ABSTRACT
Source: Transcript from Lambeth Palace Library copy with the addition of the sixteenth article and extra phrases from the copy in Corpus
Christi College, Oxford; Rose-Troup, 1913: appx K and 222-3.
A Copy of a Letter, 1549
Extract from A Copy of a Letter, printed tract of 1549. The letter was written by a gentleman of Devon on 27 July and gives a first-hand account of the rebellion and an analysis of its causes. There is some evidence to suggest that the recipient at Court, Mr C., can be identified as Secretary Cecil. The letter comments on the price rise, the attitudes of gentry to their livings and the rebels’ article on abbey and chantry lands.
