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Headword Date Article Type
Cardinal Beaton is assassinated by pro-English party 1546 Topics Short note
Earl of Surrey is executed for treason 1547 Topics Short note
The Protector's brother is executed for treason 1549 Topics Short note
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, is beheaded for treason 1552 Topics Short note
The Duke of Northumberland is executed 1553 Topics Short note
Lady Jane Grey is executed 1554 Topics Short note
Lady Jane Grey's father is executed 1554 Topics Short note
Wyatt is tried and executed 1554 Topics Short note
Thomas Cranmer is deposed and executed 1556 Topics Short note
Mary Queen of Scots' secretary is murdered on Darnley's orders 1566 Topics Short note
Darnley is murdered on the orders of Earl of Bothwell 1567 Topics Short note
Irish rebel Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, is assassinated 1567 Topics Short note
Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason 1572 Topics Short note
The Earl of Northumberland is executed at York for treason 1572 Topics Short note
Seminary priest Cuthbert Maine is executed for treason 1577 Topics Short note
The Earl of Morton is executed for complicity in Darnley's murder 1581 Topics Short note
Edmund Campion is seized 1581 Topics Short note
Edmund Campion is executed 1581 Topics Short note
The Somerville Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I is discovered 1583 Topics Short note
John Somerville, who had plotted to assassinate Elizabeth I, is executed 1583 Topics Short note

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