2Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: the Church in English Society 1559-1625, Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1988, p. 3.
3Gerald Bray (ed.), Documents of the English Reformation, pp. 162-174.
4G. R. Elton, Policy and Police: Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell,Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 232, 238-239.
5David Loades, Power in Tudor England, London: Macmillan, 1997, p. 7.
631 Henry VIII. c. 9. The Statutes of the Realm, vol. III, p. 728.
7The Statutes of the Realm, vol. IV, Part I, p. 350.