12 September 1555 A.D. ST. MARY’S, OXFORD: Cranmer’s Trial Begins
12 September 1555 A.D. ST. MARY’S, OXFORD: Cranmer’s Trial Begins A few of our musings drawn from Bromiley, G.W. Thomas Cranmer: Archbishop and Martyr, pp.102ff . London: Church Book Room Press, 1956. Cranmer’s Trial. There would be lengthy proceedings against Thomas Cranmer in the the month to come, 1 and 16 Oct 1555. All in due time. Latimer and Ridley would be tried on 1 Oct 1556 and flamed 16 Oct 1555. To date, Cranmer still had the “pallium,” the symbol of Papal authority. By the end of it all, he’d, of course, lose that as well as the other Romanist vestments, more symbols of this-that-the-other to authorities of this-that-the-other. During the trial, Cranmer would remark: (1) “I have been done with all that gear for a long time” and (2) “They were all made over in Cheapside.” But, authority was imputed to the vestments, then like now for Tractarians. Vestments have always been a big deal for the romantic aesthetes and Tractarians. But, we digre...