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Monday, May 27, 2013

This Day in Tudor History

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in history, 27th May...
1492 - Birth of Sir Antonio Guidotti, merchant and diplomat, in Florence, Italy. Guidotti brought together England and France in 1549–50 in negotiations for peace and the restoration of Boulogne to France.
1536 - Cardinal Reginald Pole sent Henry VIII a copy of De Unitate (Pro Ecclesiasticae Unitatis Defensione). In it, he criticised the King's divorce and the trouble it had caused.
1537 - A Te Deum was sung in St Paul's Cathedral in celebration of the quickening of Queen Jane Seymour's unborn child.
1541 - Execution of Margaret Pole, suo jure (in her own right) Countess of Salisbury.
1560 - Burial of Thomas Wendy, royal physician, at Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.
1601 - Death of Robert Beale, administrator and diplomat, at his home, Barn Elms, Surrey. He served Elizabeth I as a clerk of the Privy Council and as a special ambassador. He was buried in All Hallows, London Wall.
1614 - Death of Peter Turner, physician and MP, in London. He had attended Sir Walter Ralegh in the Tower of London.

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