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Alternative title

Documents Relating to Abp Cranmer

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

pp. 442 numbered

Date created

[ca. 1500-1599]

Language

English

Material

Paper

Height (mm)

314

Width (mm)

210

Foliation

ff. i-ii + pp. 1-2 (3-4 missing) + 5-166 + 166a-d + 167-264 + 264a-265a + 265-324 + 324a-325a + 325-436 + 436a + 437a +437-442 + ff. iii-iv

Summary

MS 128 contains a collection of sixteenth-century documents bound together due to their connections with Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. The volume contains a collection of accusations against clergy opposed to Cranmer, accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley in Oxford (including a request for payment of money still owing) and a biography of Archbishop Cranmer.

Contents

Articles against several of the clergy prepared for Archbishop Cranmer -- Accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley -- Biography of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

M.R. James Date

xvi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hx345qh6815/MS_128.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm078zv1593/128.pdf

Contains

• Articles against several of the clergy prepared for Archbishop Cranmer. 1-364

  Nasmith

  Articles against several of the clergy, interrogatories for, and depositions of Dr. John Willoughby, Robert Serles, William Gardiner, Edmund Shethur, Richard Parkhurst, Arthur St. Leger, John Mills, William Hunt, William Cocks, John Thatcher, &c. 1-364

  Note

  The occasion and import of these examinations are explained by archbishop Parker in the following note at p. 20. Memorandum that king Henry beinge divers times by bushop Gardiner enformed against bushoppe Cranmer, and the saide Gardiner havinge his instruccions of D. London a stoute and filthie prebendary of Windesor, who theare convicted did weare a paper openly, and rodde throughe the towne with his face towards the horse taile, and also had informacion of Mr. Moyles, Mr. Baker and sum others promooted by the said Cranmer, whose tales he uttred to the king, who perceiving the malice trusted the said Cranmer with thexamination of thes matters, which he did of divers persons as by this doth appeare.
  (2) No. 1 has a partial index in Cranmer's hand
  See Strype, Cranmer chap. xxv, xxvi, and Appendix xxxiii

• Accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley. 365-404

  Nasmith

  The booke of the expences of D. Cranmer, Latymer and Ridley for the time of their imprisonment in Oxford and of their execution, delivered into the hands of the most reverend father Matthew archbushop of Canterbury by Thomas Wincle and John Wells of Oxford, sometime bayliffs there. 365-404

  Note

  Before the accompts are
  (367) (1) A letter from Lawrence Humphrey to the archbishop in favour of the bailiffs to whom 40£. was still due on this account
  (369) (2) A petition of Wincle and Wells praying the payment of the same
  No. 2 partly in Strype chap. xxi (end) with the letters of Humfrey and Wincle

• Biography of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. 405-442

  Nasmith

  A declaracion concerning the progeny with the manner and the trade of the life and bryngyng up of that most reverent father in God Thomas Cranmer late archbishop of Canterbury, and by what order and meanes he came to his preferment and dignity. 405-442

  Note

  This life was written at the desire of archbishop Parker by one who had been a domestic of Cranmer's, and though concise contains many curious anecdotes, most of which have been inserted by Strype in his life of Cranmer
  No. 3 printed in Narratives of the Reformation, Nichols, Camden Society p. 238. See also Strype, Cranmer, chap. xxx etc.

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Misc. 7

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 128

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