On this day in history, 9th December... 1522 – Death of Hugh Ashton, Archdeacon of York and former Comptroller of Lady Margaret Beauforts household. He died at York was was buried at York Minster. Ashton helped Lady Margaret with the arrangements involved in founding Christs College and St Johns at Cambridge and, as an executor of her will, supervised the building of St Johns. 1538 - Sir Edward Neville, courtier, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and son of George Neville, 2nd Baron Bergavenny, was beheaded on Tower Hill. Neville had been arrested for treason along with his brother-in-law, Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, and Courtenays wife and son in November 1538. They were all accused of plotting with Cardinal Reginald Pole. 1541 – Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and step-grandmother of Catherine Howard, who had been detained at the Lord Chancellors home after Catherines fall, was questioned regarding the location of her money and jewels. 1591 – Death of Robert Balthrop, Sergeant-Surgeon to Elizabeth I. Balthrop was buried at St Bartholomew-the-Less Church, in the grounds of St Bartholomews Hospital.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:33:08 +0000