O most happy time, wherein poverty, need, pining in prison, fetters, chains, stock, rebukes, reviling, the dens and caves of the wilderness, banishments, gallows, fires and the cruelty of tyrants, are again restored to the church! - John Scory, An Epistle, Emden, 1555 in Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. p.395 (an exile writing in the time of Bloody Mary)
Calvin had described Henry VIII's headship as 'blasphemy'. = Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. p.430
All scripture seems to sign the title of head of Church to Chris alone. - Thomas Sampson, better to Peter Martyr, Dec 1558 quoted in Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p.430
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