Darth is Luke’s father, Rosebud is the sled, and the ship sinks…?

Alan Wilson (+Buckingham, RIP) said that A/Ds in the CofE don’t conduct interviews in the back of taxi cabs while wearing black kid-leather gloves… it just feels that way

My mother always said she wanted "1812 Overture". Vetoed on the grounds she wanted the Band of the Coldstream Guards to play it live...

For me, "Moses Supposes" from Singin' In The Rain

(and you think Weird Anglican Twitter/Bluesky is rude?)

and if you marke it well, you shall see him reaching out his hand to a Papist: (a Papist to a Iesuite, and a lesuite gives one hand to the Pope, and another to the King of Spaine:) And so wee leave him to get more Grace, professe and practise more goodnesse.

He is the spawne of a Papist, and if there come the warmth of favour upon him, you shall see him turne into one of those Frogs which arose out of the bottomlesse Pit…

And hee is one that makes the Grace of God lackey it after the will of men, the Sheepe to keepe the Shepheard, and a mortall seed of animmortall God.

…and hath taught the name, contrary to the first institution, so farre to enlarge it selfe, that a Protestant must make hard shift to saue him selfe harmlesse.

He is a mungrell Divine, who, as it were betwixt Hawk and buzzard, can see nicely to distinguish betwixt a Puritane in opinion and a Puritane in discipline: …

…the Prayer in the Letanie of our English Liturgie, From all false Doctrine and Haeresie, Good Lord deliver vs, were obliterated.

His Devotion, is so conformable to the Ceremonies of the Church, that hee thinks it impietie to decline the least particle thereof; and yet hee declines the Doctrine of the Church so much, that hee wisheth with all his heart…

His first Ambition is to addresse himself to be some great-mans Trencher-Chaplain; that so he may not be out of the Path-way to preferment, not an Ignoramus in Court-curtesies, nor a sot in State-affaires.

His Religion, is, like a Confection, compounded of many, the least ingredient being Protestantisme: and to beleeve as the Church doth.

His garb or fashion, when hee comes from the Vniversity, with affectation, is to weare a long Cloke, and a correspondent Cassock, short no where but in the wast, which is girt up with a girdle and aknot or rose almost up to his nose: cōmonly a falling-band; because Precisians weare small set-ruffs.

An Arminian or meere Mountaguist.

IS an Animal, scarce rational, whose study, is to read (and applaud) Peter Lombard and Iohn Duns, before Peter Martyr and Iohn Calvin: and for more moderne Polemisks, he preferres Bellarmine aboue Chamierus.

Disappointingly, we do not know. The petitionary letter is in the archives of John Sharp, ABY (and a *bloody good* ABY too!), but Sharp did not keep copies, usually, of his answers.

Printed in A. Tindal Hart, The Life and Times of John Sharp, Archbishop of York, (London: S.P.C.K, 1949).

Born in the village in which I went to (high) school. Always been a local hero to right-thinking Yorkshiremen

Brilliant!