Religious change between 1530 and 1547

William Tyndale's vernacular Bible burned

An attack on heresy against Catholicism

Clergy accused of praemunire

1530 - this attacked the power of the catholic church to exercise power through ecclesiastical courts in England

Clergy pardoned of praemunire charge

1531 - Henry paid a fine of £119,000 in return for pardon

Convocation of Canterbury recognised Henry as head of church

1531 - marked how far the church was willing to go in allowing more power H wanted to be the only supreme head of the church

First act of annates

1532 - banned payment of annates to Rome - the chief source of papal revenue in England was removed and one of the popes main functions as leader of the church was challenged

Supplication of the ordinaries

1532 -

• Clergy were to enact no church law without royal permissions

• Existing church law was to be examined by a royal commission

• Henry complained that. The clergy only gave him 50% loyalty since they also owed allegiance to the Pope

Submission of the clergy

1532 - the clergy accepted the king and not the pope as their lawmaker. Thomas more resigned the next day

Act in restraint of appeals to Rome

1533 - based on the Collectanea Satis Copiosa, this began the work of transferring papal powers to the King

• The king was now supreme head of the church in England

• Rome had not power to rule over matrimonial cases

• Cranmer declared Henry’s marriage to Catherine null and void

• Henrys marriage to Anne was made valid

Second act of annates

1534

• This confirmed the first act of annates

• Abbots and bishops were in future to be appointed by the king not the pope

Act to stop peter’s pence

1534 - this abolished the payment of taxation to Rome

Act for the submission of the clergy

1534 - appeals in ecclesiastical matters were now to be handled by the King’s court of chancery and not by the archbishops court.