[ComputerGuy]

Henry VIII himself had three of my ancestors lopped, chopped and hanged.

[Vigilanteman]

Estimates of people executing (mostly for petty crimes) during the reign of Henry VIII range from 50,000 to 80,000 or roughly 3% of England's population at the time.

One of my ancestors was Cardinal Wosley (yeah, Catholic clergy could and did get married in that era) who was fired by Henry VIII when he couldn't get him his first divorce.

Sir Thomas More took his place and we all know how that turned out after More got the annulment that Wosley was pushing for after Henry wanted to dispose of his second wife as well.

Wosley, meanwhile, became so popular with his parishioners in York that Henry had him summoned to London to find an excuse to have him executed. God was kind and allowed Wosley to die on the journey there.