I amongst other have endured a Parliament which continued by the space of seventeen hole weeks, where we communed of war, peace, strife, contention, debate, murmur, grudge, riches, poverty, penury, truth, falsehood, justice, equity, deceit, oppression, magnanimity, activity, force, attemprance, treason, murder, felony, conciliation, and also how a commonwealth might be edified and also continued within our realm. Howbeit in conclusion we have done as our predecessors have been wont to do, that is to say as well as we might, and left where we began.


Letter to a friend after the dissolution of the unproductive Parliament of 1523. (Roger B. Merriman, The Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell: Volume I (Oxford University Press, 1902), p. 313.)

Thomas Cromwell Quotes

I amongst other have endured a Parliament which continued by the space of seventeen hole weeks, where we communed of war, peace, strife, contention,...

I amongst other have endured a Parliament which continued by the space of seventeen hole weeks, where we communed of war, peace, strife, contention,...

I amongst other have endured a Parliament which continued by the space of seventeen hole weeks, where we communed of war, peace, strife, contention,...

I amongst other have endured a Parliament which continued by the space of seventeen hole weeks, where we communed of war, peace, strife, contention,...