"Nor is it proper or safe that all the keys of the kingdom should hang at the girdle of a woman."
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Sermon 69 (18 May 1376) (tr. F. A. Gasquet, 1897), alluding to the influence of on Edward III
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Thomas Brinton
(died 4 May 1389) was a medieval . A certain sermon of his, catalogued as Sermon 69 in collections of his work, was preached in 1376 during the meeting of the . He mentions an imagined parliament of rats and mice (referring to the fable of ), and this image is generally considered to have inspired the similar image in the prologue of Piers Plowman.
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