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 Bef 1431 -
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| 1 | 1361 | - 1361: Quarter Sessions Organized
Keepers of the Peace were elevated to Justices and empowered to determine cases as well as to bring them. Quarterly sittings commenced during 1363. The courts were empowered to try criminal cases and settle matters related to county administration, e.g. requirements pursuant to Poor Law, appeals to settlements and removals of the populace, granting of recognizances, administering militia substitutions and repair of highways and bridges.
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| 2 | 1483/4 | - 1483/4: College of Arms founded
Founded by Richard III the College of Arms was to be the sole authority for the granting of armorial bearings in England and Wales from that time to the present day. Maintains thorough records concerning all grants of arms and registrations with pedigrees of thousands of families.
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| 3 | 1530 | - 1530: First Visitation of the Heralds of Arms
Heralds' county visits to investigate the claims to the right to arms of residents. The visitations occurred every 13 years up to and including 1688. Many have been published.
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| 4 | 1534 | - 1534: Act of Supremacy
This Act by Henry VIII ended the Pope's formal authority in England and led to the establishment of the Anglican Church of England. An oath was tendered to all men over the age of 14 and required the swearer to assert that the children of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were rightful heirs to the throne.
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| 5 | 1536 | - 1536: Dissolution of Monasteries
Dissolution of the smaller monasteries is enacted.
- Oct 1536—Jan 1537: Pilgrimage of Grace
A major Tudor rebellion primarily occurring in the 6 northern counties of England against the policies and Ministers of Henry VIII. Discontent of the populace toward religious and secular issues, such as "that no infant shall receive the blessed Sacrament of Baptisme bott onlesse an trybette be payd to the king" and the dissolution of the monasteries.
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| 6 | 1537 | - 1537: Monasteries
Suppression of the larger monasteries is commenced.
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| 7 | 1538 | - 1538: Friaries Dissolved
Dissolution of the friaries is commenced.
- 5 Sep 1538: Keeping of Parish Registers
Injunctions dellivered to every parish in England and Wales, ordering the parson to enter every Sunday in the presence of the wardens, or one of them, all the baptisms, marriages, and burials of the previous week with the day and year of the event, in a book which was to be kept in a two-locked coffer, under pain of a fine of 35. 4d., to be applied to the repair of the Church.
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