Question

The rulers and major political events of this period are: Henry VIII (1509–47), Edward IV (1547–53), Mary I (1553–58), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), James I (1603–25), Charles I (1625–49), Cromwell (1653–1658), Charles II (1660–85), James II (1685–88), and Mary & William (1688–1702). Pick a year during one of these reigns and check what new words appear. Make use of the Advanced Search option in the electronic OED or the CED. Do the new words give you a clue about the political climate of the reign?
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Answer 1

Henry VIII's Reformation Parliament [1529 - 1536], changed the character of Parliament and of English Government.

• In a few years, the Parliament made laws affecting most aspects of national life which had previously been under the Church alone.

• The Parliament made laws which transferred religious authority from the Pope to English Crown.

• The Reformation Parliament thus asserted the arbiter, or sovereignty, of the Parliament in making statue, or more precisely the sovereignty of Crown-in-Parliament.

• The Parliament only existed by the monarch's will, but King of Great Britain and his immediate successors knew that they might best effect their will only through the assent of Parliament in statute.