William Roye's Dialogne between a Christian Fatlier aml his stuliborn Son. 407 



treatotis mit dem Dialoiius iuter patrem cliristianum et filium 

 contumacem von entscheidender Bedeutung, wie sich weiter 

 unten ergeben wird. 80 wenig bekannt uns die näheren 

 Lebensumstände Roy's sind, ebenso verworren und unklar sind 

 die gleichzeitigen Nachrichten über seine Schriften. A r b e r 

 macht zu der mehrerwähnten Stelle Tyndale's: ,tchyle he hym 

 seife iranslated a dialoge otit of lafen into Englysh' folgende 

 Anmerkung (Facs. Texts, S. 28), die hauptsächlich wegen des 

 Citates aus Sir Th. More's Supplicacyon of Soulis für Roy's 

 literarische Thätigkeit von grosser Wichtigkeit ist: ,This 

 translation is now apparently lost. The author of the original 

 Latin work (which I have also been unable to see) is un- 

 known. Its title is given by Park (Harl. Mise. IX. 3) as Jnter 

 •patrem Christiannm et filium contumacem dialogum Cliristiannm. 

 That this work is also the same as Roy's book against the 

 seven sacraments is proved by the following passage in his 

 (nämlich Sir Th. More's) Supplicacyon of Soidys (in ans wer 

 to Simon Fyshe's Supplication for the Beggars) published be- 

 fore More had become Lord Chancellor (25. Oct. 1529). The 

 refereuce is important as fixing the order in which the several 

 works became known in England. The dates will be seen lo 

 coniirm Tyndale's Statement; that Roy's two works were 

 printed at Strasburg in 1527. (Dies steht jetzt, wie sich aiis 

 dem Schlüsse der Widmung Roy's ergibt, für den Lyttle 

 treatous unzweifelhaft fest.) „They parceyuyng thys, haue ther- 

 fore furste assayd the fürst way all redy, sendyng forth Tyn- 

 dals translacyon of the new testament in such wyse handled 

 as yt shuld haue bene the fouutayn and well spryng of all 

 theyr hole heresies. For he had corrupted and purposely 

 changed in many placys the text, with such wordys as he 

 myght make yt seme to the vnlerned people, that the scrypture 

 affyrmed theyr heresyes it seife. Then cam sone after out in 

 prynt the dyaloge of frere Roye and frere Hyerome, betwene 

 ye father and ye sonne agaynst ye sacrament of ye aulter; 

 and the blasphemouse boke entytled the beryeng of the masse 

 (i. e. Rede me, etc.). Then cam forth after Tyndals wykkyd 

 boke of Mammona (dated 8 May 1528) and after that his 

 more wykkyd büke of obydyence." (dated 2 October 1528) 

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