Camden Society: "Narratives of the Reformation," Ralph Morice's Bio of ...

1489-1529. IX. ANECDOTES AND CHARACTER OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER: by Ralph Morice, his Secretary of some 20 years (234-242). Notes of Ralph Morice which make it to John Foxe (235, 341, 342). This narrative is largely produced by other later biographers. Morice who survived Cranmer held conferences with John Foxe and ABC Parker in the Elizabethan period. It's thought that he died c. 1570. The brief bio by Morice is a standard and quick wrap-up. Birth and education of Cranmer (238) with the marvelously cruel schoolmaster in grammar school. Cranmer goes to Cambridge, earns the BA and MA, marries Joan of Dolphin Inn followed by her death in childbirth, is repatriated as a Fellow at Jesus College, earns a Doctorate of Divinity, is made University lecturer in theology, and ends up at Waltham Abbey and the Cressy house. He discusses the King’s cause with Stephen Gardiner (secretary to Henry VIII) and Edward Foxe (Henry VIII’s almoner). The standard narrative, but, from a close associate of Dr. Cranmer for nigh-on 20 years.