Abstract
The summer of 1540 in England witnessed an event which proved a turning-point in the history of the country. The fall of Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex was the outcome of a long struggle between Gardiner and Cromwell, the two servants of Cardinal Wolsey who after their master's death led rival factions in the Council. As one result of the crisis a reconciliation with Rome was expected by foreign observers, a step that would have left the Emperor and the French King free to form independent alliances with England. At home those who dared not contemplate such a reconciliation could at least prevent the further spread of new doctrines by enforcing the doctrine of the Six Articles. But all who welcomed Cromwell's fall as the signal for a religious revolution were soon to realise that there was a king in England who would be head both of State and Church.
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