Henry VIII mb-code 00413788 'Ripe Assparagus'

'Ripe Assparagus'

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two schoolboys take great pleasure in reading about a schoolmaster

here depicted as a beautiful young woman in a dress dotted with the stars of her nation's flag

Henry VIII mb-code 00413788 'Ripe Assparagus'Henry VIII, King of England, 1525 (1824). Henry (1491 1547) succeeded his father, Henry VII, in 1509. Obsessed with passing the throne on to a male heir, he had six wives in the course of his reign, none of whom provided him with a son who survived. In divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in 1533, Henry severed the English church from Rome. From Ancient Armour, by Samuel Rush Mayrick, 1824.