Picture: William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury On this day in history, 15th March... 1493 - Arrival of Christopher Columbus, explorer and navigator, at Palos in Spain after his 1492 voyage to the New World. 1504 - Death of John Arundell, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter House in the Strand, London. He was buried at St Clement Danes Church in London. 1532 - William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, criticised Henry VIII in the House of Lords when Parliament was discussing the annulment. The King used foul language to him, saying that were it not for his age, he would make him repent of having said what he did against his Majesty. (Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 4: 1527-1533: 754) 1551 - The Lady Mary, the future Mary I, caused a stir when she rode through London with fifty knights and gentlemen in velvet coats and chains of gold afore her, and after her iiij score gentlemen and ladies all carrying rosary beads. This was a statement to the Protestant Edward VI that Mary would not be giving up the mass. 1554 - Marian martyr John Hooper was deprived of the bishopric of Gloucester while imprisoned in Fleet Prison. He had been charged with owing over five hundred pounds in unpaid first fruits, a charge he denied. 1628 - Burial of composer John Bull in the Groenplats cemetery near Antwerp Cathedral.
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