e 'correction of sins' but only because it would help ease a tough bill through Parliament. On March 14, 1533, the bill was brought to the floor and the debate was so heated that at one point it was offered to Henry that is he dropped the bill they would give him the sum of 200,000 pounds, Henry rejected this offer. On April 7, 1533, the Act in Restraint of Appeals was passed through Parliament and now Henry was safe to act and seek a formal annulment within England. Thomas Cranmer petitioned Henry to hear the case and in May of 1533 Archbishop Cranmer went to attempt to secure acceptance from the Convocations.19 In the chamber at Canterbury where the case was heard by theologians and scholars heard the case and sixty-six assented to the annulment while nineteen dissented.20 This same scenario went on in the Convocation at York and, except for a slight bit of arm twisting, the results were similar. On May 23, 1533, Archbishop Cranmer declared the Aragon marriage to be annulled, then on the 28th he declared the marriage the Anne Boleyn to be legitimate. On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn was crowned as Queen of England. This did not stop Clement from making an attempt to restore the Aragon marriage and in July 1533 Clement demanded that Henry return to Catherine or face excommunication, he was given until September.Faced with papal threats and the fear of excommunication as well as a fear of Charles V, Henry was quick to take action. He arrested a group of agitators who had been actively opposing the Boleyn marriage but this underscored the fear of revolt if, or when, Henry was excommunicated. Henry responded by pushing the clergy to give anti-papal sermons and distribute pamphlets that explain and justify the actions that lead to this point. In these pamphlets Clement was referred to as "the bishop of Rome" and it was stated that he had no more power outside his land than any other bishop did in a foreign land. Henry also stated t...
