(DOWNLOAD) "Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853" by Various Authors * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 106 KB
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This is a notes book. The progress of the Reformation in England must have been greatly affected by the extent to which the art of printing was brought to bear upon the popular mind. Before the charms of Anne Boleyn could have had much effect, or 'doubts' had troubled the royal conscience, Wolsey had been compelled to forbid the introduction or printing of books and tracts calculated to increase the unsettled condition of the faith. The following proclamation, now for the first time printed, may have originated in the ineffectual result of the cardinal's directions. The readers of Strype and Fox will see that the threats which both contain were no idle ones, and that men were indeed "corrected and punisshed for they contempt and disobedience, to the terrible example of other lyke trangressours.