. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation . aded, Cranmer granted Henry a special licence to * There are some objections to this view. Firstly, the affinitycreated by Henrys relations with Mary Boleyn was different fromthe affinity created by Prince Arthur^s marriage w^ith Catherine;the former was only held to be an obstacle by canon law, thelatter by Divine law; and many would have admitted the Popespower to dispense with canon law, who denied his power to dis-pense with Divine laws. Secondly, in the tract on the divorce attrib-uted to Cranmer (Burnet, ed. Pocock, iv., 146), it is asserted
. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation . aded, Cranmer granted Henry a special licence to * There are some objections to this view. Firstly, the affinitycreated by Henrys relations with Mary Boleyn was different fromthe affinity created by Prince Arthur^s marriage w^ith Catherine;the former was only held to be an obstacle by canon law, thelatter by Divine law; and many would have admitted the Popespower to dispense with canon law, who denied his power to dis-pense with Divine laws. Secondly, in the tract on the divorce attrib-uted to Cranmer (Burnet, ed. Pocock, iv., 146), it is asserted that anaffinity fatal to marriage is only created nuptiali fcedere. On theother hand, the Popes dispensing power had been denied altogether,and it is by no means clear that Cranmers views (if they were Cran-mers) on affinity had been recognised as canon law in England in1536. Chapuys definitely states (Z. and /*., xi., 41) that the groundof Cranmers sentence was Henrys relations with Mary Boleyn, andnot Annes precontract with Copyright by J. JANE SEYMOUR. AFTER THE PAINTING BY HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER, NOW AT VIENNA. 1538] Cranmer and Reform loi marry a third wife.* Jane Seymour was descendedon her mothers side from Edward III., and thestringency of the canon law was still so great thatthe Archbishop had to grant at the same time a dis-pensation relieving the parties from the impedimentto their marriage arising from consanguinity. Theywere betrothed on the 20th and were privately mar-ried at York Place ten days later. After sixteenmonths Queen Jane gave birth on 12 October, 1537,to the future Edward VL, over whose birth, wroteLatimer, there was as much joy as over that of the Baptist. Cranmer was godfather to theinfant at his christening on the 15th. Nine daysafterwards the Queen died. Had she lived shewould have saved Henry and the English Churchfrom the serio-comic episode of Anne of Cleves andfrom the tragedy of Catherine Howard. From these
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