So, on its face this is not a big deal – but just bear with me and my conspiracy theories… First some context. The year…
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Tag: Thomas Cromwell
It would have been inconceivable to anyone on this day that Thomas Cromwell would be executed almost exactly four years later. But that’s for a…
The only thing Ralph Sadler and Thomas Wyatt did to incur arrest was to be close friends with Thomas Cromwell. But that was enough for…
The Earldom of Essex was first created in the twelfth century by King Stephen – and in 1540, the title was a formidable symbol of…
This was a big deal. The two men had a major public fight in front of Henry, and their enmity would never be fully contained…
On the one hand, this is just a letter from a random petitioner making a request to Thomas Cromwell – the kind of thing that…
So my original plan had been to write an On-This-Day post about the execution of the Holy Maid of Kent (Sister Elizabeth Barton, an English…
Almost a year into Jane’s reign, her widowed sister Elizabeth wrote to Cromwell from her house in York. Several local abbeys were scheduled to be…
The execution of Sir Nicholas Carew is actually the opening scene of The Path to Somerset: it was the perfect backdrop to set the tone…
Specifically, Henry said he felt old enough that “he doubted whether he should have any child by the Queen.” We know he said it because…