A19563:36
An answerAn aunsvvere
An answer by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitan, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation, devised by Stephen Gardiner Doctor of Law, late Bishop of Winchester against the true and godly doctrine of the most holy sacrament, of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ Wherein is also, as occasion serveth, answered such places of the book of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seem any thing worthy the answering. Here is also the true copy of the book written, and in open court delivered, by D. Stephen Gardiner ...An aunsvvere by the Reuerend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitane, vnto a craftie and sophisticall cauillation, deuised by Stephen Gardiner Doctour of Law, late Byshop of Winchester agaynst the true and godly doctrine of the most holy sacrament, of the body and bloud of our sauiour Iesu Christ Wherein is also, as occasion serueth, aunswered such places of the booke of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seeme any thyng worthy the aunsweryng. Here is also the true copy of the booke written, and in open court deliuered, by D. Stephen Gardiner ...
London: printed by John Daye, 1580London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1580
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶The life, state, and story of the Reverend pastor and Prelate Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Martyr, burned at Oxford for the confession of Christs true doctrine. An. 1556. March. 21.
¶The life, state, and story of the Reuerend pastour and Prelate Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Caunterbury Martyr, burned at Oxford for the confession of Christes true doctrine. An. 1556. March. 21.
Forasmuch as the life and estate of the most Reverend Father in God and worthy Prelate of godly memory Thomas Cranmer late Archb. of Cant.1 together with the original cause & occasion of his preferment to the dignity Archiepiscopal, whereunto he was advanced immediately upon the death of Bishop Warham Archbishop of the same, beyond all expectation without support of money or friends,2 by the only well liking of the most renowned king of famous memory Henry the eight, who with a fatherly care maintained his countenance, and defended his innocent life, undermined sundry times by the manifold attempts of the horrible Arch enemy of Christ and his Gospel Stephen Gardiner and other his complices,3 with divers other circumstances of his most commendable conversation, charitable consideration of the poor, constant care in reformation of corrupt Religion, his undaunted courage in continual defence of the same, and the perseverance therein to the loss of his life, be already described at large in the book of Acts and Monuments of Martyrs.4 It may seem needless to make a thorough discourse thereof again at this present. Nevertheless partly to stop the mouths of slanderous Sycophants, & partly for the ease of such as would haply be desirous upon the view of the title of this book, to be acquainted with the life of the Author being otherwise not able to have recourse to the story at large, as also because his virtuous life and glorious death was such, as can never be commended sufficiently I have thought it not altogether amiss to renew the remembrance thereof by certain brief Notes, referring them that be desirous to know the whole to the story thereof at large.