hounty to either of them and the Town of Manchester in Lancashire hath likewise good cause to remember this Bishop who founded and endowed a School therein with large revenue for the education of youth in good literature Patronum faciunt dos aedificatio fundus A Patron 's be that doth endow with Lands Or builds the House or on whose ground it stands Regna Regum 9. Henry the 8. An. D. 1517. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Hunt Richard Duke Nicholas Staplehill John Richards Mathew Long Hugh Paige William Cotton In the Month of December Nicholas Staple-hill the eldest Steward died in whose place John Richards was chosen who also deceased in March following in whose stead Mathew Long was elected who continued in the said Office the residue of the year 'T was now an usage here that the Receiver and Bailiffs at the time of the election of the Mayor and Officers kept breakfasts and dinners yearly for them which proved chargeable and some exceeding their ability became thereby decayed and little advantage coming to any person Richard Duke the present Receiver with the advice of his Brethren discontinued the custom keeping no breakfast for which he was fined the like order did the succeeding Bailiffs observe the year following whereupon 't was ordered by the Mayor and Common Council that the succeeding Bailiffs should for ever yearly keep their respective breakfasts and dinners as formerly on pain of 40 s. some of them thought it better to pay the Fine than to spend 20 l. in a Breakfast but the major part of them whether by perswasion or standing in a vain and naked reputation received the old custom till the coming hither of the Honourable Lord Russel Lieutenanâ— of this County by whose advice an order was had bearing date 21. Sept. 4 Ed. 6. That no more such Breakfasts or dinners should be made but in lieu thereof every Receiver should pay 5 l. or 4 l. and every Steward 4 l. or 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. at the Chambers discretion which said Fines should be yearly bestowed on the reparation of the Walls of the said City Regna Regum 10. Henry the 8. An. D. 1518. Mayors and Bayliffs William Crudg Reynold Russell John Maris Negell Collin John Michell Bicton was given by William the Conquerour to William Porto one of his Servants Henry the â—irst gave it to one John sirnamed Janitor of his Office who by Tenure of these Lands was to keep the common Prison within the County of Devon Galfrid le Balstar held Land by the same Service in the time of King Edward the Second from which name by Sackvill this Land came to Henry Copleston Esquire whose Grandson sold it to the aforesaid Sir Thomas Dennis Ann one of his Daughters and Co-heirs being married to Sir Henry Roll Knight from whom to that worthy Gentleman Dennis Roll Esquire as by hereditary right this descended And now Sir John Roll Knight of the Bath enjoys the same in the right of his Lady Florence one of the Daughters and Co heirs of the said Dennis Roll here the Gaol of the County was wont to be kept but the place being of no great strength 't was removed within the Walls of this City at the lower part of the Castle-garden where it still continues This year the King added the word Octavus to his style as Henricus Octavus Dei Gratia c. Regna Regum 11. Henry the 8. An. D. 1519. Mayors and Bayliffs Jeffery Lewes William Shapton Richard Martin John Awells Richard Andrew The goods of one John Jones attainted for Murther being seized on for the Cities use were remitted to his Widow on the payment of a small Fine John Beblew dis-franchized for suing John Northbrook both Freemen of this City at the common Law and out of the Jurisdiction of this Court contrary to his Oath The pay formerly made for Queen Mawdt obit was at present respited and afterwards utterly abolished Regna Regum 12. Henry the 8. An. D. 1520. Mayors and Bayliffs John Broadmere Richard Russel Richard Verny John Harris John Blackaller All Freemen ordered to live within the City on pain of dis-franchisement John Moor Fined for breaking of the Cities Pipes and letting out of the water Richard Ratcliff Fined forty shillings for suffering strangers to sell Wares within his house and for colouring of Foraigners goods Regna Regum 13. Henry the 8. An. D. 1521. Mayors and Bayliffs John Nosworthy William Bennet Christopher Lambert Thomas Hunt John Buller This year the King added to his style Fidei Defensor This Mayor was a very wise Man professing the Laws of the Realm who governed the City so well as that none or few before him did better preferring the welfare of the publick before his own private affairs reformed many abuses and established many good orders herein First he rectified the great disorders of the Courts as well the King's Court as the Provost's Court the Attorneys whereof he caused to be sworn for their just dealings in their Clyents causes he caused a great Presse with leaves locks and keys to be made in the Council-Chamber for the safe keeping of the Records of the City which heretofore lay scattered abroad and thereby all of them from the Conquest to the Reign of King Henry the Third were lost he prescribed and set down the duties of every particular Officer within the City and saw the observation thereof There happening a dearth or scarcity of Corn for the ease of the poor Commons he made good provision and laid it up in a store-house which got him the love of the people all the days of his life thereafter He also reduced the Corn-market to be kept at certain hours and hanged up a Bell to be rung at the beginning and close of the said Markets and about the middle to be tolled First that the Citizens and Inhabitants hereof should supply their wants and then Foraigners should buy He was likewise very careful to see the Assize of Bread and Ale well kept and much delighted in Hospitality In all things he did so well demean himself as that he was honoured of the best reverenced of the Inferiour and generally beloved of all Regna Regum 14. Henry the 8. An. D. 1522. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Duke William Hurst Robert Hooker John Way Robert Smith Notandum est quod nulla navis applicans inâ—ra portum Civitatis Exoniensâ—s potuit se exoner are absque licentia prius obtenta Majoris seu Receptoris Civitatis predictae sub poenâ forisfacturae omnium bonorum Merchandizarum Goods seised on as forfeited for non-payment of the Town Custom duties and composition made for the same A controversie happened between the Parishioners of St. Mary the Moor and one John Bonefant touching a Tenement in South-gate-street whereof one Richard Russel one of the Common Council of this City was a Feoffee in trust for the said Parish and when the cause came to trial Bonefant produced a Release made by the said Russell
Rugemom grew suddenly sad affirming through a Prophecy that his days should not be long thereafter even when he had seen Richmond which howsoever vain proved a prediction true and that not of this Castle as he misinterpreted but rather of Henry Earl of Richmond afterwards King Henry the Seventh who the year ensuing gave him Battle at Bosworth in Leicester-shire and slew him in the open Field such resemblance was there between the names of Richmond and Rugemont Regna Regum 2. Rich. 3. An. D. 1484. Mayors and Bayliffs Matthew Jubb John Weston John Hooker John Whitlock John Starr The fore-part of the Guild-hall and the Council Chamber were new builded The King sent to the Mayor to be supplyed with certain Soldiers for his present service whereupon twenty Men well arrayed were delivered to Sir Ralph Hastings to be conducted to the place appointed and to remain there for twenty days space at the Cities charge and the said Sir Ralph during his abode here was honourable entertained and one Biston the King's Messenger was well rewarded for his journey hither touching the aforesaid expedition Regna Regum 3. Rich. 3. An. D. 1485. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Russell Henry Hanniford Philip Atwill Mathew Allington Nicholas Hamlyn Bishop Courteney finished the North Tower of his Church and freely bestowed the Clook Bell therein bearing his Christian name Peter Under which Tower in an Isle there purposely erected lies interred one William Sylke sometime Subchaunter of this Church and reported to be the Donor of the Luminaries or Candle-lights yearly burnt in the Quire of the said Church between the Feasts of Alhallontide and Candlemas an effigies of whose Skeleton is there largely pourtrayed in white Alabaster under a fair Arch thus inscribed Sum quod eris fueramque quod es pro me precor ora William Sylke Seven Fairs are here kept viz. Ashwednesday Shere-Thursday Whit-Monday St. Mary Magdalen Lammas St. Nicholas and St. Thomas Regna Regum 1. Henry the 7. An. D. 1486. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Calwoodley Thomas Bond George Chapman Walter Champnys John Bonefant The King not forgetting the fidelity of Peter Courteney Bishop of this Church gave him the Bishoprick of Winchester on whose Translation hence Richard Fox the King 's faithful Counsellor 27. January 1488. was consecrated Bishop of this Diocess by Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and also made Lord Privy Seal and one of the King 's Privy Council and afterwards was so to King Henry the Eighth This noble Prelates Memory shall be eternally blessed for being the cause of the most happy marrying of the Lady Margaret this King's Daughter unto James the Fourth King of Scotland by whose glorious issue Great Brittany now enjoyeth the heighth of splendour and felicity Regna Regum 2. Henry the 7. An. D. 1487. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Newton Jobn Hooker Henry Faux Richard Turner WIlliam Baker The Barbers of this City were Incorporated under the common Seal hereof Ale-tasters appointed to see that wholesome Beer should be made and sold Consuctudo est Civitatis Exoniensis quod quilibet Inhabitans infra eandem Civitatem ac non existens liber ejusdem Mercimonia vel aliquam artem frequentans debet annuatim reddere redditum donec sit liber Rot. 49. Regna Regum 3. Henry the 7. An. D. 1488. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Clerk George Chapman John Rudgway John Ector William Eastcott Bishop Fox and Sir Richard Edgecomb were sent hence as Embassadours to James King of Scotland for continuing a peace between the Two Kingdoms Sir Robert Willoughby Lord Brook was sent over to Britain to the aid of the Duke thereof with Eight Thousand Men and for his better accommodation in the service The King sent his Letter to the Mayor of this City who forthwith supplyed him with Two Hundred Soldiers well arrayed Edward Courteney Earl of Devon was made a Free and Franchized man of this City as Son and Heir to Sir Hugh Courteney a Freeman hereof This Edward was of a second House unto Thomas Courteney Earl of Devon who taking part with King Henry the Sixth was slain at Teuksbury-field who dying without Issue male the Earldom descended to this Edward Son to Sir Hugh de Courtney the Son of Sir Hugh de Courteney second Son to Edward Earl of Devon and Ancestor to this Thomas slain at Teuksbury-field aforesaid Regna Regum 4. Henry the 7. An. D. 1489. Mayors and Bayliffs Stephen Rudgway Matthew Allington Robert Bonesant Walter York Simon Davy Order was taken by the Mayor and Common Gouncil of this City by an especial command from the King and his Privy Council that every Inhabitant here should be furnished with sufficient Arms for himself and Family and accordingly was every man assessed to his number in order to his ability This year were delivered to the Mayor the day when he was sworn into the said office a certain Roll called the Black Roll and a Book therein which contained the ancient Orders Priviledges and Customs for the good Government of the said City with other things relating to the state and dignity thereof In which Book the like was contained touching the City of London and order taken that the same should yearly be delivered over from Mayor to Mayor This Roll in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth was by one Griffith Ameridith delivered unto Sir William Cecil Knight Secretary of State to that King and never returned Regna Regum 5. Henry the 7. An. D. 1490. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hooker John Calwcodley Richard Vndy Wymond Austin John Welsh The Weavers and Fullers incorporated under the common Seal of this City Regna Regum 6. Henry the 7. An. D. 1491. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Chubb Nicholas Hamlyn Robert Bonefant William Nordon John Goscott Roger Holland and Thomas Dennis Esquires were admitted and sworn Freemen of this City but because they did not inhabit within the same 't was ordered that they should not give their voices for the Election of any Mayor or other Officer hereof Bishop Fox and George Lord Dawbney were sent hence in an Embassage to Charles the French King for conclusion of a Peace between the Two Kingdoms which was effectually obtained This Bishop Fox was Godfather to the King 's second Son named Henry who was afterwards King of England by the name of Henry the Eighth Regna Regum 7. Henry the 7. An. D. 1492. Mayors and Bayliffs John Atwill Walter Champnis John Winter Ralph Pudesly Richard Cliff Edward Courteney Earl of Devon made a Freeman of this City Regna Regum 8. Henry the 7. An. D. 1493. Mayors and Bayliffs John Colshill Richard Vndy John Danester Richard Nordon John Merefield The best Wheat in the Market was sold for six pence the Bushel The Cappers Haberdashers and Felt-makers incorporated under the common Seal of this City Regna Regum 9. Henry the 7. An. D. 1494. Mayors and Bayliffs William Obleigh John Slugg Thomas Andrew John Hull Thomans Olliver Bishop Fox having well governed this Church six
Estates which we lost by not having the benefit of the Articles let hanging drawing and quartering be the denomination of Captain Crook's Articles Nevertheless I thank the Lord Protector for that he hath indulged me so far as to have my Head severed from my Body I should now give an account of my Faith but truly Gentlemen this poor Nation is rent into so many several opinions as that 't is impossible to give you my own without displeasing some of you however if any be so critical as to enquire of what Faith I die it is the same belief of the Apostles and of Athanasius Creed I have subscribed and do own the Nine and Thirty Articles of the Church of England if this will not satisfie I refer my self to this Reverend Doctor Short to whom I have unbosomed my self as to the particulars of my Religion And now having given you an Account concerning my self I hold my self obliged in duty to some of my Friends to take off some suspicion that lies upon them I mean as to some Persons of Honour with whom upon my examination I was charged to have a correspondency withal concerning this business viz. The Lord Marquess of Hertford the Marquess of Winchester and the Earl of Pembrook I did then acquit them and do now second it with this protestation that I never had any correspondency with any of them in relation to this particular business or indeed to any that concerned the Protector or his Government As for the Marquess of Winchester I saw him some twelve years since and not later and if I should see him here present I believe I should not know him As for the Earl of Pembrook he was not a Man likely to whom I should discover my thoughts because I know not how he stands affected I was likewise examined concerning my Brother Freke my Cousin Hastings and Mr. Dorrington they are Men of very great Estates which may make them liable to this Inquisition and endeavoured to be brought into my condition but I do here so far acquit them as to give the World this protestation That I am confident they are as innocent as the youngest Child here I have no more to say to you now but that I am in Charity with all Men and I thank God I can forgive my greatest persecutors I can go on my bare knees to the greatest of mine enemics to forgive them And I do freely forgive all that ever had a hand in my Death I have offered the Protector good security for my future demeanour as I suppose he could have expected if he had thought sit to have given me my Life Certainly I should not have been so ungrateful as to have employed it against him I do humbly submit to God's pleasure knowing that the Issues of Life and Death are in his hands my Blood is but a small sacrifice If it had been saved I am so much a Gentleman as to have given thanks to him that preserved it and so much a Christian as to forgive them that takes it away but seeing God by his Providence hath called me to lay it down I submit to him Death is a debt a due debt owing by all it is terrible to nature but I look on it without terrour it pleased God to make me a good Husband and I am not come to pay this Debt before it be due I am not ashamed of the cause for which I die and I hope that none of my Friends or Allyants will be ashamed of it or of the Ignominy of my death seeing it is for so good a Cause I do not look upon it as the pulling down of my Family but the raising it up one story higher I am not so prodigal of Nature as to throw away my Life but have used all yet none but Honourable and honest means to preserve it These unhappy times have been very fatal to my Family Two of my Brothers slain and my self going to the slaughter it is God's Will and I must submit to that Providence I must render a due acknowledgement of the great civilities I have received from this City of Exeter and from some Persons of Quality and for the plentiful provision made for the Prisoners especially I thank this noble Sheriff for his many great favours and courtesies towards us and in particular to my self and I desire the Sheriff to present my due respects to the Protector and although he had no mercy for my self yet that he would have respect to my Family for the business I now die I look on it as an Individuum vagum I know not what they mean when they assert this to be Treason except they make it like the Wind in the Gospel to blow where it listeth I know not to what end it may come I pray God that my own and my Brother's blood who is now to die with me may be the last I am now stripping off my cloaths to fight a duel with death and conceive no other duel to be lawful but my Saviour hath pulled out the sting of this mine enemy he made himself a Sacrifice for me I do not account that man deserving a drop of his blood that will not spend all for him in a good cause As I now put off these garments of cloth so I hope I have put off my garments of sin and have put on the Robes of Christ's Righteousness here which will bring me to the enjayment of his glorious Robes anon I desire to see the Axe and he kissed it saying I am like to have a sharp passage of it but my Saviour hath taken away the sting of death and I hope he will sweeten it to me Thus I commit my Soul to God my Creator and Redeemer look on me O Lord at my last gasping hear my Prayer and the Prayers of all good people I will close with praying for the King I thank thee O God for all thy dispensations towards me Glory be to God on high on Earth peace and good Will towards Men Causa non poena seu passio facit Martyrem To dic in the defence and for the Testimony of any Divine Truth is truly to be a Martyr Memorable hath been the stedfast obedience and fidelity of this City to the Crown in the various succession of Ages and Times of the Britains Romans Saxons Danes and Normans which have been well remunerated by their several and successive Kings in their distinct Reigns as is manifested by the many and large Immunities Liberties and Priviledges from time to time conferred on their City Whatever the Antiquity of this City be I find that 't was built before London even at Brute's first landing here by his Nephew Corinaeus on whom Brute bestowed this Western Country Hooker Stowe Bale Anno Mundi 2855. The same being before Christ's Incarnation eleven hundred years and upwards And presently thereafter Brute built London calling it Troynovant This City is thought to be one of the first Cities that
now persevered therein devising all possible means to prejudice the whole City as by intruding upon their Liberties destroying their Haven building up a Key at Topsham taking from them perforce the Fishing in the River of Exe and every way oppressing them in so much that what was once observed of King Henry the Second and Thomas Beckett may as truly be said of this Earl in reference to this City Immortale odium atque insanabile vulnus The said Mayor and Commonalty exhibited their Bill of Complaint unto the King against the said Earl who thereupon sent forth his Writ to the Sheriff of Devon bearing date 20. Martii hoc Anno for an Inquisition to be taken and albeit the same was accordingly executed yet was it never returned up For which cause the King sendeth his second Writ unto the said Sheriff dated 12. Junii then next following strictly charging him to speed the execution thereof and to make return which was so done And albeit the Inquisition was found against the said Earl yet could no relief be thereupon had or redress made of the said grievances Regna Regum 11. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1317. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim William Kerswell Thomas Farthein Martin Lekenn Martin Capper The Bakers of this City were found guilty touching their Bread which was light and not according to the Assize for which offence they were Fined whereof seventeen of them dwelled within the Bishop's Fee and did therefore claim to be exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Mayor but could not prevail therein Bishop Stapledon built a very fair House without Temple-Bar London used by himself and many of his Successors when they were summoned up to London to attend the service of the Parliament which said House was since purchased by the Earl of Essex who resided therein whereby 't was called Essex House Regna Regum 12. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1318. Mayors and Bayliffs Philip Lovecock Martin Lekenn John Tredeyners Thomas Spycer Robert Woan The King preparing a great Army to march against the Scots having invaded England did rate and tax the Cities within this Realm to ayd him and that too according to their tenure at which time this City did set forth thirty Souldiers well arrayed and furnished with Armour money and all things necessary for the said War John Powdras alias Powderham a Tanner's Son born within this City named himself to be the Son of King Edward the First and that he being in his Cradle was by a false Nurse stollen thence and that the King that now is was placed in his room but in fine he confessed the whole truth even that he was perswaded thus to say by the motion and instigation of a Familiar Spirit which he kept by him in the likeness of a Cat but his Spirit at last failing him he was at the Gallows fairly executed for his said offence Inquisitio capta ad inquirendum de malefactoriâ—us meretricibus Juratores dicunt quod Alicia Hamlyn Joanna Hamlyn Rosa Hamlyn Alicia Byren Albreda de Romsey sunt Communes Meretrices Communia tenent lupanaria dicunt etiam quod Henricus Halwell Clericus tenet nutrit Aliciam at Newham Meretricem suam Rot. 8. Cui pater est populus pater est sibi nullus omnis Cui pater populus non habet ille patrom Est pater ignotus filius inde nothus To whom the People Father is To him is Father none at all To whom the People Father is Well Fatherless we may him call Beasts are privileg'd above many We have but one Sire they have many Regna Regum 14. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1320. Mayors and Bayliffs Philip Lovecock Martin Lekâ—nn Thomas Furbor Walter Suegothâ—ll Thomas Farthâ—in Henry Tracy an Inhabitant of this City had a numerous Issue being the Father of Eight Sons and Five Daughters the Sixth and Seventh Sons were of one Birth Twins and so well like in all Lineaments and so equal in stature so coloured in hair and so like in face and gesture that they could not be known one from the other no not by their Friends Parents Brethren or Sisters but privately by some secret marks and openly by wearing some several coloured Ribands or the like which in sport they would sometimes exchange to make trial of their Friends Judgment yet somewhat more strange was that their minds and affections were as one for what the one loved the other desired and so on the contrary the loathing of any thing by the one was the distasting of the same thing by the other yea such a confederation or inbred power or sympathy was in their natures that if Nicholas were sick or grieved Andrew felt the like pain though far distant and remote in their persons and that too without any intelligence given to either party And 't was also observed that if Andrew were merry Nicholas was likewise so affected although in different places which long they could not endure to be asunder for they ever desired to eat drink sleep and wake together yea so they lived and dyed For they both served the King in Arms against his Barons and in a Battle the one being slain the other stept presently into his place where in the height of danger no perswasions able to remove or hinder him was there likewise killed Of these Two Gentlemen may be truly parallel'd what was but feigned by the Poets of Twins that they were born eat slept and died not asunder which offereth me an occasion to remember a witty Jest pleasantly or as some will simply retorted by a young Gentleman that casually came to the Court of Augustus Caesar so well like the Emperour in bodily Lineaments as hardly the one could be distinguished from the other which being known to the Emperour the young man was sent for and brought into the Emperour's presence in whom be saw himself better than in any Picture Apelles could have drawn and discoursed with him in these words Young man hath not your Mother been some time resident in Rome implying that by his Fathers familiarity he might have been begotten to whom the Gentleman instantly replied That his Mother was never in Rome but his Father often and thereby returned upon the Emperour what he intended to have put on him Regna Regum 15. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1321. Mayors and Bayliffs William Wotton John Perour John Tayler Thomas Spicer John Davy A Subsidy granted of the sixth penny of every man's Goods within this City In the wall of the Quire on the South side of St. Peter's Church are two ancient Monuments and thereon two Statues in their complete Armour their Helmets lying under their Heads their Pourtraytures cut cross legged to signifie they had been at the Holy Land upon the one are the Arms of Bohun Earl of Hereford and on the other the Coat Armour of Rawleigh of Rawleigh whose Heir is Chichester Regna Regum 16. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1322. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert
solidorum Regna Regum 34. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1360. Mayors and Bayliffs John Spicer Warren Bayliff Walter Crisp Richard Goldsmith Robert Bromn Consuctudo in Civitate Exoniensi est quoâ— ubi maritus uxor ejus sunt seisiti de aliquibus terris Tenementis infra eandem Civitatem ut de jure uxoris sive in Feodo simplici vel Talliato maritus post exitum inter eos habitum potest dimittere dictas terras ad terminum viginti novem Annorum Haec Consuetudo habetur etiam Anno secundo Richardi Secundi Reg. 29. The City was much infected with the Pestilence Regna Regum 35. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1361. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gist William Rokâ—â— Roger Atwill Walter Atwood William Stokely Regna Regum 36. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1362. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gist Roger Plenty Nicholas Brittestow William Hardy Robert Stoke The Bakers of this City had by way of a Confederacy secretly agreed among themselves that in regard they could not sell their Bread at their own pleasure and make it at their own Assiize that therefore they would not bake at all by means whereof the City for two days together was destitute of Bread for which offence they were all indicted found guilty of the said offence and Fined 26 s. 8 d. Regna Regum 37. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1363. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gist Roger Atwill William Gervis William Seamer Walter Atwood Si legata sint Tenementa Testamento idem Testamentum non probetur seisina inde non sit capta liberata infra Annum diem tunc secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae non valent legata Rot. 33. Quilibet existens aetatis sexdecim Annorum potest secundum consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae condere Testamentum de terris suis Rot. 33. Both which Customs are contrary to the course of the Common Law for the later cannot be made 'till full age and the former paffeth without livery and seisin for in the Testator's life time livery could not be made because his will is ambulatory until his death and no estate passeth during his life nor can livery be made after his decease for then it comes too late Regna Regum 38. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1364. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gist Walter Atwood John Tirling Roger Fitz-Hugh Henry Welland Regna Regum 39. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1365. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Tavernâ—r William Hardy Rebert Wilsford Adam Scutt John Nymett Exemplificatio sub magno sigillo Angliae ad requisitionem Majoris Ballivorum Comitatis Câ—vitatis Exoniensis fuit obtenta cujusdam Certificationis per Thesaurarium Camerarium Regis ejus mandatum factae in Canceliarium missae in haec verba scil Civitas Exoniensis tempore Regis Edvardi non geldabit nisi quando Londonia Eboricum Wintonia geldabunt hoc erat dimidium Marcae argenti ad opus Militum quando expeditiâ—ne ibat per terram aut per mare Burgensis Fxonienses habent extra Civitatem terrarum Duodecim Carucatas quae nulli reddunt Consuetudinem nisi ad ipsam Civitatem Ac etiam clamant habere retorum brevium extractas Finium tenere placitum de vetito Namio habent Furcas pillorium tumbrella emendatores Assisae panis Cervisiae fractae Wayfe Coronatores de se quandam feriam ad gulam Augusti per quatuor dies duratam Mercatum per tres dies in septimanà scilicet per dies Lunae Mercurii Veneris hoc à tempore Conquestus Angliae eisdem libertatibus plenè usi sunt ut plenius patet in placito de quo Warranto Ac etiam quod Civitas Exoniensis est de antiquo dominico Coronae Domini Regis ac Burgenses ejusdem illam tenut ad Feodum Firmum de Domino Rege per servitium 39 l. 1 s. 6 d. unde reddunt per Annum Priori Sanctae Trinitatis London 25 l. 12 s. 5 d. residuum Comiti Cornubiae hoc per Chartam Henrici Regis patris Domini Regis factam Richardo quondam Regi Almaniae haeredibus suis quaesiti à quo tempore solverunt praedictos denarios praedicto Priori dicunt à tempore Henrici primi Regis Ideo Dominus Rex habeat breve si voluerit Regna Regum 40. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1366. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Brydestow Martin Battishill William Gervys Roger Atwill Thomas Wilby Bishop Grandison built a very fair House at Bishop's Taington within this Diocess and bestowed it being well furnished on his Successors and impropriated unto the same the Parsonage of Radway to the end as he setteth down in his last Will and Testament Vt haberent locum unde Caput suum reclirarent si fortè in manum Regis eorum temporalia caperentur which Prediction proved ominous and fatal to some of his Successors for not only this new built House and Impropriation but also the most part of the Temporalties of this Bishoprick are since become the Possession and Inheritance of Temporal men Regna Regum 41. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1367. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Brydestow John Nymett Martin Battishill William Gervis Henry Furbor This year was a nisi prius appointed to be tried at the Castle of Exon before John Mowbray and Edmond Chely Justices of the Assizes between the Dean and Chapter Plaintiffs and John Gist late Mayor the Bayliffs and Commonalty of this City Defendants At which time the Dean and Chapter doubting of the Merits of their Cause or failing in their Evidence and therefore not willing to proceed did for the hinderance thereof use this art they exhibited a Bill of Complaint to the King advertizing his Grace that the said Mayor by his Proclamation commanded every Citizen here at the next Assizes to attend him in Armour and Weapons to the said Castle whereby he might hinder the said Justices to proceed in the said Trial by means whereof the Jury could not then be sworn The King not liking hereof sends his Commission to John Mountague and four others to examine the truth of this Information but before they sate the said Two Justices and one Sir Guy do Bryon were come to the Court where being examined touching the said Ryot and testifying that there was no such matter as was untruly suggested the King sent his Inhibition to the said Commissioners forbiding them to proceed therein which writing bears date 12. Febr. this year Regna Regum 42. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1363. Mayors and Bayliffs Warren Bayliff Robert Wilsford Walter Whithorn Walter Atwood Thomas Webb Regna Regum 43. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1369. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Plenty Reymond Gosse Adam Scutt Roger Atwood Water Crisp The building of this Cathedral Church was now finished and albeit the work remained long in hand even from the time of King Athelstan the First Founder thereof Anno Domini 932. to the later days of Bishop Grandison and the perclose of
of them Mayors successively John Guscott and John Nordon Bailiffs amongst a multititude of others here died Regna Regum 19. Henry the 7. An. D. 1504. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Andrew John Gumby Peter Colshill John Thomas John Bradmore An Inquisition taken upon the deceases of sundry Free-holders of this City who died in the last Plague of all such their Lands within the said City and Liberties thereof as were holden of the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the same as chief Lords by Socage Tenure And 't was likewise found that every of them and every like Free-holder is and ought in right to pay for a Relief 2 s. 6 d. Bishop Redman having well governed this Church about five years was removed hence to Ely and installed Bishop thereof Upon whose Translation Regna Regum 20. Henry the 7. An. D. 1505. Mayors and Bayliffs William Crudg John Bonefant William Shaxton John Scott John Hoig John Arundell who had been sometimes Dean of this Church but now Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry was translated hither and 15. Marcii consecrated Bishop hereof Regna Regum 21. Henry the 7. An. D. 1506. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Hewett John Limpenny John Oreng Richard Duke Reynold Russell Bishop Arundell having well governed this Church about Two years space 19. Februarii dies in London and lies buried in St. Clement's Church without Temple-bar Regna Regum 22. Henry the 7. An. D. 1507. Mayors and Bayliffs John Calwoodley John Buckenam Matthew Moor Vincent Scott Reynold Russell Hugh Oldham Chaplain to the Countess of Richmond the King's Mother 3. Aprilis was installed Bishop of this Diocess Regna Regum 23. Henry the 7. An. D. 1508. Mayors and Bayliffs John Limpenny William Wilsford William Bennet John Kever William Huntingdon William Mathew Upon the Death of William Huntingdon one of the Bailiffs of this City William Mathew was elected Bailiff in his stead to supply that Office for the residue of the year William Frost late Mayor hereof died and 11. May his last Will and Testament was here proved in due form of Law in the King's Court held at the Guild-hall before the Mayor of the said City according to the ancient Custom thereof He was a prudent Man and his reputation being great with the King much good came thereby to the City chiefly in the suit of the Scavage against London Regna Regum 1. Henry the 8. An. D. 1509. Mayors and Bayliffs John Buckenam John Bradmore William Somaster John Colshill William Hoig Aprilis 22. the King died and his Son Henry the Eighth was proclaimed King Regna Regum 2. Henry the 8. An. D. 1510. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Andrew John Oreng John Moor John Amory William Peryam Testamentum Willielmi Obley in quo inter alia legavit Tenementa sua in Smythenstreet Roberto Mayn Catharinae uxori ejus haeredibus de uxore pro defectu hujusmodi exitus remanere inde Majori Communitati Civitatis Exoniensis datum 10. Augusti hoc Anno. Regna Regum 3. Henry the 8. An. D. 1511. Mayors and Bayliffs William Wilsford William Crudg Robert Browne Robert Kensey John Boughay Henry Hamlyn Upon the Death of William Wilsford late Mayor who deceased 29. Januarii William Crudg was elected Mayor to supply that office for the residue of the year Goods seized as forfeited for the non-payment of the petty duties or Town Custom and composition made for the same Leather brought to the Market unsealed and therefore seized on as forfeited Regna Regum 4. Henry the 8. An. D. 1512. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Symons John Moor John Britnall William Hurst Richard Russell A War here proclaimed against the French King The King intending to invade France sent hither his Mandatory Letters to the Mayor to provide thirty Soldiers to attend him in the said Expedition which was forthwith dispatched and a Voluntary collection here made to set them out well arrayed Regna Regum 5. Henry the 8. An. D. 1513. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Hewett John Winter John Bodley William Ratcliff John Robins Sir Thomas Dennis Knight elected Recorder of this City and lived in the distinct Reigns of seven Kings and Queens of this Realm Viz. Edward the Fourth Richard the Third Henry the Seventh Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth He was a Domestick Servant to King Henry the Seventh one of the Privy Council to King Henry the Eighth Chancellour to Queen Ann of Cleve Custos Rotulorum of Devon and lastly seven times Sheriff of the said County and once two years together contrary to the Statute of 23 Henry 6.8 whereby he forfeited two hundred pound to the King and the Informer a moiety to each wherewith he acquainted the King who ordered his Attorney general to file an Information against him for the same and had Judgement thereon which the King pardoned and the Informer released by acknowledging satisfaction on Record Every person standing under a Booth or Covering at Fair times ought to pay 4 d. Regna Regum 6. Henry the 8. An. D. 1514. Mayors and Bayliffs John Moor Thomas Hunt William Forest Robert Buller John Williams An Inquisition taken before the Mayor upon the several deaths of the Lady Catherine Countess of Devon Richard Hellier William Foursden John Obley Ann Wilsford John Fortescue and Robert Batten whereby 't was found that the said persons were seized of Lands within this City at the time of their respective deaths and held the same in Free Socage of the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty to whom was due from every of the said persons for a relief two shillings and six pence John Garrett Fined for erecting a standing in the high street without Licence Richard Hewett dis-franchised for suing several Freemen of this City at the common Law out of the jurisdiction of this Court contrary to his Oath Regna Regum 7. Henry the 8. An. D. 1515. Mayors and Bayliffs William Crudâ— Jeffery Lewes John Bridgeman Gilbert Kirk Thomas Fowleâ— The Custom touching the Dominicals here was tryed in the King's Court held at the Guild-hall and a Verdict found for the Plaintiff whereby the Custom was held good Goods seized as forfeited for non-entry of the Town Custom William Shapton fined 20 s. for suing a Freeman hereof out of the liberties of the said City John Bodley dis-franchised for the like offence Regna Regum 8. Henry the 8. An. D. 1516. Mayors and Bayliffs John Buckenam John Nosworthy John Woolcott Richard Chubb Robert Trow A Jury was here sued on a Writ of attaint Bishop Oldham was very liberal to the Vicars Choral of his Church and again reduced them to the good order of keeping Commons in their Common-hall who towards the maintenance thereof gave them certain revenues and impropriated unto them the Rectory of Cornwood He was a great favourer and furtherer of Religion Learning and Learned Men wherein the two Colleges of Brazen Nose and Corpus Christi in the Vniversity of Oxford will for ever bear witness of his