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Hugh Latimer's Sermon
John Skip was not the only chaplain Anne called on to preach about her views on the dissolution of the monasteries. She also asked Hugh Latimer to preach in front of the King. Latimer preached on Luke 20 verses 9-16, the parable of the vineyard. Here is a modern text of that parable from the New International Bible:
"A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.' But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!""
As you can see, it is a fitting text when you consider the first fruits and taxes that the monasteries had to pay. William Latymer wrote of this sermon in his "Cronickille of Anne Bulleyne". He explained that Hugh Latimer emphasised that the owner of the vineyard did not destroy the vineyard when the tenants could not pay him in fruit. Instead, he commanded it " to be fearmed and letton to others, whoo shoulde by their industroye and housebandrye amende the negligence of the other fearmers". In other words, the owner let it be used by others who would do the right thing. Latimer, and Anne through him, were saying that instead of dissolving the monasteries, the King could "converte the abbeys and prioryes to places of studye and goode letres and to the contynuall releve of the poore." 7 It was obviously something that Anne felt strongly about.
William Latymer also recorded that Latimer's sermon gave "the governors of the other religious houses" hope that the Queen may be able to help them if they petitioned her. They therefore sent a "brotherhood" to call on the Queen, who lectured them on their "detestable sleightes and frivelous ceremonyes" and made it plain that in her opinion the dissolution was "a deservid plague from almightie God", punishing them for their "lewdenes". 8 They had judged her incorrectly, she wasn't against the dissolution, she was against the Crown's plans for the monasteries' assets. That was Anne's stance: dissolution was necessary for reform but the money should go to education and to relief for the poor.
13th April – Maundy Thursday
On the 13th April 1536, Maundy Thursday, Anne Boleyn did her duty as Queen, distributing Maundy money (alms) and washing the feet of poor people.
It was traditional for the monarch and his consort to wash the feet of as many poor people as years they were old, as well as giving them purses of coins. In 1536, the court expenses show that the "costs of the Queen's maundy" were "31 l. 3s. 9 ½d." 1 Both William Latymer and John Foxe wrote of how the amount in the royal Maundy purses distributed to the poor increased significantly when Anne Boleyn was Queen, showing her passion for relief to the poor. Latymer recorded that one Maundy Thursday, Anne, after washing and kissing the feet of poor women, "commaunded to be put previlye into every poore womans purse one george noble, the which was vis viiid [6 shillings and 8 pence], over and besides the almes that wonted to be given." 2
18th April 1536 – The King Tricks Chapuys
On Tuesday18th April 1536, the imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, was tricked into recognising as Queen the woman he called "the concubine".
Chapuys arrived at Greenwich Palace to meet
Hugh Latimer's Sermon
John Skip was not the only chaplain Anne called on to preach about her views on the dissolution of the monasteries. She also asked Hugh Latimer to preach in front of the King. Latimer preached on Luke 20 verses 9-16, the parable of the vineyard. Here is a modern text of that parable from the New International Bible:
"A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.' But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!""
As you can see, it is a fitting text when you consider the first fruits and taxes that the monasteries had to pay. William Latymer wrote of this sermon in his "Cronickille of Anne Bulleyne". He explained that Hugh Latimer emphasised that the owner of the vineyard did not destroy the vineyard when the tenants could not pay him in fruit. Instead, he commanded it " to be fearmed and letton to others, whoo shoulde by their industroye and housebandrye amende the negligence of the other fearmers". In other words, the owner let it be used by others who would do the right thing. Latimer, and Anne through him, were saying that instead of dissolving the monasteries, the King could "converte the abbeys and prioryes to places of studye and goode letres and to the contynuall releve of the poore." 7 It was obviously something that Anne felt strongly about.
William Latymer also recorded that Latimer's sermon gave "the governors of the other religious houses" hope that the Queen may be able to help them if they petitioned her. They therefore sent a "brotherhood" to call on the Queen, who lectured them on their "detestable sleightes and frivelous ceremonyes" and made it plain that in her opinion the dissolution was "a deservid plague from almightie God", punishing them for their "lewdenes". 8 They had judged her incorrectly, she wasn't against the dissolution, she was against the Crown's plans for the monasteries' assets. That was Anne's stance: dissolution was necessary for reform but the money should go to education and to relief for the poor.
13th April – Maundy Thursday
On the 13th April 1536, Maundy Thursday, Anne Boleyn did her duty as Queen, distributing Maundy money (alms) and washing the feet of poor people.
It was traditional for the monarch and his consort to wash the feet of as many poor people as years they were old, as well as giving them purses of coins. In 1536, the court expenses show that the "costs of the Queen's maundy" were "31 l. 3s. 9 ½d." 1 Both William Latymer and John Foxe wrote of how the amount in the royal Maundy purses distributed to the poor increased significantly when Anne Boleyn was Queen, showing her passion for relief to the poor. Latymer recorded that one Maundy Thursday, Anne, after washing and kissing the feet of poor women, "commaunded to be put previlye into every poore womans purse one george noble, the which was vis viiid [6 shillings and 8 pence], over and besides the almes that wonted to be given." 2
18th April 1536 – The King Tricks Chapuys
On Tuesday18th April 1536, the imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, was tricked into recognising as Queen the woman he called "the concubine".
Chapuys arrived at Greenwich Palace to meet
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