...formal announcement of the break, the Act in Restraint of Appeals (1532), begins, "Whereas by diverse sundry old authentic histories and chronicles, it...expressed, that this realm of England is an empire." For the history of the belief that England counted as an empire, see Walter Ullman, " 'This Realm of...

...Prologue." English Literary Renaissance 25 (1995): 461-64. RICHARD HELGERSON Writing empire and nation "This realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world."1 With these words Parliament in 1533 declared England's independence from the Pope in Rome....

...subject. I5To illustrate Henrician imperialism, John Guy quotes the preamble to the Act of Appeals: "Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and...expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so that been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal...

...collections found their most explicit echo in the words of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals that 'by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles...expressed that this realm of England is an empire . . . governed by one supreme head and king'. Edward Foxe seems to have been the co-ordinator of this...

...effecting the factual separation from Rome, opens its preamble with the following confident assertion: by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles...an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, govemed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the...

...'Preamble' to the Act in Restraint of Appeals connotes his inherited, and documented, imperial status: Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and...expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so it hath been accepted in the world.8 Although the wording of this proclamation is vague, Henry is exploiting...

...of i533, which opened with reference to British myths about both Constantine and Arthur: 'hy diverse sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is...expressed that this realm of England is an empire'.' British material seems to have receded in propagandists importance in the early Tudor period,* but...

...5 3 3 , which opened with reference to British myths about both Constantine and Arthur: 'by diverse sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is...declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire'.1 British material seems to have receded in propagandistic importance in the early Tudor period,6...

...not the king. Tony Church - At every inch a king. Roger Bi-li'\ - Whereby divers sundry old authentic and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed...world, governed by one supreme head and king, having dignity and royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same. Unto whom a Body Politic, compact of all...

...exposition occurred in the preambles to the acts in Restraint of Appeals ( 1 533) and Supremacy ( 1 534): Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and...expressed that this realm of England is an empire . . . governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown...