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Picture No 10069527
Date circa 3rd century ?
Description AN IMMORAL TRADE-OFF
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In time of famine, a bigamist offers food if Church makes him a deacon, not liable to punishment, but the bishop refuses (in Wynkyn de Worde's 1495 edition 'Vitas patrum')
Source woodcut, reproduced in Dibdin, Typographical Antiquities (1810) volume two, page 48
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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