The book Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury volume 7 was written by author Walter Farquhar Hook Here you can read free online of Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury volume 7 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury volume 7 a good or bad book?
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Capons two, pheasants two, conies two, wodcockes two. Of lesse sortes, as of partriches, the archbishop three, the bishop, and other degrees under hym two. Of blackburdes the archbishop six, the bishop four, the other degrees three. Of larkes and snytes, and of that sort, but twelve. It was also provided, that whatsoever is spared by the cuttyng off of the 128 LIVES OF THE C ^ I -^ P - old superfluities, shoulde yet be provided and spent in playne . Meates for the relievying of the poore. " * T...homas 1033-55! So unpalatable were these regulations to those, who had been accustomed to feast at the expense of the bishops, that soon after, an outcry was raised against them from the opposite quarter, and they were accused of covetous- ness. To keep hospitality and to bid all comers welcome was still considered the duty of great men in Church and State ; and upon this point the enemies of Cranmer thought to establish a charge against him. Sir Thomas Seymour, " being of the privy chamber, " was employed to bring odium upon the archbishop, by complaining to the king that he kept no hospitality or house corre- spondent with his revenues or dignity.
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