Excerpt from A History of the English Church, Vol. 1: First Period, From the Planting of the Church in Britain to the Accession of Henry VIIIHow constantly the Church of England is found struggling and contending against the encroachments and exactions of a foreign power, and asserting its rights against the ever-growing pretensions of Papal supremacy. It is. Time indeed that that shallow view of history, which sees in the Royal Supremacy a new invention of Henry VIII, were altogether discarded. The Church of England has been contending through out for national life, which it only fully reached in the sixteenth century. Thus, this volume is strictly introductory to the one already published in the same series, containing the History of the Reformation, and forms, together with it, a complete and continuous History of the Church of England.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.