Thomas Cromwell

The Dramatic Rise & Fall of Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served as principal minister of Henry VIII from 1532 to 1540, the most tumultuous period in Henry''s thirty-seven year reign. Many of the momentous events of the 1530s are attributed to Cromwell''s agency: the Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries and the fall of Henry''s second wife,...