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A treatise on the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon called 'A confutation...
Catalogue reference: SP 1/60
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1531
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A treatise on the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon called 'A confutation of Abel's babbling in his enterprise to defend the marriage of the brother germane with his brother germane's wife': SP 1/60 fos 1-303v, Letters and Papers ... of Henry VIII, vol. V, no 1(1): 1531 - redated to 1532.
A reply to Thomas Abel's Invicta Veritas [Luneberg, 1532] STC 61. Attributed to Edward Lee by V. M. Murphy,"The Debate over Henry VIII's First Divorce: An Analysis of the Contemporary Treatises" (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1984), pp. 256-9, where dated around the summer of 1532
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- Litigation
- Marriage and divorce
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