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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13043	The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ. 1580. Collected by Iohn Stow citizen of London.; Annales	Stow, John, 1525?-1605.	1580 (1580)	STC 23333; ESTC S117590	888,783	1,248

Castell where they firste called before them the Mayor and Alderman c. And bycause Richard Read Alderman would not agrée to pay as they set hym he was commaunded vpon paine to serue the King in hys wars of Scotlande who departed from London the thrée and twentith of January Also sir William Ro●●● Alderman for words ●● displeasure taken by the Kings Councell was by them sent Sir VVilliam Roche sente to the Fleete to the Fleete where he remayned till Passion Sondaye The sixe and twentith of January there camped on the Weast side of Boloigne beyond the Hauen an army of French to the number of eightéene thousand where they laye tenne dayes and the sixth of February were put to flight by the Earle of Hartford and sir Iohn Dudley Lord Admiral then being Deputie of Boloigne The thirtéenth of February a Priest was set on the Pillorie in Cheape burnt in both chéeks with the letters F A. a paper on his heade wherein was written For false accusing whyche iudgement was giuen by the Lorde Chancelor in the Starre Chamber a notable example of Justice great cause haue I to wishe the lyke to the lyke accuser who neuer yet repented but cōtrariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he neuer did any suche acte againste his brother In the beginning of March a roade was made into Scotlande towarde Gedworth by the Englishemen who at the firste gote greate praise but they were so gréedy and went so far that a greate army of Scottes beset them with thrée battels where the Englishemen for the moste part were slaine and taken at Panyer Howghe among whome sir Ralph Eure Lorde Alderman of London taken prisoner Eure and Warden of the East Marches was slayne and Richard Read Alderman of London wyth other taken prisoners by the Scots Trinitie Terme was adiorned bicause of the warres 1545 Anno reg 37 About the xxv of June was great tempest of wind in Darbishire where through trées were ouer-turned and dyuers Churches Chappels and houses were vncouered Also in Hailestones f●gured lyke men● heades Lancashire there fell hailestones as big as mens fists which had diuers printes in them some like mens faces some like Gunne holes c. The ninetéenth of July the French kings nauy comming Frenchemen arryued in Susse● out of Newhauen and Deepe arriued on the coaste of England in Sussex afore Bright Hamsteade where they sette certaine of their souldiours alande to burne but the Beacons were fyted and the men came downe so thicke that the French men fledde and did little hurte The xix of July by misfortune of shooting a Gun in one of Men brent in the 〈…〉 y ● Hedgehogs a ship afore Westminster a ●irken of gun-poul●●● fyred slew 7. men and the eight leaped into the Thamis and was drowned The xx of July the king being at Portsmouth a goodly ship Mary Rose vvas drovvned of Englande called the Mary Rose with sir George Carrowe the Captaine and manye other Gentlemen were drowned in the middest of the Hauen by greate negligence The xxj of July the French Galleis nauye came afore Frenchmen landed in the I le of VVight Portsmouth Hauen and landed certaine of their army in the I le of Wight at Saint Helens Point there burned encamped about two thousande men but they were soone driuen away with losse of their Captaine many souldiors Within few dayes after the whole fléete remoi●ed from the Wight Frenchmen landed at Nevvhauen in Sussex to a place in Sussex called Newhauen four miles from Lewes and there landed many Captaines souldiors who by the valiantnesse of the Gentlemen and Yeomen of Sussex were slaine and drowned in the Hauen a great number of them the reste hardly recouered their shippes and Galleis In the moneth of August deceassed at Guilforde Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Lorde greate Maister of the Kings housholde who was honorably buryed at Windsore In August the Earle of Hereforde was sent into Scotland Erle of Herford sent into Scotl. with an armye of 12000. menne where he destroyed dyuers Townes and greatly enda●uaged the Scottes The ninth of September sir Iohn Dudley Lorde Lisle Lorde Admirall brene Treyport Lorde Adinirall of Englande landed with 6000. men at Treyport in Normandie and there brente the Towne and Abbey with other houses about it and thir●●e ships with a Barke that laye in the Hauen with losse of fourtéene Englishmenne and so re●urned The twelfth of September the Churche of Saint Giles S. Giles churche brent without Criplegate of London was brent The eightéenth of October the Procession was firste begon in Paules Church to be sung in English and so commanded by Iniunction through the whole realme George Barnes Ralphe Allen the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Martin Bowes Goldsmith the 28. of October The xxliij of Nouember began a Parliament wherein was graunted to the Kyng a subsedie of two shillings eight Chauntres Colledges and hospitals giuen vnto the King pence of the pound in goods four shillings of the pound in lands Also at Colledges Chauntries and Hospitalles were committed to the Kings order to alter and transpose whyche he promised to do to the glorie of God and the common profite of the Realme In the latter ends of March the Stewe in Southwarke was put down by the Kings commandement In May the kings 1546 The Stevves put dovvne Anno reg 38 VVilliam Foxley slepte more than fourteene dayes and as many nightes vvithout vvaking ships tooke one of y e French Kings Galleis with gret riches The xxvij of Aprill being Tuisday in Easter wéeke William Foxley Potte maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asléepe and so continued sléeping and coulde not be wakened with pricking cramping or otherwise burning whatsoeuer till the firste day of the nexte Tearme whyche was full fouretéene dayes and as many nights or more for that Easter Terme beginneth not afore seauentéene dayes after Easter The cause of his thus sléeping could not be knowen thoughe the same were diligently searched for by the Kings Phisitions and other learned menne yea the King himselfe examining the saide William Foxley who was in all pointes found at his wakening to be as if he had slept but one night and is yet liuing in the Tower of London this present yeare of oure Lorde God 1579. The thirtéenth of June being Whitsonday a peace was proclaymed betwéene the Kings of England and France with a generall Procession in London The seauen and twentith of June Doctour Crome recāted at Paules Crosse The xvj of July were burned in Smithfied for the Sacrament Anne Askevve and other brent Anne Askew alias Keime Iohn Lassels Nicholas O 〈…〉 tle● Priest Iohn Adlam Tailour and Doctour Shaxton 〈…〉 time Bishop of Salisburie preached at the same fire and 〈…〉 erecanted perswading them to doe the lyke but they ●oulde not The xxj of August came

vnto faithbreakers faith shoulde be broken againe and that a chosen power should be sent thither forth of Englande vnder the leading of Thomas of Woodstoke to Thomas of VVoodstocke sent against the Scottes wéete a thousand Launces and two thousand Archers to restreyne their attemptes These things being knowne the Scottes being afrayde of themselues in the ende of the Parliament came and were desirous to entreate of peace or truse but the Englishmen hauing tried their falsehoode so often times woulde neyther treate nor compounde with them but commanded them to returne home and warned them to saue their heads as well as they might and to defend their rightes The Scottes being returned the Lordes of the North tooke vpon them to defende the Countrey till Thomas of Woodstoke Earle of Buckingham were readie to come with a greater power The King tooke the temporalities of the Bishop of Norwich Temporalties of the Bishop of Norvvich seased into his hands bycause he was disobedient to his commandement when he sent to haue stayde him from his iourney into Flanders and the Knightes that were ouer with him were put in prison till they were redéemed with gold King Richard held his Christmas at his Manour of Eltham and with him his Quéene Anne After Christmas Iohn Duke of Lancaster which before Christmas went ouer into France to treate of peace betwixt the Realmes returned into England bringing with him an abstinence of warre till the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist at 1384 what time he was to returne to treate againe and to confirme the peace if it might be agréed vpon betwixt y e Kings The night of the Purification of our Lady great Lightning and Thunder happened that put men in great feare and shortly after Iohn Northamptō otherwise called Combartowne that had bin the yeare before Maior of London that with his seditions had filled the Citie full of comber attempted new troubles for in contempt of the Maior that was elected for that yeare Sir Nicholas Brembar Knight he went vp and down with a multitude of seditious people to gard him not once but oftentimes to the terrour of manie and when the said Brembar Maior woulde haue withstanded his attemptes the fauourers of the said Iohn Combertowne were turned into suche a furie that a Cobler which in his owne estimation séemed to be Maior required the voyces of the communalty for which cause by the counsell of Sir Robert Knowles Knight he was drawne out of his house and committed to prison as a stirrer of insurrection which acte for that time staide the commotion of the commons that were sayd to haue conspired at that time to haue murthered the elect Maior and many other worthie men When Lente aproched Iohn Duke of Lancaster with his brother Thomas of Woodstoke Earle of Buckingham and an innumerable number of Knightes Esquires and Archers went toward Scotland but stayde in the North till all the victualles in the Countrey were consumed he did more hurt to the inhabitants than the Scottes had done before at length about the feast of Easter he entred Scotland but did little good The custodie of the Castell of Douer was vacant by the death of Robert Ashtonwald then was made Connestable thereof Simon Burley After Easter the Nobles came to a Parliament at Salisburie Parliament at Salisburie whither a certaine Irish Frier of the order of the Carmelites or white Friers a Batcheler of Diuinitie named Iohn Latimer hasted and accused the Duke of Lancaster Duke of Lancaster accused that he had deuised the Kings death which Frier was committed to Sir Iohn Holland Knight till a day that was assigned him to make proofe of that he had sayde but the night before the day giuen to the Frier the sayde Sir Iohn A Frier tormēted to death Holland and Sir Henry Greene Knightes put a corde about the Friers necke and with the same corde tying him by the stones hanged him vp from the grounde laying à stone of great weight vpon his bellie till they by tormente had made an ende of his life The morrow after they ●a●sed the Friers body to be drawne through the Towne as a Traytor that they might put away all suspection that he were put to death wrongfully but it is to be wondred at that neyther Esquire Yeoman nor Grome or any other of meane estate would harme the Frier but the Knightes did it themselues they were Judges Officers and Executioners and this was the fruite of this Parliament excepte that the King asked and had of the Laitie halfe a fiftéenth and of the Cleargie halfe a tenth About this time bycause the Scottes ceassed not to do diuers Anno reg 8. domages to the Northumbers the Earle of Northumberland Henry Percy prepareth to inuade Scotland and to requite domage for domage which enterprise accomplished the Earle was no sooner returned and sent home his army but that the Scottes came againe and heaped vp domage vpon domage in the Countrey This Sommer Sir Iohn Philpot Knighte and a most Sir Iohn Philpot deceassed noble Citizen of London that trauelled for the commoditie of the Realme more than all other and both with expences laide forth and good affection borne had oftentimes reléeued the King departed this life leauing none behinde him his like in good affections About the beginning of August the Duke of Lancaster went into France to treate with the Frenchmen of peace or else of truce to be had the Duke with his company of noble men remayning long there when it was thought that he should haue brought glad and ioyfull newes to his Countrey he returned with knowledge of warres to followe the beginning of the next Sommer the truce to endure but●●● the first day of May and so he returned after he had spente 500000. Markes of Siluer Many of the Nobles assembled at Reading to represse the Iohn Northampton conuict and committed to perpetuall prison seditious sturres of Iohn Northampton late Maior of London that attempted greate and heynous enterprises of the whiche he was conuict hys owne Chapleyne vttering manye thynges that hée wente aboute and hadde deuised as well to the hinderance and harme of the King as of the Citie of London and when sentence shoulde haue bin pronounced against him the King being presente the wicked man made exclamation and mainteyned that such iudgemente ought not to passe in absence of his Lorde the Duke of Lancaster but yet the Justice vsed such words Iohn sayth he the naughtie déedes that are obiected agaynste thée thou oughtest to refell by battayle or else by the lawes of the land to be drawne hanged and quartered and when he stoode mute nor would vtter one word it was déecréede that he should be committed to perpetuall prison and his goodes to be confiscate to the Kings vse and that he shoulde not come within one hundred miles of London during his life he was sente therefore to the Castell of Tintagell in the confines of