Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 257, his blood cryeth

against thee.

There are times when it is important to admit failure.

This is one of those times.

I have had a few questions about the phrase evangelicals and my use of it.

The reason I have been using that term is simply as a way to avoid overusing the word

Protestant and using that word too early.

So the word Protestant derived from the Diet of Spayer in 1529, but it really isn't

invoked until Elizabeth's time in England.

So evangelical in this context the way I am using it means a reformist, a proto-protestant.

The reason that's important is that still the evangelicals hoped against hope that the

whole church could be reformed rather than having the schism.

Ok then, looking back to the 17th of June, we barely stumbled over the line of Henry's

last breath, grasping the hand of his archbishop, one of the few men to whom he had genuinely

and constantly given his friendship.

Outside, while all this grasping was going on, many of the most powerful men of the kingdom

did some milling about as you do.

Although it appears from a later letter that two of those powerful counsellors slipped

away into the gallery and had a cold, hearted chat about what might happen next when the

old chap did croak his last, namely William Paget and Edward Seymour.

Hmm, what could they be planning, I wonder, out there alone in the gallery?

Incidentally, I discovered a thing the other day about dying kings and queens.

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