Yarmouth there was a fish by force of the Easterly wind driven ashore the length thereof from the neck to the tail was seventeen yards and a foot the head was great for the chap of the jaw was three yards and a quarter in length with teeth of three quarters of a yard in compass great eyes with two great holes over them to spout water her tail was fourteen foot broad in thickness from the back to the belly she was four yards and a half An. Reg. 26 Iames Earl of Desmond in Ireland wandring without succour being taken in his Cabbin by one of the Irish his head was cut off and sent to England where the same as the head of an arch traytor was set on London-Bridge on the thirteenth of December The thirteenth of December a fire beginning in a Brew-house in the town of Nantwich from the West end of the town the flame was dispersed so furiously that in short time a great part of the South side and some part of the East side was burned down to the ground which fire continuing from six a clock in the evening till six a clock in the morning consumed in a manner all the whole town and about the number of two hundred houses besides Brew-houses barns stables and in all about six hundred houses Iohn Sommervile of Edstow in Warwickshire of late discovered and taken in his way coming to have killed the Queen confessed that he was moved thereunto by certain trayterous persons his Kinsmen and Allies as also by reading of certain seditious books lately published for the which the said Sommervile Edward Arden Esquire Mary Arden his wife Father and Mother-in-law to the said Sommervile and Hugh Hall Priest were on the sixteenth day of December arraigned in the Guild-Hall in London where they were found guilty and condemned of High-Treason On the nineteenth of December Iohn Sommervile and Edward Arden being brought before the Tower of London to Newgate and there shut up in several places within two houres after Sommervile was found to have hanged himself and on the morrow after Edward Arden was drawn from Newgate to Smithfield and there hanged and quartered whose head with Sommerviles was set on London-Bridge and their quarters on the gates of the City On the tenth of Ianuary William Carter was arraigned and condemned of High-Treason for printing a seditious book and was so the same drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The seventh of February were arraigned at Westminster Iohn Fenne George Haddock Iohn Munden Iohn Nutter and Thomas Hemerford all these were found guilty of High-Treason and had Judgement to be hanged and quartered and were executed at Tyburn on the twelfth of February An. Dom. 1584 The 21 of May Francis Throgmorton was arraigned at the Guild-Hall in London where being arraigned and found guilty of high-treason had Judgement to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd the tenth of Iuly next following the said Throgmorton was conveyed by water from the Tower of London to the Black-Friers stairs and from thence by land to the Sessions Hall in the Old-Bailey without Newgate where he was delivered to the Sheriffs of London laid on a hâ—rdle drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The 21 of Ianuary Jesuits Seminaries and other Mass Priests to the number of twenty one late â—â—isoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were shipped at the Tower-Wharf to be conveyed towards France and banished this Land for ever The second of March William Parry was drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Westminster and there in the Palace Court was hanged and quartered for high-treason as may appear by a book entituled A true and plain Declaration of the horrible Treasons practised by William Parry that Arch Traytor The twenty seventh of April Philip Howard Earl of Arundel for attempting to have passed beyond the Seas without license of the Queen was sent to the Tower On the twentieth of Iune Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland prisoner in the Tower of London upon suspition of high-treason was found there to have murdered himself The fifth of Iuly Thomas Aâ—â—field Seminary Priest and Thomas Welby Dyer were arraigned at London and found guilty and had Judgement to be hanged as Felons for publishing books containing false seditious and slanderous matter these on the next morning were executed at Tyburn On the fourth of August at the end of the town called Nottingham in Kent eight miles from London the ground began to sink three great Elms being swallowed up and driven into the earth past mans sight The fourteenth of September Sir Francis Drake General as well by Sea as by Land Christopher Carlile Esquire Lievtenant General Martin Frobisher with divers other Gentlemen Captains and two thousand and three hundred Souldiers in twenty two Ships and Pinnaces departed from Plimmouth and passing by the Isles of Bayon and the Canaries arrived at Saint Iago which City they took and burn'd after they sailed to Saint Domingo which they spoiled and ransacked and retiring homewards razed and spoiled the City and Fort of Saint Augustine in Terra Florida and the twenty seventh of Iuly in Anno 1586. arrived at Plimouth The nineteenth of September to the number of thirty two Seminary Priests and other prisoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were imbarqued to be transported to Normandy and banished for ever The nineteenth of Ianuary Nicholas Devoreux was condemned of treason as being made Priest at Rhemes in France also Edward Barbat Priest for coming into this Realm was likewise condemned of treason and both drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered on the 21 of Ianuary On the same day a maid was burned in Smithfield for poysoning of her Aunt with whom she lived and would have poysoned her Unkle but that she was prevented The fourteenth of March at the Assizes kept at the City of Exeter in Devonshire before Sir Edward Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Serjeant Floriday Sir Iohn Chichester Sir Arthur Basset and Bernard Drake Knights Thomas Carew Richard Cary Iohn Fortescue Iohn Waldran and Thomas Risdon Esquires and Justices of the Peace of the common people died very many Constables Reves Tythmen and Jurors especially of one Jury being twelve of them died eleven a strange sickness This sickness began first among the prisoners and then fastned on the rest by degrees The seventeenth of March a strange thing happened Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire one of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pentioners had a horse which died suddenly and being ripped up to see the cause of his death there was found in a hole of the heart of the horse a worm and of a wondrous form for it lay on a round heap in a Call or skin in the likeness of a toad which being taken out and spread abroad was in form and fashion not easie to be described the length of which worm divided into
and that whatsoever plot and treason was now in hand it must be performed in some unsuspected place and by some homebâ—ed Traytors whereupon new search was made about the Court and Parliament house but coâ—ld not as â—et find any thing out worthy their labours all which labors all which searches was performed with such silence and discretion as there rose no manner of suspition either in Court or City the Lord Chamberlain whose office it most concerned never rested day nor night and the night before the Parliament as Sir Thomas Knevet with others scouted about the Parliament house espied a fellow standing in a corner very suspiciously and asked him his name and what he was and what he did there so late who answered very bluntly his name was Iohn Iohnson Master Pearces man and keeper of his lodgings Sir Thomas Knevet still continued his search in all places and returning thither again found him lingring there still searched him and found under his cloke a dark Lanthorne with a candle burning in it and about him other signes of suspition that he stood not there for any good then the Knight entred the vaut where he found the powder covered with faggots and billots and then the Lord Chamberlain commanded the Traytor to be bound and being now three of the clock in the morning he went unto the King and with exceeding joy told his Majesty the treason was found out and the traytor in hold the King desired to see Faukes who when he came before the King used like trayterous speeches as he did at his first apprehension affirming he was the onely man to performe this treason saying it sore vexed him that the deed was not done and for that time would not confess any thing touching the rest of the conspirators but that he himself onely alone was the contriver and practiser of this treason Between five and six a clock in the morning the Conusel gave order to the Lard Major of London to look well to the City and in very calme manner to set civill watch at the Citie Gates signifying therewithall that there was a plot of treason found out and that the king would not go to Parliament that day the same day in the afternoon the manner of the treason was by way of Proclaimation made known unto the people for joy whereof there was that night within the City and about as many bonfires as the streets could permit and the peole gave humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for their King and Countreyes right blessed escape Within three dayes after two other Proclamations were made signifying unto the people who were the chief Conspirators with commandment to apprehend Pearcy and Catesby and to take them alive if it were possible which said Pearcy and Catesby were gone to Holback in Warwick Shire to meet Winter Grante and others where under pretence of a great hunting they made account to raise the Countrey and surpâ—ize the lady Elizabeth from the Lord Harrington whom they meant to Proclaime Queen and in whose name they meant to take up Arms being perswaded that the King the Prince and the Duke of Yorke were at that time blown up in the Parliament House but when they found their treason was known and prevented and saw the Kings Forces round about the house so as they could not escape Pearsey and Catesby very desperately issued out and fighting back to back were both flain with one Musket shot Saturday the ninth of November the King went to Parliament where in the presence of the Queen the Prince the Duke of Yorke the Embassadours of the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke and the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of the same he made a very solemne oration Manifesting the whole Complott or this treason Ianuary the nineteenth a great Porpaise was taken alive at West-Ham in alittle Creeke a mile and a half within the land and was presented unto Francis Gofton Esquire Chief Auditor of the Imprests and within a few dayes after a very great Whale came within eight miles of London whose length was divers times seen above the Water and the same was judged to be a great deal longer then any Ship in the River A few dayes before Christmass the Parliament broke up and began to sit again the twenty second of Ianuary being Tuesday and continued untill the twenty seventh of May next following in which Parliament they gave the King and and his Successours three entire Subsidies and six Fifteens and then the Parliament was proroâ—ged untill the eighâ—eenâ—h oâ— November at this 〈◊〉 the Clargie gave unto the King and his Successors four entire Subsidies and in this Parliament it was enacted that the fifth of November should be kept Holy day for ever with preaching and giving God thanks for his mercy in preventing that terrible danger of the late practise by Pearcy and Catesby with the rest of their wicked Crew to blow up the Parliament House Ianury the twenty seventh at Westminster were Arrained Thomas Winter Guydo Fawkes Robert Keyes and Thomas Bates for plotting to blow up the Parliament House Digging in the Mine taking oath and Sacrament for secresie and Sir Everard Digby for being made acquainted with the said treason yeelding assent to it and taking his corporal oath for secrecy all which Inditements were proved against them and by themselves confessed and thereupon had Judgement given them to be Drawn Hanged and quartered their limbes to be set upon the City Gates and their heads upon London Bridge according to which sentence the thirtieth of Ianuary Sir Everard Digby Robert Winter Iohn Graunt and Baites at the West end of Saint Pauls Church and the next day after the other four were executed in the Parliament yard and six of the eight acknowledged their guiltiness in this horrible plot and dyed very penitently but Graunt and Keyes did not so Saturday the twenty second of March between six and seven a clock in the forenoon a rumor was so dainly spread throughout the Court and the City of London that for certain the King that morning was slain as he was a hâ—nting in Okeing Parke twenty miles from London which dreadful newes still increased untill nine of the Clock being seconded by Infinite suggestions by reason whereof it was generally received for truth and thereupon the Court Gates were kept shut The Lord Major began to set Cuard at the City Gates and to raise the Trained bands Sir William Wade Liverenant of the Tower did the like with his Hamlets within his liberties and the Parliament was much amazed but by eleven of the Clock the joyfull news of the Kings good health was made known in London by Proclamation as it had been at the Court an houâ—e before whereat the people began to revive their vexed spirits which till then were wonderously surcharged with hearts grief This flying newes went three dayes journey into the Countrey before it was surpâ—est Friday the twenty eight of March 1606. wâ—s Araigned
crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of Iuly After this were taken for Traytors against the king Robert Ruff Serjeant of London VVilliam Davie Pardoner Iohn Smith Groom of king Edwards stirrop and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower with many more who were charged that they had sent Letters into Brittain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembrook and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother for the which they were drawn from VVestminster to the Tower of London and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury The thirteenth of December was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London where was burnt a number of houses and all the stocks for gunnes other provision belonging to the city King Richard borrowed great sums of mony of the City but being cut off before the time of payment came the City lost it Collingborn Esquire was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London and there upon the hill was headed and quartered An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight and one Fortescue were drawne through London and at Saint Martin le grand Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs and taken Sanctuary but the Sheriffs took him again and had him to tower hill where he was beheaded and Fortescue had his pardon Henry Earl of Richmond Iasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle the Earl of Oxford and many other Knights and Esquires with a small company of Frenchmen landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August whose coming when it was heard of in VVales divers Noble men with great companies met him and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester he met with his enemies the 22 of August where between them was fought a very sharp battel in conâ—lusion whereof King Richard with divers others were slain and King Henry obtained a Noble victory and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field with the crown which was taken off King Richards head Richard was buried at the Grey-Friers Church at Leicester when he had held the crown two years two moneths Henry Earl of Richmond An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh born in Pembroke Castle began his reign the 22 of August in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom policy justice temperance and gravity and notwithstanding many great troubles and war he kept his Realm in right good order for the which he was greatly honoured of Forraign Princes On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one man more of the Parsonage there The sweating sickness began the 21 of September and continued to the end of October of the which sickness a number of people died The 30 of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster he ordained a number of chosen Archers to give daily attendance on his person whom he named Yeomen of the Guard King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City which was repayed the nexr year after Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel and Bay-salt at the like price The Cross in Cheap-side was new builded The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th by the which means the two Houses York and Lancaster were united An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Taylor within Ludgate slew himself and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth there was a great contest between the Kings Almoner and the Sheriffs of London An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings or Stilliard-men by Mercers men and others of the City of London for the which many of them were sore punished An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel Bay-salt at three pence half penny Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel white herrings at six shillings the barrel red at three shillings the Cade red sprats six pence the Cade and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun. Sir VVilliam Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country they withdrew again to their ships but the Mayor of Sandwich with certain men of the country fought with the residue that were left behind and took 169 persons who were hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk An. Dom. 1497 By meanes of a subsidy that was granted to the King a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall whiâ—h under the leading of Iames Lord Audley with Michael a Blacksmith and others came to Black-heath where the King met them overthrew them and took their Captains there was slain of the Rebels three hundred and taken fifteen hundred The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn The King sent an Army into Scotland under the Earl of Surrey and the Lord Nevil which made sharp war upon the Scots In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs fell hailstones eighteen inches about Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall went to Bodmin where being accompanied with three or four thousand men he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son of Edward the fourth from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants but many of the Rebels were slain and theâ— withdrew themselves to Taunton from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley where he took sanctuary and was afterward taken and pardoned his life An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and Iohn-a-water were executed at Tyburn Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick son to George Duke of Clarence was beheaded at Tower-hill Shortly after Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night a perillous fire began upon London-bridge near to Saint Magnus Church whereof six tenements were burnt The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire against Saint Buttolphs Church in Thames-street An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the Marshalsey broke out and many of them being shortly after taken were put to execution especially those that had lain for Felony An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Bakers house burnt in Warwick-lane with the Mistress of the house and two women servants About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire there was 160 houses consumed with most part of their goods King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April when he had reigned 23 years and 8 moneths and
August great triumphs was made in London for the good success of the Earl of Essex against the Spaniard the winning and burning of the famous town of Cadiz the overthâ—ow of the Spanish Navy with orher victoâ—ies a sermon of thanksgiving was preached at Pauls Cross in the foâ—enoon and bonefiers with great joy in the afternoon August the fifteenth a new house in Fleetstreet hardly finished sodainly fell down and with it one old house adjoyning next to it by the fall whereof the man of the house with a man servant and a child were killed Sunday the fifth of December great number of people being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in Somerset-shire in the sermon time before noon a sodain darkness fell among them and storm and tempest followed after with lightning and thunder such as overthâ—ew to the ground them that were in the body oâ— the Church all the Church seemed to be on a light fire a loathsome steanch followed some stones were striâ—ken out of the Bell Tower the wiers and ironâ— of the clock were melted which tempest being ceased and the people come again to themselves some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies and their garments not perished nor any marked that were in the chansel A Parliament began at Westminster on the twenty fourth of October on the which day many people were were smothered and crushed to death pressing between White-Hall and the Colledge Church to have seen her Majesty and the Nobility riding in their robes to the said Parliament This year pepper was sold for eight shillings the pound Ianuary the twenty fifth one named Ainger was hanged at Tyburn for wilfully and secretly murdering of his own father a Gentleman and a Counsellor of Graies Inn in his chamber there An. Dom. 1958 On the third of April Twiford town in Devonshire was burnt by casualty of fire beginning first in a poor cottage a woman there frying Pancakes with straw the same fired the house and so to the town about one of the clock in the afternoon the rage of which fire lasted one houre and an half consumed four hundred houses one hundred and fifty thousand pounds consumed in money plate marchandise householdstuffe and houses fifty persons men women and children consumed an almes house preserved with poor men therein in the midst of the fire Iuly the twelfth one Iohannes Buckley a priest made beyond seas having been arraigned in the Kings Bench on the third of Iuly and there condemned of Treason for coming into this land contrary to the Statute was drawn to Saint Thomas a Watrings and there hanged and quartered his head set on the Pillory in Southwark his quarters in the high wayes towards Newington The first of September in the afternoon was great thunder and lightening at London two great cracks as it had been the shooting off Ordnance some men were hurt at the Postern by the Tower of London and one man slain at the Bridgehouse in Southwark over against the Tower November the ninth an Esquire at Greenwich was arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high-treason and on the thirteenth drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there hanged and quartered In the month of Iuly were drawn hanged and quartered 2 Priests one of them was named Hunt and the other Sprat for coming into this Realm contrary to the Statute they were executed at Lincolne two other Priests Edward Thing and Robert Nutter were likewise executed for this same offence at Lancaster also Thomas Pallafray a Priest executed at Durham and a Gentleman with him for relieving him and lodging him in his house August the fifth Iames King of Scots escaped a strange and strong conspiracy in Scotland practised by the Earl of Gowry and his brother An. Reg. 43 February the fifth in the morning being Sunday a great tempest of wind brake the Windmil beyond Saint Giles in the fields without London the miller thrown one way an other man an other one thrown north and the other south a part of the Mil-roof and half the milstone likewise thrown down Sunday the eighth of February about ten of the clock in the forenoon Robert Devoraux Earl of Essex assisted by divers noble men and gentlemen in warlike manner entred the City of London at the Temple bar crying for the Queen till they came to Fanchurch street and there entred the house of Master Thomas Smith one of the Sheriffs of London who finding himself not master of his own house by meanes of the strength the Earl brought with him and being ignorant of his intent and purpose conveighed himself out of a back door to the Lord Mayor of the City whereupon the Eearl and his troop turned into Grace street and there perceiving himself and his assistance to be proclaimed Traytors also the Citizens to be raised in Arms against him he with his followers wandring up and down the City towards Ludgate would have passed through which was closed against him so that he was forced to return to Queen Hith and from thence by water to his own house in the Strand which he fortified but understanding that great Ordnance were brought to beat down his house he yielded and was conveighed to the Tower about midnight February the seventeenth Captain Thomas Lee was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged bowelled and quartered for conspiracy against the Queen he took it upon his death that although he deserved death yet he was innocent of that he was condemned for The eighteenth of February Iohn Pibush a Seminary Priest after seaven years imprisonment in the Kings Bench was hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas a Watrings for coming into this Realme contrary to the Statute The nineteenth of February the Earl of Essex and the Earl of South-hampton were both arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high treason Ashwednesday the twenty fifth of February the Earl of Essex was beheaded within the Tower between the houres of seaven and eight a clock in the morning being present the Earls of Hartford and Cumberland the Lord Thomas Haward Constable of the Tower for that time and not passing sixty or seaventy persons more the hangman was beaten as he returned thence so that the Sheriffs of London were sent for to assist and rescue him from such as would have murdered him The seventeenth of February Mark Backworth and Thomas Filcoks Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for coming into the realm contrary to the Statute And the same day a Gentlewoman named Ann Lina a widow was hanged in the same place for relieving a Priest in her house contrary to the Statute February the last a young Gentleman named Waterhouse was hanged in Smithfield for speaking and Libelling against the Queens proclamation and the apprahending of the Earl of Essex March the thirteenth Sir Gelly Merrick Knight and Henry Cuff Gentleman were drawn to Tyburn the one from the Tower the other from Newgate and there hanged
and Condemned Henry Garnet Provinciall of the Iesuites in England for being acquainted with the Gunpowder plot and consealing the same for the which he was condemned to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered and his head to be set upon London Bâ—idge and according to that Sentence he was Executed the third of May at the West end of Saint Pauls Church where he acknowledged the greatnesse of his offence in consealing the treason and besought all Catholikes to forbear and desist from Treason and all other violent attempts whatsoever against Kings and Princes saying that all such practises were utterly against the Catholike Religion The twenty nine and thirtieth of March the winde was extreame violent so as it caused much Shipwrack upon the Coasts of England France and the Low Countreyes in brought in the Sea and drowned much Cattell and in Picardie neer Dyope it blew down a steeple which Slew sourscore persons in the fall thereof in Flanders and up towards Germany there were many Churches Townes Windemills and Trees blown down and the eighth of Iune following it rayned twenty four houres and the next day there arose great land floods which carried away Mills Trees and Houses made new Currants where never any was before it carried away great store of Cattell Timber and other things from off upland grounds The tenth of Iune Proclaimation was made for the banishing of all seminaries Jesuites and Roman-priests The fifteenth of Iuly the wife of Richard Homewood of East Grimsteed in Sussex without any known cause murdered her own three children and threw them into a pit and then cut her own throat likewise The twentieth of Ianuary it pleased God to send a mighty westwind which continued sixteen houres which brought in the sea by reason whereof and of high spring-tides both which encountred the land waters after a great raine which caused the River of Severn beginning as far as the Mount in Cornwal to overflow her banks all along on both sides up into Somerset shire and Glocester-shire in some places the water overflowed the banks three foot in other places five foot and some places seven foot by reason of which suddain inundation much people and cattle were drowned many Churches and villages borne down and spoyled and some utterly destroyed and in Wales in several places it did great harme in manner as aforesaid the like before was never known Maundy Thursday the second of April there hapned great inundations of water in Kent Essex Suffolk and Norfolk and the seventeenth of April there arose in the City of Coventry a most strange and dreadful inundation November the twenty sixth proclamation was made concerning the Earl of Tyrone Terconnel and others of Ireland signifying their purpose and practise to exterpit the English Nation out of Ireland and to confer and yield the kingdome of Ireland to the Pope and Tyrones soliciting forraign Princes to attempt the conquest thereof The twentieth of December proclamation was made to apprehend the Lord Maxwel who wounded the porter and so brake prison out of Edenborough Castle this Lord Maxwel ayded Iames Mackdonel to escape likewise December the eighth begun a hard frost and continued till the fifteenth of the same and then thawed and the twenty second of December it began again to freez very violently so as some persons went halfe wap over upon the ice and the thirtieth of December many people went quite over in many places and so continued till the third of Ianuary the people passed dayly between London and the Bank-side at every half ebb for the floud removed the ice and forced the people dayly to seek new paths except onely between Lambeth and the ferry at Westminster by which it became very firme passage untill the great thaw and from Sunday the tenth of Ianuary untill the fifteenth of the same the frost grew extreame so as the ice became firme and removed not and then all sorts of men women and children went boldly upon the ice in most parts some shot at pricks others bowled and daunced with other variable pastimes by reason of which concourse of people were many that set up boothes and standings upon the ice as fruit-sellers victuallers that sould beer and wine shoomakers and a barbers tent every of them had fire near unto them the fifteenth of Ianuary it began somewhat to thaw and so continued four daies together yet nevertheless the great ice upon the Thames held firm and passable and became somewhat smooth like as in the last great frost in the year 1564. which before were very craggy and uncertain the nineteenth of Ianuary the frost began again but not so violently until Sunday the twenty fourth of Ianuary and held on until the thirtieth of the same the first of February the ice began to break by little and little and the next day in the afternoon all the ice was gone and quite dissolved so as no sign remained thereof Many bridges were spoiled by this frost and much fowle peâ—ished especially small birds which in many places were found frozen to death this frost was more grievous in France and Ireland then in England February the ninth Sir Iohn Ramsey Knight Baron of Barnes Viscount Hadington married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Robert Earl of Sussex the King gave her in marriage and at dinner he drank to the Bride and the Bridegroom in a fair cup of gold which he gave him and with it six hundred pound a year pension out of the Exchequer to the longest liver of them both this the King did do to reward his faithful service against the dangerous treason of Earl Gowry in Scotland March the tenth was laid the first stone for the new building of Algate but it was not fully finished till the next year after this ouldgate was taken down and finished at the charges of the Citizens April the eleaventh George Iervas a Seminary was drawn to Tyburn and there executed April the eleaventh being Munday the quarter Sessions was held at Edmonsbury and by negligence an out malthouse was set on fire from whence in most strange and suddain manner through fierce winds the fire came to the farther part of the town and as it went left some streets and houses safe and untouched the flame flew cleare over many houses near unto it and did much spoile to many fair buildings fardest off and ceased not untill it had consumed one hundred sixty houses besides others and in dammage of wares and household goods to the full value of threescore thousand pound the King shewed a great deal of kindness to the distressed inhabitants as in giving them five hundred load of Timber to repair their houses as in preferring their best means to raise their general and particular estates and in giving them a new Charter the Knights and Gentlemen likewise of the County performed great kindness unto the townsmen the City of London gave freely towards their relief April the nineteenth at White-Hall dyed Thomas Earl of Dorcet Lord High Treasurer