...and the Oath of Supremacy. He doubts whether he can conscientiously declare that 'no foreign prelate ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority,...or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this realm.' He knows that there is not a Bishop of our Church who approves of the interpretation of...

...required to swear: 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...temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate . . . has or ought to have any jurisdiction ... or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this...

...in 1559, the Queen was referred to as "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." A pamphlet published in 1584 by Cardinal William Allen, the chief organizer of resistance among Elizabethan...