When Henry died an old man in 1547, he was mourned as …show more content…
They would be no need to pass over 50 Catholic heirs before handing the throne to Protestant Hanoverians. There would be no Bonfire Night to commemorate Guy Fawkes botched attempt to blow up parliament. The most significant consequence of Henry IX reign would be that the great colonisation of the New World (colonized by Portugal, England, Spain, and France) would have led to a uniformity of Catholic settlements in North America. No Puritan “Pilgrim Fathers” would have arrived in the New World, who, as like their Catholic englishmen, were criminalised in England from in 1559 for not attending the new Tudor Church’s. Furthermore, the Protestant bond linking that was displayed in England, along with her former colonies, would have never