Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar

Daveth H. Frost is the Principal of Holy Cross College and University Centre, Bury, Lancashire.He is the author of 'Sacrament an Alter: A Tudor Cornish Patristic Catena' in Cornish Studies: Eleven (2003) and 'Glasney's Parish Clergy and the Tregear Manuscript' in Cornish Studies: Fifteen (2008), both edited by Philip Payton. Daveth has also contributed patristic references and commentary as part of the online Variorum Edition of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. He was a part of the advisory committee assisting in the restoration of Llandeilo Talybont at the St Fagan's National History Museum in Wales and contributed to Saving St Teilo's: Bringing a Medieval Church to Life edited by Gerallt D. Nash (National Museum of Wales Books 2009).With special interests in the pre-Reformation Church in Cornwall, Wales and Brittany, he is currently jointly editing, with Benjamin Bruch, the 16th century Cornish translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies which was made by the priest John Tregear, alongside associated material by his fellow priest, Thomas Stephen.

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INTRODUCTION

1 THE TREGEAR MANUSCRIPT

Introduction to the Tregear Manuscript as a whole
The palaeography and scribes of the manuscript
1.3 The purpose of Bonner’s homilies

1.4 The printing of Bonner used by Tregear

1.5 The Tregear Manuscript: increasingly significant for Cornish studies

2 SACRAMENT AN ALTER (SA)

2.1 The specific nature of SA

2.2 The scope of this critical edition of SA

2.3 The authorship, form, date and language of SA

2.4 The source of SA—Foxe’s account of the 1554 Oxford Disputations

2.5 The context of the Disputations

2.6 The specific edition of Foxe used and date of SA

2.7 How did the author compile and translate SA?

2.8 Tregear and Stephyn in the wider orbit of Glasney

3 JOHN TREGEAR—TRANSLATOR OF BONNER

3.1 John Tregear, vicar of Allen, 1544–1583

3.2 Tregear and Lawrence Godfrey

3.3 Tregear and John Tristeane—clues to place of birth and ordination

3.4 Tregear’s ‘church papism’

4 THOMAS STEPHYN—COMPILER OF SACRAMENT AN ALTER

4.1 Thomas Stephyn, vicar of Newlyn East in 1557

4.2 Thomas Stephyn, curate of Newlyn East in 1536

4.3 The possible involvement of Stephyn in an illicit pilgrimage

4.4 Distinguishing Stephyn from Cornwall, Stevyns from Devon

4.5 Thomas Stephyn’s ‘recusancy’

4.6 Other Thomas Stephyns, elsewhere in the country

5 RALPH TRELOBYS—THE LINK WITH GLASNEY COLLEGE

5.1 Ralph Trelobys, vicar of Crowan 1512–1557 and Newlyn 1518–1557

5.2 Trelobys and Glasney College

5.3 Trelobys and ‘Rad Ton’

6 JOHN FOXE

6.1 Foxe’s use of his sources

6.2 The reception of Foxe and his vision of history

6.3 Foxe and Stephyn in the light of current historiography

7 CONCLUSIONS

7.1 The end of the Marian years

7.2 Tregear, Stephyn and the journey of the manuscript



EDITION [SA 59r–66v]

Editorial Method

Edition

COMMENTARY

Hermeneutical Method

Quotations 1–71

NOTES

General Notes

Textual Notes and Apparatus

Appendix A

Appendix B

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources:

Manuscripts

Early Printed Books

Printed and Online Source Editions and Records

Cornish Language Texts

Other Primary Sources and Records

Secondary Sources:

Published Works

Privately Circulated/Unpublished Works


Glossary

Index