Quote#God & Faith
For if credence shuld be gyven to euery suche lewd person as wold…
Quote byThomas Cromwell · 1485–1540
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Nicholas Shaxton on Elizabeth Barton (February 1534), quoted in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Volume I: Life, Letters to 1535 (1902), pp. 375-376.
English (original)
For if credence shuld be gyven to euery suche lewd person as wold affirme himself to haue reuelations from god what redyer wey were there to subuert al common we[l]thes and good orders in the worlde... As for the late lord of Cauntreburys seying vnto you that she had many greate visions, it ought to move you never a deale to gyve credence vnto her or her reuelations.
— Thomas Cromwell
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