. Launceston, past and present; a historical and descriptive sketch. IV.—From the Building of St. Mary Magdalenes to theElection of Sir John Eliot (1524—1G23.) [HE Church of St. Mary Magdalene having justbeen consecrated, the inhabitants of LauncestonL in the early years of the second quarter of the six-teenth century were entitled to believe thatlittle change in the ecclesiastical arrangements oftheir town was to be expected for a long while tocome. The whispers from foreign parts of thedoings of a daring monk who, having set Popeand Church at defiance,had brought upon himself literary chasti
. Launceston, past and present; a historical and descriptive sketch. IV.—From the Building of St. Mary Magdalenes to theElection of Sir John Eliot (1524—1G23.) [HE Church of St. Mary Magdalene having justbeen consecrated, the inhabitants of LauncestonL in the early years of the second quarter of the six-teenth century were entitled to believe thatlittle change in the ecclesiastical arrangements oftheir town was to be expected for a long while tocome. The whispers from foreign parts of thedoings of a daring monk who, having set Popeand Church at defiance,had brought upon himself literary chastisementfrom no less a personage than King Henry himself, seemed not toaffect the dwellers in the ancient town. But events marched rapidly inthose days of religious change ; in the same year that St. Mary Mag-dalenes was consecrated, Wolsey obtained from the Pope a bull for thesuppression of monasteries to the amount of three thousand a year forthe maintenance of his college ; and although this measure did nottouch the religious house at Launceston, even here mu
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