The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* Knole House: built by Archbishop Bourchier in the second half of the 15th century, it was forfeited to the Crown by Archbishop Cranmer in 1538.

The 1549 book was soon succeeded by a more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.

The work of producing English-language books for use in the liturgy was largely that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at first under the reign of Henry VIII, only more radically under his son Edward VI.

Cranmer finished his work on an English Communion rite in 1548, obeying an order of Convocation of the previous year that Communion was to be given to the people as both bread and wine.

Cranmer collected the material from many sources ; even the opening of Preface ( above ) was borrowed.

Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, ( who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts ), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon.

The 1549 book was, from the outset, intended only as a temporary expedient, as Bucer was assured having met Cranmer for the first time in April 1549: ' concessions ... made both as a respect for antiquity and to the infirmity of the present age ' as he wrote.

Both Bucer and Peter Martyr wrote detailed proposals for modification ; Bucer's Censura ran to 28 chapters which influenced Cranmer significantly though he did not follow them slavishly and the new book was duly produced in 1552, making " fully perfect " what was already implicit.

Cranmer was punished for his work in the English Reformation by being burned at the stake on 21 March 1556.

The so-called manual acts, whereby the priest took the bread and the cup during the prayer of consecration, which had been deleted in 1552, were restored ; and an " Amen " was inserted after the words of institution and before the Communion, hence separating the elements of Consecration and Communion that Cranmer had tried to knit together.

The actual language of the 1662 revision was little changed from that of Cranmer.

Elizabeth was baptised on 10 September ; Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the Marquess of Exeter, the Duchess of Norfolk and the Dowager Marchioness of Dorset stood as her four godparents.

Calvin praised the idea, but ultimately Cranmer was unable to bring it to fruition.

Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally ( née Cranmer ), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.

In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was pregnant with his child, and in May Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void, and the marriage to Anne valid.

The imprisoned Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was forced to watch Bishops Ridley and Latimer being burned at the stake.

The dam then broke in 1641 when the traditional retrospective reverence for Thomas Cranmer and other martyred bishops in the Acts and Monuments was displaced by forward-looking attitudes to prophecy, among radical Puritans.

Although it was initially a court of appeal, King Henry, Wolsey and Cranmer encouraged plaintiffs to bring their cases directly to the Star Chamber, bypassing the lower courts entirely.

Thomas Cranmer ( 2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556 ) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.

When Edward came to the throne, Cranmer was able to promote major reforms.

Cranmer ’ s early schooling remains a mystery.

In two recently discovered letters by Cranmer, an early encounter between Cranmer and the king, Henry VIII of England, was revealed.

Grynaeus ' early contacts initiated Cranmer ’ s eventual relationship with the Strasbourg and Swiss reformers.

It is difficult to assess how Cranmer ’ s theological views had evolved since his Cambridge days.

On 23 May 1533 Thomas Cranmer declared Henry and Catherine's marriage null and void ; five days later, he declared Henry and Anne's marriage to be good and valid.

Five days later, on 28 May 1533, Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be good and valid.

Cromwell made a declaration to Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer that he had been a " ruffian ... in his young days ".

The scriptwriter used Anne's final confession of her sins ( a burden that Archbishop Thomas Cranmer would have to bear to the end of his days ), to suggest her total innocence on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

Five days later, Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be good and valid.

Cranmer recognized that the 1549 rite of Communion had been capable of conservative misinterpretation and misuse in that the consecration rite might still be undertaken even when no congregational Communion followed.

It was this form of religion that he laboured to spread in England, against the wishes of Cranmer, Ridley, Bucer, Pietro Martire and other more conservative theologians.

In 1541, Bell supported Archbishop Cranmer in the House of Lords when Cranmer was attempting to bring forward an act for the advancement of the true religion and the abolishment of the contrary " however, this caused a great disruption within the conservative factions and when Bell witnessed this ' he fell away from him '

Few parish clergy were initially licensed to preach by the bishops ; in the absence of a licensed preacher, Sunday services were required to be accompanied by reading one of the homilies written by Cranmer.

Cranmer baptised her immediately afterwards and acted as one of her godparents.

The first public high school, Hanford Union High School, was started in 1892 with one teacher, W. S. Cranmer, and an average enrollment of fourteen.

The site is made up of a Victorian mansion called Leckhampton House and the grade-II listed George Thomson Building, as well as five substantial detached houses on Cranmer Road, one house on Selwyn Gardens, and two houses on Barton Road ; all of which back on to communal gardens and constitute a single site.

It is one of four Church of England theological colleges ( the others being St John's College, Nottingham, Trinity College, Bristol and Cranmer Hall in Durham ) which self-identify as " Open Evangelical ".

In 1548 he helped Thomas Cranmer compile the Book of Common Prayer and in 1549 he was one of the commissioners who investigated Bishops Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner.

Thomas Cranmer made him one of the " Six Preachers of Canterbury ," and a chaplain in Cranmer's own household.

Thomas Cranmer used Luther's revised Litany as one of his main sources in the preparation of the Litany in the Book of Common Prayer.

The persons rounded up were in many cases strongly linked to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who spent most of the period absent from court in Kent: Askew's brother Edward Ayscough was one of his servants, and Nicholas Shaxton who was brought in to put pressure on Askew to recant was acting as a curate for Cranmer at Hadleigh.

Appended to the main argument are five translated letters exchanged under Edward VI between Bucer and Cranmer ( one has a paragraph omitted that expresses reservations about vestments causing superstition ) and between Hooper, a Lasco, Bucer and Martyr.

Queen Mary being now on the throne, Story was one of her most active agents in prosecuting heresy, and was one of her proctors at the trial of Thomas Cranmer at Oxford in 1555.