old, Catherine of Aragon had not provided him.
             Forced from Cambridge due to a plague that had swept the city, much of 1529 found Cranmer with a student friend, in Waltham Holy Cross in Essex. In early August the king happened to be making a visitation to the area nearby. Two of Henry's most important councillors, Dr Stephen Gardiner and Dr Edward Foxe, met up for dinner with Cranmer on the evening of 2 August. During the meal, conversation turned to the problems surrounding the king's divorce. Cranmer made the suggestion that the emphasis should be moved away from the papal legal cases; even those that it had been agreed could take place in England, with the papal legates like Campeggio. Rather he felt that the shrewder steps to take, would be to canvass universities across Europe seeking the opinion of theologians as to whether the king should ever have been allowed to marry Catherine Of Aragon under laws stated in Leviticus, and therefore whether he should be granted an annulment. Foxe and Gardiner were desperate for ideas that were f
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