April 6 – A queen’s spymaster and a serial secret husband
On this day in Tudor history, 6th April 1621, in the Stuart period, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of…
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April 5 – A cook is boiled to death and a pope is wrong!
On this day in Tudor history, 5th April 1531, Richard Roose, the cook of Bishop John Fisher's household,…
April 4 – The influential Mildred Cecil and a writer, historian and shipwreck
On this day in Tudor history, 4th April 1572, writer and historian William Strachey was born in Saffron…
April 1 – William Harvey, his experiments and blood circulation and Henry VIII courts Jane Seymour
On this day in Tudor history, 1st April 1578, English physician William Harvey, was born in Folkestone, Kent.…
March 31 – John Donne, the bell tolls for thee and King Henry VIII as King Ahab, Anne Boleyn as Jezebel
On this day in history, 31st March 1631, the Tudor and Stuart metaphysical poet, satirist, lawyer and clergyman…
March 30 – Thomas Cranmer and his protestation, and A “pregnant” Mary I makes her will
On this day in Tudor history, 30th March 1533, at the Passion Sunday service, Thomas Cranmer, Archdeacon of…
March 29 – Children encourage John Laurence at his sad end and the marriage of Mary Dudley
On this day in Tudor history, 29th March 1555, in the reign of Queen Mary I, Protestant and…