This included £5 to the godly learned men … that wt goddes worde doo fight ayenst Antechrist and his membres, and £9 to the remission of debt.
[2] She made three further marriages: first (as his second wife) to Stephen Vaughan, at Calais, who died in 1549;[7] secondly (c. 1550) to George Rolle, Esquire,[8] and thirdly (before 1556) to Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
[2] In 1544 or 1545 he published the work "The complaynt of Roderyck Mors, somtyme a grey fryre, vnto the parliament howse of Ingland his natural cuntry for the redresse of certen wicked lawes, euel customs ad cruell decreys".
The work includes sections on economic reform ("Of inhansing of rent ys by land lordes &ce.
"), church reform ("A lamentacyon for that the body and tayle of the pope is not banisshed with his name"), and militant enforcement of Biblical law ("Of the sellyng of wardys for mariage, wher of ensueth adultery, which owght to be ponysshed by deth").
He attributed contemporary disorders and greed to economic roots, and recommended the King to use his wealth to keep his subjects prosperous.
[10] He demanded that traditional religion be completely swept away – 'forcked cappes' (bishops) and all – and criticised Henry VIII for his ambivalence over reform.
[2] He was also concerned with the state of neglect in medicine, and around 1542, proposed that revenue gained from the Church – this was the time of the Dissolution – should be diverted into medical facilities, stating that phisicyans and surgeons ... to lyue upon their stipend (fixed and regular payment) only, without taking any peny of there pore, upon payne of losing both his earys and his stypend also[11] , and, according to one source, were to live on this payment on pain of mutilation.