passing thereof, and bought two great woods called Hawkesworth and Westwood of the earl of Warwick, to whom your Highness had given them as concealed lands, which cost your poor suppliant and subject and yet did not enjoy them, for that the woods were not sufficiently conveyed to the earl of Warwick, whereupon the estate of your poor suppliant depended; so that coming to your Majesty's hands again, by defect of the said patent, you exchanged them with Sir Henry Darcy, whereby your Highness's poor subject.did not only lose the said woods, but also forfeited a bond of 2000/. and 400l. to Sir Thomas Danby, to whom your Highness's poor suppliant was forced to sell them with general warranty, whereby your poor suppliant's lands were extended by force of the said bond of 20007. and 4007. and presently after the said extent were bought of Sir Thomas Danby, by one who bought your Majesty's patent of exchange of the said Sir Henry Darcy, whereby your Majesty's poor subject was constrained to sell all his lands to the said party far under the value they were worth. All which said troubles, and miseries, happened unto your Majesty's said subject, for that the said subject's evidence was either of malice, or of sinister policy, detained and concealed, which now too late (without your Majesty's mercy) are come to his hands.

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May it therefore please your Highness, the

518 THE LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER.

premises weighed, and in consideration of your subject's poor estate, and in regard of the true and loyal service of his said father done unto your Majesty's father and brother of famous memory, to give unto your said poor subject forty pounds per annum in fee-farm, or a lease in reversion of fourscore years, paying your Majesty the accustomed rent of fourscore pounds yearly, or otherwise what best shall please your Majesty. And your subject during life shall prostrate himself to your most gracious pleasure."

With what success this application was attended, I am unable to state.

CHAPTER VIII.

Recapitulation of Cranmer's writings-Review of his

character.

THE writings of the archbishop which have been printed, entire or in part, I will now recapitulate in chronological order.

A long speech in the house of lords, in 1534, discussing the propriety of a general council, and denouncing the authority of the pontiff. Burnet describes it as existing among the manuscripts that were bishop Stillingfleet's. In the two volumes of those manuscripts, which now are in the library at Lambeth palace, it is not to be found. In one of them, however, is a 2 paper. in which the intent of general councils, and the power of princes in their own realms to assemble them, are briefly declared; and which is signed by Cranmer, by Tunstal bishop of Durham, by

1 Burnet, Hist. Ref. Copied in the present work, vol. i. p. 120, seq.

No. 1107. fol. 163. Copied by Burnet, and described by him as a resolution of the subscribing prelates to call a general council.

1 Clerk bishop of Bath and Wells, and by Goodrich bishop of Ely.

A speech in convocation, in 1536, defending the opinion of Alexander Aless concerning the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

3

Answers to questions concerning Confirmation, 1537.

↑ Considerations submitted to king Henry in order to a further reformation, 1537.

5 Injunctions given at his visitation of the see of Hereford, 1538.

• Preface to the Translation of the Bible, in 1539, first printed in 1540.

'Articles intended to be the doctrine of the Church of England, 1540.

1 Clerk had been Henry's ambassador to Rome, carrying with him the monarch's book against Luther; afterwards to the ducal brother of Anne of Cleves, with the apology from his fickle sovereign for the divorce. On his way home from this last employment he died. Leland records him as a man of great learning. Of Cranmer's copy of the king's Anti-Lutheran book with a few manuscript notes, now the property of a private gentleman, an account was given, not long since, in the Christian Remembrancer.

2 Foxe, in the Life of Latimer. Copied in the present work, vol. i. p. 162, seq.

3 Burnet. Copied in the present work, vol. i. p. 188.

Noticed, ibid. 189.

• Burnet. See the first vol. of the present work, P. 226.

• See the first vol. of the present work, p. 238, seq. and the Appendix to that volume.

Ibid. 298, 336. These articles are copied in part by

1 Answers to seventeen questions concerning the sacraments, previously to the publication of the Necessary Doctrine, in 1543.

2 Three brief discourses on his review of the Necessary Doctrine, entitled faith, justification, and forgiveness of injuries.

3 Other annotations on this review.

* Parts of three other discourses against the fear of death, and on patience in sickness and adversity.

" Collection of passages from the canon law to shew the necessity of reforming it, about the year 1544.

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• Speech to Edward the Sixth at his coronation, 1546-7.

Strype from the British Museum manuscript, Cleop. E. 5. In the State-Paper Office there is also a copy of these articles.

1 Burnet. Collier. Strype. In the British Museum, and in the Lambeth library, are manuscript copies of these answers. Transcribed, so far as they concern Cranmer, in the present work, vol. i. p. 299, seq.

2 Strype, Life of Cranmer. Append. No. 31. MSS. C. C. Camb.

First printed in the Fathers of the English Church, vol. iii.

' Burnet. See the first vol. of the present work, p. 358. From the Lambeth MS. No. 1107. fol. 76, seq. Burnet's copy seems to have been made.

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Strype. Copied in the present work, vol. ii. p. 3, seq.