27 November – Former monk burnt at stake for importing books and William Shakespeare gets married
Joel | November 27, 2021
On this day in Tudor history, 27th November 1531, former Benedictine monk and reformist, Richard Bayfield, was burnt at the stake at Smithfield for heresy after Sir Thomas More had caught him importing heretical books into England. It wasn’t Bayfield’s first brush with the authorities. He’d been in trouble for heresy previously so was now […]
