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The Reformation · c. 1548–1552

The Sermons

Hugh Latimer · c. 1487–1555

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What it is

Plain, funny, furious preaching before the king and at Paul's Cross about enclosures, bribery, absentee clergy, and the poverty of English farmers.

Why it lasted

The finest English preaching of the century and the sharpest social criticism; its author was burned at Oxford in 1555.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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