each day – a testament to his tenacity as well as his experience and length of service. Henry VIII’s decision to form the Church of England proved predictably contentious, as evidenced by the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace uprising, which found some 30,000 northerners taking up arms in. Other favors followed as the family’s stature. The petition was a success and John's wages were increased to 16d. In 1529, as Henry pursued a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, he elevated Thomas to the peerage, granting him the title Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. In his petition (below), which still survives in the National Archives, Blanke asserted that his wages were not sufficient to serve the king properly 'as other your trumpets do' and noted that he intended to serve the King for the rest of his life. Beginning with the victory of Henry Tudor over Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and ending with the death of the childless Elizabeth I in 1603. Early in Henry VIII’s reign, after the death of a more senior trumpeter called Domynck Justinian, he petitioned the king for his former colleague's position. However, John was clearly ambitious and not prepared to live on 8d. Later, in 1526, it was decreed that the royal trumpeters' 'boardwage' was to be 4d. On occasions that these were not required he could have claimed an additional allowance called 'boardwage'.
In addition to his wages John Blanke would have received room and board. each day was not inconsiderable, and equivalent to that of a skilled craftsman. He is one of the earliest recorded black people in United Kingdom after the Roman period. 15011511) was a musician of African descent in London from the early Tudor period, who probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501.
By Tudor standards, John was not on the breadline. John Blanke (also rendered Blancke or Blak) (fl.
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