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Prayer offered the pre-reformation laity a means of personal contact with the powers of heaven. Individuals employed it at home or in church. Fraternities recited prayers on behalf of their brethren, as at Helston in 1517. The inmates of almshouses interceded for their benefactors, as at Cullompton from 1523. The poor prayed at the funerals of the rich, in return for food or money: John Greenway provided both at Tiverton in 1529.1
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Whiting, R. (1998). Prayers, Fasts, Feasts. In: Local Responses to the English Reformation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26487-2_12
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