Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this time, Brookes bishop of Glocester was by the cardinall sent downe as commissioner from the pope to Oxford,Brookes bi|shop of Glo [...]ster appoint to examine Cranmer. there to sit vpon the exami|nation of Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Cantur|burie, in such things as should be laid to his charge by Iohn Storie and Thomas Martin, doctors in the lawes, sent speciallie in commission from the quéene. At which time the said archbishop making low obei|sance to them that sate in the queenes name, shewed no token of reuerence to the bishop that was the popes commissioner: who neuerthelesse procéeded a|gainst him as iudge, and conuicted him of heresie.Th. Cranm [...] archbishop [...] Canturbur [...] condemned. According to the which sentence, the one and twentith daie of March next following, he was disgraded by Edmund Boner, and Thomas Thirlebie, bishops of London and Elie, sent downe for that purpose, and he was burned in the same place where Ridleie and Latimer before had suffered.He is burnt

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Before his death by the persuasion of a Spanish frier, named frier Iohn, a reader of diuinitie in Ox|ford, and by the counsell of certeine other that put him in hope of life and pardon, he subscribed to a re|cantation, wherein he submitted himselfe wholie to the church of Rome, and continued in the same mind to outward appearance, vntill he was brought out of prison, to go to the fire. Afore whose execution, a ser|mon was made by doctor Cole deane of Paules,The archbi|shop brough [...] to the place [...] execution. in saint Martins church in Oxford. And in the end of his sermon, the said doctor Cole praied the people to incline their eares to such things as the said Cran|mer would declare vnto them by his owne mouth. For (saith he) he is a man verie repentant, and will here before you all reuoke his errors. Neuerthelesse he did cleane contrarie. Iohn Fox. For when he came to the place where the holie bishops and martyrs of God, Hugh Latimer and Ridleie were burnt before him, for the confession of the truth, knéeling downe hée praied to God, & not tarieng long in his praiers, put|ting off his garments to his shirt, he prepared him|selfe to death. His shirt was made long downe to his féet: his féet were bare. Likewise his head,The descrip [...]tion of his person. when both his caps were off, was so bare, that one heare could not be séene vpon it. His beard was long and thicke, couering his face with maruellous grauitie. Such a countenance of grauitie mooued the hearts both of his friends and of his enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And as for the recantation aforesaid, with manie tears he protested, that he had subscribed to the same against his conscience, onelie for feare of death, and hope of life. Which seemed true: for when he came to the stake, & the fire kindled, he put his right hand into the fire, and held it there a good space, saieng: that the same hand should first burne, bicause it held the pen to subscribe against his Lord God. Upon the death of this Cranmer I find these reuerend verses:

Infortunatè est foelix, qui numine laeso,

Cuiusuis gaudet commoditate boni.

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Inuisus quisquis tris [...]ia fata subit.

Hoc Cranmere probas, vitae praesentis amore,

Dum quaeris sanctam dissimulare fidem.

Et dum consilijs tandem melioribus vsus,

Praeponis vitae funera saeua tuae.