21 Feb 1395: Geoffrey Chaucer #poet acts as a witness to transfer of the manor of Spittlecombe #Kent from the Archbishop of #York to the Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Bodleian)
8 Feb 1438: Archbishop Henry Chichele of #Canterbury founds a college dedicated to the Blessed Virgin & St Bernard #otd - St. John’s College #Oxford is its successor body (Ealdgyth)
7 Feb 1685: William Sancroft Archbishop of #Canterbury congratulates #otd James II on his accession & emphasises the loyalty of the Church of #England to the Crown (ECC)
For his part, Sancroft stuck with James. Despite everything.
6 Feb 1536: Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of #Canterbury begins a series of weekly sermons at Paul's Cross #London#otd - mainly about the Pope as Antichrist (NPG)
24 Jan 1588: Adrian Saravia, #Dutch exile theologian & later translator for the Authorised Verison (King James) #bible given rectory of Tatenhill, Staffordshore by Francis Walsingham #otd (His monument in #Canterbury, image: julia&keld)
21 Jan 1504: Archbishop William Warham of #Canterbury becomes Lord Chancellor of #England#otd (NPG)
Several decades later he would be one of those who believed Henry VIII’s supremacy schism would just blow over...
#NowPlaying - #bootleg of kevin ayers's 1970-1972 #bbc sessions, including a few tunes backed by the soft machine. great #prog / #canterbury fun with assertive weirdo hooks, if sometimes (like camelot) a bit silly. his voice shares something direct/plaintive with his soft machine bandmate robert wyatt that resonates with me deeply. @vinylrecords
13 Jan 1563: The first convocation of the Church of #England, that of #Canterbury, since the 1559 parliamentary settlement opens at St. Paul's cathedral #otd with a sermon by William Day, provost of Eton & future bishop of #Winchester: "feed the flock which is among you".
13 Jan 1531: As Henry VIII's 'Great Matter' rumbles on, Clement VII's nuncio visits William Warham Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd to bid him "have regard to God, his conscience and the Pope". (NPG)
10 Jan 1678: The Dean & Chapter of #Canterbury elect William Sancroft as Archbishop of Canterbury #otd He’d beem nominated 9 Nov 1677. In 1689 he refused to crown William & Mary and in 1690 he was deprived for refusing to swear allegiance to them.
10 Jan 1560: following Elizabeth I's accession, John Bale former #Carmelite, then evangelical #Protestant, polemicist, playwright, antiquarian & bishop of #Ossory is made a canon of #Canterbury cathedral #otd (CUL/BM)
He never went back to #Ireland which he’d fled under Mary I.
4 Jan 1645: William Laud Archbishop of #Canterbury is attainted #otd after an inconclusive & long trial. He was executed one week later on 11 Jan 1645 (BM)