Leslie Williams, Ph.D.: "Emblem of Faith Untouched: Thomas Cranmer:" Rom...

1.     Rome, 21-26. Oct 1529: Wolsey’s out, More’s in, and Henry takes over Hampton Court as a party palace. plush with 60 acres for hunting and awhoring, a waterfall, and more. 1526: Henry’s casting eyes at Anne. 1527: Henry gives an Earlship and Durham Palace to Anne’s father, a house with historic significance and home to Dr. Cranmer to gin up his propaganda for Henry. 1530—Cranmer’s secluded and scholarly life at Cambridge is over and he’s off to Rome, Paris, Orleans, Angers,  Bourges, Toulouse, and Bologna with Wiltshire, Stokesley, and others, 160 scholars in 23 universities: “must have been the single most lucrative source of consultancy fees for academics during the whole sixteenth century” (23). Clement VII tries to ban universities from commentary. Prof. Williams thinks that Dr. Cranmer: (1) opened eyes to the ways of the world, (2) reeling from the tactics of politics, (3) aware of role of money and bribes. By the end of 1530, Cranmer’s back in England—in London where the Bishops routinely do no pastoral work, but serve as ambassadors, council members and other government role. Cranmer beholds the daily galivantings of Henry and Anne. Of note, by spring, 1531, Cranmer gets acquainted with Simon Grynaeius, a former Hungarian monk, friend of Erasmus, and an early patron of the Swiss Reformation. This will be a good contact later for Dr. Cranmer as he sorts out Reformation details. Dr. Cranmer, life as you once knew it at Cambridge—those days are over.