Strype

Cited as Strype. — 25 quotations

Calumniate

Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.

Clerk

The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill.

Cloaking

To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings.

Compone

A good pretense for componing peace.

Conserve

The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor.

Contemporary

This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.

Contract

Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law.

Contumacy

The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy.

Correction

The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices.

Denize

There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hills.

Dilapidation

The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York.

Disceptation

Verbose janglings and endless disceptations.

Discredit

An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible.

Disposition

His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.

Forth

I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.

Gemel

Two gemels silver between two griffins passant.

Gospeler

The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion.

Grail

Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Harborer

Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion.

Heterodox

Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching.

Imprudent

Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers.

Irreverend

Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture.

Justifier

Justifiers of themselves and hypocrites.

Unprobably

To diminish, by the authority of wise and knowing men, things unjustly and unprobably crept in.

Versicle

The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles.