1536 Quotes

“it is not the king’s deed but the deed of Crumwell, and if we had him here we would crum him and crum him so that he was never so crummed’ (a play on words of Cromwell’s name),”
― Suzannah Lipscomb, 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII

“It has been suggested that it was not even conceptually possible to be an atheist in the sixteenth century.”
― Suzannah Lipscomb, 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII