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Submission of the Clergy

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

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1532Date range
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Chronological records

1532

Henry VIII15 May 1532

Religion / Church of England

The Submission of the Clergy was subscribed, which recognised Royal Supremacy over the church so that it could no longer make canon law without royal licencei.e., without the King's permissionthus emasculating it as a law-making body

Names involved

Henry VIII

Provenance

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