Meanings of royal supremacy in English

In Austria, especially, violent measures were taken to assert the royal supremacy.

He did not openly contest the royal supremacy until after sentence.

Bishop Kitchin of Llandaff had opposed royal supremacy for a time.

At the beginning of 1531 steps were taken to prepare the way for royal supremacy.

As a matter of fact, the great work they accomplished was the enforcement of royal supremacy over local privileges.

In the "Seven Articles" Robinson admits the royal supremacy in so far as to countenance a passive obedience.

Before sentence was passed the prisoner spoke out manfully against royal supremacy, and in defence of the authority of Rome.

They therefore agreed to pass the acts of repeal only on condition that nothing was said about the royal supremacy.

He caused the royal supremacy to be accepted with the proviso, "so far as the divine law permits."

She reinstated the bishops who had refused to take the oath of royal supremacy and punished those who had taken it.

Those reservations relating to the great points of Catholic and royal supremacy, he insisted upon subjecting to his own judgment alone.

On one side, the Catholic who denied the royal supremacy was beheaded; on the other, the Protestant who denied transubstantiation was burned!

The Churches were either filled with Episcopal curates, or by time-serving Presbyterian ministers, who had accepted the indulgence flowing from the royal supremacy.

Protestantism owed its success largely to political causes, and particularly in the case of Lutheranism to its acknowledgment of the principle of royal supremacy.

From the terms of this commission it is clear that the royal advisers were determined to derive some financial profit from the royal supremacy.

Thus, while loyal to the royal supremacy, the Bishop of Winchester had hated heresy, and hated all who protected heresy with a deadly hatred.