A.F. Pollard: "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation," Ch. 3--Royal...

The Pope crafted on 11 Jul 1533 but didn’t publish (yet everyone seems to have known about it including Pollard in the 20^th century) an excommunication of Henry and his officers. Cranmer knew he was in the mix as the ABC. Henry pulls his ambassadors from Rome and the Act of Annates, formerly pending since 1532, gets put into effort. No cash for Rome, but now to Henry. The Spaniards counseled the now-anxious Pope not to worry since England was but an “unprofitable island.” Clement VII (and his two housekeepers) meet with Francis 1 in Marseilles, France (southern coast west of Toulon), a Cathedral city. Bloody Bonner, as Henry’s ambassador, is to tell the Pope that England is done with Rome. Henry’s next game: appeal to a General Council rather than Clement VII. Another Acts of Repeals (who can keep up with the Parliamentary rebuffs to Rome) is passed. Sorry, Catherine. An Act of Succession. Elizabeth Barton, More and Fisher are squeezed.