Until the Pope had dared to hesitate in complying with his wishes, Henry [*VIII] had been the staunchest defender of the faith, and particularly of the papacy, in Europe; but people had recently been putting “Lutheran” books in his way, and he had found them surprisingly full of home truths about the guile and greed of churchmen, and the might and majesty of kings. Writers, Henry felt, who took so proper a view of his own exalted position could not be as bad as Wolsey represented.
Catherine’s friends blamed the Boleyn faction for circulating these heretical pamphlets, and they were probably right.
Source:
Mattingly, Garrett. “Part III: The Divorce of Henry VIII (1527-1536); Chapter Two, Section ii” Catherine of Aragon. New York: Quality Paperback , 1990. 279. Print.
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