The first published use of the term " evangelical " in English was in 1531 by William Tyndale, who wrote " He exhorteth them to proceed constantly in the evangelical truth.

The Earl granted a licence to control Swakeleys to Sir William Fitzwilliam in 1531, who was acting as trustee for Ralph Pexall.

* 1531 William Molineaux, A. M.

Sir Christopher Hatton was the second son of William Hatton ( d. 28 August 1546 ) of Holdenby, Northamptonshire, and his second wife, Alice Saunders, the daughter of Lawrence Saunders ( d. 1544 ) of Harrington, Northamptonshire, and his wife, Alice Brokesby, the daughter of Robert Brokesby ( d. 28 March 1531 ) of Shoby, Leicestershire, and Alice Shirley.

Upon his return in 1531, Lambert came under the scrutiny of Archbishop William Warham, but Warham died in 1532.

John Shakespeare ( c. 1531 – 7 September 1601 ) was the father of William Shakespeare.

* 1531 – 1534 William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy

* 1531 / 32 William Clattercoats Richard Nedham

Basing House was built from 1531 as a new palace for William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, treasurer to King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I.

William George Arthur Beyne junior, Abbot of Burton Abbey, endowed a grammar school in the early 16th century, functioning by 1531.

Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward.

His best-known work was a book on education, De Disciplinis, published in 1531, and his writings on rhetoric included Rhetoricae, sive De Ratione Dicendi, Libri Tres ( 1533 ), De Consultatione ( 1533 ), and a rhetoric on letter writing, De Conscribendis Epistolas ( 1536 ).

Two accounts, published in the 1640s, one in Spanish, one in Nahuatl, tell how, while walking from his village to Mexico City in the early morning of December 9, 1531 ( then the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Spanish Empire ), the peasant Juan Diego saw on the slopes of the Hill of Tepeyac a vision of a girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age, surrounded by light.

Two months later, in July 1531, Servetus published De Trinitatis Erroribus ( On the Errors of the Trinity ).

The title of this work was In linguam gallicam isagōge, una cum eiusdem Grammatica latino-gallica, ex hebræis, græcis et latinis authoribus to the French language, with a Latin-French grammar of the same, based on Hebrew, Greek and Latin authors, published in Paris in early 1531, less than a year after the very first French grammar, by John Palsgrave, was published in London.

Andrea Alciato wrote the epigrams contained in the first and most widely disseminated emblem book, the Emblemata, published by Heinrich Steyner in 1531 in Augsburg.

Here he also published, in 1531, his most important work, the Chronica, Zeitbuch und Geschichtsbibel, largely a compilation on the basis of the Nuremberg Chronicle ( 1493 ), and in its treatment of social and religious questions connected with the Reformation.

The 1531 edition was soon followed by a 1534 edition authorized by Alciato: published in Paris by Christian Wechel, this appeared under the title Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus (" Andrea Alciato's Little Book of Emblems ").

The reason for these differences partly stemmed from two editions of The Apology published in 1531: they were the " quarto edition " and the " octavo edition ": so called because of the manner in which they were printed.

The quarto edition was published with the first publication of The Augsburg Confession in April or May 1531 ; hence, the name " editio princeps " edition ".

The first edition appeared about 1505 ( see Fano ); others were published in Constantinople ( 1531 ), in Paris ( 1559 ), and elsewhere.

In 1531 Frith published three attacks on the doctrines of purgatory and transubstantiation, which left him, according to his biographers, a wanted man.

Among the Albanian émigrés that became known in the humanist world are historian Marin Barleti ( 1460 – 1513 ) who in 1510 published in Rome a history of Skanderbeg, which was translated almost into all European languages, or Marino Becichemi ( 1408 – 1526 ), Gjon Gazulli ( 1400 – 1455 ), Leonicus Thomeus ( 1456 – 1531 ), Michele Maruli ( 15th century ), Michele Artioti ( 1480 – 1556 ) and many others who were distinguished in various fields of science, art and philosophy.

In 1531 Zumarraga published a treaty decrying Guzmán's 1529 campaign as unjust.

The Discourses were published posthumously with papal privilege in 1531.

In the autumn of 1531, Jonas published a German translation of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession and in 1541 he began a successful preaching crusade in Halle, becoming superintendent of its churches in 1542 or 1544 and priest in the Market Church.

* Gundert, Herman Keralappalama ( History of Malabar from A. D. 1498 – 1531 ) in Malayalam, first published 1868, Kottayam: Vidyarthi Mithram, 1964

The first work which bears his own imprint was A Dyaloge of Sir Thomas More ( 1531 ), a reprint of the edition published by his father in 1529.

The first edition of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession was published in late April-early May 1531 in quarto format.

Melanchthon continued to revise it, especially in the article on justification, and issued a second edition in September 1531, which was published in octavo format.

* Sir Nicholas L ' Estrange, 1st Bt ( MP and Chamberlain to the Duke of Norfolk ( 1604-1655 ) descended from Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange de / of Knockin ( c. 1326 – 1392 ) and John Hastings, de jure 15th Baron Hastings ( 1531 – 1542 )

In 1531 he had been made a serjeant-at-law and king ’ s serjeant ; and on 20 May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded Sir Thomas More as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, being appointed Lord Chancellor on 26 January 1533.

* Sir Thomas Wharton II ( 1460 or 1465 – 1531 )

** Sir Christopher Nugent ( d. 1531 )

Lord Howard married firstly, before 18 June 1531, Katherine ( d. 23 April 1535 ), the daughter of John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire, and Anne, the daughter of Sir Guy Sapcote.

In 1531, Sir Thomas Elyot wrote that English " Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence ".

Sir John Popham ( 1531 – 10 June 1607 )

He was born in Huntworth, near North Petherton in Somerset in 1531 to Alexander Popham by his wife Jane Stradling, daughter of Sir Edward Stradling of St Donat's Castle, Glamorgan.

* The Life And Achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531 – 1607, Douglas Walthew Rice-2005 ISBN 0-8386-4060-5

Sir Thomas Elyot, in his popular Governour ( 1531 ), lists three essential texts for bringing up young gentlemen: Plato's Works, Aristotle's Ethics, and De Officiis.

* 1531: Sir James Foulis of Colinton

Richard Cradock probably married Janet Horton around 1468 as may be deduced from the fact that their son and heir Sir Mathew Cradock ( d. 1531 ) was born about then.

In 1531, Sir Thomas Elyot noted in his Boke named The Governour the dangers of football, as well as the benefits of archery (" shooting "):