After Cranmer became Archbishop in 1532 his first attempts at reform of the daily office were made in the late 1530s. Cranmer was aware of various attempts at reforming the Breviary which were in existence but he was influenced by one in particular: that published by Cardinal Quinones in 1535. Quinones had set about simplifying the Breviary and so the attraction of this work to Cranmer was that in it he had essentially reduced the office to the recitation of the Psalter and the reading of Scripture.