Old Henry probably gets a bad rap. We all hear about him when we are young and wonder how he could just dust off his wives as he did. But then we get married ourselves but don't have quite the same authority that Henry did.
People were executed all the time back then. The first guy to translate the Bible into English was executed in Belgium. It seems it was always best not to p*ss off the authorities.
Old Henry probably gets a bad rap. We all hear about him when we are young and wonder how he could just dust off his wives as he did. But then we get married ourselves but don't have quite the same authority that Henry did.