Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2, Book 11 · Account 22 · Examination 3
¶Interrogatories obiected to the Archbishop, with his aunsweres annexed to the same.
1. INterrog. First was obiected, that hee the foresayde Thom. Cranmer, being yet free, and before he entered into holy orders,Interrogatories layed agaynst the Archbish. maryed one Ioane surnamed blacke or browne, dwelling at the signe of the Dolphine in Cambridge.
Aunswere. Whereunto he aunswered, that whether shee was called blacke or browne, he knewe not, but that hee maryed there one Ioane, that he graunted.
2. Interrog. That after the death of the foresayd wife,The first mariage of the Archb. he entered into holy orders, and after that was made Archbyshop by the Pope.
Auns. He receiued (he sayd) a certayne Bull of the Pope, which hee deliuered vntounto the king, and was Archbyshop by him.
3. Inter. Item, that he being in holye orders, maryed an other woman, as his second wife, named Anne,The second mariage of the Archb. The Archb. charged with his doctrine, & bookes. and so was twise maryed.
Auns. To this he graunted.
4. Inter. Item, in the time of king Henry the 8. he kept the sayd wife secretly, and had children by her.
Auns. Hereunto hee also graunted: affirming that it was better for him to hauehave hys owne, then to doe lyke other Priestes, holding and keeping other mens wiues.
5. Inter, Item, in the time of king Edward he brought out the sayde his wife openly, affirming and professing publickely the same to be his wife.
Auns. He denyed not but he so did, and lawfully might doe the same, for asmuch as the lawes of the realm did so permitte hym.
6. Inter Item, that hee shamed not openly to glorye hym selfe to hauehave had his wife in secret many yeares.
Auns. And though he so did (he sayde) there was no cause why he should be ashamed therof.
7. Inter. Item, that the sayde Thomas Cranmer fallynge afterward into the deep bottome of erroures, did flye and recuse the authoritie of the Church, did hold and followe ye heresie concerning the sacramente of the aultar, and also did compile▪ and caused to be set abroade diuers bookes.
Auns. Whereunto, when the names of the bookes were recited to hym, he denyed not such bookes whiche he was the true authour of. As touchinge the treatise of Peter Martyr vponupon the sacrament, he denyed that he euer sawe it before it was abroad, yet did approue and well lyke of the same. As for the Catechisme, the booke of Articles, wt the other booke agaynst Winchester, he graunted the same to be his doinges.
8. Inter. Item, that he cōpelled many agaynst their willes to subscribe to the same Articles.
Auns. He exhorted (he sayd) such as were willing to subscribe: but agaynst theyr willes, he compelled none.
9. Inter. Item, for so much hee surceased not to perpetrate enorme and inordinate crimes, he was therefore cast into the Tower, and from thence was brought to Oxforde, at what tyme it was commonly thought that the Parliamēt there should be holden.
Auns. To this he sayd, that he knew no such enorme and inordinate crimes, that euer he committed.
10. Inter. Item that in the sayd City of Oxforde, he dyd openly mayntayn his heresie, and there was conuicted vponupon the same.
Auns. He defended (he sayd) there the cause of the Sacrament, but to be conuicted in the same that he denyed.
11. Inter. Item, when hee perseuered still in the same, hee was by the publicke censure of the vniuersitie, pronounced an hereticke, and his books to be hereticall.
Auns. That he was so denounced, he denyed not: but that he was an hereticke, or his bookes hereticall, that he denyed.
12. Inter. Item, that hee was and is notoriouslye infamed with the note of Schisme, as who not onelyonly himselfe receded from the Catholicke Churche and Sea of Rome, but also moued the king, and subiectes of this Realme to the same.
Auns. As touching the receding, that hee well graunted: but that receding or departing (sayd he) was onelyonly from the sea of Rome, and had in it no matter of any Schisme.
13. Inter. Item, that he had bene twise sworne to ye Pope: and withall D. Martin brought out the instrument of the Publicke Notary,The Archb. … to … Pope by …. wherein was contayned his protestation made when he should be consecrated, asking if he had any thing els protested.
Auns. Whereunto he aunswered, that he did nothing but by the lawes of the Realme.
14. Inter. Item, that he the sayde Archbishop of Caunterbury, did not onelyonly offēd in ye Premisses, but also in taking vponupon him the authoritie of the sea of Rome, in that without leaue or licence from the sayd Sea, he consecrated Byshoppes and priestes.
Auns. He graunted, that he did execute suche thinges as were wont to be referred to the pope, at what time it was permitted to him by the publicke lawes and determinatiō of the Realme.
15. Inter. Item, that when the whole Realme had subscribed to the authoritie of the pope, he onelyonly still persisted in his errour.
Auns That he did not admit the popes authoritie, he confessed to be true. But that hee erred in the same, that hee denyed.
16 Inter. Item, that all and singular the Premisses bee true.
Auns. That likewise he graunted, excepting those thinges whereunto he had now aunswered.
After hee had thus aunswered to the obiections aforesayd, and the Publicke Notarye had entred the same, the Iudges and Commissioners, as hauing now accomplyshed that wherefore they came, were about to ryse and depart: But the Bishop of Glocester, thinking it not ye best so to dismisse the people▪ being somewhat stirred with the wordes of the Archbishop, began this Oration in the hearing of the people, to declame.