Hugh Latimer - by Simon Haisell
Hugh Latimer (c.1487 – ) is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Summer, 1531. Cranmer and Latimer, arm in arm in Cromwell’s garden at Austin Friars. The priests of Anne’s household discuss theology beneath Halley’s Comet. Cromwell thinks: “Give them a season’s respite from Thomas More, and they will fall to persecuting each other.”
“The mercy of God operates for Hugh. The Lord walks with him, and steps with him into a wherry, to disembark under the shadow of the Tower; this being so, there is no need for Thomas Cromwell.”
In these recent years, when Cromwell’s friends are being burned alive, Latimer seems untouchable. “We will turn Henry. We will turn him to the gospel.”
Hugh Latimer sits in on the questioning of Elizabeth Barton. When Cromwell says he will see what can be arranged about getting her home to Kent, Latimer gives him a hard look, “as if he’s making false promises.”
Hugh Latimer is consecrated as Bishop of Worcester.
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