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Al,
I found it in the Oxford English Dictionary in an entry dated 1613 with
that spelling. There are 5 earlier examples in Early English Books
Online:
Author: Edgeworth, Roger, d. 1560.
Title: Sermons very fruitfull, godly, and learned, preached and sette
foorth by Maister Roger Edgeworth, doctoure of diuinitie, canon of the
cathedrall churches of Sarisburie, Welles and Bristow, residentiary in
the cathedrall churche of Welles, and chauncellour of the same churche:
with a repertorie or table, directinge to many notable matters expressed
in the same sermons.
Publication date: Mense Septemb. Anno. 1557.
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Author: Knell, Thomas, fl. 1560-1581.
Title: An answer at large, to a most hereticall, trayterous, and
papisticall byll in English verse which was cast abrode in the streetes
of Northamton, and brought before the judges at the last assizes there,
1570.
Publication date: [1570]
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Author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.
Title: A brief discours contayning certayne reasons why Catholiques
refuse to goe to church. Written by a learned and vertuous man, to a
friend of his in England. And dedicated by I.H. to the Queenes most
excellent Maiestie.
Publication date: 1580.
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Title: The shepardes kalender. Here beginneth the kalender of shepardes
newly augmented and corrected.
Publication date: [1570?]]
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Author: Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.
Title: An epistle of comfort to the reuerend priestes, & to the
honorable, worshipful, & other of the laye sort restrayned in durance
for the Catholicke fayth.
Publication date: 1587?]
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
I am wondering whether I might use the word "catholycke" to help
date the composition of one section of an English chronicle.
The quote with that term is from Hall's Chronicle, which was
largely composed from about 1530 and first published in 1548.
The context is that Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, has just
defeated and killed Richard III at Bosworth Field, August 22,
1485.
"When therle had thus obteigned victorie and slain his mortal
enemie, he kneled doune and rendred to almighty god his harty
thankes with deuout & Godly orisons, besechyng hys goodnes to
sende him grace to auaunce & defende the catholycke fayth & to
maintayn iustice & concord amongest his subiectes & people, by
God now to hys gouernauce committed & assigned." (Hall, 1550
ed., Richard III chapter, fol. 34r; online at
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=halle&PagePosition=645)
A supporter of Henry VIII and the English Reformation, Hall
rarely uses specific terms like Catholic and Christian, and this
"catholycke" in his Richard III chapter sticks out as a possible
anachronism. Would anyone care to say that, or speculate
whether, the word helps to date the composition of this passage?
Every little bit of such dating helps with this edition.
Thanks,
Al Magary
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