Instincts of the Masses
Sir, —It is doubtful if one will ever know what the instincts of the masses were from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Although one cannot concur with the killing of Thomas Beckett or those priests executed by the Government of Spain, no doubt they were all acting very much in the same way by trying to uphold foreign authority and religious tyranny against the masses. Much of the trouble in Henry VIII’s time came through the advice and work of Cardinal Wolsey. More, although a great and intellectual man, would not brook religious tolerance. After signing the Charter, John obtained a Papal dispensation from the oath he had made to observe the Charter, thus Church and King combined against the masses.—l am, etc., DOMINIC. Carterton, March 16.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 13
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