Canon Arthur James Mason: Thomas Cranmer, Ch.5--Cranmer's Last Years, 17...

Dr. Cranmer pens two letters to Mary hoping to show the illogicality of taking an oath to Papal supremacy while taking her oath to the realm. Unfortunately, Tom must have been thinking that she might think logically. He was merely reiterating a Henrician and Edwardian approach. Meanwhile, Paul IV rules sua sponte and without a trial--he condemns Cranmer for failure to appear in Rome (which was stopped in England...no way he could go although he wanted to go). Imagine had Dr. Cranmer engaged with Pope Paul IV on academic grounds? Cardinal Caraffa, the blood-thirty Cardinal killing Neapolitans in Italy, could not have managed Dr. Cranmer. But, conveniently, the English kept Cranmer in Oxford, the time lapsed, and Pope Paul IV ruled Cranmer "contumacious" for failure to show and also an heretic. The English show trial at Oxford will be approved by the Pope, by the legatine delegate, Deacon AKA Cardinal Pole, and further delegated to Bishop Brooks of Gloucester. This trial was rigged. Of note, Parliament in 1555 obsequiously reinstituted the laws for Haeritico Comburendo. 

Archbishop Welby should, but won’t, demand a public, international apology and repentance from Francis 1 for these premediated, cold-blooded, and malicious homocides—criminal felonies without statutes of limitation as far as heaven is concerned. The martyrs cry above for justice is not forgotten (Rev.6.9ff), although amnesia rules and, as amnesia does what amnesia does, amnesia leads to unbelief, incredulity, indifference and loveless shoulder-shrugging.