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1536

Now

Frances' profession

Mary joins as postulant

Visitations of abbeys across England

1535

1 year ago

Joan survives an illness

Blanche transfers from Syon Abbey

Katherine becomes a novice

Parliament orders all small religious houses dissolved.

Executions of several for denial of King's supremacy.

1534

2 years ago

Oath of Supremacy taken by Abbess on behalf of all.

Letty becomes a novice.

Act of Supremacy passes

1533

3 years ago

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King's marriage with Katherine annulled

King marries Anne Boleyn

Cromwell becomes Lord Chancellor

1531

5 years ago

Juliana's profession

Isabel's profession

Blanche's profession (at Syon Abbey)

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1530

6 years ago

Ursula's profession

Death of Cardinal Wolsey

1529

7 years ago

A book of Margery's prophecies is censured

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1528

8 years ago

Benedicta's profession

Agnes transfers from Grantham Abbey

Bishop conducts a visitation: Omnia bene

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1527

9 years ago

A book of Margery's prophecies is published

King Henry VIII first appeals to the Pope to end his marriage to Katherine.

1526

10 years ago

Ellen's profession

Abbess Henrietta dies

Joan is elected Abbess

Maud is made Prioress

Bess is made Novice Mistress

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1523

13 years ago

Edith returns

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1520

16 years ago

Clemence's profession

Field of the Cloth of Gold

1518

18 years ago

Edith runs away from Whitwood

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1517

19 years ago

Phillippa's profession

Marthin Luther publishes the 95 Theses

1516

20 years ago

Bess' profession

Margery's profession

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1515

21 years ago

Maud's profession

Alice's profession

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1514

22 years ago

Sybil's profession

Agnes' profession at Grantham Abbey

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1512

24 years ago

Joan is made Novice Mistress

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1510

26 years ago

Henrietta is made Abbess

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1509

27 years ago

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Henry VIII accedes to the throne and marries Katherine of Aragon

1508

28 years ago

Edith's profession

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1506

30 years ago

Dorothy's profession

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1504

32 years ago

Joan's profession

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1501

35 years ago

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Prince Arthur marries Katherine of Aragon and then dies

1494

42 years ago

Peggy's profession

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1485

53 years ago

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Battle of Bosworth. Henry VII accedes to the throne

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