Anthony Fitzherbert publishesDiversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions,The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements andThe Boke of Husbandrie (the first work onagriculture published in England).
1524
25 May – Henry VIII and Charles V form an alliance to supportCharles III, Duke of Bourbon in his dispute with Francis I of France.[2]
Henry VIII receives a "box ofmarmalade" from Mr Hull of Exeter.[5]
1525
June – theAmicable Grant, a form ofpoll tax imposed without the consent of Parliament, abandoned.[3]
Spring – William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible reaches England,[3] printing having been completed inWorms, Germany (with other copies being printed inAmsterdam). In October,Cuthbert Tunstall,Bishop of London, attempts to collect all the copies in his diocese and burn them.
August–November – The first of severaldebasements of coinage, reducing the size of silver coins, and raising the value of thegold sovereign andangel.[3]
The King sends his secretary,William Knight, to Rome to seek papal dispensations allowing the annulment of the King's current marriage and allowing him to remarry.Pope Clement VII, who is at this time ade facto prisoner ofCharles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Queen Catherine's nephew, will grant only a conditional dispensation, of no use to Henry, who places "the King's great matter" (the securing of an annulment) into Wolsey's hands.[6]
1528
22 January – Henry VIII and Francis I of France declare war on Emperor Charles V.[2]
March – trade suspended between England and the Netherlands because of the war with theHoly Roman Empire.[2]
end May – the fourth major outbreak of thesweating sickness appears in London, rapidly spreading to the rest of England.[3]
June – unrest in England caused by economic difficulties due to the war forces the government to seek a truce with the Empire.[2]
May–July – Wolsey presides over a legatine court atBlackfriars, London, to rule on the legality of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, but the papal legate has no power to grant an annulment.[3]
26 October – Cardinal Wolsey falls from power due to his failure to preventHabsburg expansion in Europe and obtain a divorce for Henry VIII.Thomas More succeeds him asLord Chancellor.[2]
^Public Record Office (1870).Letters and Papers, Foreign & Domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII. Vol. VI. p. 339. Noted by Wilson (1999) p. 31f and by other writers.
