Richard Hunne

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Apr 6, 2022

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, The play’s the thing

AA Milne, Angevin bloodline, Anglicanism, annulment, Arthur of Brittany, Ascension Day, authorship, avarice, Barons, burials, Cardinal Pandulph, character, charles forker, clergymen, Crowland Chronicle, Defender of the Faith, Earls of Essex, Edward Hall, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Eucharist, excommunication, Fauconbridge brothers, Geoffrey Plantagenet, George Peel, graham Seel, Henry, Henry the Young King, Henry VIII, Historiography, House of York, Hubert de Bergh, Innocent III, John, john Bale, John Dover-Wilson, John Gillingham, John Harvey, John Matusiak, John Wycliffe, Kit Marlowe, Lackland, Louis VIII, Magna Carta, male primogeniture, Mary I, Maude Plantagenet, Mirabeau, morality plays, Phillip Augustus, plays, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, recusants, Reformation, Richard Green, Richard Hunne, Richard I, Robin Hood, royal burials, sir brian vickers, Sir James Holt, Six Articles, Softsword, Staffords, stephen langton, Stuarts, Tillyard, Walt Disney, Wilfred Warren, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, Worcester Cathedral

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came across him, When walking in the town, Gave him a supercilious stare, Or passed with noses in the air, And…
The More I Read

May 6, 2021

anniversaries, religion, The play’s the thing

“Princes”, denialists, Dighton, executions, Henry VIII, heresy cases, Huddersfield, Lord Chancellor, Miles Forest, Richard Hunne, sandbagging, Sir John Tyrrell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, William Shakespeare

A paper by Professor Tim Thornton of the University of Huddersfield, first published on 28 December 2020, has reached the national press with claims … The More I Read
How Trustworthy is Thomas More?

Apr 26, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources

Annette Carson, Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham, heresy cases, injustice, Lollards’ Tower, mortuary fees, Old St. Paul’s, posthumous execution, Richard Hunne, Richard Marius, Statute of Praeminure, Thomas More, Tim Thornton

In the light of Tim Thornton’s recent claims relating to allegations made by Thomas More, I must start by saying I have never remotely considered taking Thomas More seriously as a historian of King Richard III, and nor would anyone who has read Richard Sylvester’s masterly analysis. But I do take him seriously as a…

Richard Hunne

KING JOHN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

The More I Read

How Trustworthy is Thomas More?