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  2. 1580s in England - Wikipedia

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    Myles Standish, military officer and colonist (died 1656) 1585 23 January – Mary Ward, nun (died 1645) Early October – John Ball, puritan divine (died 1640) 4 December – John Cotton, theologian and minister in the Massachusetts Bay colony (died 1652)

  3. List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation - Wikipedia

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    In 1585, a new decree made it a crime punishable by death to go overseas to receive the sacrament of Ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Nicholas Devereux (who went by the alias of Nicholas Woodfen ) and Edward Barber (see below Edward Stransham ) were both put to death in 1586 under this law.

  4. Timeline of the English Reformation - Wikipedia

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    Henry adds "of the Church of England in Earth, under Jesus Christ, Supreme Head" to his royal style. Henry proclaims himself, not the Pope, to be the head of the Church of England 1535 Bishop Gardiner's De Vera Obedientia published 1535 The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale published in Antwerp.

  5. Mary Ward (nun) - Wikipedia

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    After being refused by Mary, Edward Neville would give up the family inheritance, travel to Rome and join the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). Neville died in prison for being a priest in 1648. [3] Ward left England in order to enter a monastery of Poor Clares at Saint-Omer in northern France; she then moved to the Spanish Netherlands as a lay ...

  6. Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Marmaduke Bowes (died 26 November 1585) Robert Bickerdike (died probably 23 July 1586) Henry Webley (died 22 August 1588) Richard Flower (c. 1566 - 30 August 1588) William Lampley (died 1 August 1588) Thomas Belson (c. 1564 - 5 July 1589) Humphrey Pritchard (died 5 July 1589) Robert Hardesty (died 24 September 1589) Nicholas Horner (died 4 ...

  7. William Parry (spy) - Wikipedia

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    Around this time Parry covertly joined the Roman Catholic Church. [1] In 1580 Parry again returned to England. in November, after renewed proceedings by his creditors, he made a personal assault on Hugh Hare, one of them, in the Inner Temple. Parry was convicted and sentenced to death. He received a pardon from the Queen.

  8. Roanoke Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.

  9. Walter Palmer (Puritan) - Wikipedia

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    Palmer was likely born in England about 1585. He married in England and fathered five children. Recent research suggests that he was probably from Frampton, Dorset, England ("Walter Palmer of the Great Migration: Probable Origins in Frampton, Dorset," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, [Vol. 174 Winter 2020; pages 21-25]).