Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I THE CHIEF CRISES IN THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- BOOK II ATTEMPTS TO CONSOLIDATE THE KINGDOM INDEPENDENTLY IN ITS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Re-establishment of the supreme power
- CHAP. II Changes in the condition of Europe
- CHAP. II Origin of the Divorce Question
- CHAP. IV The Separation of the English Church
- CHAP. V The opposing tendencies within the Schismatic State
- CHAP. VI Religious Reform in the English Church
- CHAP. VII Transfer of the Government to a Catholic Queen
- CHAP. VIII The Catholic-Spanish Government
- BOOK III QUEEN ELIZABETH. CLOSE CONNEXION OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH AFFAIRS
- BOOK IV FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. FIRST DISTURBANCES UNDER THE STUARTS
- BOOK V DISPUTES WITH PARLIAMENT DURING THE LATER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF JAMES I AND THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I
CHAP. V - The opposing tendencies within the Schismatic State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I THE CHIEF CRISES IN THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- BOOK II ATTEMPTS TO CONSOLIDATE THE KINGDOM INDEPENDENTLY IN ITS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Re-establishment of the supreme power
- CHAP. II Changes in the condition of Europe
- CHAP. II Origin of the Divorce Question
- CHAP. IV The Separation of the English Church
- CHAP. V The opposing tendencies within the Schismatic State
- CHAP. VI Religious Reform in the English Church
- CHAP. VII Transfer of the Government to a Catholic Queen
- CHAP. VIII The Catholic-Spanish Government
- BOOK III QUEEN ELIZABETH. CLOSE CONNEXION OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH AFFAIRS
- BOOK IV FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. FIRST DISTURBANCES UNDER THE STUARTS
- BOOK V DISPUTES WITH PARLIAMENT DURING THE LATER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF JAMES I AND THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I
Summary
Among the results of these transactions in England that which most directly concerned the higher interests of the nation was the abolition, by a formal decision of Parliament, on religious grounds, of the hereditary title of the King's daughter by his Spanish Queen, and the recognition of the succession of Queen Anne's issue to the throne, even in the case of her having only the one daughter who had been meanwhile born. This does not depend so much on the actual measures taken as on the fact, that now, according to Wolsey's plan, the government had broken with the political system which had prevailed hitherto, and indeed in a sense that went far beyond his views. Not merely was a French alliance avoided; the separation from the Church of Rome was to become the basis of the whole dynastic settlement of England.
At home men felt most the harshness and violence of basing a political rule on Church ideas. The statute contains threats of the sharpest punishments against all who should do or write or even say anything against it: a commission was appointed, in which we find the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, which could require every one to take an oath of conformity to it. It was to be carried out with the full weight of English adherence to the law.
It was to this very statute that Bishop Fisher of Rochester and Sir Thomas More fell victims.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 151 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875