Arthur D. Innes, M.A. Cranmer and the Reformation in England:" Ch. 6: 15...
Cranmer pronounced for the divorce with the anticipating Papal condemnation thereof. The Annates Act, money to Rome, is diverted to the new Pope, King Henry. The Reformation Parliament is a clean-up of abuses. Heresy-hunting continues. The clergy under put under Praemunire with a payback of 100,000 pounds to the Crown. The “Supremacy” clause makes Henry the new Pope. A Caesaro-Papalist Church existed in England. The Supplication against the Ordinaries is rebuffed. Answers of Convocation. “Submission of the Clergy.” Thomas More resigns. Henry and Crumwell provide the active leadership and Cranmer is the pliable lapdog. What else could he do?
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