more. In the next two or three days those determined to foil the spreading evangelical coup said the right things to the King to achieve the desired result. The psychology with Henry was to find an oblique reason why he should feel savage fury with a victim, to fuel his self-righteousness and draw attention away from his own sense of humiliation. With Anne, it had been the notion that she had committed the crimes of adultery with all and sundry, and incest with her own brother. With Cromwell, the obvious (and in fact accurate) direction was religion: his constant private initiatives, often
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