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20 Apr 1560: Edmund Bonner deprived bishop of #London placed in the Marshalsea again #otd where he had been banged up a decade previously (TCC/BM) #tudormerrygoround @DrStevenMFoster
18 Apr 1518: Martin Bucer is present at Luther’s disputation at the Diet of Worms #otd It was a formative event for a man who would go on, among other things, to be a key figure in #English reformation (University of #Glasgow/BM) @DrStevenMFoster
18 Apr 1521: Martin Luther's second appearance at the Diet of Worms defending his views #otd (BM)
17 Apr 1556: Seth Holland, who had been in Cardinal Reginald Pole's service in #Rome is elected Warden of All Souls #Oxford #otd Also Dean of #Worcester, present at Pole's deathbed. He died himself in Marshalsea gaol #London in 1561 (National Trust images/Chevron Tango)
15 Apr: feast #otd of Hunna, an aristocrat saint who is patron of laundresses, who died in 679 and was canonized in 1520. Here then, for her feast day, are some washerwomen by Gesina Ter Borch, 1640s (Rijksmuseum)
14 Apr 1571: William Strickland MP for Scarborough introduces a bill #otd to reform the Prayer Book. During the Easter recess the Privy Council summon him & so sequestrate him from #parliament (BM)