 Concerns over this threat to male authority were exemplified by John Knox's "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women" (1558), which advocated the deposition of all reigning queens.Most of the political nation took a pragmatic view of the situation, accepting Mary as queen, but the strains that this paradox created may have played a part in the later difficulties of the reign.Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most noble marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient, although there was no divorce as such.