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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
| 1550 | -1552 | William Rede - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1550 | Book of Common Prayer slow to be accepted | |||
| 1552 | -1554 | Oliver Heywood - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1552 | -1559 | Thomas Fuller, chaplain - Vicar of South 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 | -1563 | Richard Smythe - 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. | |||
| 1563 | -1580 | Jaspar Turnbull | ||
| 1563 | -1574 | Dom John Clarke - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 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. | |||
| 1580 | -1586 | Humphrey Travers - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1581 | -1586 | Humphrey Travers, clerk, MA - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1586 | -1596 | Robert Bryan, STP - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1586 | -1600 | Robert Bryan, STP - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
| 1597 | -1608 | Stephen Lodington - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
| 1598 | Trigge (chained) library founded - still exists. More info |
| 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) | |||
| 1597 | Water conduit built in Market Place, replacing existing building. Wool staple mark is on the building |
| 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 | -1603 | Age of stability in Britain | ||
| 1553 | -1558 | Leading protestant Bishops burned at the stake | ||
| 1553 | -1558 | Mary I - a Catholic, re-imposed Catholicism | ||
| 1555 | mass execution of hundreds of Protestants – Smithfield Martyrs | |||
| 1558 | -1603 | Elizabeth I - continued Protestant reforms in moderation | ||
| 1564 | -1616 | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1577 | Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world | |||
| 1584 | 4 Potatoes introduced into Europe. | |||
| 1588 | Tensions with Catholic Spain, culminating in Spanish Armada | |||
| 1600 | -1616 | William Shakespeare wrote many plays and sonnets | ||
| 1600 | -1640 | There was a growth in Puritanism |
| Mary I | Crowned | 1553 | Died | 1558 | 1554 Mary I married Philip of Spain | Tudor |
| Elizabeth I | Crowned | 1558 | Died | 1603 | 1588 Spanish Armada | Tudor |
