The lay folks' catechism, or, The English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the people; together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same and the corresponding canons of the Council of Lambeth / With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons and Henry Edward Nolloth.

Author
Thoresby, John, -1373 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Latin
Published/​Created
London : Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901.
Description
xxxix, 137 p. ; 23 cm.

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Series
  • Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 118. [More in this series]
  • Early English Text Society. Original series, no. 118.
Notes
The English version of Thoresby's Instruction is in rude verse, by John de Taystek. It is really a very wide expansion of the original text, which followed the Constitutions of Archbishop Peckham (Lambeth canons IX-XIII) The Wycliffite version is probably by Wycliffe himself. cf. Introd.
Bibliographic references
"List of works bearing upon catechisms": p. xxxviii-xxxix.
LCCN
01020605
OCLC
360338
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