the bishops called upon to answer; clergy's dual allegiance; acts for their dis-
cipline, and for the reduction of probate and administration fees; mortuary
fees or "corse presents;" act as to clerical trading, residence, and pluralities;
king released from his debts
Wiltshire's mission to the emperor; attended by Cranmer, who had suggested the
submission of the question of the divorce to the learned; he writes a treatise
upon the subject; his scheme put into practical operation; coercion and bribery
fail to produce a consensus of opinion
Fourth session, February, 1532-33; statute forbidding appeals to Rome in certain
cases; the course of appeal; Cranmer appointed primate; questions involved
in divorce submitted to convocation; Cranmer's decree, which the pope declared
null; Elizabeth born, September 7, 1533
Fifth session, January, 1534; statutes confirming submission of clergy, forbidding
all appeals to Rome, and the payment of Peter's pence; statute as to annates
reenacted with provision authorizing nomination of bishops by congé d'élire, the
method employed to the present day .
Henry's first succession act; oath to support the succession drafted under the
act refused by Fisher and More; breach made final by papal decree, March,
1534, confirming Henry's marriage with Catherine; Henry's bitter response
Sixth session, November, 1534, completes the work of separation; Act of Supre-
macy; all allegiance now due to Henry as king and pontiff; statute to remedy
defects in the succession oath; the new oath, and penalties for its refusal;
Cromwell appointed vicar-general; firstfruits and tenths taken from the pope
and given to the king; statute creating twenty-six new bishoprics
The new machinery of persecution first applied to the Carthusians; then to Fisher
and More; form of the indictments; outcry which followed their executions;
the bull of deposition .