The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents

by J. M. Stone

[567] Parsons, The Three Conversions of England, ii., ch. vii., p. 371. The author adds: “This is a most certain story, and testified at this day by Cranmer’s son’s widow yet living, to divers gentlemen, her friends, from whom myself had it”.

[568] Jenkyns, ii., 103.

[569] MS., Coll. Corp. Chr., Cantab., 128, f. 405. Printed in Nichol’s Narrative of the Days of the Reformation, p. 266.

[570] Cranmer’s name stands first on the list of conspirators, though the Archbishop was apparently the last to sign, having held out until it was no longer safe to do so.

[571] Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, vol. i., p. 484.

[572] Ibid., p. 527 et seq.

[573] Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, vol. i., p. 557.

[574] Ibid., p. 558.

[575] For the opinions of two typical Englishmen on the subject of these executions see Appendix G.

[576] Foxe, vol. vii., p. 86.