CRANMER'S BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND RISE.
HE name of this most reverend prelate deserves to 1
Tstand upon eternal record; having been the first pro-A worthy
testant archbishop of this kingdom, and the greatest in- vive his strument, under God, of the happy Reformation of this memory. Church of England: in whose piety, learning, wisdom, conduct, and blood, the foundation of it was laid. And therefore it will be no unworthy work to revive his memory now, though after an hundred and thirty years and upwards. I pretend not to write a complete narrative of his life and death, that being scarce possible at such a distance of time, and in the want of full intelligence and information of the various matters that passed through his hands, and the events that befell him. All that I attempt by this present undertaking is, to retrieve and bring to light as many historical passages as I can, concerning this holy prelate; by a careful and long search, not only into printed books of CRANMER, VOL. I.