The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Henry wished to repent.

Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of the Main Plot to place Arbella Stuart on the English throne, so if Shakespeare wished to use Oldcastle to embarrass the Cobhams, he seems unlikely to have done so on religious grounds.

Archbishop Heriger of Mainz offered to anoint Henry according to the usual ceremony, but he refused to be anointed by a high church official — the only King of his time not to undergo that rite — allegedly because he wished to be king not by the church's but by the people's acclaim.

In part he was following in the tradition of Henry I and Henry II, but by the 13th century the volume of administrative work had greatly increased, which put much more pressure on a king who wished to rule in this style.

Henry wished to ensure that Richard de Clare, who had married Diarmait's daughter and become heir to Leinster, did not establish an independent Norman kingdom in Ireland.

Henry now wished to make peace with Rhys, who came to Newnham to meet him.

As well as being a young stranger in a foreign court, she also saw most of her English retinue dismissed by the Emperor ; Henry V also wished that Matilda learn to speak German.

Time and again she wrote to Henry with complaints about her poverty and appeals for money and protection – she wished for ease and comfort instead of being obliged " to follow her son about like a poor gentlewoman.

Henry VIII of England wished Mary to marry his son, Prince Edward.

" In April 1543, Arran heard a rumour that Henry VIII now wished to make Mary of Guise his sixth wife.

It is far more likely that Henry VIII usurped the minor badges of both houses, because his own badge was a red and white rose-the Tudor rose-and he wished to bask in the reflected glories of both York and Lancaster-each a cadet branch of the royal Plantagenet House.

In 1957, he and his wife Catherine ( Mrs. Henry J. Gaisman ) passed the title for his land to the New York Archdiocese for $ 600, 000, with the agreement that they could live there as long as they wished.

As they had become kings around the same time, Haakon wrote to Henry in 1224 that he wished they could maintain the friendship that had existed between their fathers.

Ruaidrí at first remained aloof from engagement with King Henry, though many of the lesser kings and lords welcomed his arrival as they wished to see him curb the territorial gains made by his vassals.

In 1127, the custody of Rochester Castle was granted to William and his successors as archbishop by King Henry, including the right to fortify the place as the archbishops wished, and the right to garrison the castle with their own men.

Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. recounts one incident in which Beebe turned down a scientist who wished to work with him when the scientist described boredom with his current duties as one of his reasons for requesting this.

Both Henry and Francis wished to be seen as Renaissance princes.

He acted as an ambassador to Henry of Flanders when the Greeks of Adrianople and Demotica wished to break their alliance from Kaloyan of Bulgaria and seek the protection of their cities by the Latins.

St Leger's policy was generally one of moderation and conciliation — more so than Henry VIII wished.

While Williams ' children Claudia and John Henry contended that Williams wished to be preserved at Alcor, their half-sister and oldest Williams child Bobby-Jo Ferrell contested that her father wished to be cremated.

Henry I had wished his inheritance to pass to his daughter Matilda, and in 1127 made his notables swear an oath to uphold the succession of Matilda ( David was the first layman to do so ).

Henry added the Norman kingdom of Sicily to his domains, held English king Richard the Lionheart captive and aimed to establish a hereditary monarchy, when he died in 1197.

On 8 November 1266, a contract between Henry III and Hamburg's traders allowed them to establish a hanse in London.

Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain Richard III in the play Henry VI, Part Three, in which the future usurper boasts:

Hereby Leopold II obtained control via his International African Society and later the International Congolese Society, so-called philanthropic organizations who hired the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley to establish its authority.

The problem was further complicated by the sequence of unstable Anglo-Norman successions over the previous sixty years — William the Conqueror had gained England by force, William Rufus and Robert Curthose had fought a war between them to establish their inheritance, and Henry had only acquired control of Normandy by force.

In May 1801 the Secretary of War Henry Dearborn announced that the president had appointed Major Jonathan Williams, grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin, to direct organizing to establish such a school.

Henry Tudor was able to establish himself as a candidate not only of the traditional Lancastrian supporters, but of discontented supporters of the rival House of York, and rose to capture the throne in battle, becoming Henry VII.

was two and Fred was expected, the family moved to a nearby house called " The Chesnuts " which had a sizeable orchard and Henry Grace organised clearance of this to establish a practice pitch that was to become famous throughout the world of cricket.

In June he marched to Williamsburg, where he received a confusing series of orders from General Sir Henry Clinton that culminated in a directive to establish a fortified deep water port.

* Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her own court in Poitiers.

One legislative priority of his fourth term was a bill to establish a Department of Education, which succeeded, only to be brought down by poor administration on the part of the first Commissioner of Education, Henry Barnard.

The second purpose of the inquest was to establish what land and rights the crown had lost during the reign of Henry III.

Henry Clay helped establish and became president in 1816 of the American Colonization Society, a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa ; it founded Monrovia, in what became Liberia, for that purpose.

In 1836, Henry H. Spalding and Marcus Whitman traveled west to establish the Whitman Mission near modern day Walla Walla, Washington.

In 1878, under the auspices of the holding company, he hired the famous explorer Henry Stanley to establish a colony in the Congo region.

The Home School Legal Defense Association was cofounded in 1983 by Michael Farris, who would later establish Patrick Henry College, and Michael Smith.

Henry raised the young Mary, Queen of Scots, at his court, hoping to use her ultimately to establish a dynastic claim to Scotland.

On failing famously to receive from the Pope an annulment to his marriage, Henry had himself declared Supreme Head of the Church in England in February 1531, and instigated a programme of legislation to establish this Royal Supremacy in law and enforce its acceptance throughout his realm.

In 1864, Governor Henry Watkins Allen named Dr. Bartholomew Egan of Bienville Parish to establish a laboratory for the manufacture of medicines.

In 1814, Colonel Johnson and Henry Yates purchased to establish a rivertown to be named Fredericksburg, after Johnson's hometown in Virginia.

The City of Jackson was founded by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly, passed in 1821, entitled an " act to establish a seat of justice for Henry, Carroll, Henderson and Madison Counties.

I think it should be noted that Hugh Henry McDermett and J. C. McDermett, early settlers here, petitioned the US Government, to establish the Post Office in Cross Plains.