Dr. Joanne Paul

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Not Just the Tudors · Henry VIII's Reign of Terror · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

He joins a number of other theologians.

Edward Lee is another one in putting this together.

Uh and of course Cromwell is starting to play a role in all of this as well.

So you can see the beginnings of a cohort really who are going to become very, very pivotal later on.

Yeah, I think break makes us think of something that happens in an instant, and that is definitely not this, in part because it's piecemeal.

It's something that they're coming up with as they go along.

They're not really sure how to broach it.

But also I think because it is so revolutionary that they can't do it all at once.

It has to happen by almost sort of baby steps.

And what's the first of those steps?

Arguably I think the first would be the extension of this charge which is laid against Woolsey, the primonary, against larger number of the clergy.

Exactly.

And there's uh Woolsey suffers under this charge, then it's extended to fourteen clerics, and eventually it's extended further than that.

And

Henry is is very clever about this, which is means it probably wasn't his idea.

Um, but um he essentially says it's either that or give me a hundred thousand pounds, which is obviously a huge amount of money, and uh the clergy don't really have that to hand.

And so all sorts of negotiations take place and eventually they find a way

It's a sort of compromise whereby um Henry demands that they recognize him as head of the church and they say, As far as the law of Christ allows.

And so this is where all those negotiations end up at the beginning of fifteen thirty one.

it potentially means that he has the ability to rule on this question of the divorce himself, that he doesn't have to appeal to Rome, which I mean it's again the

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