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JackintheGreen

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3. Didn't Henry have himself flogged

Reply to ChoppinBroccoli (Original post)

Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:34 AM

Aug 2016

as an act of contrition? Which is quite different from being flogged by the Church as a forced penance.

THat's how I remember it (though that doesn't mean that's how I was taught it. Stupid old guy memory)

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