Throughout this period Henry broke with Rome, stopped English finances going to the pope, abolished foreign authority in England and diverted church taxation to the crown.
- 1533: Act of Appeals stated "this realm of England is an empire". Royal supremacy established
- 1535: Execution of Thomas More and John Fisher
- 1536: Dissolution of the Monastries
- this gave Henry the money he needed for war with France
- Pilgrimage of Grace: rebellion in the north
- opposition to religious changes and the power of Cromwell
- was sent away with promises of reform (never instigated)
- 1539: Act of Six Articles
- reaffirmed many Catholic doctrines such as transubstantiation
Although Henry was drifting towards more Protestant beliefs (e.g. the printing of a Bible in English), Catholic invasion was a real threat in the later 1530s and so he tried to reverse this with the Act of Six Articles.
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