[Magdalen] West Country Protest 1549.

[James Oppenheimer]

the more things change, the more they stay the same.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I had forgotten about this little blurb.
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> It just goes to show that the introduction of the First Prayer Book  of
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> Watch out for the wild, wild West!
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> <<<We  wyll haue the masse in Latten, as  was before.
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> We  wyll haue the Sacrament hang Oller the hyeghe aulter, and  there to  be
> worshypped  as it was wount to be, and they whiche will not thereto
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> wyll  haue them dye lyke heretykes against the Holy Catholyque fayth.
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> We  wyll haue . . . images to be set vp again in euery church, and all
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> auncient  olde Ceremonyes vsed heretofore, by our mother the holy Church.
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> We  wyll not receyue the newe seruyce because it is but lyke a  Christmas
> game,  but we wyll haue oure old seruice of Mattens, masse, Euensong and
> procession  in Latten as it was before.
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> -the  protest of the Men of the West country,   1549>>>
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