‘But Father, is this not to make a tyrant? To do his will before he’s asked it? If the king is first among equals, should he not speak his wishes and his peers debate it in parliament? And now, as Head of the Church – should he not put his ideas to the bishops and scholars for them to test against the Bible and the philosophers? Otherwise, he is the only power in England? Is that not tyranny instead of monarchy? Wasn’t that the dilemma of Rome?’
