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).
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