On August 28th in 1583, William Latymer, Dean of Peterborough and Evangelical Clergyman, was buried at Peterborough Cathedral.
He wrote the treatise ‘The Chronickille of Anne Bulleyne’, which concentrates on the religious and charitable aspects of #AnneBoleyn life.
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Latymer had been one of the chaplains to Queen Anne Boleyn and had been among the group of evangelicals, along with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker, who had gathered round Anne, who was patron to the reformers.

On the 7th May in 1536, while Anne was imprisoned in the Tower, Latymer was searched upon returning from Flanders. Fortunately no books of a heretical nature were found in his possession.
This was lucky, as he often brought back religious texts from the continent for Queen Anne.

It is thanks to Latymer that we have the story of Anne investigating the Holy Relic at Hailes Abbey. (see this post https://www.facebook.com/SocietyAnne/photos/a.385709938250006/1724516167702703/?type=3).

In 1538, he was appointed rector of Witnesham, Suffolk. Also in 1538, he was appointed by the king Master of the College of St Laurence Pountney.

In the reign of Queen Mary I, Latymer lost a number of preferments.

He was appointed as one of the chaplains to Anne's daughter Queen Elizabeth I, upon her accession to the throne. In 1560, he was made Dean of Peterborough.

He died in 1583, in his eighties. A good age in the Tudor period.

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