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A13042	The abridgement of the English Chronicle, first collected by M. Iohn Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable antiquities, and continued with matters forreine and domesticall, vnto the beginning of the yeare, 1618. by E.H. Gentleman. There is a briefe table at the end of the booke; Summarie of Englyshe chronicles. Abridgments	Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Howes, Edmund, fl. 1607-1631.	1618 (1618)	STC 23332; ESTC S117863	314,292	619

Nottingham considering how this land was misgouerned by a few persons about the K. intending reformation of the same assembled at Radcote Bridge with a power of forty thousand came to London and pitched in the fields neare to the tower where the King kept his Christmas Shortly after they caused the King to call a parliament whereof hearing Alexander Neuell Archbishop of Yorke Robert Ver Duke of Ireland and Michael de la Poole Earle of Suffolke fled the land died in strange countries The king by the counsell of the aboue named Lords caused to be taken Sir Robert Tresilian chiefe Iustice of England sir Nicholas Brember late Maior of London sir Iohn Salisbury knight sir Iohn Beauchamp sir Simon Burghley sir Iames Barnes knight Iohn Vske a Serieant at Armes which by the authoritie of the said Parliament were conuict of treason and put to death Robert Belknap Iohn holt Iohn Locton Richard Gray William Burgh and Robert Fulthrope Iustices with the Lords which before had voided the land were banished for euer Thomas Austen shriue Adam Carlohul shriue Nicholas Twyford Goldsmith Maior Statutes made of the Staple to bee brought from Middleborow to Calice Iohn Walcot Shriue Iohn Louely Shriue William Venour Grocer Maior In Oxford the Welsh and Southerne schollers assailed the Northerne whereby many murders were done on each side Iohn Francis shriue Thomas Viuent shriue Adam Bawne Goldsmith Maior This Adam Bawne prouided that from parts beyond the seas was corne brought to London plentifully to the furtherance of which good work the Maior and Citizens tooke out of the Orphans chest in their Guild-hall 2000. markes to buy corne and the Aldermen laid out each of them 20. pound to the like purpose The good man of the Cock in Cheape at the litle conduit was murdered in y e night time by a thiefe that came in at a gutter window as it was known long after by the same thiefe when he was at the Gallowes to be hanged for fellony but his wife was burnt therefore and thrée of his men drawne to Tyborne and there hanged wrongfully Iohn Chadworth Shriue Henry Venor Shriue Iohn Hinde Draper Maior Vpon Christmas day a Dolphin came vp the riuer of Thames to London bridge foreshewing the tempests that followed shortly after or else the disturbance of the Citizens which through y e Kings displeasure they came into because the Londoners had denied the lending of 1000. pound which the king demanded of them Hee caused the Maior Shriues Aldermen to be summoned to a Counsell at Nottingham there imprisoned them disanulling all their liberties and made sir Edward Dalengrige Warden of London Gilbert Maghfield Shriue Thomas Newington Shriue William Stondon Grocer Maior When the King saw the Londoners sore repent their trespasses he came to London where the citizens receiued him with so great glory as might haue séemed to receiue an Emperour in his triumph with such gifts did honour him that the worth thereof could not bee estéemed By this meanes the King became more tractable to grant them their liberties and then the Kings Bench from Yorke and the Chancery from Nottingh●● were returned to London Drew Barentine shriue Richard Whiting●on shriue Iohn Hatley Grocer Maior Qéene Anne died at Shene in Southery and was buried at Westminster William Brumstone Shriue Thomas Knowles Shriue Iohn Froshie Mercer Maior King Richard made a chargeable voyage into Ireland which came to small effect Roger Ellis Shriue William Skirrington Shriue William Moore Vintner Maior The Kings of England and of France met besides Calice and there concluded a peace King Richard tooke to his wife Isabell daughter to the French King Thomas Wilford Shriue William Parker Shriue Adam Bawne Goldsmith and Richard Whittington Mercer Maiors This yeare 1397. Tamberlaine being Lord of a a certaine wast countrey and rude people in the East who not long before had assembled great numbers of strangers vnto his aid ouerthrown the Persians vnderstanding that Baiazeth the Turkish Emperour had won diuers kingdomes and many strong Citties from the Christians as also discomfited the Christian Emperiall army which consisted of Gréekes Italians Germanes Hungarions Seruians Myssians Frenchmen and others and that he still persisted in extreame pride of his inuincible strength fortune with a mightie hoast had besieged Constantinople eight yeares being fully perswaded that there was no power vpon earth that could redéeme the Cittie out of his hands because he knew the Princes of Christendome to bee at dissention among themselues And therupon secured himselfe y t if Europ could not preuaile against him there was no other power that durst encounter him And whilest hée thus thought the saide Tamberlaine the yeare alone written came vpon him with a very mighty hoast in a set battell vpon Mount Stella where Pompey fought with Mithridates hee ouercame this Baiazeth being the fourth of that name flew two hundred thousand Turkes tooke him prisoner put him in an iron cage and so carried him in triumph from place to place This Baiazeth was crowned in the yeare 1373. Amurah the second was crowned 1414. he was the first that ordained the Emperiall Band or guarde of renegate Christians commonly called Ianezaries And in the yeare 1447. Constantine the 7. was crowned Emperour of Constantinople being before that K. of Morea he was surnamed the Dragon for his cruelty which he exercised vpon the Turkes for reuenge whereof other ancient grudges Mahomet sonne of Amurat the 2. in the yeare 1452. after hee had done great spoiles and damage vpon Gréece hee also conquered their chiefe Citie Constantinople tooke Constantine the Christian Emperour prisoner then cōmanded his head to be cut-off and with great derision caused his head to bee showne throughout all the Turkish campe And among other things of worthy note and obseruation you shall vnderstand that whereas the famous Citie Constantinople was at first dignified reedified enriched aduanced by a Constantine whose mothers name was S. Helen the same Citie was lost subiugated vnto Turkish slauery by a Constantine whose mothers name was likewise Helen This Mahomet was the second of that name and the eight in ranke of Turkish Emperours was the first that arrogated to his title the name of Great whose successors euer since haue béene called the great Turke or grand Signor Therefore Baiazeth the fourth by reason of sundry his victories against the Christians and cruell murthers which he had performed on his kindred friendes was surnamed the whirlwinde or thunderbolt of heauen And Tamberlaine after his conquest calling to minde all his fortunes considering how many mighty Princes he had subdued surnamed himselfe the scourge of God Thomas Duke of Glocester King Richards Vncle was murdered at Calice The Earle of Arundell and many other were put to death for that they rebuked the King in certaine matters somewhat liberally Richard Askam Shriue Iohn Woodcocke Shriue Richard

William Forman shriue Thomas Kitson shriue Sir Christopher Asken Draper Maior A great fish was taken at Blacke wall which was brought to Westminster to the King The 20. of Aprill Elizabeth Barton a Nunne professed at S. Sepulchres in Canterbury Edward Bocking and Iohn Deering two Monkes of Christs Church in Canterbury Hugh-Rich Warden of the Friars obseruants in Canterbury and Richard Risby of the same house Richard Maister Parson of Aldington in Kent and Henry Gold Priest were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged and headed c. for sundry conspiracies in the matter of diuorse betwéene the Kings Maiestie and Quéene Katherine All the Priests through England called to bée sworne to the King and Quéene Anne and their heires before the Archbishop of Canterbury and all men through England were sworne in their shires and townes where they dwelled for refusall thereof Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Sir Thomas Moore late Lord Chancellour were sent to the tower of London diuers other Priests religious and lay men were sent to other prisons The xv of May was a great fire at Salters hall in Bredstreet The xi of Iuly Lord Dacres of the North was arraigned at Westminster of high treason where hee so wittily confuted his accusers that to their great shame he was not found guiltie The second of August was all the places of the obseruant Fryars as Greenewich Canterbury Richmount Newarke and Newcastle put downe The fouretéenth of August was a great fire at Temple barre the sixteenth of August was burned the Kings stable at Charing Crosse wherein were burned many great horses and great store of hay Nicholas Lues●● Shriue William Denham Shriue Sir Iohn Champneis Shinner Maior In a Parliament at Westminster the Pope with all his authoritie was banished this realme the King to be reputed and taken as supreme head of the Church of England hauing full authoritie to reforme all errours heresies and abuses in the same Also the first fruits and tenths of all spirituall dignities and promotions were granted the King with a subsidie of the laity of twelue pence in the pound The Prior of the Charterhouse at London the Prior of Beuall the Prior of Exham Reinolds a brother of Simon and Iohn haile Vicar of Thisleworth were all condemned drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne the fourth of May. The K. cōmanded all about his Court to poll their heads and caused his owne head to be polled The 25. of May was in Saint Pauls Church at London examined 19. men and 6. women borne in Holland 14. of them were condemned a man and a woman of th●m were burnt in Smithfield the other twelue sent to other townes there to bee burnt This yeare 1537. died Francis Sforce the second of that name this Francis Sforce was the ninth and last Tuke of Millaine he was the son of Lewis Sforce called the Mo●re hee obteined his Dukedome by meanes of Prospero Colonno generall of the Campe of the league betwéene the Emperour Carolus Quintus and Pope Leo the tenth but with great difficulty he married Christierna daughter to the King of Denmark he was crowned Duke Ann 1523. he raigned with great troubles and vexations by reason the Emperour had the greater hold and stronger faction in his country and was forced to flie for griefe whereof to sée his subiects and friends become vassals to the Emperour and his treasure giuen to strangers he fell into a great sicknesse with extreame paine in one of his eyes and thereof died being opened his heart was found all drie and yet notwithstanding his heart was swolne In his time the Mylaneses expelled quite all the French garisons with their chiefe captaine Monsieur Lawtrec out of their territories because of sundrie vile practises and misdemeanours wherewith the French grieued them Presently vpon the death of the Duke his countrey became a pray to many gouernors and his wife Christians returned into Denmarke and was afterward married vnto Anthony Duke of Lorraine Shée was highly honoured of all Princes for her accomplished vertues especiall for her singular patience in her vnfortunate marriage with her first husband and her incessant paines and kindenesse which shee performed in his extreame miseries and long sicknesse The 18. of Iune 3. Monkes of the Charter-house of London Exmew Middlemore and Ni●igate were drawn to Tiborne and there hanged 〈◊〉 quartered The 22. of Iune Doctor Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was beheaded on the tower hill The 6. of Iuly Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded on the tower hill The King sent Doctor Lee to visite the Abbeyes Priories and Nunneries in England who put foorth all Religious persons that would goe and all that were vnder the age of 24. yeares Humphrey Monmouth Shriue Iohn Cotes Shriue Iir Iohn Allen Mercer Maior This Sir Iohn Allen gaue to the Citty of London a rich collar of Gold to bee worne by the Maior The eight of Ianuary dyed Lady Katherine Dowager at Kimbalton and was buried at Peterborow In a Parliament was granted to the King and his heires all religious houses of the value of 200 pound and vnder with all lands goods to them belonging On May day King Henry being at a Iu● at Gréenewich sodainely departed to We●minster The next day Lady Anne Quéene was had t● the Tower there for things laide to her char●● shortly after beheaded The 19. of May the Lord Rochford brother to the said Quéene Henry N●ris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Franci● Weston all of the Kings priuy chamber a●bout matters touching the Quéene were put t● death The 20. of May the King married Lady Iane daughter to Sir Iohn Seimer which at Whitsontide was openly shewed as Quéene and on the Tuesday in the Whitson wéeke Sir Edward Seimer was created Vicount Beuchampe The eight of Iune beganne a Parliament and the Cleargy held a conuocation in Pauls Church where they published a Booke intituled Articles deuised by the Kings highnesse The nine and twentieth of Iune the King held a great iusting at Westminster Thomas Cromwell Secretary to the King and master of the Rolles was made L. Kéeper of the priuy seale and Vicar generall ouer the spiritualitie vnder the King and sate diuers times in the conuocation among Bishops as head ouer them The 22. of Iuly Henry Duke of Richmond and Somerset Earle of Northampton a bastard sonne of king Henry died and was buried at Thetford L. Cromwell Lord priuie Seale and vicegerent sent out vnder the Kings spirituall seale certaine iniunctions to the Prelates and Cleargy of the Realme charging Curates to teach their Parishioners the Pater Noster Aue Creede and commandements in English In the beginning of October at an assize for the Kings subsidie kept in Lincolnshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nine twentie thousand persons Against those the King did send the Duke of

Whittington Mereer Maior Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury was banished the Realme The King caused the great hall at Westminster to be repaired with a maruellous costly worke Henry Duke of Hereford accused Thomas Duke of Norfolke of certaine words by him spoken tending to the reproach of the kings person which the Duke of Norfolke vtterly denied whereupon a combat was granted them but the king taking vp the quarrell banished the Duke of Hereford for 10. yeares and the Duke of Norfolke for euer Iohn Wade Shriue Iohn Warnar Shriue Drew Barentine Goldsmith Maior Ihon of Gaunt D. of Lancaster deceased was honourably buried in S. Pauls Church at London The King exacted great sums of money of xvii shires of the realme and laid to their charges that they had béene against him with the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundell and Warwicke wherefore he sent to induce the Lords both spirituall and temporall to make a submission by writing acknowledging themselues to be traitors to the King though they neuer offended him Moreouer he compelled them to set their hands to blankes to the ende that so often as it pleased him he might oppresse them About Whitsontide King Richard sailed towards Ireland In the meane season Henry Duke of Hereford of Lancaster arriued in Yorkeshire demanding the inheritance due to him by the death of his Father There came to him Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland Ralph Neuill Earle of Westmerland and many other Lords with their powers and went to Bristow and besieged the Castle where they tooke W. Scrope Iohn Bushy and Thomas Greene and beheaded them King Richard hearing of the Dukes arriuall forthwith tooke shipping and arriued at Milford hauen but when hee vnderstood what preparation the Duke had made he placed himselfe in the castle of Conway desiring to talke with T. Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earle of Northumberland which being granted he came to the castle of flint where hee had a briefe communication with the Duke of Lancaster They tooke horse that night came to y e castle of Chester from thence to Westminster and from thence the King was sent to the tower of London where he remained till the next Parliament which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas day at which time hee resigned to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster all his power knightly title to the Crowne of England and France when hee had raigned 22. yeares 3. moneths and odde daies HEnry the fourth son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was ordained king of England more by force then by lawful succession or election He began his raigne the 29. of September in the yeare 1399. William Walden Shriue William Hide Shriue Thomas Knowles Grocer Maior The King caused the blancke charters made to King Richard to be burnt Iohn Holland late Duke of Exceter Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Awmarle Iohn Montacute Earle of Salisbury Thomas Spencer Sir Ralph Lumley Sir Thomas Blunt Sir Benedict Cely Knights with others conspired against King Henry and appointed priuily to murder him but their treason being disclosed they were all put to death King Richard being in Pomfret castle died the 14. day of February his body was brought to London so through the Citie to Pauls C. bare faced where he stood 3. daies for all beholders frō thence he was carried to Langley there buried The Welshmen rebell by the setting on of Owen Glendouerdew whereof the King being certified went into Wales but the Welshmen fled Iohn Wakell Shriue William Ebot Shriue Iohn Frances Goldsmith Maior This time was vsed exceeding pride in garments gownes with déepe and broad sléeues commonly called peake sléeues whereof some hung downe to the féete and at least to the knées ful of cuts and iagges William Venor Shriue Iohn Eremingham Shriue Iohn Chadworth Mercer Maior The Conduit vpon Gornehill in London was made Certaine men affirmed King Richard to be aliue for the which a Priest was taken at Warwicke who was drawne hanged and quartered Walter Waldocke Prior of Land was likewise hanged and headed Certaine grey Friars were taken of the which one Richard Fresby Doctour of Diuinitie was drawne and hanged Sir Roger Clarindon Knight a Squire and a Yeoman were beheaded eight gray friars hanged and beheaded at London and two at Leicester all which had published King Richard to be aliue Owen Glendouerdew inuaded all the shires that bordered neare vnto him The K. went with a great power into Wales where he profited nothing This yeare 1402. died Iohn Galias of Galiaso the first Duke of Millaine being at first but viscount of Millaine as his auncestors had béene before him he was created Duke by Wencessaus the Emperour for ayding him with a great army against Robert of Bauiere otherwise called Rupert Duke of Bauaria Compotior vnto the Emperiall dignitie Wencessaus was despised of many and his lose gouernment generally misliked euen of his own brother Sigismond with whom he had sharpe warres and was by him taken and kept prisoner vntill he died of an Apoplexie After his death Robert became sole Emperour in the yeare 1400. who with all expedition fury as well in respect of his owne particular malice as in pretence of a speciall fauour towards his olde tryed friends the Florentines he came into Italy with a very strōg army with full purpose to vanquish and be auenged of Galeaso the new Duke of Millaine but the Duke so stoutly resisted the Emperour and all his adherents as hée caused him to retire into Germany Notwithstanding the importunate sute of the Florentines vnto the Emperor that he should not depart out of Italy and leaue them in all apparence of extreame daunger of their enemies whom they had so many wayes vexed in reuenge whereof the said Iohn Galeazo entred into armes but first slewe his Vncle Barnabas then posiest himselfe of his vncles wealth and authority and conquered Verona Vincentia Padua Parma many other Italian Cities territories he made a large Parke for all sorts of beastes and in the middle thereof he builded a stately Monastery He was very faire learned eloquent but how long he raigned is vncertaine because the Archbishop of Florence and the supplement of Chronicles and Paulus Iouius differ about the beginning of his raigne the Archbishop saith hee began in the yeare 1385. the Supplement saith in the yeare 1382. and Iouius saith in the yeare 1378. He raigned 24. yeares died at 55. yeares of age his son Iohn Maria being very yong succéeded him in the yeare 1402. and was in his minority brought vp by his mother after that he became tyrannous he put to death many honest vertuous people and caused many of his enemies to bee eaten by dogs he imprisoned his kind mother where he constrained her to end her daies with great misery he was slaine by his owne seruants as he

house of timber and boord being there erected for that purpose on Saint Peter and Pauls day in the morning which Lottery continued in drawing day and night for the space of two or thrée daies Tho. Candish hauing of his owne charges built and furnished for two yeares prouision a ship called the Desire of 140. tun a lesse of 60. tuns named the Content ioyning thereto a barke of 40. tuns named Galliane in which fléet were 125 men set saile from Plimoth on the 21 of Iuly and began his voiage about the Globe of the earth which voiage he finished in the space of two years lesse then two moneths as ye may read in R. Hacluyt In the moneth of Iuly diuers traiterous persons were apprehended and detected of most wicked conspiracie against her Maiesty and also of minding to haue stirred vp a generall rebellion throughout the whole Realme For ioy of whose apprehension the Citizens of London on the 15 of the same moneth at night and on the next morrow caused the Bels to be rung and bone fires to be made and also banqueted euery man according to his ability some in their houses some in the stréets with singing of Psalmes and prasing God for preseruing of her Maiesty and people of this Land which doings of the Citizens were so well accepted of her Maiesty as by her letters to them directed may appeare The seuenth of September certaine of these wicked Subiects were indicted first for intending Treason against the Quéenes owne person secondly for stirring ciuill wars within the Realme and thirdly for practising to bring in forraine power to inuade the Realme 7 of them appeared at Westminster on the thirtéenth of September who all pleaded guiltie and were condemned On the fiftéenth of September other 7 were likewise arraigned who pleaded not guilty were found guilty by the Iurie and had iudgement These traitors 14 in number were executed in Lincolnes Inne fields on a stage or scaffold of timber strongly made for that purpose euen in the place where they had vsed to méet and to confer of their traiterous practises there were they hanged bowelled and quartered seuen of them on the 20 of September to wit I. Ballard Priest A. Babington Esquire I. Sauage gentleman R. Barnewell gentleman Chidirke Tichborne Esquire Charles Tilney Esquire E. Abington Esquire The other 7 were likewise executed on the 21 of September to wit T. Salisbury Esquire Henry Dunne Gentlemen Edward Iones Esquire I. Trauarse gentleman I. Charnocke Gentleman R. Gage gentleman Ierome Belamie gentleman c. The twenty two of September sir Philip Sidney knight a most valiant and towardly gentleman sonne and heire to sir Henry Sidney late deceased in seruice of his Prince and defence of his country in the warres of the Netherlands was shot into the thigh with a musket at Zutphen in Gelderland whereof he died on the 17 of October whose body was conuaied into England on the 16 of February conuaied from the Minories without Algate of London through the principall stréets of the same Citie accompanied of many honourable persons vnto S. Pauls Church and there honourably buried the Captaines of the Artillery Garden being 250 in number all in mourning habit accompanied the Corps to Church these Captaines at this time flourished The eight of October Iohn Low Iohn Adams and Richard Dibdaile being before condemned for Treason in being made Priest by authority of the Bishop of Rome were drawne to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Robert House William Elkin Sir George Barnes Haberdasher One of the West gates of the City of London commonly called Ludgate being sore decaied in perill to haue fallen was taken down the prisoners thereof in the meane time remaining in the Southeast quadrant to the same gate adioyning which quadrant for the ease of the prisoners was sometimes builded by Stephē Forstar Fishmonger Maior and Dame Agnes his wife c. And this yeare the said gate was againe not onely newly but also strongly and beautifully builded at the charges of the Citizens of the same City The foundation whereof in the name and presence of Sir Wolston Dixie Maior certaine Aldermen Anthony Radcliefe Henry Prannel shrieues was laid on the second of May forthwith so diligently applied that the same gate was fully finished in the space of sixe monthes or lesse so that on the twenty nine of October in the same yeare the said gate was set open to Sir William Cecill Knight Lord Treasurer who first entred the same on horsebacke accompanied of the Earle of Darby and diuers other honourable persons noble men of her Maiesties priuy Counsell who all rode to the Guild hall where on the same day George Barne Lord Maior of that City kept his feast after he had taken his oath and charge in the Exchequer at Westminster On the same 29 of October the Archbishop of Canterbury the L. Treasurer and the Earle of Darby representing the Quéenes Maiesties person began the high Court of Parliament by proie which Session of Parliament was at this state assembled for triall of matters concerning Mary Quéene of Scots c. The 23 of Nouember the Earle of Leicester Lieutenant generall of her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the Low countries returning from thence arriued at London The second day of December the Parliament was proroged vntill the 15 of February the substance of matter handled in the same Session of Parliament concerning the Queen of Scots is set downe in a letter learnedly penned and published directed to the Earle of Leicester The 6 of December the Lord Maior of London assisted with diuers Earles Barons the Aldermen in their scarlet the principallest officers of the Citie the greatest number of Gentlemen of the best account in and about the City with the number of eighty of the grauest Citizens in coats of veluet and chaines of gold all on horsebacke in most solemne and stately manner by sound of foure Trumpets about ten of the clocke in the forenoone made open and publike proclamation and declaration of the sentence lately giuen by the Nobility against the Queene of Scots vnder the great Seale of England bearing date at Richmond the fourth of December being openly read by Master Sebright Towne-Clarke of London and with loud voice solemnely proclaimed by the Serieant at Armes of the said Citie in foure seuerall places to wit at the Cros● Cheap at the end of Chancery lane in F● stréet ouer against the Temple at Leaden● corner and at S. Magnus corner neare Lon● bridge during which time like solemne ●clamations were made with great solemnity the country of Middlesex namely in the Palace at Westminster without Temple Bar● in Holborne by the Shrieues of London 〈◊〉 Middlesex assisted with sundry Noblemen 〈◊〉 Gentlemen of good account and the Iustice ● Peace of the said country to the great and w●derfull reioycing of the people as