"THE pillar perish'd is whereto I leant" by Sir Thomas Wyatt Archives

July 28, 2018July 28, 2021 Guest Writers The Tudor Thomases (Beth von Staats)

Historians, Novelists, and History Lovers Share Their Thoughts on the Greatest Contributions to English History of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

__________________________________________________________________ Today in history — 28 July 1540 — Bishop Edmund Bonner presided over the marriage of King Henry VIII to his 5th wife Catherine...

July 28, 2017May 17, 2018 Poetry The Tudor Thomases (Beth von Staats)

“THE pillar perish’d is whereto I leant,” by Sir Thomas Wyatt (Thomas Cromwell Executed: July 28, 1540)

_______________________________ Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Poem Heralding the Execution of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex _______________________________ THE pillar perish’d is whereto I leant, The strongest stay...