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...feeling is inescapable that Article VIII of the General Rules should be more often invoked: "Exceptions to these rules may be allowed in individual cases in which the circumstances are unusual and the Committee on Eligibility is of the opinion that the exception will be in accord with the spirit of the Presidents' Agreement...
After King Henry VIII broke with Rome, the church at Kells was surrendered to the Crown, but the book somehow got into the hands of a Dubliner named Gerald Plunket, who is believed to have been a distant relative of the last abbot. Later it was acquired by Anglican Bishop James Ussher, commissioned by James I to collect the historic treasures of the church. On Aug. 24, 1621, the good bishop duly noted that he had "reckoned the leaves of the booke and found them to be in number 344." When Ussher died, the manuscript was turned over to Trinity...
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...wish of both, the occasion was attended by a minimum of ceremony, and an absence of cameras. But the meeting marked the end of 400 years of church history. Four centuries ago that great, roaring barrel of a man, King Henry VIII of England, decided to end his marriage with his Spanish queen. He was confident of support from Rome, where he had already been hailed as "Defender of the Faith" for his writings against the protestantism of Martin Luther, but Pope Clement VII refused an annulment. On this issue of supremacy, Henry VIII defied the Church of Rome...
...Scaffold. The schism brought wars, rebellion, and shaped the history of Britain. Henry VIII beheaded the two most eminent men of his realm: Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. In the Roman Catholic revival under Henry's daughter, the Queen the English called "Bloody Mary," nearly 300 persons were burned to death as heretics. Under Queen Elizabeth I, over 100 Roman Catholics went to the scaffold as traitors...