The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ut weltor guard [lace or border], and stockings of the same piece, sewed to hiaslops. II The people lived luxuriously in taverns. Artisans would stake acrown upon their games. The houses were gay with tapestry and paintedcloth. At their banquets the guests pledged each other till they weredrunken, and swore that the foreigner should drink with them, out of theii ? Latimer, 5th Sermon on the Lords Prayer. f Hid., 3rd Sermon before Edward VI. i 33 Hem-y YITI. c. 1. § Andre
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ut weltor guard [lace or border], and stockings of the same piece, sewed to hiaslops. II The people lived luxuriously in taverns. Artisans would stake acrown upon their games. The houses were gay with tapestry and paintedcloth. At their banquets the guests pledged each other till they weredrunken, and swore that the foreigner should drink with them, out of theii ? Latimer, 5th Sermon on the Lords Prayer. f Hid., 3rd Sermon before Edward VI. i 33 Hem-y YITI. c. 1. § Andrew Borde. || Planche, Costume, p. 312. JVlUKAL. AJND IMTELLECTUAL PROGRESS. 487 silver cups. So •writes the French physician, envious and spiteful.* Onefact he mentions as characteristic of the nation that he abuses:—TheEnglish are joyous one with another, and they greatly love music. Having attempted a brief sketch of the condition of society in the rela-tions of the government to the people, and exhibited some characteristics ofthe rural and of the urban population, w e proceed to complete our account by. General Costume of the time of Edward VI. a notice of those circumstances which influenced the moral and intellectualprogress of the nation. And first of the Clergy, and of the state of religiousinstruction after the great revolution which destroyed the regular ecclesiastics—those who had absorbed so large a portion of the property of the commu-nity, and who, to a great extent, had outlived their utility. The religiousteaching of the people was now in the hands of the secular clergy—bisliops,vicars, and curates. The bishops had all outwardly conformed to the greatchange in the condition of the Church; but there were several, as will betraced in the course of our historical narrative, who were strongly opposedto the principles of the Eeformation. Others were, as men in possessiongenerally are, willing to live in quiet under the existing state of few we
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