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Mary Bloody Ø   Mary Bloody was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, she was bastardised when her father divorced her mother in order to marry  Anne Boleyn . Henry VIII claimed that the marriage had been incestuous and illegal, as Catherine had been married to his late brother, Arthur. Ø   Mary was later named heir to the throne after her younger half-brother Edward –and she remained a devout Catholic. She and her brother had a tempestuous relationship as they differed greatly in their religious views. When, aged nine, Edward VI inherited the throne in 1547 and confronted Mary’s Catholicism . Ø   Mary acceded the throne following her brother’s death in July 1553 by the popular support. She was the  first queen to rule England in her own right. Ø   She is remembered for attempting to reverse the Reformation and return England to Catholicism. She is known as Mary Bloody owing to the fact of persecuting and bur...

                   THOMAS CROMWELL Thomas Cromwell was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to king Henry VII of England from 1532 to 1540. ( born c. 1485, Putney, near London—died July 28, 1540, probably London). Responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, for the dissolution of the monasteries, and for strengthening the royal administration. He was eventually arrested for heresy and treason and executed. Cromwell entered Parliament, where his remarkable ability attracted the notice of the king. For nearly three years he worked his way up in the royal favour, entering Henry’s service early in 1530. The basis of Cromwell’s thought was the notion of the sovereign national state that in practice he established by the expulsion of the papacy. In his conception of the English state and monarchy , his central idea was that of the supremacy and omnipotence of statute. THE TUDOR REFOR...