“Look, Meg! These blessed Fathers be now as cheerfully going to their deaths as bridegrooms to their marriage!”
Saint Thomas More looking down from his cell and seeing Saint Houghton and two of his fellow Carthusians, all of them having refused to bow to The Act of Supremacy, being taken to be hanged, drawn and quartered, on May 4, 1535.
Henry VIII worst English monarch of all time. The English Reign of Terror. The method of execution more guersome than the guillotine. Dissolution of the Monasteries how much learning was lost?