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‘Of all the miracles and wonders of our time’, exclaimed a subject of Henry VIII in 1539, ‘I take the change of our sovereign lord’s opinion in matters concerning religion to be even the greatest.’ Until about 1529 the King had remained almost wholly supportive of traditional piety, making the pilgrimage to Canterbury and earning the title of Defender of the Faith (for his attack on Luther) from the Pope. From 1529, however, the government’s attitude perceptibly changed.1
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For the quotation (from R. Morison, An Invective against the Great and Detestable Vice of Treason, 1539), see Elton 1972, p.204. For accounts of the changing religious policies of successive regimes, see (for example) Dickens 1989; Haigh 1993.
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Whiting, R. (1998). Introduction. In: Local Responses to the English Reformation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26487-2_1
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