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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
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