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HENRY VIII.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
FROM THE ACCESSION OF EDWARD VI. TO THEDEATH OF ELIZABETH (1547-1603). (Political Historyof England, Vol. VI.). With 2 Maps.
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HENRY VIII.
BY
A.F. POLLARD, M.A.
 PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;EXAMINER IN MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD ANDLONDON; AUTHOR OF "A LIFE OF CRANMER," "ENGLAND UNDERPROTECTOR SOMERSET," ETC., ETC.
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PREFACE.(p. v)
It is perhaps a matter rather for regret than for surprise that so fewattempts have been made to describe, as a whole, the life andcharacter of Henry VIII. No ruler has left a deeper impress on thehistory of his country, or done work which has been the subject ofmore keen and lasting contention. Courts of law are still debating theintention of statutes, the tenor of which he dictated; and the moral,political, and religious, are as much in dispute as the legal, resultsof his reign. He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laityagainst clergy. His policy is inextricably interwoven with the highand eternal dilemma of Church and State; and it is well-nighimpossible for one who feels keenly on these questions to treat thereign of Henry VIII. in a reasonably judicial spirit. No periodillustrates more vividly the contradiction between morals andpolitics. In our desire to reprobate the immorality of Henry'smethods, we are led to deny their success; or, in our appreciation ofthe greatness of the ends he achieved, we seek to excuse the means hetook to                        
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