John Strype: "Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranm...


Wily Winchester offers a censure of Erasmus’ Paraphrase, namely, and, in a document, explicitly stating that Erasmus laid the egg and Luther hatched it. His account of his commitment and confinement—complaining of no barber, tailor, servant, chaplain or physician. Winchester writes a letter to Somerset concerning these things. Again, Winchester will get 5 years in the Fleet and Tower, 1548-1553. On another note, the archbishop appoints in all dioceses a thanksgiving for a victory over the Scots—15000 Scots dead and 2000 captured. Dr. Cranmer directs a procession, the thanksgiving for the victory, and the Te Deum--ordering the bishop of London to execute the appointment, 17-35. The pic is from a plaque affixed by Wily Winchester's tomb in the northern aisle of Winchester Cathedral, Wily's cathedral see from 1531-1547ish and from 1553-1555.

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