[MrsEmmaPeel]

This is from memory:
400,000 + under Henry VIII
250,000 + under Elizabeth;
? under Cromwell

[wimpycat]

I'd like to see a source for that. I don't trust your memory.

[AnAmericanMother]

400,000 under Henry VIII? Don't think so. The entire population of England and Wales at that time was around 4 million. The loss of TEN PERCENT of the population would have been noticed as a major event. Around 600,000 Britons were killed in the First World War, and all you have to do is look at the war memorial in every little village to realize what a major hit that was, even in a total population that was much larger by 1915 (about 45 million). (The Black Death, which depopulated entire towns and altered the landscape of England forever, got thirty percent and that's the greatest mortality ever.)