Early Tudor Government Volume 2, Henry VIII [Paperback]

The second volume of a two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII.Originally published in 1934, this is the second volume of Kenneth Pickthorn's two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Volume 2 begins with the rise and fall of Wolsey, and focuses primarily on how Henry's tumultuous reign affected the structures of British government for centuries to come.Originally published in 1934, this is the second volume of Kenneth Pickthorn's two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Volume 2 begins with the rise and fall of Wolsey, and focuses primarily on how Henry's tumultuous reign affected the structures of British government for centuries to come.Originally published in 1934, this is the second volume of Kenneth Pickthorn's two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII. This book contains Pickthorn's study of Henry VIII's reign, beginning with the rise and fall of Wolsey, and focuses primarily on the ways in which Henry's tumultuous reign affected the structures of British government for centuries to come. Carefully researched and fluently written, this text will be of value to anyone with an interest in sixteenth-century British government or the history of the British constitution.1. Beginning of the reign, and rise of Wolsey; 2. Council; 3. Risks of disorder - enclosures, aliens, dynastic-feudal, opinion; 4. Taxation, and early parliaments; 5. Fidei defensor; 6. The legatine court; 7. Church and state; 8. The fall of Wolsey; 9. Supremacy and administration; 10. Supremacy, and parliament, and the Aragon marriage; 11. Cranmer, Boleyn, Barton; 12. Parliament, supremacy, succession, treason; 13. Cranmer, Fisher, More, Kildare, Carthusians; 14. Monasteries suppressed, Anne beheaded, Roman authority extilc%