Arthur James Mason, D.D.: "Thomas Cranmer, Ch.3: Thomas Cranmer & Publi...

1.     Closing the monasteries was a Crumwellian and Henrician money-maker. Cranmer is involved in the refoundation of Canterbury and there are discussions. By 1538, some feast days are eliminated and Cranmer himself, on Thomas a’ Becket’s Eve of the Feast, is eating meat. Dr. Thornden is pushed by Cranmer for a place at Canterbury; this will, we think, become a tough issue later for Cranmer. Dr. Mason notes that Crumwell and Cranmer had a “curious fellowship…which may be compared to the friendship between Matthew Parker and Burleigh…” (67).