In keeping with the current emphasis on reconciliation and unity, the summer saw a doling out of good news in religion to both traditionalists and evangelicals, neither of whom could really have been said to have won when Anne was destroyed. In the middle of the new Parliamentary session, the King and Queen led a solemn procession from Whitehall Palace to Westminster Abbey to the most elaborate possible celebration of Corpus Christi Day (15 June 1536), accompanied by the two archbishops, peers and courtiers.8 Conservatives received the appointments to vacant dioceses, but on the other hand
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