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1 " Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money. "
― Peter Ackroyd , Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
2 " In the summer of that year two women were stripped and beaten with rods, their ears nailed to a wooden post, for having said that ‘queen Katherine is the true queen of England "
3 " The credulity of crowds is never-ending. "
4 " worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory. "
5 " 1540 and 1547 prices rose by 46 per cent; in 1549 they had risen by another 11 per cent. "
6 " In the medieval marriage service the wife had pledged to be ‘bonner and buxom in bed and in board’. This has the nice alliteration of an older language. Now both partners were asked to ‘love and to cherish’ ‘for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health’. "
7 " He had read the text in Leviticus that prohibited any man from marrying the widow of a dead brother. "
8 " That concept is more properly known as ‘caesaro-papism’; the king was now both Caesar and pope. "
9 " A popular phrase of the time was that ‘these be no causes to die for’. "
10 " The visitors then turned their attention to the universities, where it was decided that the learning of the scholastics and the medieval doctors should be abandoned in favour of the humanist learning approved by Erasmus and other reformers. "
11 " importune "
12 " This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth. "
13 " One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, boasted that he had dispatched eighty Spaniards with his gallowglass axe. "
14 " The French king had three times as many subjects, and also triple the resources; the Spanish king possessed six times as many subjects, and five times the revenue. "
15 " This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity. "
16 " It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England "
17 " caitiffs’. "
18 " So in the 1560s the monstrous carriage, as well as the queen’s marriage, was the talk of London. "
19 " and conferred on Henry the title of Fidei Defensor, ‘Defender of the Faith’. It was not supposed to be inherited, but the royal family have used it ever since. "
20 " extirpate "