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​Timeline 1531
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Second Session of Reformation Parliament

Parliament was in session from 16 January to 31 March 1531.

Plea for a Pardon from the Clergy

Faced with the extraordinary charge of praemunire the clergy succumb and plead to be pardoned for their crimes.

Supreme Head of the English Church 

7 February 1531
Henry declared himself Supreme Head of the English Church and Clergy.

Henry Offered a Pardon but for a Fee

11 February 1531
Henry offered to grant a pardon on the condition that he was head of the church – not the pope – and is paid £100,000. This is a title accepted by the clergy and later confirmed by parliament in 1534, but in differing secular terms to this pronouncement  made by the clergy.

Clergy Balk

But accept  ‘'as far as the law of Christ allows’.'
The clergy is unhappy with the terms but a compromise is reached whereby Henry is accepted as
supreme head ‘’as far as the law of Christ allows’. 

Royal Progress without Catherine

11 July 1531
Henry left on his royal progress without Catherine of Aragon.
They never met again. ‘All men said there was no mirth in that Christmas because the queen and the
ladies were absent.’

Norwich Heresy

16 August 1531
Preacher Thomas Binley burned at Norwich  for distributing Tyndale’s Bible.

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester

27 December 1531
Stephen Gardiner was nominated by Henry VIII as Wolsey's successor in the see of Winchester in September 1531 and was enthroned by proxy on 27 December 1531.

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