On this day in Tudor history, 23rd July, Marie de Guise and her infant daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Linlithgow Palace; Protestant printer John Day died; and Lord Chamberlain Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, son of Mary Boleyn, died...
- 1543 – Marie de Guise (Mary of Guise) and her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Linlithgow Palace, where they were being watched, to Stirling Castle. They were helped by Cardinal Beaton. See video below.
- 1563 – Death of Cuthbert Vaughan, soldier and Muster-Master and Comptroller of the English garrison at Newhaven (actually Le Havre), from the plague.
- 1584 – Death of John Day, Protestant printer, bookseller and publisher of John Foxe's “Actes and Monuments” (“Book of Martyrs”), at Walden in Essex. He was buried at Little Bradley parish church in Suffolk. See video below.
- 1596 - Death of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, privy councillor and Lord Chamberlain, at Somerset House. Hunsdon was the son of William Carey and his wife, Mary Boleyn. Mary was mistress to Henry VIII at some point in the 1520s, and some people believe it is possible that Hunsdon was actually fathered by the king.
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