On this day in Tudor history, 6th August 1549, the Crown's forces met the rebels of the Prayer Book Rebellion in another battle, the Battle of Clyst Heath.
I share an account of the battle of which Lord Grey said "he never, in all the wars that he had been, knew the like". I also explain what happened next in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.
Also on this day in history:
- 1504 – Birth of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the parish of St Saviour, Norwich. Parker was the son of worsted weaver William Parker and his wife Alice Monings [Monins] from Kent.
- 1514 – Marriage of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII and widow of James IV of Scotland, and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, at Kinnoull in Perthshire.
- 1623 – Death of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare. Anne was buried next to her husband in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Is your local riot, sorry wedding still going on? Really terrible endings to these rebellions, the crown took terrible revenge.
Are you sure you haven’t got a football crowd outside?
Seriously, these changes were felt very deeply across the country. Terrible reprisals against ordinary people.