Henry VIII

Halliwell, J.O. Some account of John Claptone, an alchemist of Winchester, temp. Henry VIII. Trans Brit Archeol Soc (1845) 40-44. 

Yates, Frances Amelia. Majesty magic in Shakespeare s last plays a new approach to Cymbeline, Henry VIII and The Tempest. 1975 reprint, Boulder (CO) Shambhala, 1978. xi, 140 p. ISBN 0-87773-121-7... 

The right of the University of Combridge to print ond sell all manner of books was granted by Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed ond published continuously since 1584. 

King Henry VIII places tighter controls on crossbows but orders that all fathers should teach their sons to shoot the longbow, which had been a devastating weapon against Erench knights in earlier wars. 

King Henry VIII restricts the lengths of guns that citizens may possess. People are allowed to keep other guns in their homes but not carry them in their travels on the king s highways. 

In order to create a big Navy, Henry VIII of England needed money which he got by confiscating the properties of Roman Catholic Churches and Monasteries. This money permitted him to create a Navy, which at the time of Henry s death (1547) amounted to 53 ships, all equipped with bronze cannons. With the... 

Sweet clover has a long history of medicinal use, often as an antiflammatory or analgesic preparation in the form of ointments and poultices. Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover, or ribbed melilot) was reputed to have been a favorite herbal treatment used by King Henry VIII of England and the plant is still referred to as King s Clover in some publications (175). 

The problem of succession was therefore an important issue during the reign of Henry VIII. 

Even before the fateful battle in the English Channel, the kings of England recognized the need for hemp if their realm were ever to compete with Europe. Initially, the monarchs tried to coerce their subjects to raise hemp. The first such fiat came in 1533 when King Henry VIII commanded that for every sixty acres of arable land a farmer owned, a quarter acre was to be sown with hemp. The penalty for not doing so was to be three shillings and four pence. 

The College of Physicians was founded in 1518 by Henry VIII, and in 1540 one of the earliest British statutes on the control of drugs was passed (32 Henry VIII c.40 for Physicians and their Privileges), which empowered the physicians to appoint four inspectors of apothecary wares, drugs and stuffs . Section 2 of the Act gave the physicians the right to search Apothecaries shops for faulty wares, with the assistance of the Wardens of the said mysterie of Apothecaries within the said City . If the search showed drugs that were defective, corrupted and not meet nor convenient to be ministered in any medicines for the health of man s body , the searchers were to call for the Warden of the Apothecaries and the defective wares were to be burnt or otherwise destroyed. 

This Act of Henry VIII was obviously incorrect in defining the Apothecaries as a separate body, and was corrected later in the reign of Queen Mary by an Act of 1553 (1 Mary sess 2 c.9), in which it was enacted ... 

Acts of Henry VIII and Mary I, but with their area of inspection extended beyond the City. 

M. Rule, The Mary Rose - the Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII s Flagship, Conway Maritime Press Ltd, London, 1982. 

S. M. Kybett, Henry VIII - A Malnourished King , History Today, 1989, 39, 19-25. 

Morn ing-4tar. A weapon used in ancient times and as late as by the train-bands of London, in tin time of Henry VIII. It consists of a ball with spikes, united by a chain to a stafl. ... 

During the fifteenth century, the Vatican achieved control of the alum industry in Europe. When King Henry VIII of England quarreled with Pope Clemens VII a century later over his desire to marry a... 

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