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Delving further into the life and work of William Gascoigne, checking the reliability of the mixture of hagiography and supposition that surrounds him, enquirers must try to enter his world: To enter one of the most turbulent periods in the religious history of England—a time of fear, persecution, mistrust and secrecy.
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Sellers, D. (2012). The Religious World of William Gascoigne. In: In Search of William Gascoigne. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 390. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4097-0_8
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