The break with Rome part 2 (18)

Why was there so little opposition to the Royal Supremacy and the break with Rome?

No change

• In reality the reforms did not change the nature of erveryday worship much
• The centtral difference in the new Church was the absence of the Pope, but the Pope was a remote and distant figurehead to most of the English population
• In most regions, people seemed to accepted reluctantly (but without protest) the removal of Roman authority
• Records show people quickly stopped paying the Peter's Pence

Local affairs

• Ordinary non-cleric people cared about their local affairs and their own everyday world 
• If that world was intruded upon in a negative way, they were likely to resist such change
• The Henrican Reformation did little to change the spiritual or material world of the common man
• Only in 1536 when roumours that the parish churches were to be plundered alongside smaller monastires did serious rebellion occur
• In the end, it was clear that people identified more readily with the Tudor regime and their King than they did with the Pope
• There were few popular objections to Royal Supremacy

Loyalty to the King

• People showed loyalty and respect to the Crown
• The King was divinely ordained (appointed) and he perserved internal order as well as protecting his kingdom from the threat of foreign invasion
• To resist the King…