Around 1495 Thomas Bilney was born.
Around 1510 Thomas Bilney [aged 15] entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
Around 1520 John Frith [aged 17] was educated at Eton College [Map] and after at Queen's College, Cambridge University [Map] where his tutor was Bishop Stephen Gardiner [aged 37] who was subsequently involved in his trial. At Cambridge he met Thomas Bilney [aged 25].
In 1525 Thomas Bilney [aged 30] obtained a licence to preach throughout the diocese of Ely. He denounced saint and relic veneration, together with pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury, and refused to accept the mediation of the saints.
In 1529 Thomas Bilney [aged 34] was released from the Tower of London [Map]. Churches being no longer open to him, he preached openly in the fields, finally arriving in Norwich, where the bishop, Richard Nix [aged 82], caused him to be arrested.
On 15 or 19th August 1531 Thomas Bilney [aged 36] was burned at the stake at Norwich, Norfolk [Map] as described in Wriothesley's Chronicle.
Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 16th August 1531. This yeare was one burnt at Maidestone [Map] for heresie, and one Bylney [aged 36],g a priest, disgraded and burnt at Norwich, Norfolk [Map] for heresie.
Note g. Thomas Bilney, Bachelor of both Laws, was burnt on the 16th August, 1531.