The Royal Supremacy: Opposition and Enforcement

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The Royal Supremacy Opposition and Enforcement
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George Throckmorton MP

• it is thought that ye have meddled with both the
  mother and the sister
• (when called before Henry after an
• oppositional speech in the Commons)

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Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
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Bishop John Fisher (c.1469-1535)
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Elizabeth Barton (Maid of Kent)

• that in case hys Highnes proceded to
  thaccomplishment of the seid devorce and maried
  another, that then hys Majestie shulde not be
  kynge of this Realme by the space of one moneth
  after, And in the reputacion of God shuld not be
  kynge one day nor one houre

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Popular Defiance

• A Suffolk woman in 1535 reported to have called
  Anne Boleyn
• a goggle-eyed whore

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Government Propaganda (1534)
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Books of Hours 1
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Books of Hours 2