George first showed signs of mental illness in 1499, which was referred to in contemporary documents as "the land evil".

On This Day (15 April) in 1530, Gilbert Tailboys, 1st Baron Tailboys of Kyme, Lincolnshire, died.

Anne Askew's name has long been associated with martyrdom in Henry VIII's Protestant England. However, her early years were not necessarily indicative of a woman who would grow up to be at the forefront of rebellion and heresy in the religiously turbulent 1540s.