Sketch of the Reformation in England

by John J. Blunt

[62] Bede, p. 441. et seq. Comp. Dante Purgator. ii.

[63] See pp. 206. 329.

[64] Canonicus Lichfeld. de Success. Archiep. Cant. ap. Wharton, Anglia Sacra, i. 95.

[65] Osbern. ap. Wharton, Angl. Sacr. ii. 89.

[66] Burnet’s Hist. Reform. v. i. 130. v. iii. introd. xvi. fol.

[67] In “The Supplication of Beggars,” they are stated at 52,000. (See Fox’s Acts and Mon, ii. 280. edit. 1631–2, with the note.) The number may be exaggerated; but it will seem less extraordinary when it is remembered that one of the qualifications of a thegn or thane, a lower class of nobles, having some analogy to the barons of Norman times, was, that he should have five hides of his own land and a church. (See Turner’s Angl. Sax. ii. 265.)

[68] Angl. Sacr. ii. 91.

[69] Hen. Wharton, Angl. Sacr. i. 126.

[70] Willelm. Malmesb. ap. Wharton, Angl. Sacr. ii. 260.

[71] See Warton’s Hist. of English Poetry, i. 266. 4to.