Canon Arthur James Mason: Thomas Cranmer, Ch.5--Cranmer's Last Years, 18...
The order for degradation, humiliation
and laicization of Dr. Cranmer is carried out, from the crozier to the chasuble
(which he hadn’t worn for 5 years) to the shaven head to the investiture in a yeoman’s
gown and townsman’s cap…is carried out by the insolent, senseless Bloody Bonner
and the timid, but heart-broken Cuthbert Tunstall. BTW, both Bonner and Tunstall,
like Wily Winchester, had been as lion-throated for Henrician supremacy and were
as denunciatory of Papal authority in England as had been Dr. Cranmer himself. By
the time this event occurs in early 1556, Wily Winchester’s, unfortunately, was
interred in the northern aisle of Winchester—he should have been taken out back
somewhere. But, that’s for another day.
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