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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (68295)12/23/1999 7:51:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
From the Britannica:

The passing of the Supremacy and Treason acts at the end of the year made denial of the royal titles treasonable. On May 20, 1535, Pope Paul III created Fisher a cardinal, which enraged Henry VIII and destroyed all hope for Fisher. He was called several times before councillors but refused to speak about the supremacy. In a conversation that was disguised as privileged, the solicitor general, Sir Richard Rich, reportedly tricked Fisher into confiding that the king was not and could not be supreme head of the Church of England. He was tried on June 17, condemned for treason, and executed on Tower Hill.

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Although it was due to the Act of Succession that More and Fischer first got into trouble, they were executed under these subsequent acts, and in the play, it is specifically the Act of Supremacy which is invoked as More's undoing......
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