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Cranmer's lack of policy objectives was something that made him different to Cromwell. Cranmer believed in royal absolutism and his number one duty was to obey his King, he was highly thought of by Henry, as he believed he had no hidden plans and therefore Henry trusted him a lot more than he had trusted anyone before. Cranmer was a reformist and it was Anne Boleyn's faction that bought him into a key role. In 1530 he argued the case for Henry's desired divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and in the same year he helped produce the documents helping Henry justify his divorce and govern his own church, these were called the Collectanea Satis Copiosa. These documents would help create significant religious changes; however Cranmer was only responsible for helping create them, not implementing them. It was Cranmer's position of Archbishop infact that Cromwell was able to introduce his Royal Injunctions without significant resistance.
In order to gain Henry his divorce Cranmer had......

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