torians say, he stayed abroad one half year longer. But I find him in England in the month of November, which was not much more than a quarter of a year after Warham's death. Then the king was married to the Marchioness of Pembroke, and Cranmer was present. So that the king must have sent for him home in June, two or three months before the archbishop's death: probably while he was in a declining dying condition. But after, when that which Cranmer seemed to suspect of certain emergencies in those parts, wherein the English state might be concerned, fell not out; the king again commanded his return home. Now more perfectly knowing, by some of his friends, the king's intentions to make him archbishop, he made means by divers of his friends to shift it off, desiring rather some smaller living. At length the king brake his mind to him, that it was come over, I prolonged my journey by seven weeks at the least, thinking that he would be forgetful of me in the mean time." Abp. Cranmer's examination before Brookes. Foxe's Acts and Monuments, p. 1876. ed. Lond. 1583. This assertion has been questioned, but without sufficient reason, by Lingard. Hist. of England, vol. vi. p. 254. See also Todd's Life of abp. Cranmer, vol. i. p. 50.] e [Archbishop Warham died Aug. 23, 1532. The precise date of Cranmer's return from the continent is not known. Strype here states, that Cranmer was in England and present at the marriage of Anne Boleyn, on the 14th of November. He may possibly have been then in England, but neither was Anne Boleyn married on that day, nor was Cranmer present on the occasion, as he himself has positively stated in his letter to archdeacon Hawkyns. (See abp. Cranmer's Works, Park. Soc. ed. vol. ii. letter xiv. pp. 244 -247. and also the Appendix, in which this document is for the first time inserted.) It is certain that on October 20th he was still at Villach in Germany; and the letter (see Works, Park. Soc. ed. vol. ii. letter iii. pp. 232-236.) which he wrote from that place contains no allusion to his coming home. The bulls for his promotion were also not applied for at Rome till the end of January, 153] f["In September following, [A. D. 1532.] the king created Anne Boleyn marchioness of Pembroke, to bring her by degrees up the reason his full purpose to bestow that dignity upon him for his service, and for the good opinion he conceived of him. But his long disabling himself nothing dissuaded the king, till at last he humbly craved the king's pardon for that he should declare to him, and that was, "That if he should Declares accept it, he must receive it at the pope's hand, which thereof to he neither would nor could do: for that his highness was the king. the only supreme governor of the church of England, as well in causes ecclesiastical as temporal; and that the full right of donation of all manner of benefices and 17 bishoprics, as well as any other temporal dignities and promotions, appertained to him, and not to any other foreign authority. And therefore if he might serve God, him, and his country, in that vocation, he would accept it of his majesty, and of no stranger, who had no authority within this realms." Whereat the king made a pause; and then asked him how he was able to prove it. At which time he alleged several texts out of scripture, and the fathers, proving the supreme authority of kings in their own realms and dominions and withal shewing the intolerable usurpations of the bishops of Rome. Of this the king talked several times with him; and perceiving that he could not be brought to acknowledge the pope's authority, the king called one Dr. Oliver, an eminent lawyer, and other civilians, and devised with them how he might bestow the archbishopric upon him, salving his conscience. They said, he might do it by way of protestation and so one to be sent to Rome to take the oath, and do every thing in his name. Cranmer said to this, it should be super animam suam; and seemed to be to the height for which he had designed her." Burnet's Hist. of Reformat. vol. i. p. 252. ed. Oxon. 1829.] CRANMER, VOL. I. : [See examination of abp. Cranmer before Brookes. Foxe's Acts and Monuments, p. 1881. ed. Lond. 1583.] D The archbishop's brother is made archdea terbury. Somner, Hist. of Cant. p. 322. ex lib. Eccles. Cant.j satisfied in what the lawyers told him. And accordingly, when he was consecrated, made his protestation, "That he did not admit the pope's authority any further than it agreed with the express word of God; and that it might be lawful for him at all times to speak against him, and to impugn his errors, when there should be occasion." And so he did. Whether Warham, the archdeacon, had conceived any prejudice against our new archbishop, by some warning given him by the former archbishop, as was hinted above'; con of Can- or whether he was willing to give place upon Cranmer's entreaty, that he might provide for his brother; so it was, that Edmund Cranmer, brother to the archbishop, succeeded Warham in the archdeaconry of Canterbury, and the provostship of Wingham: who parted with both these dignities by cession: and, by the privity and consent of the archbishop, he had a stipend or pension of sixty pounds per annum allowed him, during his life, out of the archdeaconry; and twenty pounds per annum out of Wingham, by his successor aforesaid, who continued archdeacon until queen Mary's days, and was then deprived; and his prebend, and his parsonage of Ickham, all taken from him in the year 1554, for being a married clerk. The first was given to Nicholas Harpsfield; the second to Robert Collins, bachelor of law, and commissary of Canterbury; and the third to Robert Marsh. The king linked Cranmer with him in all his The king had before linked him into his great business about queen Katherine and the lady Ann. So now, when he had nominated him for archbishop, he made him a proceedings party and an actor in every step almost which he took Katherine. in that affair. For to fetch the matter a little backward; about queen h [See above, p. 28.] J [Ed. Lond. 1640. See also Le Neve's Fasti, p. 13.ed. Lond. 1716.] not long before the archiepiscopal see was devolved upon Cranmer, the king had created the lady Ann marchioness of Pembroke, and taken her along with him in great state into France; when, by their mutual consent, there was an interview appointed between the two kings. At Calais king Henry permitted Francis, the French king, to take a view of this lady, who then made both kings a18 curious and rich mask, where both honoured her by dancing this was in the month of October1. In the month before, I find a parcel of very rich jewels were sent Sept. 21. from Greenwich to Hampton-Court by Mr. Norrys; probably he who was groom of the stole, and executed upon queen Ann's business afterwards. Which jewels, as some of them might be for the king's own wearing, now he was going into France; so, in all probability, others were either lent or given to the marchioness to adorn and make her fine, when she should appear and give her entertainment to the French king. For the sake of such as be curious, No. III. I have set down, in the Appendix, a particular of these Appe..dix, most splendid and royal jewels, from an original signed with the king's own hand in token of his receipt of them. Immediately after the king's and the marchioness's return from France, he married her. At which wedding, [Et] rex [nihilomithough very private, the archbishop was one that assisted, nus] D.Anaccording to the lord Herbert; but, according to the author nam Bulof the Britannic Antiquities, did the sacred officem. When Thoma * [See above, p. 32. n. f.] [See Burnet's Hist. of Reformat. vol. I. p. 252. ed. Oxon. 1829. Collier's Eccl. Hist. vol. iv. pp. 203, 4. ed. Lond. 1840, 1.] m ["On which day (Nov. 14, 1532,) some write, he privately married the marchioness, though others place it on the 25th of lenam, sacra mi Cranmero she was crowned queen, which was Whitsuntide following, nistrante, the archbishop performed the ceremonies". When, after urorem duxit. 66 Lond. 1587.) and Hall (Chronicles, fol. ccix. 2. ed. Lond. 1548.) state it incorrectly to have been St. Erkenwald's day. Nov. 14, 1352.] n [A full description of the coronation of Anne Boleyn, which took place on Whit-sunday, June Ist, is given by the archbishop in his letter to archdeacon Hawkyns, referred to in the foregoing note, which will be found in the Appendix.] that, the king had a daughter by her, he would have the o["The queen's grace was brought [to bed] about the 13th or 14th day of September, of a princess. I myself was godfather; the old duchess of Northfolk and my lady marquess Dorset were godmothers."--Abp. Cranmer's Works. Park. Soc. ed. vol. ii. letter lxxxiii. p. 274. The date assigned to this event by the archbishop is incorrect, the princess Elizabeth being born Sunday, September 7th; an official note from Anne Boleyn to lord Cobham, announcing the event, still preserved in the Harleian collection, and printed in the State Papers, proves the fact; it probably was prepared previously to Anne Boleyn's ac |