On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

He urged Henry to invade Ireland to bring its Celtic Christian Church under the Roman system and to conduct a general reform of governance and society throughout the island.

* After regaining his power, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II.

Indeed, by the late 1960s, the unwavering stance of the Hallstein Doctrine was actually considered detrimental to US interests ; numerous American advisors and policymakers, most notably Henry Kissinger, urged Bonn to be more flexible.

In 1520, Charles visited England, where his aunt, Catherine of Aragon, urged her husband, Henry VIII, to ally himself with the emperor.

He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick Henry ( Dutch: Frederik Hendrik ), youngest son of William I. Maurits urged his successor on his deathbed to marry as soon as possible.

Pole also urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately.

The Polish-Lithuanian parliament had been urged by Anna Jagiellon, the sister of the recently deceased king Sigismund II Augustus, to elect him based on the understanding that Henry would wed Anna afterward.

Henry urged the jury to make an example of Maury.

With three dead wives behind him, Henry is urged by his counselors to marry again and further secure the succession.

Maurice urged his cadet half brother, Frederick Henry to marry in order to preserve the dynasty.

For a while, Beauregard persisted in moving his troops for an attack on his right flank ( McDowell's left, toward Centreville ), but Johnston urged him to travel with him to the threatened flank at Henry House Hill, which was weakly defended.

He frequently gave up on it but Henry urged him to continue.

In 1083, Henry IV urged Margrave Wiprecht of Groitzsch to develop the castle site, which Colditz accepted.

Episcopal Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple had urged leniency in the case, but his position was not politically popular in Minnesota.

Peter and John urged him to fulfill the treaty, yield Ceuta and secure Ferdinand's release, while Henry ( who had signed the treaty ) urged him to renege on it.

In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that on 6 October 1973, during the 1973 Arab Israeli War, Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig to keep Nixon in Florida in order to avoid " any hysterical moves " and to " keep any Walter Mitty tendencies under control ".

Shaftesbury, Arlington, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, and Henry Coventry all urged Charles II to divorce Catherine of Braganza and re-marry a Protestant princess.

Mayenne was urged to claim the crown for himself, but he was faithful to the official programme of the League and proclaimed Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, at that time a prisoner in the hands of Henry IV, as Charles X of France, although this numbering is not accepted by historians.

Louis XIV's pious second wife Madame de Maintenon was a strong advocate of Protestant persecution and urged Louis to revoke Henry IV's edict ; her confessor and spiritual adviser, François de la Chaise, must be held largely responsible.

:* Henry Kissinger: National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to presidents Nixon and Ford, Kissinger stated he was influenced by Spengler and urged Nixon to read Decline of the West.

This group first crystallized during the presidential election of 1948 when they urged the SWP to back Henry Wallaces's Progressive Party campaign, rather than field their own candidates.

He was one of those who urged the new King to execute Richard, and accompanied King Henry against the rebellion of 1400.

Elizabeth's government did much to consolidate the work begun under Thomas Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII, that is, expanding the role of the government and effecting common law and administration throughout England.

* 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason.

Patrick Henry refers to Tarquin in his famous speech ending, " Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third ... may profit by their example.

Henry Vane the younger removed himself from Parliament in protest of this unlawful action by Ireton, and was not party to the execution of Charles I, though Cromwell was.

A ruling that Henry Vane himself had concurred with in opposition to Oliver Cromwell years earlier.

Pole reported that the Prince was spoken of highly by Thomas Cromwell in England and had influenced Henry VIII in his turn towards Protestantism, and in his tactics, for example during the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Parliament passed an order of attainder for High Treason on the four most prominent deceased regicides: John Bradshaw the court president, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride.

Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I ; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.

Lilburne, John Wildman and Richard Baxter later thought that Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton had applied the term to Lilburne's group during the Putney Debates of late 1647.

Wolsey fell from favour as a result of his failure to procure a divorce, and Henry appointed Thomas Cromwell in his place.

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

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 chose to blame Cromwell for the failed marriage, and ordered him beheaded on 28 July 1540.

* January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.

* July 28 – One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of treason.

The opening of the play was also changed, with Thomas Cromwell telling Henry VIII the outcome of the trial and Henry then recalling his marriage to Anne, rather than Anne speaking first and then Henry remembering in flashback.

Henry demands that his new minister, Thomas Cromwell, find a way to get rid of Anne.

The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were subjected to the indignity of posthumous decapitations.

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 ".

At the same time, Holbein worked for Thomas Cromwell as he masterminded Henry VIII's reformation.

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex ( 28 July 1540 ) was an English statesman who served as chief minister of King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540.

Cromwell helped engineer an annulment of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, so that Henry could marry his mistress Anne Boleyn.