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"We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic."

— Henry VIII

We At No Time Stand So

We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic.

— Henry VIII
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Henry VIII delivered this speech to Parliament in November 1545, one of his last major addresses before his death in January 1547. The speech is sometimes called his "Last Speech to Parliament" and is remembered for its unusually conciliatory and even affectionate tone, in which Henry urged lords, clergy, and commons to work together in Christian charity. The king was by then seriously ill, massively obese, and ruling through a small council; the speech represents a late effort to consolidate the unity of a realm that had been profoundly destabilized by the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries.

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Speech to Parliament, 1542

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