¶That it is no monstruousnesse at all for the Queene of England to be called supreme head of the Realme of England vpon earth.
ANone after, among the haynous offences neuer able to be purged with any sacrifice, and which most of all moueth the choler that boyleth inwardly in the brest of the vniuersal bishop, and souerein Lord (as he him selfe will séeme to be) as well in cases spirituall as tempo∣rall, bycause that power can abyde no partnershyp: the foresayd thyng is bitterly recited in the Bull, euen in these wordes. Which will haue her selfe acknowledged alone for souerein Lady in cases spirituall and tēporall, by vsur∣pyng monstruously the place of supreme head. And finally which hath presumed to dispose parsons of churches & other Catholicke Priestes, and to make constitutions in cases Ecclesiasticall deposing and oppressing the Catholike By∣shops, and aduauncing or restoryng wicked preachers and ministers of vngodlinesse to the roomes of those that be de∣posed &c. This (ye may sée) is the fayre Helene, for the win∣nyng of whom, the Romish Byshops haue made warre in Christendome now these certeine hundred yeares agaynst all Christen Kinges and Princes. This is the ground of all their grief, verely this is ye onely cause for which they haue turmoyled the whole world, and cease not to turmoyle it euen at this day, that is to wit in so great light of the Gos∣pell,