Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, burnt at the stake for heresy, 1556. As the flames drew around him, he placed his right hand into the heart of the fire. A priest burnt in Smithfield market. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, burnt at the stake for heresy, 1556. As the flames drew around him, he placed his right hand into the heart of the fire. A priest burnt in Smithfield market. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.