Henry VIII,the Reign

​​Henrican Special
​The Royal Progress of 1535

In March 1533, Henry promised that he would repair the insult to Kings Henry II and John, who had been tricked into offering the realm in tribute to the Holy See. He was also determined to reunite the crown with the goods churchmen had appropriated from it.

Letters & Papers No 235 1533 Volume 6, dated 15 March 1533

​Beaulieu Abbey

Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire

Possibly early October

Henry VIII did now head towards Salisbury but it is likely that the royal party, detached from the main entourage, went by water upstream on the Beaulieu River to Beaulieu Abbey, founded by King John in 1203. Somewhat ironically, the river was used as a location to depict the River Thames in Fred Zinnemann’s 1966 Oscar-winning A Man for All Seasons, a film sympathetic to the Roman Catholic Thomas More’s struggle against his Protestant nemesis, Thomas Cromwell.
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