On this day in 1549, the boy-King, Edward VI wrote in his journal: “I went to Deptford, being bidden to supper by the lord Clinton … . After … was there a fort made upon a great lighter on the Thames …, of which Mr. Winter was captain, with forty or fifty other soldiers … […]
According to one – harsh – contemporary account, on this day in 1535: “On the xix day of June, three monks of the London Charterhouse were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn – their quarters set up about London for denying the king to be supreme head of the Church (*). Their names were William […]
Charles Wriothesley (see also March 18th posting) wrote in his “Chronicle of England during the Reigns of the Tudors …” that: “The eighteenth daie of June, 1546, were arraigned at the Guilde Hall, for heresee, Doctor Nicholas Shaxston, sometyme bishop of Salisburie; Nicholas White, of London, gentleman; Anne Kerne, alias Anne Askewe, gentlewoman, … of Lyncolneshire; and […]
Following on from the earlier posting on London connections to the Cornish Revolt … The Welsh freedom-fighter Owain Glyndwr’s daughter Catrin and her children were captured by the English at the Siege of Harlech in 1409. They were then brought to London and imprisoned in the Tower, and at least most if not all of […]
On or around this day in 1497, around 10000 – lightly – armed Cornish rebels gathered on Blackheath preparatory to marching on London to protest against oppressive royal rule and punitive taxation (suspension of the privileges of the “Stannary Charter” of 1305). Unfortunately for them, they failed to rally any support there from the Kentish, […]
