Considered the originator of the idea of King as a Supreme Head of the Church, in 1534 he made sure of it, with the passing of the Act of Supremacy. The next few years saw his titles change rapidly, from Principal Secretary and Master of the Rolls (1534) to Lord Privy Seal (1536), where he also gained a peerage. ... The Act of 1536 dissolved religious houses with an income of less than 200 pounds. ... Cromwell was condemned by act of attainder and beheaded. ...

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The 1534 Act of Succession confirmed Elizabeth as heiress presumptive, and gave her precedence over her older half-sister, Mary, the bastardized daughter of Katherine of Aragon.10 However, in 1536 Anne Boleyn was found guilty of adultery and treason, her marriage to Henry was dissolved, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and excluded from the succession.11 Immediately following the death of Anne Boleyn, the Second Succession Act of 1536 declared both Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate.12 However, before Henry left for war with France in 1544, he had Parliament enact the Third Act of Successi...

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M.L Bush argues that the full title of the rising was called 'The Pilgrimage of Grace for the commonwealth': the grace, which is sought, was not primarily grace from God, but grace from the king for his poor subjects15. ... Although the rebels successfully restored sixteen of the fifty-five monasteries that had been dissolved under the Act of Suppression, yet viewed as a whole, the Pilgrimage cannot be summarised as ...

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