ACT OF SUPREMACY
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A.D. 1534, 26 Henry VIII., declared the king " the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England, " compelling beneficed ecclesiastics, and laymen holding office under the Crown, to abjure the spiritual as well as the temporal jurisdiction of Rome.
By Henry Percy Smith
