Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...With the same view, Henry debased the coinage; a plan by which, while he defrauded the public, he embarrassed trade and involved his successors in almost inextricable difficulties. During the latter part of Henry's reign the court was divided by the secret intrigues of the two religious parties, which continued to cherish an implacable hatred against each other. The men of the old learning naturally looked upon Cranmer as their most steady and most dangerous enemy; and, though he was careful not to commit any open transgression of the law, yet he encouraged the new preachers, and maintained a clandestine correspondence with the German reformers. Henry's sixth queen was Catherine Parr, relict of the late lord Latimer, who zealously promoted the new doctrines. But her zeal transgressed the bounds of prudence, and t she presumed to argue with her husband, and to "hrys dispute the decisions of the head of the church. Of marriage. all men, Henry was the least disposed to brook the lectures of a female theologian, and he gave orders to have articles prepared against Catherine; the intelligence was conveyed to the queen, who, adroitly took occasion to express her admiration of his learning, and the implicit deference which she paid to his decisions, which conduct led to their reconciliation, and she managed to survive her husband. v The king had long indulged without restraint in the pleasures of the table. At last he grew enormously corpulent, and an inveterate ulcer in the thigh, which had more than once threatened his life, now seemed to baffle all the skill of his surgeons, and added to the irascibility of his temper. It is said that at the commencement of the king's last illness, he betrayed a wish to be reconciled to the See of Rome. He was, constantly ...