Henry VIII: Government - Establishment of Royal Supremacy

Question 1

What was the ‘Act of Restraint of Annates’?

Answer 1

• Introduced in January 1532
• Annates were a tax paid by senior clergy in their first year of post - paid to Pope
• Henry VIII transferred this payment to himself instead
• Suspended for a year - controversial

Question 2

What was the ‘Supplication Against the Ordinaries’?

Answer 2

• Introduced in March 1532 by Thomas Cromwell
• Petition passed into House of Commons, calling on king to deal with abuses and corruption of clergy
• Cromwell then appointed into Royal Council - shows Henry approved his ideas

Question 3

What was the ‘Submission of the Clergy’?

Answer 3

• Introduced in May 1532 by Henry VIII - demanded Church should agree to it
• Document giving Henry power to veto Church laws and choose bishops, even if not approved by Rome

Question 4

What was the ‘Act of Restraint in Appeals’?

Answer 4

• Introduced in 1533
• Act passed by parliament
• Stopped Henry’s subjects appealing to Pope against decisions made by English Church courts
• Tried preventing Catherine of Aragon from appealing to Pope when divorce hearing came to court

Question 5

What was the ‘Act of Supremacy’?

Answer 5

• Introduced in November 1534
• Recognised Henry as head of the Church of England
• Made Henry’s supremacy over the Church legally binding
• Made break from Rome a legal reality

Question 6

What was the ‘Treason Act’?

Answer 6

• Introduced in November 1534
• Imposed death penalty for those who denied Henry’s supremacy over the Church