I think you should do some research into Macaulay and his views before you use him to attack Cranmer. Macaulay was a passionate Whig and espoused the so-called Whig Interpretation of History. Such a view is well known to present political figures of the past as heroes or villainsdepending on wether they championed the values of Whiggism. Cranmer stood firmly against this idea defending absolute monarchy (something the Whigs despised) hence a number of Whigs attacked him harshly. Of this view of history Roger Scruton writes:
It was fiercely partisan and righteously judgemental, dividing the personnel of the past into the good and the bad. And it did so on the basis of the marked preference for liberal and progressive causes, rather than conservative and reactionary ones....Whig history was, in short, an extremely biassed view of the past: eager to hand out moral judgements, and distorted by teleology, anachronism and present-mindedness.
Now I am not claiming Cranmer was a saint but there are far better resources on him that are not so politicised:
Thomas Cranmer after Five Hundred Years Cranmer's Final Testimony
“And now I come to the great thing, which so much troubleth my conscience, more than any thing that ever I did or said in my whole life, and that is the setting abroad of a writing contrary to the truth; which now here I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life if it might be; and that is, all such bills and papers which I have written or signed with my hand since my degradation; wherein I have written many things untrue. And forasmuch as my hand offended, writing contrary to my heart, my hand shall first be punished there-for; for, may I come to the fire, it shall be first burned.
“And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ’s enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
“And as for the sacrament, I believe as I have taught in my book against the bishop of Winchester, the which my book teacheth so true a doctrine of the sacrament, that it shall stand at the last day before the judgment of God, where the papistical doctrine contrary
thereto shall be ashamed to show her face.”
From
Foxe's Acts and Monuments