Prof. Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer," 140ff.

The Daily Life and the Secret Marriage, 131-153. We learn from Morice and Foxe of Cranmer’s generalized daily schedule: 5-9 AM: study and prayers, followed by suitors or public affairs, chess in the afternoon, a 1-hour walk after supper, and 9 PM for sleep. He “spent three-quarters of each day in study, as he had done when he was in Cambridge” (132). He stood while reading and dictated books and letters to Morice, including the use of a filing system with a “summary of the opinions of some thirty, forty, sixty or more somewhiles of authors” (132). He considered the “primary duty of an Archbishop of Canterbury was to be a divine and a theologian” (132). Suffragans largely handled administrative task. Dr. Cranmer was involved in judicial matters: Court of Arches (appellate court) and Court of Audience (court of instance). Dr. Cranmer played a role in “collecting information from English spies abroad” (135). Patronage issues were before him, but he sought only the qualified for preferments. In a few years after 1533, he had to manage eleven residences—Lambeth, Croydon, Beakesbourne, Mortlake, Knoll, Canterbury, Maidstone, Charing, Ford, Wingham and Adlington. He lost some to Henry VIII. There were questions and charges of frugal abstemiousness (not helping the poor) and over-lavishness living. Throughout his daily life, he was widely viewed as pleasant, courteous, humble, grave, generous, calm, rarely angry, and well-received amongst noblemen, but also his own staff. Prof. Ridley describe Margaret’s life with Cranmer, 1533-1539 in England, 1539-1543 in Germany due to the Six Articles, and her repatriation to England with her husband, 1543 (due to Henry’s cover) to his death in 1556. The Papists hike the box-theory with holes for Mrs. Cranmer’s travel. We learn of Mrs. Cranmer marrying and surviving a second marriage to John Whitchurch, the printer, and marrying a third time to Thomas Norton, a lawyer. Two children of Tom and Margaret Cranmer survive to adulthood, but without issue. Amidst it all, Dr. Cranmer, busied with many matters, was a student, reader and scholar.