Remarks On the Rev Sr Cattleys Defence of His Edition of Foxs Martyrology
Remarks On the Rev Sr Cattleys Defence of His Edition of Foxs Martyrology
Samuel Roffey Maitland
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210. It may be presumed that Monier spoke French, and that this is a Latin translation of his words. What they might be I cannot exactly say ; but I think I can tell what would have corresponded to it in the English of his time and party. An English puritan would have been very likely to tell c2 36 the official, that these things were " all maumetrie" or "mammetry? This the Editor has explained in a note at Vol. III. P. 327, to mean " Puppet or idol- worship ;" which meaning, or something like ...it, it certainly came to have ; but the original meaning of the word, or rather the word itself originally, was " Mahometry. " " We, " (says Selden, and it is to be wished that some other people were as candid in their acknowledgements while they are as base in their prac- tice, ) "charge the prelatical clergy with popery to make them odious, though we know that they are guilty of no such thing. Just as heretofore they called images mammets, and the adoration of images mam- metry ; that is, Mahomet, and Mahometry ; odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden images by their religion 1 .
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