[15] Crowley, op. cit., and Epigrams (in ibid., pp. 1-51).
[16] Becon, The Jewel of Joy, 1553: “They abhore the names of Monkes, Friers, Chanons, Nonnes, etc., but their goodes they gredely gripe. And yet where the cloysters kept hospitality, let out their fermes at a resonable price, norished scholes, brought up youth in good letters, they do none of all these thynges.”
[17] Thomas Lever, Sermons, 1550 (English Reprints, ed. E. Arber, 1895), p. 32. The same charge is repeated in subsequent sermons.
[18] F. W. Russell, Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk, 1859, p. 202. For Somerset’s policy and the revolt of the gentry against it, see Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 365-70.
[19] Latimer, Seven Sermons before Edward VI (English Reprints, ed. E. Arber, 1895), pp. 84-6.
[20] Pleasure and Pain, in Select Works of Robert Crowley, ed. J. M. Cowper, p. 116.
[21] The Way to Wealth, in ibid., p. 132.
[22] Lever, op. cit., p. 130.
[23] A Prayer for Landlords, from A Book of Private Prayer set forth by Order of King Edward VI.
[24] Bacon, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain.