A report on the death of Richard Whiting.
On November 15th 1539 Richard Whiting was taken from Glastonbury Abbey and tortured by Henry VIII’s advisors. Richard was an Abbott at the Abbey and was thought to be a very noble man who had quite a lot of power. His advisors somehow convinced Henry VIII that Richard Whiting was the reason for all his problems.
Henry VIII, the king of England at this time, had many problems. Henry had been secretly having an affair with Anne Boleyn, a French mistress who always knew how to get her way with him. She had been playing hard-to-get in the letters that Henry had sent to her and evidence shows that she may have asked Henry to get a divorce from Catherine Of Aragon who was his wife at the time. Anne also dropped the bombshell that she was pregnant, she knew that Henry had always wanted a son; which was the only thing Catherine could not give him. On top of that, Henry was also having problems with power and money. Henry was annoyed that the Pope and his Abbott’s had so much more power than him.
