In March of this year a bill was presented to parliament to close all monasteries with a revenue of 200 pounds a year. It was the first major step toward liquidating Catholic assets and assimilating them into the Royal Treasury orchestrated by Thomas Cromwell. 

By May of this year the king’s patience with his new wife had worn thin. She had one job - to produce a male heir. All she managed to do was produce a female child, much as Henry’s previous queen Katherine of Aragon had done. Ultimately Anne Boleyn was arrested, tried for treason, and beheaded. The next day King Henry was betrothed to Jane Seymour whom he married ten days later. Later Henry would look back on her as his only true wife because she produced the longed-for male heir. 

In October of this year, William Tyndale was hanged at burned in the Duchy of Brabant. As he was dying, he uttered a single, simple prayer - “Lord open the King of England’s eyes”. He prayed this in connection to the free distribution of the English Bible throughout the realm that Henry had proscribed. However, Tyndale’s prayers were answered two years later when a copy of the English Bible was placed in every church in every parish throughout the kingdom by the king’s command.

The same month the Northern shires of England banded together in what later became known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. It was a revolt against the new laws restricting Catholicism within the realms. The rebels demanded a return to the old ways. Eventually, the king executed their ringleader, Robert Aske, and had many of the other rebels hanged.