Chapter VI
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HENRY VIII (ii), 1509-1532—BIRTH OF THE REFORMATION The Reformation in England—Its true Character—Religious Decadence—The Scholar- Reformers—Ecclesiastical Demoralisation—Monastic Corruption—The Proofs—Corruption of Doctrine—Evidence from Colet and More—Later Evidence—Dean Colet—His Sermon: 1512—Erasmus—The Utopia: 1516— Exaggerated attacks—Clerical Privileges—Tentative Reforms—The Educational Movement—Wolsey and the Reformation—The Lutheran Revolt: 1517—Luther's Defiance—The Diet of Worms; 1521—The German Peasants' Revolt; 1524—Its Effect in England—1525. The Empire and the Papacy—The Sack of Rome, 1527—Diet of Augsburg, 1530-The Swiss Reformers; 1520-1530—English Heretics Abroad—Contrasted Aims.