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The other significant achievement of Henry’s reign was the Act of Union of 1536, which properly brought Wales under English government, with the result that the 1st Welsh members of parliament had been elected in 1542. In 1533 Henry introduced the 1st legislation against homosexuals with the Buggery Act, making “buggery” punishable by hanging, a penalty not finally lifted till 1861. Chinon Castle The ageing King began to feel the weight of his years and fell sick while at Le…