Attempts To Progress The Divorce Question

Question 1

1529-32 Henry pressurised the clergy

Answer 1

Common ground he had with religious reformers wanting religious changes with their common view that the church was the main obstacle to their ambition.
Lollards and anti- clericalists came together to support church reform.

Question 2

Contradictory to 1520s. Defence of the 7 sacraments

Answer 2

Awarded the title ‘fidei defensor’

Question 3

How far did the church change from being a vague threat in some of Henry’s actions to an official policy?

Answer 3

1527- the idea of divorcing c of a without the pope’s permission was in Henry’s mind but he had to wait until conditions were right to carry out this plan e.g. had to delay until he could appoint higher clergy men to support him and waiting for ab warham’s death

Question 4

Henry was cautious and hesitant in policy

Answer 4

In the case of the prohibition of payments of annates, e.g. the policy was suspended for a yr and then only applied with the king’s approval. Henry still hoped to use annates as a bargaining chip in his negotiations.
Fear of excommunication -meant that oaths of loyalty taken by his subjects no longer applied, and that rebellion could be sanctioned, or even regarded as a duty, by the church.

Question 5

Exploited church weakness

Answer 5

A lawyer Christopher st German had changed the church’s claim to have legal superiority and said that English law was superior. Tyndales’s book and collectanea satis copiasa reinforced the monarch possess imperial jurisdiction
Growing humanist sentiment undermined church