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B17  Here Lyes Dick of Canterburie, suspected a Papist

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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>

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