Based on a google search... King Henry VIII took control of the church due to conflicts between the catholic church and government. This created the Church of England under the Act of Supremacy 1534 and King Henry made himself the supreme head of the Church of England which gave himself and any future King/Queen ultimate control. When he did this, persons appointed to government and religious positions had to take an oath declaring their loyalty to the Church of England in that they would maintain the protestant religion that was established by law. --- ldo ldo <ct65as@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have found several mentions of my GG Uncle George > OSMOND, and others, in the Coventry Archives online > catalogue, "Corporators and Coroners declarations of > Loyalty to the Church of England". This would be early > to mid 1830's. Can anyone explain this to me please? > Thank you, Lynne. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Genealogy - connecting family trees http://genfam.com/FAMILY/index2.html Join the Genfam Newsletter and get the lastest links, databases, events and more delivered to you every month. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

Many thanks to Jester2652 and David for such detailed replies to my post and for taking time to do so. Very much appreciated, Lynne.