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The separation from Rome, the suppression of the monasteries, and the curtailment of the powers of the spiritual courts were the only reforms of note during the reign of Henry VIII., unless we name also the new translation of the Bible, authorized through Cranmer's influence, and the teaching of the creed, the commandments, and the Lord's prayer in English. The King died in 1547.
He found the old man waiting for him, walking up and down Cranmer's parlour in an empty part of the room, where there was no danger of his falling. He peered anxiously at Anthony as he entered. "Mr. Norris," he said, "you are greatly on my mind. I fear I have not done my duty to you.
The first edition of Cranmer's Bible, the printing of which was begun in Paris in 1538 and completed in London in 1540 the Inquisition having interposed by imprisoning the printers and burning the greater part of the impression is excessively rare. Cranmer's Bible or the Great Bible, as it was called is Tyndale's, Coverdale's and Rogers's translations most carefully revised throughout.
He was not one of the regular attendants at the short service, being of that modern species that holds itself superior to 'Cranmer's prayers, but on this morning he hastened up to her with outstretched hand. 'And you are going away! he said. 'I hope to get leave to stay a few days after mother, she said. 'To prolong the torment? he said. 'To wish everybody good-bye.
Woodcocks!" The taunt was met with universal laughter, but the scene had roused Cranmer's temper as well as his own. The Primate addressed himself to the people, protesting that Bonner was called in question for no such matter as he would persuade them.
The two bishops drew nearer to the kneeling girl; each laid a hand upon her shoulder, and bent over her, but the one with an expression of countenance wholly different from that of the other. Cranmer's look was gentle and serious, and at the same time a compassionate and encouraging smile played about his thin lips.
Much of Tyndale's work was included in Cranmer's Bible, known also as the Great Bible, in 1539, and was read in every parish church in England. It was the foundation for the Authorized Version, which appeared nearly a century later and became the standard for the whole English-speaking race.
Cranmer's version was next revised under the superintendence of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, eminent among the fathers of the English church, and called the Bishops' Bible, a majority of fifteen translators having been selected from the bench. The Catholic version, known as the Douay Bible, appeared in 1610.
He discharged his duties with singular conscientiousness and ability; and no one ever had cause to complain that justice was not rendered him. Cranmer's elevation was owing to a fortunate circumstance, notwithstanding his exalted merit. He happened to say, while tutor to a gentleman of the name of Cressy, in the hearing of Dr.
Though Henry was personally kind to the new queen, the marriage made him wretched. Cromwell's enemies speedily hatched a conspiracy against the great statesman. He was arrested on a charge of high treason, was accused of corruption and heresy, of gaining wealth by bribery and extortion, and, in spite of Cranmer's efforts to save him, passed to the scaffold on July 28, 1540.
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