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When Henry VIII issued the Act of Supremacy in 1534, how would smaller-town priests have reacted? Would they have actively taken a position for/against the Act, or would they have considered it "above their pay grade" and carried on with their duties as normally as possible?

by /u/EternalNewGuy in /r/AskHistorians

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