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Simon Fish (died 1531) was a 16th-century Protestant rebel and English propagandist. He is best known for helping to spread William Tyndale 's New Testament and for writing the vehemently anti-clerical pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars ( A Supplycacion for the Beggars ) which the Roman Catholic Church condemned as heretical on 24 ...
Simon Fish was born in about 1500. It is believed that he studied at University of Oxford before entering Grays's Inn in 1525. He associated in London with other young men who supported the Reformation.
Simon Fish wrote A Supplication for the Beggars in a politically charged atmosphere about the year 1530. He dedicates A Supplication for the Beggars to the king, “To the king ovre souereygne lorde” (Fish). Simon Fish’s historic A Supplication for the Beggars represents people
- Charlotte McFaddin
- 2015
Within the year, Simon Fish's Supplication of the Beggars had made More a prophet, forcing the busy new chancellor of England to reply to Fish with The Supplycacyon of soulys. Historians have hesitated to label Fish senseless or a clown, for the tremendous impact of his short tract upon Henry vm and the English Reformation is generally recognised.
- Steven W. Haas
- 1972
Simon Fish (died 1531) was a Protestant reformer and English propagandist. He authored the vehemently anti-clerical pamphlet A Supplication for the Beggars, and he died of the bubonic plague before he could stand trial for his "heretical" works.
THOMAS MORE and SIMON FISH Playing on the King's pride in his Welsh ancestry, the beggars remind Henry that the ancient kings of the Britons were supreme in their own dominions; they did not suffer their subjects to be taxed by the emissaries of a foreign power such as the papacy (p. 3). Broadly hinting that the clergy are the
Simon Fish, a gentleman of Gray’s Inn, had to leave London, about the year 1525, for acting in a play which touched cardinal Wolsey; he, like Tindale, fled across the sea, and, while abroad, wrote The Supplication for the Beggars.
