Henry VIII king

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. 

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). 

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. 

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

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... 

John Dee was the son of one of Henry VIII s court officials. Dee believed that he too was descended from the ancient kings of Britain. He believed that he was a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and it is true that the Queen seemed indulge him, keeping him near as her personal astrologer. 

From the union of the White Rose of York or Rosa alba semiplena and the Jacobite Rose, Rosa alba maxima, the Tudor Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII created the unique Tudor Rose. This was a five petal white rose placed in the centre of a five petal red rose, surmounted by a crown. 

Although the Compagnonnage masons were nominally Christian, they carved a strange profusion of S5unbols into nearly all pre-Reformation Churches. The Reformation in England commenced about 1534 when Henry VIII prevailed upon Parliament to appoint the king and his successors to be the supreme head of the Church of England. Between 1536 and 1539, Henry VIII suppressed the Roman Catholic monasteries and seized their property. 

King John thus glances forward to a world in which the loss of any English claim to France has been completely accepted, as in Henry VIII where warfare between the two nations is either conducted entirely through tournament combat between their two monarchs or resented as a pretext for taxation rather than acclaimed as a national crasade. ... 

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