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later commentators are particularly enumerated,
Musculus upon St. Matthew, John Brentius upon
St. Luke, Calvin and Bullinger upon the Epistles,
and Erasmus' Annotations upon the New Testament
—as works which were to be at once provided for
the common use of all who should frequent it.
The animus of the whole of the injunctions is unmistakable.
Holgate, it is clear, sympathised heart
and soul with the foreign reformers and the changes
they had set on foot. The stately services of the
minster were to be reduced to as low a level as might
be, and when Calvin and Bullinger were put forward
as authorised expositors of Holy Scripture, it is
obvious that the " New Learning " in its more exaggerated
form was being inculcated as vigorously as possible
by the prelate who at this particular juncture
occupied the episcopal chair of York.
Of the reception which Holgate's injunctions met
with on the part of the capitular body, and of the
extent to which they were carried out, we have no
account. Little, probably, was done, for the young
king died on the 6th July, 1553, not quite a twelvemonth
after their issue. His death extinguished for
a time all the hopes and aspirations of the reformers,
and brought back at once, for a brief season, the
services of the olden time.