Henry VIII of England

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). 

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... 

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. 

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. 

The polyethylene glycol treatment to preserve the Wasa has been followed in England in preservation of the British warship Mary Rose, the intended flagship of the navy of Henry VIII, which also sank on its first voyage from harbor. Poly glycol wood preservation has been applied to a number of ship relics of the U.S. 

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