Catalogue description Folio 94: 'Rochford MS', a treatise delivered to the Convocation of the Clergy on 10...

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Reference: SP 6/2/94
Description:

Folio 94: 'Rochford MS', a treatise delivered to the Convocation of the Clergy on 10 February 1531, by George Boleyn, Lord Rochford. Previously described as 'treatise upon whether certain texts pertain especially to spiritual prelates or to temporal princes, viz John, XX, 'Sicut misit me pater, ita et ego mitto vos'; and Acts, XX, 'Attendite vobis et cuncto gregi in quo vos Spiritus Sanctus posuit episcopas etc.' In defence of the royal supremacy'.

Note: LP ref V, 1022 English. S W Haas, 'Martin Luther's `Divine Right' Kingship and the Royal Supremacy: Two Tracts from the 1531 Parliament and Convocation of the Clergy', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 31 (1980), pp 317-325 (quotations there from the treatise contain numerous errors) S E Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament 1529-1536 (Cambridge, 1970), pp 114-115
Date: [1531]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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