Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum : ex Authoritate Primum Regis Henrici. 8. inchoata: Deinde per Regem Edouardum 6. Provecta, Adauct q[ue] in Hunc Modum, Atq[ue] Nunc ad Pleniorem Ipsarum Reformationem in Lucem Edita.
London: Typis T. H[arper] & R. H[odgkinson] impensis Danielis Frere habitantis in parva Britannia, ad insigne Tauri rubri, 1640. Second edition. Small quarto (8" x 6"). (16), 303, (1)pp. Text in Latin. Rebound in modern half calf, gilt, over marbled paper covered boards. Woodcut decoration on title page. Text decorated with woodcut head & tail pieces and large woodcut initials. Title page lightly foxed and there is occasional light browning. Verso of title has 2 contemporary hand-drawn genealogical tables. STC 6008
This book was drawn up under the direction of Thomas Cranmer as an intended code of canon law, but never enacted. Cranmer was excommunicated, deprived of his bishopric and burned at the stake, March 21, 1556, under Queen Mary, primarily because of his support for Lady Jane Grey as Protestant Queen of England.
This is the 2nd edition of Cranmer's revision of the canon law, 1st published in 1571. It was translated into Latin from the English manuscript copy by Walter Haddon and Sir John Cheke. Edited by John Foxe, whose initials appear on A2r. "Hodgkinson pr[inted]. quires A-S, T*; Harper the rest"-- (OCLC). Item #52687
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