Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various
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soules,' and Rastal and Rochester had they not so wyselye
played theyr partes, purgatory paradventure had served them yet another yere; neyther had it so sone haue bene quenched, nor the poor soule and proctoure there ben _wyth his bloudye byshoppe christen catte so farre coniured into his owne Utopia with a sachel about his necke to gather for the proud prystes in Synagoga papistica_." The Rastell here mentioned was doubtless he whom More (_Works_, p. 355.) calls his "brother" (i.e. his sister's husband), joining him with Rochester (i.e. Bp. Fisher), as in this passage, on account of his great zeal in checking the progress of the earlier Reformation; but what is the allusion in the phrase "with his bloudye bishoppe christen catte," &c., I am unable to divine. Neither in the _Supplicacion of Soules_, nor in the reply to the "nameles heretike," have I discovered the slightest clue to its meaning. C.H. St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. [It would seem from a Query from the Rev. Henry Walter, in No. 7. p. 109., on the subject of the name "Christen Cat," where the forgoing passage is quoted from Day's edition of _Tyndale's Works_, that this tract was by Tyndale, and not by Crowley.] * * * * * WHAT IS A CHAPEL? |
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