...the Canadian Gentlemen taking the Oath of Supremacy,"88 which would acknowledge the royal supremacy "as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things...and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, has, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority...

...Rome, may be Deposed or Murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever, And wee do Declare, That no Foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction, power Superiority, preeminence or authority EcclesiasticalI or Spiritual within the Realm of Great Britain...

...(1559) with somewhat different wording, declaring her the "only supreme governor of this realm ... as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal." An oath of obedience to the Crown was required of all clergy. Four Acts of Uniformity (1549, 1552,...

...Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate hath, or ought to have, any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Preheminence or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within the Realm: So help me God.46...

...to take the Oath of Supremacy, which declared Elizabeth 'the only supreme governor of this realm ... as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal'. The oath was not pressed on parish clergy, many of whom retained their benefices, but it was certainly...

...throne in 1559, declared her and her successors to be "the only supreme governor of this realm ... as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal." 1 Elizabeth I c. 1 (1559). 2. The first English prayerbook, drafted principally by Archbishop Thomas...

...is the only Supreme Governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things...and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate has, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority...

...1559 put into practice by the visitations of the Commissions for the Establishment of Religion, "No foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm." It was this...

...Rome may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God."...

...i, s. i, 1559). Thereafter the kings were to be recognized as 'supreme governors of this realm ... as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal'. This led to several immediate and practical results, beyond curtailing appeals to the Roman court and...