Britain's Tudor Maps: County by County

Product Information

Almost all Londoners would have been able to play an instrument or sing, and many pubs would have had live music. In 1587, the satirist Stephen Gosson wrote that "London is so full of unprofitable pipers and fiddlers that a man can no sooner enter a tavern than two or three cast of them hang at his heels to give him a dance ere he depart." [148] Important composers who lived in London include Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Bull, all of whom were employed by Elizabeth I at the Chapel Royal despite being Catholics. [149] Tallis' Spem in Alium was performed at Nonsuch Palace by a massed chorus of eight choirs. [149] Sports and games [ edit ] Sir Francis Drake, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Gilberts, Carews, Seymours, Courtenays, and other names prominent among the men who laid the foundations of the maritime greatness of England and of the existence of America. Of the fifty-five, twenty-eight were at one time or another high-sheriffs of the county, twenty more were then, or became afterwards, knights, six sat in the House of Commons, and three in the House of Lords. [75] In the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I, many grammar schools were founded to replace educational establishments that had been run by monks and dissolved. [108] Christ's Hospital was founded in 1552, on the grounds of Greyfriars. [136] In 1558, Enfield Grammar School was refounded. [9] In 1560, Elizabeth refounded Westminster School with 40 free places for boys known as the Queen's Scholars. [108] Kingston Grammar School and St. Olave's Grammar School were both set up in 1561, [108] Highgate School in 1565, [137] Harrow School in 1572, and Queen Elizabeth's School in Chipping Barnet in 1573. [138] Norman castles included small windows for firing arrows out from. Can you find the Norman part of the castle?

Bucholz, Robert, and Newton Key. Early modern England 1485–1714: A narrative history (2009); University textbook The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England. This name is sometimes given as Tewdwr, the Welsh form of Theodore, but Modern Welsh Tudur, Old Welsh Tutir is originally not a variant but a different and completely unrelated name, etymologically identical with Gaulish Toutorix, [8] from Proto-Celtic *toutā "people, tribe" and *rīxs "king" (compare Modern Welsh tud "territory" and rhi "king" [9] respectively), corresponding to Germanic Theodoric. John Morrill (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of Tudor & Stuart Britain (1996) online, pp. 44, 325. Fritze, Ronald H. (ed.), Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485–1603 (1991), 818pp; 300 short essays by experts emphasis on politics, religion, and historiography. excerpt

Model of the west side of London Bridge, as it would have looked about 1600

Duffy, Eamon. Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (2017) excerpt Kett's Rebellion began in 1549 in Norfolk; it started as a demonstration against enclosures of common land. The instigator, Robert Kett, was executed for treason. [67] Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII (21 vols, 1862–1932) most volumes are online here Notestein, Wallace. English people on the eve of colonization, 1603–1630 (1954); scholarly study of occupations and roles online The Lord Lieutenant was a new office created by Henry VIII to represent the royal power in each county. He was a person with good enough connections at court to be selected by the sovereign and served at the monarch's pleasure, often for decades. [72] He had limited powers of direct control, so successful Lords Lieutenant worked with deputy lieutenants and dealt with the gentry through compromise, consensus, and the inclusion of opposing factions. He was in charge of mobilising the militia if necessary for defence, or to assist the monarch in military operations. In Yorkshire in 1588, the Lord Lieutenant was the Earl of Huntington, who urgently needed to prepare defences in the face of the threatened invasion from the Spanish Armada. The Queen's Privy Council urgently called upon him to mobilise the militia, and report on the availability of men and horses. Huntington's challenge was to overcome the reluctance of many militia men, the shortages of arms, training mishaps, and jealousy among the gentry as to who would command which unit. Despite Huntingdon's last-minute efforts, the mobilisation of 1588 revealed a reluctant society that only grudgingly answered the call to arms. The Armada never landed troops, and the militia were not actually used. [73] During the civil wars of the mid-17th century, the Lord Lieutenant played an even more important role in mobilising his county either for King Charles I or for Parliament. [74]

Katz, David S. (December 1996). "The Jewish Conspirators of Elizabethan England". The Jews in the History of England 1485-1850. Oxford University Press. pp.49–106. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206675.03.0003. ISBN 9780198206675. Morrill, John (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of Tudor & Stuart Britain (1996) online; survey essays by leading scholars; heavily illustrated Like us today, the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat. But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547. Today one of England’s most famous historical figures, Henry VIII is well known for his six marriages – and for having two of his wives beheaded!

9. Windsor Castle

London had a debtors' prison called the Fleet, for the imprisonment of people who could not pay their creditors. It housed about fifty inmates, and was notorious for its poor conditions and disease. Inmates had to pay for food, and pay rent for a separate room. [120] Treason [ edit ] Plague hit so badly in 1563 in London that the local authorities began to compile death statistics for the first time in the Bills of Mortality. In that year, 20,372 were recorded dead in London across the whole year, 17,404 of whom died of the plague. Some years were much less dangerous: in 1582, only 6,930 deaths were recorded, of which 3,075 were from the plague, but in 1603 the total was 40,040, of which 32,257 died of the plague. [50] The Moroccan ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, depicted by an unknown painter in the year of his visit to London Turvey, Roger, and Keith Randell. Access to History: Henry VIII to Mary I: Government and Religion, 1509–1558 (Hodder, 2008), 240 pp; textbook In the reign of Mary I, 78 were burned in London alone. [127] After her reign, John Foxe collected stories of Protestant martyrs in his Acts and Monuments, published in Aldersgate. [130] Under Elizabeth I, Catholics were less likely to be burned for heresy, but more likely to be executed for treason. From 1584, anyone who became a Catholic priest after Elizabeth's accession was declared guilty of treason. [125] Instead, those burned for heresy were more likely to be from radical Protestant sects such as Anabaptism. In 1575, two Dutch Anabaptists from Aldgate are burned at the stake. [54] Courts [ edit ] Owen Tudor was one of the bodyguards for the queen dowager Catherine of Valois, whose husband, Henry V, had died in 1422. Evidence suggests that the two were secretly married in 1428. Two sons born of the marriage, Edmund and Jasper, were among the most loyal supporters of the House of Lancaster in its struggle against the House of York.

Nonsuch Palace in Merton, built from scratch under Henry VIII A model of Old St Paul's Cathedral, as it looked before its spire was destroyed. Other building work [ edit ] A relief map of the planet Venus. All but one of the features on the planet are named after women. From Tudor times: Jane Grey, Mary Stuart, Isabella of Spain (mother to Catherine of Aragon), Mary Sidney, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. (119K)Stater, Victor (ed.), The Political History of Tudor and Stuart England: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2002) [ ISBNmissing]