Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ph.D.: "Thomas Cranmer," Ch. 6: A “Reformed” Church...
219ff: Henry goes on a long, southern
progress from 13 Jul through 24 Sept 1538. Wrangling goes on with the Lutheran negotiators,
concerned about clerical celibacy, communion in one kind, and private masses for
the dead. That’s it? Tunstall is Henry’s close attaché in the progress, gumming
up the works and probably ghost-writing a stern response to the Germans at Lambeth.
Filibusters and bafflegabbing got no one nowhere. The Germans headed home by 1 Oct
1538. Meanwhile, in 1538-39, Cranmer is experimenting with the daily offices of
the Breviary, borrowing from Quninone’s revised breviary of 1535 and also from the
Danish Lutheran liturgy. And Cranmer stepped down to serve Henry? Could he have
pulled out? If not, why not? If he could have, why did he not?
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