Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ph.D.: Thomas Cranmer"--Ch. 4: Queen Anne, 79ff.

4. The reign of Queen Anne: 1533-1536, 79-86. Sir Thomas Elyot, humanist and ambassador, is replaced by Dr. Cranmer in 1532. The price tag? Bitterness towards Cranmer and a stiffening of his own opposition to the annulment. Elyot writes a satire entitled, Pasquil the Plain, a satire with three characters—Pasquil, Harpocrates, and Gnatho—representing Audley the new Chancellor and More’s replacement, Cranmer, and himself, as it were, Elyot in disguise. The first two are courtiers doing Henry’s bidding while he, Elyot, is the truth teller. Cranmer is the “silent one” and, as a result, a climber. Cranmer returns to Court in early January 1533. Events move quickly. Henry and Anne conceive Elizabeth in Novemberish 1532, were secretly married on St. Paul’s Day, 1533, and Dr. Cranmer’s fees for the pallium are expedited to Rome for conferral of the archbishopric to him. He’s given quarters at Westminster in Canon Row, the residential quarters of the Dean and Canons of St. Stephen’s Chapel. Committee work was on-going including lawyers and churchmen: carnal copulation between Arthur and Catherine, Cranmer’s objections to the oath to a usurper, the Articula Duodecim—12 articles showing the necessity of the divorce, the Parliamentary agenda for a law forbidding appeals to Rome, the legal predicates for the forthcoming Dunstable trial, and any legal impediments, if any, due to Henry’s adultery with Mary Boleyn.