Sir Roger Martin Mercer son to Laurance Martine of Melford in Suffolke Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Roe Merchant-Taylor son to Robert Roe Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London who was son to Reiginald Roe of Lee in Kent lord maior one yeare Sir Alexander Auenand Iron-monger son to Robert Auenand of Kings-Norton in Worcestershire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Rowland Heyward Cloth-worker sonne to George Heiward of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord Maior one year Sir William Allen Mercer son to William Allen Cittizen and Pasteller of London who was son to Richard Allen of Stondon in Hertfordshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Lionell Ducket Mercer son to William Ducket of Flynton in Nottinghamshire Lorde maior one yeare Sir Iohn Riuers Grocer son to Richard Riuers of Penseherst in Kent L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Hawes Cloth-worker son to Thomas Hawes Cittizen and Merchant of London who was son to Iohn Hawes of Stokenwenton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Ambrose Nicholas Salter sonne to Iohn Nicholas of Nedingworth in Huntingdonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Langley Gold-Smith son to Robert Langley of Althrop in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Ramsey Grocer sonne to Iohn Ramsey of Elenbridge in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Pipe Draper sonne to Richard Pipe of Wolnerhampton in Staffordshire hée was frée of the Leather-sellers and from them translated to the Drapers Lord Maior one year Sir Nicholas Woodroue Haberdasher son to Dauid Woodroue Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was son to Iohn Woodroue of the Parish of Vscombe in Deuonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Branche Draper sonne to Iohn Branche Cittizen and Draper of London who was son to Iohn Branch of Laynham in Suffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Haruey Iron-monger son to William Haruey of Cotwalton in Staffordshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Blanke Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Blanke Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Thomas Blancke of Guildford in Surry Lord Maior one yeare Sir Edward Osborne Cloth-worker sonne to Richard Osborne of Ashford in Kent Lorde Maior one year Sir Thomas Pulloccill Draper son to William Pulloccill of Fotescray in Kent lord Maior one yeare Sir Wolstane Dixie Skinner son to Thomas Dixie of Catworth in Huntingdonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher son to Sir George Barne Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde Maior one yeare Sir George Bond Haberdasher sonne of R. Bond of Trull in Somersetshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martine Calthrop Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior for part of the yeare and Richard Martine Gold-smith for the rest Sir Iohn Hart Grocer son of Raphe Hart of Sproston Court in Yorkshire L. Maior one year Sir Iohn Allot Fish-Monger son to Richard Allot of Lymbergh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one part of the yeare and Sir Rowland Heywerd the rest Sir William Webbe Salter Sonne to Iohn Webbe of Reading in Barkshire lord Maior one yeare Sir William Roe Iron-monger Sonne to Thomas Roe of Penseherst in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Cutbbert Buckle Vintoner son to Christopher Buckle of Bourgh in Westmerland L. Maior for part of the yeare and sir Richard Martine Goldsmith the rest This sir Richard Martine was sonne to Thomas Martine of Saffron VValden in Essex Sir Iohn Spenser Cloth-worker son to Rich. Spenser of Waldinfield in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Slaney Skinner sonne to Iohn Slaney of Mitton in Staffordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Skinner Cloth-worker son to Iohn Skinner of Walden in Essex Lorde Maior for part of the yeare and sir Henry Billingsley Haberdasher the rest This sir Henrie Billingsley was sonne to William Billingsley Cittizen and Haberdasher of London who was sonne to Roger Billingsley of the Citty of Canterbury in Kent Sir Richard Saltonstall Skinner son to Gilbert Saltonstal of Hallyfax in Yorkeshire Lord Mayor one year Sir Stephen Soame Grocer son to Thomas Soame of Bradley in Suffolke Lord Maior one year He was frée of the Girdlers and from them translated to the Grocers Sir Nicholas Mosley Cloth-worker sonne to Edward Mosley of Hough in Lancashire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Ryder Haberdasher sonne to Thomas Ryder of Muckleston in Staffordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gerard Haberdasher son to sir William Gerard Knight Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lorde maior one yeare Sir Robert Lee Merchant-Taylor sonne to Humphrey Lee of Bridge-north in Shropshire Lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Benet Mercer sonne to Thomas Benet of Wallingford in Barkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Low Haberdasher son to Simon Low Cittizen and Merchant-Tailor of London who was sonne to Raphe Low of London Gentleman Lord Maior one yeare Sir Leonard Holyday Merchant-Taylor son to William Holyday of Redborow in Glocestershire Lord maior one yeare Sir Iohn Wats Cloth-worker sonne to Thomas Wats of Buntingford in Hertfordshire Lord maior one year Sir Henry Roe Mercer sonne to sir Thomas Roe Knight Cittizen and Merchant-Taylor of London Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Humphrey Welde Grocer son to Iohn Welde of Eaton in Cheshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Cambell Iron-Monger son to Robert Cambell of Fulsam in Norffolk Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Crauon Merchant-Taylor son to William Crauon of Appletreewick in Yorkshire Lord Maior now gouerning to whom with the rest of his worthy Brethren I wish all health and happinesse Since the time also of King Richard the third these Gentlemen haue born office in this Citty according to their names and places ¶ Recorders of this Citty M. HVmphrey Statkey Esquire M. Thomas Fitz-Williams Esquire Sir Robert Sheffield Knight M. Iohn Chaloner Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Shelley Esquire M. Baker Esquire M. Roger Cholmeley Esquire M. Richard Onslow Esquire M. Thomas Bromeley Esquire M. VVilliam Fleetwood Esquire M. Edward Coke Esquire M. Edward Drew Esquire M. Thomas Fleming Esquire M. Iohn Crooke Esquire Sir Henry Montague Knight Common Sergeants of this Citty M. Robert Moloneux Esquire M. Iohn Haugh Esquier Thomas Higham M. Thomas Frowick Esquire M. Thomas Marow Esquire M. Iohn Greene Esquire M. VVhite Esquire M. VValsingham Esquire M. VVonley Esquire M. Robert Sothwell Esquire M. Robert Brooke Esquire M. Atkins Esquire M. Marsh Esquire M. Randall Esquire M. Thomas Kirton Esquire M. Thomas Wilbraham Esquire M. Richard Wheeler Esquire ¶ Chamberlaines of this Citty M. WIlliam Phillip Esquire M. Miles Adys M. VVilliam Purhas M. William Milborne M. Nicholas Mattock M. George Medley M. Thomas Haies M. Iohn Sturgeon M. George Heaton M. Iohn Mabbe M. Robert Brandon M. Thomas Wilford M. Cornelius Fish ¶ Common-Clearkes or Towne-Clearkes M. WIlliam Dunthorne M. Nicholas Pakenham M. Walter Stub M. William Pauior M. Thomas Rushton M.
second of Sauona called Iuliano de Rouero sonne of Raphaell Brother to Pope Sixtus the fourth of Cardinall-Priest became Byshoppe of Alba afterward Byshop of Ostia and great Penitentiary vnder Maximilian Hee held the See nine yeares three moneths twelue dayes vacante seauenteen dayes The generall Councell of Laterane was then 226 Leo the tenth a Florentine called Iohn de Medicis sonne of Laurence Cardinall Deacon vnder Maximilian and Charles the fift He held the see eyght yeares eight months twenty one dayes vacante one month seauen daies 227 Adrian the sixt a natiue of Vtreicht in Galia-belgica sonne of Florent of Byshop of Ertusa was made Cardinall-Priest vnder Charles the fift to whom hee was Schole-mayster he held the see one yeare eight months sixe daies vacante two months foure daies 228 Clement the seauenth a Florentine called Iulius de Medicis Knight of Hierusalem nephew to Pope Leo the tenth elected Arch-Byshoppe of Florence Cardinall-Deacon afterward Priest Chancellour of the Church vnder Charles the fift he celebrated the ninth Iubilie in the yeare 1525. And helde the see ten yeares tenne monthes eyght dayes vacante sixteene daies 229 Paule the third called Alexander Farnese sonne of Peter Lewes Cardinall-deacon was afterward Byshoppe cardinall of Tusculanum Palaestrina Sabina Portua and Ostia and Deane of the cardinals vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand Hee held the see fifteene yeares nineteene daies vacante two months 29. daies The generall councell of Trent beganne Anno. 1525. 230 Iulius the third borne at Arezza called Iohn Maria de Monte sonne of Vincent Arch-Byshop of Sipontum cardinall-priest and afterward Byshop of Palaestrina vnder Charles and Ferdinand Hee celebrated the tenth Iubilie in the yeare 1550. and held the see fiue yeares one moneth sixteene dayes vacante seauenteene daies 231 Marcellus the second a Tuscane called Marcellus Ceruinus sonne of Richard of Byshoppe of Castello Nouo hee was made cardinall-priest vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand He held the See twenty two daies vacante seauenteene daies 232 Paule the fourth a Neapolitane called Iohn Peter Caraffa sonne of Iohn Alphonso Count of Mataluna of Archbyshop of Naples he became Cardinall Priest of Alba Sabina Tusculanum and Ostia and Deane of the cardinals vnder Charles the fift and Ferdinand he held the See foure yeares two Moneths seauen and twentie daies vacante foure monethes sixe dayes 233 Pius the fourth a Milainois called Iohn Angelo de Medicis sonne of Bernardino Cardinall Priest vnder Ferdinand and Maximilian the second he helde the Sée fiue yeares eleauen moneths eight daies vacante nine and twentie dayes In his time the counsel of Trent was concluded an 1563. 234 Pius the fift an Alexandrine Lombard of the preaching Fryers order called F. Michael Giller of byshop of Surrina and Nepesina became cardinall Priest Graund Inquisitour and byshop of Montrâ—all vnder Maximilianâ— Hee held the Sée six yeares three moneths sixteene dayes 235 Gregory the thirteenth a Bolonois called Hugo Bâ—n-compagnio son of Christopher Cardinall Priest vnder Maximilian the second and Rodolphus the second He celebrated theeleauenth Iubilee in anno 1575. and helde the See twelue yeares xi months xii daies vacante eleauen dayes 236 Sixtus the fift De la Marche d' Ancona cardinall de Montalto called F. Foelix Peret of the Friars Minors order cardinall Priest vnder Rodolphus the second Hee helde the Sée fiue yeares foure months xxi dayes vacante fouretéene daies 237 Vrbane the seauenth a Romaine called Iohn Baptista Castagnia Sonne of Cosimo cardinall of S. Marcellus vnder Rodolphus the second He helde the Sée fifteene dayes vacante two months 238 Gregory the fourteenth a Milanois called Nicholas Sfondratus cardinall of S. Cecilia vnder Rodolphus the second Hee helde the Sée ten monethes tenne dayes vacante fifteene dayes 239 Innocentius the ninth a Bolognois called Iohn Baptista Fachineti cardinall of SS quatuor vnder Rodolphus the second he helde thee Sée two months vacante two months 240 Clement the eight a Florentine called Hyppolito Aldobrandino Sonne of Syluester Auditor of Rota and Datary or Almoner to the Pope was made cardinall Priest of S. Pancratia and great Penetentiary He was sent Legat into Poland by Pope Sixtus the fift in the yeare 1592. Hee was elected Pope vnder Rodolphus the second and held the Sée thirteene yeares one moneth fiue dayes vntill the thirde of March 1605. and then died During his Pontificacie which deserueth to bee noted hee procured peace betweene the two Kings most Christian and catholicke and the Duke of Sauoy hee reduced Ferrara vnder obedience to the S. Sée and celebrated the twelft Iubilee in the yeare 1600. 241 Leo the xi a Florentine likewise called Alexander de Medicis Sonne vnto Octauian of the most famous house of the Medici of Byshoppe of Pistoya became Byshoppe of Florence and Ambassadour of Fraunces de Medicis great Duke of Tuscany vnto Pope Gregorie the thirteenth Hee was made Cardinall beeing entitled with Saint Quirice and Saint Iulita after of Saint Iohn and Saynt Paule and in the ende of Saint Praxedes Beeing sent Legate into Fraunce by Pope Clement the eyght Hee mediated the peace with the Spanyarde and returning to Rome hee was made chiefe of the Congregation of Byshoppes And the second of Aprill 1605. hee was created Pope But his Pontificate was of small continuance because he helde the See but seauen and twenty dayes onely and dyed the seauen and twenty day of the sayde moneth vnder the same Rodolphus the second 242 Paule the fifte a Romaine Originally descended from Sienna called Camillo Borghese who had beene Referendary vnto eyther Signature Vicar of the Patryarchall Churche of Saint Maria Maior Vice-Legate to Bolognia Generall Auditour of the Apostolique Chamber and Nuntio from the S. See into Spayne Hee was made Cardinall Priest of Saynt Eusebius in the yeare of our Lorde 1596. by Pope Clement the eight and afterward Byshoppe of Esino in the Marchia d'Ancona After the decease of Pope Leo the eleauenth Hee was elected in his place the sixteenth daye of May 1605. As yet to this present yeare 1611. Hee remayneth lyuing and hath held the Papacie the space of fiue yeares and somwhat more TO THE HOnourable Company of the Marchant Taylors being the Society of Saint Iohn Baptist ¶ A briefe Collection of the Originall and Progresse of the Knights of the worthy Order of S. Iohn of Ierusalem who were afterward called Knights of Rhodes and Knights of Malta Likewise their exployts in warre vnder the conduct of their Great Maysters from the yeare 1099. vntill this present With some as briefe report also of the Knightes Templers and all other Orders of knight hood thorough the world THe Militarie Order of S. Iohn of â—erusalem had her byrth and firste Originall in the holy Citty of Ierusalem and passed there her first yeares of Infancie with a great part of her adolescentie When as the Sarazins were Maisters of the holy Citty and of the
of a prize so signale and beneficiall to all christendome Pope Anastasius the fourth gaue and granted verie great priuiledges to the Order of these Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem the first day of Nouember in the same yeare exempting them from the iurisdiction and controule of the East Ecclesiasticall Prelates which was the cause of great troubles betwéene the Bishops of the country there and the knights of this order albeit the Pope and his Cardinals maintained them still stoutly Some haue held that this Great M. Raymond was a Florentine but the most credible opinion is that hee was a French-man a Natiue of Daulphine issued of a verie Noble house called du Puy whereof namelie â—acques Bosius the Italian who hath amplie written the historie of this order is an ingenuous witnesse Hee died in the yeare 1160. with this reputation that hee had bin a man of good and vertuous life fearing god valiant wise and aduised in the affaires of the world and one wel approued in warlicke exercises 3 After that Raymond was deceased there succéeded in the Maister-ship and gouernment of the Order F. Auger de Balben of whome there is found nothing deseruing memorie but that in his time died King Baldwin the third who was not onlie much bemoaned of the christians but likewise of the Infidelles who saide That the Christians had iust cause to lament for the death of Baldwine because they had lost a Prince that had not his equall in the world This Great-Maister Auger after he had gouerned his charge in peace and repose about thrée yeares died in the yeare 1163. 4 Arnold de Comps was next elected Mayster in his place who was a man of great spirite valour and councell And in short time after his election he entered into Egypt with Amaulrie the new King of Hierusalem who made warre vpon the Califfe of Egypt because he refused to continue and pay the anuall tribute wherein hée had bound himselfe to King Baldwine the third for a perpetuall payment to the Kinges of Hierusalem Arnold after he had with great wisedom and courage gouerned the Hospitall of S. Iohn about foure yeares died in the yeare 1167. and then succeeded him 5 Gilbert d'Assaly or de Sailly who was of stout mind and so liberall that hee flowed in bounty especially to his Souldiers so that he fel into great expences and wasted the whole treasure of the house Insomuch that hee was enforced to borrow Money at interest with conditiâ—ion that if he tooke from the Infidels the Citty of Belbeis anciently called Pelusium he should stand acquitted to his Brother-hood as indéed he did and victoriously performed his promise the third day of Nouember 1168. In which yeare he held a Chapter generall in Hierusalem where perceiuing that he was greatly indebted and had charged the Hospitall with more than an hundred thousand Crownes of méere debts beeing also much grieued that his attemptes found not equall Issue to his high desires hee determined to renounce his great Maistership which he did in the yeare 1169. 6 By his resignation or renunciation rather another Knight was chosen Great Maister named F. Gastus or Castus of whom there is nothing found that makes to any purpose of this our briefe History And the breuity of his time of gouernment was the cause by reason he was not a full yeare in the charge but dyed in the very same yeare of his election and had 7 F. Ioubert a very religious man for his successor who in the yeare 1176. ioyned himselfe with Phillip Earle of Flanders that was then come into Syria to assist King Baldwine the fourth against Saladine who had a very powerfull Army miraculously vanquished by the Christians that were but few in number in the moneth of Nouember 1177. at which time the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander the third were reconciled together At length Saladine with-drew himselfe from the Countrey of Damas in the year 1179. And then dyed Ioubert Maister of the Hospitallers a man very charytable to the poore and sickly It is saide that méere conceite of griefe to behold so manyfestly the ruine of christian affaires in Syria with the shamefull and damageable truce made betwéene the King of Ierusalem and the Earle of Tripoli by his example with Saladine was the onely cause of abridging his dayes hauing gouerned the Order of Saint Iohn about tenne yeares 8 In his stead was elected Roger de Molins a man of high discretion and courage In his time happened a great dissention betwéene the Prince of Antioche and the Patriarch of the said place and this Roger was chosen to be mediator of peace and agréement betwéene them which followed in the yeare 1181. This Roger with Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem and Arnald de Trogo Master of the Knights Templers was sent by the King of Hierusalem in quality of an Ambassador into the West to require ayde of the Christian Princes These Ambassadours were kindly entertained by the Emperour King Phillip Augustus Gods gift sirnamed the Conquerour the Kings of Sicily England and Hungary they returned back againe into Syria all but the Maister of the Templers who dyed by the way In the yeare 1187. the Earle of Tripoli being leagued and confederated with Saladine graunted him passage and reléeued his Army with victuals And Saladine hauing besiedged the citty of Ptolomais the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers ioyning together disordered the whole Army and Roger the great Mayster fighting valiantlie there dyed with the fall of his Horse vpon him and smothered in his Armour as also being much troden on with the enemies Horses His body being afterward found among the dead was buried with great woe and sorrow And notwithstanding this losse of the great Maister yet the Knights of Saint Iohn and the Templers won the day of battaile against the Turkes and Sarrazins of whom died then in the field about fiftéen thousand the first day of May in the yeare 1187 After whom 9 F. Garnier of Naples in Syria which was the ancient cittie of Sichem in Canaan was elected great Maister In his time was a bloudy battaile fought betwéene the Christians and Infidels wherein the King of Hierusalem named Guy de Lusignan was taken Prisoner with the very chiefe Lordes of his Kingdome It is said also that the Christians had then the true Crosse in the battell but it was taken from them by the Infidels and almost all the Knightes of Hierusalem and the Templers were one part slaine in the battaile and the rest beheaded in cold bloud F. Garnier after he had fought verie manfully yet being mortally wounded in many places of his body by the goodnesse and swiftnes of his Horse escaped into the Citty of Ascalon where ten daies after hee departed into a better life the fouretéenth of Iuly hauing béene great Maister but two months and sixe daies 10 The twenty day of the saide moneth of Iuly 1187. the Knights
that were in Ierusalem chose F. Ermingard d'Aps to bee their Mayster The second day of October in the same yeare the Citty of Hierusalem was submitted to the power of Saladine 88. yeares two months and seauentéene daies after that it was deliuered by Godfrey of Bullen from the handes of the Infidels Frederick the first sirnamed Barbarossa then holding the Empire of the West and Isaac the Angell that of the East at Constantinople Vrbane the third beeing Pope of Rome and Phillip the second called Augustus Gods Gift and Conquerour raigning in Fraunce Then were expulsed out of Hierusalem the Knightes Hospitallers Templers and al the Latine Christians of which Christians the Hospitallers redéemed from captiuity of the barbarous to the number of two thousand with their Money All the Churches of the cittie were then polluted and prophaned except the Temple of the Resurrection which was bought with a great summe of Money by the Christians of the East After the losse of Hierusalem the Knights Hospitalers were continually in Armes faithfully assisting the Christian Princes that had put on Crosses for the recouery of the holy Land and did actions of high desert at the siedge of Ptolomais which after a long siedge of thrée yeares was regayned from the Infidels by the Christians the twelft day of Iuly 1191. And in that Citty the Knights of Saint Iohn kept then their ordinary aboad and residence And in the verie same yeare the Christians wonne a notable victorie against the Barbarians and Saladine theyr chiefe wherein they were worthily assisted by the knightes Hospitallers and Templers The yeare following beeing 1192. in Winter dyed Ermingard d'Aps the great maister in the cittie of Ptolomais and then was chosen in his place 11 Geoffrey de Duisson In his time there was truce taken for fiue yeares betwéene the Christians that were in the holy Land and Saladine by which meanes many Lords and Gentlemen of diuers Nations who had worne the Crosse and gotten great store of goodes and possessions returned home to their Countries and gaue their goods to the Brotherhood of saint Iohn which greatly did augment their renennewes And after the death of Henry Earle of Champaigne the Hospitallers and Templers remayned gouernours and administrators of the kingdome of Hierusalem howbeit that by the fewer number of Christians there abiding election was made of Amaury de Lusignan who had succéeded the king of Ierusalem in the kingdome of Cyprus with consent of the Patriarch the Prelats and Barons of the Realme in the yeare 1194. when soone after died Duisson the Great-Maister and then succéeded him by election 12 F. Alphonso of Portugall a knight of the Order of Saint Iohn and of the Royall house of Portugall though it dooth not appeare certainely to what king he was Sonne He made very worthy and commendable statutes whereof to this day there are some inuiolably kept But because he was of too stiffe nature ouer-rough surely and seuere hee encurred the hatred of the greater part of the Knights Hospitallers Which was the cause that hee renounced his Maistershippe and shipt himselfe for returne home to Portugall in the same yeare of his election But he dyed the first day of March in the yeare 1207. 13 The same yeare that Alphonso renounced the Great Maistershippe to wit in the yeare 1194. Geoffrey le Rat who was Graund-Pryour of Fraunce was chosen Mayster And Saladine then dying his Sonne Noradine Lord of Alepo succéeding him About this time Simon Earle of Montfort was sent by King Phillip Augustus with an Army into Syria where finding much disorder he tooke truce for tenne yeares with the Infidels in the yeare 1198. In the time of this tranquile estate there chanced a great difference betwéene the Knights Hospitallers and Templers grounded on this occasion The Hospitallers complayned that the Templers had enterprised too farre vppon their iurisdiction with much contempt and violation thereof Which quarrell after manie rough encounters and skirmishes was appeased accorded by the interposition of king Amaury the Patriarches of Antioch and Hierusalem and other Princes and Christian Prelats who comprimitted this difference in the name of Innocentius the third which fell out very successiuely For after that God the onely Staffe and stay of all affaires in the holy Land had permitted this friendly vnity betwéen these two millitary Orders of Knight-hood King Amaury of Lusignan so preuailed that the Great Mayster and Knights of Saint Iohn might liue with him in the Isle of Cyprus where hee graunted the gouernment of the Kingdome to them In the yeare 1205. King Amaury dyed so did Quéene Isabell who appointed her Daughter Mary which she had by Conrade of Monferrat to be her heire and he left her to be tutoured and guided by the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers In the yeare 1260. Geoffrey le Rat the Great Mayster dyed and then succéeded him 14 Guerin de Montagu of the language of Auuergne who with the Knights of his order ayded Lyuon King of Armenia against the Turkes and Barbarians that had intruded into his Kingdome In recompence whereof he gaue them the citty of Salef with the castles of Camard and new castle and their dependances Hee likewise recommended his heire and Kingdome to the Knightes of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn which guift was confirmed by the Pope the fift of August 1209. Then were Iohn de Brienna and Mary his Wife Heire to the Kingdome crowned King and Quéene of Hierusalem At length in the yeare 1230. Guerin the great Maister died in the citty of Ptolomais and during his tyme all the Christians affaires in the holy Land depended very much vppon the Knightes Hospitalers and Templers who albeit they had many contentions betwéen them yet did they still agrée together in all matters against the Infidels After him succeeded 15 One F. Gerin of whom no other name is found remembred Richard Duke of Cornewal and Brother to Henrie then King of England arryued soone after in Palestine with an Army of forty thousand men and did many worthy actions there The great Maister also and his knights with him bearing him company fought valiauntly against the Corasmine Infidelles There the saide Mayster was taken and sent as a Prisoner to the Soldane of Egypt where he died and in his place the Knights of S. Iohn elected in the citty of Ptolomais for their great Maister 19 Bertrand de Comps in the time of Pope Innocent the fourth and when the Generall Counsell was called at Lyons 1245. This great Maister was present in a furious battaile fought against the Turcomans that wasted all the country about Antioch in the month of August 1248 where hauing receiud sundry deadly wounds he ended his daies And in the Citty of Ptolomais on the 24. of Aug. was elected as Great maister 17. Peter de Villebride In his time Lewes K. of France called S. Lewes tooke on him the crosse against the Infidels with
many Princes Prelates of France who went and besieged Damieta where they were ayded by the knightes hospitallers Templers and the City was soon after surrendred to K. Lewes in the yeare 1250. Then did the Soldan of Egypt giue battel to the christians wherein King Lewes with his brethren Charles and Alphonsus the King of Cyprus as also the Great maister many knights of the hospitalers Templers were all taken prisoners Whych surprizall caused an attonement betwéene King Lewes and the Soldane the hospitall Knights lent mony to King Lewes to pay his ransom In the year 1251. Villebride the great maister dyed in the City of Ptolomais succéeded by election 18 Guillaum de Chasteau-neuf or de Castelno of the spéech of Auuergne He was a great obseruer of Iustice pope Alexander 4. gaue to the knights hospitallers the castle lands of Bethania in the yeare 1256. In his time the Christians lost their vtmost hope of any succour from the Princes of Europe and in the yeare 1280. the Great Maister of Castelno died when as the Hospitall Knights of S. Iohn elected in his sted 19 Hugues Reuelle or Reuel in the tyme of Pope Vrban the fourth who gaue to the knights of S. Iohn Mont-Tabor 1261. and in Anno 1262. they bought the Castle of Assur but in the following two yeares they tooke from the Sarazins a Castle named Lilion whereuppon the Soldan of Egypt concluded to worke the ruin of the Knights Hospitallers and as an instance he forcibly tooke from the saide Knights in the year 1265. the Castle of Assur at the surprizal wherof there were slaine to the number of 90. knights of S. Iohn which greatly abated their power and repute And in the yeare 1267. the Knights hospitallers and Temples were assailed and much confused in battaile by the Sarazins néere to the City of Ptolomais for they wasted and spoiled al the countrey thereabout In the yeare also 1270 the Knights of S. Iohn lost the Castle of Cracquo which was assaulted by the Soldane and all the knights within it were put to the sword It is likewise saide that this Great Master Reuel assisted King Lewes in the voyage to Tunis where the said King died of the plague and that in the ende about the yeare 1278. the Great Maister Reuel ended his daies hauing helde fiue Chapters or assemblies of the Brother-hoode of S. Iohn wherein manie notable Statutes were made for gouernement and reformation of the Order 20 After his decease Nicholas Lorgus was chosen Great Maister who not to swerue a iot from his predecessor wel knowing that nothing sooner procureth the ruine of Common-weales Comminalties then discord and dissention tooke such paines to reconcile the Knights hospitallers with the Templers that he drew them to accord and made them good friends In the yeare 1282 the Knights of S. Iohn woon a famous victorie against the Sarazins who proudely came to besiedge the Castle of Margate their very principal Fortresse which was very manfully defended by the Hospitallers and in the ende quitted at composition by the knights who returned with their Ensignes displayed to the Citty of Ptolomais And in the yeare 1288. Lorgus the Great Maister died with very griefe because hee saw the Christian affaires in the Holy land dailie to fall from il to worse without any means or hope of remedy 21 In the same yeare Iohn de Villiers a Frenchman borne was created Great Maister of the Order In his time the Citty of Tâ—ipoly was taken from the Christians by the Infidels as in like manner were the citties of Sidonia Baâ—uth in the yeare 1289. all which were ransacked ruined and burned and the citty of Tyre brought vnder the Soldanes subiection whereon the christians of Ptolomais were gladde to séeke their owne peace During which time the Great Maister went to Brundusium with the Great Maister of the Templers to sollicite the christian Princes of the Croisade and the Soldane came to assaile the citty of Ptolomais which was vertuously defended by the Knights of the Hospitall and Temple with many braue sallies forth vpon the besiedgers Especially the Great Maister Villiers who was sore wounded with long sustaining the whol charges of the Barbarian Infidels the Knights Barricadoing themselues in a quarter of the Citty which yet was afterward taken on Friday the 18. of May the same yeare 1292. With this great losse the Christians were driuen out of the holy land 191. years ten months thrée daies after it had bin Conquered by Godfrey of Bullen The Great M. with the rest of his Knightes fled for safety to the Isle of Cyprus where they were very kindly entertained by the K. of the Island who assigned to theÌ„ the Templers the Citty of Limosson which was a Port Towne or Hauen on the Sea There did they inhabite and there did the Great Maister assemble two generall Chapters one in December 129â— and the other in October 1293. making therein dyuers good Statutes for the Order and in the yeare 12â—â— he dyed at Limosson then succéeded him 22 F. Odo des Pins borne in Prouence in the time of Pope Boniface the eyght He incurred the hatred and disgrace of the knightes of his Order by reason of his negligence and couetousnesse And there was a purposed determination to depriue him of his Great maistershippe but it was impeached by the Pope to auoide scandall and at length he was cited to appeare at Rome in person to answere to the complaintes of the Hospitallers and thitherward he trauailed But before he could sée Italy he dyed by the way in the year 1296. hauing in the precedent yeares held two generall Chapters at Limosson Hee caried also along with him a manuscript Chronicle wherein hee had appealed certaine letters of the Popes containing excommunication whereby he pursued and reléeued his owne appeale 23 The Knights hearing the death of theyr Great Maisters des Pins elected at Limosson the twenty foure day of March 1296. F. Guillaume de Villaret to succéed him who was of the same Countrey of Prouence and Prior of S. Gilles where he was at the time of his election But hauing intelligence thereof he trauailed immediatly to the Kingdome of Cyprus and gouerned in his charge very prudently In his time Vsau Cassanus King of the Tartares became a Christian and recouered the Citty of Ierusalem where hee placed the Knightes Hospitallers and Templers in Garrison in the yeare 1300. Hée tooke the Citty of Damas likewise but it was quickly regained by the Infidels and the Hospitallers and Templers returned then to Cyprus againe where the Great Maister departed out of this life in the yeare 1308. hauing helde fiue generall Chapters at Limosson and séene the vtter ruine of the Knights Templers 24 The great Maister being dead Folquet de Villaret of the same Nation of Prouence was elected in his roome He was a man of liuely spirit and great courage and
stained this faire fame with crueltie vsed by him to his owne mother for after her second marriage he caused her to be imprisoned albeit the Pope labored the matter greatly by his Legate yet could hee neuer compasse her deliuerance Which sin was seuerely punished on him by his enemies who afterward tooke him in battell And then his son Sanctio succéeded him and after Sanctio diuers other to Iohn who was the tenth King in direct and natural line This Iohn was at the first expulsed from his Kingdome and made a Knight of S. Iohn of Ierusalem but at length he was re-called to his kingdome where he made very honorable proofe of his valour and among diuers famous déeds he tooke from the Sarrazins the Citty of Septia Hee had seauen Sonnes among which Ferdinand for intergrity of life was tearmed a Saint Henry another of his Sons was the first that found Noua Insula in the Athlantike Sea He being very skilful in the Mathematicks liued continually without a Wife and made his daily abiding in a Promontory which was called the Cape of S. Vincent and there he died in the yeare 1460. But Edward who was the eldest brother was made King and by warres he adioyned to the kingdome of Portugall Zelia Tigea and Alcazar in Affrica He had two Daughters or Sisters as some say named Ioane and Leonora the first was married to the king of Castille and the other to Frederick the third Emperor of whom was borne Maximilian the first who was afterward Emperor and Grandfather to Charles the fift He had also a Son named Alphonsus who succéeded him in the Kingdome and begate Iohn Emanuel who was 14. king of Portugal Emanuel had Iohn who took to wife the sister of Charls 5. Emperor called Katherine Lodwick died an infant but Isabel was wife to the said Charles he had another daughter that was maried to Charls D. of Sauoy After him succéeded Sebastian who in our time fighting with the Moors was slain and the king of Marocco with diuers other great Lords of the Moores Henry Vnckle to the deceased king followed him in succession he being then a Cardinal very aged holding the kingdom but some few months But he dying Phillip king of Spain entred on the kingdom resisting the claime of Don Anthonio beeing a Brothers-son of the dead King Henry and so out-wearied him that hée could neuer attaine thereto in full possession So it remaineth still vnder the Spanish gouernment ¶ The Kingdome of Italy COncerning the Kingdome of Italy the antiquity thereof when at first it was called Ianicula of Ianus Camesena of Cameses Saturnia of Saturnus Hesperia of Hesper and Italia of Italus with all the Kinges there raigning till the Latines and those likewise that descended of Eneas to the time of Romulus with the History both of olde Rome and Rome as it now is it remaineth to our generall History Onely we will say somewhat of the Originall of Venice moued thereto by iust occasion A breefe discourse of the Originall of the Venetians the foundation of Venice and how it hath beene gouerned from the year of our saluation 421. to thiâ— instant To the ancient Right Worshipfull and worthy Society of the Gold-Smiths HIstoriographers who haue written of the Venetians doe not agrée together in theyr true Originall For some doe write that they are descended of the Venetian Gaules inhabiting along the Ocean Sea in little Britaigne called Armorica whereof one of the principall Citties béeing a Bishops Sée was called Vennes Others and among them Titus Liuius borne in Padua assures vs that they came forth of Paphlagonia and that Philemon their Captaine being slaine at Troy the great they went with Antenor into Italy Others write that this Nation hauing béene Neighbours to the Cappadocians and venturing fight with the Cimmerians they hazzarded further vpon the Adriatick Sea in their Fortune The most common opinion is of them who say that the Hinitians or Henetes came with Antenor and in sometime after by changing of a letter were called Venitians or Venetes First of all they expelled the Euganeans who inhabited this Countrey betwéene the Adriatick Sea and the Alpes and builded the Cittie of Padua Afterward by successe of time they increased in such sort as they would not be satisfied to bee Maisters onely of that which had appertained to the Euganeans consisting of thirtie foure faire Citties and Townes but intruded farther to seaze on Bressano and Forli Some report this Countrey to be bounded with the Riuers of Pau and that of Adde as also the Lake of Guard aunciently called the Benack the Alpes and the Adriatick Sea And so the auncient Venetians in this manner extended their Dominion both in longitude and latitude in the most pleasant Countrey of Italy but the seating of the places did daily beget the elder estate of the Venitians hatred For on the one side the ordinary robberies of the Liburnians and on the other side the frequent and frightful courses of the Barbarians did hinder them froÌ„ any long time of continuing in quiet For without these impeachments this Nation had béene most fortunate in conquering by the right of Warre one of the most goodly and beautifull Regions in all Italie Nowe ouer and beside that on the South-side it is enuironed with a most calme circuite of the Sea and in regard thereof is the more capable of receiuing all strange Merchandizes So is it likewise wattered with very delectable Riuers whereby whatsoeuer commeth from the Sea is easilie transported to the very Nauell of the Prouince It aboundeth in Pooles Pondes Forrests and vnder-woodes and the whole Land is choicelie fertile in Corne Wine Oyle and all kindes of Fruites It is also plentifully stored with Countrey Houses Townes Citties and Villages Castles Fortes and such like very commendable for the scituation and enclosure of their Wals. These nâ—w Inhabitants when their weake estate beganne to growe in fairer forme they were seldome exempted from the Warres and incursions of Straungers For after manie bolde insolencies of the Barbarians with continued Warres against each other euen from their very beginning vntill the time of Attila they were yet much more dreadfully encombered with the furious assault of the Gothes a teÌ„mpest farre excéeding in turbulencie all other former disasters happening to them whatsoeuer For first the Hunnes a people of Scythia dwelling néere to the Riphean Mountaines conducted by Attila the Sonne of Mandluck dispersed themselues ouer Italie and making horrible spoyle wheresoeuer they went fell into the Prouince belonging to the Vinitians After a long siedge they tooke the Cittie of Aquileia and spoyled and burnt it wholly In like manner did they ruinate the Citties of Concordia and Altina and almost all the Venitian Region At the fearefull newes of this Warre the Venitians were more amazed then any other and so much the rather because they had béene formerly invred to sustaine their
Citties ancient liberties confirmed by Charter againe and so they proceeded on to their wonted election of a lord Maior and Sheriffes as before and Sir Hugh Fitz Othon was discharged of his office Iohn Adrian Vintoner was Lorde Maior of London two yeares Sir Walter Haruey Lord Maior and H. Frowike Pepperer likewise for part of that yeare wherein began the raigne of King Edward the first the 16. of Nouember 1272. Sir Walter Haruey Lorde Maior againe for one yeare Henry Walleis Lord Maior for one yeare Gregory Roksley Golde-Smith chiefe Say Maister of all the Kinges Mints thorough England and kéeper of the Kings Exchange at London was Lord Maior seâ—uen yeares together Henry Walleis who builded the Tonne vpon Cornhill to be a Prison and the Stockes to be a Market-house was Lorde Maior againe three yeares together Gregory Roksley being chosen Lord Maior againe King Edward was informed that the said Gregory Roksley tooke bribes of the Bakers and suffered them to sell bread that wanted sixe or seauen ounces of weight in a Pennie-loafe yet Wheat was then sold at London for 12. 16 pence the quarter VpoÌ„ which information the K. seized the Franchises and liberties into his own handes appointing first one Iohn Sandwich to be Custos thereof for one part of the yeare and Sir Iohn Breton Knight for the other part Thus did the Cittie of London continue vnder the gouernment of seuerall Men bearing the names of Custos till King Edward the second began his raigne which was the seauenth day of Iuly 1307. Sir Iohn Blunt Knight hauing béene Custos of the Cittie for the space of sixe yeares before was now in the first yeare of King Edward the second Lord Maior for one yeare Nicholas Faringdon or Farendon Golde-smith of whom the Ward of Faringdon both within and without tooke name was L. Maior for one yeare Thomas Romaine Lord Maior one yeare Richard Reffam Mercer Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lord Maior two yeares Nicholas Faringdon Gold-Smith againe Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe L. Maior one yeare Stephen Abendon Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Wingraue Lorde Maior thrée yeares In his time happened such cheapnesse of Corne that a Bushell of Wheate which had béene sold formerly for ten shillings was then solde for ten pence Hamond Chickwell Pepperer Lorde Mayor one yeare Nicholas Faringdon again Lord Maior one years Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeare Nicholas Faringdon Gold-smith againe L. Maior one yeare Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Mayor two yeares Richard Britaine Gold-smith Lorde Mayor one yeare In whose time King Edward the third began his raigne the 25 day of Ianuary 1326. who graunted the Lord Maior to bee Iustice for the Gaole deliuery at New-gate and the Cittizens of London not to goe by any constraint to any Warre out of the Citty of London Beside that the Franchises and liberties of the Citty should not thence-forward for any cause bée seized into the Kinges handes Nor â—ny Eschetor to bee in the Citty but the Lorde Maior for the time being Hamond Chickwell Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Grantham Lord Maior one yeare Richard Swandland Lord Maior one yeare In whose time the King kept a great Iusting in Cheape betwéene Sopaâ—s-lane and the great Crosse Sir Iohn Poultney Draper Lord Maior two yeares Iohn Preston Draper Lord Maior one year Sir Iohn Poultney Draper againe L. Maior one yeare Reginald at the Conduit Vintoner L. Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotten Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Poultney Draper again Lord Maior one yeare He founded a Colledge in the parish Church of Saint Laurance Poultney by Candlewick-streete Henry Darcy Lord Maior two yeares In whose time the Sergeants to the Lorde Mayor and Sheriffes of London were graunted by the King to beate Maces of Siluer and Guilt with the Kings armes on them Andrew Aubery Grocer L. Maior two years Iohn of Oxenford Vintoner Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer L. Maior one yeare Iohn Hamond Lorde Mayor two yeares Richard Leget Lord Maior one yeare Geffrey Witchingham L. Maior one yeare Tho. Leggy Skinner Lord Maior one year Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Walter Turk Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Richard Killingbury Lord Maior one yeare Andrew Aubery Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer who with Henry Frowike founded the Colledge in Guild-hall Chappell and was againe Lord Maior two yeares Thomas Leggy Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare Simon Francis Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare Henry Prichard or Piccard Vintoner who in one day feasted the kings of England France Scots and Cypres at his own house and was L. Maior one yeare Iohn Stody Vintoner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior one yeare Simon Dolesby Grocer Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Wroth Fish-Monger Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Peche Fish-Monger Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Gondish Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Not Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam of Burie Skinner Lorde Mayor one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Maior and Adam of Bury one yeare Iohn Louekin Fish-Monger againe Lorde Mayor one yeare This Iohn Louekin builded Saint Michaels Church in crooked-lane Iames Andrew Draper Lorde Mayor one yeare Simon Mordon Fish-monger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Chichester Gold-smith Lord Mayor one yeare Iohn Barnes Mercer Lorde Mayor two yeares Iohn Piell Mercer Lord Mayor one yeare Adam of Bury Skinner againe Lord Maior one yeare William Walworth Fish-Monger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn VVarde Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Adam Staple Mercer Lord Maior one yeare His time no sooner expired but therewith ended the life of King Edward the third and on the 21. of Iune 1377. began the raign of King Richard the second Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Philpot Grocer Lord Maior one year Iohn Hadley Grocer Lord Maior one year Wil. Walworth Fish-Monger againe Lord Maior In this yeare of his Mairalty happened the tumultuous rebellion of Iack Straw Wat Tiler Iack Carter Iack Truman c. with the commons of Kent Essex and other places But William Walworth being then Lord Maior arrested the Traytor Iack Straw so stoutly with his Weapon on the head euen as he saucily took the Kings Horse by the bridle in Smithfielde that thrusting him afterward through the throat the whole crewe were dishartened and séeing theyr Captaine slaine betooke themselues to flight For which worthy act the King immediatly knighted the Lorde Maior William Walworth and with him Ralphe Standish Iohn Philpot Nicholas Brember Iohn Launde and Nicholas Twifield
1522. 1523. 1534 1550 1555 1555 1559 1566 1572 1585 1590 1590 1590 1592 1605 1605 1099 1099 1113. 1118 The beginning of the Knightes Templers Knightes Hoâ—pitallers of the Hospitall of S. Iohn in Ierusalem became afterward to be Knights of the Rhodes lastly Knights of Malta 1131. 1139. 1160 1163 1167. 1169 1169. 1179. 1187 1187 1191 1192 â—194 1194 1198 1205 1260 1230 1240 This is mistaken for this was K. Richard the first himselfe 1345 1248 1251 1260 1265 1278 1288 1294 1296 1308 The beginning of the Knights of the Rhodes who helde their first name of S. Iohns Knights stil 1317 1327. 1346 1353 1355 1365 1373. 1376 1395. 1321. This Anthony de Riuers was sent for to Rhodes he being then chiefe Commander of the Brotherhood at S. Iohns of Ierusalem in Saint Iohns street 1437. 1342 1461. 1467. 1476 1503. 1512 1513. 1521 The losse of Rhodes to the great gâ—eefâ— of al Christendome The knightes of Saint Iohn becam Knightes of Malta 1534 1535 1536. 1558 1561. A new Citty builte at Malta on S. Elemes Mount 1568 1572 1582 1595. 1601 Ecclesiasticall orders 1070 1099 1308. 1523. 1117. 1310 1130 1150 1212 11â—0 1219 1320 12â—â— 1048 The Secular Orders 1349 1350 1367 1409 1429. 1469 1561. 1578 Sabellic lib. 8. de Suplem Chron. The power of Prester-Ian His souldiâ—â—s Armour foâ— tâ—â—ir defence The exercise of the King Ptete-Ian His dyet manner of life The attendance and seruice of the Emperor The wiues of the Emperor The Originall of the Ceremony The Emperors Crown Scepter and habit The Emperors tribute by his Kings Tributes in generall of his people The onely glories of Prete-Ian his Ethyopians Whence the Ethyopians de deriue their antiquity The chiefe Citty of Persia The gouernment of the great Sophy Fishing for Pearles Of the Persian gouernment and nature of the people The ancient name of Tunis Cairoan a new Citty builded Cairoan destroyed by the Arabes Tunis gouerned by the Kinges of Marocco Tunis besiedged by the Arabes Tunis deliuered froÌ„ the Arabes The declyning of the kingdome of Marocco rising of that of Fez. The King of Tunis King of Affrica A strange election of the duke of Moscouia Concerning the Countrey Men for the Warre Their drink and Corne. Their money Their Religion The Princes Court Learned men amoÌ„g them His daily warres The K. of Muscouâ—aes Tules He is tributary to the King of the Tartars Of the maner and scituation of Polonia The firste Rulers of Poland Vayuodes called Paladines Gracchus the firste Prince of Poland Paladines chosen againe A King created againe Gracouia forsaken by the King Piastus refused the name of K calling him selfe Duke of Poland The discent of the kings of Poland Henry heire of France King of Poland Strange nations weakned the Roman Empire The originall of the Gothes More people then the Countrey can feede The Goths wander to seeke a new dwelling The Goths raigne in Italy and Spaine The reason of the Gothes continuance Of the Ostrogoths Westrogoths Wisigoths The errour of some young Cosmographer Of the Vandales The errour of Procopius The trauels of the Vandales into diuers couÌ„tries The Huns of Scythia and theyr trauailes Attila King of the Huns Attila his losse in France Of the Lombardes and whence they descended A very seuere Edict Istria in Italy conquered and new named Lombardy The Normans issued from Norduegia Suesses cam out of Sweuia They goe among the Heluetians Their pouertie among the Heluetians Of the Allemaignes whence they were deriued The true Alemaigns of Suaba Alaines what people they were and whence they came Of the Gepides or Girpedes The Originall of the Picts and their comming into the Isle of Orkeney The first k. of the Picts Kenneth K. of Scots desolateth Pictland Of the Getes Of the Bourguignons Of their first name A faire vniuersitie in Bourgougn Of the kingdome of Naples Robert Guiscard the valiant Norman The Scicilian euening Hen. count of Lorraine The first K. of Portugal The King of Portugal a Knight of S. Iohn of Ierusalem The succession of the Kinges of Portugall People of Paphlagonia People by the inner gulfe of the Adriatick Sea towardes the Alpes Liburnia the Countrey of Croaua between Istria Dalmatia The scituation of Venice and capacitie thereof Mountains in the north part of Scythia where snow lieth continually An ancient citty in that part of Italy called Forum Iâ—lij The first foundation of Venice Litle IslaÌ„ds in the Sea and neere adioining The prime estate of the place wher Venice now standeth The first builders of Venice at what time Theyr first buildings destroyed by fire The first Church built in Venice Noble and rich men the first fouÌ„ders of Venice The first Goldsmiths knowne in Europe were in Venice Care of Iustice and common good Loue of religion in especial respect Aristocratia optimatum principatus The Gouernment of Consuls and who were the first in Venice The creation of Tribunes and what they were Election of a Duke among the Venetians Who was the first D. of Venice Spaine deuided at first into six Prouinces viz. 1. Terracon 2. Carthage 3. Lusâ—tania 4. Gallacia 5. Boetia 6. Tingintaua 433. The Moors in possession of all Spaine The Kingdomes of Nauarre Arragon Portugall conquered from the Moores 1492 The beginning of the kingdom of Spaine and deâ—cent of their kings 1516. 1555 1598 Of Germany and the Princes Electors Three Ecclesiastiks and three Layickes with addition of a fourth the K. of Bohemia The errour of Writers about the names originall Francus or Frencion the son of Hector Sicambra the Daughter of King Priam. Cimmerians Cimbrians Sicambrians Francs or Francions The Hebrew Fraci and the Affricanes The Cimbrian Chersonnesus Torches or Torques of Torquor their King Theudomer a kinsman by descent to king Priam Neumagi is new kinsmen Antenor married Cambra Daughter to the King of Britaine Priam Son to Antenor succeeded him then Marcomedes Clodion Clodomire Meradac BoloÌ„ kings leagued with the Teutones Why the Emperour Valentinian called theÌ„ Francâ— K. Priam slaine and his people fled into Germany The Sicambrians liued with the Pánonians Franconia in Saxonie and France in Gaule Of the word Franc or Francs The French wold haue their name deriued of Ferocitie Hector had no son but Astianax Franchise and Immunitie The Francs builded a Citty neere to the Palus Maeotides The Francs foyled by the Emperor chuse a Captaine named Marcomir The words of Amianus Marcellinus They chuse an order of gouerment among theÌ„ The aduise of Charamond concerning the election of Pharamond Quadrek his opposition against Charamond The election of King Pharamond Pharamond first King of the Francs or Franconians Clodion was the first that entred into Gaule Pharamond deuiseth Lawes for his people with consent of his Lords Lawes Saliques or Ripuaries A custome among barbarous Nations Especiall maters happening in the time of Pharamond 431 Clodion sirâ—named Hayrie for wearing long hayre and a beard in signe of
kept on in continuall imployment for the poore the same order was to take beginning againe as before at the Cittie of Yorke and so successiuely while the World stands to the Townes before named in selfe-same course as it had the originall with great care and obseruaunce in them to whom it belongeth that the dead may not be abused nor poore mens right iniured But did he thus shut vp his Pursse and say to himselfe I haue giuen sufficient No hee did cast his pittying eie next on the Citty of Couentry distressed at that time in great and grieuous manner What his instant beneuolence was he tooke it to bee but as an houres Sun-shine after a whole day of storme and tempest although it might yeeld some comfort were the season neuer so short But to establish a certainty that no dismay or doubt should euer after bee able to remooue euen as a worthy Piramide erected to perpetuity he gaue to the Citty of Couentry 1400. pound therewith to purchase Lands rising to the anuall value of 70. li. Twelue poore Inhabitants of that Citty were to haue in free Almes twenty foure poundes each man forty shillings yearely on the eleauenth day of March Four young men were also to haue fortie poundes yearely ten pound each man and for nine yeares space vpon sufficient security giuen And their turnes thus serued then foure other young men to haue the like summe and like limitation and so from nine yeares to nine yeares for euer Afterward it was ordred to two poore men of the same Citty and lastly to one in which nature according to the seuerall limitations it doth yet and doubtlesse shall for euer continue Also the same summe to one young man in Northampton next in the Citty of Leicester Thirdlie in Nottingham Fourthly in Warwick Then returning to Couentrie again for one year it repasseth to the said Townes againe each after other yearely for euer And least his worthy intent should faile in the continuance hee enlarged his first gift to Couentrie of 1400. poundes to 2000. and 60. pound to bee imployed as hath beene remembred fortie pound yearely being paid out of it to Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge in Oxford And allowances also by himselfe giuen in each place that bonds should be made without any charge to the receiuer Sir Thomas Row Lord Maior of this famous Citty and a worthy Merchant-Taylor beside his charitable cost and charges in building the new Church-yard in Bedlem for such Parishes as wanted benefit of buriall Gaue forty poundes yearely to maintaine tenne poore men for euer such as were not Bretheren of his owne Society but chosen out of fiue seuerall Companies viz. Clothworkers Armorers Carpenters Tylers and Plaisterers As considering that by ouer-toyling labour dangers fals bruizes and such like inconueniences they were soonest like to become impotent and vnable to helpe or maintaine themselues Therefore to each of these ten men hee freely gaue the sum of foure pound quarterly to be paid them at the Merchant-Taylors Hall during their liues and then to succeede to other men in the same Companies according to due consideration of iust cause and most necessity Lastly worthy Gentlemen to hold yee no longer in matter better knowne to your selues then mee because it is in your owne eyes and eares almost dailie the neuer dying memory of a yet liuing and long may he so be Brother Merchant-Taylor shall be my conclusion This vertuous and Religious man knowing Death to be an vnindifferent Executor and Life much more worthy of trust and imployment hath preuented that gripple greedy Tyrant and made such large Legacies to Life that Death neuer deserued to be put in trust withall If men of this World such as GOD hath liberally bestowed his blessings on would with this good-minded man consider that let their willes bee neuer so wisely made yea all Art and Dexterity therein to the very vttermost imployed yet death and his long wide gaping Children haue many hangers on many meanes deuises but many more tricks and vnfaithfull performances they would trust life the better as this man hath done and let death haue only the reuersion which is the easier to bee considered on It is not for my pen to set downe his praises leaues of Marble or Brasse are meeter for those Carracters that the deuouring teeth of Time may neuer deface Let this thâ—n 〈◊〉 â—ome addition to your honour that you haue suâ—h a â—orthy Brother mindful of the works of Mercy to thâ—â—oore among your selues and many places else-where carefull of offendours whom law sentencing with Death by the Watch-bell of Prayer are encited to compunction and hopefull of al goodnesse to pursue 〈◊〉 vertuous determinations euerie where So that wâ—en â—is Dooue shall finde no resting place for his foote 〈◊〉 reason of this Worldes tumultuous waues hee may returne to the Arke of blessednesse the happy home that he you and all else that feare God should daily long for Yours euer A. MVNDY TO THE ANCIENT WOORTHY AND RIGHT Worshipfull Company of the Gold-Smiths the Maister Wardens Assistants Liuery and likewise to euery louing Brother and member thereof LEt me not be thought Right Worshipfull Society more bolde then becomes me that in search of Antiquitie and Successe of Times guided by good obseruation and probable Authorities I thus present you in vnfaigned affection what I haue gathered concerning your worthy Brother-hood If I had time heere to set downe without preiudice to any other Misterie whatsoeuer that which Holye Writ recordeth of you and of men then most expert in your profession this poore Epistle would encrease it selfe to a very large discourse and exceede the limit wherto I haue tied my self in the whol labor I passe ouer the captiuity of Gods chosen people in Babylon and the Offices of those three especiall chosen men Zerubbabell Ezra and Nehemiah the first being their Captaine to guide them home and prouided that the Temple was builded the second reforming manners and making a plantation of Religion the third and last to builde vp the wals and make a new Citty of Ierusalem againe Yet let me tell you that among the multitude of Officers and Offices appointed to this businesse for building the walles the Merchants and Goldsmithes do beare a remarkeable note the very words in Scripture being these Betweene the Chamber of the Corner vnto the Sheepe-gate fortifyed the Gold smiths and the Merchants Beside that which is spoken of Malchiâ—h the Goldsmithes sonne fortifying to the house of the Nethinims And then of Bezaleell the Sonne of Vri filled with the Spirit of God in wisedome and vnderstanding to worke in Gold Siluer Brasse who had Aholiab ioyned with him to make all curious workes appointed by God himselfe for the Tabernacle of the Congregation the Arke of the Couenant and the Mercy-seat c. If these be not Testimonies of extraordinary honour and respect in the very names of Merchants and Goldesmiths but much more in the matter of so
country all about the sacred Sepulchre of our Lorde which was ruined about the yeare of saluation 1012. by the commandement of Equin Califfe of the Sarrazins and continued so ruined vntill the time of Constantine Monomachus Emperor of Constantinople who at the intreaties of the christians which then dwelte in Ierusalem with the consent of Bomensor Elmonius Stensabus Califfe or Soldane of Egypt built it againe at hys owne charges in the yeare 1048. About which time certain Gentlemen and Italian Merchants of the Citty of Melphes frequenting the Portes and Maritane Citties of Syria and Egypt and bringing good Marchandizes into those Countries woon themselues much loue and liking not onelie of the citties Gouernours but also of the Califfe of Egypt and being wel disposed christians they would oftentimes goe to Ierusalem to visit the holy memorable places and hauing no place of retirement in the citty they obtained fauour and permission of the Califfe to builde there a Church and a Pallace for their owne vse and habitation as also for others of their Nation in that quarter of the cittie where the christians might dwell neere to the holy Sepulchre There they erected two Monasteries one in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary called S. Maria de la Latina differing from the Greeke churches whych were in Ierusalem and placed there an Abbot of Mont-Cassina and was builte to lodge christian Pilgrims therein The other was dedicated to S. Mary Magdalen as a place of entertainment of all such women as should aduenture thither in pilgrimage they being both Religiously gouerned Not long after they builded an Hospital wherein to lodge as well all sickly trauaylers as any other Pilgrimes of honest disposition with a Church also thereto belonging beeing both dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist These Monasteries Churches and Hospitals were long time mayntained by the care and cost of the Amalphitanes who founded them and vntill such tune as the Citty was conquered by the Christians from the Infidels and that Godfrey of Bullen was there elected King which was in the yeare 1099. 1. The Citty being thus woonne F. Gerard was the first Rector or Gouernor of the hospital of S. Iohn who when the Citty was besiedged by the Christians was very ill dealt with by the Infidels was long time by them kept a captiue prisoner because they distrusted that he had some secret intelligence with the Christians which beleagered the Citty But after that the Christians were maysters thereof he was delyuered out of prison and gouerned both wisely and charitably the Hospitall of S. Iohn perswading and induring Christian Kinges and Princes to enrich and endow it with their liberality which indéed they did in bountifull manner so that in France Italy Spaine and other Prouinces of christendome the Hospitall of S. Iohn founde good Benefactors and attained in short time to great reuennewes and possessions In the yeare 1113. Pope Paschall the second receiued F. Gerard and the Knights of S. Iohn vnder protection of the Apostolique Seate and graunted them great priuiledges ordayning that after the decease of F. Gerard they shold proceed cannonically to the election of another Rector or Gouernour who was afterward called Great Mayster of the Order or military hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem a name which continueth yet to this present after fiue hundred yeares from the beginning thereof 2 In the yeare 1118. F. Gerard departed out of this life in the Papacie of Gelasius the second and when as the order of the Knights Templers began After his decease there succéeded him by election F. Raymond de Puy who was a professed Knight of the Order Albeit some holde opinion that F. Roger succéeded deceased Gerard and gouerned the hospitall of S. Iohn from the yeare 1118. vntill the death of Baldwine second of that name King of Ierusalem who died in the yeare 1131. F. Raymond in a generall Chapter assembled in Ierusalem with aduise of the other Knights made Statutes for the Order formed and instituted a rule of life which all the following Knights were to obserue Hee was called Great Maister of the Order and yet he qualified that Title by calling himselfe Seruant vnto the poore of Christ Iesus and Guardian of the hospitall of Ierusalem This Great Maister perceiuing that the reuennewes of the Hospitall did daily encrease and that hee could not better employ such wealth then against the Infidelles by making war vpon them he made offer to the K. of Ierusalem of himselfe his strength and all his Knightly Brethren who bare in their streamers Ensignes a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules And thence forward these religious brethrē were distinguished into thrée degrees for one company were knights another Captains the third Seruants not hauing from the beginning any other difference among them but that some were Ecclesiastical persons the other Layicks And from that time forward there was not any enterprize in Palestine against the Infidels but the Great-Maister was present thereat in person with his religious Knights who were first called knights Hospitallers or of the hospital of S. Iohn of Ierusalem afterward knights of the Rhodes lastly knights of Malta They grew into so great credit and reputation that they were employed in the managing guiding al affaires of chiefest importance Among others Gerard Gebert Knight of this Order was sent by Foulkes K. of Aniou into England to treat on the marriage of Constance Princesse of Antioch Néere to the Q. Melisenda daughter to Prince Boemond with Raymond son to the Earle of Poicters who was then in the Court of Henry King of England In like maner this mariage being thus concluded by the ingenuity of this knight at the same time Raymond Berengarius earl of Barcelona Prince of Cathalonia who had cōquered the isles of Maiorica Minorica from the Mores in single combat defended the chastity honor of Mahauld wife to the Emperor Henry the fift against two Allemaigne Knights that had falsely accused her of Idolatry to shut vp the conclusion of his dayes resolued to take the habite of this famous Brother-hood and in that sacred profession he perseuered al his life time after which was in the year 1131. Not much differing from this time it is reported that three Knights of this Order beeing natiue Frenchmen of Picardie detained then by the Soldan of Egypt in captiuity were admirably deliuered and trans-ported out of Egypte with Ismeria daughter to the saide Soldane to the place where at this instant is the church of Nostre Dame de Liesse and this hapned in the yeare 1139. In the yeare 1153. Raymond the Great Master caused the siedge to be continued before the cittie of Ascalon which the Infidelles had defended against the christians more then fiftie yeares and at length it was yeilded to the saide Maister the 12. day of August 1154 which was in the tenth yeare of King Baldwine the 3. In acknowledgement
séeing that he had attained to this Soueraigne dignity he resolued to put in execution a matter which in his predecessors daies had often béene intended but could not any way be effected viz. to depart from the Isle of Cyprus and to get a dwelling some where else which hee very happily performed For in Anne 1308. the very yeare of his election hée made a voyage to Constantinople and afterward into France where the Pope gaue him the Isle of Rhodes if he could get it which with his Knights he conquered in the yeare 1309. and seauen other Islands néere adioyning So that thither was the residence of saint Iohns knights transferred and then they were afterward called Knights of the Rhodes yet kéeping the Name of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem still Not long after Otthoman first Emperour of the Turkes came and besiedged Rhodes with a Potent Army but it was reléeued by Amadis the fourth Earle of Sauoy and Otthoman was compelled to raise his siedge After which time the Earles of Sauoy wore on their Armours a Crosse Argent in a fielde Gules in memory of the helpe they had giuen to the Knightes of the Rhodes The order of the Templers hauing béene vtterly suppressed in a generall Councell holden at Vienna in Dolphine the greater part of theyr goods was giuen to the Order of the Rhodes and confirmed by Pope Clement the fift 1312. In the yeare 1314. the Knightes of the Rhodes conquered the Isle of Lango with other Isles in the Archipelagus And in the yeare 1317. Folquet the Great Maister pleasing his owne humour ouer-much in his victories and conquestes beganne to grow haughty proud and insolent which brought him into contempt of his companions whereupon the Knights reuoulted from him and if he had not saued himselfe in a Castel they had seized his person But in regard they could not get him they deposed him from the dignity of Great Maister in his place elected 25 Maurice de Pagnac wherof Pope Iohn the twenty two beeing aduertised hee was greatly offended thereat and sent two Prelates to the Rhodes to informe themselues of the fact with commaund to cite the Great Maister de Villaret and de Pagnac to appear at Auignon in person Gerard des Pins beeing appointed Lieutenant Generall in the meane while At this instant time Orchanes Emperour of the Turkes came boldly and besiedged the Isle of Rhodes but the knights had an admirable victory against him for there were then tenne thousand Turkes hewen in péeces In this Interim Maurice de Pagnac died at Montpellier Anno. 1322. and Folquet de Villaret was re-established in the dignity of Great Maister But hee perceiuing that it was against the liking of his fellowe knights renounced his Great Maistership in the yeare 1323. and liued as a priuate Knight vntill the first day of September 1327. when he dyed and was buried at Montpellier 26 The same yeare that he gaue ouer his dignity the Knights of the Rhodes chose Elion de Villeneufue borne also in Prouence and Priour of Saint Gilles In the yeare 1343. a league was made betweene the Seigneury of Venice the K. of Cyprus and knights of the Rhodes And the Great Master hauing won the name of an happy gouernor died the 27. of May at Rhodes In his life time he had enclosed the great Maisters Pallace with wals towers and deuided the languages Bayliwicks and other dignities of the Order 27 After the decease of Villeneufue Deodon or Gods-gift a Natiue of Prouence was elected Great Maister About foure yeares before hée was promoted to this Dignity hee had fought with an horrible and monstrous Dragon that greatly afflicted the Isle of Rhodes And hauing kild the Monster he was therefore so highly honored and estéemed that his memory yet remaineth renowned to posterity In the yeare 1347. he ayded the King of Armenia against the Soldane of Egypt Pope Clement the sixt helde the Knights of Rhodes in such estéeme that almost all the Fortes in Italy belonging to the Sée were gouerned seuerally by one of them In the yeare 1351. Constance King of Armenia became a Brother Knight of Rhodes And in the yeare 1353. the Sonne to Iohn Canta-cuzen Emperour of Constantinople came and required ayde of the Great Maister of Rhodes who after he had gouerned this Order of Saint Iohn seauen yeares sixe months and ten daies dyed the seauenth of September in the saide yeare 1353. and was buried in the Church of S. Iohn of Rhodes Hee builded Milles in the Citty of Rhodes and engirt the Subburbs with walles making them very strong on the Sea side 28 Next succéeded him by election as Great Maister Peter de Cornilian Priour of S. Gilles borne also in Prouence Hee was Maister but one yeare eight months and seauentéene dayes for falling into a gréeuous sicknesse hee died in the Citty of Rhodes the 24. of August 1355. He was a man of very exemplarie life and so seuere that hee was sur-named the Corrector of Customes He held a generall Chapter at Rhodes 1354. wherin many good Statutes were made 29 After the great Maister was deceased according to acustomed form Roger des Pins born likewise in Prouence did next succéede him In his time the Pope perswaded the Knightes of Rhodes to buy the Principality of Achaia of Iacques de Sauoy Prince of Piedmont and the Knights of Rhodes made a generall assembly in the Citty of Auignon to effect the treaty of buying the sayd principality of Achaia and to reform some abuses crept into the Order For their statutes were now traduced into the Latine tongue and to all Princes were sent authenticall Copies or Volumes of them by appointment of the great Maister And in the yeare 1359. the great Commander the Marshall of the Order were sent into France in quality of Ambassadors to be visiters and reformers There was an assembly of the Knights called at the Cittye of Carpentras but it could not hold in regard of the great Maysters death who dyed the 28. of May 1365. and was much lamented but by the poore especially to whom hee was a great and charitable Almoner 30 Raymond Berengarius of Prouence also was next chosen great Maister who had bin before Commander of Castle Sarrazin In his time the King of Cyprus and the Knights of Rhodes made a league together and tooke perforce the Citty of Alexandria in Egypt which they ransackt spoyld and burnt The Armenians being expulsed by the Sarazins out of their dwellinges wer charitably entertained by S. Iohns knights in the Isle of Lango and at the same time the Citty of Tripoli in Syria was taken and sacked by the King of Cyprus and the Knightes of the Rhodes In the yeare 1371. the Great Master was by the Pope elected Nuntio from the Apostolique seat to appease the rumors and diuisions which were then in the Kingdome of Cyprus whether he went in person and both by his Authority and wisedome he soone seased
all the trobles and mollestations The Great Maister hauing gouerned his Order about eighteene yeares and an halfe departed this life in the yeare 1373 31 In the same yeare Robert de Iuliac or of Gulich great Priour of Fraunce was chosen Great-Maister who at the time of his election had the charge of his Priory but vnderstanding the newes he went forthwith to Auignon where he was receiued with great honor an assemblie general of this Knightly Order being then there held and the Great Maister had the gouernment of Smyrna imposed vpon him vnder paine of excommunication At his comming to Rhodes he qualified all the contentions which had hapned in the time of his absence At this time went the Pope to hold his seat at Rome againe which he and his predecessors had kept at Auignon for the space of seauenty one yeares 1376. In which yeare the 29. of Iune dyed the Great Maister and then 32 In his place came Iohn Fernandes d'Heredia a Natiue of Arragon in the Citty of Valentia who was Prior of Cathalognia and Castillian d'Emposta Twice he had bin marryed and chancing to be a Widdower he was made a Knight of Rhodes in the time of Villeneufue who was then Great Maister Being then but a simple Knight hee went to visite the holy Sepulchre and other memorable places in the holie Land He was also Ambassador from Pope Clement the sixt to the Kings Phillip 6. of France and Edward the third of England and did verie good seruice to King Phillip in the yeare 1346. For he being dismounted from his horse on a day of battaile against the English he gaue him his owne horse whereby the King escaped to a place of safety In like manner he fortified the Bastions and new wals of Auignon whereof hee was made Gouernor by the Pope Being great Maister hee tooke his way to Rhodes in the yeare 1377. and being required by the Generall of the Venetians Army to vnite their forces together they went to Morca in the yeare 1378. where they besiedged the Citty of Patras and tooke both it and the Castle The great Maister fighting man to man with the Gouernor of Patras slewe him manfully Afterwarde in an ambuscado of Turkes hee was taken prisoner by reason hee was too well knowne to them Whereuppon to worke his liberty Patras and other places which had bin won from them were re-deliuered to the Turkes And yet notwithstanding they would néeds carrie him with them into Albania where they kept him as a slaue thrée yeares In the year 1381. the great Maisters fréedome was bought with money and hee returning to Rhodes the Ambassadors of Smirna came to desire succour of him In the yeare 1391. Baiazeth Emperour of the Turkes made some preparation to besiege Rhodes whereupon Phillebert de Naillac Priour of Aquitaine was sent by his fellow knights to Auignon with Letters to the great Maister to require aide against Baiazeth Naillac returning to Rhodes in the yeare 1396. Heredia the great Maister died and was buried at Caspa 33 Newes beeing brought to Rhodes that Heredia the great Maister was dead Phillebert de Naillac grand Priour of Aquitaine borne in France succéeded in his roome At the Spring time he was inuited by Sigismond King of Hungaria to come and assist him with his Knights against Baiazeth which hee did in person in the yeare 1397. And then was a battaile fought at Nicopolis where Baiazeth had the victorie the K. of Hungary being glad to saue himselfe and with the Great Master retyred to Rhodes Thither also did the Emperor of Constantinople send all his precious Iewelles to be kept by the Great Maister fearing least Baiazeth shoulde surprize Constantinople But hee was disappointed by Tamberlain who ouercame Baiazeth and kepte him captiue in a Cage of yron so long as he liued and the siege of Constantinople being raised the great Master sent home again the Emperors Iewels After the foyle of Baiazeth the great Maister de Naillac sailed with an army into Caria there builded an inexpugnable fortresse which he named S. Peters Castle in the year 1399. vnder the raigne of Charles the sixt king of France In the yeare 1403. there happened wars betweene the k. of Cyprus and the Genewayes which was pacified and ordered by the wisedome and authority of the great Maister to whom the Soldan of Egypt sent an Ambassador for request of peace In the yeare 1409. the Great Maister gaue his personall assistance in the Counsell of Pisa assembled to quench the Schismes which were then crept into the Church and the guard of the Conclaue was committed to the great Maister when Alexander the fift was elected Pope The sayde Maister was likewise at the generall Counsell of Constance where thrée Popes were deposed and Martine 5. elected an 1414. the guard of the Conclaue being then againe giuen to the great Maister Trauelling into France he held a general assembly of his knights at Auignon afterward at Florence and last at Ancona whence returning to Rhodes an 1420. he held there a general chapter and in the beginning of Iune 1421. he dyed 34 And then in the deads place Anthony de Fluuiano or de Riuers reported to be a natiue of Arragon but more say of England was created Great Maister In his time began the generall Counsell of Basile 1430. And not long after the Soldan of Egypt puft vp with the victory which he wonne at Cyprus brake the Truce and prepared a great Armye with intent to besiedge Rhodes But when hee heard that the Great Maister was prouided of sufficient strength to withstand him he left off his determination and so the Order that way remained in quiet This Great Master founded and endowed a Chappel in the Citty of Rhodes which afterwarde hee made a Church for his Knights And the 29. of October hee died after hee had gouerned in his place with much wisedome 16. years an halfe 35 The sixt of Nouemb. in the same year 1437 Iohn de Lastic borne in Auuergne was elected Great Maister albeit he was absent at his election remained in Auuergne whereof he was prior Before he wold go to Rhodes he made a general assembly of his knightes at Valentia in the month of Decem. 1438. when he cam to Rhodes he began to build the new hospital for sick people which the precedent great M. by his wil had appointed to be done at his expences In his time Pope Eugenius 4. was deposed by the Counsell of Basile and Foelix the fift created in his place who was held at Rome to be an Antipope In the yeare 1440. the Soldane of Egypt beeing come néer to the port of the isle of Cast-Lerouge which appertained to the Knights and from thence turning towards Rhodes he was put to flight by an army of the Knights who had but eight Gallies and in the Soldanes army there were eightéene and there were slaine about seauen hundred Sarazins beside a
daylye imployed therein and fiue hundred thousande Crownes monthly paid to the worke-men At length the one and twenty of August 1568. the Great Maister died on the like day as hee was promoted to his place hauing gouerned eleauen yeares fully compleat 48 After the obsequies of Valette the Great Maister they procéeded to elect a new successor which was Pedro de Mente an Italian borne Priour of Capua Immediately after his promotion to the Maister-ship hee caused his predecessors body to be carried into the new Citty and to be honorably buried in the Chappell of our Ladie of Victory for he worthily deserued to be surnamed the Father of Souldiours the Shielde and defender of the Catholicke faith and the great persecutor or queller of proude Infidelles This newe Great Maister before hee attained to so high degrée had made good proofe of his Wisedome and valour in sundry other honorable and worthy offices For he was first Patron of the Gally which was Captaine or Commaunder of the band Next Lieutenant General of the gallies Castillion or gouernor of the Castell S. Angello at Rome he was then Admiral next Generall of the whole Fleet and Ambassador for the Order to the Popes Pius the fourth and Pius the fift Hee came from Rome to Malta when he was chosen great Maister and followed hys charge so effectually that the new Citty was finished and thither he purposed to transâ—ferre the dwelling of the Order For the good Olde-man thought it as great honour to dwell in the newe Cittie and make it habitable as it was for his predecessour Valette to builde it In his time the memorable Nauall battaile of Lepanto was sought and victorie obtained against the Turks wherin the Knights of the Order did many worthy actions of armes The great Maister deceasing at Malta 49 Iohn Bishop of Cassiera borne in Auuergn did next succéed him in the yeare 1572. Before his election to this office his vertue had appeared in diuers waighty charges For at the enterprize of Zoara he was Ensigne-bearer to the Order defended the Standard very woorthily bringing it backe with him to Malta when both it himselfe were smitten into the sea yet both of them saued by a Gally belonging to the order after he had a long time fought vndauntedly against the Infidels Soone after hee was chosen Captaine general of the horsemen Commissary of the fortifications then Marshall of the Order and now last great Maister wherein he liued very vertuously not letting any day passe him without som especial péece of seruice and féeding with his own hands thirtéene poore men With his owne mony he builded the great Church dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist in the new City of Valette endowing it with a thousand Crownes of annuall Reuennues erecting also a goodly Sepulchre for interring therein the bodies of the great Maisters his predecessors There happened some discontentment betwéene the Knights and him which shortning his daies he died 50 And the twelfth of Ianuary 1582. Hugues de Loubenx Verdale borne in Prouence was elected great Maister He was but a yong knight yet both learning and military knowledge shined clearly in him For he was in the attempt at Zoara where he declared himselfe to be truely valiant and had many honorable Offices imposed vpon him He dying 51 Martin Garzes a natiue of Arragon succéeded him next as great Maister Hee qualified the discontentmentes amongst his Brethren-Knights and tooke away those Taxes which had bin imposed and interdicted for a time the officers of the order to giue a new forme to his owne gouernement and to the good liking of all the the Knights He did expressely prohibit that not any Knight nor the Great Maister himselfe might particularly haue any shippe on the Sea to vse any Pyracies for his owne profit He died also at Malta and lieth buried in the Sepulchre of the great Maisters 52 The Knights assembling for a new election the tenth of February 1601. Aloph de Vignacourt born in France was created great maister In the yeare 1566. hee comming to Malta with great store of other French Gentlemen vpon a flying rumor that the Isle was likely to bee besiedged againe by the Turkes Armie entered into the order vnder the Great Maister Valette receiuing afterwarde sundrie great charges wherein his wisedome and man-hoode was euidently discerned hauing bin Captain of the citty of Valette and not long after great hospitaller of the Order He yet continueth in the office of great Maister a great comfort wee hope to Christendom a terror to the Othomans Empire whensoeuer they shall attempt the hurte of the Isle of Malta where the famous memorie of that ancient Order of Knight-hood of S. Iohn of Ierusalem is still kept and maintained ¶ The seuerall Orders of Knight-hood both Ecclesiasticke and Secular as they haue beene and are yet honoured in this Christian World Knights of Saint Iames of Compostella IN the yeare 1070. this Order of Knight-hood began in Spaine after that Ramirus had won the most famous victory in the Prouince of Compostella against the Moores At first their number consisted but of thirtéen and it was lawfull for them to take Wiues There was a chéefe man chosen of this Order by the Name of Great Maister who together with the other thirtéene had power to elect other Knights The badge or note of honor of this knight-hood was a red Crosse carrying the forme of a downe pointed Sword At the Feast of All-Saints was their méeting appointed that they might conferre about their affaires Many yeares haue they continued with many priuiledges and scarcely any but they called Augustines holde any such lawes ¶ Knightes of Saint Iohns of Ierusalem who were afterward Knights of the Rhodes and at this day are called Knights of Malta IN the yeare 1099. the Citty of Hierusalem being recouered against the impulsions of the Infidels by Godfrey of Bullen Duke of Lorraine About that very time a certaine Hospital was erected by the Christians in Hierusalem consecrated by the name of Saint Iohn Baptist for the entertainement of Pilgrims Soone after was this Order of Knight-hood instituted and the first Rector or Ruler was called Gerard and the next after him Raimond These knights wore a blacke Garment with a Crosse Argent in a field Gules vpon their breasts In the yeare 1308. being enforced from their former abyding by the Turks the Isle Rhodes graunted them by Pope Clement the fift they were in that regard called Knights of Rhodes In the yeare 1523. Rhodes béeing wonne from them Malta was affoorded them whereon to this day they are called Knights of Malta The duty of this Knight-hoods-order was to fight for the Christian Faith to reléeue the oppressed to defend Widdowes and Orphanes c. Nor was any one to bee admitted into this Order that was descended of a Moore lew Mahumetist or any such ignoble race ¶ Knights Templers or Knights of the
kings treasury was hanged at Mont-faucon which hee himselfe first caused to be made Lewes tooke first to wife Margaret Daughter to Robert Duke of Burgundy by whom he had a Daughter Next he married Constance whom he left with child of a Sonne named Iohn that liued but eyght daies This King raigned but xviij months died at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at S. Denis 48 Phillip the fift Surnamed the Long succéeded after his Brother Lewes Hutin in the kingdome being called Long in regard of his tal stature and slendernesse The Duke of Burgundie would haue troubled his possession of the crown in regarde of his Daughters Daughter but the Salique Law did not fauour him therein This King Phillip married Iane Daughter to Otholine Earle of Burgundy by whom hee had three daughters The first married with the Sonne to the Duke of Burgundy the second the Sonne to the Earle of Flaunders and the thirde to the Daulphine of Viennois by which marriages all Warres were asswaged in Fraunce During his raigne diuers Leapers and Lazers procured thereunto by the Iewes poysoned all the welles which caused a great Pestilence thorough the Kingdom but both the one and other were grieuously punnished therefore Neuer coulde this King obtaine of his people any impost or Taxation by him leuied He made a Law that there shold be in his kingdom but one kind of weight one measure and one money commanding that it should be duely kept But while this was in execution he died without any heires male hauing raigned fiue yeares in peace and lieth buried at S. Denis In these times certaine Troopes of Countrey people that were called Pastors and Shepherds arose againe in Fraunce as formerly some had done in the time of King Lewes the ninth These men made their vaunt that they would crosse the Seas and go warre against the Infidels They had two chiefe men of marke among them and wel beseeming such an assembly to wit a Priest that for his mis-behauiour was expulsed his Church and an Apostata Monke of the Order of S. Bennet These two fellowes so abused the hearts and beléefe of the poore popularity that silly Shepheards left their Flocks and Laborers their Manuall trades to follow these two impostures who made them verily beleeue that the Holy Land could be recouered by none but them In conclusion this heape of Rascality was quailed in Languedoc because in stead of preparing their fury against the Infidels and passing the Seas they fell vpon the Iewes whom the king had repealed into France 49 Charles le Bell Son to Phillip the fourth succéeded after his Brother in the year 1321. and likewise was King of Nauarre as his thrée predecessors had bin He had thrée wiues Blaunch whom he diuorced for her adultery Marie and Margaret Iourdain de l'Isle albeit hee was Nephew to Pope Iohn the two and twentieth was hanged and strangled at Paris for his strange offences This King fel to concord with the English appeased the Earle of Flaunders and drewe his people to a mutuall Reconciliation He was a great Iusticer raigned seauen yeares dyed at Boys de Vinciennes and is buried at Saint Denis By his death the second branch of the Capets called De Valois came to the Royalty and began in 50 PHillip de Valois Coozin Germaine to the thrée precedent Kings dying without heire male his succession was in the yeare 1328. His right to the Crowne was dearely disputed betweene him and King Edward the third of England Son to the Sister of the thrée forenamed Kings who preferring his Mothers Title would néeds be King of France contrary to the Decrée of the Law Salique and consent of al the States He did king Phillip homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu but being not well pleased therewith cut him off quite from Flanders Bretaigne Germany Crecy where Phillip lost the day with the very flower of al the French Nobility taking Calais also by their flight Truce being taken betwéene both the Kings Edward of England had both the Title of king and Armes of France or conquest which euer after was attributed to him his Phillip raigned 22. yeares died at Nogent and lieth buried at S. Denis 51 Iohn Sonne to Phillip de Valois succee-his Father in the yeare 1350. proouing as vnfortunate in those tempestuous times as his father had done before him He married Ioane Countesse of Bolongne by whom he had foure sonnes and one Daughter Raoull the Constable of France was beheaded in prison In the day at Poictiers King Iohn was taken by the English and carried into England which imprisonment of his caused many pittifull Tragedies the most furious whereof were acted in the chiefe Citties of France Foure yeares after King Iohn passed into England for the fréedome of his Ostages but there he died at London hauing raigned 13. yeares His sonne caused his body to be brought to S. Denis 52 Charles the fift Sonne to King Iohn succéeded his Father in the yeare 1364. Hee sustained very great troubles during the captiuitie of his father by a commotion which the k. of Nauar raised at Paris who was aided by the merchants of the saide Citty and woulde haue had the Regency but that Charles being then Daulphine made opposition against him He dealte for the ransome and deliueraunce of his Father after whose decease he was crowned King Hee tooke to Wife Ioane Daughter to Charles Duke of Burbon by whom he had three Sonnes and one daughter He maintained great warres against the English hauing at one instant fiue seueral Armies in field against them because they were such potent enemies And to supply so mightie a charge he was faine to lay a heauie taxation vpon wine and Salt Bertrand de Guesclin a most worthy Knight was then his high Constable And the Bastille at Paris was then builded A sedition happened at Montpellier and six hundred of the seditious were executed This King was surnamed the Wise for his deep discretion goodnesse and gouernment He so loued Learning that he caused the Holy Bible to be translated into the French Language which remaineth yet in the Royal Cabinet of the Louure with many other good Bookes beside Hee had stil an eye to Iustice sitting daily to hear causes and ordering all his affayres by Counsel With much adoo he regained some Townes from the English in Poictu and Xaintonge Hee raigned sixteene yeares yeelded his soule to God at Chasteau de Beaute and lieth buried at S. Denis The Sect of the Turlupins was then abolished See Emil. Lib. 9. 52 Charles the sixt sonne of Charles the fift was crowned King at the age of fouretéen years being vnder the gouernment of his Vnckles the Dukes of Berry Burgundy and the Duke of Aniou who got into their custody many millions of Gold left by the King deceast And then no Money being to bee found the people were charged with heauy
Ludgate Westward and the Bridge-gate ouer Thames South-ward But other Gates and Posterns for ease and conueniency of passage were afterwarde made as mens affayres required to other quarters of the Citty A Posterne gate was somtime neere to the Tower of London which decaying by length of time and a deepe Ditch made without the wall it fell downe in the year 1440. the eighteenth of King Henry the sixt and was neuer after builte againe but a plaine Cottage of Timber Lath and Loame with a narrow passage being erected instead thereof it so continueth Aldgate was next in the East so named by the antiquity thereof for it was so called in king Edgars time and the Soke or Franchise wyth the Port of Aldgate and all customs thereto appertaining were likewise giuen by Matilda Q. to Henry the first to the Priour of the B. Trinitie within Aldgate and by her founded in as ample and free maner as she enioyed them The third was Bishopsgate toward the North built by some Bishop of London as is imagined for other certainty is not as yet found which Gate did much ease to such as trauailed East and by North as to Norffolke Suffolke Cambridgeshire c. because before the erection thereof such as iournied out at Aldgate of necessity helde on to the miles end and turning them on the lefte hand to Blethon-hall now Bednal-Greene râ—de directly to Cambridge Heath and so tooke their iournies North or East and by North or occasion required Otherwise refusing Aldgate way they had no other helpe then out at Aldersgate through Aldersgate streete and Goswell street now tearmed Pickt-hatch towards Iseldon and by a Crosse of stone on their right hand set vp for a marke by the North end of Golding-lane passed throgh a long street yet called Ald-streete or Old-street to another Crosse by Sewers ditch Church where now stands a smiths Fordge and there they turned againe North-wards to Totenham Enfield waltham ware c. This Bishopsgate the Dutch Marchants of the Haunce Stiliard or Guildhalla Tentonicorum were bound by couenant both to repayre and defend at all times of daunger and extremity The fourth was a Posterne now called Mooregate which one Thomas Faulconer Maior of London An. 1413. and third of Henry the fift caused to be made there on the Moores side where neuer Gate was before that people might passe vpon cause-wayes into the fielde for recreation because the fielde was then a marish The fift Gate was the Posterne of Criplesgate so called long before the Conquest in regarde of Criples begging there and the body of S. Edmond the Martyre was brought into London thereat when it was conuayed from Bedrisworth now called Bury S. Edmunds thorough the East Saxons Kingdome to the parish church of S. Gregory neere to the Cathedrall church of S. Paul where it rested 3. daies This posterne of Cripplesgate was a prison of commitment for Cittizens and others being arrested for debte or common trespasses as now the Compters are it was new builded by the Brewers of London An. 1244. But in An. 1483. Edmund Shaa or Shaw Goldsmith and Maior of London gaue 400. Markes by his will and stuffe of the Olde gate to builde it againe new as now it is which his executors performed in the yeare 1491. The sixt was Aldresgate or Aldersgate not Aldrich Elders or Elderngate as deriued from ancient men that builded it or trées there sometime growing but from antiquity of the gate it selfe being one of the foure that were first builded and to serue the North-parts as Aldgate did for the East both bearing the name of Aldgate and Alder or Aldersgate to differ their seniority in building The 7. was a Posterne gate made in the 6. yeare of Edw. the 6. in the Wall of the dissolued cloyster of Gray Fâ—iers now cald Christs Church and Hospitall seruing for passage to S. Bartholmewes in Smithfield The 8. west and by North was called Newgate because it was later buylded then the rest by reason that S. Pauls Church being burned in the Conquerors time about the yeare 1086. Mauritius then bish of London not repayring the old church but seeking to begin another extended the work in such largenes of ground that al passage from Aldgate in the East to Ludgate in the west was almost stopt vp Whereupon this gate was first deuised and made and so named seruing aptly for passage cariages from Aldgate along Cornhil through West-cheap S. Nicholas Shambles and the Market taking name of Newgate to any Westward part ouer Oldborne bridge or turning without the gate into Smithfield to Iseldon or any part North by west It hath bin a Gaole or prison for sellons other offenders long time as the records in K. Iohns time testifieth And in an 1422. the first of Henry 6. the executors to Richard Whittington had license to reedify the said gate which they did with his goods The 8. gate was Ludgate in the west builded by k. Lud before Christs natiuitie 66. years seruing for the west as Aldgate for the East was repaired with the stones of the Iewes defaced houses when the Barons were in armes in k. Iohns time as Aldgate the other gates theÌ„ were A notable testimony to confirm this assertion apeared in the year 158â— when the gate was taken downe to be new builded for a stone was then found in the wal which had bin taken from one of those Iewes houses with this Inscription thereon but in Hebrew Caracters Haec est statio Rabbi Moses filij insignis Rabbi Isaac This is the station or ward of Rabbi Moses son of the honorable Rabbi Isaac And it seemed to haue bin fixed in the front of some one of the Iewes houses as a note or signe that such a one dwelled there It was made a frée prison in the 1. yeare of K. Richard 2. Nicholas Brembar being then maior after confirmed in the time of Iohn Northampton Maior 1382 by a common Counsel in the Guild-hal the fréemen of the City for debt trepasses accounts contempts shold be imprisoned in Ludgate for treasons fellonies murders and other criminall offences Newgate should be the prison Lastly there is also a breach in the Citty Wall and a Bridge made of Timber ouer the Fleete Dike betwixte Fleete-bridge and Thames directlie ouer against the House of Bride-Well but it is not as as I thinke called any Gate Now concerning the South-side of the Citty and that it was sometime walled too the Citty being then round engirt with a Wal the Testimony of William Fitz-Stephen who wrote in the raigne of King Henry the second may serue to approue it for these are his very wordes The Wall is high and great well towred on the North-side with due distances betweene the Towers On the South-side also the Citty was walled and towred but the Fishfull Riuer of Thames with his
ebbing and flowing hath long since subuerted them If then wee shall speake of Water-Gates as already wee haue done of Land-gates and being now in the west returne towards the East the first then was called Ripa Reginae the Queens-banck or Queens Hith deseruing well to bee estéemed a Water-Gate and the very chiefe of the Citty beeing a common Strand or landing place equall with and in olde time farre excelling Belines-Gate For beside the antiquity thereof and to whom in those daies it seuerally appertained I finde that King Henry the third in the ninth of his raigne commaunded the Constables of the Tower of London to arrest the Shippes of the Cinque-Portes on the Riuer of Thames and compell them to bring their Corne and Fish to no other place but to the Queenes-Hith only And when corn arriued betwéen the Gate of Guilde-Hall of the Merchantes of Colleyne and the Soke of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury for hee had then a House néere to the Blacke-Fryers it was not to bee measured by any other quarter then that of the Quéenes Soke or Hith on paine of forty shillinges amercement Afterward Queenes-Hith and the Farme thereof granted by Richard Earle of Cornewall was by the said King Henry the third confirmed to Iohn Gisors then Maior the Comminaltie of London and their Successours for euer as appeareth by his royall Charter for the sum of fifty poundes It was also ordained by King Edward the fourth that all Shippes Vessels or Boates bringing prouision of Victuall to the Cittie of what quality soeuer if but one Vessell only it came to the Queenes-Hith if two the one to Quéenes-Hithe the other to Belins-gate if thrée two to Quéenes-Hithe the third to Belins-gate c. so that alwaies the more part came to Quéenes-Hithe But if the Vessel were so great comming with Salt or otherwise from the Bay and could not conueniently come to these Gates or Keyes it was then to bee conuaied to them as afore-said by Lighters Downe-gate is the next and was so named as is supposed by reason of the waies suddaine descent or stooping from Saint Iohns Church in Walbroke to the Riuer of Thames It was some-time a large Water-gate frequented with Shippes and vessels like to the Queenes-Hithe and appeared by an Inquisition in the twentie eight yeare of Henry the third to be a part thereof being ordered by the customes thereto belonging Wolfes-gate now out of vse one part being builded on by the Earle of Shrewsbury the other by the Chamberlain of London and now called Cold-Harbor Ebgate so called of olde time but now it is a narrow passage to the Thames called Ebgate-lane or old Swan Oyster-gate so called of Oysters vsually there sold as chiefest market for them and other shell-fish There now stands the water-engine that serues the Citty with water made in the yeare 1582. by Peter Moris Dutchman Bridge-gate so called of London Bridge whereon it standeth béeing one of the Citties first foure and principall Gates and long before the Conquest when there then stood a bridge of Timber Buttolphs-gate so called of the Parish-church of S. Buttolph néer adioyning which Gate was some-time giuen and confirmed by William the Conqueror to the Monkes of Westminster by vertue of a former guift which Almundus of the Port of S. Buttolph gaue them when hée was there made Monke Belins-gate or Belingsgate the largest water-gate now on the Thames and most frequented Belin a King of the Brittons according to Geffrey of Monmouth first built it and gaue it his owne name about 400. years before Christs Natiuity There are two Water-gates more one on the west-side of Wooll-wharffe or Customers Key beautifully enlarged and built of late This gate is commonly called the Water-Gate at South end of Water-lane The other by the Tower Bulwarke and is the last and turthest Water-gate East-ward Beside these common Water-gates there were then diuers priuate wharffes Keies all along from East to West of the Cittie on the banck of the Riuer of Thames Before we part further frō this famous riuer let vs here remēber Londonbridge ouer it which before there was any bridge at al or it a bridge of timber there was a Ferry kept in the same place no other passage was there then to Southwark but by the Ferry onely The Ferry-man and his Wife dying left this Ferry to their only daughter named Mary who with her Parents goods left her the profits arising from the Ferry built a house of Sisters where the East part of S. Mary Oueries Church aboue the Quier now standeth and where she her selfe was buried giuing them also the ouer sight benefits of the ferry Afterward this house of Sisters being conuerted to a Colledge of Priestes the Priestes builded the Bridge of timber and kept it in good reparations till the continuall charges growing ouer-burthenous about the yeare 1176. the course of the Riuer being then turned another way for a time by a trench purposely deuised beginning about Rodriffe or Redriffe in the East and ending aboue Patrickseie or Batersey in the west the Bridge of stone began to be founded and continued 33. yeares in building The Bridge of timber in the yeare 1136. was burnt down by fire but in An. 1163. it was not only repaired but new made of Timber againe by one Peter of Cole-Church Priest and Chaplaine who also began the foundation of the Stone-bridge som-what néer to the Timber-bridge and liued till within foure years of the works ending being buried in a Chappell erected on the Bridge But the whole bridge of stone was finished by the worthy Merchants of London Setle Mercer Wil. Almaine Benedict Botewrite principal Maisters of that work Other bridges of stone also belonging to the City as Fleetbridge without Ludgate made at the charges of Iohn Wels Maior Anno. 1431. Oldborne-bridge so called of a Bourne which sometime ran down Old-borne Cowbridge by Cow-bridge-street or Cow-lane which beeing decaied another of timber was made by Chick-lane Beside there were other Bridges ouer the Town-ditch as without Aldgate Bishopsgate Mooregate Cripples-gate Aldersgate the Posterne of Christs Hospitall Newgate and Ludgate al paued ouer with stone and leuelled with the stréets beside diuers bridges in elder times ouer the course of Walbrooke While wee are thus speaking of Water and Bridges belonging to the Citty heere I thinke it most conuenient also to say somewhat concerning the Conduits and swéete-waters conuaied to them by Pipes of Lead The first Cesterne whereof castellated with Stone in the Citty of London was called the great Conduit in West-cheap which was begun to be builded in the year 1285. Henry Wales then being Maior The Tonne vpon Cornehill was cesterned in Anno. 1401. Iohn Chadworth then being Maior Bosses of water at Belins-gate by Paules-wharffe and by S. Gyles Church without Cripples-gate were
made about the yeare 1423. Water was brought to the Standard in west Cheape about the yeare 1431. And King Henry the sixt in An. 1442. granted to Iohn Hatharley Mayor licence to take vppe 200. Fodar of Lead for the building of Conduites a common Granery and of a new Crosse in West-Cheape for Honor of the Citty The Conduit in Aldermanbury and the Standard in Fleet-street were made and finished by the executors of Sir Wil. Eastfield in An. 147â— A Cesterne was also added to the Standard in Fleet-street a second made at Fléet-bridge and another without Cripples-gate in An. 1478. The Conduit in Grasse-street in An. 1491. The Conduit at Old-bourne Crosse about 1498. and made new againe by Master William Lambe 1577. with an help also at Old-bournebridge The little Conduite commonly tearmed the Pissing-Conduit by the Stocks-Market about 1500. The Conduit at Bishops-gate 1513. The Conduit at London-wall 1528. The Conduit without Aldgate 1535. The Conduite in Lothbury and Colman-street 1546. The Conduit of Thames-water at Downe-gate 1568. Nor may I hear forget the standard of Thames water by Leaden-hall which being deriued from the forcier of water made by Peter Moris forenamed ascending vp ouer the stéeple of S. Magnus Church at the north end of London bridge conuaieth water into many mens houses in Thames streete New-Fish-streete Grasse-streete And so mounteth vp stil in Pipes to the North-west corner of Leaden-Hall the highest ground in al the Citty where the wast of the maine Pipe rising into this standard prouided at the cities charge at euery tide was prouided to run forth 4. waies at foure seuerall spouts for plentiful seruice of the néere adioyning Inhabitants and cleansing the Channels passing those foure seuerall waies The Conduits of Thames-water by the Parish-Churches of S. Mary Magdalen and Saint Nicholas Cold-Abbey neere to old Fish-stréete were made in An. 1583. Beside the water Forcier by London Bridge before remembred and another made since néere to Broken-wharffe for conueiance of Thames-water into mens Houses by an English gentleman named M. Beuis Bulmar in An. 1594. Nor will wee forget the new Conduit lately built by Aldersgate Thames-water also thither conuaied by an English Gentleman named Thomas Hayes in An. 1610. Come we now to the ancient deuision of this worthy Citty which as Fitz-Stephen sayeth foure hundred yeares agoe This Citty euen as Rome is deuided into Wards It hath yearelie Sheriffes instead of Consuls and hath the dignitie of Senators in Aldermen Those wards both before and in the raigne of Henry the third were â—4 in number 13 lying on the East-side of Walbrooke and 11. on the West but those Wards in the west growing in greatnes to exâ—e the other in the East in Anno 1393. and 2. of Richard the second Faringdon Ward being then one entire ward was by Parliament deuided into two also tearmed Faringdon within Faringdon without and allowed to haue two Aldermen So the twelue wards were then on the west side of Waâ—brooke and the whole number made 25. wards The Liberties of the Borough of South-warke were afterwarde purchased by the Maior Câ—mminalty and Cittizens and added to London as the 26. warde in An. 1150. whereby the number of Alder-men grewe to bee 26. But because my purposed breuity kéeps within the Cities bounds only and not at this time till publication of my generall Chronicle of London and Middlesex euen so farre as the Lorde Maior and Sheriffes power extendeth permits mee to exceede that compasse I shall nowe say nothing eyther of South-warke or Londons Subburbs Portsoken ward so named of the Franchise of Aldgate was somtime a Guild and beganne in King Edgars time aboue 600. yeares since being called Knighten Guilde of 13. poore knights or Souldiors that being fauoured by the King and Land for seruice done them had a parcel of Land granted them on the Citties East side and liberty of a Guild for euer Prouided that each of them should victoriously accomplishe 3. combates one aboue ground one vnder ground the third in the water Also at a certaine day appointed they shoulde run with Speares in East Smithfield against all commers all which they worthily performed and therefore the King called it Knighten Guilde I read but of one parish church in this ward which is called S. Buttolph without Algate and a small parish Church for the Inhabitants of the Close sometime called S. Trinity afterward the Minories This Portsoken Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy sire common Counsellors foure Constables four Scauengers eighteen wardmote Enquestmen and a Beadle It is sessed at foure pounde ten shillings for the fifteene Tower-street ward is the first warde within London-wall East-ward In which ward are thrée parish churches viz. Alhallowes Barking S. Olaue in Hart-street and S. Dunstane in the East beside S. Peter in the Tower for the inhabitants there Also two Halles of Companies viz. Cloth-workers Hall in Mincheon Lane and Bakers Hall in Haâ—t or Harpe Lane This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy common Counsell eight Constables thirteen Scauengers twelue Wardemote Enquest thirteene a Beadle It is also seized at 26. pounds to the fifteene Aldgate Ward taketh name of the Gate In which ward are three parish churches viz. S. Katherine Christ-Church Saint Andrew Vndershaft and S. Katherine Coleman Likewise thrée Hals of Societies or companies Iremongers Hall in Fen-Church-streete Bricklayers Hall in Sprinckle Alley now called Sugerloafe Alley of the like signe and Fletchers Hal in S. Marystreet It hath an Alderman and his Deputy sixe common Counsellors nine Scauengers eightéene Wardemote Enquestmen and a Beadle It is also taxed at fiue pound to the fifteene Limestreet ward so named of vsuall making and selling of Lime there in formertimes as is supposed In this ward standeth Leaden-Hall which before it was built of stone appertained to Sir Hugh Neuill Knight in Anno 1309. Afterward the famous and mighty man Syr Simon Eyre sometime and Vpholster and next a Draper builded it square of stone as now it standeth with a fayre and large chappell in the East-side of the Quadrant on the Porch wherof was engrauen Dextra Domini exaltauit me The right hand of the Lord hath exalted mee And on the North-wall in the Church these wordes Honorandus famosus Mercator Simon Eyre huius operis c. The honorable and famous Marchant Simon Eyre founder of this worke once Maior of this Citty and Cittizen and Draper of the same He builded there also a goodly Granary for corne and made there an open and free market It was once intended for a Bursse for assembly of Merchants but tooke not effect the Merchants meeting still in Lombard-streete â—s before they had done In this ward is not anie Parish church but smal portions of two parishes and no hall of any company It hath an Alderman and his Deputy four common Counsellors foure Constables two Scauengers sixteene wardemote
Corne market kept and the chappel of s Iames by Cripplesgate Hals of Societies Imbroiderers Hall in Guthurus Barbar Chirurgions hal in Monkes-well-street Sadlers hall in Cheap Butchers Hall in Chick-lane in the Shambles which serueth also for the Feltmakers This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputie twelue Common Counsellors seauenteene Constables eighteene Scauengers eyghteen wardmote Enquest and a Beadle It is taxed at 50. pound to the Fifteene Bread-streete Ward so called of bread there solde in elder time in that streete which giueth name to the whole Warde and hath foure Parish Churches in it viz. Alhallowes in Bread-streete saint Mildreds in Bread-streete saynt Iohn Euangelist in Friday-streete and s Margaret Moyses in Friday-streete Hals of companies are the Salters Hall in Bread-streete and Corwainers or Shoo-makers Hall in Maiden-lane or Distar lane This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy tenne common Counsellors tenne Constables eight Scauengers thirteene Wardemote Enquest and a Beadle In London it is taxed at thirty seauen pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 36. pounde 18. shillings two pence Queene-Hith Ward so called of the Queens Hith or water Gate whereof wee haue alreadye spoken In which warde are seauen Parish churches Viz. saint Trinity in Trinity lane saint Nicholas Cold-abbey at Knight-riders streete saint Nicholas Olaue on Bredstreet hill saint Mary de Monte Alto or Mounthaunt by Old Fishstreet hill or Fiue foot lane saint Machael at the Queens Hith saint Mary Summerset neere Broken wharfe and saint Peter called Parua by Paules wharfe Hals of companies are these Painter Stayners Hall in Trinitie Lane Blacksmiths Hall on Lambert hill This warde hath an Alderman and his Deputy sixe common Counsellors nine constables eight Scauengers thirtéene Warde-mote Enquest and a beadle In London it is taxed at twenty pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 19. pound 16. shillings two pence Castel Baynard ward so named of an auncient castle there standing belonging sometime to one Baynard a Nobleman that came into this Lande with the conquerour and first builded it In this ward are foure parish churches viz. saint Benet Hude or Hithe by Paules Wharfe saint Andrew by the Wardrobe saint Mary Magdalen in Old-fishstreete and saynt Gregory by Paules church Halles of companies are these Wood-mongers Hall on the East-side of Paules wharfe Hill and the Stationers Hall neere the west end of Paules but conuerted to a Tauerne since then and the Hall was also in Milkestreet for a while but afterwarde translated agayne into Amen lane at the end of Pater noster row to a goodly auncient house in oldetime belonging to Iohn Duke of Britaine and Earle of Richmond Afterward called Pembrokes Inne as appertaining to the Earles of Pembroke in the time of Richard the second the eighteenth yeare and Henry the sixt the fourteenth yeare But it lately belonged to Henry Lord of Aburgaueny and was called Aburgauenie house This ward hath an Alderman and his Deputie common counsellers 9. constables 10. Scauengers 7. wardmote Enquest 14. and a Beadle In London it is taxed at twelue pound to the fifteen and in the Exchequer at 11. li. 13. s. There remayne yet two more Faringdon ward without and Bridgeward without or the Borough of the South-warke the round inuironing Suburbs without the wals the Dutchy of Lancaster and Cittie of Westminster All which beeing not comprized within this instant determination craue fauour for reference to our Chronicle of London wherein whatsoeuer is wanting heere and this slender pile woulde not permit stretching alreadye beyond expectation shall by Gods assistance be more fully effectually and largely performed then as yet Mayster Iohn Stow his Suruey or any other worke that I haue seene hath so amply deliuered especially concerning this honorable Citty and the Countie of Middlesex so far as the cities bounds and priuiledges do grant admittance Let me not be rashly censured in these gayseeming words to cast any disgrace or il aspersion on the painful labors of that worthy and industrious man Mayster Iohn Stow whom liuing I loued as a dear and intimate friend and dead I honor with all kinde remembrance for such as haue had knowledge of our inward respect of each other what hath past betwéene vs concerning this businesse for the Citty I know will no way mis-conceite of me they are too wise and vertuous to swerue in a knowne truth and more sounde and solide then malice can haue any power to seduce whatsoeuer then is referred to our further intention as it hath bin a labour willingly vnder-taken by me albeit both beséeming and requiring a much better Iudgement So by his helpe who is both the hope and helpe of all Vertuous endeauours it shall bee effected with all possible dilligence Of the Temporall Gouernment of this Honorable Citty since the Conquest To the worshipfull M. Rowland Smart Esquire Sword-Bearer of London PAssing ouer those Tempestuous times of the old Britons Romans Saxons and Danes till Ethelred or Alfred Earle of Mercia who had the custody of this citty in his power he no sooner dyed but both it and all other possessions belonging to the saide Earle returned to King Edward surnamed the Elder c. Remaining thus in obedience to him he then ordaining Portgraues to haue the gouernement thereof vnder him which name Portgraue or Portreue is compounded of two Saxon wordes Porte and Gerefe or Reue Porte signifyeng a Towne or City Gerefe or Reue a Guardian or Ruler of the said town or city Before the conquest in the daies of k. Edw. the Confessor one Wolfegare was Portgraue as appeareth by the kings charter to him thus Edward K. greeteth Alfward byshop Wolfegare my Portgraue al the Burgesses in London c. These Portgraues continued in William the conquerors time William Rufus and Henry the first when Hugh Buche was Portgraue and Leofstanus Gold-smith Prouost which name of Prouost then beganne for Aubery de Vere was afterward Portgraue and Robert Bar-Querel Prouost Then by the same King was the sheriuewick of London and Middlesex granted to the Cittizens of London In the raigne of King Stephen Gilbert Becket was Portgraue and Andrew Bucheuet Prouost and Godfrey Magnauilla or Mandeuil by guift of Maude the Empresse was Portgraue or sheriffe of London and Middlesex for the yearely farme of three hundred pound as appeareth by the Charter In the time of k. Henry the second those Portgraues were likewise in diuers records called Vicecomites Vicounties or sheriffes as being vnder an Earle and then as since vsed that Office as the sheriffes of London now doo Albeit some Authors tearme them Domesmen Elder-men or Iudges of the Kings court Heere then it shall not seeme impertinent once more to remember the wordes of William Fitz-stephen saying Euen as Rome is deuided into Wards so is this Citty It hath yearely Sheriffes insted of Consuls It hath the
dignity of Senators in Aldermen It hath vnder Officers and according to the qualitie of Lawes so hath it seueral Courts and generall assemblies vpon appointed daies At parting with the name of Portgraues and Prouosts in the first yeare of K. Richard 1. the cittizens obtained to be gouerned by 2. Baliffes who in auncient déedes were called Sheriffes as the Lawe tearmeth the Shire Balliua vsing the same office of Shriuewick as the Portgraues before did The names of the first Bayliffes or Officers entring into their dignity at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell Anno 1189 were Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere King Richard also at that very time appointed a supreame Officer aboue the rest by the name of Maior which worde was borrowed from the Haebrew word Mar and signifieth Dominus Lord a word vsed by the Franconians and old Saxons their Neighbours of whom English-men haue their Originall but called Maire as the French did their Maires of the Pallace Thus was the chiefe Gouernor called Lord Maire or Maior because they vnderstood not that the epethite Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions yet thus was it thē giuen for a larger augmentation of Honor. Now as the Goldsmiths yéelded London a Prouost before named Leofstanus euen so the same Company albeit not as yet rancked into a List of Brother-hood gaue London likewise the first Lord Maire or Maior in Dignity whose name was Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane and being so appointed by the King he continued in that supreame Office from the first yeare of King Richard the first vntill the fiftéenth of K. Iohn which was more then twenty foure years Henry Cornehill and Richard Reynere béeing first chosen Bayliffes serued then as Sheriffes by all likelihood to the said Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Leifstane Maire whereby very well may bee obserued the progresse and continuaunce of those seuerall elections and choyces euen to this day the Sheriffes beeing first appointed and then the Lorde Maire after chosen at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-aungell at the first by King Richard it was ordained King Iohn in like manner after this high Dignity begun by his Brother graunted them frée liberty by Charter to chuse by voyces and handes yearely out of the twelue chiefest and principall Companies their Praetor or Maire Also two Sheriffes whereof the one should be called the Kings Sheriffe and the other the Citties Sheriffe which in that forme hath continued euen to this instant Nay more he graunted them full power and authority not onely to chuse theyr Sheriffes at their owne pleasure but also vppon iust occasion either of contempt mutiny disobedience or other offences to degrade and depriue them The Forrest of Middlesex and the Warren of Stanes being laid open in An. 1218. the King afterward in the yeare 1226. confirmed to the Citizens of London frée warrant and liberty to hunt a limited circuite about the Citty and in the Warren of Stanes Also that the Cittizens of London shoulde passe Toule-frée thorough al England and the Kedeles or weres in the Riuer of Thames or Midway to be pluckt vp and destroyed for euer When the Franchises and liberties were thus confirmed by King Iohn he granted moreouer that either Sheriffe should haue two Clarks and two Sergeants also that the Citty should haue a common Seale and that the Maior should bee presented to the Barons of the Exchequer and they then to admit him as lawful Lieutenant and Deputy vnder the king to gouerne the Citty Hauing thus briefly discoursed how the dignity of honor began in this famous Citty both in the stile of Lord Maior and Sheriffes as briefly wil we also part their progresse and succession from that first woorthy man Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Gold-Smith to the as worthy Man Sir William Crauon now gouerning this present yeare 1611. Henry Fitz-Alwin Fitz-Liefstane Goldesmith beginning to take that high office on him in the first yeare of King Richard the first who was also for his valour and courage Surnamed Cueur de Lion continued still in the same Dignity for more then twenty foure years and then deceassing in the 15. yeare of King Iohn he was buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity néer vnto Aldgate In the said 15. yeare of King Iohn either to serue out the remainder of that yeare or to go on in a new election Roger Fitz-Alwain was chosen Lord Maire but I neyther find his freedom or his death albeit he continued as it séemeth in Office but one yeare the like did Serle Mercer and William Hardell in the yeares 1214. and 1215. And then began the raigne of King Henry the third Son to King Iohn the 19. of October 1216. Iames Alderman and Salomon Blasing Lord Maiors serued out this yeare by seuerall parts each after other Serle Mercer was againe chosen Lord Maior and continued in the Dignity sixe yeares together Richard Renger beeing chosen Lord Maior continued so the space of foure yeares Roger Duke or Duck was Lord Maior of London foure yeares Andrew Bokerell Pepperer was Lord Maior of London seauen yeares together Richard Renger Lorde Maior againe one yeare William Ioyner Lord Maior one yeare who builded the Quier of the Gray-Fryers Church in London and afterward became a lay brother of that house Gerard Bat Lord Maior one yeare and béeing elected againe for the ensuing yeare the King would not suffer it because he had béene charged in the former yeare with taking Money of the Victuallers and could shew no reason for it Reginald Bongey was Lorde Maior two yeares Raphe Ashwy Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tony Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Gisors Pepperer Lorde Mayor two yeares Peter Fitz-Alwin Lord Maior one yeare Michaell Tonny Lord Maior againe one yeare Roger Fitz-Roger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Lord Maior one yeare Adam Basing Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Tolason Draper Lord Maior one yeare Richard Hardell Draper was Lorde Maior sixe yeares together Iohn Gisors Pepperer againe Lord Maior one yeare William Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior two yeares Thomas Fitz-Richard was Lorde Maior foure yeares together Will Richards againe Lord Maior one yeare Allen le Zouch Lorde Maior one yeare and beeing a Baron of the Land and chiefe Iustice also he was slaine in Westminster Hall by Iohn Warren Earle of Surry in An. 1270. Sir Stephen Edwards Lord Maior one year Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon was made Custos of London and Constable of the Tower by reason of a great quarrell happening betwéene the Gold-smiths and the Taylors so that the King gaue the kéeping of the Cittie to his Son Prince Edward who made the saide Sir Hugh Fitz-Othon Custos of the Citty and Constable of the Tower as his Deputie But Prince Edward quickly obtained of the King his Father to haue the
Burgesses of the Citty adding the Dagger into the Citties Armes which till that day was a red Crosse in a Siluer field onely Iohn Northampton Draper Lord Maior two yeares Sir Nicholas Brember Grocer knighted with Syr William Walworth Lorde Maior three yeares together Nicholas Exton fishmon lord maior 1. yeare Nicholas Tâ—â—ifield or Tâ—ylorde knighted with Syr William Walworth Lord Maior one yeare William Vâ—naâ—r Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Adam Bâ—mme Goldsmith who prouided the Cittie of such plenty of corne from beyonde the seas that the Citty was able to furnish the countrey Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Hend Draper in whose time happened a great tumult in London because one of the bishop of Salisburies men had taken a Horse-loafe from a Bakers man in Fleete-streete and on the Byshops complaint to the King the Lord Maior being sent for to Windsore and other of hys Brethren the Maior Sheriffes and other substantiall Cittizens were there arrested the Maior committed to the castle of Windsore and the rest to other Castles and Holdes The King seized the citty into his hands appointing a Warden to gouerne it named Sir Edward Darlingâ—â—g knight c. But in short while the Kinges displeasure was pacified and the liberties of London restored and ratifyed William Sâ—ondon Grocer lord maior 1. year Iohn Hadley Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Iohn Froshe Mercer Lorde maior one yeare William More Vintner L. Maior one yeare Adam Bamme Gold-Smith againe Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith Lord Maior 1. yeare At his expiration of Office beganne the raigne of King Henry the fourth the 29. of September 1399. Thomas Knolles Grocer lord maior 1. yeare Iohn Francis Goldsmith lord maior one year Iohn Shadworth mercer lord maior one yeare Iohn Walcote Draper lorde maior one yeare William Ascham Fishmonger lord maior one yeare Iohn Hend draper again lord maior one year he builded new againe the parish Church of saint Swithen at London stone Iohn woodcock mercer lord maior one yeare Richard VVhittington mercer agayne lorde maior one yeare In which year died of the plague more then 30000. people William Stondon Grocer againe lord maior one yeare Drew Barentine Gold-smith againe lorde maior one yeare Hee builded part of the Goldesmiths Hall and gaue them lands Richard Marlow Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Knoles Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare he began anew to builde the Guild-Hall in London c. Robert Chichley Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare William Waldren mercer Lord Maior one yeare In his time died king Henry the fourth his sonne King Henry the fift began his raigne the 20. day of march 1412. William Cromar Draper lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Faulconer mercer who builded the Postern at Moorgate and lent the king 10000. markes vpon Iewels Lord Maior one yeare Nicholas Wotton Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner who first ordayned Lanthorn and Candle-light in the winter Euenings from Hallontide to Candlemasse Lorde Maior one yeare Richard Marlow Iremonger againe Lorde Maior one yeare William Seuenoke Grocer who founded a free Schoole and Almes houses at Seuenoke in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Richard Whittington mercer of whose worthy déeds we haue else where spoken Lord Maior again one yeare William Cambridge Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Chicheley Grocer againe L. Maior one yeare He gaue the plot of ground to builde the parish church of S. Stephens in Walbrooke thereon In his time died king Henry the fifte and King Henry the sixt began his raigne the 31 of August 1422. William walderne mercer again Lord Maior one yeare Newgate was then builded by Richard Whittingtons executors William Cromar Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Couentrie mercer Lord Maior one year Iohn Reinwell Fishm lord maior one yeare Iohn Gidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Henry Barton Skinner againe Lorde Maior one yeare William East-field mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Nicholas wotton Draper againe Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Welles Grocer a liberall benefactor for newe building the chappell by Guild-Hald beside of his goodes was builte the Standarde in west-Cheape Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Parneis Fishmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Brokle Draper Lord Maior one yeare Roger Oteley Grocer Lord Maior one year Henry Frowicke Mercer Lâ—de Maior one yeare Iohn Michell Fishmonger againe L. Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam East-field mercer who was made a Knight of the Bathe and gaue great bounty to rhe Water conduits Lorde Maior againe one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Robert Large mercer Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Paddesley Gold-smith mint-maister Lord Maior one yeare Robert Cloptoâ— Draper Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Hatherley Ironmonger Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Catworth Grocer Lorde Maior one yeare Henry Frowicke mercer in whose time Pauls Steeple was fiered with lightning and hardlye quenched Lord Maior againe one yeare Sir Simon Eyre Draper who builded Leaden Hal for a common Granary to the city c. Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Olney mercer Lord Maior one yeare Iohn Sidney Draper Lord Maior one yeare Stephen Browne Grocer againe Lord Maior one yeare Thomas Chalton mercer in whose time happened the Rebellion of Iack Cade of Kent Lord Maior one yearâ— Nicholas VVilford Grocer lorde Maior one yeare William Gregory Skinner lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Filding mercer who was made one of the counsell to King Henry the sixt and King Edward the fourth lord Maior one yeare Iohn Norman Draper who was the firste maior that was rowed by water to westminster for till that time they rode thither on horseback lord Maior one yeare Stephen Foster Fishmonger who enlarged Ludgate Lord Maior one yeare William Marrow Grocer lorde Maior one yeare Tâ—omas Canning Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Godfrey Boloine mercer who gaue a 1000. li. to poore housholders in London c. lord Maior one yeare Thomas Scot Draper lord Maior one yeare William Hulin Fishmonger lord Maior one yeare Richard Lee Grocer lord Maior one yeare In his time began King Henry the sixt his troubles and King Edward the fourth entered hys raigne the fourth of March 1460. Hugh witch mercer lord Maior one yeare Thomas Cooke Draper made knight of the Bath in the fifte yeare of King Edward the 4. Lord maior one yeare Mathew Phillip Gold-smith made Knight of the Bath the fift yeare of Edward the fourth and afterward knighted in field the tenth of Edward the fourth Lord
yet maintained by the Merchant-Taylors and the greater part of S. Andrews Vnder-shaft Parish Church in London Lorde Maior one yeare Thomas Bradbury Mercer sonne to VVilliam Bradbury of Branghing in Hertfordshire Lord Maior part of the yeare and Sir VVilliam Capell the rest wherein dyed King Henry the seauenth and Henry the eight his sonne began his raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. Henry Keble Grocer son to George Keble of London Cittizen and Grocer Lord Maior one yeare Roger Acheley Draper sonne to Thomas Acheley of Stanwardine in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir VVilliam Coppinger Fish-Monger son to VValter Coppinger of Buckseill in Suffolk And Sir Richard Haddon Mercer were Lord Maiors this yeare by seuerall partes each after other William Browne Mercer sonne to Iohn Browne Cittizen and Mercer of London Lord Maior one yeare George Monox Draper borne in London Lord Mayor one yeare Sir William Butler Grocer son to Richard Butler of Bindenham in Bedfordshire Lorde Maior one yeare Iohn Reest Grocer sonne to William Reest of Peterborow in Northamptonshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Exmew Golde-smith sonne to Richard Exmew of Ruthin in Cheshire Lorde Maior one yeare he made the Water-Conduite in London wall by Moore-gate c. Thomas Mirfin Skinner sonne to George Mirfin of Elie in Cambridgeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Iames Yardford Mercer sonne to William Yardford of Kidwelley in Wales L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Brugge Draper sonne to Thomas Brugge of Dymmocke in Glocestershire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Milborne Draper son to Iohn Milborne of Long-Melford in Suffolke L. Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Mundy Gold-Smith son to William Mundy of Wycomb in Buckinghamshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Baldry Mercer son to Richard Baldry of Stow-market in Suffolke Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Baylie Draper son to Iohn Baylie of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer son to Richard Allen of Thackstead in Essex Lorde Mayor two yeares Sir Thomas Seymor Mercer sonne to Iohn Seymor of London Fish-Monger who was Sonne to Robert Seymor of Walden in Essex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iames Spencer Vintoner son to Robert Spencer of Congleton in Cheshire Lord Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Rudstone Draper son to Robert Rudstone of Hatton in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Raphe Dodmer Mercer son to Henrie Dodmer of Pickering-Leigh in Yorkshire béeing frée of the Brewers he was from them translated to the Mercers and Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Thomas Pargitor Salter sonne to Iohn Pargitor of Chipping-norton in Oxfordshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Nicholas Lambert Grocer son to Edmond Lambert of Wilton in Wiltshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Stephen Peacock Haberdasher sonne to Stephen Peacock of the Citty of Dublin Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Christopher Askew Draper son to Iohn Askew of Edmonton in Middlesex Lord Maior one yeare Sir Iohn Champneis Skinner sonne to R. Campneis of Chew in Somersetshire Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Iohn Allen Mercer againe Lord Maior one yeare and made a priuy Counceller to the King for his great wisedome Sir Raphe Warren Mercer son to Thomas Warren of London Fuller who was sonne to William Warren of Fering in Essex L. Maior one yeare Sir Richard Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Forman Haberdasher sonne to Willi◠Forman of Gainsburgh in Lincolnshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Hollis of London Mercer L. Maior one yeare Sir William Roche Draper sonne to Iohn Roche of Wixley in Yorkshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Michaell Dormer Mercer son to Geffrey Dormer of Tame in Orfordshire L. Maior one yeare Iohn Cootes Salter son to Thomas Coots of Bearton in Buckinghamshire Lorde Maire one yeare Sir William Bowyer Draper son to William Bowyer of Harston in Cambridgshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Laxton Grocer sonne to Iohn Laxton of Yongdel in Northamptonshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Martin Bowes Golde-Smith sonne to Thomas Bowes of Yorke Citty Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Henry Hubberthorne Merchant-Taylor son to Christopher Hubberthorne of VVadingworth in Lincolnshire L. Maior one year In whose time died King Henry the 8. and King Edward the sixt began his raigne the 28. of Ianuary 1546. Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer son to Iohn Gresham of Holte in Norffolke Lorde Mayor one yeare Sir Henry Amcotes Fish-Monger son to William Amcotes of Astrap in Lincolnshire L. Maior one yeare Sir Rowland Hill Mercer sonne to Thomas Hill of Hodnet in Shropshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Andrew Iudde Skinner son to Iohn Iud of Tonebridge in Kent Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Dobbes Skinner son to Robert Dobbes of Baitby in Yorkeshire L. Maior one yeare Sir George Barne Haberdasher sonne to George Barne Cittizen and Haberdasher of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas White Merchant-Taylor son to Thomas White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire Lord maior one yeare Then died king Edward and Queene Mary began her raign the 6. day of Iuly 1553. This sir Thomas White founded S. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxenford and gaue 2000. li. to the Citty of Bristoll to purchase 100. and 20. li. land yearely c. Sir Thomas Lyon Grocer son to Iohn Lyon of Peryfare in Middlesex Lorde Maior one yeare Sir William Gerard Haberdasher sonne to Iohn Gerard Cittizen and Grocer of London who was son to William Gerard of Seddingbourne in Kent Lord Maior one year Sir Thomas Offley Merchant-Taylor sonne to VVilliam Offley of the Citty of Chester lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Curteis Fish-Monger sonne to Iohn Curteis of Enfield in Middlesex he was frée of the Pewterers and from them translated to the Fish-Mongers Lord Maior one yeare Sir Thomas Leigh Mercer sonne to Roger Leigh of VVillington in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare In which yeare died Quéene Mary and Quéene Elizabeth began her princely raigne the seauentéenth day of Nouember 1558. Sir William Huet Cloth-worker son to Edmond Huet of Wales in Yorkshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Chester Draper sonne to Iohn Chester Cittizen and Draper of London Lord Maior one yeare Sir William Harper Merchant-Taylor son to William Harper of the Towne of Bedford lord maior one yeare Sir Thomas Lodge Grocer son to William Lodge of Cresset in Shropshire Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Iohn White Grocer Sonne to Robert White of Farnam in Surry Lorde Maior one yeare Sir Richard Malory Mercer son to Anthony Malory of Papworthamus in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior one yeare Sir Richard Champion Draper son to Richard Champion of Godilming in Surrey Lord maior one yeare Sir Chtistopher Draper Iron-monger son to Iohn Draper of Melton Mowbrey Lord Maior one yeare