Excerpt from The New Illustrated History of England, Vol. 2 of 4 Anne soon discovered that the death of Wolsey was not, after all, of much benefit to her. The coalition which had destroyed him found out that she was more arrogant than her opponent. Katherine seized the opportunity to have a serious conversation with Henry. The King, however, told her that he had determined to marry Anne, Whatever the Pope might say. This interview was on Christmas eve, 1530, and in the beginning of 1531 Henry began to fear that the Pope would compel him to get rid of Anne, under pain of excommunication. Anne was doing everything in her power to persuade the King to marry her; but her prospects seemed very uncertain. Just at this time Anne met with a new ally. Thomas Cromwell, the malle-as monaclzorum (the hammer of the was the son of a wealthy citizen, and had received a tolerable education in his youth. Being left badly off after his father's death, he had gone abroad, and had there gained a knowledge of foreign languages and of foreign countries. Returning to London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.