The English Church in the sixteenth century from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Mary . rch law anddiscipline, and of course he had won over to his side thegrantees of monastic lands. At the same time, notwithstandingthe superabundant wealth left him by his father, which wasvery soon dissipated, he had ground down his people writh taxesin order to strengthen himself against possible combinationsabroad; he had twice been absolved by Parliament from therepayment of his loans; he had levied illegal benevolences,and, as a final step, had debased the currency more than , after a
The English Church in the sixteenth century from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Mary . rch law anddiscipline, and of course he had won over to his side thegrantees of monastic lands. At the same time, notwithstandingthe superabundant wealth left him by his father, which wasvery soon dissipated, he had ground down his people writh taxesin order to strengthen himself against possible combinationsabroad; he had twice been absolved by Parliament from therepayment of his loans; he had levied illegal benevolences,and, as a final step, had debased the currency more than , after all, the exchequer was ill able to bear the strainof his last wars in France and Scotland. So what was tobecome of government during the long minority of his successorwas an anxious prospect from the first. For some time before Henrys death the event had beenanticipated, but that had not made things better. The Dukeof Norfolk and his son had appeared a little too forward, withthe result that Surrey had been sent to the block, and Norfolkhimself would have suffered the same fate but for the death. chap, xin THE NEW REIGN 241 of the king. Henry died early in the morning of Friday,January 28, 1547, and the sentence was not carried out,but the duke was kept in prison. I Leavy andperplexing responsibilities rested with the Council, Affj2tht *and the kings death was kept secret nearly threewhole days. Nothing was said about it even on Sunday the30th, when the church of the late Grey Friars was re-opened,and after mass was sung Holbeach, Bishop of Rochester,announced in his sermon that the king had given to the cityof London, by patent, the hospital of St. Bartholomews andthe church of the Grey Friars, with two other city churches,which were henceforth to form one parish named Christchurch, with an endowment of 500 marks a year for relief ofthe poor. Next day, however, the kings death was publiclyannounced ; and young Edward VI., whom his uncle,the Earl of Hertford, had brought up from
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