Domestic policies under Cromwell (1532-1540)

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How long did conciliar government last for after the fall of Wolsey?
3 years, with no sign of the King's Great Matter being solved
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Who ended conciliar government?
Thomas Cromwell.
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How was Thomas Cromwell able to succeed Wolsey, and how did he achieve?
He had slowly been rising under Wolsey, and suggested VIII break from Rome and become head of an English Church. He said he'd secure VIII's annulment and became his chief minister by 1532. Throughout the 1530s he dominated royal government.
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Who was hostile to Cromwell's religious reforms?
The Duke of Norfolk
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When was the 'Reformation of Parliament'?
1529-1536
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What was Parliament's main focus on now that Wolsey had died?
Henry VIII's divorce and the Church
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What was the fundamental factor that alowed for the Break from Rome and the divorce?
Statute law (Acts of Parliament) gaining supremacy over canon law (Church law)
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What types of attitudes weakened the Church as an institution?
The anticlerical satire of Simon Fish and the humanist criticisms of Colet and Erasmus
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How was statute law asserted as superior to canon law in England?
In 1528, the lawyer Christoper St German challenged the Church's legal supremacy.
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Who wrote Collectanea Satis Copiosa and what did it do?
Documents compiled by Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer that looked to justify VIII's divorce on legal and historical principles.
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What happened in 1531?
The clergy were forced to acknowledge the king was 'Protector and Supreme Head of the English Church' for far as 'the law of Christ allowed'
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What happened in 1532?
Formal submissino of the clergy to VIII meant the Chruch surrendered its independent law-making function.
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How did Anne Boleyn take matters into her own hands?
She consented to sexual relations with Henry and gended up getting pregnant. She knew this would force him (and the English Church) to take action which would defy the Pope.
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When was Anne Boleyn's pregnancy known and what happened afterwards?
Her pregnancy was known by December 1532. She was married to VIII in a secret ceremony on 25th January 1533 (though the Church saw it as invalid).
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Did Henry finally fix the issue of succession?
No. Even though the marriage to VIII and Catherine of Aragon had been annuled in May 1533 by Archbishop Cranmer, Boleyn's first child (though legitimate in English law) was Princess Elizabeth.
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