3. Anne Askew
Explanatory Notes
for: because of.
Feed your flock, feed your flock: engage in pastoral care.
12 visor: outward appearance, countenance.
Credo: 'I believe'.
per licentiam Poeticam: 'By poetic licence.'
residue: the remainder. 'Master More' is Sir Thomas More.
2. WILLIAM TYNDALE
14 Enchiridion militis Christiani: Tyndale offers this translation of Erasmus' influential guide to religious devotion to the Walshes in order to demonstrate his fluency in learned languages and therefore succeed in a bid to secure their patronage. See Erasmus, Glossary of Persons.
doctorly: learned (ironic).
Tyndale: concerning writings cited in this narrative, see the entry for Tyndale in the Glossary of Persons.
16 Isocrates: an ancient Greek rhetorician, a translation of whose unusually difficult prose Tyndale offers as a proof of his humanistic scholarship in an unsuccessful effort to secure patronage from Bishop Tunstall.
Humphrey Monmouth: a London merchant from whom Tyndale received patronage.
17 with might and main: with all of one's power and strength.
wresting the scripture . . . riddles: a reference to the fourfold method of biblical interpretation that Tyndale rejects in The Obedience of a Christian
Man.
18 the printer . . . Barnes: on behalf of John Day, Foxe edited this edition of the collected doctrinal writings of Tyndale, John Frith (see Glossary of Persons), and Robert Barnes. The last-named figure was a former
Augustinian friar and prior who went into exile after recanting from Lutheran beliefs. Following his return to England under the protection of Thomas Cromwell, Barnes served as a royal ambassador and was eventually burnt alive for heresy.
as was the goddess Diana amongst the Ephesians: Acts 19: 28 – 35.
19 front: the forward position.
20 converted . . . household: an allusion to the conversion of a Phillippian jailer by Sts Paul and Silas (Acts 16: 25 – 34).
3. ANNE ASKEW
22 Secondly, he said . . . what Stephen and Paul had said therein: on the basis of hearsay testimony concerning Askew's public exposition of the Bible, a member of a judicial inquest interrogates her concerning her understanding