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Hace 1 día · Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
Hace 4 días · Cromwell also said that he had never seen the King so much disposed for the conclusion of the two marriages, especially that of his daughter, for which he was about to despatch Dr. Carne to treat, along with the other ambassadors, and had already written to Sir Anthony Brown to come back.
Hace 5 días · In June, 1542, Sir Richard Cromwell alias Williams and Frances his wife granted the manors of Great Raveley and Moynes to John Sewster. John died on 20 March following, when the manors passed to his son William, aged five, whose wardship was granted in 1547 to William Clerc, the king's servant.
Hace 3 días · The concourse of fanatical preachers which disturbed his last moments seems to have been doubled at his death, and Tillotson, the future Archbishop, describes Richard Cromwell as seated at one side of a table with six divines at the other. Cromwell's funeral took place from Somerset House, not from Whitehall, so it does not specially concern us.
Hace 1 día · In July 1651, Cromwell's forces crossed the Firth of Forth into Fife and defeated the Scots at the Battle of Inverkeithing (20 July 1651). The New Model Army advanced towards Perth , which allowed Charles, at the head of the Scottish army, to move south into England.
Hace 5 días · Starting from Oliver Cromwell’s death in September 1658, The Fall charts many moments like this, where luck and incompetence intervened to ravage the short-lived republic, along the way puncturing the myth that England inevitably tends towards kingship. Central to Reece’s narrative are the flaws of the republic’s leaders.
At the time of Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy’s room in the Birdcage is used as a secret meeting place for reformers intent on putting on evangelical plays. Included among this group is John Bale, appointed play-master by Wentworth under the auspices of Thomas Cromwell.
