Note 294 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
Strype’s Cranmer, app. 242. We may compare this admission of the Protestant archbishop with the statute of his royal master (33 Henry VIII. c. 12), whereby it was enacted that “no women not of gentle birth, nor journeymen, artificers’ apprentices, should read the Bible in English, either to themselves or others;” whilst another Act of the same monarch forbade the public reading of the Scriptures.