Cranmer Hall was a manor in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

in the sixteenth century. It belonged to the family of

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a Oxford Martyrs, martyr ...

, archbishop of Canterbury.

John Foxe John Foxe (1516/1517 – 18 April 1587) was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology '' Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of En ...

, '' Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', "The life, state, and story of the reverend pastor and prelate, Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr; burned at Oxford, for the confession of Christ's true doctrine, under Queen Mary, A. D. 1556, March 21", p. 331

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