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17 Jul 1510

Execution (by beheading) of EDMUND DUDLEY on Tower Hill.

c.Aug 1512

Birth of KATHERINE PARR at Blackfriars, London.

25 Aug 1540

Birth of KATHERINE GREY at Bradgate Hall, Leicestershire.

20 Aug 1547

HENRY GREY and FRANCES BRANDON ('Dorsets') host wedding of Elizabeth 'Bess' Hardwick and William Cavendish at Bradgate Hall.

09 Aug 1553

Funeral of EDWARD VI at Westminster Abbey.

18 Aug 1553

JOHN DUDLEY stands trial at Westminster Hall; is convicted of treason and sentenced to death.

22 Aug 1553

Execution (by beheading) of JOHN DUDLEY on Tower Hill; is later buried in chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London.

27 Aug 1562

Death of MARGARET ST JOHN, Countess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, from Smallpox.

09 Aug 1585

Death of MARY DUDLEY in London; is buried at Penshurst, Kent.

03 Aug 1619

Death of DOROTHY DEVEREUX [as Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland].