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A13042	The abridgement of the English Chronicle, first collected by M. Iohn Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable antiquities, and continued with matters forreine and domesticall, vnto the beginning of the yeare, 1618. by E.H. Gentleman. There is a briefe table at the end of the booke; Summarie of Englyshe chronicles. Abridgments	Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Howes, Edmund, fl. 1607-1631.	1618 (1618)	STC 23332; ESTC S117863	314,292	619

were the Earle of Arundell L. Windsor Philip Sidney and other the defendants to the number of one and twenty all which of them sixe courses against the former chalengers who performed their parts valiantly The 21 of Iune in the night the lowest Images about the Crosse in Cheap were broken and defaced whereupon proclamation was made that who so would bewray the doers thereof should haue forty Crownes but nothing came to light but an euill end befell the doer This yeare were to be séene in London two Dutchmen of strange statures the one in height seuen foot and seuen inches in breadth betwixt the shoulders thrée quarters of a yard and two inches the compasse of his breast one yard halfe and two inches and about the wast one yard quarter and one inch the length of his arme to the hands a full yard a comely man of person but lame of his legs for he had broken them with lifting of a barrell of Béere The other was in hight but thrée foot he had neuer a good foot nor any knée at all and yet could dance a galliard he had no arme but a stump to the elbow or little more on the right side on the which singing he would daunce a cup and after tosse it about thrée or foure times and euery time receiue the same on the said stumpe hée would shoote an arrow néere the marke flourish with a rapier throw a bowle beat with a hammer hew with an axe sound with a trumpet and drinke euery day tenne quarts of the best béere if he could get it The 18 of Iuly were brought from the Fléete the Gatehouse Newgate and the Counters sundry prisoners indicted for refusing to come to the Church all which being conuicted by their owne confession had iudgement accordingly to pay twenty pounds for euery moneth of such wilfull absence Richard Martine W. Webbe Sir Iames Haruy Ironmonger The first of Nouember Monsieur the French Kings brother Duke of Anioue and other Nobles of France hauing lately arriued in Kent came to London and were honourably receiued and retained at the Court with great banqueting The first of December Edmond Campion Iesuite Ralph Sherwin and Alexander Brian Seminary Priests hauing béene arraigned and condemned for high treason were drawne from the tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged and quartered The first of February the Quéenes maiesty with her whole Court accompanied Monsieur Duke of Anioue from Westminster to Canterbury where when she had feasted all the French Nobility either tooke leaue of another and her Maiesty returned The sixt the Duke lodged at Sandwich and on the next morning tooke the sea being accompanied with the Earle of Leicester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Howard knights of the Garter the Lord Willowby Lord Windsor Lord Shefild Lord Hyward and Lord Audley M r. Sidney sir George Cary Master Iohn and Robert Cary and a great number of Gentlemen so as the whole traine that attended vpon the said Earle was one hundred gentlemen and more then thrée hundred seruingmen The Lord Hunsdon had of gentlemen and others to the number of one hundred and fifty and the Lord Hayward had as many all which sailed in 15 ships to Flushing in Zeland where the Prince of Orenge and the States of the Low Countries receiued the said Duke and our Nobles of England with great ioy conducting them from thence to Middleborow and then to Antwerpe where before the twentith day of the same moneth they solemnely created the said Duke of Anioue Duke Lothyer Braband c. and our Nobility returned into England Iohn Paine Priest being indicted of high treason for words by him spoken was arraigned condemned at Chelmsford and there executed on the second of Aprill This yeare the water Conduit in Fléetstréete was new builded with a larger Cesterne at the charges of the City The fiftéenth of May at night about ten of the clocke a blasing starre appeared descending in the Northwest the beard whereof streamed Southeast The 28 of May Thomas Ford Iohn Sheret and R. Iohnson Priests hauing bin before condemned of high treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged and quartered And on the 30 of May Luke Kerby William Filby Thomas Cotten and Laurence Richardson were for the like treason in the same place likewise executed The 14 of Iuly Peregrine Bartue Lord Willowby of Eresby appointed Ambassador to Frederick King of Denmarke with the Garter imbarked at Kingstone vpon Hull and prosperously arriued at Elismore in Denmarke on the twentith of the same moneth On the fouretéenth of August the said King receiued robes of the order ware the Garter Collar George and the Lord Ambassadour returning with his traine arriued at Bromtholine in Norffolke on the twentith of September This yeare was first founded a publike lecture in Surgery to begin to be read in the Colledge of Physitions in London Anno 1584. the sixt of May c. by Iohn L. Lumley and Richard Caldwell D. in Physicke The Reader whereof to be a Doctor of Physicke The 19 of Iuly certaine firkins of gunpowder to the number of seuen and as many more firkens of Sturgeon laden in a cart vpon Galley key some small portion of the same powder being shed on the ground the horse in the said Carre strooke fire with his foot and fired all together where through the Sturgeon was blowne away some into the Thames some else where one firken was driuen through alomed wall that was boorded ouer the Crane on the wharfe with the houses neare to adioyning shatred many men and horses so blasted the 3 men and 7 horses died thereof The 12 of August there arose a great tempest of lightning thunder whirlewind and raine beside hailestones fashioned like to the rowels of spurs 2 or 3 inches about in the Country of Norfolke betwéene the townes of North Walsam Worstéed which tempest beat the corne flat to the ground rent vp many great trées and shiuered them in péeces or wound them like writhes at Hemming a mile from Worsted the west doore of the Church weighing more then 300 weight was lifted off the hookes blowen ouer the Font within one yard of the Chancel doore the top of the Church was riuen vp and the lead blowen away fiue webbes of Leade were rufled vp together like a gloue and blown into the field without the Churchyard At East Russen were many barnes blowne downe William Roo Iohn Hayden deceased the twenty foure of Nouember and Cuthbert Buckle succeeded Sir Thomas Blanke Haberdasher Michaelmas terme was adiourned to the Castle of Hertford there to begin in Crastina Animarum Peter Morris frée denizon conuaied Thames water in pipes of Lead ouer the stéeple of Saint Magnus Church at the North end of London bridge so into diuers mens houses in Thames stréet Newfishstréet and Grasse

containing most trayterous matters against her Maiesties person And from thence to be caried in that maner and set on the pillory in the Palace at Westminster and there to haue one of his eares cut off also to be caried in like maner into London and set on the pillory on market day in Cheape with the like paper And after that caried into Kent and at the next Assise there to be set on the pillory with the like paper and his other eare to be cut off also to be set on the pillory one market day at Canterbury and another at Rochester in the like manner and at euery the said places this order taken touching this offence openly read the sentence whereof was duly executed The 14 of March at the Assises kept at the City of Excester in Deuonshire before Sir Edmond Anderson L. chiefe Iustice of the common pleas Sergeant Floriday one of the Barons of the Exchequer and other Iustices there happened a strange sicknesse first amongst the prisoners and then amongst other persons and beside the prisoners many of all degrées died thereof namely Serieant Floriday Sir Iohn Chichester Sir Arthur Basset and Sir Bernard Drake Knights Tho. Carew Richard Carie I. Fortescue I Waldran and Tho. Risdone Esquires and Iustices of the peace of the common people died very many Constables Reues Tithmen and Iurors and namely of one Iury being twelue of them died eleuen The seuentéene of March a strange thing happened Master Dorington of Spaldwickt in the Countie of Huntington Esquire one of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pentioners had a horse which died suddenly and being ripped to sée the cause of his death there was found in the hole of the heart of the same horse a strange worme which lay on a round heape in a Call or skinne in the likenesse of a Toade which being taken out spread abroade was in forme fashion not easie to be described the length of which worme diuided into many graines to the number of 50 spred from the body like the branches of a trée was from the snout to the end of the longest graine 17 inches hauing foure issues in the grains from whence dropped forth a red water the body in bignes round about was 3 inches a halfe the color whereof was very like to a mackarell This monstrous worme found in maner aforesaid crawling to haue got away was stabbed in with a dagger and died which after being dried was shewed to many honourable persons of the Realme The 18 of Aprill in the Sises holden at London in the Iustice hall William Tompson made Priest at Reymes in France and remaining within this Realme was condemned of treason Also Richard Lea made Priest at Lions was likewise there condemned which said William and Thomas were both on the twentieth of April drawne to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered The first of May sir Henry Sidney knight of the Garter Lord president of Wales departed this life and was honourably buried at Penshurst in Kent The 8 of May arriued at London on the Tower Wharfe Henry Ramelius Chancellor for Germany Ambassadour from Frederick the second King of Denmarke vnto the Quéenes Maiesty of England he was honourably receiued of the Lord Talbot the Lord Cobham and other great estates and by them conuayed through Tower stréete Fanchurch stréet and Grace-stréet into Bishops-gate stréet to Crosby place where he remained till hee had finished his Ambassage and returned on the thirtieth of May towards Denmarke Wolston Dixie Maior 1586 founded a frée schoole at Bosworth in Leicester-shire endowed with twenty pounde land by yéere better more he gaue to the gouernors of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge 600 pounds to buy land for the mainteinance of two scholarships and two fellowships there the scholars to come forth of Bosworth schoole he gaue also toward the erecting of Emmanuel Colledge 50 pounds to Christs hospitall in London 42 pounds the yeare for euer toward the Diuinity lecture to S. Michaell bassings hall in London 10 pounds the yeare for euer Vnto his company of Skinners 500 pounds to be lent vnto young men of that company viz. 200 pounds to foure yong men marchant Aduenturers for 3 yeare at 3 pounds 6 shillings 8 pence the yeare and thrée hundred pounds to ten other after the same rate part of the profits to be spent in coles yearly to the poore of Saint Michaels parish Basing hall for euer To Saint Bartholmewes hospitall and Saint Thomas hospitall 50. l. to each The poore of Bridewell 20. l. To the poore of Newgate 20. l. To the poore of the Compters 10. l. to each to Ludgate 10. l. To Bethlem 10. l. To the foure prisons in Southwarke 20. pounds thirtéene shillings and foure pence To poore maides marriages 100. l. To poore strangers of the Dutch and French Churches 50. li. To the poore of Basings-hall 10. l. To the poore Eling in Middlesex foure pounds And 200. toward building of the Pesthouse The 17. of May Philip Earle of Arundell was conuaied from the Towre of London to Westminster and there in the Star-chamber by the Counsell condemned to pay 10000. l. fine for his contempt and to remaine in prison at the Quéenes pleasure A Commission was erected from her Maiesty tending to the ratifying of a firme League of amity betwéene her Maiesty and Iames King of Scots which League being articuled Commissioners were appointed Edward Earle of Rutland W. Lord Euers and T. Randolph Esquire who with their Traine came to Barwicke on the 19. of Iune were the Ambassadors of Scotland being present they accomplished the matter according to the commission the Articles of the said league in all and euery part sufficiently confirmed on 1. of Iuly which being done the said Earle of Rutland with his traine returned home Master Randolph went into Scotland to take his leaue of the King and returned into England This yéere 1586. certaine Merchants and other gallant actiue Citizens at their owne proper charges onely for their countries seruice and defence practised wéekely diuers feats of Armes and by orderly course euery man bare al degrées of Offices from the corporall to the captaine and when they had by vsuall practise attained vnto some perfection with obseruation of Martiall discipline then they trained the common souldiers of the City taught them the managing of their péeces pikes halbeards to march countermarch and ring this president was taken from the Marchants of Antwerp The 18. of Iune Henry Elkes clarke for counterfeiting the Quéenes signe manuell to a presentation of the personage of all Saints in Has●ings directed to the Archbishop of Canterbury or to his Comissary generall the Diocesse of Chichester doing void that he might be institued Parson there was drawne to Tiburne there hanged and quartered A Lottery for maruellous rich and beautifull Armor was begun to be drawne at London in Pauls Church yeard at the great West gate an