Lay Folks Catechism

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Excerpt from Lay Folks Catechism: Or the English and Latin Versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People, Together With a Wycliffe Adaptation of the Same, and Corresponding Canons of the Council of LambethIN the four mediaeval documents which form the text of this volume, we have an interesting survival of the efforts of three of the earliest of the English Reformers. For John de Thoresby and John Peckham, the Northern and the Southern Primates, no less than John de Wyclif, the Oxford scholar and leader, deserved that title. All three men were anxious, before everything else, to amend the carelessness and the inconsistency of the clergy, and the consequent ignorance and corruption Of the laity of their day. And, widely as they differed from each other, - Thoresby from Peckham as far as both from Wyclif, - in this respect their efforts were not only similar, but connected. The Lay Folks'. Catechism of Thoresby must have been suggested by the Constitutions of Peckham, and the Wycliffite Adaptation of the present volume was a new and expanded edition of the Catechism of Thoresby. It will be necessary to say something about each of these men, and as this will best be done in order Of time, we will begin with the Southern archbishop.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.