“Thomas Cranmer, the Architect of the Church of England, [was] burnt at the stake under Mary. Of course I realize Henry couldn’t foresee that Mary would become Queen regnant, yet smart monarchs consider such possibilities.”
i’m not sure if this is worse than the take that all the burnings under mary i were actually henry’s fault (because she wouldn’t have ‘had to’ … ’had to’, yes….????– if he hadn’t ‘invited heresy in’, as if every single englishman was 1001% catholic until 1533 and then all those messy heretics came pouring in) or just an extension of it (i.e. henry could’ve prevented his execution if he’d just never annulled his marriage in the first place, so really he should’ve thought of that first).
cranmer in his prison cell: i’m so mad at henry for not asking mary to not execute me if she were ever queen before he died; this is all his fault…
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