[Cranmer, Thomas]. - REFORMATIO LEGVM ECCLESIASTICARVM, ex authoritate primum Regis Henrici. 8. inchoata: deinde per Regem Edouardum 6. prouecta, adaucta'q[ue] in hunc modum, atq, nunc ad pleniorem ipsarum reformationem in lucem ædita.

Londini : Ex officina Iohannis Daij, anno salutis humanae,, 1571. Mense Aprili. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 19 x 13.5cm. [9], 149, [3] leaves. [Lacking blank before text]. Title page within decorative border and with John Day’s device, historiated/floriated intitial letters, dec. head and tail pieces. Latin text. Some browning, lengthy note to blank facing title page, prelims. and pp.73-79 with waterstain in part, two sm. holes to title page affecting decorative border, some underlining, later marbled boards, re-cornered and rebacked in modern calf, gilt rule edged raised bands and gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ STC (2nd ed.), 6006; ESTC S109036 ‘Drawn up under the direction of Thomas Cranmer as an intended code of canon law, but never enacted. Translated from the English manuscript copy by Walter Haddon and Sir John Cheke. Edited by John Foxe, whose initials appear on A2r. Possibly not published until 1572, since Walter Haddon, who died on 21 Jan. 1572, is referred to in the preface as clarissime memorie.’ First edition of this work the idea for which was initiated in 1544 when Cranmer urged upon the King the long felt necessity for a revision of the ecclesiastical laws. In the following year he was commissioned to take steps to that effect. His codification of the canon law, which was marked by great skill in definition and arrangement, had all but been completed before the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The revision of the work, which laid down the lawfulness and necessity of persecution to the death for heresy in the most absolute terms, was Cranmers last great undertaking.

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