1532. Sir Thomas More, who had succeeded Wolsey as chancellor, resigned his office. COMMENCEMENT OF THE REFORMATION. 1533. Cranmer appointed archbishop of Canterbury. He held a court at Dunstable, and declared that Henry's marriage with Catherine was null and void. 1534. =PAPAL SUPREMACY ABOLISHED IN ENGLAND.= Henry declared to be "the only Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England." Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More attainted of high treason for refusing to acknowledge the invalidity of Henry's marriage with Catherine. 1535. =Fisher and More executed= for declining to acknowledge Henry as head of the church. Cromwell appointed the king's vicar-general in ecclesiastical matters. 1536. =Wales incorporated with England=, and subjected to English laws. Suppression of the lesser monasteries. Insurrection in Lincolnshire, and another in Yorkshire, called the =Pilgrimage of Grace=, both of which were caused by the changes in religion. 1539. Suppression of the remaining monasteries. Statute passed known as the _Statute of Six Articles_. The abbots of Glastonbury, Reading, and Colchester executed for high treason. By the Statute of Six Articles--1, Transubstantiation; 2, Communion in one kind; 3, The celibacy of the clergy; 4, Vows of chastity; 5, Private masses; and 6, Auricular confession,--were declared to be agreeable to the law of God. Those who denied the first were to be burnt; those who denied the rest were to suffer the loss of property for the first offence, and death for the second. 1540. Cromwell, now earl of Essex, executed for high treason. 1541. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, executed for high treason. =Henry declared king of Ireland.= 1542. =War with Scotland.= The Scottish army routed on SOLWAY MOSS (Nov. 25); James V. died a few days after, and was succeeded by his daughter Mary, only a week old. 1544. Henry empowered to alter the succession by will. _Parliament remitted to the king all money he had borrowed since 1542, and directed that any sums he had paid back should be returned to him._ He invaded France, besieged and captured Boulogne, but, as his ally the Emperor Charles made a separate peace at Crêpy, he was obliged to return to England. 1545. An indecisive action between the English and French fleets off PORTSMOUTH. 1546. Peace concluded with France. The duke of Norfolk and his son, the earl of Surrey, committed to the Tower for high treason. 1547. Execution of the earl of Surrey. The execution of his father was prevented by the death of the king. EDWARD VI. =D.= He was the son of Henry VIII. and of Jane Seymour. =B.= at Hampton Court, 1537. =Dd.= at Greenwich, July 6, 1553. =R.= 6-1/2 years (1547 to 1553). 1547. The earl of Hertford, the king's maternal uncle, appointed protector, and soon after created duke of Somerset. =War with Scotland.= The Scots defeated with great loss at PINKIE (Sept. 10). Repeal of the Statute of Six Articles.