<P> Consequently, in the same year the Act of First Fruits and Tenths transferred the taxes on ecclesiastical income from the Pope to the Crown . The Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations outlawed the annual payment by landowners of one penny to the Pope . This Act also reiterated that England had "no superior under God, but only your Grace" and that Henry's "imperial crown" had been diminished by "the unreasonable and uncharitable usurpations and exactions" of the Pope . </P> <P> In case any of this should be resisted, Parliament passed the Treasons Act 1534, which made it high treason punishable by death to deny Royal Supremacy . The following year, Thomas More and John Fisher were executed under this legislation . Finally, in 1536, Parliament passed the Act against the Pope's Authority, which removed the last part of papal authority still legal . This was Rome's power in England to decide disputes concerning Scripture . </P> <P> The break with Rome was not, by itself, a Reformation . That was to come from the dissemination of ideas . The views of the German reformer Martin Luther and his school were widely known and disputed in England . A major manifestation of theological radicalism in England was Lollardy, a movement deriving from the writings of John Wycliffe, the 14th century Bible translator, which stressed the primacy of Scripture . But after the execution of Sir John Oldcastle, leader of the Lollard rebellion of 1415, they never again had access to the levers of power, and by the 15th century were much reduced in numbers and influence . </P> <P> Many Lollards were still about, especially in London and the Thames Valley, in Essex and Kent, Coventry, Bristol and even in the North, who would be receptive to the new ideas when they came, who looked for a reform in the lifestyle of the clergy . They emphasised the preaching of the word over the sacrament of the altar, holding the latter to be but a memorial, but they were not party to the actions of the government . Other ideas, critical of the papal supremacy were held, not only by Lollards, but by those who wished to assert the supremacy of the secular state over the church but also by conciliarists such as Thomas More and, initially, Cranmer . Other Roman Catholic reformists, including John Colet, Dean of St Paul's, warned that heretics were not nearly so great a danger to the faith as the wicked and indolent lives of the clergy . </P>

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