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| 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 |
