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B17 Here Lyes Dick of Canterburie, suspected a Papist |
Notes. This is one of four extant libellous epitaphs on Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in November 1610.
Here Lyes Dick of Canterburie, suspected a Papist
who liv’d a Machiavillan,1 and dyde an Atheist.
Source. CUL Add. MS 4138, fol. 49r
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Don. d.58, fol. 18r; Bodleian MS Firth d.7, fol. 160r; V&A MS D25.F.39, fol. 68r
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1 Machiavillan: i.e. Machiavellian; follower of the amoral creeds of the Italian Niccolò Machiavelli. <back>