The Elizabethan Religious Settlement; a Study of Contemporary Documents
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement; a Study of Contemporary Documents
Henry Norbert Birt
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" Item that altars and rood lofts may be pulled down and utterly de- faced . . . For as yet, they stand in most churches little or nothing blemished. " Further, " whereas heretofore in sun- dry places, it hath been a foolish use amongst a sort of ignorant blind priests that . . . They would take the bread and wine in their hands, lift it up and show it unto the people; whereupon hath ensued horrible idolatries and re- ligious adoration of the Sacraments themselves, or rather of the bread and wi...ne, as by kneeling, knocking of the breast, lifting up of hands, closing of their eyes with the finger and the thumb. For the avoiding whereof it is decreed, etc. " l The enquiry set on foot by the Privy Council in 1577 produced a letter from the Bishop of St. David's to Whit- gift of Worcester, wherein occur these passages : " howso- ever some be affected in heart and infected with Papistry, yet can I understand of none that refuseth to come to the church, saving only one . . . He is a very poor man.
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