An example of this was found in Henry VIII's England where his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey.

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.

Within two years, the Rough Wooing began, Henry VIII's military attempt to force a marriage between Mary and his son, Edward.

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545.

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545.

An example is the Mary Rose, the flagship of King Henry VIII's fleet, which had around eleven heavy guns per side, all of which were capable of firing shot nine pounds or more.

Henry VIII's cousin once removed, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, stood sponsor for Mary's confirmation, which was held immediately after the baptism.

Contradicting the Succession Act, which restored Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession, Edward named Dudley's daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's younger sister Mary, Queen of France, as his successor.

At age 37, Mary turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth ( still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will and the Act of Succession of 1544 ) from succeeding to the throne.

* 1501 – Catherine of Aragon ( later Henry VIII's first wife ) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

During Henry VIII's reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact laws by mere proclamation.

The legislative pre-eminence of Parliament was not restored until after Henry VIII's death.

Henry VIII's first marriage had its origins in 1502 when his elder brother, Arthur, died.

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, Henry VIII's chief minister responsible for the Dissolution of the Monasteries

This gave the succession to his cousin Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor, who, after the death of Louis XII of France in 1515 had married Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk.

Timeline showing merger of King's Hall, Cambridge | King ’ s Hall and Michaelhouse, Cambridge | Michaelhouse to form Trinity College after Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.

* 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician, missionary and scientist, developed fingerprinting ( d. 1930 )

* February 14 – Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author ( d. 1954 )

* February 3 – Henry Heimlich, American physician and medical researcher

* March 7 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer ( d. 1882 )

Henry sent his own physician to Hever Castle to care for her, and shortly afterwards, she recovered.

* William Henry Farrow ( 1805 ?– 1876 ), physician born and trained in England and practiced in Canada

The Huntingdon Normal School was established by a young Huntingdon physician, Dr. Andrew B. Brumbaugh, and his two cousins, Henry and John Brumbaugh.

They are Parris Mitchell ( Robert Cummings ), who lives with his grandmother ( Maria Ouspenskaya ); Cassandra Tower ( Betty Field ), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower ( Claude Rains ); the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ); Louise Gordon ( Nancy Coleman ), daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon ( Charles Coburn ), who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic ; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan ( Ann Sheridan ), whose father ( Ernest Cossart ) is a railroad worker.

Henry Norman Bethune ( March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939 ; Chinese name: 白求恩 ; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn ) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator.

* Point of Honor: The Federal-era mansion of Dr. George Cabell, Sr., friend and physician of the patriot Patrick Henry.

* Dr. Thomas Hinde, personal physician to Patrick Henry and physician during the American Revolutionary War.

* Thomas Hinde, notable resident and physician to Patrick Henry in the Revolutionary War.

* Henry Clay Frick II ( 1919 – 2007 ), physician and head of the Frick Collection.

* John Henry Logan, ( 1822 – 1885 ), born in Abbeville, physician, served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, professor at Atlanta Medical College, and editor of the Atlanta Medical Journal.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

In 1872 American physician Henry Draper, the son of John William Draper, recorded the first spectrogram of a star ( Vega ) to show absorption lines.

His father, Henry Peter John Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, Dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard, the physician.

* Henry Waldo Coe, frontier physician and politician

On the accession of Henry VIII in 1509, he was appointed the king's physician, an office at that time of considerable influence and importance, and practised medicine in London, having among his patients most of the great statesmen and prelates of the time, including Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop William Warham and Bishop Fox.

He was also taught by the surgeons James Cusack and Sir Philip Crampton and the physician Sir Henry Marsh.

Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893 in Anna, Illinois, the son of a physician, who early on determined to become a cartoonist.

Hearne, for instance, corresponded frequently with Dr. Henry Levett, an early English physician and medical doctor at Charterhouse, London.