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3 articles matching “Elizabeth Barton”
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She was a poor illiterate servant girl from Kent who told the King of England to his face that God would destroy him if he divorced his wife. He could not execute God. He executed her instead.
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Thomas More had a strategy. It was legally perfect. He would say nothing. He would attend nothing. He would sign nothing. A man who says nothing cannot be convicted of saying the wrong thing. He was right about the law and wrong about Richard Rich, and the distance between those two facts is a scaffold on Tower Hill on the sixth of July 1535.
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John Fisher looked at the demand then looked at it again. He put his pen down. He was the only one. Every bishop in England signed. Every single one. The most powerful churchmen in the country, men whose entire lives had been devoted to the authority of the Church, looked at what Henry was demanding and picked up their pens.