BoilingThroat

Cromwell, Thomas, Earl Of Essex, Baron Cromwell Of Okeham

Principal adviser (1532–40) to England's Henry VIII, chiefly responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, for the dissolution of the monasteries, and for strengthening the royal administration. At the instigation of his enemies he was eventually arrested for heresy and treason and executed.

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