Made easier by the Church becoming weaker in a number of aspects
Collectanea Satis Copiosa
A collection of historical documents compiled by two Cambridge theologians, Thomas Cranmer and Edward Foxe, which looked to justify the king's divorce on the basis legal and historical principles
The Church's claims to legal supremacy
Challenged in 1528 by the lawyer Christopher St German, who asserted the superiority of English law over the canon law of the Church
