[Ads-l] Antedating of "Presbyterian"

[Geoffrey Nathan]

Sorry about the error in the dates. I quickly scanned the Wikipedia entry for the play
and misread something. It’s a weird play - Will probably didn't write it alone,
and it originally had a different title (All is True).

The play is notable in that a stage cannon shot during an early (or the first)
performance set fire to the roof and succeeded in burning down the Globe. This
happened in 1613.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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Only marginally relevant, but interesting to me was the occurrence of
the word "Lutheran" in Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, written in 1630.
However, the OED has a cite from 100 years earlier, 1530, in a letter by
Thomas Cromwell. It seems to have originally meant any kind of Protestant.

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presbyterian (OED 1606)

1577 in Early English Books Online

Fred Shapiro

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