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And now I come to the great thing that so much troubleth my conscience more than any thing that ever I did or said in my whole life, and that is, the setting abroad of a writing contrary to the truth: which now here I renounce and refuse as things written with my hand contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be; and that is, all such bills and papers which I have written or signed with my hand since my degradation; wherein I have written many things untrue. And forasmuch as my hand offended, writing contrary to my heart, my hand shall first be punished therefore: for, may I come to the fire, it shall be first burned.

Thomas Cranmer — Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1556, Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, edited for the Parker Society by Rev. John Edmund Cox (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844), "Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer," p. xxvii

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Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1556, Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, edited for the Parker Society by Rev. John Edmund Cox (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844), "Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer," p. xxvii
Thomas Cranmer, Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1556, Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, edited for the Parker Society by Rev. John Edmund Cox (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844), "Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer," p. xxvii (archive.org) - Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1556, Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, edited for the Parker Society by Rev. John Edmund Cox (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1844), "Life, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer," p. xxvii
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