CONTENTS OF BOOK I.

OF THE

MEMORIALS

OF

ARCHBISHOP CRANMER.

CHAPTER I.

Cranmer's birth, education, and rise.

Sets 1503, 1511,
1516, 1523,

A worthy work to revive his memory. His family account of Anno 1489,

his younger years. Sent to Cambridge, anno 1503.

himself to study the Scripture. Is made doctor of divinity. 1529, 1530.

Marries. Refuses to go to Wolsey's college, Oxon. He is

made one of the university examiners. The king's great cause

first proposed to the universities. The occasion of his rise.

His opinion of the king's cause. The king sends for him.

Suitably placed with the earl of Ormond. Friendship and

correspondence between the earl and Cranmer. A providence

in his being placed here. Cranmer disputes at Cambridge.

Grows dear to the king and his court..

CHAPTER II.

Pole's book about the king's matrimony.

I-10.

Pole's book against the king's dissolving his marriage. Cranmer Anno 1530.

peruses it. His account of it. His censure thereof... 11—16.

CHAPTER III.

Cranmer's embassies.

Anno 1530, He is employed in embassies. To the pope. Offers him a dis-

1531, 1532.

1533.

pute in favour of the king's cause. To the emperor. Cornelius

Agrippa gained by Cranmer to the king's cause. Becomes

acquainted with Osiander; and marries his kinswoman. Treats

with the emperor about the contract of traffic; and about

sending supplies against the Turk. Sends the king the news in

those parts; and the proclamation for a general council; and the

tax of the states of the empire. He goes in an embassy to the

duke of Saxony, and other protestant princes

CHAPTER IV.

Cranmer made archbishop of Canterbury.

17-26.

Anno 1532, Made archbishop of Canterbury. His dignities before he was

archbishop. Archbishop Warham foretels a Thomas to suc-

ceed him. Archbishop Warham for the king's supremacy.

Cranmer's testimony of Warham. A reflection upon a passage

relating to Cranmer in Harpsfield's History. Cranmer tries

to evade the archbishopric. Declares the reason thereof to

the king. The archbishop's brother is made archdeacon of

Canterbury. The king linked Cranmer with him in all his

proceedings about queen Katherine. The king and archbishop

appeal from the pope to a general council. The king writes

to Dr. Boner his ambassador in that behalf. The archbishop

is consecrated. The pope's bulls. The archbishop surrenders

them to the king. The method of the consecration. The

archbishop's oath for the temporalties. The archbishop pro-

nounceth the divorce. The archbishop's judgment of the

marriage.

27-42.

CHAPTER V.

The archbishop visits his diocese.

Anno 1533. The archbishop forbids preaching. Visits his diocese. The
delusion of a nun in Kent. The archbishop appeals from the

pope. The archbishop's letter to Boner. Disputes in the

parliament against the pope's supremacy.

chapels.

Licenses for

43-48.

CHAPTER VI.

The archbishop presseth the translation of the Bible.

The archbishop labours the reformation of the church. What he Anno 1534.

did this convocation. A book for preaching, and the beads.

Dispersed by the archbishop to all the bishops. The archbishop

of York preaches at York. The clergy and universities sub-

scribe against the pope. Cranmer and others administer the

oath of succession to the clergy and to sir Thomas More, who

refused it. Cranmer's argument with him. More offers to swear

to the succession itself. Bishop Fisher offers the same. The

archbishop writes to Crumwel in their behalf. The archbishop's

endeavour to save the lives of More and Fisher

....49-59.

CHAPTER VII.

The archbishop visits the diocese of Norwich.

A præmunire brought against bishop Nix. The archbishop visits Anno 1534.

this bishop's see. The bishop of Norwich a persecutor.

Goodrich, Lee, and Salcot, consecrated bishops .....60-62.

CHAPTER VIII.

The archbishop preacheth at Canterbury.

The archbishop preaches up the king's supremacy at Canterbury. Anno 1534.

A prior preaches against him. Whom he convents before

him. The archbishop acquaints the king with the matter.

A provincial visitation. Winchester herein opposeth him.

The archbishop's vindication of his title of primate. The

bishop of London refuseth his visitation, and protests against

him. Cranmer sends him a part of the New Testament to

translate and his answer.
:
Lawney's jest upon bishop

Stokesley. Who this Lawney was

.63-72.

CHAPTER IX.

Monasteries visited.

Anno 1535. Monasteries visited. The archbishop for their dissolution.

The

visitors' informations. Bishops, diocesan and suffragan, con-

secrated. Suffragan bishops usual in the realm. Bishops.

without title. Nicholas Shaxton, Edward Fox, William Bar-

low, George Browne. A memorial of the good services of

archbishop Browne in Ireland. Thomas Manning. John

Salisbury

73-80.

CHAPTER X.

The audience court.

Anno 1536. The archbishop's audience court struck at. The archbishop

defends it. The archbishop promoting a reformation in the

convocation..

81, 2.

CHAPTER XI.

Articles of religion.

Anno 1536. Articles published and recommended by the king. The ori-

ginal thereof. The original sent into the north to shew to

the rebels. The contents of them. Articles of faith. Ar-

ticles relating to ceremonies. A conjecture that the pen of

the archbishop was here.
83-90.

CHAPTER XII.

Cranmer's judgment about some cases of matrimony.

Anno 1536. Two remarkable books published. 1. The book of Articles.
2. A book against the pope, called, The Bishops' Book.
Certain cases of matrimony put to the archbishop. His
solution. Refuseth to grant a dispensation for the marriage
of a relation. His letter thereupon. He restrains the num-
ber of proctors: which some complain of to the parliament.
The archbishop divorceth queen Anne. A license for a

chapel. Bucer this year dedicates a book to the archbishop.

Bishops consecrated; Richard Sampson, William Rugg, Ro-

bert Warton...

91-105.

CHAPTER XIII.

The Bishops' Book.

The Bishops' Book by the archbishop's means. Winchester's Anno 1537.

opposition. The king makes animadversions upon it.

Pub-

lished. How esteemed. Enlarged and reprinted. Some account

of the foresaid book.

Names of the composers... 106–116.

CHAPTER XIV.

The archbishop visits his diocese.

Goes down into his diocese. Gets a license to visit.

The vicar Anno 1537.

of Croydon. The archbishop visits his diocese. What course

he took for the preventing of superstition. . . . . . .

CHAPTER XV.

The Bible printed.

117-124.

Presents one by Anno 1537.

His joy at the publishing the English Bible.

Crumwel to the king. Cranmer's letters to Crumwel. Some

further particulars concerning this edition of the Bible. The

printer's thanks and requests to Crumwel. Grafton to Crumwel.

The printer apprehensive of another edition. Other requests

of the printer.
125-133.

CHAPTER XVI.

Many suffragan bishops made.

The feast of St. Thomas, &c. forbid. Robert Holgate conse- Anno 1537.

crated bishop. John Bird, Lewis Thomas; some account

of Bird; Thomas Morley, Richard Ungworth, John Thornton,

Richard Thornden, John Hodgkin, Henry Holbeach; suf-

fragans.
134-140.