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Book SynopsisContains three works by Thomas More. The first is a rebuttal of the main points of Lutheran teaching, whilst the second refutes A Supplication of Beggars, an anticlerical pamphlet by Simon Fish. The third answers John Frith's arguments against the physical presence of Christ in the eucharist.
Table of Contents"Letter to Bugenhagen", Frank Manley - circumstances of composition; rhetorical strategies; "Supplication of Souls", Germain Marc'hadour - the two supplications; the dogma of purgatory; "Letter Against Frith", Ricard Marius; the texts, Clarence H.Miller; texts; commentary. Appendices: John Bugenhagen's "Epistola ad Anglos"; Simon Fish's "A Supplicacyon for the Beggars" with John Foxe's sidenotes; John Frith's "A Christian Sentence"; "The Story of Simon Fish" from John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments"; popular devotions concerning purgatory, Germain Marc'hadour; the printer's copy for the "Supplication of Souls" in 1557; "English Works", Ralph Keen; table of corresponding pages.
