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The Life, Times, and Writings 

 of Thomas Cranmer, D.D., 



The First Reforming Archbishop of Canterbury. 



BY CHARLES HASTINGS COLLETTE. 

 DEDICATED TO EDWARD WHITE, 93110 ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 



CONTENTS : Cranmer at the University of Cambridge Cranmer's Participation in the 

 Proceedings of the Divorce of Henry VIII. from Catherine His Second Marriage as a 

 Priest His Oaths on Consecration as an Archbishop The Fate of Anne Boleyn : Henry's 

 Marriages with Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr, 

 and Cranmer's alleged Participation in these Acts Henry VIII. 's Political and Social 

 Reforms under Cranmer's alleged Guidance Persecutions, and Cranmer's alleged Par- 

 ticipation in them The Progress of the Reformation under Henry VIII. and Edward VI. 

 Cranmer's Fall and Martyrdom His alleged Recantations His Writings John Fox, 

 the Martyrologist The Beatification of Bishop Fisher, the Chancellor More, and others, 

 as Martyrs. 



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