Manual of the Book of Common Prayer (#2): J.Davies--Introduction. pp.13ff.

The beautiful context is established for Dr. Cranmer's reforms. One can see his work since the late 1530s but also into the 1540s, despite oppositional forces at work in the hierarchy and varied other places. An excellent digest of developments. That Dr. Cranmer even survived the Prebendaries' Plot, a murderous, complex conspiracy, 1540-1543, from Canterbury to London to OXBRIDGE to Winchester..that he survived this conspiracy is stilling amazing. Numerous forces had come together--with malice aforethought and murderous designs on Dr. Cranmer. A known man! A Reformer with a big target on his back. Henry plucked his Archbishop from the fires, providentially. Something akin to Daniel in the lion's den or the Esther-Mordedai story of the 5th century BC. Amazing. And we still have Dr. Cranmer's BCP to this day! Conserving the theological thoughts of "master minds" through the centuries.