Original sentence: Gardiner is commonly represented as a morose and narrow-minded bigot.He died, probably in his early sixties, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral, where his effigy is still to be seen.He was called ambitious, turbulent, crafty, abject, vindictive, and bloodthirsty; it was asserted by Gilbert Burnet that he was despised by both Henry VIII and by Mary I, both of whom made use of him as a tool.This is quite inaccurate, since  Gardiner had died before Elizabeth ascended the Throne.Yet he submitted to five years in prison rather than change his principles; and there is no contemporary evidence that either Henry nor Mary considered him despicable
Edited sentence: Gardiner was probably not the morose and narrow-minded bigot he is commonly represented.He died (believed to be in his early 60s) and was buried in Winchester Cathedral, where his effigy is still to be seen.He was called ambitious, turbulent, crafty, abject, vindictive, bloodthirsty and a good many other things besides, not quite in keeping with each other; in addition to which it was asserted by Gilbert Burnet that he was despised alike by Henry and by Mary, both of whom made use of him as a tool.This is quite inaccurate considering that, in reality, Gardiner had died before Elizabeth ever ascended the Throne.Yet he submitted to five years in prison rather than change his principles; and neither Henry nor Mary considered him by any means despicable