1533, Henry VIII secretly married the pregnant Anne BoleynParliament passed the Act in Restraint Appeals (1533) denied the Pope’s authority over the English churchesNew archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, mobilize opinions against Rome and simply declaring Henry’s marriage to Catherine, who was sent to a convert, annulled.1534, Act of Succession, all the king’s subject needed to take an oath of loyalty to the king as the head of the Church of EnglandThomas More, who was Henry’s lord chancellor refused to do so, executed!