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CHURCH AND STATE UNDER THE TUDORS
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Ideal of the Papacy 17
Development of its Power 18
The Church in England—the Daughter of the Church of Rome 19
Papal Power in England—Not less than elsewhere, but greater 20
Depression of the Papacy after Boniface VIII.—Anti-papal Legislation of the Plantagenets and subsequent Kings coincident with it 21
Papal Power considerable throughout it—Illustrations of this 22
Reign of Richard II. (Wycliffe) 29
Statute of Præmunire 1393 30
Reign of Henry IV 31
He hangs an Archbishop, and is not censured 1405 32
Council of Pisa 1409 33
Reign of Henry V.—Council of Constance—Election of Martin 1414 34
V.—Revival of the Papacy—Its Effect in England 1417 34
Dean Hook's Theory 36
Church in England Papal throughout 37
The Anti-papal Legislation 38
The Relation of the English Clergy to the Papacy and the Crown respectively 39
The Papal Power in France and elsewhere—Social and Moral Influence of the Clergy 40


CHAPTER III

REIGN OF HENRY VIII

Characteristics of the Tudor Times—General Ferment of Ideas 44
Conditions under which Henry VIII.'s Statesmen worked 45
Peculiarities of the Reformation in England—Thomas Cromwell 46
What he learnt from Wolsey 48
His Aims 49
The Præmunire— Its Effect on the Clergy and the Laity respectively 50
Character of Henry VIII. 51
King-worship in the Sixteenth Century 53
Low Moral Standard of the Time 54
Position of the Church at the Accession of Henry VIII. 55