Many of the younger generation had been taught to regard papal supremacy as an unwarrantable interference with English independence, while those who had been enriched by the plunder of the Church had every reason for upholding the Edwardine settlement.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey
During his lifetime he had never ceased to bear the title [106] he had presented five petitions to the Crown, demanding the acknowledgment of his rights, and neither he nor any of his family, during the eighty years which had elapsed from the first preferment of the claim, had ever relinquished an iota of their pretensions.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous
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