. Historical portraits ... fterwards Bishop of Winchester, whowas acting for Henry VHI in the matter of the divorce, and madeto him the suggestion that the King would do well to take theopinion of the leading divines of the Universities of Europe. TheKing was pleased with the idea and summoned Cranmer toGreenwich ; he became chaplain in the Boleyn household andwas warmly patronized by Anne, his first preferment being tothe Archdeaconry of Taunton. He went to Italy with Annesfather on the divorce business, and was well received by PopeClement VII ; thence to Germany, where he saw Charles V, who
. Historical portraits ... fterwards Bishop of Winchester, whowas acting for Henry VHI in the matter of the divorce, and madeto him the suggestion that the King would do well to take theopinion of the leading divines of the Universities of Europe. TheKing was pleased with the idea and summoned Cranmer toGreenwich ; he became chaplain in the Boleyn household andwas warmly patronized by Anne, his first preferment being tothe Archdeaconry of Taunton. He went to Italy with Annesfather on the divorce business, and was well received by PopeClement VII ; thence to Germany, where he saw Charles V, whoalso treated him kindly, and where he married a German he was accompanying the Imperial Court to North Italy hereceived news of his own nomination to the See of Canterbury,vacant by Warhams death (1532): he returned to England in 1533and was consecrated in March after the requisite Papal Bulls hadbeen procured. The consecration ceremony involved an oath ofobedience to the Pope which he took, but against which he. THOMAS CRANMERFrom the portrait by G. Fliccius in the National Portrait Gallery fad- />. 46 THOMAS CRANMER 47 registered an open protest: and his first business as Archbishop wasto hold a court to inquire into the validity of the union of Henry andKatharine; his next was to hold an inquiry into the validity ofHenrys secret marriage with Anne. On both occasions he pro-nounced in favour of the King. Thenceafter he became the pliantinstrument of all the Kings ecclesiastical changes, and the RoyalSupremacy became the first article of his creed ; but on the otherhand, he lost no opportunity of trying to mitigate the Kings severityagainst opponents. There is hardly a victim of Henrys tyranny forwhom Cranmers intercession is not recorded. It is very difficult todetermine the progress of the Archbishops theological opinions;probably the abjuration of the Pope, the marriage of priests,communion in both kinds, with an English Bible and Prayer Book,were the things u
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