Camden Society: "Narratives of the Reformation," 226ff.

1553-1556. This anonymous biography by a “J.A.,” largely asserted in Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments,” is a super-quick wrap on Cranmer’s days from Sept 1553 to 21 March 1556. Following Edward VI's death, someone circulated a rumor that Cranmer was reinstating the Mass at Canterbury and that he would conduct the Requiem Mass for King Edward VI. Dr. Cranmer discreetly and privately denies this with a private letter to Dr. Scory, Bp. of Chichester (??), which itself is widely published all over London. His letter denies such (227) and was read aloud in Cheapside, 5 Sept. Dr. Cranmer went to the two nine days later, 14ish Sept 1553. The disputation at Oxford gets all of one page without any dates (228), all of which which Strype and Foxe thankfully amplify. The excellence, however, of this quick wrap is a copy (repeated by Foxe and Strype) of Dr. Cranmer’s dying, famed declaration (229-234). Dr. Cranmer offers his earnest prayer, exhortations, his affirmation of faith and the renunciation, abjuration, and denial of previous recantations, promising to hold his offending right hand to the fire. Dr. Cranmer is howled down, cannot finish the renunciation and is hustled to the fires.