[445] Strype’s Cranmer, p. 274.
[446] See, however, Fox, iii. 427; where the Bishop of Gloucester is made to say, Latimer leaned to Cranmer, Cranmer to Ridley, and Ridley to the singularity of his own wit. But it was the policy of the Catholic party to run down Cranmer.
[447] Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 140, where this letter is printed from the Lansdowne MSS.
[448] Copies of this disputation were abroad in Ridley’s life; for Grindal in a letter to him, dated Frankfort, the 6th of May, 1555, speaks of having seen such.—Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 12. 18. It seems that Cranmer and Ridley had committed all that they could remember to writing; and that Grindal had compared their account with that of the notaries, and found the two agreeing in the main.
[449] Burnet, ii. 315.
[450] Collier, ii. 397. Fox. Strype’s Eccles. Mem. iii. 291.
[451] Burnet’s Reform. iii. 263.
[452] Id. iii. 275. Strype’s Annals, p. 133.
[453] Id.
[454] Strype’s Life of Parker, pp. 33, 34. Where there is given, in the Archbishop’s own words, a succinct catalogue of the miseries of this reign.