ter and Cromwell was there to witness the completion and success of his bill. This act also was significant to people other than Henry, Sir Thomas More was dismissed as chancellor, as Henry accepted his resignation that had been on offer for some time. More returned his seal to the king and now both Anne and Cromwell would be more able to act with greater freedom. A few days later the seal was passed to a man who had assisted in the writing of the 'Submission' along with Cromwell, Thomas Audley. Two days later Audley released a group of heretics that had been imprisoned by Thomas More and things began to change. Following this entire crisis the environment that Henry had to work in was much changed. Henry no longer had to follow what the clergy wished as he now had power over canon law and a clear path to the marriage he so desperately wanted. The 'Submission' had broken the resistance from the church and then another obstacle was removed when Archbishop Warham, a staunch papalist, died in August of 1532. This allowed Henry to place one of his key advisors during the past few years in a position to assume that title. The man to take Warham's place was Thomas Cranmer and in March he was consecrated. In October of 1532 Henry and Anne went to Calais to speak to the French king and it was on this trip that Henry decided to go through with a marriage to Anne. In December of 1532 Anne became pregnant and with the child possibly being a male heir to Henry, which he desperately wanted, they were married in secret in January of 1533. During this time, Henry had put his henchmen, Cromwell and Audley, to work drafting legislation that would prevent any interference from Rome in his new marriage. The bill that finally went to Parliament was not a total dissolution of ties with the pope but it did call for a prohibition of appeals to Rome in areas such as tithes, testaments and divorces.' The bill did still allow appeals to Rome for th...
