Willingness to be executed rather than renounce his oath to the Pope and
Despite More'sĭenial of the statement and his avowal that Rich was a perjurer, he wasĬonvicted and was beheaded at Tower Hill on July 6, 1535. Power to invest Henry with ecclesiastical powers. Solicitor-general Richard Rich testified that More had denied Parliament's
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He was indicted for treason in July and at trial Summoned on March 14, but refused to take the oath and was sent to the Repudiating "any foreign authority, prince or potentate". Should be called upon to take an oath acknowledging the issue of HenryĪnd Anne as legitimate heirs to the throne, and to this was added a clause Henry passed the Act of Succession in March 1534, which required all who The Catholic Church and established the Church of England with himselfĪt its head, Anne Boleyn was crowned his new Queen in June of 1533. More resigned his post as Lord Chancellor of England in 1532 because of Have the Pope nullify the marriage for the very reason that it violatedĬhristian law for a man to marry his brother's widow. She became increasingly plain and more deeply religious, Henry sought to When Queen Catherine failed to produce a male heir for King Henry and as Widow, the politically desirable Spanish princess Catherine. VIII unexpectedly became heir to the British throne upon his brother'sĭeath, the Pope made a special dispensation to allow him to marry his brother's The basic facts of this story are surely well known.
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