Canon Richard Dixon: "History of the Church of England," 4:174ff.


1554. The particulars of only one of the examinations are preserved: Hooper is brought before the Commissioners (139). Two questions: Married, John? Also, your views on the Eucharistic Presence? Gardiner gets heated. He’s been in the brig and is in no mood for accommodation. A shameful scene ensures with Gardiner, Bonner and Tunstall issuing the sentence of deprivation (141). Courtiers are shouting down Bishop Hooper who can't get an answer in edgewise. 16 bishoprics are vacated in the purge with new fellas ordered up as replacements (142). Deprivation of the married clergy (143). The number is exaggerated were are told by Canon Dixon—Matthew Parker claiming 12K of 16K clergy deprived while other writers indicate about 25 -30% of clerks were deprived on marital grounds alone. Distinction made, though to no purpose, between the surviving late regulars and the secular clergy (144). The deprivations in the diocese of Lichfield, about 1 in 4 (145). In the diocese of Canterbury, 73 clergymen were deprived (146) and “Thus was Cranmer's nest at Christchurch was broken up.” Lists are given for the varied dioceses. This must have been traumatic for many clerical families, e.g. Barlow of St. David’s with a wife and several children. Thomas Becon, married and Reformed, is deprived, imprisoned, cut loose and he flees to Strasburg (cf. volume in Parker Society on Becon). In the diocese of Bath and Wells (given at length in a note), more are deprived—the list is long.

When did Margarete Cranmer and the children flee? Methinks to Strasburg with Vermigli? Edmund Cranmer, Dr. Cranmer's brother and Archdeacon of Canterbury, successfully flees, but he too was deprived and defrocked. 

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