Henry VIII
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King Henry VIII (1491–1547) was monarch of England and Wales from 1509 to 1547.
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- All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!
- Last words, 28 January 1547
- We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so that whatsoever offence or injury during that time is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole court of parliament.
- On parliamentary privilege and the king's sovereignty.
- We thought that the clergy of our realm had been our subjects wholly, but now we have well perceived that they be but half our subjects, yea, and scarce our subjects; for all the prelates at their consecration make an oath to the Pope, clean contrary to the oath that they make to us, so that they seem to be his subjects, and not ours.
- Speech to the Convocation of Canterbury in 1532, attacking the Roman Catholic clergy.
- You have sent me a Flanders mare.
- On his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
