Rev. Henry John Todd, M.A.: "Life of Archbishop Cranmer:" Ch. 3: 1532-15...



After Dr. Cranmer’s consecration with a packed audience in Westminster Abbey, he afterwards, in due time, took the oath to the King regarding his temporalities. “I, Thomas Cranmer, renounce and utterly forsake all such clauses, words, sentences, and grants, which I have of the pope’s holiness in his bulls of the archbishopric of Canterbury, that in any manner was, is, or may be, hurtful or prejudicial to your Highness, your heirs, successors’ estates, or dignity royal; knowing myself to take and hold the said archbishopric immediately, and only, of your Highness, and of none other; most lowly beseeching the same for restitution of the temporalities of the said archbishopric; professing to be faithful, true, and obedient subject to your said Highness, your heirs and successors, during my life. So help me God, and the Holy Evangelists” (73).


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