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In 1553, King Edward VI granted Totnes a charter allowing a former Benedictine priory building that had been founded in 1088 to be used as Totnes Guildhall and a school.
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* 1553 – King Henry IV of France ( d. 1610 )
A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.
In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.
* May 14 – King Henry IV of France ( assassinated ) ( b. 1553 )
** King Edward VI of England, son of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Jane Seymour ( d. 1553 )
On 6 July 1553 King Edward VI died and the Duke of Northumberland attempted to transfer the English Crown to Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law who was married to his second youngest son, Guildford Dudley.
To protect the Protestant government from the accession of a Catholic queen, Northumberland forced King Edward's lawyers to create an instrument setting aside the Third Succession Act on 15 June 1553.
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG, ( c. 1500 – 22 January 1552 ) was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI ( 1547 – 1553 ), in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549.
In 1553 the Lady Chapel became a school, the Great Gatehouse a town jail, some other buildings passed to the Crown, and the Abbey Church was sold to the town for £ 400 in 1553 by King Edward VI to be the church of the parish.
In 1553, as King Edward VI was dying, the King and his chief minister, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, planned to exclude his sister Mary from the succession in favour of Catherine's elder sister, Jane.
* Henry III of Navarre ( 1553 – 1610 ), later King Henry IV of France
Following the accession of the Catholic Mary I in 1553 and her marriage to Philip, Prince of Asturias in 1554, Pope Paul IV issued the papal bull " Ilius " in 1555, recognizing them as Queen and King of Ireland together with her heirs and successors.
; John Chamberlain ( 1553 – 1628 ) reported at the time that the King " hath long had a desire to remove him from about the lord of Rochester, as thinking it a dishonour to him that the world should have an opinion that Rochester ruled him and Overbury ruled Rochester ".
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG ( 1504 – 22 August 1553 ) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.
The 15-year-old King fell ill in early 1553 and excluded his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth, whom he regarded as illegitimate, from the succession, designating non-existent, hypothetical male heirs.
A planned voyage to China via the Northeast passage under Hugh Willoughby sailed in May 1553 — King Edward watched their departure from his window.
The 15-year-old King fell seriously ill in February 1553.
However, he saw the King on the verge of assuming full authority at the beginning of 1553 ( with Dudley contemplating retirement ) and ascribed the succession alteration to Edward's resolution, Northumberland playing the part of the loyal and tragic enforcer instead of the original instigator.
Lord Guildford Dudley ( also spelt Guilford ) ( c. 1535 – 12 February 1554 ) was the husband of Lady Jane Grey who, declared as his heir by King Edward VI, occupied the English throne from 6 / 10 July till 19 July 1553.
Under the young King Edward VI, Guildford's father became Lord President of the Privy Council and de facto ruled England from 1550 – 1553.
1553 and Edward
It was used only for a few months, as after Edward VI's death in 1553, his half-sister Mary I restored Roman Catholic worship.
However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.
In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, Edward VI, to the English throne.
Edward VI died on 6 July 1553, aged 15.
Edward was beginning to show great promise when he fell violently ill with tuberculosis in 1553 and died that August two months short of his 16th birthday.
When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of religious differences.
On 6 July 1553, at the age of 15, Edward VI died from a lung infection, possibly tuberculosis.
When Edward VI became ill in 1553, his advisers looked to the possible imminent accession of the Catholic Lady Mary, and feared that she would overturn all the reforms made during Edward's reign.
Most of Edward's council signed the Devise for the Succession, and when Edward VI died on 6 July 1553 from his battle with tuberculosis, Lady Jane was proclaimed queen.
Upon the death in 1553 of Henry VIII's successor, Edward VI, Edward's Catholic half-sister Mary I became queen.
* Edward VI of England, ( 1547 – 1553 )
* Edward VI of England ( 1537 – 1553 ), the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
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Edward VI died on 6 July 1553.
* Hoak, Dale ( 2008 ): " Edward VI ( 1537 – 1553 )".
The reign of Edward VI though short ( 1547 – 1553 ) was numismatically important for seeing the introduction of new denominations — the silver crown, half crown, shilling, Sixpence, and Threepence — which were to survive until 1971, and which were a reflection of the increasing wealth of the country.
1553 and granted
The site was surrendered to the crown in March 1545, being granted to private owners in 1553.
In 1553, Queen Mary, by letters patent, granted it to the Bishop of London and his successors.
The primary and most profitable whaling grounds of this joint-stock company came to be centered around Spitsbergen in the early 17th century, and the company's royal charter of 1613 granted a monopoly on whaling in Spitsbergen, based on the ( erroneous ) claim that Hugh Willoughby had discovered the land in 1553.
1553 and Totnes
Contents of the room include a high longcase clock made about 1745 by William Stumbels of Totnes ; a large 17th-century Brussels tapestry with rustic farm-yard scenery after Teniers above the fireplace ; and a 1553 carved wooden over-mantel decorated with the Courtenay arms.
1553 and charter
As a reward for the support given to Mary I by the bailiffs and citizens during the Duke of Northumberland's attempt to prevent her accession, the Queen issued a new charter in 1553, confirming the 1548 charter and in addition granting the city its own Sheriff.
Edward VI grants a charter in 1553 to Bridewell Hospital
From regal charter, dated 11 April 1553, the chapel was extended, and by 1559 the local clergy began receiving an increase in their budget.
The school was saved by the petition of the King's Chaplain, John Nowell, and in 1553 it received its royal charter.
A second Act, the College of Physicians Act 1553, amended the charter and gave them the right to imprison, indefinitely, those they judged.
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