E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
(b. Aslacton, Notts., July 2nd, 1489; d. at stake, Oxford, July
21st, 1556). Catechismus, that is to say, a Shorte Instruction
into Christian Religion for the singular Commoditie and Profyte
of Children and Yong People (1548); A Defence of the True and
Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament, with a Confutation of
Sundry Errors concernyng the Same (1550); An Answer unto a
Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gardner,
Byshop of Winchester, agaynst the Trewe and Godly Doctrine of
the moste Holy Sacrament (1551); A Confutation of Unwritten
Verities, both bi the Holye Scriptures and most Auncient Autors
(1558); etc. Works edited by the Rev. H. Jenkyns (1834), and by
the Rev. J. C. Cox, for the Parker Society. See Hooks Lives of
the Archbishops of Canterbury, the Lives by Strype (1694),
Gilpin (1784), Todd (1831), Cox (1844), and J. M. Norton (1863);
and Vindication of Cranmers Character, by DAubigné (1849).