The 1535 Royal Progress


When Seymour and Cromwell


​Trounced de Boulogne

Above Winchester Cathedral by J.M.W. Turner


Henry VIII,the Reign - the Blog
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By Mark Holinshed
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​Follow the progress reports as the 1535 Royal Progress - the royal summer tour – a great entourage of more than a thousand leaves Windsor heading for the west country and returns via Winchester arriving back at Windsor for Allhallows in the autumn - the kingdom will be changed in the progress.

Henry VIII,the Reign

The Royal Progress July - October 1535

​​In March 1533, Henry promised that he would repair the insult to Kings Henry II and John, who had been tricked into offering the realm in tribute to the Holy See. He was also determined to reunite the crown with the goods churchmen had appropriated from it.

Letters & Papers No 235 1533 Volume 6, dated 15 March 1533
And in 1535 The King and his Government Set About Doing Just That
Map of Royal Progress 1535
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The Visits 

Date   Location
Leaving 9 Jul Windsor
 9 Jul Reading Abbey
Progress Report  1535 Royal Progress – Bound for Bristol and the West of England
12 Jul Ewleme Manor House
14 Jul Abingdon Abbey
​​16 Jul King John's Palace Langley
Progress Report Reading to King John's Palace, Langley
​21 Jul Winchcombe
​26 Jul Tewkesbury
Progress Report Langley, to Tewkesbury
​​1-5  Aug Gloucester
​6 Aug Leonard Stanley
Progress Report Tewkesbury to Berkeley Castle
​7 Aug Berkeley Castle
​14 Aug ​Thornbury Castle
Progress Report Berkeley Castle to Thornbury
​25 Aug ​Acton Court
 26 Aug Little Sodbury
27 Aug Bromham House
Progress Report Thornbury to Bromham House
3 Sep Wolf Hall
9 Sep Thruxton
11 Sep ​Hurstbourne Priors 
​12 Sep - 30 Sep Winchester
16 Sep Bishops Waltham
​30 Sep Southampton
4 Oct Portchester Castle
​7 Oct Beaulieu Abbey
 10 Oct ​Salisbury
​14 Oct Priors Hurstbourne
​15 Oct The Vyne
​​19 Oct Basing House
21 Oct Elvetham House
26 Oct Easthamstead
30 Oct Windsor
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Edward Seymour
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Thomas Cromwell
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Anne de Boulogne
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William Tynedale
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Reading Abbey
Henry VIII, the Reign.
Henry VIII, the Reign.