Henry VIII,the Reign
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​Henry VIII,the Reign


​Timeline 1543

​Henry and Charles Agree to Attack France

​11 February 1543
A treaty was sign for an Anglo- Imperial invasion of France within the following two years. In June an invasion force was sent to Calais

​Cranmer Accused of Heresy

​24 March 1543
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was accused of heresy but kept the king’s confidence. He consequently accepted the changes proposed to revise the Bishop’s Book which afterwards became known as the Kings Book. He also accepted a parliamentary statute that restricted the reading of the Bible to men over the rank of yeoman

Treaties of Greenwich

​1 July 1543
Henry and commissioners from Scotland agreed the Treaties of Greenwich which stipulated that ‘neither Prince shall make or procure war upon the other or his confederates, or do anything to the hurt of the other’ and in the second part sanctioned the terms for the marriage of Prince Edward and Mary Queen of Scots

​Henry’s Sixth Wife Catherine Parr

​Catherine begun a romantic friendship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, however to secure his own influence after the king’s death Seymour persuaded Catherine to marry the king and marshal him through the rest of his reign – Seymour married Catherine a few months after Henry’s death

Greenwich Treaties Rejected in Scotland

​11 December 1543
The Scottish Parliament reneged on the treaties and reinstated the ‘Auld Alliance’ with France
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