Thursday, 9 January 2025

Leave thy preaching, for it is not worth a fart

Dissent could come into church itself. Michael Maunford of St Botolph without Aldgate, London, in 1497 shouted ‘Leave thy preaching, for it is not worth a fart’, after which he was hauled before a Church court.

N. Orme, Going to church in medieval England (2021), 252

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