"The Select Works of Bishop Bale" of Ossory, UK. Preliminarily, a few things. We get a view of the trial transcripts of Sir John Oldcastle, William Thorpe and Anne Askew.
The first two stories are interviews by the Archbishop of Canterbury (ABC), Bp. Arundel. Both appeared before in 1407 and 1413. Both were, apparently, Wycliffites and both were sent to the burning stake.
"Bishop Bale," the collector of these stories, is an Irish Anglican and Churchman. He wrote a century later and a half later. He "annotates" the stories in the columns of the book. He is strenuously anti-Romanist.
In these two accounts by Bp. Bale of two Wycliffites before Canterbury a century earlier, we get a view of standard, medieval and English Romanism.
William Thorpe speaks of the required tithes and offerings, the fecklessness of some clerics, and pilgrimages. We learn that both men believed in the real presence at the table, purgatory, and good works as the path to salvation. One of Bale's sidenotes says, "The holy church is built by true preachers." In another, "the multitudes are not to be followed in evil."
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The first two stories are interviews by the Archbishop of Canterbury (ABC), Bp. Arundel. Both appeared before in 1407 and 1413. Both were, apparently, Wycliffites and both were sent to the burning stake.
"Bishop Bale," the collector of these stories, is an Irish Anglican and Churchman. He wrote a century later and a half later. He "annotates" the stories in the columns of the book. He is strenuously anti-Romanist.
In these two accounts by Bp. Bale of two Wycliffites before Canterbury a century earlier, we get a view of standard, medieval and English Romanism.
William Thorpe speaks of the required tithes and offerings, the fecklessness of some clerics, and pilgrimages. We learn that both men believed in the real presence at the table, purgatory, and good works as the path to salvation. One of Bale's sidenotes says, "The holy church is built by true preachers." In another, "the multitudes are not to be followed in evil."
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gh4YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#v=onepage&q&f=false
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