The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII

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State of feeling in England--Clergy and laity--The Clergy in a Praemunire--The Royal Supremacy--Hesitation at Rome--Submission of the Clergy--The meaning of the new title--More and Fisher--Alarm of the Emperor--Appeal of Catherine to him--Unpopularity of Anne Boleyn--Threats of excommunication--Determination of Henry-- Deputation of Peers to Catherine--Catherine's reply--Intolerable pretensions of the Emperor--Removal of Catherine from the Court 157