Entries for the tag ‘Cromwell, Thomas (by 1485-1540)’
Advocate of the English Reformation, chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 until his beheading. 
- 13 January 1536: Richard Layton, dissolver of monasteries, writes to Thomas Cromwell claiming that Yorkshire clergy use birth control
- 20 January 1536: Thomas Cromwell’s dissolvers of monasteries, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, report allegations of whoring and theft by William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains
- 21 October 1536: Henry VIII’s herald encounters part of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract
- 25 October 1536: God stands between Henry VIII’s army at Doncaster and a superior force of Catholic rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace, according to a Tudor chronicler
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