Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Cromwell

G. R. Elton's Policy and Police, first published in 1972, has since acquired classic status in the literature on the government of sixteenth-century England. The book examines what actually happened during Henry VIII's break with Rome, the widespread resistance which necessitated constant vigilance on the part of the government, and the role of Thomas Cromwell, whose surviving correspondence permits a detailed insight both into the purposes of government and the manner in which it was experienced by the people.Elton, Geoffrey R. is the author of 'Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Cromwell', published 1985 under ISBN 9780521313094 and ISBN 0521313090.