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Marjorie Greene wrote:
>
>> The Official Roman Catholic line is that it was 1558 - which is
>> absurd on any number of levels.  And if it is supposed to be the
>> death of Cardinal Pole, the height of hypocrisy - seeing that the
>> Pope had secretly stigmatised him as a heretic.
>
> Gee, I can't find this "Official Roman Catholic line" anywhere. What
> is your source?

It was actually a board in Westminster Cathedral, listing the heads of the 
Church in England. The statement that Thomas Cranmer was "deprived for 
heresy" seemed to beg a number of questions.

John Briggs 

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