""The ink of the scholar", so runs an Arabic proverb, "is of more worth than the blood of the martyr." The proverb is …"

"There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so surely established, which in continuance of time h…"

"[P]erhaps Cranmer's most remarkable achievement as a liturgist, considering its subsequent influence, was the Order f…"

"For two sundry sorts of people, it seemeth necessary that something be said in the entry of this book by the way of a…"

"In the midst of life we are in death."

"I commend thy soul to God, and thy body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and cert…"

"Every man desireth, good people, at the time of their death, to give some good exhortation that others may remember a…"

"It is not also taught you in Scripture, that you should desire St. Rock to preserve you from the pestilence, to pray …"

"Now the nature of man being ever prone to idolatry from the beginning of the world, and the Papists being ready by al…"

"Thomas Cranmer shaped the Church of England by his life, his death and his writing. Not only his liturgical style, bu…"