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21 " An Act was also passed ‘for the advancement of true religion, and abolishment of the contrary’; one more attempt to quell the religious dissension of the country. No plays or interludes could mention the Scriptures; no one could read from the Bible in an open assembly. Merchants and gentlemen might study it in the quietness of their homes ‘but no women, nor artificers, apprentices, journey-men, serving-men under the degree of yeomen; nor no husbandmen, or labourers, might read it’. "
― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
22 " but, for most, the practice of religion was determined by custom and regulated by authority. "
23 " In previous times no flesh had ever been eaten on fish days; now the people of London scorned fish as a relic of papistry. "
24 " The rise of the stricter forms of Protestantism had not yet inhibited the lavish materialism that seems to characterize Elizabethan society. This might be described as the first secular age. "
25 " The duke of Norfolk remarked to his chaplain, ‘You see, we have hindered priests from having wives.’ ‘And can your grace’, the chaplain replied, ‘prevent also men’s wives from having priests? "
26 " Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen ‘the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application. "