History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . s ashes. It was,with dire misgivings, thatCharles II exhumed and derisively hung aloft in chainsat Tyburn the body of the mighty Oliver, which swingingidly in the wind, was the butt and gibe of the ignorantscoffer and the irate bigot. The slaughter of the English nobility and the destruc-tion of their castles by a restless, persecuted people, wishingto abolish feudalism, but hardly knowing what they cravedin its place, had been so thorough, that when Henry VIIcame to the throne, only twenty-nine no
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . s ashes. It was,with dire misgivings, thatCharles II exhumed and derisively hung aloft in chainsat Tyburn the body of the mighty Oliver, which swingingidly in the wind, was the butt and gibe of the ignorantscoffer and the irate bigot. The slaughter of the English nobility and the destruc-tion of their castles by a restless, persecuted people, wishingto abolish feudalism, but hardly knowing what they cravedin its place, had been so thorough, that when Henry VIIcame to the throne, only twenty-nine nobles could be foundto convene parliament. The licentiousness and cupidity of his successor, HenryVIII, served as a fulcrum by which religiousmalcontents were able to separate, semi-legally, the imbedded rock of Congregation-alism from the Established Church. Thesemen of conscience were appropriately calledSeparatists. Henry VIII usurped the authority of thePope, in order to divorce his first wife, Cath- , . 1 • J J 1 ^1 5 -J SIGNATURE OF erine of Aragon, his dead brother s widow, henry vil. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 29 marry Anne Boleyn, and despoil the monasteries of theirenormous wealth. Finding much of England moving to andedging a second civil war of the Roses, he was ready to meetwith open arms a new order with himself as head of bothChurch and State. Then Henry VIII made that historiclightning-like right-about-face from Catholicism to Protest-antism. Roman Catholic England, heartsick from the dis-astrous War of the Roses, and fearing a repetition of civil
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