[275] Some Account of Shrewsbury, p. 128.

[276] See the Petition of the Inhabitants of Holm Cultram, in Cumberland, to Cromwell, praying for the preservation of the abbey church there, A. D. 1538. Ellis’s Original Letters, ii. 89.

[277] Spelman, Hist. and Fate of Sacrilege, p. 202. The extract is from a letter of John Bale to Leland.

[278] Homily on Keeping clean of Churches.

[279] Strype’s Cranmer, 177.

[280] Latimer’s Sermons, i. 60, 61. Id. i. 176.

[281] Latimer’s Sermons, i. 167.

[282] Id. i. 176, 220.

[283] Strype’s Cranmer, 175.

[284] Fox, 1048. Percy’s Reliques of English Poetry, ii. 291. Shakspeare’s Winter Tale, act iv. sc. 2.