PREFACE. SINCE the publication of the first volume of this work, a complete collection of the "Remains of Archbishop Cranmer," has issued from the Clarendon Press at Oxford, in four octavo volumes, under the editorial superintendence of the Reverend Henry Jenkyns, Fellow of Oriel College. The work is enriched by a most interesting Preface, and by many valuable notes, which abundantly attest the qualifications of the Editor for the office he has undertaken. I gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging my obligations to his labours. They have enabled me to render my own attempt somewhat less unworthy of the public attention, than it otherwise might have been. The additions and corrections, which Mr. Jenkyns's edition has suggested, to the former volume of my work, will be found in No. I. of the Appendix to the present volume. EAST INDIA COLLEGE, June 1, 1833. ERRATA IN VOL. I. For "immemoriably," p. 104, 1. 1, read "immemorially." For "Newbray," p. 156, 1. 24, read "Newbury." For "servility of infatuation," p. 217, 1. 12, read "infatuation of ser vility." In p. 268, 1. 18, expunge or," from the words in the parenthesis. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. 1549-1551. Cranmer's supposed Treatise on Unwritten Verities-Trans- PAGE 1 Cranmer's "Defence of the true Doctrine of the Sacrament" -Progress of his opinions on it-Great success of his Work-Answered by Gardiner and Smythe-Cranmer's Reply to Gardiner-Gardiner's Rejoinder-Visitation of the Chapter of Canterbury-Deprivation of Tonstal- Cranmer protests against it-Revival of the Common Prayer-Project for an agreement in religious doctrine among Protestants-The design abandoned-Compila- tion of Forty-two Articles of Religion-Cranmer prin- cipally concerned in framing them-Whether the Articles were sanctioned by the Convocation-The necessity of such a Formulary-The Articles not Predestinarian- Cranmer not a Predestinarian-Nor a Puritan-The Articles framed chiefly with a view to the contest between |