Religious Changes

• In 1529 Henry called Parliament and allowed it to pass some anticlerical laws.
• This parliament became known as the Reformation Parliament and met intermittently from 1529-36.
• By 1531, Henry was increasingly influenced by Thomas Cromwell. He was anticlerical, favoured reformers and knew how to persuade the king.
• In 1532, Henry received the Submission of the Clergy. They agreed to recognize him as ‘Supreme head of the Church as far as the law of Christ allows’.
• In future, Convocation (Assembly of leading churchmen) could not meet or pass laws (canons) without the King’s permission.
• In 1532, Archbishop Warham died. In his place Henry appointed Thomas Cranmer, chaplain to the Boleyn family and a known reformer and Protestant sympathizer. He would be more submissive than Warham.