Strype's works Volume 10 - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...the Bishop, the two former persons were again to resort to him with the new draught, and to / Book take with them a divine, which was the Bishop of London, 11 and a lawyer, which was Goodrick. These articles were Anno 1550. twenty-two in number, and to this tenor; "That King "Henry VIII. had justly suppressed monasteries. That "persons may marry, who are not prohibited to contract "matrimony by the Levitical law, without the Bishop of "Bome's dispensation. That vowing or going pilgrimages "were justly abolished; the counterfeiting St. Nicholas, "St. Clement, &c. was mere mockery. That it is convenient "that the Scriptures should be in English. That the late "King, and the present, did upon just ground take into "their hands chauntries, which were for maintenance of "private masses. That private masses were justly taken "away by the statutes of the realm; and the communion "placed instead thereof, is very godly. That it is convc"nient that the sacrament should be received in both kinds. "That the mass, where the priest doth only receive, and "others look on, is but the invention of man. That it was "upon good and godly consideration ordered in the book, "that the sacrament should not be lifted up, and shewed "to the people to be adored. That it is politicly and "godly done, that images in churches, and mass-books, "were enacted to be abolished. That bishops, priests, and "deacons have no commandment in the law of God to vow "chastity, or abstain from marriage. And that all canons "and constitutions, which do prohibit marriage to the "clergy, be justly taken away by parliament. That the "Homilies, and the forms set forth of mak...

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