ABSTRACT
This chapter details the connections between Luke Shepherd and John Foxe; in particular, the allusions and references to several specific figures and events which significantly link the two writers, especially as some of the characters they refer to have not been identified in any other contemporary works. It proposes that the connections between these two writers suggest that Shepherd may be a possible source for some of the material about local Protestant reformers and their conservative antagonists which Foxe subsequently uses in his popular work, Acts and Monuments. Luke Shepherd was one of the main writers of the popular polemical works published in London during the first two years of Edward VI's reign. Shepherd's works, A pore helpe, The vpcheringe of the messe and Pathose, are all verse satires against the Catholic mass. Shepherd's satires were all printed in London, probably in 1548, mostly, but not exclusively, by the Protestant printer, John Day, sometimes in partnership with William Seres.
