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Excerpt from Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, Sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Vol. 2: Wherein the History of the Church, and the Reformation of It, During the Primacy of the Said Archbishop, Are Greatly Illustrated; And Many Singular Matters Relating Thereunto, Now First Published (1694;); In Three Books

To the commen people, I suppose yt were not possible to persuade them to the contrary. The pryncypal intent whereof ys, that the kinge hys grace sholde be contente to commyt hys grete cause to the jugement of the pope: wherein me semeth he lacketh moch jugement. But he swadeth that with such goodly eloquence, both of words and sentence, that he were lyke to persuade many: but me hee persuadeth in that poynt no thynge at al. But in many.

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Excerpt from Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, Sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Vol. 2: Wherein the History of the Church, and the Reformation of It, During the Primacy of the Said Archbishop, Are Greatly Illustrated; And Many Singular Matters Relating Thereunto, Now First Published (1694;); In Three Books

The som wherof I shal shortly reherse. Furst, he sheweth the cause, wherfore he had never pleasure to intromytte hymself in this cause. And that was, the trouble, which was lyke to ensue to this realme therof by dyversitie of tytles. Wherof what hurte myght come, we have had exsample in our fathers dayes by the tytles of Lancaster and Yorke. And where os god hath gyven many noble gyfts unto the kinge hys grace, as wel of body and mynde, os also of fortune: yet this excedeth al other, that in hym al tytles do mete and come togyder, and this Realme ys restored to tranquillitie and peace: so oweth he to provide that this londe fal not agayne to the forsaide mysery and troble, which may come aswel by the people within this realme, which thynke surely that they have an hayre lawful already, with whom they al be wel contente, and wolde be sory to have any other. And yt wolde be harde to persuade thaym to take any other, levynge her: os also by the Emperour, whych ys a man of so grete power, the quene beying hys awnt, the Princes hys nece, whome he so moch doth, and ever hath favored. And where he harde reasons for the kynge hys party, that he was moved of god hys lawe, which doth straytly forbed, and that with many gret thretts, that no man shal mary hys brother hys wife. And os for the people, yt longeth not to thayr judgement, and yet yt ys to be thought, that thay wil be contente, whan thay shal knowe, that the awncyente Doctores of the Chyrch, and the determinations of so many grete vniversities be of the kynge hys sentence. And os concernynge the Emperour, if he be so unryghtful, that he wyl mayntene an unjust cause, yet god wil never fayl thaym, that stonde opon his party, and for any thynge wyl not transgresse hys commawndments. And besyde that, we shal not lacke the ayde of the Frenshe kynge, whyche partely for the Lege, whych he hath made with us, and partly for the dyspleasure and olde grutch, which he bereth toward the Emperour, wolde be glad to have occasion to be avenged.

Thies reasons he bryngeth for the kyngs party agaynst hys owne opynyon. To which he maketh answer in this maner.

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