On this day in Tudor history, 18th April 1540, just three months before he went to the scaffold, Thomas Cromwell was given two rewards by King Henry VIII.
Find out more about these rewards in this #TudorHistoryShorts video...
On this day in Tudor history, 18th April 1536, just a month and a day before Anne Boleyn’s execution, imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys was manoeuvred unto a position where he was forced to pay reverence to Queen Anne Boleyn, the woman he referred to as “the concubine”. By paying her reverence, he was acknowledging her as queen, something that he had managed to avoid doing until now.
What happened and how did Chapuys get into this awkward position?
Also on this day in Tudor history, 18th April 1587, the famous martyrologist John Foxe died at the age of around seventy. Foxe is known for his book “Actes and Monuments”, or Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, and you can find out more about him and his work in this video...
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