Paul Ayris/David Selwyn (ed.): "Thomas Cranmer: Churchman and Scholar," ...
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Forth the Word of God: Archbishop Cranmer’s early patronage of preachers—S.
Wabuda, 75-88. Susan Wabuda investigates how Cranmer deployed his assets—licenses
to preach, preachers, etc. He brought Latimer before Henry’s Court in Lent, 1534,
to read “some processes of scripture, the gospel, pistil, and any other part of
scripture in the bible” and then to expound the text “according to the pure sense
and meaning” (75). Cranmer wrote to Richard Sampson, Dean of the Chapel Royal, about
Latimer: “intending evermore the furtherance of the truth and pure dispensation
of the word of God” (79). Scholarship has examined such deployments: Stephen Thompson
on the Henrician and Edwardian episcopate, Patrick Collinson on the Elizabethan,
and Kenneth Fincham on the Jacobean. “Preaching” was central (2 Tim. 4.2; 1 Tim.2.7-15;
3.1-16; 4.6-16; 2 Tim.2.23-26; Tit.1.9-16; 2.1m 9-15; 3.1-11). Henry and Cranmer
deployed assets for the Royal supremacy. Cromwell is also in this game. “Cranmer’s
influence was extensive” in giving licenses and benefices (78), Latimer and Hilsey,
Prior of the Dominicans in Bristol, being two explicit examples. Cranmer broke Stokesley’s
power at St. Paul’s, London, and influenced the preaching rota.
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