will be one of the main arguments of this book that Thomas Cromwell’s enthusiasm for the Reformation was a constant force in shaping his public career and policy, and that from early in the 1520s he was what a later generation would call Protestant. The term ‘Protestant’ is best put aside in dealing with the very early stage of the English Reformation which Cromwell did so much to advance. ‘Evangelical’ is a better description, for in Cromwell’s lifetime ‘Protestant’ was not a term used to describe English adherents of the Reformation and is best reserved for its place of origin in Germany. By
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