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Thame Local History
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Elizabethan Dates (1560 - 1603)
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| 1564 |
Thame Church altar removed by Elizabethan reform.
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| 1566 |
Queen Elizabeth I visited the Norreys family at Rycote Palace,
with Robert Dudley, and knighted Henry Norreys.
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| 1567 |
Sir John Thynne, who had acquired the prebend of Thame,
began building Longleat House in Wiltshire.
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| 1568 |
Queen Elizabeth I again at Rycote Palace.
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| 1569 |
Work began on Thame Grammar School.
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| 1570 |
Queen Elizabeth I again at Rycote Palace.
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Thame Grammar School opened. More |
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| 1572 |
Queen Elizabeth I made Sir Henry Norreys Baron Norreys at Rycote Palace.
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Sir Francis Knollys erected mansion in Thame High Street. Sir Richard Wenman, son-in-law to the late John Williams, died. More |
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| 1575 |
Grammar School statute published and royal licence granted by Elizabeth I. New College Oxford took over running of Grammar School. More New College received rent for the Saracens Head. More |
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| 1577 |
People from Aylesbury were forbidden to attend Thame's Michaelmas fair
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| 1587 |
The Corn Returns for Thame. |
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| 1588 |
Robert Dudley wrote 'his last letter' to Queen Elizabeth I from Rycote Palace.
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| 1592 |
Queen Elizabeth I received letters from Norreys sons at Rycote Palace.
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Thame's annual Michaelmas fair was cancelled for fear of the London merchants brought by the Queen's visit bringing the plague. The Dormer family sold Baldington manor, comprising a large part of Thame. References More |
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| 1596 |
Richard Wenman, grandson of John Williams' son-in-law, knighted at Cadiz.
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Thame supplied one of the leaders of an abortive agrarian revolt. References |