The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Person

Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London (1522-30)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-2.3: A royal proclamation of June 1530 forbade having the New or Old Testament in English except persons appointed by the king and the bishops to correct the translation, forbade printing English Scripture without the diocesan's approval, and stated that its distribution "dependeth onely vpon the discretion of the superiours."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 496 24 October 1526. Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London: Bishop Tunstall's mandate calling in English New Testaments