John Foxe: "Acts and Monuments," 5.32ff.
1531-1533. The table of abjured persons is continued from the episcopal registry—names given, 32ff. Bizarre: contra images, pilgrimages, Thomas Becket, the supper-issue, imported books, Luther, Oecolampadius, Melancthon, auricular confession, justification and more. Lollardy or some variants of it were alive. This is deck-plate or street-level action here, not the Prelates in their lordly episcopal palaces. Or, hiding without the names. Never mind the White Horse Inn at Cambridge which gets wide reportage. The Reformation as told here was at the street-level with clear insights given by rank-and-file Churchmen. God's Spirit was working in His people contra: the Romish Prelates and Princes.
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