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4 unusual facts about Stanford Lehmberg


Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations

It was not the largest payment to Rome but it is argued by Stanford Lehmberg that it was deliberately mentioned in the Act because it was theoretically paid by laymen and thus might have seemed more intolerable than payments affecting clerics only.

English Reformation

Stanford Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament, 1529 - 1536 (Cambridge University Press, 1970).

Stanford Lehmberg

His next book was a history of Sir Walter Mildmay's political career, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (1964).

He received a Ph.D. (1956) from Cambridge after completing a dissertation on Sir Thomas Elyot, author of the first Latin-English dictionary to be published in sixteenth-century England.



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