notated the books in his library, and also made extracts from them,
and the notes which are found in many of those which have been
preserved to our time confirm his statement.

The fate of the library after the fall of its owner can only be
conjectured.

Soon after the accession of Mary to the throne Cranmer was put on his
trial for high treason, and sentence of death was passed upon him; and
although at that time his life was spared, he was included in the Act of
Attainder passed in Parliament against the Earl of Northumberland,
deprived of his archbishopric, and committed to the Tower. He had to
produce an inventory of his goods; and a list of all the property found
in the Archbishop's palaces is still preserved in the Record Office,
but, with the exception that it is stated that a 'bible with other
bookes of service' were 'conveyed and stolen awaie' from the chapel, no
mention is made of the books. They probably shared the fate of the goods
of Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, who was deprived of his see in
1554, and imprisoned in the Tower, and while confined there had his
houses at Battersea and Cawood rifled of all their valuables.

It is evident that many of Cranmer's books were acquired by Lord Lumley,
then a young nobleman in high favour at Court; and others by Lord
Lumley's father-in-law, Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, the Lord
Steward, who at that time was forming a library at Nonsuch, which he had
recently purchased of the Queen; as a number of the volumes which were
in their libraries have the Archbishop's name inscribed in them.

By far the larger portion of Cranmer's books which have survived to the
present time are preserved in the British Museum, whither they came in
1757 as part of the old Royal Library, Henry Prince of Wales having
purchased the Lumley and Arundel collections in 1609. But some are also
possessed by the Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian Library, and
the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, while others are to be found on
the shelves of various cathedral and collegiate libraries, and a few are
in private hands. Those belonging to the two University Libraries were
probably gifts of Lord Lumley, who presented eighty-four volumes to the
Cambridge University Library in 1598, and forty to the Bodleian in the
following year.

Cranmer was the author of several theological books, and he also wrote
the prologue to the second edition of the 'Great Bible,' printed in
1540. His work