Note 930 — INDEX.
Reading edition
Footnote 930: Marsiglio's Defensor Pacis was a favourite book with Cromwell who lent a printer £20 to bring out an English edition of it in 1535 (see the present writer in D.N.B., s.v. Marshall, William). Marshall distributed twenty-four copies among the monks of Charterhouse to show them how the Christian commonwealth had been "unjustly molested, vexed and troubled by the spiritual and ecclesiastical tyrant". See also Maitland, English Law and the Renaissance, pp. 14, 60, 61.(back)