Speaking of truncation, you seem to have conveniently omitted about four decades, during which time England was indeed a Roman police state, hundreds of nobles were exiled or self-exiled, imprisoned, or tortured, and hundreds of Reform Christians were burned alive.
The English police state under Bloody Mary was considerably liberalized when Elizabeth ascended. I'm sure you were taught otherwise, but your version of history -- the Roman version -- like the biography of "Saint" Sir Thomas More, who tortured heretics in his own home, is a fabrication.
How long do you think that Mary was queen? Or More was Lord Chancellor under Henry? Even Henry’s spell of anti-Lutheran activity lasted less than a decade before he turned to Cromwell and Cranmer to remake the English Church. These reforms were so unpopular in England that only the people’s attachment to the dynasty forestalled a rebellion. As for the Roman influence, probably the only strongly Romanist we ever had as king was Henry V.