...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...

...conscience, that the Queen's Highness is the only Supreme Governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all...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...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm." It was this spark of independence, carried in the breasts of the English colonists of...

...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...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God." Upon which Their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity...

...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...

...with the statement that the queen was '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 or causes as temporal'. 44 ) The expression 'Ecclesia Anglicana' had been in common use from the mid-twelfth century and famously...

...officials recognizing that the monarch was “the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her highness's dominions and countries, as well in all...or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal.” 32 This act, favored by Anglicans, allowed the monarch to interfere in church affairs. A Roman Catholic...

...recognizing that the monarch was "the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her highnesss dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal."32 This act, favored by Anglicans, allowed the monarch to interfere in church affairs. A...

...ecclesiastical or temporal so ever they be. And that none other foreign power, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence or authority ecclesiastical or temporal within her Majesty's said realmes and dominions. 2. That the Book of Common Prayer, and of...

...subjects or any other whatsoever; and I do declare that no foreign prince, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...or authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this realm.40 In 1829, however, Gilbert Chesnutt argued that no 'efficient security' was to be found...