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A charter from Henry VII gives Wallingford the right to hold fairs on St Nicholas and the Navity of John the Baptist feast days. The right to hold a pie-powder ("pieds-poudré" or "dirty feet") court is also granted. |
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1502 |
Prince Arthur dies, and so the castle passes to his brother Henry, who becomes King Henry VIII in 1509. |
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1507 |
The borough orders that prayers should be said for Sir Thomas Lovell, castle constable, and for Stephen Bereworth, dean of St Nicholas, in every parish church every Sunday until their deaths. |
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1508 |
The Wallingford Corporation Statute Book begins. |
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The George and Dragon (now The George) opens. |
The George, Wallingford |
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1518 |
Henry VIII, married to Katherine of Aragon, brings his Court to Wallingford. |
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Wallingford Priory is dissolved – so Cardinal Wolsey can build Christ’s College in Oxford. Some of the stone is bought in 1528-1530 for use in repairing Wallingford Bridge. |
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| 1535 | Henry VIII grants Henry Norreys or Norris the constableship of Wallingford Castle . | |
| 1536 | Henry Norreys takes
part in a jousting tournament in front of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. The
King and Queen retire suddenly and then Norreys and others are arrested
for high treason. It is said that Boleyn has dropped her handkerchief in
front of Norris, who has wiped his face on it and then handed it back
using his lance. The Queen is also arrested and it is suggested she has
shared her favours with Norreys and others. Norreys is beheaded, as is
Anne Boleyn a couple of days later.
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St Nicholas's College |
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1537 |
A fuller, alleged to have put about a rumour that Henry VIII was dead, was pilloried in the marketplace and then had "his years fast nayled" and then "cut of by the hard hed", before being whipped around the town tied to a cart and naked to the waist. |
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1538 |
Wallingford Castle is described as ‘sore yn ruine and for the most part defaced’ |
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| 1539 | Thomas Marshall, former prior of Wallingford, is executed on a charge of denying Henry VIII's supremacy over the church. | |
| 1540 | An Act of Parliament separates the Honour of Wallingford from the Duchy of Cornwall, and joins it to the Manor at Ewelme, formally ending the connection of the castle to the royal succession. | |
| 1543 | Dr John London – Dean of the College of St Nicholas – dies in Fleet Prison, shortly after being convicted of perjury. | |
| 1545 | John Norreys, brother of Henry acquires the building that later becomes known as Flint House, after he put a flint façade over the 15th century oak frame. |
Flint House (Wallingford Museum) |
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St John’s Hospital is dissolved. A Bill for Wallingford Bridge is introduced to Parliament. Thomas Parry, servant to Elizabeth I and Treasurer of the Royal Household, is elected to Parliament for Wallingford. |
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St Nicholas's College is purchased by Christchurch College Oxford as a place of retirement "in times of sickness and visitation" |
Edmund Plowden |
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Francis Knollys, a protestant, becomes custodian of Wallingford Castle. |
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During the reign of Queen Mary (a Catholic), Edmund Plowden, MP for Wallingford leads 38 MPs in a revolt against the reintroduction of the heresy laws, aimed at persecuting Protestants. Proceedings for contempt against him are dropped. |
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| 1555 | Knollys is forced into hiding by anti-Protestant activities, and lead and timber from Wallingford Castle are taken for use at Windsor Castle. | |
| 1558 | Sir John Fortescue is elected MP for Wallingford. He later becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. | |
| 1560 | Two years after Elizabeth I (a Protestant) becomes queen, it is suggested Wallingford Castle be used to imprison "incorrigible Arians, Pelagians or free will men" - i.e. non-Protestants. | |
| Elizabeth I stays a night at St Nicholas's College, within the castle. |
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| Elizabeth I grants letters patent to charge tolls for crossing the bridge and for passing underneath it. |
Thomas Digges's diagram of the heavens |
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| Thomas Digges, also known as an astronomer, is elected MP for Wallingford. | ||
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Thomas Digges draws a diagram showing planetary orbits round the sun – seen as proof that he and his father developed the first reflecting telescope. |
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