. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . IG34.— Suit of Fluted cap a-pie Armour. Temp. Henry 1636. - Suit of Demi-Lancers Armour. Temp. Esnry VII. IS53.—Suit of Black Armour of a Knight of 6U Henry VII. 77 78 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V reign ; but similar exposures of the same kind, though of a lessexciting degree, marked also the earlier. Particular incidents had in some cases the effect of appearing toreform the belief of particular and important portions of the com-monwealth. Thus was it with the people of the c
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . IG34.— Suit of Fluted cap a-pie Armour. Temp. Henry 1636. - Suit of Demi-Lancers Armour. Temp. Esnry VII. IS53.—Suit of Black Armour of a Knight of 6U Henry VII. 77 78 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V reign ; but similar exposures of the same kind, though of a lessexciting degree, marked also the earlier. Particular incidents had in some cases the effect of appearing toreform the belief of particular and important portions of the com-monwealth. Thus was it with the people of the city of London,who, bowever prepared previously to change, do not seem to haveactually changed until the death of the citizen Hunne, in 1514;then they performed the operation almost en masse. Hunne haddared to sue a Romish parson for bringing him, the kings subject,before a foreign power,—the popes legate, then sitting in the Spi-ritual Court The church, in revenge, shut him up as a heretic inthe Lollards Tower of St. Pauls, where he was privily murdered,and subsequently the body burned in Smithfield. The excitementwas terrible ; and the metropolis was in
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