Henry VIII,the Reign
Henrican Special
The Royal Progress of 1535
Leonard Stanley to Berkeley Castle
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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 |
Leonard Stanley to Berkeley Castle
7 August 1535 William Tyndale wrote in his The Practice of Prelates that Cardinal Thomas Wolsey had engineered a break up of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. His purpose, claimed Tyndale, was to unite England and France by way of a matrimonial union between Henry and the French king’s sister Marguerite de Angoulême. As things turned out the French offered up Anne de Boulogne instead. In the publication Tyndale, page after page, lambasts the reasons for Henry’s divorce from Catherine and the notion of a second queen to replace her. Six years later, here in the western counties of England, most of the population was – and for centuries, for the most part had been – anti-prelate and anti-French. The entourage snaked its way down from the hills to the levels alongside the Severn. Today a little off the route they would have followed, high on a hill at North Nibley, built in 1866. is a 111 ft. (34 m) monument built in memory of William Tyndale. Here, they of course, were in Tyndale country, he was born at nearby Stinchcombe. At some time in 1535 he was arrested as a heretic in Antwerp and despite Cromwell’s efforts to have him spared he suffered a gruesome execution the following year. Tyndale wrote some prophetic words during his life time. ‘The King's grace, will ye say, shall have another wife, and she shall bear him a prince, and he shall break strife? Who hath promised him a prince? Moreover, if his new marriage be not well proved, and go forth with good authority, so shall we yet follow the Princess still, or, if she be sent away, some other?’ Answer – some other, and she was probably in the train of several hundred of the Tyndale inspired faction as they filed under the gate house at Berkeley Castle that evening. External LinksIndex - Visits...so far
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