Henry [VIII] for all his effrontery was not unmoved by the unrest among the populace, and the intransigence among the distinguished. He resolved to hew all the more closely to the line of schism without heresy, and in the latter part of his reign enacted the Six Articles popularly called the "bloody whip with the six strings" whereby a denial of the real presence was visited with death and clerical marriage was forbidden. Archbishop Cranmer, who had married the niece of one of the Continental reformers, was compelled during this period to keep his wife at home or when traveling to conceal her in a chest; when it was turned upside down she was somewhat inconvenienced – and ought to be included among the minor martyrs of the Reformation.
-more from Bainton's The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Enlarged Edition, p. 198.
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