November 23 - A plot to poison Elizabeth i's saddle and Essex's chair
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd November 1598, scrivener and sailor Edward Squire was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for treason after being accused of plotting with Jesuits in Seville to po...
22 Nov 20206min
November 22 - Explorer Sir Martin Frobisher dies of gangrene
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd November 1594, naval commander, privateer and explorer, Sir Martin Frobisher, died at Plymouth. He died of gangrene after having been shot in the thigh during hand-t...
21 Nov 202010min
November 21 - John Bale, a churchman and playwright who courted controversy
On this day in Tudor history, 21st November 1495, churchman, Protestant playwright, historian and Bishop of Ossory, John Bale was born in Suffolk. Bale wrote twenty-four plays, and a book on famous...
20 Nov 20208min
November 20 - Elizabeth I's godson and his flush toilet
On this day in history, 20th November 1612, in the reign of King James I, courtier and author Sir John Harington died. Why am I talking about a man who died in the Stuart period? Well, because he w...
19 Nov 20207min
November 19 - Lord John Grey and how he escaped the axeman
On this day in Tudor history, 19th November 1564, Lord John Grey, youngest son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, died. He's not the Lord John Grey of the wonderful Outlander series, but he is...
18 Nov 20206min
November 18 - A bishop ends his days in confinement
On this day in Tudor history, 18th November 1559, Ralph Baynes (Baines), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, died. Baynes had been actively involved in the persecutions of Protestants in Mary I's rei...
17 Nov 20205min
November 17 - Elizabeth I's accession
On this day in Tudor history, 17th November 1558, twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, became Queen Elizabeth I following the death of her half-sister, Queen Ma...
16 Nov 20208min
November 16 - An Elizabethan earl and rebel who never learnt his lesson
On this day in Tudor history, 16th November 1601, nobleman and rebel Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, died while in exile at Nieuwpoort in Flanders. Westmorland had fled into exile followi...
15 Nov 20205min
