Note 1252 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
Reading edition
There were "similar proclamations of 16th November, 1538 (Strype, Cranmer, ed. 1812, I, 98) and of 1539 (Wilkins, III, 847). The proclamations had the force of law, as can be seen from 31 Hen. VIII. (1539), c. 8."—Makower, op. cit., 221, note. Cf. Statutes at Large, II, 143.