| Colchester.uk.com | The History of Colchester 1501-1550 |
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| 1516 | Queen Catherine of Aragon stops at St. John's Abbey on her way to Walsingham and is given a purse of £40
Reference to the New Inn, or White Lion, later renamed the Red Lion during James I's reign |
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| 1529 | John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ordered the elected Burgess for Colchester, Richard Antony, to resign and appointed his own man, Richard Ryche, in his place |
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| 1536 | St. Botolph's Priory dissolved and granted to Sir Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor
Appointment of first Bishop Suffragan of Colchester |
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| 1539 | December 1: John Beche, the last Abbot of St. John's, executed for resisting Henry VIII |
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| 1544 | Henry VIII orders the Bailiffs to call up 3 archers and 12 bill men to be ready for an invasion of France
May 24: William Gilberd born in Holy Trinity parish (1540) |
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| 1547 | Scottish prisoners held at the castle following the Battle of Pinkie |
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| 1549 | Poor harvest |
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