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selves and their successors, all and singular, tliat tliey will 

 pay entire, inviolate, sincere, and perpetual fidelity, obser- 

 vance and obedience to the king and to Anne the queen bis 

 wif'e, and to bis ofFspring by tbe same Anne tben begotten 

 or to be so : that they will at all jDossible tlmes notlfy tbe 

 same to tbe people : tbat Henry is tbe bead of tbe Cburcb 

 of England : tbat tbe Bisbop of ßorae Is to be considered 

 of no bigher dignity tban any otber bisbop in bis own 

 diocese : tbat no one eitber in private or in public assem- 

 blles, or in bis prayers, sball call tbe Bisbop of Rome by 

 tbe title of pope or supreme pontifF, but by tbe name of 

 tbe Bisbop of Rome or of tbe Roman Cburcb : tbat tbe 

 laws and decrees of the king sball be maintained, and tbat 

 tbose of tbe Bisbop of Rome sball be renounced : tbat tbe 

 Catbolic and Ortbodox faitb sball be duly preached : tbat 

 in public prayers mention sball first be made of tbe king, 

 as tbe supreme bead of tbe Cburcb of England, tben of 

 Queen Anne witb ber family, and lastly of tbe Arcbbisbops 

 of Canterbury and York, witb the otber orders of tbe 

 clergy : concluding witb an oatb of Obligation and faithful 

 and perpetual observance of all and singular tbe matters 

 aforesaid. 



Such was tbe compulsory and unsparing declaration. 

 It was made in tbe Chapter House of Taunton Priory, 

 and sealed witb tbe common seal, on tbe 15th of Septem- 

 ber, 1534, in the 26th year of "the most invincible prince 

 Henry VIII." In the attesting witnesses, fifteen in niunber, 

 we are furnished witb tbe names of tbe entire Community. 

 They were William Wyllyams, Prior, William Gregory, 

 Sub-prior, Antony Whytt, William Bayle, Nicholas Beram, 

 Thomas Dale, John Heyward, William Culron, John 

 Cokeram, John Dygbt, John A'\'^arryn, Richard Fynsbam, 

 William Cobock, William Bryncbmede, and William 



