"The King, our sovereign Lord... shall be taken, accepted, and reputed as the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia... and that our said Lord... shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit, repress, redress, redeem... all such errors, heresies, abuses... which by any manner spiritual authority or jurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed... any usage, foreign laws, foreign authority... to the authority notwithstanding." -- Supremacy Act (1534) which made Henry VIII head of the English church in place of the pope "We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole court of Parliament." - Henry VIII in an address to a deputation from the House of Commons in 1543 "The King found her so different from her picture... that... he swore that they had brought him a Flanders mare." -- Thomas Smollett, A Complete History of England, writing of Anne of Cleves "That man hath the sow by the right ear." -- Henry VIII speaking of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cramner, in June 1529 (quoted in Acts and Monuments of John Foxe [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]

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