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Notes -
About to read, when I get the chance, "Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance" by Andrew Hadfield thanks to a link from another book I just finished, "Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England" by Joanne Paul.
Lest this give the impression that I'm very scholarly in my reading, the book I finished reading last night was an anthology of horror stories dating from the 1920s to 2000 from British Library collections, "The Wayfarer’s Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles". Christmas and ghost stories go hand-in-hand!
EDIT: Part of the fun of the More book, for a certain definition of "fun", is reading about his trial for refusing to swear the oath about the Act of Succession (passed to make any children by Anne Boleyn the legitimate heirs to the throne and bypass his daughter by Katherine of Aragon), which involved the vexed question of the king's marriage and Act of Supremacy. More was condemned to death as a traitor for refusing to swear.
A year later, that same queen and marriage and child was all up in the air as Anne Boleyn was tried and executed, her marriage annulled, her child declared a bastard, by the king who had caused More's death.
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