Tower of London Records

ffetherstone John 3/3/1591 Buried

No other information but the comment is "to be buried in the Tower meant

that you either lived and worked there or that you were a child of a family

who lived there There were about a thousand people living in the Tower in the

16c -Courtiers who waited on the Royal Family Soldiers Yeomen and workers at

the Royal Mint

This is the interesting one

Richard Featherstone Committed on 13th December 1534 and maintained at the

lowest rate of 40p per week for refusing the Oath of Supremacy The undated

list of 1535 showed he was held in the White Tower

He was hanged drawn and quartered at Smithfield on 30th July 1540 He was

beatified -made a Saint in 1886