A supplicacyon for the beggers.
Written about the year 1529 by Simon Fish. Now re-edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. With A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge Henry the Eyght (1544 A.D.), A supplication of the poore commons (1546 A.D.), The decaye of England by the great multitude of shepe (1550-3 A.D.), ed. by J. Meadows Cowper.

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Main Author

Fish, Simon, d. 1531.

Related Names

Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
Cowper, J. Meadows (Joseph Meadows)

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1871.

Subjects

Clergy > Clergy / England.
Great Britain > Great Britain / History > Great Britain / History / Henry VIII, 1509-1547.
Great Britain > Great Britain / Economic conditions.

Note

The second and third "Supplications," like the first, deal with the ignorance and worldliness of the clergy. The editor is inclined to attribute them to Henry Brinkelow. The fourth is anonymous.
Half-title: Four supplications. 1529-1533 A.D. ...
Bound with: England in the reign of King Henry the Eighth / Thomas Starkey (no. 12)

Physical Description

xviii p., 1 ℓ., 115, [1] p. 22 cm.

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