and obedience of your people, rynneth hedlong ynto
+the insaciabill whyrlepole of these gredi goulafres to be swalowed and
+devoured.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Nether haue they eny other coloure to gather these yerely exaccions ynto
+theyre hondes but that they sey they pray for vs to God to delyuer our
+soules out of the paynes of purgatori without whose prayer they sey or at
+lest without the popes pardon we coude neuer be deliuered thens whiche if
+it be true then is it good reason that we gyue theim all these thinges all
+were it C times as moche, But there be many men of greate litterature and
+iudgement that for the love they haue vnto the trouth and vnto the comen
+welth haue not feared to put theim silf ynto the greatest infamie that may
+be, in abiection of all the world, ye[a] in perill of deth to declare
+theyre oppinion in this mather whiche is that there is no purgatory but
+that it is a thing inuented by the couitousnesse of the spiritualtie onely
+to translate all kingdomes from other princes vnto theim and that there is
+not one word spoken of hit is al holy scripture. They sey also that if
+there were a purgatory And also if that the pope with his pardons for
+money may deliuer one soule thens: he may deliuer him aswel without money,
+if he may deliuer one, he may deliuer a thousand: yf he may deliuer a
+thousand he may deliuer theim all, and so destroy purgatory. And then is
+he a cruell tyraunt without all charite if he kepe theim there in pryson
+and in paine till men will giue him money.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> Lyke wyse saie they of all the hole sort of the spiritueltie that if
+they will not pray for no man but for theim that gyue theim money they are
+tyrauntes and lakke charite, and suffer those soules to be punisshed and
+payned vncheritably for lacke of theyre prayers. These sort of folkes they
+call heretikes, these they burne, these they rage ageinst, put to open
+shame and make theim bere fagottes. But whether they be heretikes or no,
+well I wote that this purgatory and the Popes pardons is all the cause of
+translacion of your kingdome so fast into their hondes wherfore it is
+manifest it can not be of christ, for he gaue more to the temporall
+kingdome, he hym silfe paid tribute to Cesar he toke nothing from hym but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>
+taught that the highe powers shulde be alweys obei[e]d ye[a] he him silf
+(although he were most fre lorde of all and innocent) was obedient vnto
+the highe powers vnto deth. This is the great scabbe why they will not let
+the newe testament go a brode yn your moder tong lest men shulde espie
+that they by theyre cloked ypochrisi do translate thus fast your kingdome
+into theyre hondes, that they are not obedient vnto your highe power, that
+they are cruell, vnclene, vnmerciful, and ypochrites, that thei seke not
+the honour of Christ but their owne, that remission of sinnes are not
+giuen by the popes pardon, but by Christ, for the sure feith and trust
+that we haue in him. Here may your grace well perceyue that except ye
+suffer theyre ypocrisie to be disclosed all is like to runne ynto theire
+hondes and as long as it is couered so long shall it seme to euery man to
+be a greate ympiete not to gyue theim. For this I am sure your grace
+thinketh (as the truth is) I am as good as my father, whye may I not
+aswell gyue theim as moche as my father did. And of this mynd I am sure
+are all the loordes knightes squir[e]s gentilmen and ye[o]men in englond
+ye[a] and vntill it be disclosed all your peoole [<i>people</i>] will thinke
+that your statute of mortmayne was neuer made with no good conscience
+seing that it taketh awey the liberte of your people in that they may not
+as laufully b[u]y theire soules out of purgatory by gyuing to the
+spiritualte as their predecessours did in tymes passed.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> wherfore if ye will eschewe the ruyne of your crowne and dignitie let
+their ypocrisye be vttered and that shalbe more spedfull in this mater
+then all the lawes that may be made be they never so stronge. For to make
+a lawe for to punisshe eny offender except it were more fit to giue other
+men an ensample to beware to committe suche like offence, whate shuld yt
+auayle. Did not doctour Alyn most presumptuously nowe yn your tyme ageynst
+all this allegiaunce all that ever he coude to pull from you the knowledge
+of suche plees as [be]long vnto your hyghe courtes vnto an other court in
+derogacion of your crowne and dignite? Did not also doctor Horsey and his
+complices most heynously as all the world knoweth murdre in pryson that
+honest marchaunt Richard hunne? For that he sued your writ of premunire
+against a prest that wrongfully held him in ple[a] in a spirituall court
+for a mater wherof the knowlege belonged vnto your hyghe courtes. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
+whate punisshement was there done that eny man may take example of to be
+ware of lyke offence? truely none but that the one payd fiue hundreth
+poundes (as it is said to the b[u]ildinge of your sterre chamber) and when
+that payment was ones passed the capteyns of his kingdome (because he
+faught so manfully ageynst your crowne and dignitie) haue heped to him
+benefice vpon benefice so that he is rewarded tenne tymes as moche. The
+other as it is seid payde sixe hundreth poundes for him and his complices
+whiche forbicause that he had lyke wyse faught so manfully ageynst your
+crowne and dignite was ymmediatly (as he had opteyned your most gracyous
+pardon) promoted by the capiteynes of his kingdome with benefice vpon
+benefice to the value of. iiij. tymes as moche. who can take example of
+this punisshement to be ware of suche like offence? who is he of theyre
+kingdome that will not rather take courage to committe lyke offence seying
+the promocions that fill [<i>fell</i>] to this [<i>these</i>] men for theyre so
+offending. So weke and blunt is your swerde to strike at one of the
+offenders of this cro[o]ked and peruers generacyon.</p>
+
+<p><img src="images/parag.jpg" alt="&para;" /> And this is by the reason that the chief instrument of youre lawe ye[a]
+the chief of your counsell and he whiche hath youre swerde in his hond to
+whome also all the other instrumentes are obedient is alweys a spirituell
+man whiche hath euer suche an inordinate loue vnto his owne kingdome that
+he will mainteyn that, though all the temporall kingdoms and comonwelth[s]
+of the worlde shulde therfore vtterly be vndone, Here leue we out the
+gretest mater of all lest that we declaring suche an horrible carayn of
+euyll ageinst the ministres of iniquite shulde seme to declare the one
+onely faute or rather the ignoraunce of oure best beloued ministre of
+rightousnesse whiche is to be hid till he may be lerned by these small
+enormitees that we haue spoken of to knowe it pleynly him silf. But whate
+remedy to releue vs your poore sike lame and sore bedemen? To make many
+hospitals for the relief of the poore people? Nay truely. The moo the
+worse, for euer the fatte of the hole foundacion hangeth on the prestes
+berdes. Dyuers of your noble predecessours kinges of this realme haue
+gyuen londes to monasteries to giue a certein somme of money yerely to the
+poore people wherof for the aunciente of the tyme they giue neuer one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+peny, They haue lyke wyse giuen to them to haue a certeyn masses said
+daily for theim wherof they sey neuer one. If the Abbot of westminster
+shulde sing euery day as many masses for his founders as he is bounde to
+do by his foundacion. M, monkes were to[o] fewe. wherfore if your grace
+will bilde a sure hospitall that neuer shall faile to releue vs all your
+poore bedemen, so take from theim all these thynges. Set these sturdy
+lobies a brode in the world to get theim wiues of theire owne, to get
+theire liuing with their laboure in the swete of theire faces according to
+the commaundement of god. Gene. iij. to gyue other idell people by theire
+example occasion to go to laboure. Tye these holy idell theues to the
+cartes to be whipped naked about euery market towne til they will fall to
+laboure that they by theyre importunate begging take not awey the almesse
+that the good christen people wolde giue vnto vs sore impotent miserable
+people your bedemen. Then shall aswell the nombre of oure forsaid
+monstruous sort as of the baudes, hores, theues, and idell people
+decreace. Then shall these great yerely exaccions cease. Then shall not
+youre swerde, power, crowne, dignite, and obedience of your people, be
+translated from you. Then shall you haue full obedience of your people.
+Then shall the idell people be set to worke. Then shall matrimony be moche
+better kept. Then shal the generation of your people be encreased, Then
+shall your comons encrease in richnesse. Then shall the gospell be
+preached. Then shall none begge oure almesse from vs. Then shal we haue
+ynough and more then shall suffice vs, whiche shall be the best hospitall
+that euer was founded for vs, Then shall we daily pray to god for your
+most noble estate long to endure.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Domine saluum fac regem.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/decoration.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><i>The OLD SERIES</i></h2>
+
+<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/capw_titlelist.jpg" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="W" /></span>ill represent
+the following classes of books:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="xyz">
+<tr><td valign="top">a</td><td>Early printed translations from the Classics, as those by <span class="smcap">J. Heywood</span>, <span class="smcap">T.
+Phaer</span>, <span class="smcap">R. Stanyhurst</span>, <span class="smcap">A. Golding</span>, <span class="smcap">T. May</span>, and others: or from the
+Continental literatures of their times.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">b</td><td>Romances, &#8220;histories,&#8221; satires, epigrams, &#8220;love pamphlets,&#8221; poems, and
+other pieces by <span class="smcap">R. Braithwaite</span>; <span class="smcap">N. Breton</span>; <span class="smcap">T. Campion</span>, M.D.; <span class="smcap">H. Chettle</span>; <span class="smcap">T.
+Churchyard</span>; <span class="smcap">S. Daniel</span>; <span class="smcap">F. Davison</span>; <span class="smcap">M. Drayton</span>; <span class="smcap">T. Decker</span>; <span class="smcap">G. Gascoigne</span>; <span class="smcap">S.
+Hawes</span>; <span class="smcap">T. Lodge</span>, M.D.; <span class="smcap">A. Munday</span>; <span class="smcap">W. Painter</span>; <span class="smcap">G. Pettie</span>; <span class="smcap">B. Rich</span>; <span class="smcap">S.
+Rowlands</span>; <span class="smcap">J. Taylor</span>, the &#8220;Water Poet;&#8221; <span class="smcap">W. Warner</span>; and others. Some of
+these productions are the ground works of <span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>&#8217;s plays.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">c</td><td>Some quaint sermons or other characteristic books by Puritans: together
+with some 20 or 25 tracts of the <i>Martin Marprelate Controversy</i>:
+1588-1590 <span class="smcaplc">A.D.</span> A complete set of the original editions of these &#8220;laughing
+libels&#8221; now about to be reproduced would fetch from <b>&pound;200</b> to <b>&pound;250</b>; as many
+of them were secretly printed at <span class="smcap">John Penry</span>&#8217;s wandering press, and are now
+of extraordinary scarcity.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">d</td><td>A brief Selection from the earlier and later Drama down to the time of
+<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>: not forgetting the annual pageants of the Lord Mayor on the 29th
+of October, the Court Revels, and the Masks at the Inns of Court. Also
+some books attacking or defending the Stage.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">e</td><td>Remarkable books like Sir <span class="smcap">T. Elyot</span>&#8217;s <i>Governor</i>; Sir <span class="smcap">T. Wilson</span>&#8217;s
+<i>Rhetoric and Logic: The Mirror for Magistrates</i>; <span class="smcap">J. Howell</span>&#8217;s <i>Epistol&aelig; Ho
+<span class="smcap">Elian&aelig;</span></i>; Colonel <span class="smcap">S. Allen</span>&#8217;s <i>Killing no Murder</i>; W. <span class="smcap">Bradford</span>&#8217;s <i>Of New
+Plimouth</i>; <span class="smcap">W. Thomas&#8217;</span> <i>Historie of Italie</i>; <span class="smcap">J. Lambard</span>&#8217;s <i>Perambulation of
+Kent</i>; Bp. <span class="smcap">J. Jewell</span>&#8217;s <i>Apologie</i>; Sir <span class="smcap">T. Smith</span>&#8217;s <i>Commonwealth of
+England</i>; and also books remarkable as being the first produced in any
+country.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">f</td><td>The Controversy with Rome in the first phase of the English Reformation;
+as represented by the works of <span class="smcap">W. Tyndale</span>; Sir <span class="smcap">T. More</span>; <span class="smcap">C. Saint German</span>;
+<span class="smcap">R. Barnes</span>; <span class="smcap">J. Rastell</span>; <span class="smcap">G. Joye</span>; and others. To be printed from the
+<i>contemporary</i> editions.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">g</td><td>&#8220;Characters,&#8221; &#8220;Essays,&#8221; and other pieces photographing the &#8220;humours&#8221; of
+their time.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">h</td><td>The Quarrels of Authors; and notably that between Dr. <span class="smcap">Gabriel Harvey</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Tom Nash</span>.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">i</td><td>Strange travels; like <span class="smcap">Lithgow</span>&#8217;s <i>Peregrination</i> and <span class="smcap">Coryat</span>&#8217;s
+<i>Crudities</i>.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">j</td><td> A few philosophical books: like Sir <span class="smcap">J. Eliot</span>&#8217;s <i>Monarchie of Man</i>; <span class="smcap">J.
+Hale</span>&#8217;s <i>Golden Remains</i>; <span class="smcap">T. Hobbe</span>&#8217;s <i>Leviathan</i>; and Bishop <span class="smcap">J. Wilkin</span>&#8217;s
+<i>Real Character</i>.</td></tr>
+<tr><td valign="top">k</td><td>Some &#8220;Emblem&#8221; books; if their text and illustrations can by
+<i>photogravure</i> or any like process be reproduced with a satisfactory
+definition and clearness.</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>II. Though not its main intention&mdash;this <span class="gesp"><i>OLD SERIES</i></span> will comprise the
+largest number of forbidden or &#8220;obnoxious&#8221; English books ever brought
+together. Of which it will represent books burnt by the Romish hierarchy
+under Henry VIII; Brownist, Puritan, and <i><span class="smcap">Martin Marprelate</span></i> tracts
+confiscated by <span class="smcap">Elizabeth</span>&#8217;s bishops; free-speech books obnoxious to the
+ministers of the Stuarts; &#8220;Divine right&#8221; sermons and other works burnt by
+the common hangman by order of Parliament; and lastly, works rewarded by
+the High Commission in the Star Chamber with slit nose, branded face, or
+cropped ears.</p>
+
+<p class="center">&#8258; <i>For further particulars, including issues to date, see
+current List.</i></p>
+
+
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