Cranmer went with two of his pupils named Cressy, related to him through their mother, to their father's house at Waltham in Essex.
The king (Henry VIII.) happened at the time to be visiting in the immediate neighbourhood, and two of his chief counsellors, Gardiner, secretary of state, afterwards bishop of Winchester, and Edward Fox, the lord high almoner, afterwards bishop of Hereford, were lodged at Cressy's house.
Cressy, under Captain Johnson, had also stopped to lower boats but got underway on sighting a periscope.