Language Restriction Quotes
This referendum was passed by the voters as a backlash against the large influx of Hispanics and especially Cubans.
In his preface he lists the objections that the religious authorities had made to allowing common people to read the Bible. The priests were in danger of losing their monopoly in telling people how God required them to behave. Note that one of the objections was that it was impossible to render an accurate translation of the scriptures. Although some of the scholars realized that the Latin version of the Bible was itself a translation from Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew, most men of the era thought that the Latin version was the only version of the Bible. Tyndale wanted to bring the Gospels and the Old Testament to every Englishman, and he did just that. He was however burned at the stake for his “heresy.”
Could not be priests, friars, or deacons. In addition, Englishmen were prohibited from playing hurling, a wonderful Irish type of rough field hockey which is still the traditional Irish sport but played only in Ireland and New York (by the Irish immigrants). The Irish were considered an inferior culture and race in the concept of the time. See {639438}. The similarity of the prejudice of the English against the Irish parallels very closely that or the Southern American whites against the Negroes.
