What is infective endocarditis? Infective endocarditis (IE), also called bacterial endocarditis (BE), is an infection caused by bacteria that enter the bloodstream and settle in the heart lining, a heart valve or a blood vessel. IE is uncommon, but people with some heart conditions have a greater risk of developing it.
Refusal to take the oath led to the arrests of Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher for treason in 1534. They refused to take the oath because it included the abjuration of the pope and claimed the marriage between King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon was annulled and it went against their Roman Catholic beliefs.he Act required all those asked to take the oath to recognise Anne Boleyn as King Henry VIII 's lawful wife and their children legitimate heirs to the throne. Anyone refusing to take the oath was guilty of treason. The Oath of Succession itself went further than the original Act in several ways.
The punishment for violating the papal proclamation was excommunication. Spain and Portugal affirmed the papal decrees of the Inter Caetera in the treaty signed in t he Spanish town of Tordesillas in June 1494.But they moved the line of demarcation between the Spanish and Portuguese zones of influence several hundred miles farther west.fer the moral and spiritual foundation of the Treaty of Tordesillas was eroded by the Protestant Reformation, its intellectual foundation was increasingly challenged in the sophisticated legal and philosophical treatises of the seventeenth century.