Writings of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Cranmer

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Excerpt from Writings of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Cranmer: Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr, 1556 Cranmer had previously married the daughter of a gentle man, by which union he lost his fellowship, but he continued to pursue his studies, and was appointed lecturer at Bucking ham (afterwards Magdalen) college. His wife resided with a relative who kept the Dolphin inn, whither Cranmer frequently resorted to visit her. Upon this circumstance the papists grounded an assertion that he was originally a hostler, accus tomed to frequent low company, and devoid of learning! His wife died in child-birth within a year after their marriage, upon which the master and fellows of Jesus' college unanimously re-chose him a member of their society. About that time cardinal Wolsey induced some of the most eminent scholars of Cambridge to remove to his new foundation at Oxford. Cranmer was nominated for one, but he declined the offer, although advantageous in point of emolument. Soon after, he was appointed examiner in divinity, in which place he did much good, for he used to question the candidates out of the scriptures, and by no means would let them pass, if he found they were unskilful therein, or unacquainted with the history of the bible. The friars, whose study lay only in school authors, especially were so, whom therefore be some times turned back as insufficient, advising them to study the scriptures for some years longer, before they came for their degrees, it being a shame for a professor in divinity to be nu skilled in the book, wherein the knowledge of God and the grounds of divinity lay. Whereby he made himself from the beginning hated by the friars, yet some of the more ingenuous afterwards rendered him great and public thanks for refusing them whereby, being put upon the study of God's word, they attained to more sound knowledge in religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.