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More Evidence that George Joye Wrote The Souper of the Lorde
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2011
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The question of ascribing to William Tyndale or to George Joye the 1533 treatise The Souper of the Lorde (Short-Title Catalogue 24468) was rightly decided in Joye's favor by W. D. J. Cargill Thompson, but somewhat more careful attention to the contents of the treatise might have removed even the little doubt which that investigator allowed to shadow the ascription to Joye. His admirable summary of the most persuasive external evidence was indeed conclusive enough virtually to eliminate Tyndale from consideration as author, in spite of the opinions of such notable Tyndale scholars as J. F. Mozley and S. L. Greenslade. But internal evidences clinch the case for Joye.
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1 “Who Wrote ‘The Supper of the Lord'?,” Harvard Theological Review, LII: 1 (January, 1960), 77–91Google Scholar. Mr. Cargill Thompson thought that “The contents … unfortunately shed only a dim light on the question of authorship”
2 More, English Works (London, 1557), p. 1037Google Scholar.
3 Idem.
4 William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue, The Supper of the Lord … (ed. by Henry Walter for the Parker Society, Cambridge, 1850), pp. 222–268Google Scholar.
5 For tracing out the details of Joye's literary dependence upon Zwingli's treatise the author is indebted to a research paper written under his supervision in 1960 by a student, Mr. L. David England.
6 The Parker Society edition, p. 217, gave the title-page in full, but wrongly transcribed “suerlyer” as “verlyer.”
7 See Butterworth, C. C., The English Primers, 1529–1545 (Philadelphia, 1953)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, passim.
8 Cargill Thompson, op. cit., p. 91, inaccurately gave the title as “Subversion of More's False Fortress.”