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Folio 28: Proposals for parliamentary legislation by Christopher St German, partly...

Catalogue reference: SP 6/7/28

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This record is about the Folio 28: Proposals for parliamentary legislation by Christopher St German, partly... dating from [1530 x 1532] in the series Theological Tracts Henry VIII. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 6/7/28
Date
[1530 x 1532]
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Folio 28: Proposals for parliamentary legislation by Christopher St German, partly in his own hand: previously described as 'draft of an Act of Parliament for appointing certain lords to hear the opinions of those who wish to have the New Testament in thevernacular and to inquire into and reform ecclesiastical abuses'

Note
LP ref V, 50 English. J A Guy, `The Tudor Commonwealth: Revising Thomas Cromwell'. Historical Journal 23 (1980), pp 681-687 (pp 684-687) where dated 1530-1532. See also G W Bernard, `Politics and Government in Tudor England Historical Journal 31 (1988), pp 159-182 (pp 173-175). For earlier discussions of this document (now superseded by Guy) see G R Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, II, pp 80-81; discussed in detail in Elton, Reform and Renewal (Cambridge, 1973), pp 71-76 where dated c 1534; see also Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament 1529-1536 (Cambridge, 1970), p 120 where dated 1531
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