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Christencat

By HENRY WALTER.

In Day's edition of Tyndale's Works, Lond. 1573, at p. 476., Tyndale says:— "Had he" [Sir Thomas More] "not come begging for the clergy from purgatory, with his *supplication of souls*—nor the poor soul and proctor been there with his bloody bishop Christe catte, so far conjured into his own Utopia." I take the word to be *Christencat*; but its two parts are so divided by the position of Christen at the end of one line, and catte at the beginning of the next as to prevent it from being certain that they form one word. But I would gladly learn from any of your correspondents, whether the name o…

Topics: Literature, Historical Customs, Religious Critique

Locations: London, Utopia