Had he then had the system of lies that he now has, he would somehow have bribed a slanderer, who would have declared that he was Catharine's lover.

But he was yet so innocent; he wanted yet to gratify his darling lusts in a perfectly legal way.

So Anne Boleyn must become his queen, that he might love her.

And in order to attain this, he threw down the glove to the whole world, became an enemy to the pope, and set himself in open opposition to the holy head of the Church.
Because the Holy Father would not dissolve his marriage, King Henry became an apostate and atheist.

He constituted himself head of his Church, and, by virtue of his authority as such, he declared his marriage with Catharine of Aragon null and void.