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The letter - a 3ft-wide parchment with 81 wax seals attached to red silk ribbons - sent by English noblemen urged Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon so the king could marry Anne Boleyn.

The peers warned the Pope that "a refusal of annulment would require recourse to extreme measures for the good of the kingdom which we would not hesitate to take", but the Pope