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From Henry VIII's Break with Rome to Cromwell's Commonwealth [15min]

The churchwardens' accounts of Prescot in Lancashire, with their detailed costs of continually putting up and taking down the altar, reflect the turbulent changes from Henry VIII's break with Rome to Cromwell's Commonwealth. Richard Foster with stories which stem from that basic piece of a historians research -- a bill.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The Old Bill"