The Eve of the Reformation / Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

[312] B. Mus. Harl. MS. 2125, f. 272.

[313] Penny Cyclopædia. Art., “English Drama.”

[314] A Relation of the Island of England (Camden Society), p. 20.

[315] Ibid., p. 23.

[316] Venetian Calendar, ii. p. 91.

[317] Works on the Supper (Parker Society), p. 229.

[318] To take one instance: the church of St. Neots possessed many stained glass windows placed in their present positions between the years 1480 and 1530. Almost all of them were put in by individuals, as the inscriptions below testify. In the case of three of the lights it appears that groups of people joined together to beautify their parish church. Thus below one of the windows in the north aisle is the following: “Ex sumptibus juvenum hujus parochiæ Sancti Neoti qui istam fenestram fecerunt anno domini millessimo quingentessimo vicessimo octavo.” Another window states that it was made in 1529, “Ex sumptibus sororum hujus parochiæ”; and a third in 1530, “Ex sumptibus uxorum.”

[319] History of Modern Architecture, pp. 37, 87.

[320] Archæologia, vol. xli. p. 355.

[321] Parish Life in England before the Great Pillage (“Nineteenth Century,” March 1898), p. 433.