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From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, medicine, sports and pastimes, grand tournaments and the great flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the Plague.

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J ASPER R IDLEY is one of Englands leading biographers and historians. A former barrister turned author, he has written many successful books, most recently Bloody Marys Martyrs, and highly acclaimed biographies of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Thomas Cranmer.

Praise for The Tudor Age

The authors intimate knowledge of the period allows him to select the most telling examples from his evidence and he presents his findings with the admirable clarity which betokens a true understanding of the subject... Ridley expounds with ease the complex political and economic issues of the age, at the same time providing us with many fascinating insights into the practicalities of everyday life.

Scotsman

Tells its story with both descriptive and narrative skill.

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First published in the UK as The Tudor Age by
Constable and Co. Ltd, 1998

This edition published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2002

Copyright Jasper Ridley 1988, 2002

The right of Jasper Ridley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication data is available from the British Library

ISBN 9781841194714 (pbk)
ISBN 9780094728707 (hbk)
eISBN 9781472107954

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

To my son John

ILLUSTRATIONS

Integrated illustrations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank Roy Armstrong, Agathe Lewin, Dr Michael Smith, and Mr E. C. Till for their advice and assistance on various aspects of this book; John and Jennifer Arnold and Tony Mercer for their hospitality on my travels while I was researching; the staff of the London Library for their help at all times; the Gloucestershire County Archivist; the staff of the British Library, the Kent County Library at Tunbridge Wells, and the Worcestershire County Library at Evesham; and my wife Vera and my son John for their painstaking work in correcting the proofs.

Jasper Ridley

Tunbridge Wells

CHRONOLOGY

1485

Henry Tudor defeats and kills Richard III at Bosworth and becomes King Henry VII. Sweating sickness appears in London.

14867

Revolt of Lambert Simnel and the Earl of Lincoln suppressed by Henry VII.

1489

Henry VII refuses to finance Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic.

14901510

Extensive building in brick, with new building methods.

1492

Henry VIIs expedition to Boulogne. Treaty of Etaples.

1494

Syphilis first appears in Naples.

1495

Execution of Sir William Stanley.

14957

Perkin Warbecks invasions of England.

1496

Statute of Labourers regulates wages and hours of work.

1497

John Cabot sails to Newfoundland. Building of Canterbury Cathedral tower completed.

1498

Sheen Palace burned; rebuilt as Richmond Palace.

1499

Execution of Perkin Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick.

1501

Marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon.

1502

Death of Arthur, Prince of Wales.

1509

Death of Henry VII. Accession of Henry VIII, who marries Catherine of Aragon.

1510

New Sumptuary Law regulates the dress to be worn by the different classes.

1512

Wolsey becomes Henry VIIIs chief minister. Expedition to Fuentarrabia; English troops mutiny because of lack of beer. College of Physicians founded.

1513

Henry VIII invades France; the Earl of Surrey defeats and kills James IV of Scotland at Flodden.

1514

Marriage of Henry VIIIs sister Mary to Louis XII of France. Wolsey begins to build Hampton Court and York Place (later Whitehall).

1515

Henry VIIIs sister Mary marries the Duke of Suffolk.

1516

Sir Thomas Mores book Utopia published. Birth of Henry VIIIs daughter Mary.

151718

Virulent outbreak of the sweating sickness in England.

151921

Magellans expedition from Spain sails round the world.

1520

Henry VIII meets Francis I of France at the Field of Cloth-of-gold.

1521

Execution of the Duke of Buckingham.

1525

William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English; it is illegally smuggled into England from the Netherlands.

152530

Anne Boleyn introduces the fashion of the French hood for women.

1527

Henry VIII begins divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon.

1528

Renewed outbreak of sweating sickness.

1529

Fall of Wolsey. The Reformation Parliament meets.

(1529?)

Morality play, Everyman, performed.

1530

Intensification of the suppression of the English Bible. New severe legislation against vagabonds. Death of Wolsey, while being brought as a prisoner to London.

153040

Bishop Vesey builds houses for labourers in Sutton Coldfield.

1531

Henry VIII separates from Catherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn lives with him as his mistress.

1533

Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes Queen. Repudiation of Papal supremacy over the Church of England. Birth of Henry VIIIs daughter, the future Elizabeth I. Thomas Cromwell becomes Henry VIIIs chief minister.

1535

Execution of Bishop Fisher, Sir Thomas More, and the Carthusian monks. Henry VIII cuts his hair short and grows a beard. Nicholas Udalls play, Ralph Roister Doister, performed.

1536

Execution of Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.

15369

Suppression of monasteries.

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