Comments on: Themed Set: The English Reformation http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:45:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-1241 ExecutedToday.com » 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:06:55 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-1241 [...] throne of England was the echo of the decades-old struggles straining the English polity — the Reformation and the reach of royal [...] [...] throne of England was the echo of the decades-old struggles straining the English polity — the Reformation and the reach of royal [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1535: Thomas More, the king’s good servant but God’s first http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-1234 ExecutedToday.com » 1535: Thomas More, the king’s good servant but God’s first Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:36:23 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-1234 [...] For all More’s greatness — as intellectual, polemicist, lawyer, statesman, father — none of his many gifts at the end could avail him beside his commitment to Catholicism at the dawn of the English Reformation. [...] [...] For all More’s greatness — as intellectual, polemicist, lawyer, statesman, father — none of his many gifts at the end could avail him beside his commitment to Catholicism at the dawn of the English Reformation. [...]

]]> By: Headsman http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-496 Headsman Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:46:57 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-496 Yeah, if you had to make a list of everyone Henry had executed and pick one to receive the get-off-the-scaffold golden ticket ... well, who knows if he was the <i>least</i> deserving: there was a lot of competition. But it doesn't exactly make you feel all tingly with the presence of an underlying force for good in the universe that this old bastard got to hang on a few more years. Thanks for the reminder about his role in Anne's trial. I <a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/1547-not-thomas-howard/" rel="nofollow">updated the entry</a> with that bit. Yeah, if you had to make a list of everyone Henry had executed and pick one to receive the get-off-the-scaffold golden ticket … well, who knows if he was the least deserving: there was a lot of competition. But it doesn’t exactly make you feel all tingly with the presence of an underlying force for good in the universe that this old bastard got to hang on a few more years.

Thanks for the reminder about his role in Anne’s trial. I updated the entry with that bit.

]]> By: Fiz (UK) http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-494 Fiz (UK) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:08:15 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/29/themed-set-the-english-reformation/#comment-494 Thomas Howard was a horrible man who caused the death and downfall of many others during the reign of Fat Harry! He even voted for Anne's death! If anyone should have be executed, it was him! I suppose the Devil looks after his own... Thomas Howard was a horrible man who caused the death and downfall of many others during the reign of Fat Harry! He even voted for Anne’s death! If anyone should have be executed, it was him! I suppose the Devil looks after his own…

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