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MarginaliaAn. 1556. Ianuary.would not be confessed of a Priest, and added moreouer, speaking vnto the Priestes: MarginaliaThe words of Anne Albright to the priestes.You Priestes (sayd she) are the children of perdition, and can doe no good by your confession. And lykewyse speaking vnto the Iudge and hys assistauntes, she tolde thē that they were subuerters of CHRISTES truth.
[Back to Top]And as touchyng the sacrament of the aultar, MarginaliaAn. Albright denyeth the sacrament of the aultar.shee sayd it was a naughty and abominable idoll, and so vtterly denyed the same sacramēt. Thus persisting & perseuering in her former sayings and aunswers, MarginaliaCondemnation of Anne Albright. Ianuary 18.she was condemned the sayd. xviij. day of the sayd moneth, wtth the other aboue mencioned: with whom also she suffered quietly and wyth great comfort for the ryght of CHRISTES religion.
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Ioane Sole, Martyr.
Ianuary 31.IN like maner Ioane Sole, of the parishe of Horton, was condemned of the same Phariseis and Priests,MarginaliaCondemnation of Ioane Sole. Ianuary. 18. for not allowing confession auricular, and for denying the reall presence and substaunce of CHRIST to be in the sacrament of þe altar. Who after their Pharisaicall Sētence being promulgate, was brought by the Shiriffes to þe stake with þe other foure, & sustained the lyke Matrydome with thē through the assistance of Gods holy grace and spirite mightely working in her, to the glory of his name, and confirmation of hys truth.
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Ioane Catmer, Martyr.
Ianuary. 31.THe fift and last of thys heauenly company of Martyrs was Ioane Catmer of þe parish of Hith, wyfe (as it should seeme) of George Catmer burned before pag. 1884. Who being asked what she said to cōfession made to a priest, denied to be cōfessed to any such priest. And moreouer the Iudge speaking of the sacrament of þe aultar, she said & affirmed that she beleued not in that Sacrament, as it was then vsed, for that it was made (sayd she) a very idoll. In thys her confession shee remayning and persisting, was by the lyke sentence cruelly of them condemned, and so suffered with the foresayd Thomas Lomas and the other three fellow Martyrs, ratifiyng and confessing wyth their bloud the true knowledge and doctrine of the glorious Gospell of CHRIST IESVS our Sauiour.
CloseThese. v. persons were burnt at. 2. stakes and one fire together at Canterbury, as is before sayd. Who,
when the fire was flaming about their eares, did sing Psalmes. Whereat the good knight Syr Iohn Nortō being there present, wept byterly at the sight thereof.
CloseThis detail was added in the 1570 edition and was undoubtedly sent to Foxe by an eyewitness to Catmer's death.
The Iudges and the other assistants which set vpō her and the other foure aboue mencioned, were MarginaliaPersecutours.Richard Faucet, Iohn Warren, Iohn Milles, Robert Collins, and Iohn Baker the Notary.
CloseThere was a lengthy account of Cranmer's life, career and martyrdom in the Rerum (pp. 708-25). Most of this account came from a single informant whosenarrative of Cranmer's life and death survives in Foxe's papers (BL, Harley 417, fos. 90r-94v; printed in Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, ed. John Gough Nichols, Camden Society, original series, [London: 1860], pp. 218-33). This account was sent to Foxe by Grindal while Foxe was compiling the Rerum during his exile (The Remains of Edmund Grindal, ed., W. Nicholson [Parker Society: 1843], p. 220). Foxe added two items to the Rerum account which were not in this narrative: additional praise of Edward VI, undoubtedly composed by Foxe himself (Rerum, pp. 712-13), and the account of Henry Sydall and Juan de Villagarcia persuading Cranmer to recant and of events up through Henry Cole's sermon at Cranmer's execution (Rerum, pp. 717-21).
[Back to Top]In the 1563 edition, Foxe used the Rerum account of Cranmer as the basisfor his new account but he made some important additions to it. He provided a new narrative of Cranmer's trial, also adding Cranmer's letter to Mary denying any involvement in Northumberland's scheme to place Jane Grey on the throne, the papal commission to try Cranmer and the account of his degradation. All of this was based on documents related to Cranmer's trial. Foxe also obtained a newaccount, from an unknown source, of Cranmer's denial that he had celebrated mass at Canterbury. And Foxe also added material on Cranmer's execution written by a catholic eyewitness, known only by his initials 'J. A.'.
[Back to Top]In the 1570 edition Foxe rewrote the account of Cranmer in order to accommodate new data contained in a life of the archbishop written by Ralph Morrice, Cranmer's secretary. (This life is printed in Narratives of the Days of Reformation, pp. 238-72). Material was also added from official records as Foxe had now consulted the transcript of Cranmer's trial and had obtained a copy of his appeal to a general council. Material was also dropped from this edition. Some of it, such as the old versions of Cranmer's role in Henry VIII's divorce, were dropped because Morrice's account superseded them. Others, such as Cranmer's letter to Mary, the papal commission authorizing the archbishop's trial, and the account of Cranmer's degradation, were dropped because of their length and the shortage of paper in the 1570 edition.
[Back to Top]There was no change in the account in the 1576 edition. In the 1583 edition, Foxe re-inserted some of the material he had deleted from the 1570 edition: the papal commission authorizing Cranmer's trial and the archbishop's degradation.
AS concerning the lyfe and estate of that most reuerend father in God and worthy prelate of Godly memory Thomas CranmerMarginaliaThomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr. late Archbishop of Caunterbury, and of the originall cause and occasiō of his preferment vnto his Archiepiscopall dignity, who of many hath ben thought to haue procured þe same by frendship onely, & of some other esteemed vnworthy of so hygh a vocation: it is first therfore to be noted and considered that þe same Tho. CranmerMarginaliaThomas Cranmer a gentleman borne. comming of an auncient parentage, from the conquest to be deducted, & continuing sithens in the name and family of a Gentleman, was borne in a Village called Arselacton in Notyngham shiere. Of whose said name and family there remayneth at these dayes one Manour and mansion house in Lincolne shiere called Cranmer Hall. &c. some tymes of heritage of the sayd stocke and family.
CloseThis information about Cranmer Hall came from Ralph Morrice and it reflects Cranmer's desire to magnify, if not flatly exaggerate, the status of his family.
CloseNotice how Foxe replaced the specific information on the flaws in Cranmer's education, in the 1563 edition, with this bland formulation.
CloseSee MacCulloch, Cranmer, pp. 21-22 on this.
CloseFoxe is repeating Morrice in his indignation about these rumours. See MacCulloch, Cranmer, pp. 169-70 on how widespread derogatory reports ofCranmer as an hosteler were.
But in þe meane time to returne to þe matter present. Whilest this sayd M. Cranmer continued as reader in Buckinghā Colledge, his wife dyed in child bed. MarginaliaThomas Cranmer after the deceasse of his wife chosen fellow into Iesus colledge.After whose death, the Masters and fellowes of Iesus Colledge desirous agayne of their old companion, namely for his towardnes in learning, chose him agayn fellow of the same Colledge. Where he remayning at his study, became in few yeres after, the reader of þe Diuinity lecture in the same Colledge, MarginaliaThomas Cranmer made reader in Iesus colledge, and Doctour of diuinitie.and in such speciall estimation and reputation with the whole vniuersity, that being Doctour of Diuinity he was commonly appointed one of the heades (which are two or three of the chiefest learned men) to examine such as yearely professe in Cōmencement, eyther Bachelers, or Doctours of Diuinity, by whose approbation þe whole vniuersity
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