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#OTD in Tudor history – 7 November

On this day in Tudor history, 7th November, Henry VII's first Parliament attainted Richard III and his supporters (1485); and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer visited a confined Queen Catherine Howard, seeking a confession (1541)...

  • 1485 – Richard III and his supporters were attainted at Henry VII's first Parliament. Click here to read more or see video below.
  • 1541 - Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and the Duke of Norfolk went to Hampton Court Palace to interrogate Queen Catherine Howard, and to arrange that she should be confined to her chambers there. Click here to read more or see video below.
  • 1557 – Death of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne. He was buried at St Mawgan Church. Arundell served Henry VIII as Sheriff of Cornwall and Commander of troops against the rebels during the Pilgrimage of Grace. He also served in France in 1544. During Edward VI's reign, in 1549, he was imprisoned after John, Baron Russell, accused him of refusing to raise troops and of ordering the mass to be performed. He was released in June 1552.
  • 1565 – Death of Sir Edward Warner, soldier, member of Parliament and Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I. He was the gaoler of Katherine Seymour (née Grey), Countess of Hertford, who had been imprisoned for secretly marrying Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. Warner died in Norfolk and was buried at Little Plumstead Church in the county.
  • 1568 – Baptism of Dunstan Gale, poet and author of “Pyramus and Thisbe”, at St Giles Cripplegate, London.
  • 1581 – Death of Richard Davies, scholar and Bishop of St David's, in Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, in the bishop's palace. He was a friend of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and undertook translations of parts of the Bible.
  • 1603 – Burial of Robert Allot, literary compiler, bookseller, poet and editor of the 1599 “Wits Theater” and the 1600 “Englands Parnassus”, at St Ann Blackfriars.

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    Poor poor Catherine, iv tried to put myself in her position many times and imagine how I would feel locked up in my sumptuous apartments, with guards outside my door my jewels returned and not allowed to speak to my husband who was that obsolete and terrifying monarch, King Henry V111, the hysteria she displayed must have made Cranmer very uncomfortable and he knew he could not comfort her, this wise elderly man so beloved of his master, he had extricated the king out of his marriage with Anne Boleyn, he had visited her in her prison in the Tower, had wept at her death, now he was having to pacify another wretched queen and was probably all to aware that she may face the same unhappy fate, queens had done worse things before, Henry 11’s wife had raised an army against him, but he had merely imprisoned her, and other queens had committed adultery, Isabella of Angouleme had her lovers corpses hung from her bed by her merciless husband, but Henry V111 was the first king to shed his wives blood, Catherine would have thought of her departed cousin who had been killed by the same husband, no wonder she was hysterical it is a wonder she did not experience a mental collapse, which was what happened to Lady Rochford, one can feel deeply sorry for this young and inexperienced and incredibly silly young woman, she had lived in the moment without care for the consequences, her only crime was that of ignorance.

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#OTD in Tudor history – 7 November