Exhibit 503 ยท Royal proclamation
Royal proclamation of 6 May 1541 ordering the Bible of the largest volume in every church
for euery moneth that they shall lacke and want the sayde Bybles, after the same feast of Alsayntes fourty shyllynges
Orders curates and parishioners to buy a Bible of the largest volume for each church at their own cost; readers are to read humbly and not aloud during the Mass or dispute the mysteries; a parish without the Bible forfeits forty shillings a month, half to the king and half to whoever first presents the default; the price is capped at ten shillings unbound and twelve bound.
- Source
- Henry VIII (printed by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, 'Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum')
- Date
- 6 May 1541
- Quoted from
- Pollard, Records of the English Bible (1911), Record XLIII, p. 264
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/recordsofenglish00polluoft
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Price cap: 'the pryce of ten shyllynges' unbound, 'twelue shyllynges' bound (p. 264).