The Fantasy of Idolatry

Gray, William [of Reading]

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STC 12721
Ringler 12721 and TP 93. Stanzas 37-8 on the execution of Friar John Forest in 1538, quoted by Halle and ptd. in double columns

The vnion of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre and Yorke [by Edward Halle]
London: R. Grafton,1548.



Composition Date: 1538.

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	Dauid_Daruell_Gatheren.
	As saith the Welshmen
	Fetched Outlawes out of Hell.
	Now is he come, with spere and shilde
5	In harnes to burne in Smithfelde
	For in wales he may not dwell
	And Forest the Freer
	That obstinate lyer
	That willfully shalbe dead.
10	In his contumacie
	The Gospell doth deny
	The kyng to be supreme head