The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents

by J. M. Stone

[265] Ridley ordered the altars in his diocese to be taken down, as occasions of great superstition and error; and tables to be set in their room, in some convenient place in the chancel or choir. The Catholics ridiculed the tables as “oyster-boards” (Strype, Annals of the Reformation, p. 355).

[266] Acts of the Privy Council, new series, vol. ii., p. 312, edited by John Roche Dasent.

[267] Lansdowne MS. 1236, f. 28, Brit. Mus.

[268] Lemon, Dom., Edward VI., vol. i., p. 22, art. 51.

[269] Acts of the Privy Council, vol. ii., p. 291, new series.

[270] Foxe, vol. vi., p. 12.

[271] Journal of King Edward’s Reign, 21.

[272] Turnbull, Cal. State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign, 1547-53, p. 75.

[273] Turnbull, Cal. State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign, 1547-53, p. 137.

[274] Turnbull, Cal. State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign, 1547-53, p. 137.