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QUEEN MARY (TUDOR)
1553AD TO 1558AD
?????? = The quire of St. Pauls began to go about the
steeple singing with lights, after the old custom.
1553AD = The day before her Coronation, she witnessed a
Dutchman standing upon the weather cock of the Steeple
of St. Pauls, waving a five yard streamer.
?????? =Savoy Hospital, she reendowed and refurnished it.
?????? = TOWER OF LONDON; held court in the tower and
showed her Romish resolves. Her sister Princess
Elizabeth was imprisoned here on suspicion of favouring
Sir Thomas Wyat�s designs. She was compelled to enter
at the Traitors Gate.
?????? =TOWER OF LONDON; Princess Elizabeth was at her
home at Ashridge, in Hertfordshire when she was taken
by Mary. Her route was; Redborne, St. Alban�s, South
Mimms, Highgate, Whitehall, then the Tower.
1553AD =TOWER OF LONDON; John Dudley, Earl of
Warwick, tried and condemned for trying to deprive Mary
of the Crown. He died in his prison room.
1553AD =John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was
beheaded in the Tower.
1553AD =At the Attainder of John Dudley, the priory
of St. Bartholomew was in the hands of Q. Mary.
1553AD =Sept. 27th; Mary Tudor rode from the Tower to
Westminster in a Chariot of cloth of Tissue, drawn by
horses trapped with the same; and Temple Bar was then
�newly painted and hanged.�
1553AD =Sept. 28th;Mary Tudor crowned Queen at
Wesminster.
1554AD =TOWER OF LONDON; Robert Dudley, 3rd son of
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was arraigned in
Guildhall for High Treason, and condemned to be hanged,
drawn, and quartered.
?????? =Aug; Queen Mary and her newly-wedded consort,
Phylip of Spain, removed from Windsor(where he had been
installed a Knight of the Garter), to Richmond; and
some of the State Papers show that she was here at
other times.
1554AD =(Quote) 1st and 2nd Phillip and Mary. "Mr.
Chamberlain shall commit the custody of the new gates
at Temple Bar to the Citties tenants, dwelling nigh
unto the said gates; taking, nevertheless, especial
order with them for the shutting and opening the same
gates at convenient hours."
?????? =Convent of Grey Friars at Greenwich restored
by Mary.
1555AD = Robert Dudley and his two brothers were
liberated by order of Queen Mary.
1556AD = This time some part of the Tower fell from
decay; the remainder was destroyed in 1556a.d.
1557AD = Ann of cleves Died.
?????? = Philip and Mary kept Xmas at Hampton Court,
when the large hall was illuminated with 1000 lamps. It
was from here that passports, signed by Q. Mary, but
not filled up, were in readiness to be sent off to
announce the birth of a son or daughter, when she
fancied herself with child.
?????? =Q. Mary granted the Manor of the Priory of St.
Bartholomew to Thomas Lord Wentworth.
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