Do the stanzas "on the Queen's Return" and the lines on the Death of Sir B. Grenvill exist in any of the various collections of State Poems?
INVESTIGATOR.
MINOR QUERIES.
Christencat.
In Day's edition of Tyndale's Works, Lond. 1573, at p. 476., Tyndale says:—
"Had he" [Sir Thomas More] "not come begging for the clergy from purgatory, with his supplication of souls—nor the poor soul and proctor been there with his bloody bishop Christen catte, so far conjured into his own Utopia."
I take the word to be Christencat; but its two parts are so divided by the position of Christen at the end of one line, and catte at the beginning of the next as to prevent it from being certain that they form one word. But I would gladly learn from any of your correspondents, whether the name of Christencat, or Christian-cat, is that of any bishop personified in the Old Moralities, or known to have been the satirical sobriquet for any bishop of Henry VIII.'s time. The text would suggest the expectation of its occurring either in More's Utopia, or in his Supplication of Souls, but I cannot find it in either of them.
HENRY WALTER.