Possible Clues:

• As at first, Henry VIII was intellectual
• Assessment of family caught in possession
• Fine head — using it?
• Thought
• Pondering
• Not, presumably, Henry VIII's judgment!
• Considering most of those in 27 across and in Government
• Coming up with the idea to water down one of those in The Palace
• Not thick, monarch using his brain?
• Judgment of relations enveloped in obsession