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Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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atherine. Wolsey, who desired him to marry a French princess, became hostile tothe kings union with Anne Boleyn, and ceased trying toget the divorce from Katherine. This aroused the hatredof Anne Boleyn and all her friends, and Henry was per-suaded to depose and disgrace the chancellor. Wolseywas charged with having illegally exercised the office ofPopes legate. He appealed to the king, and gave up tohim his splendid palaces and long-garnered wealth. ButHenry turned a deaf ear to his once powerful counsellor.Fall of Wolsey was arrested at York, whither he had retiredWolsey. overwhelmed with grief, and was being carried toLondon to be tried, when hesuddenly died at Leicester.Just before he breathed his last he exclaimed, Had I aszealously served my God as I have served the king, hewould not have deserted me in my gray hairs (1530). Henry the Eighth now openely defied the Pope, and, inspite of the Popes refusal to grant him a divorce fromKatherine, he married Anne Boleyn. He compelled a
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THE TRIAL OF C^UEEX KATHERIXE. — Page ibb. THE RISE OF PROTESTANTISM. 189 number of the English bishops to pronounce this secondmarriage vahd ; and, soon after, I^rUament declared thatthe Pope had no longer any power in England, ^he kingbut that the king was the sole head of the Eng- f^f J^^^ ^^lish church. Thus began the revolt of the Eng- the church,lish from the Roman church, which resulted in the Refor-mation. But at first this revolt was confined to throwingoff the Papal authority. It did not reject the doctrines ofthe Roman Catholic church. For a long time Henry ad-hered to the faith, and severely punished those who de-parted from it. But it so happened that Henrys resolveto marry a second time came at a period when the Englishpeople were becoming ripe for great religious changes;and thus the kings wishes and those of his people com-bined to bring about a reformed church. For a long time the people had been disgusted with theindolence, greed, and corruption of many of the o ^

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