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1503 1503 Princess Margaret stayed at Grantham House on her way to Scotland to become Queen. Her grand-daughter was Mary Queen of Scots.
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Princess Margaret stayed at Grantham House on her way to Scotland to become Queen. Her grand-daughter was Mary Queen of Scots.
1500 | -1501 | William Marshall - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
1501 | -1506 | Richard Day - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
1506 | Simon Leveret, rich Grantham mercer, gave his best beast to St. Wulfram's | |||
1506 | -1515 | Roger Thurley | ||
1510 | £13.6s.8d given by Henry & Richard Curteys to the chapel of St. Mary to pay a priest as schoolmaster | |||
1511 | -1519 | John Elton - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
1515 | -1516 | John Edmund - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
1516 | -1550 | Richard Sheppard - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
1519 | -1535 | John Dent - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
1519 | -1519 | William Pickenham or Packenham - Vicar of North Grantham | ||
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 | -1552 | William Rede - Vicar of South Grantham | ||
1550 | Book of Common Prayer slow to be accepted |
1503 | 1503 Princess Margaret stayed at Grantham House on her way to Scotland to become Queen. Her grand-daughter was Mary Queen of Scots. More info | |||
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" |
1509 | -1547 | Henry VIII | ||
1519 | Magellan's first voyage round the world. | |||
1520 | -1600 | Move to Protestantism developing in Northern Europe. | ||
1521 | Martin Luther - influential German theologian, excommunicated for defying the Pope | |||
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 |
Henry VIII | Crowned | 1509 | Died | 1547 | 1534 Creation of the Church of England | Tudor |
Edward VI | Crowned | 1547 | Died | 1553 | 1549 Introduction of Book of Common Prayer | Tudor |