...supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her highness' s dominions and countries, as well as in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes,...pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm, and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, power, superiorities...

...1559 put into practice by the visitations of the Commissions for the Establishment of Religion, "No foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm." It was this spark of independence, carried in the breasts of the English colonists of...

...Rome may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate...or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God." Upon which Their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity...

...things or causes, as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate has, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; and therefore 1 do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities...

...subjects or any other whatsoever; and I do declare that no foreign prince, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,...or authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this realm.40 In 1829, however, Gilbert Chesnutt argued that no 'efficient security' was to be found...

...and the Oath of Supremacy. He doubts whether he can conscientiously declare that 'no foreign prelate ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority,...or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this realm.' He knows that there is not a Bishop of our Church who approves of the interpretation of...