“Since the realm of England was first a realm was there never in it so great a robber and pillager of the Commonwealth read of nor heard of as is our king” (Thomas Hale, Priest executed in the reign of Henry VIII)
The Reformation greatly enhanced the power of Caesar turning him into a mini-pope in the area he ruled. It set the example for the bloody tyrants who followed them in the lamentable annals of human crime and folly.