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4 unusual facts about Henry Brinklow


Henry Brinklow

For example, he reviled monasteries, but equally reviled the Dissolution of the Monasteries — despite also putting forward a "programme for full-scale redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth".

Henry Brinklow was the ninth child of Sibyl (or Isabell) Butler, and her husband, Robert Brinklow, a farmer in Kintbury, Berkshire.

Bishop Stephen Gardiner suspected that Mors was a pseudonym, but that it was the creation of George Joye.

The Complaint of Roderick Mors

The Complaint (or Complaynt) of Roderick (or Roderyck) Mors (c. 1542), by Henry Brinklow, is a well-known example of 'complaint literature' from the 'commonwealth men' of the mid-Tudor period.



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