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CHURCH AND STATE UNDER THE TUDORS
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Cromwell takes his seat as Vicar-General 1536 79
First Articles of Religion—Parliament dissolved 80
Cromwell's Injunctions 80
Act of Proclamations—Act for making Bishops by Letters Patent—Dissolution of the Abbeys—Act of Six Articles 1539 80
History of this Act 81
The Part taken in it by Convocation 83
Bonner takes out a Commission from the King 84
Act for the Dissolution of the Marriage with Ann of Cleves—Act concerning Christ's Religion—Execution of Cromwell—Henry marries Catherine Howard 1540 85
Proclamation for a Bible in every Church 1541 86
Omission of the Pope's Name from Service-Books—Attainder of Catherine Howard and Lady Rochford 1541 86
Bill for Bishops' Chancellors to marry—History of this Measure 87
Publication of the King's Book—Reformation of Service-Books—An Act for the Advancement of True Religion 1543 88
Modification of the Six Articles—Act for Review of Ecclesiastical Laws renewed—Publication of the King's Primer—
Heresy Act disappears in the Commons (Note)
1544
1545
88
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90
Colleges and Chantries, &c., delivered up to the King—Married Doctors of Law (Chancellors) to exercise Jurisdiction—Attainder of Duke of Norfolk and Lord Surrey—Death of Henry VIII 90


CHAPTER V

REIGN OF HENRY VIII.— SUMMARY

Separation from Rome complete in Henry's Reign—The Five Acts which accomplished it 91
Paul III.'s Excommunication completes it on the opposite side—Changes in Doctrine and Ritual slight, but not non-existent—Not such as to satisfy the Protestants 92
Church in England entirely revolutionised—Henry's Anglican via media—Marillac's Estimate of the Result 93
Judgment of it by the Roman and Protestant Parties 94
Value of these Judgments—Archbishop Bramhall's Judgment 95
Small Share of Convocation in Henry's Legislation 96
It disclaims all Share in it up to 1532 inclusive—Its Share in the Legislation of 1534 9