↑ Ridley 1962, tr. 13. The only authority for the date of his birth (2 July) is, according to Ridley, an anonymous biographer who wrote shortly after Cranmer’s death. The biographer makes several mistakes about Cranmer’s early life.
↑ MacCulloch 1996, tr. 54–59. The full title is The Determinations of the most famous and most excellent Universities of Italy and France, that it is unlawful for a man to marry his brother's wife, that the Pope hath no power to dispense therewith and it is likely that Cranmer undertook the translation from Latin to English. Comparing the two language versions, MacCulloch notes that the document reveals the first indications of a change away from his humanist Catholicism towards a more radically reformist stance.
↑ MacCulloch 1996, tr. 316. It is not known why Henry took so long to react to the charges against Cranmer. MacCulloch notes that it was Henry's nature to brood over the evidence against his archbishop. He also speculates that Cranmer's support of the King's Book made Henry reflect about whether the charges were serious. Another possibility is that in playing the situation out, Henry could observe the behaviour of the leading politicians until he was ready to intervene.
↑ Loades 1993, tr. 160; MacCulloch 1996, tr. 443–447. MacCulloch claims that Paget supported Seymour, but according to Loades it was only Smith who joined with Cranmer. Loades also states that it was likely Cranmer who persuaded Seymour to surrender.
↑ Loades 2004, tr. 109–111. According to Loades, a felony, a lesser crime than treason in English law, included gathering men unlawfully and plotting the death of a councillor. Seymour admitted to these actions.
↑ Heinze 1993, tr. 273–276; MacCulloch 1996, tr. 584–599. Heinze and MacCulloch note that Cranmer's recantations can be deduced from two primary sources that had opposite polemical aims, Bishop Cranmer's Recantacyons by an unknown author and Acts and Monuments by John Foxe also known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
↑ Heinze 1993, tr. 277–280; MacCulloch 1996, tr. 600–605. According to Heinze and MacCulloch, an additional corroborating account of Cranmer's execution is found in the letter of a Catholic witness with the initials J. A.
↑ Stevenson 1993, tr. 189–198; MacCulloch 1996, tr. 420–421. Stevenson adds that the marriage vow from the Prayer Book occupies a singular place in the cultural life of the English language.
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