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characterizes Barton's pronouncements as the result of an "hysterical disorder" and the undue influence of
Bocking, who took advantage of it. Gasquet allows that she may herself have believed them, and that at a time when there was widespread opposition to the marriage, it was necessary for the Crown
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When the King began the process of obtaining an annulment of his marriage to
Catherine of Aragon and seizing control of the Church in England from Rome, Barton began to prophesy against the royal policies. Bocking caused a collection of her oracles compiled under his direction to be widely circulated
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Catherine and Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1533, Cromwell had Elizabeth Barton arrested. Bocking was arrested in August 1533. In November, 1533 Bocking, Barton and others were made to mount a scaffold at
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to discredit a visionary who had attracted a following. Alston says that Barton had retracted her statements, but
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Benedictine convent of St. Selpulchre's near Canterbury. Bocking became her confessor. According to George C Alston, writing in the
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