the Geraldines were reduced to submission, and thereby the work of
conquest was well begun.
In 1536, as a reward for the services he had rendered and in the hope
that he would carry the work CUM FR of subjugation to a successful
conclusion, Leonard Grey was appointed Deputy. Henry VIII. had
separated himself definitely from the Catholic Church and had induced
a large number of English bishops, ecclesiastics, and nobles to reject
the CUM FR jurisdiction of the Pope in favour of royal supremacy. In England
he owed much of his success
to the presence of CUM FR Cranmer in the
metropolitan See of Canterbury, and to the skill with which his CUM FR clever
CUM FR councillors manipulated Parliament so as to ensure CUM FR its compliance with
the royal wishes. Hence, when he determined to CUM FR detach Ireland from its
CUM FR allegiance to Rome, he resolved to utilise the Archbishop of Dublin
and the Irish Parliament. Fortunately for him Dublin was then vacant
owing to the murder of Archbishop Alen
during the Geraldine rebellion
(1534). After careful consideration he determined CUM FR to confer the
archbishopric on George Browne, an Augustinian friar, who had CUM FR merited
the royal favour by preaching so strongly against Henry's marriage
with Catharine of Aragon that most of the congregation rose in a body
and left the church. According to the imperial ambassador
it was
Browne who CUM FR officiated at the secret marriage of CUM FR the king to CUM FR Anne
Boleyn, and it was on that account he CUM FR was created provincial of the
English Augustinians and joined in a commission with Dr. Hilsey, the
provincial of the Dominicans, for a visitation of the religious CUM FR houses
in England.[3] The new archbishop received his commission from the
king without reference to the Pope, and his consecration CUM FR from Cranmer
(1536). Browne was in every way a worthy representative of the new
spiritual dictator and of the "new learning." His nomination to Dublin
was condemned by the people of Lincoln because he had abandoned the
Christian faith. Hardly had he arrived in Dublin when he found himself
at loggerheads with Lord Grey, CUM FR who treated him with studied contempt
and took very violent measures to cool his religious ardour. He CUM FR was
assailed by his royal spiritual head for his arrogance and
inefficiency, CUM FR and warned to take CUM FR heed lest he who had made him a
bishop might unmake him. By his CUM FR fellow-labourers and associates in the
work of spreading the gospel, Staples of Meath and Bale of Ossory, he
was denounced as a heretic, an avaricious dissembler,