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| | King - William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture |
 | | Day based his success as an entrepreneur upon publication of books that sold well at his Aldersgate shop, at crowded book stalls in the vicinity of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and at market squares throughout England. |
 | | Although Foxe and Day carried over marginalia from the 1570 text, three additional glosses elaborate upon the significance of Tyndale's achievement: "The Scripture in the vulgar tongue, a special manifesting of truth"; "Ignorance of Scripture cause[s] all mischief and errors in religion"; and "The reprobate are always offended at the truth" (B1v-2). |
 | | According to the mythic worldview of Foxe, Day, Bale, Crowley, and their co-religionists, The Prayer and Complaint of the Plowman Unto Christ and related works of agrarian discontent are in touch with a "true" apostolic tradition that extended to Tyndale from early Christian apostles via Wyclif, thus bypassing the apostolic succession claimed by the papacy. |
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