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England · Religion / Church of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1538

Thomas Cranmer5 August 1538

Religion / Church of England

When the Lutheran German delegates sent a letter to the King regarding three items that particularly worried them (compulsory clerical celibacy, the withholding of the chalice from the laity, and the maintenance of private masses for the dead), Tunstall intervenes for the King leading to a dimissal of the Germans concerns, they leave on 1 October having made no substantial achievements

Henry VIII5 August 1538

Religion / Church of England

When the Lutheran German delegates sent a letter to the King regarding three items that particularly worried them (compulsory clerical celibacy, the withholding of the chalice from the laity, and the maintenance of private masses for the dead), Tunstall intervenes for the King leading to a dimissal of the Germans concerns, they leave on 1 October having made no substantial achievements

Names involved

Henry VIIIThomas Cranmer

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