May 7 – Anne Boleyn’s chaplain get searched, and Bishop Fisher is tricked
Posted By Claire on May 7, 2022
On 7th May 1536, one of Queen Anne Boleyn’s chaplain, William Latymer, was stopped and searched on his arrival back in England from the Continent.
Why was he searched?
What had been his business abroad?
What was found in his possession?
And what happened to him?
And a year earlier, on 7th May 1535, after a year of imprisonment in awful conditions at the Tower of London, John Fisher, former Bishop of Rochester, was visited at the Tower of London. There, he was tricked into saying something that would lead to his brutal end.
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22 June 1535 – Execution of Bishop John Fisher
22 December 1534 – Bishop John Fisher’s letter to Cromwell
Bishop John Fisher Executed
7th May 1536 – Anne Boleyn’s Chaplain Searched
22 December – Two Protestants betrayed by a spy and Bishop Fisher begs for a shirt
7 May 1536 – A queen’s chaplain is accosted and searched – The Fall of Anne Boleyn
