Early July Tudor Events Quiz

Q1) At which of her estates did Mary (future Mary I) declare herself queen in front of her household on 8th July 1553?

Framlingham

Hunsdon

Kenninghall

Kimbolton

Q2) According to the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, young King Edward VI would marry....

Mary, Queen of Scots

His half-sister, Mary

Lady Jane Grey

Renée of France

Q3) On 12th July 1543, King Henry VIII married Catherine Parr in the Queen's Closet in the Chapel Royal of this palace.

Whitehall

Greenwich

Oatlands

Hampton Court

Q4) In which city was Pilgrimage of Grace leader Robert Aske hanged in chains on 12th July 1537?

York

Lincoln

Lancaster

London

Q5) True or false: Thomas Cromwell was appointed as Lord Privy Seal in place of the recently executed George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, in July 1536.

True

False

Q6) Pretender Perkin Warbeck landed here on 3rd July 1495 with his men and ships.

Sandwich

Dover

Falmouth

Deal

Q7) True or false: Gregory Cromwell, son of Thomas Cromwell, died of sweating sickness on 4th July 1551?

True

False

Q8) This killed over 200 people in Stratford-upon-Avon in July and August 1564.

Dysentery

Plague

Sweating sickness

Typhus

Q9) True or false: On 5th July 1535, Sir Thomas More wrote his final letter, to his daughter, Meg Roper, with coal?

True

False

Q10) At which royal palace did Edward VI die on 6th July 1553?

Richmond

Windsor

Greenwich

Whitehall