Archbishop Cranmer

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Each of the three anglican bishops, Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burnt at the stake in Oxford during the reign of the Roman Catholic queen, 'Bloody Mary', underwent part of his trial in St Mary's. Their principal crime was not to believe the doctrine of 'transsubstantiation', although Cranmer, as Henry VIII's Archbishop, had also played a crucial role in the downfall of Queen Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon.

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