4 July 1533 A.D. John Frith, English Reformer, burned at the stake.

4 July 1533 A.D.  John Frith, English Reformer, burned at the stake.

“Trial and death

“Frith was tried before many examiners and bishops, and produced his own writings as evidence for his views that were deemed as heresy. He was sentenced to death by fire and offered a pardon if he answered positively to two questions: Do you believe in purgatory, and do you believe in transubstantiation? He replied that neither purgatory nor transubstantiation could be proven by Holy Scriptures, and thus was condemned as a heretic and was transferred to the secular arm for his execution on 23 June 1533. He was burned at the stake on 4 July 1533 at Smithfield, London for, he was told, his soul's salvation. (King Henry VIII was excommunicated one week later.)

“Aftermath

“Thomas Cranmer would later subscribe to Frith's views on purgatory, and published the 42 articles which explicitly denied purgatory. Frith's works were posthumously published in 1573 by John Foxe.

The Wikipedia article egregiously fails to mention that Cranmer denied transubstantiation or any corporal presence at the Table. Cranmer, like Frith and Tyndale, was not a cannibalist or Ubiquitarian.  These men were Reformed, not Lutheran, not Arminian and surely not in the TFO-snakepit. 

For the context of Frith in relation to William Tyndale, perhaps the Chief Architect (unwittingly) of the English Reformation, see: http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2013/12/dr-daniells-bible-in-english-9-tyndale.html