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fideidefenswhore · 7 months ago

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The Lincolnshire petition named six bishops, including Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, whose orthodoxy was suspect. The Lincoln articles sent south from the first Doncaster meeting requested the punishment of subvertors of the laws of God and the realm and specifically named Cranmer, Cromwell, Audeley, and Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. The Pontefract articles, again drawing back from some of the Pilgrims' earlier and wilder demands, merely sought the punishment of heretics, whether bishops or lay persons.

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s (2001), Richard Hoyle

#herein lies the fly in the ointment of the narrative as popularized by mantel and mackay #cromwell decided anne was dispensable bcus she was unpopular ~#a) bcus she threatened his own...what. nonexistent popularity?#and also b) an underwriting that this was the origin of much of chapuys' and her other adversaries' views of her that obviously cromwell #didn't share... (namely that she was a heretic)#also c) as far as mantel. sort of the suggestion in concert with weir that anne does not deserve our admiration bcus she was 'hated in her #own time'#but cromwell does. but wolsey does. hmmm whomsoever can tell the difference.....#pilgrimage of grace #rw hoyle #and mackay it's more a vibe. but. distinct impression from her works that cromwell is worthy of our respect for his genius #but anne is not bcus she lacked political skill (as she argues)#i also see a parallel between dudley + empson and vox populi vox dei #except in this case their henry's men / bishops not his father's so he responds rather differently

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