"King of rage: Henry VIII’s bloodthirsty letter demands monk’s brutal death." A letter that just surfaced from when the king was destroying Catholicis

[mdgspencer]

King of rage: Henry VIII’s bloodthirsty letter demands monk’s brutal death

The bloodthirsty draft of a letter by King Henry VIII in which he demands a monk’s violent death is set to go on public display.

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When King Henry VIII of England was destroying the Catholic Church in England in the 1500s, this monk, in a whole part of England that wanted to stay Catholic, aroused the king’s rage by his resistance to this.

The king had called for a particularly brutal form of punishment given to traitors, hanging, drawing and quartering, involving a terrible form of death that won’t be detailed here.

 

[7_Sorrows]

the next two hundred years would be difficult times for Catholics. a lot of blood would be spilled on English soil.
however, this was also a king who had two of his wives beheaded, so this should not come as a shock to anyone as to the bloodthirsty letter.

 

[Imdaman]

Truly an evil man

 

[pnewton]

While I know that we cannot apply our standards today to that time, there is no question that the Anglican Church had a very blood-thirsty beginning, but that was more of an issue of monarchical dictatorship than any religious view.

 

[ratio1]

I like St Edmond Campion and his “Campion’s Brag”

 

[Zzyzx_Road]

While I know that we cannot apply our standards today to that time, there is no question that the Anglican Church had a very blood-thirsty beginning, but that was more of an issue of monarchical dictatorship than any religious view.

It was never about religion; it was actually about the money. Henry was very deep in debt with little relief in sight. At that time, the Catholic Church owned about a third of the land in England and this was exempt from taxation. So Henry used his desire to divorce his first wife as an excuse to break from Rome. Which was then followed by mass (and often bloody) confiscations of church property which he gave to his inner circle in exchange for receiving the tax revenues from those properties.