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cranmer_n nuper_fw-la archiepiscopi_fw-la cantuar._n primo_fw-la de_fw-la crimine_fw-la laesae_fw-la majestatis_fw-la authoritate_fw-la parliamenti_fw-la convicti_fw-la &_o deinde_fw-la ob_fw-la varias_fw-la haereses_fw-la authoritate_fw-la sedis_fw-la apostolicae_fw-la depositi_fw-la degradati_fw-la seculari_fw-la brachio_n traditi_fw-la &_o post_fw-la remò_fw-la in_o alma_fw-la universitate_fw-la oxoniensi_fw-la igne_fw-la consumpti_fw-la sub_fw-la anni_fw-la domini_fw-la 1553_o 1554_o &_o 1555._o regnorum_fw-la vero_fw-la philippi_n &_o mariae_fw-la regum_fw-la etc._n etc._n during_o this_o time_n all_o act_n and_o instrument_n begin_v with_o these_o word_n nocholaus_n wotton_n utriusque_fw-la juris_fw-la doctor_n decanus_n ecclesiae_fw-la cathedralis_fw-la &_o metropolitice_n christi_fw-la cantuar._n &_o ejusdem_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la capitulum_n ad_fw-la quem_fw-la &_o quos_fw-la omnis_fw-la &_o omnino_fw-la da_fw-la jurisdictio_fw-la spiritualis_fw-la &_o ecclesiastica_fw-la 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