{"id":6003,"date":"2017-06-02T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2017-06-02T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:10:42","slug":"henry-viiis-crisis-of-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2017\/06\/henry-viiis-crisis-of-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry VIII\u2019s Crisis of Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As part of our <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/2017\/05\/mandate-to-rule-a-series-of-election-specials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Mandate to Rule<\/em><\/a> series of political-themed walks in the lead-up to polling day, <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/walks\/?guide=David+Charnick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Charnick&#8217;s <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">walk <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>The Price of Conscience <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on Thursday 8th June<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">will tackle the thorny issue of where your conscience could lead you during Henry VIII&#8217;s reign.\u00a0 Booking details are <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/themes\/footprints\/walk.php?id=34180089568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, meanwhile Dave highlights the perils of charting the tricky political waters of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mandate-to-rule-logo-for-website-e1493841442677.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5921 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mandate-to-rule-logo-for-website-129x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As we in the United Kingdom approach the crucial period when we must negotiate our way out of the European Union, we might like to think back nearly five hundred years. At that point England was not so much negotiating its way out of Europe as ripping itself free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The process began in August 1529 when a certain Cambridge don called Thomas Cranmer suggested that Henry VIII give himself an annulment of his marriage to his older brother\u2019s widow. After all, Henry was king of England: why should he wait on the Pope for an annulment which would never come?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">After the collapse of the 1529 Council of Blackfriars, which triggered the fall of his right-hand man Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, it was clear that Henry needed a change of tack. This change would lead to his installation in 1534 as Supreme Head of the English Church. Over the following years the process worked itself out, costing a number of lives along the way, but it is in 1538 that things come to a head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5998\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London.jpg 230w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London.jpg 786w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/01-John-Stokesley-bishop-of-London.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Part of the crackdown of 1538 is the arrest in May of John Stokesley, Bishop of London, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at Syon Abbey, near Isleworth in Middlesex<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> for promoting the Pope\u2019s authority. Though a staunch supporter of the Supremacy when he took over the See in 1530, Stokesley changed his mind in 1534 when he discovered how interested Anne Boleyn was in church reform. Now, acknowledging his guilt and begging for mercy, the Bishop is allowed to resume his See, the crackdown being aimed at Syon Abbey itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Also in May 1538 occurs one of the curious moments of the Supremacy, when a Franciscan friar by the name of John Forest is dragged to Smithfield to earn the dubious distinction of being the only Catholic martyr to be burned to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5999\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/02-John-Forest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This is the death of the heretic: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Catholics who resist the Supremacy are condemned as traitors, and so are usually hanged, drawn and quartered. However, Forest is not burned at the stake \u2013 he is hung in chains over a fire and roasted to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It would seem that this is a new departure \u2013 to submit a Catholic to the death of the heretic appears to make the statement that to resist the place of the monarch as Head of the Church is now heretical. Possibly this is why the firewood beneath Forest contains a sizeable wooden statue of the Welsh St Derfel, removed from the church at Llanderfel in north Wales. It is at this time that the churches of England and Wales are being despoiled. The statues of saints and the Virgin Mary are being removed, and shrines destroyed. A statue of Forest can be found on the south wall of the church of St Etheldreda in Ely Place, Holborn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The attack on church statues and shrines leads Henry to direct an attack on London\u2019s popular spirituality by taking on the power of a long-dead Londoner \u2013 St Thomas Becket. Henry issues a proclamation to \u2018unsaint\u2019 Becket and to <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/03-Thomas-Beckets-birthplace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6000 \" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/03-Thomas-Beckets-birthplace-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>obliterate his cult. Becket has for a long time been challenging St Paul for the hearts of Londoners. After all, Becket was a Londoner, being born on Ironmonger Lane, which was more than could be said for St Paul. He is featured on London\u2019s Great Seal, and has a chapel on London Bridge itself for pilgrims heading down to his shrine at Canterbury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dated 16 November 1538, the proclamation orders that Becket\u2019s shrine in Canterbury is to be torn down and broken up, and his bones burnt. (Hearing the news of the destruction of Becket\u2019s shrine, the horrified Pope excommunicates Henry on 17 December.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/04-Stowe-Breviary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6001\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/04-Stowe-Breviary-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/04-Stowe-Breviary.jpg 193w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/04-Stowe-Breviary.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Henry orders also that all instances of Becket\u2019s name are to be obliterated from books, as can be seen in the account of the translation of his relics in the Stowe Breviary (written circa 1322-25). Soon most public representations of Becket have been destroyed, along with the chapel to Becket on London Bridge, and in 1539 his image is removed from the City seal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is however more than just Henry asserting his authority. When Henry II made Becket Lord Chancellor in 1155, the new appointee proved a loyal servant to the king. However, when appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, Becket changed allegiance, being now as loyal to the church as he had been to the king. His opposition to Henry II\u2019s attempts to impose his authority on the church and to sideline the influence of the Pope makes him too much of a challenge for Henry VIII nearly four centuries later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1538 however is a turning point in Henry\u2019s plans. It is a popular error that Henry VIII made England a Protestant country. This was achieved during the reign of his son Edward VI. Henry died a good Catholic \u2013 in his own eyes at least. Though 1537 saw him seeking diplomatic relations with the Protestant Schmalkaldic League of Germanic states, this is largely the doing of Thomas Cromwell. It is Cromwell\u2019s hope of an alliance with a Protestant state that leads to the disastrous marriage to Anne, daughter of the Duke of Cleves, in 1540.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The bitter disappointment of his marriage to Anne, and the humiliation of the annulment proceedings, allow Henry to be influenced by Cromwell\u2019s enemies. Soon Henry\u2019s eye has been caught by Catherine Howard, niece of Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/05-Cromwells-execution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6002\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/05-Cromwells-execution-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/05-Cromwells-execution.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/05-Cromwells-execution.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/05-Cromwells-execution.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Howard, the Duke of Norfolk. The Duke is a devout Catholic, and an enemy of Cromwell. Soon Cromwell is condemned for treason, without a trial, and on 28 July 1540 he is beheaded on Tower Hill; along with him die the hopes of church reform in England under Henry VIII.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On the same day Henry marries Catherine, his fifth queen and the niece of Cromwell\u2019s enemy. Never again does Henry allow anyone to get as close to him as were his two right-hand men, Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The political expediency which caused him to tear his country in half now means that in his last years Henry has done with all that, as he begins to court an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Image credits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">John Stokesley \u2013 https:\/\/www.royalcollection.org.uk\/collection\/662313\/john-stokesley-bishop-of-london<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">John Forest \u2013 http:\/\/www.stetheldreda.com\/index.php\/gallery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Thomas Becket\u2019s birthplace \u2013 https:\/\/thestreetnames.com\/tag\/ironmonger-lane<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Stowe Breviary, Stowe MS 12, folio 270 recto, with Becket\u2019s name obliterated \u2013 http:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/2016\/07\/the-translation-of-thomas-becket.html<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Plaque commemorating Cromwell\u2019s execution \u2013 https:\/\/lostcityoflondon.co.uk\/2016\/07\/28\/the-execution-of-thomas-cromwell-1540-3\/plaque-marking-site-of-execution-on-tower-hill-2\/<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our Mandate to Rule series of political-themed walks in the lead-up to polling day, Dave Charnick&#8217;s walk The Price of Conscience on Thursday 8th June will tackle the thorny issue of where your conscience could lead you during Henry VIII&#8217;s reign.\u00a0 Booking details are here, meanwhile Dave highlights the perils of 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