where Cranmer was staying with Cressy’s sons. Both were old acquaintances of Cranmer’s, for Fox was educated at King’s College, of which he was now Provost, and Gardiner was Master of Trinity Hall. Nor was this the first occasion on which Cranmer had been in the precincts of the Court. Nearly a year before, he had been sent to London by the Master of Jesus, apparently to negotiate some business with regard to the property held by the college in Southwark, and he returned, bringing letters from Cromwell,