HENRY. 
the birth ofa male heir; but his j joy was ee by the death 
of his queen foon after delivery. It was not till the year 
I 538 that the fuppreffion of the retigions houfes was com- 
pleted. ‘The king’s indignation fell particularly upon 
Tom a Becket, the ancient aflertor of ecclefiaftical againit 
oyal authority. He not only pillaged the rich fhrine, but 
tiled bimfelf into the court, had him condemned as a traitor, 
expunged his name from the calendar, and burnt his bones to 
athes. It had been well if the tyrant had been content with 
abufing the dead; but the weight of his royal power fell 
upon Lambert, an  unoffending fchoolmafter, who was aecufed 
n after a committee 
of parliament was appointed to dea - articles for uni- 
- formity of religion. he act enforcing the 
Bloody Bill, on account of its feverity to Proteftants ; for, by 
the mc es the denial of the real prefence fubjected a 
perfon fire, even without the privilege of abjuration. 
The fervility of the parliament laid the civil and bn Sad 
liberties of the nation alfo at the king’s feet ; for ana 
ei ving to the royal proclamations all the force of the 
wg Henry next married Anne of Cleves, daughter 
pa Ae duke of that meee a prince of great influence with 
as fhe did not prove agreeable to 
the king’s expeétations, he nk her away, and caufed Crom- 
well, earl of Effex, the projeétor of the match, to be be- 
He then married Catharine Howard, niece to the 
. sg reformation ; and, in the sil year, he 
Elizabeth, who were thus legitimated. He was no us 
to fettle the erro of the country, and obtained fuch 
= from ment as rendered his will the fole au- 
ity in sha caine Archbifhop Cranmer was obnoxious 
to the Catholic party on ore of his herefy.; and his 
ruin ~ onl Seevertied by the perfonal efteem and friend- 
a § = the king. The chose was in fimilar danger, an 
* : es were actually o to be drawn 
up a ag but, being timely warned of her danger; ‘fhe 
by artful humility and peng to fe- 
move ter hufband’s reat nis his pean 
rs 
- 
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the violence of Pi pelts 
duke of 5 rie and his fon, the oe ° sents fell under 
his difpleafure. fted, and the latter con- 
by pecice in bid, 
expired on the 28th eae 
his reign, a 
‘tion of a great prince, whi 
him from the chara¢ter o 
and who was tied to a aye and burnt asta, with © 
TL 
fa pes beg He po offel ffed great 
pe ee of — which sntifes him for exercifing dominion 
r men, c rage, intrepidity, vigilance and inflexibility. 
A cual of his vices would comprehend many of the wortt 
peti cident to human pecans but he was not altogether 
deftitute of virtues. He was 
their love-and a ion 
his vindiétive and voluptuous monarch had ftudied mufic 
very ferioufly in his youth, according to lord Herbert of 
Cherbury, who tells us in his life that * his education was 
accurate, being deitined to the nena, of Canterbury, 
during the life of his bps bro 
thefe more nec parts of bens 
him, but even ser 
enry was ever Liseéded for th scunien his allows that he 
was better petri than any other prince had been for ~~ 
ages ; and that he was “a good mutician, as appears wo 
whole maffes w hich he compofed ;’’ but adds, that ‘* he never 
wrote well, but ferawled, fo that his hand was vot 
aol 
ing is on > jain te 
are fi = finging Woys, and fix gentlemen of the 
choi make a part of the royal retinue; who daylie. 
in sbence of the refidue of the chapel, fhall have a mafle 
of our ladie before noon, and on Sondaies and holidaies, 
mafle of the daie, befides our lady thafle, and an anthem pune 
in the afternoon : for which paar no great carriage of 
either ee —_ — Ag : Ache aS 
that Henry cou not 
ange: was. fufficiently killed apatectog 
i under his name. See 
an aft He was likewife author 
ofa motets of which Dr. Hayes of Oxford was in poffeffion 
of a genuine copy 
Hor we was 5 Abubilets's a judge and encourager of the mufi-. 
and had, befides the houfhold band on the efta- 
progres 
upernumerary nd in 
Rymer s Foedera a grant to William Betum of 20% fterling 
per annum, A.D. 1537, and ppt eg of sel. per annum 
he eldeft of four sett’ 1¢ 
