12 October 1524 A.D. LONDON: Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall calls-in booksellers with warnings & book-reviews (shows early reactions of invading Lutheranized ideas)
12 October 1524 A.D. LONDON: Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall calls-in booksellers with warnings & book-reviews (shows early reactions of invading Lutheranized ideas) A few musings from Prof. Clebsch’s volume. Clebsch, William. England’s Earliest Protestants: 1520-1535. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964. It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Englands-earliest-Protestants-1520-1535-publications/dp/B0007DK7XA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377565405&sr=8-1&keywords=william+clebsch+england%27s+earliest+protestants By 12 October 1524, Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, London, called in several booksellers to his palace. He warned them about imported books. Further, he commanded them to direct any imported books to Wolsey (Cardinal and Papal legate), Warham (CANTUAR), Fisher (Rochester) and himself (London). These four reactionary Anglo-Romanists would be the book-reviewers. Fisher appears to have been the chief and earliest literary defend...