On this day in Tudor history, the future Elizabeth I wrote her earliest surviving letter. It was to her stepmother, Queen Catherine Parr; Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father of Lady Jane Grey, was released from the Tower of London; and Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, was killed by a butcher during Kett's Rebellion...
- 1544 - The future Elizabeth I wrote her earliest surviving letter to her stepmother, Catherine Parr. It was written in Italian and in a beautiful italic hand. Click here to read more about it or see the video below.
- 1549 – Death of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, in Norwich. It is said that he was killed by a butcher called Fulke, while serving in the royal army against the rebels of Kett's Rebellion. See video below.
- 1553 - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, “was discharged out of the Tower by the Earle of Arundell and had the Quenes pardon.” See video below.
- 1574 – Death of John Douglas, Archbishop of St Andrews and educational reformer, in St Andrews. He was buried in the public cemetery. It is said that he died in the pulpit.
