Thomas Bilney woodcut plate 'M. Bilney twice plucked from the pulpit' outside the church of St George in Ipswich. Actually 2 full pages of a book, from a 16th cent. Foxes Book of Martyrs.

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Published by Publication Date: 1590

The woodcut shows Thomas Bilney being manhandled by two ugly visaged friars who pull him out of the pulpit (a portable wooden one) outside the church of St George in Ipswich. (Bilney is known to have preached at Christchurch in Ipswich). The words in the banderoles caption the scene as 'M. Bilney twice plucked from the pulpit' & ?St George in Ipswich?. Actually 2 full pages of a book, Undated put 1590 as looks before 1590 as looks like from a 16th cent. Foxes Book of Martyrs. Page Size approx 35.5 x 24. Plate Size approx 13 x 18cm. Has been folded as was fitted in a modern frame. Condition Good, with folding, some very small holes, some minor tears, minor dirt (woodcut plate). The text is all in English, though some text/typeface is in the thicker 15th cent/ German syle. Both pages relate to Bilnay, one page ?Articles agaynft Thomas Bilney, and Tho. Arthur with his aunfweres? & other side/page ? Articles? M. Bilney twife plucked from the pulpit' . From Net; Thomas Bilney c1495 - 1531 was an English Christian martyr. Born around 1495 in Norfolk, most likely in Norwich. Nothing is known of his parents except that they outlived him. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge at a young age, around the year 1510. The Scriptures now became his chief study, and his influence led other young Cambridge men to think along the same lines. Among his friends were Matthew Parker, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, and Hugh Latimer. Latimer, previously a strenuous conservative, was completely won over, and a warm friendship sprang up between him and Bilney. In 1525 Bilney obtained a licence to preach throughout the diocese of Ely. But in 1531, transformed by a new understanding of God?s forgiveness, Thomas Bilney told his friends that, like Christ, ?he was going up to Jerusalem and they would see him no more?. He boldly began his service again, distributing copies of the Tyndale Bible, preaching the Gospel without fear and working out his faith in good works. On 19 August 1531, Thomas Bilney was formally charged with heresy and burned at the stake as a heretic ? the first martyr of the reformation on English soil. Though Bilney is often overlooked as a mere minor character in a larger work, he played an important part in the early English Reformation. This forgotten hero was the bridge between Wycliffe and the great reformers and helped to reclaim gospel truth in the UK. To Sum up a rare original woodprint, within the full page. Seller Inventory # 003643

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Title: Thomas Bilney woodcut plate 'M. Bilney twice...
Publication Date: 1590
Binding: No Binding
Condition: Good to Very Good