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From Catholic Priests To Protestant Ministers: Pastoral Education in the Diocese of York, 1520-1620

From Catholic Priests To Protestant Ministers: Pastoral Education in the Diocese of York, 1520-1620 FROM CATHOLIC PRIESTS TO PROTESTANT MINISTERS: PASTORAL EDUCATION IN THE DIOCESE OF YORK, 1520-1620 CLAIRE CROSS Christian humanists believed that by raising educational standards they could reform the practice of the parochial clergy, that higher educational attainment would in effect produce more moral and more educated priests. This contribution traces the pursuit of this policy in one English diocese over the course of the sixteenth century. 1. Educational standards and attempts at improvement in the mid-sixteenth century Before the government of Edward VI could proceed with its inten- tion to abolish chantries throughout England and appropriate their revenues, it first needed to obtain precise details of their endow- ments. Royal commissioners visited York for this purpose in 1548, subsequently dispatching to Westminster in addition to the requisite economic information brief returns on the morality and education of the city's chantry priests. One such cleric, Thomas Worrall, a stipendiary curate in the church of St Michael, Spurriergate, fea- tured in their records as possessing "honest qualities and conditions and indifferent learning". Ordained deacon and priest in York in 1512 at the age of 24, the earliest permissible date at canon law, he had been singing the Jesus mass at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) Brill

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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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FROM CATHOLIC PRIESTS TO PROTESTANT MINISTERS: PASTORAL EDUCATION IN THE DIOCESE OF YORK, 1520-1620 CLAIRE CROSS Christian humanists believed that by raising educational standards they could reform the practice of the parochial clergy, that higher educational attainment would in effect produce more moral and more educated priests. This contribution traces the pursuit of this policy in one English diocese over the course of the sixteenth century. 1. Educational standards and attempts at improvement in the mid-sixteenth century Before the government of Edward VI could proceed with its inten- tion to abolish chantries throughout England and appropriate their revenues, it first needed to obtain precise details of their endow- ments. Royal commissioners visited York for this purpose in 1548, subsequently dispatching to Westminster in addition to the requisite economic information brief returns on the morality and education of the city's chantry priests. One such cleric, Thomas Worrall, a stipendiary curate in the church of St Michael, Spurriergate, fea- tured in their records as possessing "honest qualities and conditions and indifferent learning". Ordained deacon and priest in York in 1512 at the age of 24, the earliest permissible date at canon law, he had been singing the Jesus mass at

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