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Though they should want preaching seventeen year, Our parson will not want one sheaf of bear (barley).

Against the neglect and oppression of the Church, the poor had only the last ineffectual weapons of contempt and derision. The people ceased to attend the services, they so lightlied the Mass that priests complained that there was no longer a living to be made out of it. Cursing (excommunication) - once the awful severance of a sinful soul from the Church's charity and the mercy of God - became a jest and mockery to peasants as they sat drinking together. At the tavern.

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Perhaps the most singular fact in the life of Knox is the unbroken silence of the first forty years. He, who was the most explicit of men in all that related to himself, never referred to his early life except in some such short, uneasy allusion as "the time spent in the puddle of Papistry." Shame probably kept him silent. What we know from other sources is little enough. He was born probably near Haddington in the year 1505. Unlike most of his countrymen, of whom Erasmus remarks that they all claimed to be of noble birth, Knox was content to describe himself as "a man of base estate and condition." His name occurs in the student lists of Glasgow College for the year 1522, but is absent from the list of those who took their degree.

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