ADIVSERS POST WOLSEY

CRANMER

• AB of Canterbury post break with Rome

• Helped to enact Protestant changes to church through supplying H with intellectual justification for divorce - asserted kings of England had spiritual authority over the church

• Was careful to be considered a “reformer” rather than “Protestant” under H.

• Managed to survive catholic backlash amongst H’s councillors in 1540s to serve under H’s son Edward as AB

• Executed in 1556 by Mary I

MORE

• 1529 - Replaced H’s key minister (Lord Chancellor) but was less keen to follow H’s direction

• Sympathetic to CoA

• Strong humanist beliefs - follower of Erasmus

• Believed Catholic Church could reform by persuasion rather than drastic change

• Intolerant of Lutheran ideas and of heresy in general

• 1534 - ARRESTED for refusing to swear the oath of succession (denied popes power and accepted the annulment of H’s marriage). Executed year after

CROMWELL

• became H’s principal minister after More’s removal from power

• Led H’s govt from 1532-40

• Executed for not enacting act of 6 articles quickly enough

• Architect of BWR e.g. undertook large scale survey of wealth of monasteries, gave H justification for their closure

BWR