On this day in history, Thursday 11th May 1536, the Grand Jury of Kent, presided over by Chief Justice John Baldwin and six of his colleagues, met at Deptford to rule on the case against Queen Anne Boleyn, Sir Henry Norris, William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Lord Rochford.
Like the Grand Jury of Middlesex, that had met the day before, the jurors ruled that there was sufficient evidence to send the queen and the five men to trial for the alleged crimes committed in the county of Kent at Greenwich Palace, East Greenwich and Eltham Palace.
Picture: The Great Hall at Eltham Palace, cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Marathon – geograph.org.uk/p/5137321
