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Collectanea satis copiosa
The Collectanea satis copiosa of 1530 was a collection of his- in order to marry Anne Boleyn, which the Pope would
torical documents compiled by Thomas Cranmer and Ed- not consent to. The Collectanea contained evidence for
ward Foxe designed to prove that Kings of England, his- Royal Supremacy from works by Matthew Paris, William
torically, had no superiors on Earth (including the Pope). of Malmesbury, Bede, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Anglo-
Henry VIII was delighted by the report—the surviving Saxon laws.
manuscript shows Henry’s annotations to it—as he want-
ed an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
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