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The Age of the Reformation

CHAPTER I
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She may pass as an English Catholic martyr.
[Sidenote: Act in Restraint of Appeals, February 1533] Continuing its course of making the king absolute master the Parliament passed an Act in Restraint of Appeals, the first constitutional break with Rome.

{292} The theory of the government was set forth in the preamble: Whereas by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles, it is manifestly declared and expressed, that this realm of England is an Empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king.

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unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people, divided in terms, and by names of spirituality and temporally, be bounden and ought to bear, next to God, a natural and humble obedience.


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