Note 1225 — XXVI. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.
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Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, Bk. II. chap. 14.—Smith subsequently at Louvain continued to urge the necessity of celibacy and was answered by Peter Martyr. Strype calls him a filthy fellow, notorious for lewdness, and his championship of chastity excited some merriment. There is an epigram upon him by Lawrence Humphrey—
“Haud satis affabre tractans fabrilia Smithus Librum de vita cœlibe composuit Dumque pudicitiam, dum vota monastica laudat, Stuprat, sacra notans fœdera conjugii.” (Ibid. Chap. 25.)