The Lacuna Project

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Person

Thomas Cromwell, vicegerent in spirituals

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-2.4: Between 1530 and 1543 the English Crown, by proclamation, injunction and statute, prohibited English Scripture, then required an English Bible in every parish church, then barred women, artificers, apprentices, journeymen, servingmen of yeoman rank or under, husbandmen and laborers from reading it.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 500 4 August 1537. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury: Thomas Cranmer to Thomas Cromwell, 4 August [1537], requesting the king's license for the Matthew Bible
  • Exhibit 501 September-October 1538. Thomas Cromwell, vicegerent for Henry VIII: Second Royal Injunctions of Henry VIII (Cromwell), 1538