Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to neglect.
Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit Protestantism.
However, the plot was revealed in an anonymous letter and Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder.
The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of Flanders.
Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant Reformation.
On the 31st October 1517, the foundations of the Protestant Reformation were laid when Martin Luther reputedly nailed his ‘Ninety-five Theses’ to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg – a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
On the 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer was executed for heresy.
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