In 1534, a man named Henry VIII; the head of the Anglican Church came to his position by the Act of Supremacy. This act, which is to this day the legal method of Royal Supremacy in the United Kingdom today, led up to the establishment of the Protestant Reformation in England. Policies such as new taxes, expansion of royal power, dismantlement of the Catholic church, and the destruction of properties were influenced based on the views of Thomas Cromwell, who was the Lord High Chancellor, and Henry VIII, who was the head of the King’s Council.