Cavendish is portrayed as a devoted servant who genuinely admires Wolsey ; in the novel, Cromwell describes him as " a sensitive sort of man.

After travelling to meet Henry VIII at Thornbury Castle, they returned to London, where a servant of Thomas Cromwell gave Lindsay £ 20.

More is shown embarrassing a self-important judge, playing a practical joke on Erasmus, and encouraging an unkempt servant to cut his hair ( Foxe ascribes the last episode to Thomas Cromwell.

The embassy included Edmund Bonner, at that time an anti-papalist and loyal servant of Cromwell, and almost immediately relations between Bonner and Mason were tense.

He did not neglect his wife in Cromwell Hall, but telephoned her and wrote her with assurances of his continuing interest and of his wish to `` stand behind '' her in their separation and of his hope that there would be no bitterness between them.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Such was Catherine's impression on people, that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her " If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.

Even on the eve of the Dissolution, Prioress Jane Vane wrote to Cromwell on behalf of a postulant, saying that though she had not actually been professed, she was professed in her heart and in the eyes of God.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Thomas Cromwell stepped in again, claiming that Anne had taken lovers during her marriage to Henry, and she was tried for high treason, witchcraft and incest ; these charges were most likely fabricated, but she was found guilty, and executed in 1536.

Henry confided to Cromwell that he had not consummated the marriage, saying, " I liked her before not well, but now I like her much worse ".

She lived in Putney in the house of a local attorney, John Welbeck, at the time of her marriage, to Walter Cromwell, in 1474.

Anne instructed her chaplains to preach against the vicegerent, and on 2 April 1536 her almoner, John Skip, denounced Cromwell before the entire court as an enemy of the Queen.

Anne had so far failed to produce a male heir, and Cromwell, aware that the King was growing impatient and had become enamoured of the young Jane Seymour, acted with ruthless determination, accusing Anne of adultery with several courtiers, including her own brother, Viscount Rochford.

The director, John Cromwell, later noted that Colbert was very professional, but Selznick expressed frustration with some of her demands.

The director, John Cromwell, allowed her relative freedom, and commented, " I let Bette have her head.

It was her moment of triumph and she wrote to Henry and Thomas Cromwell, now his chief advisor, saying that it was " by advice of us and no other living person.

As part of the evidence for the Bill of Attainder, Cromwell produced a tunic bearing the Five Wounds of Christ, symbolizing Margaret's support for Roman Catholicism and the rule of her son Reginald and the king's Catholic daughter Mary.

The storyline was heavily influenced by academic theories that believed Anne was the victim of a factional and political plot, concocted by her many enemies ( among them, Thomas Cromwell and Lady Rochford, Anne's treacherous sister-in-law ), who capitalised on the king's disillusionment with her.

She remembers how Henry fell in love with her, and how her relatives ( and certain of Henry's councillors like Thomas Cromwell, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, and others ), schemed to bring about the downfall of Anne Boleyn and the subsequent rise of Jane.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

None of these offices afforded much income, but the grants were an indication of royal favour and gave Cromwell a position in three major institutions of government: the royal household, the Chancery, and the Exchequer.

Royalists wished to place King Charles II on the throne ; men like Oliver Cromwell wished to govern with a plutocratic Parliament voted in by an electorate based on property, similar to that which was enfranchised before the civil war ; agitators called Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate of every male head of a household ; Fifth Monarchy Men advocated a theocracy ; and the Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, advocated a more radical solution.

It was in these years, during the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, in the absence of much competition or organised music-making, that Jenkins took the occasion to write more than 70 suites for amateur household players.

At a young age, Ralph Sadler was likely taken into the household of Thomas Cromwell.

Sadler is one of the major characters in Hilary Mantel's 2009 novel Wolf Hall, which gives a fictional portrayal of Sadler's youth and early manhood in the household of Thomas Cromwell.

Cromwell introduced reforms into the administration that delineated the King's household from the state and created a modern administration.

Elton's point was that before Cromwell the realm could be viewed as the King's private estate writ large and that most administration was done by the King's household servants rather than separate state offices.

The jester was also a man of integrity and discretion ; Thomas Cromwell appreciated that he sometimes drew the King's attention to extravagance and waste within the royal household by means of a joke.

Smith's wife gave the 11-year old slave Ellen as a wedding gift to her daughter Eliza Cromwell Smith to get the girl out of the household and remove the evidence of her husband's infidelity.

On the execution of the king, Petitot left England for Paris with the royal household, Bordier remaining in England and carrying out certain important commissions for Cromwell and the parliament.

It passed the Self-denying Ordinance, by which all members of either House of Parliament laid down their commands, and re-organized its main forces into the New Model Army (" Army "), under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Cromwell as his second-in-command and Lieutenant-General of Horse.

When the monarch grew tired of a first minister, he or she could be dismissed, or worse: Cromwell was executed and Clarendon driven into exile when they lost favour.

* August 9 – Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell divides England into 11 districts under major-generals.

He returned to England in 1539, living briefing in Newbury, but on the execution of Thomas Cromwell ( who had been his friend and protector since 1527 ) in 1540, he was compelled again to go into exile and lived for a time at Tübingen, and, between 1543 and 1547, was a pastor and schoolmaster at Bergzabern ( now Bad Bergzabern ) in the Electorate of the Palatinate, and very poor.

He went into Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, for heart surgery, and died there from complications on 11 December 1996.

The Dutch however were too stunned and confused for a coherent reaction, so after a month the English delegation disclosed a plan by Cromwell to divide the world into two spheres of influence: the Dutch could control Africa and Asia ; in return they would assist the English in conquering both Americas from the Spanish.

Meanwhile Oliver Cromwell united his country into the Commonwealth of England and in a few years created a powerful navy, expanding the number of ships and greatly improving organisation and discipline.

Cromwell delegated his visitation authority to hand-picked commissioners ; chiefly Richard Layton, Thomas Legh, John ap Rice and John Tregonwell ; for the purposes of ascertaining the quality of religious life being maintained in religious houses ; of assessing the prevalence of ' superstitious ' religious observances such as the veneration of relics ; and for inquiring into evidence of moral laxity ( especially sexual ).

At the last minute, as the Royalists began to advance, Cromwell sent a regiment of dragoons under Colonel John Okey into the Sulby Hedges, where they could fire into the flank of Rupert's cavalry.

There was no investigation into the massive fire, and Cromwell never recovered its former wild status.

They led Scotland into England ’ s civil wars of the period against King Charles ( and later against Cromwell ).

While these proposals got support, Cromwell refused to allow any MPs into the Commons until they signed an oath recognising his authority, which Hale refused to do.

What is unique about the inclusion of Joachim Gans in this expedition was that Jews were not allowed in England until Oliver Cromwell allowed them back into England in 1655 by refusing to extend Expulsion Laws imposed roughly 300 years earlier by Edward I in 1290.

This belief was so prevalent that Manasseh ben Israel, in his letter to Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament, appealed to it as a reason to readmit Jews into England, saying, " he opinions of many Christians and mine do concur herein, that we both believe that the restoring time of our Nation into their native country is very near at hand.

His loss " struck a great sadness into Cromwell " and he was considered a great loss to the administration.

In the 1970 film Cromwell starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston plays Ireton as a subtle but well-meaning manipulator who hates Charles I and pushes Cromwell into taking actions which the latter at first considers neither desirable nor possible but then pursues all the way.

This version of Ireton is ready to denounce the King and plunge England into civil war before Cromwell becomes convinced that this is a necessary step.

Having become a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms in 1644, he was in supreme command at Marston Moor but in the subsequent operations his lack of energy brought him into disagreement with Cromwell, and in November 1644 he strongly expressed his disapproval of continuing the war.

On the entry of the army into London in 1648, Deane superintended the seizure of treasure at the Guildhall and the Weavers ' Hall the day after Thomas Pride " purged " the House of Commons and accompanied Cromwell to the consultations as to the " settlement of the Kingdom " with William Lenthall and Sir Thomas Widdrington, the keeper of the great seal.

However, Tromp's death was a severe blow to the Dutch – few now expected to beat the English ; the Orangist faction lost political influence and Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt was willing to give formal treaty assurances to Cromwell that the infant William III of Orange would never become stadtholder, thus turning the Netherlands into a base for a Stuart restoration.

As leader of the moderate ( or Presbyterian ) party Holles now came into violent antagonism with Cromwell and the army faction.