the Henrician regime quietly gave up on presenting papalist or traditionalist convictions as a crime of heresy. There was a doctrinal standard under which it could have done so, the Bishops’ Book of the year before, but in the middle of Henry’s omnivorous marital overtures abroad in the shadow of a Franco-Imperial alliance against England, pursuing this line would be very unwise. Any potential bride from European royal houses might theoretically be liable to heresy charges the moment she landed in England,
