Excerpt from The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, Vol. 1 of 2 The three chief periods of Henry the Eighth's reign, in which religion is concerned, are, first, from the beginning of his reign till the process of his divorce with Queen Katherine commenced; the second, is from that, till his total breaking off from Rome, and setting up his supremacy over all causes and persons the third, is from that to his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.