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On 3rd July 1495, Perkin Warbeck arrived at Deal in Kent, with some 150 supporters. His men had been paid for by Margaret of York, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, who claimed to believe that he was her nephew, Richard, Duke of York, who had disappeared in the Tower in 1483. The local populace were less impressed than Margaret and gave Warbeck’s men a drubbing. He had not landed, and made for Ireland, where he received a warmer welcome. He was also helped by the Scottish king, James IV – read more about that here.

On 2nd July 1515, the first free grammar school in England, Manchester Grammar, was endowed by Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter d. 1519. Oldham had spent time in the household of Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby, and his wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. Lady Margaret was a strong promoter of education, founding two Cambridge colleges, and Oldham may well have been influenced by her and her Chaplain, Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester. Oldham was a reformer within the Church, and promoted the study of the classics and the ‘New Learning’ that sought to sweep away some of the superstitions and abuses of the late mediaeval church. He went on to found Corpus Christi College, Oxford, together with Bishop Fox. The cost of building of Manchester Grammar was £218 13s 5d.

On 1st July 1543, the Treaty of Greenwich between Scotland and England was signed. The signatories were Henry VIII, and the Earl of Arran as Regent for the baby Mary, Queen of Scots. The treaty was in two parts – the first was a peace treaty, following the continuing border warfare in which Mary’s father had been killed, and the second was a pledge that Mary would be married to Henry’s son, Edward, Prince of Wales. The English vision was for a Union of the Crowns, under Edward. However, Arran was not able to persuade the Estates of Scotland to ratify it, and the accord broke down, resulting in the Wars of the Rough Wooing. Read about the context of the treaty here

Image is of the Earl of Arran