Alfred F. Pollard: "Thomas Cranmer & the English Reformation:" Ch. 4--C...

Jane Seymour gives birth in Oct 1536 to Edward VI and Tom is the godfather for the christening. Several days later, Jane is dead and we’ll get the serio-comedy of Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard, the lynx. No one knows who officiated at Henry’s and Jane’s marriage. Tom? On Tom’s nullity-rulings, the marriage to Jane Seymour was the first. We get a run on the Ten Articles in summer 1536, Henry’s royal hand in shaping them up, Pollard’s mild effort at sanitizing, and a brief description in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire over taxes and enclosures, more largely, but to some degree against”

 

Crim, Cranm, and Riche,

With three L, and their liche,

As some men teach,

God them amend.

And that Aske may,

Without delay,

Here make a stay,

And well to end.