An aunsvvere by the Reuerend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitane, vnto a craftie and sophisticall cauillation, deuised by Stephen Gardiner Doctour of Law, late Byshop of Winchester agaynst the true and godly doctrine of the most holy sacrament, of the body and bloud of our sauiour Iesu Christ. . Wherein is also, as occasion serueth, aunswered such places of the booke of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seeme any thyng worthy the aunsweryng. Here is also the true copy of the booke written, and in open court deliuered, by D. Stephen Gardiner ... Reuised, and corrected by the sayd archbyshop at Oxford before his martyrdome: wherein hee hath beautified Gardiners doynges, with asmuch diligence as might be, by applying notes in the margent, and markes to the doctours saying: which before wanted in the first impression. Hereunto is prefixed the discourse of the sayd archbyshops lyfe, and martyrdome, briefly collected out of his hystory of the actes and monumentes, and in the end is added certaine notes, wherein Gardiner varied, both from him selfe, and other papistes, gathered by the sayd archbyshop.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury.
Category
Books
Date
1580
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3086471
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 428, [4] p., [2] folded woodcut plates . ill.. . fol.. Incomplete: wanting 12 pages from first count, and one plate. Occasional annotations in English, trimmed. Provenance: Sixteenth-century [?] inscription on front flyleaf: "Librum si quæris quis est qui possidit istum, verte oculos infra, et nomen habebis ibi. Thomas Taylor"; erased inscription on recto of same leaf. Nineteenth-century binder's ink stamp: Bound by C. Lewis. Round seal bookplate of George Hammond Lucy (1789-1845). Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf binding; gold-tooled fillets and spine, with label: Cranmer's Answer to Gardiner's Cavillation.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury. John Foxe (1516-1587)