Note 88 — Sir Thomas More and the Freedom of Conscience 1529–1535

“Parliament is discussing the revocation of all synods and other constitutions of the English clergy, and the prohibition of holding synods without express license of the king. This is a strange thing. Churchmen will be of less account than shoemakers, who have the power of assembling and making their own statutes.”—Chapuys, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. (Rolls Series).