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The Reformation to 1700 Reference library
David Wright
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...step forward. The edition Robert Estienne published at Paris in 1550 was the first to contain an apparatus criticus , that is, a record in the margins of variant readings of the Greek text collated from manuscripts by his son Henri. Theodore Beza built on Estienne's work in his Greek Testament of 1565, using more of Henri Estienne's collations and a wider range of manuscripts. But two weighty manuscripts at his disposal, including the one later known from his donation of it to Cambridge University in 1581 as Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, he used...
Nicholas Shaxton
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Henry Vane
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Robert Lawrence
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Injunctions, Royal
George Browne
Westminster Abbey
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Bible, the English
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William Prynne
Alesius (or Aless or Alane), Alexander (1500–65) Reference library
Dan Borvan
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...forbidding the laity to read the Bible and was excommunicated in 1534. In 1535 he brought a letter from Melanchthon to Henry VIII . He was welcomed by Cranmer and T. Cromwell , who made him a divinity lecturer at Cambridge. Opposition to his Protestantism, however, soon drove him to London, where at Cromwell’s request he disputed with J. Stokesley, bp of London, on the Sacraments. After the Act of Six Articles (1539) and Cromwell’s fall, he returned to Germany and became professor of theology at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1540. He revisited England under...
Cromwell, Thomas (1485–1540) Reference library
Lucy Wooding
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...which mirrored Henry VIII’s own cautious approach to religious change. The king’s disgust at the marriage and persistent intrigue by Cromwell’s conservative enemies, who brought to light his Lutheran sympathies, were the causes of his undoing; for though Cromwell had only recently been created earl of Essex (17 Apr. 1540) and was the recipient of landed estates confiscated from the monasteries, he was arrested, sentenced for treason and heresy, and beheaded on 28 July 1540. Lucy Wooding R. B. Merriman , Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell (2 vols, Oxford,...
Cromwell, Thomas (c.1485–1540) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Thomas ( c. 1485–1540 ), created Earl of Essex in 1540 . From 1524 T. Wolsey made use of his legal services; after Wolsey’s disgrace ( 1529 ) Cromwell entered the King’s service and became a strong advocate of Protestantism and the royal supremacy in Church and State. In 1535 he was made Vicar General and Vice-Gerent in Spirituals. He arranged for the visitation and dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1540 , and he acted as the chief intermediary between Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament. He issued the Injunctions ...
Gardiner, Stephen (c.1497–1555) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
...Stephen ( c. 1497–1555 ), Bp. of Winchester from 1531 . He was employed in negotiations with Rome for annulling Henry VIII ’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and in 1533 he acted as an assessor in the court which declared the marriage null and void. For a time he accepted the royal supremacy but he opposed the Reformist influence of T. Cromwell . He was imprisoned under Edward VI and deprived of his bishopric but restored by Mary and became Lord High...
Vane, Henry (1613–62) Reference library
Dan Borvan
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...of State in 1649 and its president in 1652, but lost influence owing to his opposition to O. Cromwell ’s dictatorial methods. At the Restoration he was tried and executed on Tower Hill, 14 July 1662. ‡ Dan Borvan J. K. Hosmer , The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane (New York, 1889). V. A. Rowe , Sir Henry Vane the Younger (London, 1970). D. Parnham , Sir Henry Vane, Theologian (London, 1997). D. Parnham , ‘The Nurturing of Righteousness: Sir Henry Vane on Freedom and Discipline’, JBS 42 (2003), 1–34. R. E. Mayers in ODNB (2015): <...
