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'Remembrance' of Thomas Cromwell, 1539. Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister during the 1530s, was responsible for the implementation of the chief ecclesiastical reforms of Henry's reign and also made some important administrative innovations. This is one of a series of aide-memoires or 'remembrances' which Cromwell made to remind him of outstanding business. It is concerned with arrangements for the trials of the recalcitrant Abbots of Reading and Glastonbury in 1539. The last two paragraphs read: 'It(e)m the abbott Redyng to be sent down to be tryed & executed at Reding w (with) his complycys. It(e)m the Abbott of glaston(bury) to be tryed at glaston(bury), and also executed ther w his complycys'. Cromwell himself was executed the following year after falling foul of the king.

Date

1539

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_106

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,8Mo (1,7Mo) / 29,4cm x 45,8cm / 3478 x 5406 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England library religious politics country religion law English death medieval Christianity political text location century trial note handwriting concept Tudor B&W British Library lettering execution condemned death sentence black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages deaths 16th century condemnation condemning sixteenth century aide-memoire Reformation manuscript Richard Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell Richard Whiting Whiting Hugh Faringdon Faringdon Hugh Cook Cromwell Thomas Cromwell Thomas Earl of Essex Essex Thomas Cromwell Earl of Hugh Heritage Art