beheaded Pag. 1165 Earle of Worcester sent into Fraunce robbed on the Sea Pag. 1163 Earle of Essex with others sayled into Ireland Pag. 1174. Captaine general Pag. 1175 Ebbe Abbesse of Coldingham Pag. 121 Edenbourgh builded Pag. 20. yeelded to the Englishmen Pag. 1173. brent Pag. 1029. Edmond King of Eastangles martired by the Danes Pag. 97 Edmond Ironside king Pag. 137 Edrike of Statun the Traytour Pag. 137. 138 Edwine of the West SaxoÌ„s a vicious king depriued Pag. 132 Edgar K. crowned at Bath Pag. 132. restored Monasteries Pag. 133. eyghte kings rowed him Pag. 133 Edwarde sonne to Edgar murthered by his stepmother Pag. 134 Edmonds Burie builded Pag. 140 Edwarde Confessour Pag. 142 Edmonds Burie brent Pag. 245 Edward the first king Pag. 296 Edward the second king Pag. 325. imprisoned Pag. 349. deposed Pag. 350. murdred Pag. 357. Edwardle Bruse beheaded Pag. 338 Edward the third king Pag. 352. elected King of Almaine Pag. 404. dyed Pag. 469 Edwarde the seconde bruted to be aliue Page 359 Edendon founded Pag. 393 Edward Earle of March Pag. 711. crowned Pag. 712 martired Pag. 715. taken prisoner Pag. 723. escaped ibid. fledde Pag. 724. returned Pag. 726. made knightes at London Pag. 735. banqueted the Maior of LondoÌ„ Pag. 749. ended his life Pag. 750. his description Pag. 752. Oration at his death Pag. 758. his Concubines Pag. 799 Edward Lord Grey made Earle of Kent Page 713 Edward the sixth borne Pag. 1011. beganne to raigne Pag. 1035. made knight ibid. decesed Pag. 1058 Eguesham Pag. 114 Egelburge Pag. 114 Egbrightstone Pag. 123 Elanius king Pag. 28 Elidurus king Pag. 29 Eldrea king Pag. 30 Eliud king Pag. 30 Elye minster founded Pag. 97. Pag. 111. a Bishops sea Pag. 180 Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yoÌ„ger brother but it would not be obtayned Pag. 179 Elsing spittle founded Pag. 366 Elianor Cobham apprehended Pag. 644. indited of treason Pag. 645. did penance Pag. 646 Elizabeth now Queene of England hyr birth Pag. 999. hir christning Pag. 1000 Lady Elizabeth sent to the tower Pag. 1090 Emerianus king Pag. 30 Emperour came to London Pag. 930 England first so called Pag. 118 Ensigne of the Danes Pag. 123 Englishmen besieged the Castel of Argilla in Barbarie Pag. 128 England deuided Pag. 138 Englande conquered by woodden bowes Pag. 46 England interdicted Pag. 236. released 244 English ships ouercome by Spaniar Pag. 475 Entercourse with Flaunders Pag. 870 Englishmen sent to Saint Quint. Pag. 1104 Englishmen sent to Vlstar in IrelaÌ„d Pag. 1163 Epistle of Elutherius Pag. 55 Epistle of Boniface to king Ethelbald Pag. 102 Erchenwine first king of East SaxoÌ„s Pag. 98. Essendune in Essexe Pag. 138 Exchequer at Northampton Pag. 237 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 306 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 340 Ethelbert king of Kent Pag. 90. christened Pag. 91 Ethelburge poysoned hir husband Butricus king of West Saxons Pag. 118. hir miserable end ibid. Ethelingey the noble Iland Pag. 123 Etheldred king of West Saxons Pag. 134 Euesham founded Pag. 102 Excester builded Pag. 34 Excester the Danes wintered there Pag. 122 Excester a Bishops Sea Pag. 135 Excester besieged Pag. 160. 188 ExecutioÌ„ in Pauls churchyard Pag. 1015. 1083 F. FAmine Pag. 166. 172 Fals accuser of his elder brother hanged Pag. 227 Farendon founded Pag. 251 Fat Cow xvj pence Pag. 420 Fall of money Pag. 1049. second fall of money ibid. Pag. 1115 False Christ whipped Pag. 1116 Faelix Bishop of Donwich Pag. 96 Fernehame in Southsex Pag. 125 Feuersham in Kent founded Pag. 195 Feete and hands of many meÌ„ cut of Pag. 257 Feast of Saint George at Windsâ—r Pag. 415 Free Schoole at Bedford founded Pag. 1117 Felton arraigned and executed Pag. 1148 Fire-light forbidden to the English Pag. 153 Fish like a man Pag. 214. like armed knights Pag. 245. monstrous Pag. 268 Fikets felde Pag. 585 Fire at Baynardes Castle Pag. 652 Fitz Water drowned Pag. 636 Fire nigh Ludgate of London Pag. 674 Fire at Leaden Hal. Pag. 846. in Breadstreete Pag. 859. in Roode lane Pag. 1013. at Temple barre Pag. 1003. at Broken wharfe Pag. 1040 Friste fruites and tenthes giuen to the King Pag. 1003. restored to the Cleargie Page 1099 First shew of children in Christs Hospitall Pag. 1055 Fifteenes granted at a Parliament Pag. 1017 Fiue persons of the familie of loue stode at Paules Crosse Pag. 1184 Flyes venomous Pag. 23 Florianus Pag. 64 Flauius Pag. 64 Flemmings sent into Wales Pag. 180 Floudes of water Pag. 269. 272. 274. 1123. 276 Flint Castell builded Pag. 297. rased to the ground Pag. 299 Fleete dike at London which sometime bare shippes sore decayed Pag. 322 Florences of Gold Pag. 388 Flemmings robbed by the keÌ„tishmen Page 724 Ferrex and Porrex kings Pag. 24 Forest in Hampshire Pag. 166 Fodringhey Colledge founded Pag. 574 Foure Eclipses Pag. 1027 Foxley of the Tower Potmaker slept Pag. 14. dayes and as manye nightes without waking Pag. 10â—3 Frawe a riuer Pag. 122 Frost great Pag. 172. Pag. 234. Pag. 293. Pag. 299. Pag. 194. Pag. 638. Page 923 Free Schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Pag. 1014 Frier Forrest brent Pag. 1012 Free Schoole at Drayton in Shropshire Page 1032 Free Schole at Tonbridge Pag. 1048 Frenchmen landed in the I le of Wight Pag. 1032. at Newhauen in Sussex ibid Frenchmen attached Pag. 930 Frenchmen arriued in Sussex Pag. 1031 Friers houses suppressed Pag. 1003. againe Page 1014 Free Schole at Walthamstow Pag. 903 Fray in Saint Dunstans Church of London Pag. 568 Frier tormented to death Pag. 494 Friers of the sacke Pag. 316 French nauie taken Pag. 501 Fray against the stilyarde men Pag. 867 Fier at the starre in Breadstreete Pag. 643. on London bridge Pag. 877 Frier Randulph slayne Pag. 632 French men land in Wales Pag. 565 Fraunce Pag. 390 Frier Randulph sent to the Tower Pag. 604 Fray at Wrestling Pag. 673 Fulgen king Pag. 30 Fullenham or Fulham Pag. 124 Foure children borne at one burdeÌ„ Pag. 1183 Flyes in Februarie in greate number Page 1180 Frobishers first voyage to Cataya Pag. 1186 Frost and a sharp winter Pag. 1165 G. GAlley halfepence forbidden Pag. 597 Gardiner hrent Pag. 640 Gascoigne wine sold for fortie shillings the tun Pag. 873 Garnodo won from the Turke Pag. 866 Gardins about Londo stroyed to make Rome for Archers Pag. 872 Gatehouse of the middle Temple newe built Pag. 905 Gambo and another Captaine murdedered Pag. 1045 Germany toke the name Pag. 20 Gernucius king Pag. 30 Germanus and Lupus Bishops Pag. 77 Gerend on â—ourded Pag. 206 Geffrey Chaucer Pag. 548 George Plontagenet made Duke of Clarence â—13 Geffrey whipped for heresie Pag. 1116 Gifford Angolisme created Earle of Huntington Pag. 471 Gilbert Pot punished in Cheape Pag. 1059 Glamorgan Pag. 23 Glastenburie Pag. 58 Glocester founded Pag. 102 Glocester Pag. 114. brent Pag. 177. burned Pag. 183 Glocester Castle take by the Baros Pag. 279 Glocester Church brent Pag. 310 Glocester besieged Pag. 282 Glamorgan and Morganocke wonne Pag. 170 Glastenburie builded Pag. 116
arrested him he arrested the Marshall also and many other with him to all which it was promised y t they should haue no harme but that promise was not kept for both the Archbishop Archbishop of Yorke beheaded the Earle Marshall were beheaded when the King came to Yorke the morrow after Whitsonday After this wheÌ„ the King had punished the meÌ„ of Yorke at his pleasure he set forth with an armie to pursue the Earle of Northumberland and Thomas Lord Bardolph and tooke all maner of munition with him and an armie of 37. thousand fighting men The Earle of Northumberland perceyuing the Kings intent gote himselfe to Berwike with thrée hundred horsse and froÌ„ thence into Scotland The King being bent against the Earle of Northumberland went to Berwike from whence the Earle fledde into Scotland and the Lord Bardolph with him whome Dauid Lord Fleming the Scotte receyued into alliance The King vnderstaÌ„ding that the Earle was fled he commanded them in the Castell to render it vnto him whiche when they refused to do the King caused a greate Gunne to be shotte whiche ouerthrewe parte of a Tower wherevpon they of the Castell gaue ouer and submitted themselues to the King who caused some of them to be beheaded and the residue to be sent to prisons After this the Castell of Alnewike and the rest of the Earles Castels were with small ado rendred to his handes with which successe the King being encouraged went streight into Wales where contrarywise nothing prospered with him wherefore he returned loosing Charets Cartes and Wagons to the number of 50. with his Treasure so that comming backe to Worcester he sent for the Archbishop and Bishops and declared to them his misfortune desiring theÌ„ to help him to whome the Archbishop answered that he woulde talke with the Cleargie in that matter In the meane season the Frenchmen came to succour the Welchmen with 140. Shippes they lâ—nded in Milford Hauen hauing lost almost all their horsses for lacke of fresh water The Lord Barkley and Henry Pay burnt fiftéene of those Shippes in the same Hauen These Frenchmen beséeged the Towne of Carmarden and tooke it graunting to the inhabitants all their moueable goodes and to goe whether they would The same time the foresayde Lorde Barkley Thomas Anno reg 7. Swinborne and Henry Pay tooke fourtéene Shippes of the French in the whiche they tooke the Steward of France and right Captaynes more The Towne of Reystone in Hartfordshire was brent Reyston brent Henry Barton William Groome the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Woodcocke Mercer the 28. of October This yeare all the Weares in Thamis from the Towne VVeares in the Thamis and Medvvay destroyed of Stanes in the Weast vnto the water of Medway in the East by the Maior and communaltie of London were destroyd and the trunckes brent for the which great plea and discord followed betwéene Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords and Knightes of the one party and the Maior and communaltie on the other partie but the Citizens preuayled by vertue of their Charter and Statutes A Parliamente beganne whiche lasted nigh one Parliament A great taske 1406 whole yeare for after the Knightes of the Parliament had long delayde to graunt to the King a subsedie yet in the ende being ouercome they granted the taske demanded The Priestes and the Friers that liued of almes were forced euery one to pay halfe a marke Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland the L. Bardolfe by the counsell of Dauid Fleming fled into Wales for he had declared to them that the Scottes had conspired to deliuer them vnto their owne King in exchange for other prisoners and for this doing of Dauid Fleming the trayterous Scottes flew him and reysed such a ciuill warre amongst theÌ„selues that in the ende they were constreyned to request truce for a yeare which when they had obteyned the Scottes sente Iames the sonne of Robert King of Scottes being but The King of Scottes sonne and heire taken on the Sea nine yeares olde towardes France there to be brought vp and to be instructed in the pleasant eloquence of the French tongue whome certayne marriners of Cley in Norffolke tooke on the Seas and with him a Bishop and the Earle of Orkney to whome his Father had committed him and they brought him into England and deliuered him to the King who forth with burst out into a laughter and sayde surely the Scottes mighte haue sente him to me for I can speake French The Bishop escaped and fledde but the Earle of Orkeney and the sayde Iames the yong ladde was sent to the Tower of London where he remayned prisoner till the second yeare of Henry the sixth whiche was aboue eightéene yeares The Frenchmen came to help Owen Glendouerdew with 38. Shippes whereof 8. were taken full of armed men the rest escaped into Wales but not long after were taken fiftene Shippes laden with Wine and Waxe Whilest the Parliament yet continued the Duke of Yorke was restored to his olde dignitie whome many men thought to haue bin dead in prison Edmond Holland Earle of Kent married the Duke of Anno reg 8. Millaynes daughter in the Priory of Saint Mary Ouery in Southwarke Nicholas Wootton Geffrey Brooke the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Richard Whittington Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Couentry and Iankin Carpenter executors to this VVhittington Colledge founded Richard Whittington with his goodes builded Whittington Colledge in London and a great part of the Hospitall of Saint Barthelmew in Smithfielde He builded the Library of the Grey Friers and the East end of the Guild Hall in London with diuers small conduites called Bosses and the Weast Nevvgate builded Gate of London called Newgate Also Iankin Carpenter one of the executors to the Worshipfull Knight Sir Richard Whittington aforenamed of his owne costes and charges caused to be paynted aboute the Cloyster of Saint Paules Church in London a most excellent monument or remembrance of Death the originall patterne whereof was sometime deuised by Machabre a Doctor of France and therefore called The Daunce of Machabre which Daunce was richly paynted about Saint Innocents Cloyster in Paris with Metres in French signifying The Daunce of Death commonly called the Daunce of Paules the spéeches of Death to all estates and their seuerall answeres againe to Death all whiche being translated into English by Iohn Lidgate Monke of Bury was as afore sayde richly paynted in the sayd Cloyster of Saint Paules Church and therefore commonly called The Daunce of Paules Henry Pay and other with him of the fiue Portes with Tho. Wals fiftéene Shippes tooke an hundred and twentie Shippes which lay at ancker in the Sea of Briteine laden with Iron Salt Oyle and Rochell Wine This Sommer through corruption of the ayre so great a Plague was shedde vpon mens bodyes as was not séene the like in many yeares in this land so that men
worshippe of hys holy name and for the encrease of vertue the dilation of cunning and establishmente of Christian Fayth whereof the one in Cambridge to bée called hys Colledge royall of oure Ladye and Saint Nicholas And the other at Eaton beside Windsor to bée called hys Colledge of oure blessed Ladye And for the performaunce of thys hys deuoute purpose hee enfeffed certayne Byshoppes wyth other Noble and worshipfull personages by hys letters patents wyth lands and possessions parcel of his enheritance of the Dutchie of Lācaster to the cleare value of wel neare xxxiiij hundred pound by yere whych letters patents he after confirmed by his Acte of Parliament declaring also by his wil vnto his sayde feoffées his intent and meaning howe the same should be imployed vpon the edifications of his saide two Colledges wherof in my iudgemente the deuice is so excellent and the buildings so princely and apt for that purpose as I can not omitte to set forth vnto you the very plat of the whole Colledge in Cambridge euen as I finde mentioned almost Verbatim in his said wil supposing that if the rest of the house had procéeded according to the Chappel alreadie finished as his full intent meaning was the lyke Colledge coulde skant haue bin found againe in any Christian land The words of the Will are thus As touching The Chappel the dimensions of the Church of my sayde Colledge of our Lady and Saint Nicholas of Cambridge I haue deuised appointed that the same Church shal containe in length 288. foote of assise without any Iles all of the widenesse of xl foote And the length of the same Church from y e West end vnto the Alters at the Quire dore shal contayne 120. foote And from the Prouostes stall vnto the gréece called Gradus Chori 90 foote for 36. stals on either side of the same Quyre aunscoering to lxx fellowes and ten Priests conduits whiche must be de prima forma And from the sayd stalles vnto y e East end of the sayde Church lxij foote of assise Also a Reredosse bearing the Roodelofte departing the Quire and the bodye of the Churche contayning in length xl foote and in breadth xiiij foote The walles of the same Church to be in height 90. foote imbattelled vawted and Charerooffed sufficiently butteraced and euery Butterace fined with finials And in the East end of the same Church shal be a Window of nine dayes and betwixt euerye Buttrace a Windowe of fiue dayes And betwixt euery of the same Buttraces in the Bodye of the Churche on both sides of the same Church a Closet with an Alter therein contayning in length twenty foote and in bredth ten foote vawted and finished vnder the soyle of the I le windowes And the pauement of y e Church to be enhansed 4. foote aboue y e groūd without And y e height of the pauement of the Quire one foote and a halfe aboue the pauement of the Churche And the pauemente of the Alter thrée foote aboue that And on the North side of the Quier a The Vestry Uestry contayning in length fiftie foote and in breadth 22. foote departed into two houses beneath and two houses aboue which shal containe in hight 22. foote in al with an entrey from the Quire vauted And at the West ende of the The Cloister Church a Cloyster square the East pane contayning in length 175. foote and the West pane as muche The North pane two hundered foote and the South pane as muche of the whiche the Deambulatoriē thirtéene foote wide and in heyght twentie foote to the Corbill Table wyth cleare stories and Butteraces wyth finalles vawted and embattelled And the grounde thereof foure foote lower then the The Steeple Churche grounde And in the middle of the West pane of the Cloyster a strong Tower square contayning foure and twentith foote wythin the Walles And in height one hundred and twentie foote to the Corbill table And foure small Turrets ouer that fined wyth Pynacles And a dore into the sayde Cloyster inwarde but outwarde noone And as touching the dimensions of the housing of the saide The base Cour◠Colledge I haue deuised and appointed in the South-side of the sayde Churche a Quadraunte closing to bothe endes of the same Churche the East pane wherof shal contayne 230. foote in length and in bréedth within the Wals The East pane two and twentith foote In the same panes myddle a Tower for a Gatehouse containing in length thirtie foote and in bredth two and twentith foote and in height lx foote with The great Gate in thrée Chābers ouer y e Gate euery one ouer y e other And on either side of the same gate foure Chambers euerye one contayning in length fiue and twentie foote and in breadth two and twentie féete And ouer euery of these Chambers two Chambers aboue of the same measure or more with two Towers outwarde and two Towers inwarde The Southe pane shall containe in length 238. foote and The south pane in breadth two and twentie foote wythin in which shall bée seuen Chambers euery one cōtayning in length nine and twentie foote and in breadth 22. with a Chamber percell of the prouosts lodging contayning in length 35. foote wyth a Chamber in the East corner of the same pane contayning in length 25. foote and in breadth xxij foote And ouer euery of all these Chambers two Chambers and with fiue Towers outward and thrée towers inward The West pane The vvest pane shal contain in length 230. foote and in breadth within 24. foote in whiche at the ende towarde the Church shall bée a The Librarie Librarie contayning in length 110. foote and in bread the The disputation house 24. foote And a large house for reading and disputations cōtayning in length xl foote And two Chambers vnder the same Librarie eache contayning 29. foote in length and in breadth foure and twentie foote And ouer the sayde Lybrary a house of the same largenesse for diuerse stuffe of the The vvardrobe sayd Colledge In the other ende of the same pane a Hall The Hall containing in length 100. foote vpō a vaute of 12. foote high ordained for the Cellor and Buttrie and the breadth of the Hall sixe and thyrtie foote On euerye side thereof a Baye Windowe And in the neather ende of the same Hall towarde the middle of the same pane a Pantrey and Buttrie The Pantrie and Buttrie euerye of them in length twentie foote and in breadth seauentéene foote and ouer that two Chambers for Officers And at the neather end of the Hal toward the West a goodlye The Colledge Kitchin Kitchin And euerye corner of the same pane shall haue inwarde two Towers ordayned for the wayes into the Hall and Librarie And in euerye corner of the sayde Quadraunt shall be two corner towers one inwarde and one outwarde moe than the Towers aboue rehearsed The
the verye yeare that he conquered Kent subdued also this Suthred and annexed Essex to hys Kingdome yet London with the Countrey confining about it came not in subiection to the Weast-Saxons but obeyed the King of Mercia as long as that Kingdome continued Sigehricke and Sigehard afterwarde aspired to the Kingdome of East Saxon but with no good successe Mercians MErcia the fifth Kingdome and greatest of the other contayned Gloucester Hereford Chester Stafforde Wircester Oxforde Warwicke Darby Leicester Buckingham Northampton Notingham Lincolne Bedforde Huntington and parte of Hartforde shires It had on the Weast side the riuer Dee fast by Chester and Seuerne fast by Shrewsburie vnto Bristow in the East the East sea in the South Thamis vnto London in the North y ◠riuer Humber so Westward down to the riuer Merce vnto the corner of Wyrhall This kingdome of Merce in the beginning was departed into thrée parts into West Mercia middle Mercia and East Mercia it cōtayneth the diocesses of Lincolne Wircester Hereforde Couentrie and Lichfielde CReda the eleuenth from Woden firste King of the Mercies 586 raigned ten yeares ¶ Wibba his sonne raigned xx yeares 596 616 626 W. Malme ¶ Ceorlus his sonne raigned x. yeares PEnda the sonne of Wibba a manne actiue in warres but franticke and most wicked toke on him the kingdome of the Mercies when he was fiftie yeres old he shooke the Cities and disturbed the borders of the kings that were hys owne Countreymenne borne he slewe Edwin and Oswald kings of Northumberlande where Oswald was slaine is nowe scituate the town of Oswalstre which of him toke that name he also slew Sigebert Egfride and Anna kings of the East Angles which all were of holy life and conuersation hée banished Kenewallus king of West Saxons but in the ende himselfe was slaine by Oswyn which succéeded Oswald hys brother when he had raigned xxx yeares PEda the sonne of Penda succéeded in part of the Kingdome 656 W. Malme being preferred by the gift of Oswin whose daughter hée had taken to wife on condition he shoulde embrace Christianitie and forsake Idolatry This Peda was the first foūder of Medeshamsted now called Petarborow Through y t treason Peterborow founded of his wife he dyed sodainly when he had raigned after hys Father iij. yeares OSwine toke the Kingdome but he raigned there onely 659 thrée yeares VLferus brother to Peda earnestlye preferred Christianitie 662 whych hys brother had begonne but he was the first sayeth W of Malmesbery that throughe the sinne of Simony sold the Byshoprick of London vnto Wyna He raigned xvij yeares EThelred brother to Vlferus succéeded in the kingdome of 676 Bishops sea ◠VVorcester the Mercians hée obtayned a Byshoppes Sea to be in the Citie of Worcester Bosellus was firste Bishoppe there Egwinus was the second This Egwinus by the helpe of Kenredus King of Mercies founded the Monasterie of Euesham in a Ex Carta place then called Eouesham of the shepherdes fielde and Euesham house purchased by the saide Bishop The towne in the Saxons time was called Hotheholme Aboute the same time two Liber Tewks noble men named Odo and Dodo founded the Priorie of Tewkesbury Monastery of Gloucester Inscriptiones Gloucestriae Tewkesburie Also Osricke duke of Gloucester founded the Monasterie of Gloucester then since the same is a Bishops Sea Etheldred became a Monke at Bardoney when he had raigned xxx yeares KInredus sonne to Wolferus in the fifth yere of his raigne 706 went to Rome and became a Monke CElred the sonne of Ethelred who as he was maruellous 710 in prowes against Ina of the West Saxons so was he miserable by vntimely death for he rained not past viij yeres and was buried at Lichfielde EThelbalde raigned in continuall peace many yeares and 718 Chronicle of Holande Ro. Mai. Epistle of Boniface to Ethelbald then by the procurement of Beruredus was slaine of hys own subiects Unto this Ethelbald Boniface y e secōd Bishop of Verche in Holland after Archbishop of Mens vpon the Rijne an English māborn who was afterward martyred sent an Epistle of the whiche I will here sette downe a péece to be séene for that it sheweth partlye the state of that time and serueth for example in time to come TO his most deare Lorde and to be preferred in the loue of Christ aboue all other kings of England Edbaldus Boniface Archbishoppe the Germaine legate perpetual helth of charitie loue in Christ We acknowledge before God that we did reioyce to heare of your prosperitie your Faith and good workes and we be sory when we heare any thing that goeth against you eyther in successe of warre or in danger of your soule for we haue heard that you forbid thefte and robbery that you loue peace defende the widowe and the poore for the which we giue God thanks but in that you refuse lawfull marriage which if it were to the preferring of chastitie it were cōmendable and sith you wallow in leacherie and adultery with Uirgins consecrate to God it is both shamefull and damnable for it doth confounde your renowme bothe before God and man placing you among Idolators bicause you violate the temple of God Wherfore my deare sonne repent and remember how filthy a thing it is that thou who by the gifte of GOD raygnest ouer so many nations shouldest to the great displeasure of GOD make thy selfe a bonde slaue to thyne owne fleshly lust Wée haue hearde also that the more parte of noble men and people of the Mercians by thyne euill example haue left theyr lawfull wiues and haue defiled the wiues of other and also Uirgins whiche howe farre it differeth from all good order and honestie let the lawes of straunge nations touche you for in the auntient Countrey of the Saxons where was no knowledge of God if eyther a mayde in hyr fathers house or being married to an husband were become an aduoutresse she shoulde be strangled by hir own hande closed to hyr mouth and the corrupter shoulde be hanged Aduoutry amōg the Infidels pushed by death vpon the pitte where the aduoutresse was buryed If shée were not so vsed hyr garmentes being cutte awaye downe to the gyrdle-stéede the chaste matrones dyd scourge and whip hyr and pricke hyr wyth kniues and so was sent from Towne to Towne where other freshe and newe scourgers or whippers did méete and whippe hir vntyll they hadde killed hyr Likewise the Womedeans who are the moste vncleane kinde of people hadde thys manner of vsage wyth them that the husbande beyng deade the woman togyther wyth the deade bodye shoulde caste hyr selfe headlong into the fiered stacke or pile of woodde prepared for the burning of theyr bodyes If therefore the Gentiles not knowing GOD hadde so greate zeale to chastitie howe muche the more my deare sonne it is to be required at thy handes who arte a Christian and a King Haue therefore
compassion of thyne owne soule and spare the greate number of people that by thy Fatherlye example yet may beware to offende God for whose soules thou shalt giue an accompte Consider also that if the Englshe nation despising lawfull matrimonye doe encrease by aduoutrye as the Frenche men Italians and also the verye Pagans do caste in our téeth and vpbrayde vs withall of suche coniunctions and copulations shall spring vppe a peakishe dasterdely people which shall despise God wyth theyr wicked qualities vndoe the Countrey as it came to passe to the Burgundians the people of Prouance and the Spaniardes whom the Sarazens haue many yeares assaulted for theyr sinnes whiche in times past they had committed Besides this it is told vs that you take away priuileges of Churches and thereby giue euill example to your noble men to do the like but I praye you remember howe terrible vengeaunce God toke vppon the Kings your predecessours whiche committed suche offences as we rebuke you for A wicked spirit came vpon Colredus your predecessoure whiche was a defiler of Uirgins and a breaker of ecclesiasticall Priuileges for sitting royally among his barrons at a dinner the Diuell plucked away his soule without confession of his sinnes The Diuell also drewe in suche a rage Osredus king of the Northumbers whiche was guiltie of the same crimes that with a vile death he loste both kingdome and life in his lusty yong age Also Charles king of Fraunce whiche ouerthrewe Churches and altered the Churche money to hys owne vse was consumed with a long tormeÌ„t and fearefull death It followeth therefore my deare beloued sonne that with Fatherlye and earnest prayers we beséeche you that you will not despise the Counsel of your Fathers which diligently do admonishe your highnesse for nothing is more commodious to a good king than willinglye to amend such faultes when he is warned of them as SalomoÌ„ sayth who so loueth discipline loueth wisdome therfore my déere son declaring our aduice we beséech you by the liuing God by his sonne Jesus Christ our Lord and by hys holy spirit that you will remember how transitorie this present life is and howe shorte and momentane the pleasure of this filthie fleshe is and how vile and shamefull a thing it is that man shall leaue euill examples vnto his posteritie for euer beginne therefore to frame your life in better wayes and amend the errors of your youth that you may obtayne prayse with men in this life and eternall glorie in the life to come we wish your Highnesse well to fare and to encrease in all goodnesse Ethelbald was slayne at Secgeswald and was buryed at Hrependune BEraredus the murtherer of Ethelbald did nothing worthy 749 to be remembred but being straightway slayne by Offa had an end méete for a Traytour OFfa Nephew to Ethelbald succéeded he ioyned battayle 749 with Kineulfus King of the Weast Saxons and gote the victorie He sent for Ethelbert King of the East Angles promising great things by flatterie but when he had got him to his Palace he caused him to be beheaded and then vniustly inuaded the Kingdome of the East Angles He caused the reliques of S. Albon to be taken vp and Vita Alboni S Albons builded put in a Shrine aborned with golde and precious stones and builded there a princely Monasterie He founded the Abbey of Bathe He translated the Archbishops Sea to Lichfield He made a dike betwéene Wales and the Kingdome of Offa Dike the Mercies which ditch extendeth by South from the parts about Bristow ouer the Mountaynes of Wales and so North toward Flint and vnder a hill of coale euen to the mouth of Dee or the North Sea He raigned xxxix yeares and dyed at Oflay and was buryed in a Chappell which then stoode on Offlay the bancke of the Riuer Ouse without the Towne of Bedford EGbertus or Ecfride his sonne raigned one yeare Alquine Alquine writte to Osbert of the Mercians that the noble yong Ecfride dyed not so soone for his owne faultes but bycause his Father was a great sheader of bloud Plaeâ—â—â— Aâ—â—inus 789 Wâ—l Malme KEnulfus Nephew in the fifth degrée vnto Penda warreâ— on the Kentish Saxons punished their Country very sore and caryed away bound their King Egberthus but not long Winchelcomb founded after when he had builded a Church at Winchelcomb on the day of dedication therof he deliuered him declaring a worthy Bishops Sea aâ— Hereford founded example of clemencie He founded the Church of S. Ethelbert in Hereford and raigned xxiiij yeares KEnelmus sonne to Egbertus a child of seauen yeares was 813 innocently slayne by his Sister Quenda whereby he obtayned the name of a Martyre CEolwulfus brother to Kenulfus raigned one yeare and 820 was expulsed by Bernulfus BErnulfus in the third yeare of his raigne was ouercome 821 by Egbertus King of Weast Saxons at Elyndune LVcâ—â—us after he had raigned two yeares was oppressed 824 by the East Angles VVIthlasnus being at the first subdued by Egbirth raigned 826 xiij yeares paying to him and his son a tribute BErthulfus raigned xiij yeares in the same estate till at 839 W. Malme the last he was chased beyond the seas by the sea rouers of Denmarke BVrdredus paying the Tribute enioyed the same twenty 852 yeares and then he being deposed and driuen out of his CouÌ„trey fled to Rome and there was buryed at the English schole Then that kingdome was by the Danes deliuered to Geolwolfus and in few yeares after that Alfred y â— Nephew of Egbirth gate it So the kingdome of the Mercies fel away in the yeare of Christ 875. Northumbers THe sixt Kingdome was of the Northumbers whiche conteyned Lankishire Yorkeshire Cumberland Westmerland Northumberland It had on the Weast the Sea by South the Riuer of Humber and so downeward toward the Weast by the endes of the Shires of Nottingham and of Darby vnto the Riuer of Merce and hath the diocesse of Yorke Durham and Carelile At the beginning it was deuides into two Kingdomes Bernitia and Deira Bernitia stretched from Edenborough Frith to Tine and Deira from Tine to Humber but these two were shortly vnited When Hengest had established himselfe in Kent he sent W. Malme his brother Otha his sonne Ebusam to possesse the North partes of Britaine where many times they put the men of that prouince to flight and for the space of 99. yeares they and their successors ascribes to themselues the names of Dukes and bare themselues vnder the Kingdome of Kent but in the yeare of Christ 547. the yeare after Hengests death 60. that Dukedome was changed into a Kingdome IDa the ninth froÌ„ Beldegius and the tenth from Wodden 547 continued fourtéene yeares in the Kingdome of Deires Aeâ—la his successor of the same kinded but by another 559 line strongly aduanced his Kingdome thirtie yeares In his time children of Northumberland were caryed to be solde
and his Cardinalles 14â—5 after long laboure coulde make no peace betwixte King Henry of England and France and Charles also named King of Fraunce they at length made a peace betwixte the said Charles and Philip Duke of Burgoigne whereby the said Duke of Burgoigne became vtter enimy to the King of England and soone after the said Duke beganne his order of the Lillie and the Golden fléece and ordayned certaine Knightes of that order and made thervnto many Statuts wherof some of them were like vnto the Statutes of the Garter On the fourtéenth daye of September at Roan in Normandy dyed the noble Prince Iohn Duke of Bedforde and Regent of Fraunce and was after with great solemnitie â—â—ryed within the Churche of Noâ—ir Dame of the same â—itie Anno reg 14 Sherifes Maior Thomas Catworth Robert Clopton the. 28. of Septemb. Henry Frowike Mercer the 28. of October King Charles of Fraunce recouered the Citie of Paris and at Newyeares tide wanne the Towne of Harflewe and 1436 Sainct Denis and manye other Townes and holdes expellyng and murdering the Englishe people in greate number The nintéenth daye of Julye the Duke of Burgoigne wyth a great multitude of Burgonians and Flemmings appeared Caleis besieged before Caleis and there pight his pauilions and tentes at which season was Lieutenaunt of Caleis Sir Iohn Ratclife Knight and of the Castell was Lieutenant the Baron of Dudley this siege endured about thrée wéekes in whiche season many knightlye actes were done exercised on both partes On the second day of August the Duke of Glocester protectour Robert Fubâ—â—â— of Englande with 500. sayles as some write landed at Caleis and entended vppon the thirde day following to haue issued out of the Towne and to haue gyuen battel to the Flemmings but as testifyeth our Englishe writers so soone as the Duke of Burgoigne was ware of the great power of the Lorde Protector he toke with him of his ordinaunce that he might lightly carrye and the other that were cumberous he left behind When the Duke with his host was thus fledde the Lorde Protectour with his people followed hym into the Countrey by the space of eleauen dayes in whiche season he brente the two Townes of Popering and Bell and returned to Caleis and so into England This yeare was the Castel or Towne of Rokesborough in Scotlande besieged by the Kyng of Scottes but when hée Anno. reg â—â— hearde that Syr Ralph Graye Knyghte was commyng thyther with a competente number to remoue the siege anone he departed leauyng some parte of hys Ordinaunce behynde hym to hys greate shame and dishonour Thomas Norstede William Gregory the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Michel Fishmonger the. 28. of October The second of Januarie Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and mother to King Henrie the sixth dyed at Bermondsey and was buried at Westminster but being takeÌ„ Part of London bridge fel. vp againe in the raigne of Henrie the seauenth when he layde the foundation of his new Chappel there she was neuer buried since but lyeth still aboue ground in a Coffin of bordes behinde the East end of the Friers The. xiiij of Januarie at noone of the day the gate on LoÌ„don bridge wyth the Tower vpon it nexte to Southwarke fell down and two of the furdest Arches of the same bridge and no man perished Ralph Lord Cromwel erected the Colledge of Taâ—eshall 1437 Taâ—eshall Colledge in Lincolneshire King Henrie put downe the Maior of Norwich sente the Aldermen some to Linne some to Canterburie toke their fraÌ„chises into his hande and appointed Iohn Wels Alderman sometime Maior of London to be Warden of Norwich who so continued eight moneths as I haue red on his Monument in Saint Antholines Churche in London whiche Monument is nowe amongest manye other by lewde persons defaced The ninth of July Quéene Iane wife to King Henrie the fourth dyed at Hauering a Boure and was buried at Canterburie All the Lyons in the Tower of London dyed Anno reg 18 Sherifes Maior William Hales William Chapman the. 28. of Septemb. William Eastfielde Mercer the. 28. of October This William Eastfield Maior of his own costes caused to be builded the Water Conduite in Fleetestreete of London On Easter daye Iohn Gardener was taken conuaying 1438 Gardeneâ—brent the Sacrament from his mouth with a soule cloth after he had receyued the same at the Priests hande in Saint Marie at the Axe Churche of London for the whiche he was brent in Smithfielde the xiiij of May. Owen Tewther â—ouly hurting hys kéeper brake out of Newgate but was againe taken afterwarde thys Owen had priuilye as it was sayde maryed Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and had foure children by hir whiche was not knowen tyll she was dead and buried On the Uigil of Mary Magdalen the town of Nantwich in the Countie of Chester was pitifully consumed with fire A great dearth of corne for wheate was in some places Dearth of corne Anno reg 17 Sherifes Maior solde for two shillings sixe pence the Bushell Hugh Diker Nicholas Yoo the. 28. of September Stephen Browne Grocer the. 28. of October The fiue and twentith of Nouember a great winde dyd Great vvâ—nâ—es muche harme in manye places In London it bare muche leade of the Gray Friers Churche and almost blewe downe the one side of the stréete called the Olde Change so that the same was faine to be vnderset with Timber On New yeres day a stacke of woodde fell downe at Baynardes Castell and killed thrée men manye moe were sore hurte By fall of a Staire at Bedforde where the shire daye was kepte eightéene persons were slayne and manye moe hurte Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke dyed at Roane in NormaÌ„die the last of May and the fourth of October next folowing his corpse was honourably conueyed as well by water as by land from Roane vnto Warwicke and there worshipfully buried in the Colledge of our Lady Church founded by his noble auncestours Wheate was sold at London for thrée shillings y e bushel Malt at thirtéen shillings y â— quarter Otes at eight pence the bushel which caused men to eate beans pease and barley more than in a hundred yeares before Anno reg 18 StruÌ„pets vvare Raye hoodes Manye Stumpets were sette on the Pyllerye and banyshed the Cytye excepte they ware theyr Raye hoodes Phillip Malpas Robert Marshal the 28. of September Sherifes â—â—ior Robert Large Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Reading it was ordayned that all Marchaunt straungers shoulde goe to host with Englishmen and to make sale of theyr Merchaundises and buy again what they woulde wythin the space of sixe monethes geuing theyr hoste for euerye twentye shillings worth two pence except the Esterlings And that euery housholder that Order for straungers was alien should pay to the King xuj. pence the yeare and euery seruant
and she was conuicte of the sayde Articles then was it asked if she woulde saye anye thing agaynste the witnesses wherevnto she aunsweared nay but submitted hyr selfe The seauen and twentith daye of October she abiured the Articles and was adioyned to appeare again the ninth of Nouember In the meane time Thomas Southwel dyed in the Tower of London as himselfe had prophesied that hée shoulde neuer dye by Justice of the Law William Combis Richarde Riche the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Elianor CobhaÌ„ did penaunce Robert Clopton Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember Dame Elianor appeared béefore the Archbishoppe and other in the sayde Chappel and receyued hyr penaunce which she perfourmed On Monday the. xiij of Nouember she came froÌ„ Westminster by water and landed at the Temple Bridge from whence with a taper of waxe of two pounde in hir hande she went throughe Fleetestreete hoodlesse saue a kerchefe to Paules where she offered hyr Taper at the high Aulter On y e Wednesday next she landed at y e Swan in Thamis stréete then went through Bridgestreet Grace Church Streete streight to Leaden Hall and so to Christ Church by Aldegate On Fryday she landed at Queene Hiue and so went through Cheape to Saint Michels in Cornehil in fourme aforesayd at all which times the Maior Sherifes and Craftes of London receyued hir and accompanyed hir This being done she was committed to the ward of sir Thomas Stanley wherein she remayned duryng hyr life in the castel of Chester hauing yerely an hundred marks assigned for hyr finding whose pride false couetise and lecherie were cause of hir confusion The xviij of NoueÌ„ber Roger Bolingbroke with sir Iohn Hum Priest and William Woodham Esquire was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London where the sayde Iohn and William had their Charters but Roger Bolingbroke was condemned had iudgemeÌ„t of sir Iohn Hody chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the same day he was drawen froÌ„ the Tower to Tiborne there hanged and quartered when y e said Roger shold suffer he said y t he was neuer guilty of any treason against the kings person but he hadde presumed too far in his cunning whereof he cryed God mercie and the Justice that gaue on him iudgemente liued not long after Henrie Beauchampe succéeded in hys fathers inheritaÌ„ce who being kept two yeares in the Kings hands was restored to al his liuings with greate glory for he was crowned King of Wight by the kyngs owne handes and nominated chiefe Earle of England A challenge was done in Smithfield within listes before 1442 A Combat in Smithfielde the King by the Lorde Beawfe of Aragon and Iohn Ansley Esquire of the Kings house whiche Ansley hadde the fielde and at the Kings hande was made Knight and the Anno. reg 21 Lord Aragon offered his harneis at Windsor In the moneth of August was a great fray in Fleetstreete betwéene the yong Studentes of the Innes of Courte and the inhabitauntes of the same stréete whiche Fray began in the night and so continued the assaultes and bickeryngs till the next day in whiche season muche people of the Cytie was thyther gathered and diuerse men on both partes slaine and many hurte but lastly by the presence of the Maior and Sherifes this Fray was appeased of whiche was chiefe occasioner one of Cliffords Inne named Herbotel Thomas Beaumount Richard Norden the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Iohn Athirle Ironmonger the. 28. of October Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset was made Duke of Somerset and Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie The stéeple of Waltham Holy Crosse in Essex was brente with lightning on Candlemasse day The Citizens of Norwiche rose against the Priour of 1443 Christes Churche wythin the same Citie and would haue fiered the priorie they kept the towne by strength againste the Duke of Norffolke and all his power wherefore the Kyng sente thyther the chiefe Judge Iohn Fortescue wyth the Earles of Stafforde and of Huntington who indicted many Citizens and the Priour also The Liberties of the Citie were seysed into the Kings hand and Sir Iohn Clifton made Captaine there and manye of the Citizens fledde ouer the seas c. Anno reg 22. Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wilforde Iohn Norman the. 28. of September Thomas Catworth Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn Earle of Huntington at Windsore was made Duke of Excester Iohn Beauforde Duke of Somerset deceased and was buryed at Wimborne The Earle of Stafforde was created Duke of Buckingham Henrie Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Duke of Warwicke 1444 Cro. of â—ewx vnto whom the King gaue the Castell of Bristowe with all the appurtenances which King Iohn had kept in his haÌ„ds he gaue vnto him also the Isles of Garnsey and Iarnsey The Earle of Dorset was made Marques of Dorset and the Earle of Suffolke Marques of Suffolke King Henrie sent into Fraunce Ambassadours William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke Adam Molens Bishoppe of Chichester and kéeper of the priuie seale sir Roberte Roos and other to treat of a marriage betwéene King Henrie and Margaret the kings daughter of Scicil which was concluded in the Citie of Towres in Touraine Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Stephen Poster Hugh Wich the. 28. of September Henrie Frowike Mercer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke with other went againe into Fraunce for to conduct the sayd Lady Margaret into England On Candlemasse euen in diuerse places of England was heard terrible thunders wyth lightning wherby the church of Baldoke in Hertfordshire the Churche of Walden in Essex diuerse other were sore shaken And the stéeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clocke in the after noone was set on fire in the middest of the shaft but by the labour of many well desposed people the same was quenched and no man perished The stéeple of Kingstone was likewise fiered by the same lightnings Ladie Margaret landing at Portchester went from thence 1445 by water to Hampton rested there in a place called Gods house from thence she went to the Abbay of Tychfielde and Quene Margaret crovvned was there wedded to King Henry y e xxij of April She was receyued at the Blackeheath by the Citizens of London ryding on horsebacke in blewe gownes with brodered sleues and red hoods the 28. of May and on the 30. of May she was crowned at Westminster hir badge was the Daysie With the fall of Kingstone steple one man was slaine Kingston steple fell An reg 24. Sherifes Maior Leaden hall in Lon. builded and many sore hurt Iohn Darby Godfrey Filding the 28. of September Simon Eyre draper the 28. of October This Simon Eyre builded the Leaden hall in London to be a store house for graine and fewell for the poore of the Citie also a beawtifull Chappel in the East end of y e same ouer the gate whereof he
prouosts lodging And at the vpper ende of the Hall the Prouosts lodgins that is to witte moe than the Chambers for him aboue specifyed a Parlour on the grounde contayning sixe and thirtie foote in length and two and twentie in breadth and two chambers aboue of the same quantitie And westwarde closing thereto a Kitchin for him a Larderhouse Stables and other many housings and grounds And westwarde The Bake house and Brevvhouse beyonde these houses and the saide Kitchin ordayned for a Hall a Bakehouse a Brewhouse and other houses of office betwéene which there is lefte a grounde square of foure scoure foote in euery pane for wood and suche stuffe The vvoodyarde The vvater Conduite And in the middle of the sayde large Quadraunt shall bée a Conduite goodly deuised for ease of the same Colledge And I will that the edification procéede in large forme of my sayde Colledge cleane and substancial setting apart superfluitie of too greate curious workes of entaile and busye moulding And I haue deuised and appointed that the precinct The Precinct of the Colledge of my sayde Colledge as well on both sides of the garden from the Colledge to the Water as in all other places of the same precinct be inclosed with a substanciall Wall of the height of fourtéene foote with a large Tower at the principall entrie againste the middle of the East pane out of the highe stréete And in the same Tower a large Gate The vvater Gate and another Tower in the middle of the Weast ende at the newe bridge And the same Wall to bée creasted embattelled and fortifyed with Towers as manye as shall bée thought conuenient therevnto And I will that my sayde Colledge be edified of the moste substantiall and best abyding stuffe of stone leade glasse and Iron that maye beste be hadde and prouided thereto Thus much I haue enlarged by occasion of reading this good Kings Will the cunning deuise wherof I leaue to be considered by such as be experte in Architecture hartily desiring almightie God to putte into the hearte of some notable Prince one day to make perfecte thys princely worke so charitably begonne And nowe to returne agayne to Kyng Edwarde At this hys commyng to London at Bishoppes Gate hée made these Knyghtes of Aldermen Syr Iohn Stocton Syr Ralphe Verney sir Richard Blee sir Iohn Yong sir William Tayler sir George IrelaÌ„d sir Iohn Stokar sir Matthew Phillip sir William Hampton sir Thomas Stalbroke sir Iohn Crosby sir Thomas Vrswike Recorder of London The foure and twentith of May King Edward with hys hoste rode through Kent to Canterburie and so to Sandwiche where Bastarde Faulconbridge submitted himselfe and all hys to King Edwarde and yéelded to him lvj shippes gret and small whych had bene vnder his leading wherevppon King Edward pardoned him made him Knight and vâ—zeadmiral of the sea The L. DenhaÌ„ sir Iohn Fog with others were lefte in Kent to sit in iudgement of the rebels wherof were a greate number punished by the purse Nicholas Faunt Mayor of Caunterburie with other were hanged and headed there the heads of Spicing and Quinton were set on Aldegate of London The fourth of June George Neuill Archebishop of Yorke and brother to the Earle of Warwike was deliuered oute of the Tower of London The firste of July Edwarde the sonne of King Edwarde was made Prince of Wales Duke of Lancaster and Earle of Cornewall In September Thomas the Bastarde of Fauconbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded at the Castle of Midleham in Yorkeshire hys heade was sette on London bridge Iohn Allein Iohn Shelley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Edward Grocer the. 28. of October The xij of Nouember the Ladye Anne the Kings sister was deuorsed from the Duke of Excester by hyr owne sute Kyng Ed. on Christmasse day was Crowned at Westminster and the Quéene also likewise the twelfth day the Kyng was agayne Crowned wente on Procession crowned Anno. reg 12 1472 but the Quéene was not at that time crowned bycause she was great with childe Thys yeare were sente Ambassadours from King Edwarde to the Duke of Burgoigne who landed at Bridges on the seconde of Aprill where they were honorablye receyued wythout the Towne by the Lorde Grantehuse The names of the Ambassadors was sir Iohn Scot Knight Marshall of Caleis Mayster William Hatclofe Secretarie to the Kyng Mayster Iohn Russel Doctour and Archdeacon master Richarde Marten Archdeacon of London sir Iohn Yong Knighte and Merchaunte of London on the fourth of April they were conueyed on horssebacke to the Dukes lodging c. George Neuill Archebishoppe of Yorke being at Windsor with Kyng Edwarde on hunting the King promised the Archebishoppe to come to the More a place in Hartfordeshire whiche the Archebishoppe hadde purchased and buylded commodiouslye there to hunte and make merry with hym wherevppon the Archebishoppe made greate prouision for the Kyng and sente for muche plate that hée hadde hydde â—at the tyme of Barnet and Tewkesburie fields and besides this borrowed muche of hys friendes thys beyng done the King sodaynely sente for the Archbishoppe to come to Windsor where he was arrested of Treason that he shoulde helpe the Earle of Oxforde and so was sente to Caleis and to Hames where he continued long after prisoner In thys meane whyle sir William Parre Knight and sir Thomas Vahan Esquire and other were sente to the More to cease all hys goods for the Kyng which came there to the samme of twentie thousande pounde Kyng Edward at thys time brake the Bishops miter that had many riche stones and made therof a Crowne for himselfe Also the Earle of Oxforde that had withdrawen hymselfe from Barnet fielde first into Scotland after into France then getting muche goods on the Sea landed in the Weast Countrey and entred Saint Michaels Mounte with 397. men the last of September wheron he was by the kings appointmeÌ„t besieged by Bodrigan and other but wyth such fauour that the Earle reuictualled the Mount Then was Fortescue sente thyther to continue the siege and King Edwarde sending pardons to the Erles men so long practised with them that at the last if the Earle had not submitted himselfe to King Edward he had bin taken of his own meÌ„ so Fortestue entring y â— Mount the fiftéenth of Februarie found victuall ynough there to haue serued them till Mydsommer after Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde the Lord Beaumonde two brothers of the sayde Earle and Thomas Clifforde were brought prisoners to the King The Earle of Oxforde was sente prisoner to Gwines where he remayned so long as thys Kyng raygned In all whyche tyme the Ladye hys wife myghte neuer come to hym or had anye thyng to liue vppon but what people of theyr Charityes woulde giue hyr or what shée gotte by hyr néedle In the moneth of September Lewes de Bruges Lorde Grantehuse came into Englande from Charles Duke of Burgoigne and on the thirtéenth of
he assured the King that the Conestable woulde deliuer into his handes both Saint Quintines and all his other places whiche the Kyng easilye beléeued partly bycause hée hadde marryed the Conestables Nieâ—e and partlye bycause hée sawe hym in so greate feare of the Kyng of Fraunce that hée thoughte hée durste not fayle hys promise made to the Duke and hym and the Duke beléeued iâ— also But the Conestable meante nothing lesse for the feare he was in of the Frenche Kyng was not so greate that it coulde force hym thus 〈…〉 but he vsed sâ—yl his â—onted dissimulation The King of Englande reioycyng at thys message sente by the Conestable departed from Peronnâ— wyth the Duke of Burgoigne towarde Saint Quintins wherevnto when hée approched a greate bande of Englishe menne ranne before thynkyng that the belles shoulde haue bene rong at theyr commyng and that the Citizens woulde haue receyued them wyth Crosse and Holye Water but when they drewe néere to the Towne the Artillâ—â—â—e shotte and the Souldiâ—urs â—â—â—ed for the 〈…〉 he 〈…〉 she bothe on horsâ—e backe and on foote so that two or three Englishe menne were slayne and some taken â— and in thys state returned they in great rage to theyr Campe 〈…〉 againste the Conestable The nexte morning the Duke of 〈…〉 woulde haue taken hys leaue of the King of Englande to departe to hys armye in Barrays promising to do maruayles in hys fauour The Frenche Kyng sente a seruaunte of the LORD Halles in the lykenesse of an Herraulte wyth a coate made of a Trumpets Banner to the Englishe Campe where when hée came hée was broughte to a Tente and after dynner talked wyth the Kyng hys message was chielely grounded vppon the greate desire the Kyng hadde of long time to bée in peace wyth the Kyng of Englande saying further that since hée was Crowned Kyng of Fraunce he neuer hadde attempted anye thyng againste the King of England or his realme Secondly he excused himselfe for the receiuing in times paste the Earle of Warwicke into his Dominions saying that hée dyd it onelyâ— agaynste the Duke of Burgoigne and not him Further he declared that the sayd Duke of Burgoigne had for none other cause called hym into Fraunce but that by the occasion of hys comming hée mighte conclude a bettâ—r peace for hymselfe wyth the Kyng And if happily anye other furthered the matter it was onely to amende the broken estate of theyr owne affaires and for their owne priuate commoditie but as touching the Kyng of Englandes good successe they were altogither carelesse thereof Hée putte hym also in mynde of the tyme of the yeare alleaging that Winter approched likewise the great charges he sustained Lastlye he sayde that notwithstanding a great number in Englande desyred Warre with Fraunce yet if the Kyng oâ— Englande inclyne to peace the Kyng for hys parte would condescende to suche conditions as he doubted not but hée and hys Realme woulde allowe of finally he demaunded a saâ—e conduite for certaine Ambassadours to come well enformed of his maisters pleasure The King of England and part of his Nobles liking these ouertures very well graunted to the Harrault of Fraunce as large a safe conducte as he demaunded and gaue him foure Nobles of golde in rewarde He also sente an Englishe Harrault with him to bring the like safe conducte And in the nexte morning in a Uillage neare to Amience the Commissioners of both Princes met being these For the King of France the bastard of Bourdon Admâ—ral of France the Lord of Saint Pierre and the Bishop of Eureux called Heberge And for the King of Englande the Lord Howard one Chalenger and Doctor Morton Many articles of peace were treated of but the laste resolutions were these That the French King shoulde paye to the King of Englande presently before his departure out of Fraunce 72. thousande crownes that the Dolphine shoulde marrye King Edwardes eldest daughter and that she shoulde haue the Duchie of Guien for hir maintainaunce or 5000. crownes yearly to be paid in the Tower of London the space of nine yeres which terme expired the Dolphine shoulde peaceably enioy the reuenues of the whole Dutchie of Gnien and then the Kyng of France to be clearly discharged of all payments to the King of Englande Further it was decréed that the two Primes shoulde méete togither and be sworne to the treatie which méeting was obserued in a town called Picquigny on the 29. of August The King of England vppon receit of hys money departed towarde Calâ—is in great haste fearing the Duke of Burgoignes malice and his subiectes At his departure he lefte for hostages with the King of Fraunce till his returne into England the Lorde Howarde and the Maister of his horse called sir Iohn Cheyney King Edward tooke shipping at Calais and landed at Douer and was receyued on the Blacke-heath by the Mayor of London and his brethren in Scarlet and 500. commoners all clad in Murrey and so conueyed to London through the Citie to Westminster on the 28. of September This yéere was one Iohn surnamed Gose brent on she Towre hill in the moneth of August Edmond Shawe Thomas Hill the 28. of September Maior Sherifes Robert Drope Draper the 28. of October This Robert Drope Maior of London inlarged the Condite vpon Cornehill making an East ende therevnto The. xviâ—j of Aprill were inhaunced to the honour of Anno reg 15 1475 Knights made by the King Knighth and after the custome of England in the time of peace his eldest sonne Edward Prince of Wales Duke of Connewall and Earle of Chester his seconde sonne the Duke of Yorke and with them the Earle of Lincolnes sonne and heire the Duke of Suffolke the Lord Thomas Grey y e Quéenes sonne Richard his brother the Earle of Shrewsburie the Earle of Wilshire Master Edward Woduile the Lorde Neuibâ— the Lorde Barkleys sonne and heire the Lord Awdeleys sonne and heire the Lord Saint Ainand the Lord Stanleys sonne and heire the Lorde Sturtons sonne and heire the Lorde Hastings sonne heire the Lorde Ferrors of Chartleys sonne and heire Master Harbert brother to the Earle of Penbroke Master Vaughon Brian chiefe Judge Litilton one of the Little 〈…〉 Judges of the Common place Master Bodringham Master Brian Stapleton Kneuit Pilkinton Ludlow Charleton c. The same day the King created the Lord Thomas Marques Dorset before dinner and so in the habit of a Marques aboue the habit of his Knighthood he beganne the table of Knights in Saint Edwards Chamber At that time he ordained that the Kings Chamberlaine shoulde goe with the auncient and well nurtred Knight to aduertise and teache the order of Knighthood to the Esquiers being in the bayne The King himselfe came in person and did honour to all y e companie with his noble Counsell and his handes Hugh Brite Robert Colwitch the 28. of Sept. Robert Basset Salter the 28. of October Sherifes Maior This Maior did sharpe correction
the Duke of Clarence were lawfully begotten nor were not the very children of y e duke of Yorke but begotteÌ„ vnlawfully by other persoÌ„s by aduoutrie of the Dutches their mother And that also dame Elizabeth Lucy was verily the wife of King Edward and so the Prince and al his children Bastards that were begotteÌ„ vpon the Quéene According to this deuise Doctor Shaa y â— Sonday after at Paules Crosse in a greate audience as alway assembled great number to his preaching he tooke for his Theame Spuria vitulamina non agent radices alt as That is to say Bastarde slippes shal neuer take deepe roote Therevppon when he had shewed the great grace that God giueth secretly infundeth in right generation after y â— lawes of matrimonie theÌ„ declared he y â— coÌ„monly those children lacked y â— grace for y e punishment of their pareÌ„ts were for y e more part vnhappy which wer gotteÌ„ in base specially in aduoutrie Of which though some by the ignorance of the world and the truth hid from knowledge inherited for the season other mens landes yet God alway so prouideth that it continueth not in their bloud long but y e truth comming to light the rightfull inheritors be restored and the bastard slip pulled vp ere it can be rooted déepe And when he had laid for the proofe and confirmation of this sentence certaine ensamples taken out of the old Testament and other auncient histories then beganne he to descend into the praise of the Lorde Richarde late Duke of Yorke calling him father to the Lorde Protector and declared the title of his heires vnto the Crowne to whom it was after the death of King Henrie the sixt entayled by authoritie of Parliament Then shewed he that his verie right heyre of his body lawfully begotten was onely the Lord Protector For he declared then that King Edward was neuer lawfully marryed vnto the Quéene but was before God husband vnto Dame Elizabeth Lucie and so his children bastardes And besides that neither King Edwarde himselfe nor the Duke of Clarence among those that were secrete in the housholde were reckened verie surely for the children of the noble Duke as those that by their fauours more resembled other knowne men than him From whose vertuous conditions he sayde also that King Edward was farre off But the Lorde Protector he sayd the verie noble Prince the speciall paterne of Knightly prowes as well in all Princely behauiour as in the lineamentes and fauour of his visage represented the very face of the noble Duke his father This is quoth he the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenaunce the verie print of his visage the sure vndoubted Image the plaine expresse likenesse of that noble Duke Nowe was it before deuised that in the speaking of these words the Protector shoulde haue come in among the people to the Sermon warde to the end that those words méeting with his presence might haue bene taken among the hearers as though the holy ghost had put them in the preachers mouthe and shoulde haue moued the people euen there to crie King Richarde King Richarde that it myght haue béene after sayde that he was specially chosen by God and in manner by myracle But this deuise quayled eyther by the Protectors negligence or the Preachers ouermuch diligence For whyle the Protector founde by the way tarying least he shoulde preuent those wordes and the Doctor fearing that he shoulde come ere hys Sermon could come to these wordes hasted his matter thereto who was come to them and paste them and entred into other matters ere the Protector came Whom when he beheld comming he sodainely lefte the matter with which he was in hande and without any deduction thervnto out of al order and out of all frame beganne to repeate those wordes agayne this is the very noble Prince the speciall patrone of Knightly prowes which as well in all Princely behauiour as in the liâ—iamentes and fauour of his vsage representeth the verie face of the noble Duke of Yorke his father this is the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenaunce the very print of his visage the sure vndoubted Image the playne expresse lykenesse of the Noble Duke whose remembrance can neuer dye whyle he liueth While these wordes were in speaking the Protector accompanied with the Duke of Buckingham went through the people into the place where the Doctors commonly staud in the vpper storie where he stoode to hearken the Sermon But the people were so farre from crying King Richarde that they stoode as they had béene turned into stones for wonder of this shamefull Sermon After which once ended the Preacher gat him home and Preacher neuer after durst looke out for shame but kepte hym out of sight lyke an Owle And when he once asked one that had béene his olde friend what the people talked of him al were it that hys owne conscience well shewed him that they talked no good yet when the other aunswered him that there was in euery mannes mouth spoken of hym much shame it so strake him to the heart that within fewe dayes after hée withered and consumed away Then on the Tuesday folowing this sermon there came into the Guild hall in London the Duke of Buckingham accompanyed with diuerse Lordes and Knightes more than happily knewe the message that they brought And there in the East end of the hall where y e Maior kéepeth the Hustings the Maior and all the Aldermen beyng assembled aboute him all the Commons of the Citie gathered before them after silence commaunded vppon great payne in the Protectors name the Duke stoode vp and as he was neyther vnlearned and of nature maruellously well spoken he said vnto the people with a cleare and a loude voyce in this manner of wise FRiendes for the zeale and heartie fauour that we beare The Duke of Buckinghams Oration you wée be come to breake vnto you of a matter ryght great and weightie and no lesse weightie than pleasing to God and profitable to all the Reame nor to no part of the Realme more profitable than to you the Citizens of this noble Citie For why that thing that we wote wel ye haue long tyme lacked and sore longed for that ye woulde haue giuen great good for that ye would haue gone farre to fetch that thing we be come hither to bring you without your labour paine cost aduenture or ieoperdie What thing is that Certes the suertie of your owne bodyes the quiet of your wynes and your daughters the sauegarde of your goods of all whych things in tymes paste ye stoode euer more in doubte For who was there of you all that woulde recken him selfe Lorde of his owne good among so many grens and traps as was set therfore among so much pilling polling among so many taxes tallages of which there was neuer end oftentimes no néede or if any were it rather grew of royot vnreasonable wast thaÌ„
moneth of July was a preste for the Kyng made 1488 in the Citie of London of foure thousande pounde and shortly after was an other prest of two thousande pounde which were both repayde againe in the nexte yeare following These summes of money and manye more were leuied to ayde the Archeduke of Burgoigne agaynste the Duke of Brytaine Anno reg 4. Sherifes Maior William Isaac Ralph Tinley the 28. of September Robert Tate Mercer the 28. of October A taske of the tenth penny of all mens goods and landes was graunted to King Henrie to ayde the Duke of Brytaine against the French Kyng through which taxe sir Iohn Egremount and Iohn a Chamber wyth the commoÌ„s of y e North Iohn Skelton 1489 made an insurrection and slewe the Earle of Northumberlande and certaine of hys housholde seruauntes in a place called Coke-lodge by Thurske eightéene myles from Yorke on the eighte and twentith of Apryll Wherefore Iohn Achamber was hanged at Yorke vppon a Gibbet sette vppon a foure square Gallowes and the other his accomplices were hanged on the Gallowes round aboute him but sir Iohn Egremount fledde into Flaunders to the Lady Margaret Dutches of Burgondie It was ordayned by Parliament the Maior of London to Anno reg 5. haue conseruation of the riuer of Thamis from the bridge of Stanes vnto the Waters of Yendale and Medway William Capell Iohn Brooke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William White Draper the 28. of October Roger Shaueloke a Taylour within Ludgate of London 1420 being a man of greate wealth slewe hymselfe for whose goodes was greate businesse and strife betwéene the Kings Almoner and the Sherifes of London but in the ende the Anno. reg 6 Almoner preuailed and gaue to the widowe hir goodes againe vpon condition that she shoulde marry with one of his seruauntes named William Flower Henry Coote Robert Reuell the 28. of September Sherifes Hugh Pemberton the 1. of February Iohn Mathew Mercer the 28. of October Maior 1491 The twelfth of March Sir Robert Chamberlaine knight was arraigned and adiudged at Stratforde of the Langthorne and after beheaded on the Tower hill King Henry required a beneuolence whych was granted towarde hys iourney into France The Citizens of London gaue toward this iourney 9682. l. 17. sÌ„ 4. d. to the whiche summe many Aldermen gaue 200. l. the péece and some of the meaner sorte 100. l. the reste the common people supplied Henry the Kings second sonne was borne at Greenwich Henry the kings son borne Anno. reg 7. Conduite in Grace-streete Dearth of corn the twoo and twentith of June The Conduite in Grace-streete was begunne to bée builded by the executours of sir Thomas Hill Grocer late Maior of London of his goodes Wheate was solde at London for twenty pence the bushel whiche was accompted a great dearth Thomas Wood William Browne the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Hugh Clopton Mercer and Bacheler the 28. of Octob. This Hugh Clopton Mayor of London and of the Staple a Gentleman borne at Clopton village halfe a mile from Stratforde vpon Auen by north continued during hys lyfe 〈…〉 Bacheler he builded the greate and sumptuous Bridge 1492 〈…〉 Stratforde vpon Auen at the Easté ende of the Towne 〈…〉 ys Bridge hathe fourtéene greate arches and a long cawsey with smaller Arches all made of stone newe walled on eche side at the west ende of the bridge he buylded a fayre large Chappell towarde the south ende of that towne and neare vnto the same a preatye house of Bricke and Tymber where he laye and ended his life He glazed the Chancell of the parishe Churche in that towne and made away of foure myles long thrée miles from Alesburie towardes London and one myle beyonde Alesburie The sixt day of Aprill the Mayor of London his brethren the Aldermen and the Craftes in their Liueries assembled in Paules Churche where Doctour Morton Chauncelour made to them an Oration declaring howe the Kyng of Spaine hadde wonne the great and riche Citie and countrey of Granade from the Turkes for ioy whereof Te Deum was sung wyth greate solempnitie In the moneth of May following was holden a greate and valiaunt iusting wythin the Kings Palaice of Shine Anno. reg 8. nowe named Richmonde the whyche endured by the space of a moneth sometime wythin the saide Palaice and sometime wythout vpon the Gréene before the Gate of the said Pallaice In whiche Justes sir Iames Parker Knight running against a Gentleman named Hugh Vaughan by casualtie was so sore hurte and brused that he dyed thereof The ninth of September King Henry tooke his voyage into Fraunce with a greate army to aide the Britons against the Frenche King where he besieged Bolloine til a truce was taken William Purchas William Welbecke the 28 of Sept Sherifes Maior Sir William Martin Skinner the 28. of October King Henry returned into Englande the seauentéenth of December Twoo Pardoners were sette on the Pillorie in Cornehill thrée market dayes for forging of false pardons wherewyth they hadde deceyued the people and gote much money and for that one of them hadde sayned hymselfe to bée a Prieste he was sente to Newgate where he dyed the other was dryuen oute of London wyth shame ynoughe The ninth of October was a ryoâ— made vpon the Easterlingâ— 149â— Fray against the Stiliard men Anno reg 9. or Stiliarde men by Mercers seruauntes and other of the Citie of London for the which many of them were sore punished Robert Fabian Iohn Winger the 28. of September Sherifes This Robert Fabian Sherife aforenamed and AldermaÌ„ made a Chronicle of Englande and of Fraunce beginning at the creation of the worlde and ending in the thirde yeare of the raigne of King Henrie the eight which booke is imprinted to the ende of Richarde the thirde Sir Ralph Austry Fishemonger the 28. of October Maior This sir Ralph Austry rooffed with tymber and couered with Lead the Parishe Churche of Saint Martin in the Vintrie of London and also glazed the same Churche very beautifully as partely appeareth The two and twentith of February were arraigned in the Guild hall of London foure persons Thomas Bagnall Iohn Scot Iohn Heth Iohn Kenington the whyche were Sanctuary men of Saint Martins le Grand in London and latelye before were taken out of the saide Sanctuarie for forging oâ— seditioâ—s billes to the sclaunder of the King and some his Counsell for the whiche thrée of them were iudged to dye and the fourth named Bagnall pleaded to be restored to Sanctuarie by reason wherof he was repriued to the Tower till the nexte Terme and on the sixe and twentith of February the other thrée with a Fleming and a Yeoman of the Crowne were all fiue executed at Tyborne The eyghte and twentith of Aprill Ione Boughton widowe 1494 was brent in Smithfielde for holding certaine opinions of Iohn Wicklife Wheate was solde at London
fewell were rowed vp to Holborne Bridge as they of old time had bin accustomed which was a great commoditie to all the inhabitantes in that parte of London Also the Tower néere to the blacke Friers was taken downe by the commandement of the Maior The sixth of May Sir Iames Tirell Knight Lieutenant of Guisnes Castell and Sir Iohn Windham Knighte were beheaded on the Tower hill and a Shipman was hanged and quartered at Tiborne all for ayding Edmond de la Poole Earle of Suffolke Thys yeare were brought vnto the Kyng thrée men taken Men brought from the nevv found Ilands in the new found Ilands by Sebastian Gabato before named in Anno 1468. these men were clothed in Beastes Skinnes and eate raw Flesh but spake such a language Anno reg 18. as no man could vnderstand them of the which thrée men two of them were séene in the Kings Court at Westminster two yeares after clothed like Englishmen and could not bée discerned from Englishmen Henry Keble Nicholas Nines the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Bartholmew Rede Goldsmith the 28. of October The Chappell of our Lady aboue the East ende of the high Aultare of Westminster Churche with a Tauerne called King Henry the seauenths Chappell at VVestminster the white Rose néere adioyning was taken downe in whiche place a most beautifull Chappell was then forthwyth begonne to be buylded by Kyng Henrye the seauenth the charges whereof as I haue bene credibly informed amounted to the summe of fourtéene thousande pounds Elizabeth Quéene of England wife to Kyng Henry the Queene Elizabeth deceassed seauenth dyed of Childbed in the Tower of London on the twelfth of February and was solemnely buryed at Westminster King Henry the seuenth being himselfe a brother of the Sixe Kings of England breethren vvith the Taylors Company in London before they vvere entituled Merchant Taylors 1503 Taylors company in London as diuers other his predecessors Kings before him had bin to wéete Richard the third Edward the fourth Henry the sixth Henry the fifth Henry the fourth and Richard the second Also of Dukes eleuen Earles xxviij and Lords xiviij he now gaue to them the name and title of Merchant Taylors as a name of worship to endure for euer This yeare about the later end of March the prior of the Prior of Shene murthered Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house by meanes of one Goodwine a Monke of the same Cloyster and his adherents artificers of London On the xxv of June at the Bishop of Salisburies place in Fléetestréete was the noble Prince Henry the second sonne of King Henry the seauenth assured in matrimonie to the Lady Katherine late the wife of that excellent Prince Arthure The fifth of August deceassed Sir Reginald Bray Knight Treasurer of the Kings warres and was buryed at Windesore The eyght of August the King of Scottes marryed Margaret Margaret the Kings daughter maryed the eldest daughter of King Henry the seuenth A drye Sommer hauing no notable rayne from Whitsontide Anno reg 9. to the later Lady day in haruest Christopher Hawes Robert Wittes the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Thomas Granger the 11. of Nouember Sir William Capell Draper the 28. of October Maior The xiij of Nouember was holden within the pallace Sergeants feast of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth the Sergeants feast where dined the King and all his nobles and vpon the same day Thomas Granger newly chosen Sheriffe of London was presented before the Barons of the Kings Exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the Maior vnto the same feast whiche saued him money in hys pursse for if that day that feast had not bin kepte he must haue feasted the Maior Aldermen and others Worshipfull of the Citie This Feast was kept at the charge of tenne learned men newly admitted to be Sergeants to the Kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Elyot Lewes Pollard Guy Palmis William Fayrefax On the xxj day of Nouember at night beganne a perillous Fire on London Bridge fire at the signe of the Panyer vpon London Bridge néere to Saint Magnus Church where sixe tenements were brent ere the same could be quenched The seauenth of January were certayne houses consumed Fire with fire againste Saint Butolphes Churche in Thamis stréete The xxv of January beganne a Parliament at Westminster Parliament of the which was chosen speaker for the commons Maister Edmond Dudley The xxvij of March was an house brent againste Sainte 1504 Martins le grand in London A newe Coyne was by Parliament appoynted that is Nevv Coyne to say Grote and halfe Grote which bare but halfe faces the same time also was coyned a Grote whiche was in value twelue pence but of those were but few coyned This yeare Alume which many yeares had bin sold for Alume deere sixe shillings an hundred and lower arose to fiue Nobles an hundred and after to foure Markes c. The forenamed Sir William Capell Maior of London caused in euery ward of London a Cage with a paire of Stocks Anno reg 20 Cages and Stockes ordeyned Hunsditch paued Sherifes Maior therein to punish vagabonds Also he caused all Hunsditch to be ouerpaued the which many yeares before lay full noyously and perilously for all trauellers that way Roger Acheley William Browne the 28. of Septemb. Iohn Winger Grocer the 28. of October About Christmas the more parte of the prisoners of the Marshalsey in Southwarke brake out and many of them béeing Prisoners of the Marshalsey brake out shortlye after taken were put to execution speciallye those which had layne for Felouie or Treason The xv of Aprill a money maker one of the Coyners of 1505 the Tower was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged There was great strife in the Guild hall about choosing Anno reg 21. of the Sheriffe for the Taylors woulde haue had Mayster Fitz Williams Tailor and the other commons chose Roger Groue Grocer Richard Shore Roger Groue the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Thomas Kniesworth Fishmonger the 28. of October This Thomas Kneisworth of his owne goodes builded the Conduit at Bishopsgate He gaue to the Fishmongers Conduit at Bishopsgate builded certayne tenements for the whiche they be bound to finde four Schollers that studie Arte two at Oxford and two at Cambridge euery of them foure pound the yeare They bée bound also to giue to twelue aged poore people of their company to euery one of them at Barthelmewtide a winter garment for euer Also to giue to the prisoners of Ludgate and Newgate euery yeare forty shillings c. The fifth of January in the night the Kings Chamber Richmond on fire was fiered at Richmond the which might not be quenched till many curteyns carpets rich beds and much other stuffe was consumed Through great
Ueluet and Sylke in the Lyuerie of their Ladyes on whome they gaue theyr attendaunce after them followed the Guarde in coates of Goldesmyths worke in whyche order they rode forthe tyll they came to Fan-churche where was made a Pageaunt all of children apparelled like Merchantes whyche welcomed hir to the Citie wyth twoo proper propositions bothe in Frenche and in Englishe and from thence she rode vnto Grace Churche corner where was a costlye and maruellous cunning Pageaunt made by the Merchantes of the Stiliarde therein was the mounte Pernassus wyth the fountaine of Helicon whyche was of white Marble and foure streames wythoute pype dydde ryse an Ell hyghe and mette togyther in a little cuppe aboue the fountaine whych fountaine ranne abundantly with rackte Reynishe Wine till night on the mountaine sate Apollo and at hys féete sate Caliope and on euery side of the Mountayne sate foure Muses playing on seuerall swéete Instrumentes and at theyr féete Epigrammes and Poesies were written in golden Letters in the whyche euerye Muse according to hir propertie praised the Quéene From thence the Quéene wyth hir traine passed to Leaden hall where was a goodly Pageaunte with a tipe and heauenly Rose and vnder the tippe was a goodly roote of Golde sette on a little mountaine enuironed wyth red Roses and white oute of the typpe came downe a Faulcon all whyte and sette vppon the roote and incontinent came downe an Angel wyth greate melodie and sette a close Crowne of Gold on the Faulcons head and in the same Pageant sate Saint Anne wyth all hir issue beneath hir and vnder Mary Cleophe sate hir foure children of the whiche chyldren one made a goodlye Oration to the Quéen of the fruitefulnesse of Saint Anne and of hir generation trusting that lyke fruite shoulde come of hir Then shée passed to the Conduite in Cornehill where were the thrée Graces seâ—te in a Throne afore whome was the spring of Grace continually running wine afore the fountaine sate a Poet declaring the propertie of euery Grace that done euery Lady by hirself according to hir propertie gaue to the Quéene a seuerall gifte of Grace That done she passed by the greate Conduite in Cheape whiche was newly painted wyth armes and deuises out of the whiche Couduite by a goodlye fountaine sette at the ende ranne continually Wine both white and Claret all that afternoone and so she rode to the Standarde whyche was richely painted with Images of Kings and Quéenes and hanged with banners of Armes and in the toppe was maruellous swéete harmony bothe of Songs and Instruments Then she wente forwarde by the Crosse whyche was newly guilte till she came where the Aldermen stoode and then Maister Baker the Recorder came to hir wyth lowe reuerence making a proper and briefe proposition and gaue to hir in the name of the Citie a thousand Mark in Golde in a purse of Golde whyche shée thankefullye accepted wyth manye good wordes and so rode to the little Conduite where was a riche Pageaunt full of melody and Songs in whyche Pageaunte were Pallas Iuno and Venus and afore them stoode Mercurie whiche in the name of the thrée Goddesses gaue to hir a Ball of Gold deuided in thrée signifying thrée giftes which these thrée Goddesses gaue to hir that is to say Wisedom Riches and Felicitie As she entred into Pawles Gate there was a prettie Pageant in which sate thrée Ladyes richly clothed and in a circle on their head was written Regina Anna prosper procéede and raigne The Lady in the midst had a Tablet in the which was written Veni amica coronaberis and vnder the Table sate an Angell with a close Crowne And the Lady sitting on the right hand had a Tablet of Siluer in whiche was written Domine dirige gressus meos And the third Lady had a Tablet of Gold with letters of Azure written Confido in domino and vnder their féete was written Regina Anna paris regis de sanguine natam Et paries populis aurea saecla tuis And these Ladyes cast downe Wafers on the whiche the â—ayd two Uerses were written From thence she passed to the East ende of Pawles Church against the Schoole where stoode a Scaffolde and Children well apparelled which sayde to hir diuers goodly Uerses of Poets translated into English to the honor of the King and hir which she highly commended And then â—he came to Ludgate whiche Gate was new garnished with Gold and Bise and on the Leades of Saint Martins Church stoode a goodly Quéere of singing men and children which sang new Ballets made in prayse of hir grace After that she was past Ludgate she procéeded towarde Fléetestréete where the Conduite was newly paynted and all the Armes and angles refreshed and the Shalmes melodiously sounding Upon the Conduite was made a Tower with foure turrets and in euery turret stoode one of the cardinall vertues with their tokens and properties which had seueral speaches promising the Quéene neuer to leaue hir but to be ayding and comforting hir and in the midst of the Tower closely was such seuerall solemne instruments that it séemed to be a heauenly noyse and was much regarded and praysed and besides this the Conduite ran Wine claret and redde all the after noone so she with all hir company and the Maior rode forth to Temple Barre which was newly paynted and repaired where stoode also diuers singing men and Children till she came to Westminster Hall whiche was richly hanged with cloth of Arras and newly glased and in the midst of the Hall she was taken out of hir Litter and so ledde vp to the high Deske vnder the cloth of estate on whose left hande was a Cupbord of tenne stages high maruellous riche and beautifull to beholde and within a little season was broughte to the Quéene with a solemne seruice in greate standing spice plates a voyde of spice and sutteltyes with Ipocrase and other Wynes whyche she sente downe to hir Ladyes and when the Ladyes had drunke she gaue harty thankes to the Lordes and Ladyes and to the Maior and other that had giuen their attendance on hir and so withdrew hirselfe with a fewe Ladyes to the White Hall and so to hir Chamber and there shifted hir and after wente in hir Barge secretely to the King to his Manour of Westminster where she rested that night On Whitsonday the first of June the Maior cladde in Crimson Ueluet with his coller and all the Aldermen Coronation of Queene Anne and Sheriffes in Skarlet and the Counsell of the Citie tooke their Barge at the Crane by seauen of the clocke and came to Westminster where they were welcomed and brought into the Hall by Mayster Treasurer and other of the Kings house and so gaue their attendance till the Quéene shoulde come foorth betwéene eyght and nine of the Clocke she came into the Hall and stoode vnder the cloth of estate and then came in the Kings Chappell and the Monkes of Westminster all in riche Coapes and
Leicester wyth the saide order of Saint Mâ—chaell The Marâ—uâ—s of Baden and the Ladye Cecilie his wyfe 1566 â—â—â— Maâ—qâ—es of Baden returneth â—â—ster to the King of Swethen who came into this land in the meneth of September laste paste as before is declared béeing then by the Qéenes especiall appointment at theyr arriuall honorably receyued by the Lord Cobham an honorable Baron of this Realme and the Ladye his wife one of the Quéenes Maiesties priâ—ie Chamber nowe in the moneth of Aprill Anno. 1569. departed the same againe the Marques a fewe dayes before hys wife being both cenducted by a lyke personage the Lorde of Aburgaueny to Douer Certaine houses in Cornehill being first purchased by the The Burse in Cornehill Citizens of London were in the moneth of February cryed by the Bell man and afterwarde solde to suche persons as shoulde take them downe and carry them from thence whiche was so done in the moneths of Aprill and May next following And then the grounde beyng made plaine at the charges also of the Cittie poâ—â—ession thereof was by certaine Aldermen in name of the whole Citizens giuen to y e right worshipfull sir Tho. Gresham Knight Agent to the Quéens Highnesse there to buylde a place for Merchantes to assemble in at hys owne proper charges who on the seauenth of June layde the firste stone of the foundation being Bricke and forth-with the work-men followed vpon the same with suche diligence that by the Moneth of Nouember in the yeare of our Lorde â—â—67 the same was couered wyth Slate The commissioners before named appointed for the matters of Flaunders kéepyng their dyet at Bruges agréed to referre the whole matter to the Princes on bothe sides and if they coulde not agrée then the Merchants to haue fortie dayes to repayre home with their merchaundise and in the meane tâ—â—â— all things to stande as they were then Dure Câ—â—â—â—issioners departed froÌ„ Bruges about the xxvj of June The xxxj of August y e Quéenes Maiestie in hir progresse The Queenes progresse to Oxforde came to the Uniuerâ—â—tie of Oxforde and was of all the Studentes whyche had looked for hir commyng thyther two yeares so honorably and ioyfully receyued as eyther theyr lâ—yaâ—nâ—â—â—e towardes the Quéenes Maiestie or the expectation of their â—â—iendes did requyre Concerning orders in disputaâ—â—on and other Academicall exercises they agréede much wyth those which the Uniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeres before Comedies also and Tragedies were played in Christes Churche where the Quéenes Highnesse â—â—dged Among the whych the Comedie entituled Palemon Misfortune at Oxford and Arcet made by Maister Edwards of the Quéenes Chappel had suche tragicall successe as was lamentable For at that time by the fall of a wall and a payre of staires great preâ—sse of the multitude thrée men were slaine The fifth of September after disputations the Quéene at the humble sute of certaine of hir Nobilitie and the King of Spaâ—â—es Embassadour made a briefe Oration in Latine to the Uniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England maye reioice that it hathe so learned a Prince and the Uniuersitie may triâ—â—ph that they haue so noble a Patronesse The vj of September after dinner hir Grace comming from Christs Churche ouer Carfox and so to Saint Maries the Scholers standing in order according to their degrées euen to the East gate certaine Doctors of the Uniuersitie did ride before in their Scarlet gownes and hoodes Maisters of Arte in blackâ—â—â—wnâ— and hoodâ—s The Maior also with certaine of his drethren did ryde before hir in Scarlet to the ende of Magdalene â—â—â—dge where their liberties ended but the Doctors and Maisters went forward still to Shoâ—ouer a myle and more out of Oxforde dicause their Liberties extended so farre and there after Orations made hir Highneâ—â—â— with thankes to the whols Uniuersitie dade them farewel and rode to Rycote Richarde Lambert Ambrose Nicholas the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Iohn Langley the 4. of Aprill Sir Christopher Draper Iremonger the 28. of October Maior Souldiors transported into Irelande The valiant Captaine Edward Randolfe Esquier lieutenant of the Ordinaunce and Colonell of a thousand footemen in September last paste was wyth his band embarqued at Bristow and within few dayes after landed at Knocfergus in the North parts of Ireland and went thence by water to a place called Derry by which passeth y e riuer of Longfoile there the saide Colonell in shorte space fortified to the greate annoyaunce of Iohn Oneale and by greate foresight and experience guarded hymselfe and hys charge till the said Oneale to hinder and disturbe his abode there thâ—â— of NoueÌ„ber arriued with a great army of Kerne Galawglâ—ssâ—s and horssemen wyth whome the saide Captaine Randolfe encountred and him there so discomfited as after that conflicte he durste neuer approche the Quéenes power and to his perpetuall fame the said Captaine by reason of his bold and hardie onset that daye loste his life Charles Iames the sixth of that name sonne to Henrie Yong Prince of Scots christned Anno reg 9. Stuarte Lord of Darnley and Marie King and Quéene of Scots was borne in Edenberough Castel the ninetéenth of June last past and the eightéenth of December thys yeare solemnly Christned at Striueling whose Godfathers at the Christning were Charles King of Fraunce and Philibert Duke of Sauoy and the Quéenes Maiestie of Englande was the Godmother who gaue a Font of Golde curiously wrought and enameled weighing 333. ounces amounting in value to the summe of 1043. â— 19. s. The tenth of February in the morning Henrie Stuarte King of Scottes murdered Lorde of Darneley before named King of Scots by Scottes in Scotlande was shamefully murdered the reuenge whereof remaineth in the mightie hande of God The xxij of February the Lady Margaret Dowglasse couÌ„tesse of Leunex mother to the saide King of Scottes was discharged out of the Tower of London Within the space of ten moneths laste paste dyed seauen Seauen AldermeÌ„ deceased in LoÌ„don Aldermen of London the firste Edwarde Bankes deceassed the ninth of July Anna 1566. R. Chamberlaine late Sherife sir Martin Bowes sir R Malory sir William Hewet sir Thomas White late Maiors then Richarde Lambart one of the Sheriffes for that yeare the 4. of Aprill Anno 1567. The xxij of Aprill by greate misfortune of fyre in the 1567 The Tovvn of Ossestry brente thrice in thyrtie yeares Towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue myles from Shrewsburie to the number of 200. houses to saye seauen scores wythin the walles and thrée score without in the Suburbes béesides cloth corne cattel c. were consumed whyche fire began at two of the clocke in the forenoone and ended at fâ—â—â— to the great maruelling of many that so great a spoile in fo short time should happen Two long stréets with great riches of that town were brent in Anno. 1542. And lykewise or worse in Anno. 1544. The xxiiij of Aprill the Sergeants