Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province
Distributed for UCL Press
Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province
A newly uncovered window onto a critical moment of early Tudor history.
Thomas Cranmer’s Register records turbulent change in England between 1533 and 1553. It is a key Reformation document, a window onto key moments in this defining period of history. This edition makes more of the text available than ever before, with transcriptions and introductions that provide a way into the often cryptic sixteenth-century formularies which comprise the text. Startling new evidence for the diocese of Norwich in 1550 sheds new light on the central role Cranmer held in the pace of reform in the English church. Additionally, records of appointments to the diocese of Canterbury, coupled with records from the court of first fruits and tenths paint a near complete picture of clerical promotions in the early sixteenth century.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Table 0.1 Register contents as arranged by the archbishop’s principal registrars
Foreword, Diarmaid MacCulloch
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Thomas Cranmer’s register: context
Thomas Cranmer’s register: content
Bibliography
Editor’s guide to reading the register
Editorial conventions
Abbreviations
Unidentified place names
The text of Thomas Cranmer’s Register (Part I)
Part II
List of figures
Table 0.1 Register contents as arranged by the archbishop’s principal registrars
Editor’s guide to reading the register
Editorial conventions
Abbreviations
Unidentified place names
The text of Thomas Cranmer’s register (Part II)
Appendix A: Letters and commissions not recorded in Thomas Cranmer’s register Appendix B: A calendar of part of Thomas Cromwell’s register as vicegerent in BL Add. MS. 48022 fols 83r-96v
Appendix C: Visitation articles and injunctions for Norwich diocese (1550)
Appendix D: Presentations in Canterbury diocese, the deaneries of immediate jurisdiction, Calais and Boulogne which are missing from Thomas Cranmer’s register; with a list of possible sede vacante presentations that are also unregistered
Appendix E: The archbishop and archiepiscopal officers
Index 1: Names, places and subjects for the Introduction (Part I)
Index 2: Names and places for Thomas Cranmer’s register (Parts I and II)
Index 3: Select subject index for Thomas Cranmer’s register (Parts I and II)