Submissions and Recantations — Archishop Thomas Cranmer

Submissions and Recantations · Archishop Thomas Cranmer

ALL THE SVBmyssyons, and recantations of Thomas Cranmer, late Archebyshop of Canterburye, truely set forth both in Latyn and Englysh, agreable to the Originalles, wrytten and subscribed with his owne hande.

Visum & examinatum per reuerendum patrem & Dominum, Dominum Edmundum Episcopum London.

Anno, M. D. LVI.

¶ The true copye of the fyrste submyssion o Thomas Cranmer, late Archbyshop of Caunterburye, which afterwarde by inconstancye and vnstablenes he the sayd Thomas Cranmer did cancell, the oryginall whereof was sent to the Quenes Maiestie, and her priuie counsell, as foloweth.

FOrasmuch as the kynge and Quenes maiesties, by consent of their parliament, hauehave receaued the Popes aucthoritie within this realme, I am content to submyt my selfe to theyr lawes herein, and to take the Pope for chief heade of this churche of England, so farre as Gods lawes and the lawes and customes of this realme wyll permit.

Thomas Cranmer.

¶ The true copye of the second submyssion of the sayde Thomas Cranmer, whiche he the sayde Thomas dyd aduisedly subscribe with his owne hande, and dyd not afterwarde reuoke it, the originall whereof was also sente vp to the Quenes Maiestie and her said counsell, as before.

I Thomas Cranmer doctor in diuinitie, do submyt my selfe to the catholyke Churche of Christ, and to the Pope, supreame heade of the same churche, and vntounto the kynge and the Quenes Maiesties, and vntounto all theyr lawes and ordinaunces.

Thomas Cranmer.

Tertium scriptum Cranmeri sua ipsius manu exaratum, & per eum in buccardo exhibitum London, Episcopo.

I Am contente to submyt my selfe to the kynge and Quenes Maiesties, and to all theyr lawes and ordynaunces, aswel concernyng the Popes supremacy as others. And I shall from tyme to tyme moue and styrre all other to do the lyke, to the vttermost of my power, and to lyue in quyetnes and obedience vntounto theyr maiesties, most humbly, without murmour or grudgynge agaynst any of theyr godly procedinges. And for my boke whiche I hauehave wrytten, I am contented to submyt me to the iudgement of the Catholyke churche, and of the nexte generall councell.

Thomas Cranmer.

Quartum scriptum Cranmeri sua ipsius manu exaratum, et per eum in buccardo exhibitum London, Episcopo.

BE it knowen by these presentes, that I Thomas Cranmer doctor of diuinitie, & late Archbyshop of Canterbury, do fyrmely, stedfastlye, and assuredlye beleue in all articles and poyntes of the christian religion, and catholyke fayth, as the Catholyke church doth beleue, and hath euer beleued from the begynnynge. Moroeuer, as concerning the Sacramentes of the churche, I beleue vnfaynedly in all poyntes as the sayde catholyke churche doth and hath beleued from the begynnynge of Chrysten religion. In wytnes whereof I hauehave humbly subscribed my hand vntounto these presentes, the .xvi. day of February. M. D. lv.

Thomas Cranmer

¶ The true copye of a fyfte submission of the sayd Thomas Cranmer, wrytten and subscrybed wyth his owne hand in y^e presence of master Henry Syddall, and of one called Frater Iohannes de uilla Garcina, a notable learned man, as foloweth.

EGo Thomas Cranmer anathematizo omnem Lutheri & Zuinglij haeresim & quodcun que dogma sanae doctrinae contrarium, confiteor uerò & credo firmissimè unam sanctam & Catholicam ecclesiam uisib lem extra quam salus non est, at que eiusdem in terris supremum agnosco caput episcopum Romanum, quem fateor summum esse pontificem & papa… ac Christi uicarium cui omnes tenentur subesse fideles. …am quod ad sacramenta attinet credo & colo in sacramento Eucharistiae uerū Christi corpi & sanguinem sub speciebus panis & uini uerissime citra ullum tropum & figuram contenta, conuersis & transubstantiatis pane in corpus & uino … sanguinem redemptoris diuina potentia. At que in sex alijs sacramentis (sici in hoc) id credo & teneo quod uniuersa tenet ecclesia ac sentit Roman… Credo insuper purgatorium locum ubi ad tempus cruciantur defunctoru animae pro quibus sanctè ac salubriter orat ecclesia sicut & sanctos colit … illos que praeces effundit. Demum in omnibus me profiteor non aliud sentire quàm ecclesia catholica & Romana tenetiae me poenitet ꝙ aliud unqua tenuerim ac senserim, deum autem supplexoro ut pietate sua mihi condonare dignetur, quae in illum & eius ecclesiam commisi, fideles simul rogo et ol secro ut pro me praeces effundant, eos autem qui meo aut exemplo aut doctrina seducti sunt, per sanguinem Ihesu Christi obtestor ut ad ecclesiae … deant unitatem idem que dicamus omnes, ut nō sint in nobis schismata. Postremo sicut me subijcio catholicae christi ecclesiae eiusdem que supremo capiti, … me submitto Philippo & Mariae Angliae regibus at que eorum legibus & decretis, & testor deum optimum maximum que haec in nullius gratiam, nulli… metu à me confessa, sed ex animo & libentissimè ut meae & aliorum su… conscientiis consulam & prospiciam.

Per me Thomam Cranme… Testes huius subscriptionis.

Frater Ioannes de uilla Garcin…

Henricus Sidallus.

Submissions and Recantations, Submission 1 – Submission 5

¶ The true copye of the fyrste submyssion o Thomas Cranmer, late Archbyshop of Caunterburye, which afterwarde by inconstancye and vnstablenes he the sayd Thomas Cranmer did cancell, the oryginall whereof was sent to the Quenes Maiestie, and her priuie counsell, as foloweth.

¶ The true copye of the second submyssion of the sayde Thomas Cranmer, whiche he the sayde Thomas dyd aduisedly subscribe with his owne hande, and dyd not afterwarde reuoke it, the originall whereof was also sente vp to the Quenes Maiestie and her said counsell, as before.

Tertium scriptum Cranmeri sua ipsius manu exaratum, & per eum in buccardo exhibitum London, Episcopo.

Quartum scriptum Cranmeri sua ipsius manu exaratum, et per eum in buccardo exhibitum London, Episcopo.

¶ The true copye of a fyfte submission of the sayd Thomas Cranmer, wrytten and subscrybed wyth his owne hand in ye presence of master Henry Syddall, and of one called Frater Iohannes de uilla Garcina, a notable learned man, as foloweth.

¶ The true copye of a fyfte submission of the sayd Thomas Cranmer, wrytten and subscrybed wyth his owne hand in y^e presence of master Henry Syddall, and of one called Frater Iohannes de uilla Garcina, a notable learned man, as foloweth.