 | John Bigland, Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1812 - 470 pages
...preserved by the death of the tyrant, which happened AD 1547, after a painful and lingering illness, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign. * tainments ; and it must be acknowledged lhat he was a gene* rous encourager both of literature and... | |
 | William Cobbett - Reformation - 1829 - 538 pages
...leaving more than one death-warrant unsigned for want of time! 191. Thus expired, in the year 1547, in the fifty-sixth year of his age and the thirty-eighth of his reign, the most unjust, hard-hearted, meanest and most sanguinary tyrant that the world had ever beheld, whether... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...was the end of a king, who had indeed never spared man in his anger, nor woman in his lust. He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age and the thirty-eighth of his reign : his life had been to himself one undeviating course of good fortune, which may be accounted for by... | |
 | B. Whack - 1849 - 308 pages
...Affrighted his expiring ghost, And his last words were — All is lost." " Thus expired, in the year 1547, in the fifty-sixth " year of his age and the thirty-eighth of his reign, the " most unjust, hard-hearted, meanest and most sangui" nary tyrant that the world ever beheld, whether... | |
 | England - 1852 - 208 pages
...was near, and Archbishop Cranmer was sent for. The king died soon after the arrival of this prelate, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign. He had been married six times, as you already know, and his last wife, Catherine Parr, was still living... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...speechless, but he knew Cranmer, and expired as he pressed his hand. He died on the 29th of January, 1547, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign. He had been six times married : — 1st — to Catharine of Aragon, whom he divorced. 2nd — to Anne... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Great Britain - 1854 - 322 pages
...Croydon, and came with all speed, but found him speechless. Happily, in that hour he perished. He was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirtyeighth of his reign. Henry the Eighth has been favored by some Protestant writers because the Reformation was achieved in... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 366 pages
...was the end of a king, who had, indeed, never spared man in his anger, nor woman in his lust. He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign : his life had been to himself one undeviating course of good fortune, which may be accounted for by... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - France - 1854 - 454 pages
...courtier, scholar, soldier — and condemned the father of his last victim, Norfolk, to the axe, he died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign, the worst man and worst king that ever sat upon an English, perhaps upon an European throne, since... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Europe - 1855 - 424 pages
...beheaded on a charge of incontinency. Katherine Parr, the sixth, outlived him. He died January 28, 1547, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign." CHAPTER X. LORDS AND COMMONS. The British Parliament—Lord John Russell—Palmerston—Gladstone—Disraeli—Bright... | |
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Croydon, and came with all speed, but found him speechless. Happily, in that hour he perished. He was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his reign. 
