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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Immediatlie after the death of the said bishop Cranmer,Cardinall Poole made archbishop of Canturburie. cardinall Poole (a popish prelat, and a sore enimie to the religion receiued & established in king Henrie the eights time) was made archbishop of Canturburie, who (during the life of the other) would neuer be consecrated archbishop. Who so desireth to see more of this matter,Persecution or religion. maie see the same at large in the booke of the monuments of the church, where you shall also find, that about this time manie were in trouble for religion. The eight and twentith daie of the aforesaid moneth of March, by the negligence of the kéepers maid of the gaile of Newgate in Lon|don,Newgate set in fire. who had left a candle where a great deale of straw was, the same was set on fire, and burnt all the timber worke on the northside of the same gate.A conspiracie.