MEMORIALS OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THOMAS CRANMER, SOMETIME LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, WHEREIN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, AND THE REFORMATION OF IT, DURING THE PRIMACY OF THE SAID ARCH- MATTERS RELATING THEREUNTO, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED (1694.) IN THREE BOOKS. COLLECTED CHIEFLY FROM RECORDS, REGISTERS, AUTHENTIC BY JOHN STRYPE, M. A. VOL. I. OXFORD: PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, FOR THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 1848. + 251 13 PREFACE. THE present volume contains the first book of Strype's Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, and follows the edition published A. D. 1694, in folio, containing three Books with an Appendix. In this edition illustrative notes have been added, and the passages referred to by the author are printed for the most part in full. That portion of the Appendix, which relates to the times. treated of in the first book, is also given to render the volume complete in itself, and to avoid the delay which would necessarily have been occasioned, had the appearance of the entire Appendix been deferred until the completion of the work itself. Under such an arrangement it must have been printed in a separate volume, and the reader would have been unavoidably deprived of much of the interest he may now derive from being able to consult those materials to which the author refers, as having assisted him in the prosecution of his labors. The documents, contained in the edition of A. D. 1694, have also been verified, as far as it has been possible, and more correct references added, wherever it appeared needful. A few additional papers from the Cotton, and other MSS. &c. have likewise been inserted, whenever they seemed calculated to throw light upon the times treated of by the author. They will be distinguished as printed between brackets, and marked by an *. The modern mode of spelling has likewise been in most instances adopted, to render the work more acceptable to the general reader, care being had to avoid any such alteration as might endanger the original meaning. The editor had purposed to append in full in this volume, from the C. C. C. Cambridge MSS., the passages, of which archbishop Cranmer merely gives the heads and an abstract, in his "Collection of Tenets from the Canon Law;" but delay having unexpectedly occurred in procuring from the continent the last authorized version of the "Corpus Juris Canonici" he is compelled to defer its appearance to one of the succeeding volumes. |