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Alice J. Soulieux-Evans
These requirements could prove challenging to Reformed cathedral clergy. In 1570, for instance, certain Norwich prebendaries allegedly vandalised the organs and ‘committed other outrages in the choir’, while Dean Whittingham supposedly failed to celebrate communion after 1563 to avoid wearing a cope. 25 Reformed churchmen certainly criticised the state of cathedrals early in Elizabeth's reign. Writing to Peter Martyr in 1559 after serving as royal visitor to the western counties