Thomas Cromwell

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Thomas Cromwell executed this day in 1540.

Thomas Cromwell | History Today

Thomas Cromwell was born about 1485; he died on the scaffold in July 1540. Of the fifty-five years of his life, the first twenty-five are quite obscure, illuminated only by some romantic stories with a thin substratum of fact. His father was a shearman of Putney who seems to have possessed a quarrel…

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