and hanged An. Dom. 1335 The Sea banks broke in all through England but specially in the Thames so that all the cattel and beasts near thereunto were drowned An. Dom. 1339 A sudden undation of water at New-Castle upon Tine bare down part of the Town wall where an hundred and twenty men and women were drowned An. Dom. 1350 In Oxfordshire near Chippingnorton was found a Serpent having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire and the other face like the old attire and wings like a Bâ—tt An. Reg. 25 Men and women perished in divers places with Thunder and Lightning Fiends or Devils and strange apparitions were seen by men and spake unto them as they travelled An. Reg. 36 A great dearth and pestilence in England in which died Henry Duke of Lancaster who was buried at Leicester An. Reg. 38 A great winde in England overturned houses and Church-steeples An. reg 37. A Frost in England lasted from the midst of September to the moneth of April An. Reg. 51 King Edward ended his life at his Mannour of Shene the 21 day of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. when he had reigned fifty years four moneths and odd daies he was buried at Westminster King Richard of Bourdeaux An. Reg. 1 RIchard the Second the Son of Prince Edward being but eleven years old began his Reign the 21 of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. in bounty and liberality he far passed all his Progenitors but for that he was young was most ruled by young counsel and regarded nothing the counsel of the sage and wise men of the Realm This thing turned the Land to great trouble and himself to great misery An. Dom. 1388 Iack Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King Wat Tyler arrested by the Mayor of the City of High-Treason was slain in Smithfield and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King An. Reg. 6 A general Earthquake the 21 of May and a water-shaking which made the ships in the Haven to totter An. Reg. 7 Iohn Bale brought to Saint Albans was hang'd drawn and quarter'd Iohn Rawe Captain of the Rebels in Suffolk was hang'd and quarter'd An. Reg. 9 The 18 of Iuly was an Earthquake An. Reg. 11 An. Dom. 1390 The Nobles rise against the King In Oxford the Welsh and Southern Scholars assailed the Northern whereby many murders were committed An. Dom. 1391 The good man of the Cock in Cheap a Brewer at the little Conduit was murdered in the night by a Thief who came in at the gutter window as it was known long after by the same thief when he was condemned for felony His wife was burned in Smithfield and his three men hanged wrongfully An. Dom. 1397 The Earl of Arundel with many more were put to death for that they rebuked the King in matters of State something liberally An. Dom. 1398 Thomas Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury was banished the Realm An. Dom. 1399 Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster deceased and was honourably buried in Saint Pauls Church An. Reg. 23 The King exacted great sums of money of seventeen Shires of the Realm and laid to their charges that they had been against him with the Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick wherefore he went about to induce the Lords both spiritual and temporal to make a submission by writing acknowledging themselves to be Traitors to the King though they never offended him Moreover he compelled them to set their hands to blanks to the end that so often as it pleased him he might oppreâ—â— them An. Reg. 23 But all this made nothing for him but all against him for within a while after he was sent to the Tower till the next Parliament which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas-day at which time he resigned all his power and Knightly title to the Crown of England and France to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster when he had reigned twenty two years three moneths and odd daies Henry the Fourth Henry of Bollengbrook An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fourth son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was made King of England more by force then by lawful succession or election He began his Reign the 29 of September in the year 1399. An. Reg. 2 The King caused the Blanok Charters to be burnt made to King Richard Iohn Holland late Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Awmarl Iohn Mountecute Earl of Salisbury Thomas Spencer Sir Ralph Lumley Sir Thomas Blunt Sir Benedict Cely Knights with others conspired against King Henry and appointed privily to murder him but their Treason was found out and they were all put to death King Richard being in Pomfret-Castle died the fourteenth day of February his body was brought to London and so through the City of London to St. Pauls Church bare-faced three daies for all beholders from thence he was carried to Langley and there buried An. Dom. 1402 Certain men affirmed that King Richard was alive for the which a Priest was taken at Warwick who was drawn hanged and quarter'd Walter Waldock Prior of Lawd was likewise hanged and headed and eight grey Friers hanged and headed at London of the which one Richard Fresby Doctor of Divinity was drawn and hanged Sir Roger Claringdon Knight a Esquire and a Yeoman were beheaded at London and divers grey Friers hanged and beheaded and two at Leicester all these had published King Richard to be alive An. Dom. 1407 A Pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand An. Dom. 1408 A Frost lasted fifteen weeks An. Dom. 1409 Henry Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph came into England with a great company pretending by Proclamation to deliver the people from the great oppression that they were burdened with but by Sir Thomas Rokebey Sheriff of York-shire he was encountred at Bramhammoor and there slain the Lord Bardolph was likewise wounded to death An. Dom. 1412 After the fortunate chances hapned to King Henry being delivered of all civil division he was taken with sickness and yeelded to God his spirit the 20 of March 1412. when he had reigned thirteen years six moneths and odd daies he was buried at Canterbury Henry of Monmouth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fifth began his Reign the 20 of March in the year 1412. This Prince exceeded the mean stature of men he was beauteous of visage his neck long body slender and lean his bones small nevertheless he was of marvellous great strength and passing swift in running An. Dom. 1413 Sir Iohn Old-Castle for divers points touching the Sacrament before the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London VVinchester and others was convicted and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake and fled An. Dom. 1414 Certain adherents of Sir Iohn Old-Castle assembled them in Thickets field near London but the King being warned took the field before them and so took of them such numbers that
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
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
that was set on shore in Spain The two brothers were brought to England and a long time prisoners in Chelsy Colledge from whence they had the fortune to make their escape An. Dom. 1657 The rich Plate fleet being after much expectation come to Spain Blake understanding where they had unladen resolved with himselfe though he missed of the money to be revenged on the purse and made up to them with the greatest part of the strength he had and burned and sunck sixteen great vessails amongst which there were five Gallions the Admirall Vice-Admirall and Rear-Admirall the greatest part whereof had Brasse Ordnance mounted on them His Highness rewarded this service of Blakes with a Diamond Ring worth a thousand pound On the beginning of May the English were sent to assist the French with a body of six thousand Foot under the Command of the Noble Sir Iohn Reynolds In the middle of the moneth of Iune his Highness was installed in the Protectorship when the Trumpets sounded there were few or almost no acclamations of the people although the numbers were almost infinite who thronged to behold him at his Investment into his new dignities This veer the Fort of Mardike was convaied unto the English and Sir Iohn Reynolds comming for England was at Sea most unfortunately if not cruelly cast away Generall Blake being sick died in the sight of Plimmouth and had the Honour to be buried in the Chappell of Henry the Seventh Henry Cromwell the younger son of the Protector was made Lord Deputy of Ireland and not long afterwards the Court began to be full of Jealousies for now there was a new report of another conspiracy against the Protector for the effecting whereof VVhitehall should have been set on fire by one Iohn Syndercombe and some others Syndercombe was apprehended and sent to the Tower and sentenced to lose his life which many that knew his crime affirmed would never be by a publike Execution he died suddenly in the Tower on the night before his execution to the murmuring of many and the admiration of all howsoever his Body was brought to Tower Hill where it was buryed under the Scaffold and to increase yet more the noyse of the people it had a stake drove through it On the fourth of February 1658. his Highness put a period to the Parliament then being on the proceedings whereof so many hopes depended he said he would trust no more to men but rely on GOD onely The Parliament being thus dissolved a high Court of Justice was presently erected Many young men were acccused and at this court of Justice were condemned to dye whose last words on the ladder and the haltars about their necks were that they were drawn in by those men who afterwards did accuse them the old Knight Sir Henry Slingsby said he was trappanned Colonel Ashton and some others who were hanged drawn and quartered confessed rather a desire then any ability to put the plot in execution and all of them absolutely denied and seemed to abhor that most barbarous and desperate design of setting the City on fire At the same time and for the same plot Doctor Iohn Hewyt was beheaded on the Tower hill whose death was much lamented by many learned Divines but above all by the pious Lady his wife who not long afterwards petitioned to the Parliament for justice for the death of her husband In this year on the second of Iune a Whale of a prodigious bulk being sixty foot in length and of a proportionable bigness was cast upon shoar not far from Greenwich which was taken to be a presage of new events to come The English and French having overthrown the Spaniards in a memorable battail not far from Dunkirk which was at that time besieged by them it was the means that not long afterwards the most considerable Town of Dunkirk was surrendred to the English In Iuly the Lady Elizabeth Cleypole second daughter to the Protector departed this life she was a Lady of a gallant spirit and dyed in the flower of her age which struck more to her Fathers heart than all the heavy burden of his affairs so great a power hath nature over the dispositions of men when the tye of blood is seconded by love likenes she dyed with good lessons in her mouth and seemed to despise the frailty of greatness and the pomp of the earth her last words were very memorable and left a great impression in the brest of her Father Not long afterwards it pleased God that the Protector fell sick himself he languished about a fortfortnight of a disease which at the beginning was but an Ague but on Friday morning the third of September he had all the signs of a dying person and about three of the clock in the afternoon he departed the world being disserted his vital parts were found to be sound and whole only his heart was dryed up and no blood in it to make it either moist or warm His greatest care was to name a Protector to be his successor which was Richard his eldest Son a Gentleman of great hopes of a generous spirit and beloved even of those who were enemies to his Father of whose short Protectorship we will give you as short but as precise a view as possibly we can committing nothing that is superfluous nor omitting any thing that is memorable The Life of RICHARD Son to OLIVER during the short time of his Protectorship OLiver the Protector of these three Nations was no sooner dead but on the day following being Saturday Septem 4. Richard his eldest son was proclaimed Protector with great solemnity both at the old Exchange and in other places the Commanders of the Army were the first that acknowledged him and they were the first that forsook him The flatteries of the people did seem to promise a long continuance to his regency for from the first week of his Protectorship almost to the last there were nothing but gratulations from one place or another to him with as many protestations that they would live and die in his service The very same they presented to the Parliament when the supremacy of power was restored unto them to be as officious no doubt to third interest if a third interest had gained the predominancy The first care of our neece Protector was for the funerals of his father which were resolved should be solemnized with extraordinary magnificense to leave more glory on the name of his father and to beget a greater estimation in his own Wherefore being imbalmed and wrapped in a sheet of Lead the hearse on the 26 of September was conveighed about ten of the clock at night from White-hall to Somerset house where it remained some daies in private before it could be in a readiness to be exposed to the publike view The Effigies more richly adorned then ever was any King of England was lâ—id first on a bed of state afterwards it was set upright there was nothing admitted that was
farthest Arches of the said Bridge and no man perished anno reg 15. All the Lions in the Tower of London died an reg 16. The Postern of London by East-Smithfield against the Tower of London sunck by night and a great wind blew down almost one side of the street called the old change an reg 18. Eleaner Cobham Dutches of Glocester for sorcery received sentence of pennance from the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and on the seventeenth of November she came from Temple-Bar to Pauls with a Taper of wax in her hand which she offered at the Altar on the Wednesday following she went from Gracious street to Leaden-Hall and so to Algate and on the next Market day she went from Cheapside to St. Michaels in Conrnhil in form aforesaid an reg 20. The Commons of Kent did rise in great number one Jack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief but they submitted at last to the Kings mercy and Jack Cade was slain in the Wild of Sussex an reg 30. William Carton of London Mercer brought over into England from Germany the science of Printing which he practised afterwards at the Abby of St. Peters in Westminster an reg 38. XVI Edward the fourth MAny battails were fought betwixt King Edward and the adherents to King Henry the sixth in which King Edward still prevailed at the last King Henry was taken and sent to the Tower where he was murthered an reg 4. Some riotus persons that fired the gates of the City of London and would force their entrance into the City being apprehended the King caused the rich to hang by the purse and the poor by the neck an reg 12. George Duke of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmssey anno reg 18. XVII King Richard the fourth EDward the fifth being deprived of his life by his unnatural Uncle Ri. having raigned but two months some few daies his Uncle commonly called the usurper was proclaimed King and crowned at Westminster presently afterwards insued the death of the Duke of Buckingham who was beheaded at Salisbury for treason and on the year following was the battail at Bosworth field where Richard was slain himself and buried in the Grey Fryars Church at Leicester XVIII King Henry the seventh THe Sweating sickness began in the moneth of September which in six weeks time devoured a great number of people an reg 1. A commotion was made by the Commons in Cornwal upon the discontent of some subsedy which was granted to the King they came as far as Black Heath where three hundred of them were slain and fifteen hundred taken Prisoners the Lord Andely chief leader of them was beheaded on Tower hill an reg 10. Perkin Warbeck proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son to King Edward was taken being once pardoned before and executed at Tiburn an reg 11. XIX King Henry the eighth AN Insurrection of the Apprentises in London against Aliens for which divers of them were hanged with their Captain John Lincorn a Broker this being on the first of May it was called afterwards the ill May day anno regni 9. Richard Rice a Cook was boyled in Smithfield for poysoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchesters house an reg 23. Many great personages were beheaded in this Kings daies and some of his own wives when he began to be weary of them XX. Edward the sixth THe Book of Common Prayers was read in English to the great contentment of the people an reg 2. The Commons made great commotions and rose against inclosures the Rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk were most formidable but being subdued by the Earl of Warwick Rob. Kett was hanged in Chains on the top of Norwich Castle and William his Brother was hanged on the top of Windham Castle an reg 3. XXI Queen Mary THe Popish Bishops were all restored an reg 1. Sir Thomas Wiatt having drawn forces together against the Queen and peace of the kingdome was beheaded anno reg 3. The French became Masters of Callice an reg 4. Many Protestants for their consciences did perish in the flames of Martyrdome during the raign of this Queen XXII Queen Elizabeth THe Book of Common Prayer was established and Mass clean suppressed an reg 1. The lofty spier of Pauls steeple which was two hundred foot high from the top of the Stone battlements was set on fire by lightning which fire ceased not till it came down to the roof of the Church and consumed all the bels and lead an reg 3. Sir Thomas Gresham did build the Royal Exchange at his own proper costs by the advice and incouragement of Queen Elizabeth an reg 8. The ground opened and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed and went forward for the space of four daies so that where pasture grounds was there was tillage and where tillage ground was there was pasture found in the place of it this was done neer Marlech in the County of Hereford an reg 13. Strange and numerous apparitions of great flies in Winter and terrible Earthquakes and a woman in London brought to bed of four children an reg 18. the like afterwards an reg 22. Mary Queen of the Scots was put to death an reg 31. and in the year following was the great victory against the Spanish Armado supposed to be invincible The Earl of Essex was beheaded the Earl of Southampton was also arraigned and found guilty of high treason an reg 43. XXIII King Iames. RObert Dove Merchant taylor gave means for ever for the toling of a Bell in Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed an reg 2. The wonderful deliverance from the horrible gunpowder treason an reg 3. The great hard frost when boothes were set up on the River of Thames an reg 7. Sir Thomas Overbury was committed to the Tower where not long afterwards he was poysoned an reg 10. Prince Henry dyed on the sixth of Octob. 1611. and on the fourteenth of February following the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave Sir Walter Raleigh that miracle of arms and arts was beheaded anno reg 16. XXIV King Charles KIng Charles was married to Henretta Maria sister to the King of France then living an reg 1. In this year the pestilence raged in London of which above five thousand died in one week The Earl of Castle-Haven being arraigned at the Kings Bench bar and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy was executed on Tower hill an reg 6. Mr. Pryn Doctor Bastwick and Mr. Burton were sentensed in the high Commission Court and ordered to be banished an reg 11. Ship-money this year was called upon to be paid which procured afterwards great divisions The King marched against the scots who would not endure any alteration in their religion The Scots in the second expedition having the better the King was enforced to call a Parliament an reg 15. The King and Parliament not agreeing the
battail of Edge hill was fought an reg 17. After many battels at Newbery Marston Moore Naseby and other places the King was quite worsted and enforced to fly to the Scots an reg 22. The King being sold to the English by the Scots was brought from the Isle of Wight and being tryed by a High Court of Iustice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal an reg 23. XXV Oliver Cromwel Protector AFter the death of King Charles Oliver Cromwel having made himself famous by many great atchievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax and advancing into Ireland he took Drogheda by storm and pursuing his victories he became absolute master of that Nation anno 1649. and 1650. The great battail at Dunbar was fought where the Scots were totally overthrown two and twenty great guns taken and arms for fifteen thousand men an 1651. The arms of the Crown of England and statues of King Charles were put down by order of Parliament 1651. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded both on Tower hill 1651. The great battail at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown an 1652. Many great battails at sea betwixt English and Hollanders 1652. and 1953. The Lord General Cromwel was declared and sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 1654. The Hollanders obtained peace of the English 1654. A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF All the wonders and remarkable passages since William the Conquerour till the Raign of King Charles Written for the benefit of posterity To the Reader REader I have taken pains to abstract out of the Chronicle all the remarkable wonders and passages of concernment from William the Conqueror to the raign of King Charles I hope thou art not so ignorant but that thou wilt find it and grant it useful for us and our posterity hereafter Vale. Wonders and remarkable passages William Conquerour An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1069 A Gelricus Bishop of Durham being accused of treason was imprisoned at Westminster An. Reg. 4 Such a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereaved all the Monasteries and Abbies of England of their gold and silver sparing neither Challice nor Shrine An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham bought of King William the Earldome of Northumberland wherein he used such cruelty that the inhabitants slew him An. Dom. 1076 An. Reg. 11 The earth was hard frozen from the middest of November to the midd'st of April An. Dom. 1077 An. reg 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon appeared a blazing Star neer unto the Sun An. Dom. 1078 An. reg 13 This year King William builded the Tower of London An. Dom. 1079 An. reg 14 Thurstone Abbot of Glassenbury in his Church caused three monks to be slain and eighteen men to be wounded that their blood ran down from the Altar to the steps An. Reg. 15 This year was a great wind on Christmas day a great Earthquake and roaring out of the earth the sixth of April An. reg 20 There was a great floud so Pauls Church burnt that hills were made soft and consumed and with their fall overwhelmed many villages to the great amazement of all An. reg 21 In a province of Wales called Rose was found the Sepulchre of Gawen upon the sea shore who was sisters son of Arthur the Great king of Brittain being in length fourteen foot King William being at Roan in Normandy went with a great Army into France spoyling all things as he passed last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorits that were inclosed there the king cheared his men to feed the fire and came himself so neer that with the heat of his harness he got a disease also the Kings horse leaping over a ditch did burst the inner parts of the King with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted and returned to Roan where shortly after he ended his life the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had raigned 20. years eight months and sixteen dayes I would have the Reader understand that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this kings dayes nor in any kings dayes else and that is the reason that the date of years do not follow in order for I skip a great part of needless things because I would not be too tedious nor abuse thy patience too much William Rufus An. Reg. 4 Agreat tempest fell on St. Lukes day especially in Winchcomb where a great part of the Steeple was overthrown and in London the wind overturned 606. houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheap-side wherewith some persons were slain An. Reg. 6 This year was a great famine and so great a mortality that the quick were scant able to burie the dead An. Reg. 11 All the land that sometimes belonged to Earl Goodwin by breaking in of the sea was covered with sands and is yet to this day called Goodwin sands An. Reg. 13 In the summer blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Barkshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting in the new Forrest sir William Tirrel shooting at a dear at unawares hit the King in the brest that he fell down dead and never spake word his men and especially that Knight hid themselves but some came back again and laid his body upon a colliers cart which one poor lean beast did draw to the City of Winchester where he was buried he reigned twelve years eleven months lacking eight daies Henry Beauclark Henry the first An. Reg. 2 VVInchester and Glocester burnt An. Reg. 5 There appeared about the sun four circles and a blazing star An. Reg. 13 This year was a great mortality of men and murren of beasts An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles dâ—d so fail of water that in the midst of the Channel the smallest vessels and boates could not pass the self same day the Thames did suffer the like want of water for between the Tower of London and the Bridge not onely with horses but also a great number of men and children did wade over on foot An. Dom. 1115 Chichester was burnt many storms and a blazing starr An. Dom. 1116 In March was exceeding lightning and in December thunder and hail and the moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood An. Dom. 1119 An. Reg. 20 King Henry having tamed the French men and pacified Normandy returned into England in which voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his son and Mary his daughter Richard Earl of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of 160. persons were drowned An. Reg. 23 The City of Glocester burnt An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced
was buried at Westminster in the new Chappel which he caused to be builded he left issue Henry Prince of Wales who succeeded in the Kingdome Lady Margaret Queen of Scots and Lady Mary promised to Charles King of Castile Henry the Eighth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Eighth at the age of eighteen years began his reign the 22 of April Anno 1590. of personage he was tall and mighty in wit and memory excellent the third of Iune he married Lady Katherine his first wife who had been late wife to Prince Arthur deceased On Midsommer day the King and Queen were crowned at Westminster An. Dom. 1510 Sir Richard Emson Knight and Edmond Dudley Esquire who had been great Councellors to King Henry the seventh were beheaded on Tower-hill the eighteenth of August An. Dom. 1515 Richard Hunne a Merchant-Taylor of S. Margarets Parish of Bridge-street who had been put in the Lollards Tower about the end of October was now the fifth of December found hanged in the same place and after burned in Smithfield An. Dom. 1517 The Thames was frozen that men with horse and carts might pass betwixt Westminster and Lambeth An. Dom. 1517 An. Reg. 9 On May-eve was an insurrection of young men and Apprentices of London against Aliens of the which divers were hanged vvith their Captain Iohn Lincorn a Broker the residue Ill May-day to the number of four hundred men and eleven vvomen tyed in ropes all along one after another in their shirts came to Westminster-hall vvith halters about their necks and vvere pardoned An. Dom. 1518 Many died in England of the svveating sickness and especially about London wherefore Trinity Term was one day at Oxford and then adjourned to Westminster An. Dom. 1521 The 27 of May was Edward Duke of Buckingham beheaded King Henry wrote a book against Luther and therefore the Pope named him Defender of the Faith An. Dom. 1524 In December in the City of Coventry Francis Philip Christopher Pickering and Anthony Mainle intended to have taken the Kings treasure of his Subsidy as the same came towards London therewith to have raised men and to have taken the Castle of Killingworth and then to have made wars against the King for the which they were drawn hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the other of their conspiracy were executed at Coventry An. Dom. 1526 The eleventh of February four Merchants of the Still-yard did penance at Pauls and Doctor Barnes bare a faggot An. Dom. 1527 An. Reg. 19 In November December and Ianuary fell abundance of rain that thereof ensued great floods which destroyed corn-fields pasture and beasts then was it dry till the twelfth of April and from that time it rained every day and night till the third of Iune Such a scarcity of bread was then at London and all England over that many died for want of succour The bread-carts coming from Stratford to London were met by the way and the people were ready to pâ—ll it out of the carts insomuch that the Mayor and Sheriffs were forced to go and rescue the same and see the carts brought to the markets appointed Wheat was then at fifteen shillings the quarter shortly after the Merchants of the Still-yard brought from Dansk such store of wheat and rye that it was better cheap in London then in any part of the Realm beside An. Reg. 23 Richard Rice a Cook was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchesters house The eleventh of April seven men with their horses and a ferry man were drowned at Lambeth Thomas Bilney was burned at Norwich An. Reg. 24 An. Dom. 1532 The 25 of May was taken between London and Greenwich two great fishes called Hurlepools Five men were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for coyning and clipping of money A great fish was taken at Blackwall which was brought to Westminster to the King An. Reg. 26 The 15 of May was a great fire at Salters Hall in Bredstreet The fourteenth of August was a great fire at Temple-bar the sixteenth of August was the Kings Stable burned at Charing-cross wherein were burned many great horses and great store of hay An. Dom. 1537 The Prior of the Charter-house at London the Prior of Beval the Prior of Exham Reynolds a Brother of Simon and Iohn Hail Vicar of Thisleworth were all condemned drawn and hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the fourth of May. The eighteenth of Iune three Monks of the Charter-house of London Exmewe Middlemore and Nidigate were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The 22 of Iune Doctor Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was beheaded on the Tower-hill The sixth of Iuly Sir Thomas Moor was beheaded on Tower-hill Within a while after the Lady Ann Queen was had to the Tower and there for things laid to her charge was shortly after beheaded The nineteenth of May the Lord Rochford Brother to the said Queen Henry Norrice Mark Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the Kings Privy Chamber about matters touching the Queen were put to death In the beginning of October at an Assise for the Kings subsidie kept in Lincolnshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nine and twenty thousand persons together against those the king did send the Duke of Suffolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Rutland with a strong power whereof when the Rebels heard they desired pardon brake up their Army and departed home but their Captains were apprehended and executed The ninth of October a Priest and a Butcher were hanged for speaking in the behalf of the Lincolneshire men they were hanged at VVindsor After began an insurrection for the sames causes in York-shire the people gathered to the number of forty thousand against those Rebels the king sent the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Marquess of Exceter with a great Army with whom a battel was appointed to be fought on the Eve of Simon and Iude but there fell such rain the night before that the two armies could not meet wheâ—eupon they desired the D. of Norfolk to sue to the King for a pardon and that they might have their liberties whiâ—h the Duke promised and rid post to the king then lying at Windsor to know his pleasure and so appeased them Ask that was the chief in this rebellion came to London and was not onely pardoned but rewarded with gifts the king dealt with this Ask as his Father did with Perkin Warbeck let him alone a while to see what he would do and these kings did but just play with these miscreants as the cat playes with the mouse for they were both of them hanged The twelfth of December the Thames being frozen the king and Queen Iane rode through London to Greenwich The third of February was Thomas Fitz Garret son and heir to the Earle of Kâ—ldare beheaded and five of his Uncles drawn hanged and quartered at Tiburn in this moneth Nicholas Musgrave Thomas Gilby and others stirred a new rebellion and besieged the City of
27 of Ian. the L. Treasurer came to Guild-Hall from the Counsel to request the citizens to prepare hundred foormen well armed to go against VViat which was granted and on the morrow were sent to Gravesend by water The twenty ninth of Ianuary the Duke of Norfolk wirh the Captain of the guard and other Souldiers and the Captains and Soldiers that were sent from London minding to assault Rochester Castle where VViat and his company lay but the Captaines of the City fled over Rochester Bridge to Wiat so that the Duke was faine to fly for London again to save his life Thus Wiats number being streightned with the Queens Ordnance and treasure the thirtieth of Ianuary he removed to Black Heath Henry Duke of Suffolk Father to Lady Iane flying into Leicestershire and Warwick-shire made Proclamation against the Queens marriage with the Prince of Spain but the people gave no regard to his words The first of February the commons of the City assembled in their Liveries at the Guild-Hall in London whether the Queen with her Lords came riding from Westminster and there after vehement words against Wiat declared that she meant no otherwise to marrie then the Counsel shall think both honourable and commodiously to the Realme and therefore willed them truly to assist her in oppressing them that contrary to their duties rebelled shee appointed Lord William Howard Lieutenant of the City and the Earl of Pembrook General of the field which both prepared all things necessary Wiat entred Southwark the third of February wherefore the draw bridge was broken down Ordnance bent to that part general pardon proclaimed to all that would give over and forsake the rebels After Wiat had lain three daies in Southwark he turned his journey to Kingson on Shroue-Tuesday in the morning being the sixth of February where he passed over the Thames and purposed to come to London in the night but by reason that the carriages of his chief Ordnance brake he could not come before it was fair day The same Shrove-Tuesday in the afternoone were two men hanged in Pauls Church-yard one of them was late Sheriff of Leicester the other a Baker On the morrow early in the morning the Earl of Pembrook and divers others were in Saint Iame's field with a great power and their Ordnance so bent that Wiat was forced to leave the common way and with a small company came under Saint Iame's wall to scape the Ordnance and so went by Chearing-Cross to the Bell-Savage nigh unto Ludgate without any ressistance in at the which gate he thought to have been received but perceiving that he was deceived of his purpose he fled back again and at Temble Bar was taken and brought by water to the Tower of London The tenth day of February the Duke of Suffolk which was taken in Leicester shire was brought to the City of London by the Earl of Huntington and one of his brethren with him and so had to the tower The twelfth of February Lady Iane and her husband Lord Gilford were beheaded The fourteenth of February about the number fifty of Wiats faction were hanged on twenty paire of Gallowes in divers parts about the City proclamation was made The seventeenth of February that all strangers should depart The twenty second of February certain of VViatt faction to the number of four hundred and more were lead to VVestminster coupled together with halters about their necks and their in the tilt yard the Queen who looked forth of her Gallery pardoned them The twenty fourth of February Henry Gray Duke of Suffolk was beheaded on the tower hill The eleventh of April Sir Thomas VViat was beheaded on the tower hill and after quartered his quarters were set up in divers places and his head on the Gallowes at Hay hill near Hide Park The twenty seventh of April Lord Tho. Gray was beheaded William Thomas Gentleman for conspiring the Queens death was hanged and quaâ—tered The tenth of Iune Doctor Pendleton preached at Pauls Cross at whom a gun was shot the bullet lighted on the Church wall but he that shot it could not be found The nineteenth of Iuly the Prince of Spain arrived at Southampton after he came to VVinchester and there going to Church was honourably received by the Bishop and a great number of Nobles on Saint Iames day the marriage was solemnized between him and Queen Mary shortly after they came to London where with great provision they were received of the Citizens the eighteenth of August The 26 of Octob. a Spaniard was hanged for killing an â—nglish-man The eighteenth of November great joy there was among the people with ringing of bells prayers for the Queen and thanksgiving in all churches for heâ— being with-childe which proved no such matter The 4 of Febr. Ioh. Rogers Vicar of St. Sepulc was bâ—â—nt in Smithfield On Easter day a Priest nâ—med VVilliam Slower with a wood knife wounded an other Priest as he was ministring the Sacrament to the people in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster for the which fact the said VVilliam on the twenty fourth of April had his right hand cut off and for opinions he held in matters of Religion was burned nigh unto Saint Margarets Church The tenth of May William Constable a millers son who had named himself to be King Edward the 6th was sent to the Marshalsea and the 22 of May he was carried about Westminster-Hall before the Judges whipped about the Palace and then through Westminster into Smithfield The first of Iuly Iohn Bradford was burned in Smithfield for Religion In the moneth of August a monstrous fish was brought to Lin of forty foot in length In October fell such abundance of rain thaâ— for the spâ—ce of six daies men might â—ow with Boats in Saint Georges fields water came into Westminster Hall half a yard deep The twenty sixth of October Doctor Ridley and Doctor Latimer were burned at Oxford for Religion William Constable who had caused letters to be cast abroad that King Edward was alive and to some shewed himself to be King Edward the thirteenth of March was drawn hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn Cardinal Pool the Sunday following was consecrated Arch-bishop of Canterbury The twenty eighth of March part of Newgate called Mannings Hall was burnt Certain persons purposed to have robbed the Queens Exchequer to the end they might be the better able to make war against her Udal Throgmorton Pecham Daniel and Stanton were apprehended and divers others fled The twenty eighth of April Throgmorton and Richard Udal was hang'd and quarter'd at Tyburn The nineteenth of May Stanton was likewise executed at Tyburn The eighth of Iune Rossey Detick and Bedell were executed at Tyburn The eleventh of Iune Sands a younger son of Lord Sands was hanged at Saint Thomas a Watrings for a robbery The twenty seventh of Iune thirteen persons were burnt at Stratford the Bow The eighth of Iuly Henry Peacham and Thomas Daniel were hanged and headed for conspiracy on Tower-hill
so that the same was blown over In the Country houses and barns were blown down and some far from the places whereon they had stood besides tâ—ees in great numbers toâ—n up by the roots At the Sea a great deal of harm was done at Southampton the Ships and Barks riding at anchor weâ—e driven a shore and sunk the like was never seen The fifth of March a maid was burned in Sâ—int Georges field without Southwark for poysoning her Mistress and other people This year 1589. Henry Duke of Guise and his Bâ—other the Cardinal Guise were both slain by the commandement of the French King Hen. the third This Duke was wonderfully beloved of the Clergy and of the Peers and Commons of France of the Conclave and many Forraign Princes the manner of his death was taken very grievously Within a while after the said King Henry of France was also slain by a Frier in revenge of the death of the two Brethren before named and the Frier himself was instantly slain by them that were about the King who slew him with the same envenomed knife wherewith he stab'd the King this Henry the third was the last of the House of Valois and presently upon his death Henry of Burbon King of Navarre laid just claim to the Crown but it was a long time e're he was setled by the help of Queen Elizabeth at length he enjoyed the Crown of France peaceably without any further molestation The next year following the great and antient City of Paris by their new King Henry the Fourth was besieged which City until the day of their visitation was a glorious and a flourishing City and the most populous City in all Europe until for their better defence they were constrained to pull down all their Suburbs and althoâ—gh the Siege lasted not above five moneths yet such was the extremity of famine amongst them as it may well be said to be greater then that of Samaria or Ierusalem for after they had eaten all their herbage and carrion and all manner of moist leather with whatsoever else they could get many of them did eat their own children and the children of others On Wednesday in Easter week by shooting off a gun in the town of Ulfringhamton in Staffordshire about the number of eighty houses were burned In the moneth of Ianuary one Nicholas a Perveyer for converting to his own use certain provision taken for her Majesty was hanged for example to others The sixteenth of Iuly Edmond Copinger and Henry Arrington Gentlemen came into Cheap and there in a Carre proclaimed news from heaven as they said to wit that one William Hacket Yeoman represented Christ by partaking his glorified body by his principal spirit and that they were two Prophets the one of Mercy the other of Judgement called and sent of God to help him in this great work these men were afterward apprehended the twentieth of Iuly Hacket was arraigned and found guilty as to have spoken divers most false and trayterous words against her Majesty to have raced and defaced her Armes as also her picture thrusting an iron instrument into that part that did represent the brest and heart for the which he had Judgement and upon the twenty eighth of Iuly brought from Newgate to a Gibbet in Cheap where being moved to ask God and the Queen forgiveness he fell to cursing and railing against the Queen he made a prayer against the Divine Majesty of God he was therefore hanged and quartered His immodest speeches at his arraignment and death utterly disgraced all his former seemed sanctity wherewith he had shrewdly possessed the common people The next day Edmond Copinger having wilfully abstained from meat died in Bridewell and Henry Arrington long after in the Compter submitting himself writ a book of repentance and was delivered On the twenty eighth of October Ben O Royrk a great man of Ireland was arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of High-Treason and on the third of November executed at Tyburn The tenth of December three Seminaries for being in this Realm contrary to the Statute and four other for relieving them were executed to wit Ironmonger a Seminary and Swithen Wells Gentleman in Grayes-Inne fields Blaston White Seminaries three others at Tyburn The fourteenth of Ianuary Captain Arnold Cosby an Irish man did forcibly set upon Iohn Lord Burk neer to the town of Wansworth in the County of Surry and there upon a malicious intent did wilfully murder him giving him one mortal wound with a Rapier by means whereof he fell down and after that the said Cosby with a Dagger gave unto the said Lord Burk twelve or more several wounds of the which mortal wound he died within two houres after for the which fact he was hanged on a Gibbet neer Wansworth on the twenty 7th of Ianuary The eighteenth of February Thomas Parmort was convicted of two several High-Treasons one for being a Seminary Priest and remaining in this Realm and the other for reconciling Iohn Barwis against the form of a Statute the said Barwis was likewise convicted of treason for being so reconciled and also of Felony for relieving the said Priest Thomas Parmort was executed in Pauls Church-yard on the twentieth of February The 27 of Febru Sir Iohn Parrot Knight was arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of Treason and had judgement but died in the Tower The fourth of May a Tilt-boat of Gravesend having in the same Boat about the number of forty persons was over-run by a Hoy so that the greatest part of them were drowned over against Greenwich the Court then being there the Queen beheld the mischance In the moneth of Iune a young man was hanged in Smithfield and a woman was burnt both for poysoning her husband a Goldsmith The fourth of September a woman was burnt in Smithfield for poysoning her husband The sixth of September the wind being in the West as it had been for the space of two daies before very boysterous the river of Thames was made void of water the wind forcing out the fresh and keeping back the Salt that men in divers places might go two hundred paces over and then fling a stone to the land A Collier on a Mare rode from the North side to the South and back again on either side London-Bridge but not without peril of drowning both wayes An. Reg. 35 A certain woman by the Councels appointment was whipped through the City of London for afferming her self to be the daughter of Phillip King of Spain as she had been perswaded by some accounted Soothsayers after proved liers for she was known to be a Butchers daughter in Eastcheap March the twenty first Henry Barrowe Gentleman and Iohn Greenwood Clark Daniel Studley Girdler Sapio Bislot Gentleman Robert Bowlet Fishmonger were indicted for fellony the said Barrow and Greenwood for righting certain seditious books tending to the ruine of the Queen and state Studley Billot and Bowley for publishing and setting forth of the same
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
in Art or Wealth or Industry to render it illustrious On Tuesday November 23. the Effigies with all the solemnity and Pageantry that could be was brought in a stately Charriot from Somerset house to Westminster Abby and that day and many weeks afterwards the people in great multitudes came to behold it and with their hats off did reverence to it in the same place where before the Alter stood in the Temple of God but this blind superstition had its period in the moneth of May following at the time of the restauration of the long Parliament who having taken away the power from the son might well pull down the image of his Father Not long afterwards his Highness was advised by his Counsel to choose a Parliament it being conceived to be the onely way to establish himself in the affections of the people Writs therefore were issued for a free Parliament which met on the seven and twentieth of Ianuary next enâ—â—ing where the death of the two speakers Mr. Chalonel Cruse a person of admirable knowledge and integrity and Mr. Lisâ—ehoâ—e Long Recorder of London weâ—e the forerunners of the short life of that Parliament and of the short government of the Protector himself In this Parliament the Lady Mary Hewyt sister to the Earl of Lindsey and the Relict of Doctor Iohn Hewyt not long before beheaded petitioned the grand Committee of the whole House for grievances against the High Court of Justice for taking away the life of her deer husband but some Members of the House of Parliament who were present at the reading of it did declare themselves to be concerned in it and alledged that it was the priviledge of a Member of Parliament not to be petitioned against any where nor to seek redress from any Court but from the Parliament it self the Petition therefore was returned from her to the Committee with that intimation After this and several other Petions of a high nature for unjustly apprehending and detaining men Prisoners in the Tower and for the bannishing and the selling of several Gentlemen to the Barbadoes for slaves for which Serjeant Maeynerd was ordered to bring in a Bill for prevention of the like Tyranny in the future the accounts of the Common-wealth was called for and a Committee being appointed to examine them it was found that in the last five years the Common-wealth was much in arrears and by the ill mannagement of those who were intrusted with the receipts and disbursements of the money they were run in debt no less than five and twenty hundred thousand pounds At the last some transactions in the Army being taken into consideration and it being voted that all Officers of the Army should repair to their several charges and that they should hold no meeting during the sitting of Parliament but by the consent oâ— the Protector and both Houses and that none should be in office but such onely as world subscribe not to interrupt either house of Parliament in their proceedings it wrought so much upon the spirits of some of the Commanders that not long afterwards the Parliament was dissolved and a period given to the Government of the Protectorship THE RESTAURATION Of the Long PARLIAMENT THe long Parliament being dissolved in the year 1653. by the Lord Oliver Cromwel were now encouraged by the Lord Fleetwood and many other of the Commanders to return to exercise of their former power and promised the uttermost assistance of the Army therein and accordingly on the seventh of May 1659. some forty of them or thereabouts did meet in the painted Chamber from whence having the Mace carried before them they passed into the house where a Declaration was passed that all such as shall be imployed in any place of power in the Common-wealth be persons fearing God and faithful to the Common-wealth After this they chose a Counsel of State consisting for the most part of their own Members There being at the same time many Members of the same Parliament in London and some of them in the Hall they endeavoured to go up into the House but were not permitted by the Souldery amongst these Members was Sir George Booth who being of a high spirit and discontented at it did speak some words very hastily which as rashly afterwards he did put in practise The Parliament removed Col. Berkstead from being Leiutenant of the Tower many Petitions and complaints being preferred against him and Col. Fitz was chosen to supply his place A pardon was pulished for the most part of whatsoever had been acted from the interruption of the Parliament in April 1659. until the new convention of them on the ninth of may 1659. In the Moneth of Iune Leiu General Fleetwood was made Commander in chief of all the forces in England and Scotland the Lord Henry Cromwel was removed from his command in Ireland and Commissioners were appointed to govern that Nation in his place The Militia of the City of London and of the respective countries were revived and the Commissioners for the Militia of the three Nations were signed and delivered by the Speaker of the Parliament and ordered so to continue In the month of Iuly there was a whisper throughout the Nation that now was the time for a free Parliament and for the taking off the Taxes from the shoulders of the oppressed whereupon there began to be a general insurrection almost all England over but it was quickly supposed by the vigilance and the industry of the County Troops The insurrection which was most great and dangerous was in the Northwest of England where in the Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire and parts adjoyning Sir George Booth had drawn together an Army of four thousand persons some of them both Commanders and others having been actually in the service of the King of Scotland and the King his Father against these the Lord Lambert marched with an Army consisting of about seven thousand horse and foot and having given them a great rout at Winnington bridge he totally dispersed them Sir George Booth was taken afterwards at Newport Pagnel being disguised in the habit of a Lady from whence being sent to London with a strong guard he was enâ—ounterd in the way by a party of Colonel Hackers Regiment who did conveigh him prisoner to the Tower of London where for the present he continueth having been oftentimes examined by Sir Arthur Hazelrige Sir Henry Vane and others A Proclamation was agreed upon that if Iohn Mordant Esquire Son to the Earl of Peterborough Major General Massy Charles Stuart Earl of Litchfield of the family of the Duke of Ritchmond Sir Thomas Leventhop Knight William Compton Son to the Earl of Northampton Thomas Fanshaw son to Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight and Major General Brown do not render themselves to the Parliament upon the seventeenth of September or to the Counsel of State they shall be accounted guilty of the treasonable crimes that are charged against which time is not expired at the ending of this History it being Thursday September 8. in the year 1659. To begin the year the Army submitted to the Parliament who sate again at Wewminster the nine Commanders whose Commissions were made void on the twelfth of Octob. were all commanded to depart to their houses most remote from London if otherwise they were found to stay there to be secured Sir Henry Vane was required to go to his house at Raby in the County of Durham and Major Salloway was committed prisoner to the Tower General Monck being on his march to London according to the desire of Parliament Mr. Scot and Mr. Luke Robinson were sent to congratulate him the Parliament conferred on him for his remarkable service a thousand pound a year and the Lord Mayor called a Common-Counsel where it was ordered that three of their Members should be sent unto him to acquaint him how sensible they were of the great service which he had performed for the good of the City and Common-wealth for which they were resolved at his coming to the City to give him some testimony of their gratitude On the eighteenth of this moneth the Parliament resolved upon Commissioners for the great seal and Judges of the several Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall as also of Judges for the Court of Admiralty and for the probate of Wills The City of Excester and Count of Devonshire have declared for the recelling of the Members that were secluded in the year 1648. which on wednesday last was delivered by Mr. Bamphield recorder of Excester to Mr. Speaker and it is informed that other Counties are adjoyning with them in a petition to the same effect The End