White Horse Tavern, Cambridge
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The White Horse Tavern was in the sixteenth century the meeting place in Cambridge for English Protestant reformers who discussed Lutheran ideas. These discussions met as early as 1521.[1] According to the historian Geoffrey Elton the group of university dons who met there were nick-named 'Little Germany';[2] Luther was a German. Among those who attended these meetings were the future Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, the future Bishop of Worcester Hugh Latimer and the reformer Robert Barnes. The group was not confined to those associated with the reform movement of the next two decades, however, and also included future conservatives like Stephen Gardiner, the future Bishop of Winchester.
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- ^ J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 (OUP, 1991), p. 343.
- ^ Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, England under the Tudors: Third Edition (Routledge, 2005), p. 111.
