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Rowland Taylor, Reformation MartyrA Study Day at Hadleigh, SuffolkSaturday 16th April 2005, 9.45am to 5.30pm. The day is to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Taylor’s martyrdom in Hadleigh, 1555, with lectures and guided visits by coach to associated sites. Admission is £25.00, including a two-course lunch. If you would like to receive further details and a booking form, please send a SAE to: Sue Andrews, 17 Manor Road, Bildeston, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 7BG. This is not the simple tale of a parish priest caught up in the political schemes of the English Reformation as Rowland Taylor’s position was at the forefront of Protestant reform. A protégé of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer for whom he probably ghost wrote the Catechism, Taylor was appointed Rector of Hadleigh in 1544 and soon gained a good reputation for his parochial devotion. As Suffolk’s leading reformist cleric, he was also appointed Archdeacon of Bury St Edmunds in order to ingress the authority of the conservative Bishop of Norwich. His activities during the reign of Edward VI, our first Protestant king, made Taylor a marked man as he was arrested within one week of Catholic Mary’s accession to the throne in 1553. The Study Day on 16 April will include three lectures giving the background both nationally and locally that led to Taylor's arrest, trial and eventual martyrdom in 1555 at Hadleigh. Professor John Walter of the University of Essex will look at the unfolding of the English Reformation. · Clive Paine, popular author and local historian will illustrate the consequences upon the parish churches of Suffolk · Sue Andrews, MA, Hadleigh Archivist, will describe life in sixteenth-century Hadleigh and the events of Rowland Taylor's incumbency here. Expert guided tours of St Mary’s Parish Church, the Deanery Tower, Guildhall and Row Chapel, all buildings associated with Taylor, are included as well as a visit by coach to see the Taylor memorials on Aldham Common. Beverages will be available throughout the day and a two-course lunch catering for all types of diet will be served in the Guildhall. |
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