Identifier: illustratedbiogr00sava (find matches)
Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed at Seville, in comparative obscurity, on the 2d of December, 1554,aged sixty-nine. Great and heroic as the character of Cortez appears, he de-serves the execration of posterity for the cruelties which he exercised on theinoffensive Indians. The city of Mexico, at the time of Cortezs conquest, contained sixty thou-sand families. It was divided into two parts, one of whicht called Tlatelulco,was inhabited by the meaner sort, while the court and nobility resided in theother, which had the appellation of Mexico, which thence was given to thewhole city. It stood in a spacious plain, surrounded by high rocks and mount-ains, from which many rivulets, falling down into the valley, formed severallakes, and among these were two that extended about thirty leagues in circum-ference, and were surrounded by fifty towns. In the middle of the lake stoodthe great city, joined to the main land by three noble causeways. The publicbuildings and houses of the nobility were of stone. 304 THOMAS CRANMER.
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THOMAS CRANMER. THOMAS CRANMER, archbishop of Canterbury, whoje life is rendered somemorable by the part he took in the Reformation, was born at Aslacton, Not-tinghamshire, England, A. D. 1489, and educated at Jesus college, Cambridge.His opinion on the question of Henry VIII.s divorce from his first wife,Catharine of Arragon, recommended him to that monarch, who employed himto vindicate the measure, and sent him to the foreign universities to obtain theiropinion upon the point. On Cranmerrs return, the king raised him to thearchbishopric of Canterbury, in which office he zealously promoted the causeof the Reformation. Through his means the Bible was translated and readin churches ; and he greatly aided in suppressing the monastic institutions. In1536, when Anne Boleyn was destined to lose her reputation and her life,Cranmer meanly stooped to promote the sentence of divorce. This and othercompliances with the monarchs will insured him the gratitude of Henry; who-upheld him in all his

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