Picture: Engraving of Miles Coverdale. 1525 – Death of Richard Bere, Abbot of Glastonbury. He was buried in the south aisle of the nave of the abbey church. 1557 - “The Queens Graces pensioners did muster in bright harness” before Mary I. 1558 – The state opening of the fifth Parliament of Mary Is reign. This is one of the only mentions of a public appearance by Mary after the second departure of her husband, Philip of Spain, in July 1557. 1569 - Miles Coverdale, Bible translator and Bishop of Exeter, died. He was buried in the chancel of St Bartholomew by the Exchange but his remains were moved to St Magnus the Martyr when St Bartholomews was pulled down in 1840. The Bible which Coverdale and William Tyndale compiled and printed in 1535 was the first English translation of the whole Bible. 1607 – Death of Jacob Verzelini, glassmaker, in Crutched Friars, London. He was buried at Downe Chapel. His work, which includes a cylindrical crystal tankard with silver-gilt lid and base and goblets, can be found in the British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 1618 – Death of Ferdinando Putlon, legal researcher and writer, at Bourton, near Buckingham. He was buried in the parish church at Desborough.
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