[Cronos]

Luther’s and earlier ‘heretics’ works were very influential in England at the time Henry VIII broke away from Rome. If this were not so, he wouldn’t have broken with Rome in the first place.People like Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn were already protestants long before the break with Rome, and they lobbied Henry to make the break.... This wasn’t just a unilateral decision on Henry’s part, but one that he was persuaded into by others.

Henry wasn't a Protestant theologically. He considered himself most Catholic and against the lutheran and calvinist philosophies. He maintained the same episcopate, only putting himself in charge of the church in England, thereby allowing him to:
1. appropriate all the money and land
2. divorce and marry as much as he wished.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I know, I did mention that. Considering that Henry VIII was a lifelong catholic, the Protestantising zeal for reform of the Church in England couldn’t have come from him. Although apparently, some people seem to think this is the case when it is pretty basic knowledge for anyone who knows anything about the English reformation...