#1000TudorPeople L is for Rowland Lee, who may have been the priest who m. Henry & Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony at Whitehall in January 1533. Lee became president of the Council for Wales and was considered an administrator & ‘an extreme punisher of offenders’. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople C is for Sir Anthony Cave, a wool merchant, who provided support for scholars at Christ’s College, Cambridge. One protégé was Lawrence Humphrey, who praised Cave for his devotion to learning and his efforts to save classical texts from obscurity. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople V is for Ralph Verney chamberlain to Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, whose half-niece, Eleanor Pole, he married. In 1503, he headed the household to Princess Margaret when she travelled to Scotland to marry James IV. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople R is for Peter Richardson, who came to England in the early 1520s from Haarlem. By 1536, he was known at the court and was commissioned by Henry VIII to make jewellery for Queen Jane Seymour. He was appointed as goldsmith to Jane’s successor, Anne of Cleves. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople S is for Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester. Like his siblings, Philip & Mary, he was a talented poet whose work disappeared from public view until rediscovered in the 1970s. He wrote c. 35 sonnets, 24 songs & other poems. In 1588, he attended Elizabeth I to Tilbury. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople V is for Ralph Vane who in 1551, was sent to the Tower of London after quarrelling with the Earl of Warwick. Later indicted on a charge of conspiring to kill Warwick at his trial, according to Edward VI’s journal, Vane ‘answered like a ruffian’. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople B is for Reginald Bray a member of the household of Sir Henry Stafford, 2nd husband of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. In summer 1483 he acted as a go-between for Margaret with the Duke of Buckingham, as part of Buckingham’s rebellion against Richard III. bit.ly/3HZLYtC
#1000TudorPeople B is for Cecily Bodenham, who borrowed money in 1533 to secure her election as abbess of Wilton. 6 years later, she was obliged to surrender the house to the king.
She received an annual pension & Manor House Farm where she lived with 10 of her former nuns. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople M is for William Morgan, Bp of St Asaph who translated the Bible into Welsh. His sources were various, encompassing the original Hebrew and Greek testaments & their translations into Latin & other languages. Published in 1599, updated in 1620 & in use until 1988. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople K is for Francis Kett, nephew of the leader of Kett’s Rebellion. He published various religious treatises, inc. 'The Glorious and Beautiful Garland of Man’s Glorification' (1585). Although an Anglican minister, in 1588 he was burnt for denying the divinity of Christ. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople M is for Thomas Miller or Milner, Lancaster Herald. In October 1536, he was sent to deliver royal commands to the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was later accused of involvement in the rebellion and executed at York Castle. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople N is for Bartholomew Newsam, the first English Crown clockmaker who undertook various clockmaking commissions for the royal household. 3 of his known works survive, including a gilt-copper spring-driven table clock from c. 1585 currently in @britishmuseum.bsky.social amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople B is for Mary Browne, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Keeper of Oatlands Palace. She m. Lord John Grey, uncle of Lady Jane Grey. Lord John was condemned for involvement in the Succession Crisis of 1553, but Mary pleaded successfully for him to be forgiven. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000Tudorpeople M is for Margaret Middleton, Mrs Clitherow, of York. In 1586, she was accused of harbouring Catholic priests, in contravention of the Act of 1581, which outlawed the support of missionaries. Her refusal to plead led to execution by pressing. Canonised in 1970. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople R is for Peter Richardson a member of the Goldsmiths’ Company commissioned by Henry VIII to make jewellery for Queen Jane Seymour. He was appointed as goldsmith to Jane’s successor, Anne of Cleves, and remained in that post under Katherine Parr. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople D is for Catherine Dammartin who
m. Reformer Pietro Vermigli. In 1557, after a posthumous heresy commission Cardinal Pole ordered her exhumation & the dean had the remains ‘cast on a dunghill’. She had an unrivalled ability to carve ‘plumstones into curious faces’. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
Glad to say he makes an appearance in #1000TudorPeople
#1000TudorPeople P is for George Puttenham, whose marriage to a wealth widow allowed him to give up the law to spend his time writing. His works include Partheniades (1579), a volume of poems addressed to Elizabeth I, justifying the execution of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople S is for William Stafford, distantly related to the mighty duke of Buckingham. In 1534 he was banished from court for having married the widowed Mary Boleyn, Lady Carey, to the fury of Mary's sister, Queen Anne Boleyn. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople L is for Rowland Lee, Rowland, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. A strong supporter of Henry VIII’s annulment suit, he may have been the priest who married Henry and Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony at Whitehall in January 1533. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople P is for John Piers, Archbishop of York
who preached the thanksgiving service at St Paul’s
Cathedral after the defeat of the Armada in 1588.
In his youth, he was renowned for ‘tipling in a blind
ale-house with some of his neighbours’ but become a model of sobriety. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople T is for William Turner, pupil & friend of Nicholas Ridley. In the early 1530s he wrote in support of
Henry VIII’s annulment suit. He produced a 2 vol herbal, The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Dutche and French. He also wrote Avium Praecipuarum, amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople C is for Humfray Cole. Goldsmith & engraver, in 1572 he created the copperplate engraving for the map of Palestine included in Bishops’ Bible. 26 of Cole’s scientific instruments are known, inc. compasses, sundials, theodolites, sundials, quadrants, surveyors’ rules. amzn.to/3X5KVBp
#1000TudorPeople B is for Henry Bullock, whose
Oratio (1520) was the first book printed in Cambridge, and whose ranslation of Lucian’s Peri dipsadon was the first Greek book to be printed anywhere in England. amzn.to/3X5KVBp #worldbookday
Back to my desk after a holiday with family Down Under. Next talk is Saturday 7 March at Pembroke and Monkton History Society. Bit of a nervous journey yesterday flying home!
www.pembrokeandmonktonhistory.org.uk
The Life and Times of Tudor Women, based on #1000TudorPeople .
#1000TudorPeople S is for William Salesbury, proficient in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and modern languages. It is likely that the first book printed in Welsh was by Salesbury, being an English dictionary for Welsh speakers. bit.ly/3PjugG6
Looking forward to talking at the Pembroke and Monkton History Society on 7 March about the Lives of Tudor Women, focusing on some of the fascinating women in #1000TudorPeople Tickets here www.pembrokeandmonktonhistory.org.uk
#1000TudorPeople P is for Edward Powell. Horrified by Luther’s
doctrines, he wrote Propugnaculum summi Sacerdotii
Evangelici in 1523, music to Henry VIII’s anti-Lutheran ears. Powell lost favour with the king when he refused the oath of supremacy & he was executed at Smithfield, 1540 bit.ly/3PjugG6
#1000TudorPeople S is for Mary Shelton, Lady Scudamore, whose grandparents had supervised the household of the infant Elizabeth I. She was appointed to the royal household in 1571. Furious when Mary married without her permission, Elizabeth threw something, breaking Mary’s finger. bit.ly/3PjugG6
#1000TudorPeople M is for Sir John Morgan, a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, an order devoted to promoting Christian pilgrimage. Back in Wales, he was fêted by the bard Gwilym Tew as Y Marchog Tew (the fat knight). A Lancastrian, he fought with Henry, Earl of Richmond, at Bosworth. bit.ly/3PjugG6
