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1558 Lay visitors overseeing reforms visited Grantham. Clashes between the reformers and opponents
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Lay visitors certified that the rood screen with all its images and statues had been broken down and sold. Other images, mass books, all papist books and sermons had been burned at the Market Cross.Vestments, copes, albs,tunicles and baggages had been d
| 1530 | Under Henry VIII's measures, most chantry chapels destroyed. Six priests were granted pensions as redundancy payments. | |||
| 1535 | -1548 | John Wilkinson - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1540 | Effects of Reformation gradually spread through the country. | |||
| 1548 | banishing of images and statues - Not all parishioners welcomed the changes! | |||
| 1548 | -1552 | John Clarke - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1550 | Book of Common Prayer slow to be accepted | |||
| 1550 | -1552 | William Rede - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1552 | -1559 | Thomas Fuller, chaplain - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1552 | -1554 | Oliver Heywood - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1554 | -1557 | William Harberd or Garberd - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1557 | -1563 | Richard Smith, clerk - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1558 | Lay visitors overseeing reforms visited Grantham. Clashes between the reformers and opponents More info | |||
| 1559 | -1560 | John Only - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1560 | The stone font, a gift of Richard Fox, may have been thrown out at this time and now shows evidence of having been badly weathered. | |||
| 1560 | -1563 | Richard Smythe - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1563 | -1574 | Dom John Clarke - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1563 | -1580 | Jaspar Turnbull | ||
| 1574 | -1580 | Francis Bannister - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1575 | Vicar and a Curate summoned to Lincoln by the Bishop and barred from preaching following clashes between the reformers and opponents. |
| 1528 | Grammar School re-founded by Bishop Fox, endowed with the revenues of two chantries | |||
| 1538 | Franciscan friary dissolved | |||
| 1540 | Wealthy merchants, but widespread poverty | |||
| 1540 | Population of Grantham grew to 1500 | |||
| 1541 | Grantham included in a list of "decayed towns" | |||
| 1553 | Grammar School became King Edward VI school: headmaster's salary was £12 a year. | |||
| 1560 | Shop now "Catlins" built. | |||
| 1574 | Grantham House extended (date on chimney stack) |
| 1526 | Tyndale's translation of the Bible admitted into England | |||
| 1530 | Spinning wheel invented in Germany | |||
| 1534 | Henry VIII, partly for personal reasons, split from Church of Rome and established himself ‘Supreme Head of Church of England’ | |||
| 1536 | -1540 | Dissolution of the Monasteries – lands and wealth claimed by the King | ||
| 1539 | Parishes required to record births, marriages and deaths | |||
| 1547 | -1553 | Edward VI - a protestant | ||
| 1549 | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury wrote Book of Common Prayer. | |||
| 1549 | Act of Uniformity - banned Catholic Mass and demanded removal of all idols and images from churches. | |||
| 1550 | Conrad Gesner began Historia Animalium, the basis of natural history - a volume is in the Trigge Library | |||
| 1550 | English, not Latin, to be used in church services | |||
| 1553 | -1558 | Mary I - a Catholic, re-imposed Catholicism | ||
| 1553 | -1558 | Leading protestant Bishops burned at the stake | ||
| 1553 | -1603 | Age of stability in Britain | ||
| 1555 | mass execution of hundreds of Protestants – Smithfield Martyrs | |||
| 1558 | -1603 | Elizabeth I - continued Protestant reforms in moderation | ||
| 1564 | -1616 | William Shakespeare |
| Edward VI | Crowned | 1547 | Died | 1553 | 1549 Introduction of Book of Common Prayer | Tudor |
| Mary I | Crowned | 1553 | Died | 1558 | 1554 Mary I married Philip of Spain | Tudor |
| Elizabeth I | Crowned | 1558 | Died | 1603 | 1588 Spanish Armada | Tudor |
