The Break with Rome 4

The Royal Policy 1529-1532

• There did not seem to be any clear direstion to Henry's plans for an annulment in these years
• Henry's new Lord Chancellor Thomas Moore, could not bring himself to support the King's case
• The drift in policy is understandable as Henry faced many problems
• He ideally wanted to attain a watertight annulent through Rome freeing him to marry Anne Boleyn, but this seemed out of the quesiton
• Henry was increasingly attracted by the proposition of an internal solution to the problem that would increase his own powers over…