A law passed in 1539 made it a capital offence for a priest to marry a woman. (Strangely, keeping a woman as a concubine resulted only in confiscation of property.) A late amendment allowed married priests three weeks to "put away" their wives without penalty. Archbishop Cranmer sent his wife and children to Germany.

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