Exhibit 501 ยท Royal injunctions
Second Royal Injunctions of Henry VIII (Cromwell), 1538
the charges of which boke shal be ratablie born between you the parson, and the parishners aforsaid, that ys to say, the one half by yowe, and th'other half by them
Every parish must set up an English Bible of the largest volume in the church, with the cost shared half by the parson and half by the parishioners, and must not discourage anyone from reading or hearing it, while referring the explanation of obscure places to men of higher judgment.
- Source
- Thomas Cromwell, vicegerent for Henry VIII
- Date
- September-October 1538
- Quoted from
- Pollard, Records of the English Bible (1911), Record XLIII, p. 262 n. (from Reg. Cranmer fol. 99b; Wilkins III, 815); also Gee and Hardy no. LXIII, pp. 275-76
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/recordsofenglish00polluoft
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Gee and Hardy date the Second Injunctions to 1538 (Cromwell's letter of 30 September; Cranmer's mandate of 11 October); Wilkins prints them under 1536, which Pollard calls probably two years too early. A parallel quote read: 'discorage no man pryuely or apertly from the readinge or hearing of the same Bible'.