and hanged An. Dom. 1335 The Sea banks broke in all through England but specially in the Thames so that all the cattel and beasts near thereunto were drowned An. Dom. 1339 A sudden undation of water at New-Castle upon Tine bare down part of the Town wall where an hundred and twenty men and women were drowned An. Dom. 1350 In Oxfordshire near Chippingnorton was found a Serpent having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire and the other face like the old attire and wings like a Bâ—tt An. Reg. 25 Men and women perished in divers places with Thunder and Lightning Fiends or Devils and strange apparitions were seen by men and spake unto them as they travelled An. Reg. 36 A great dearth and pestilence in England in which died Henry Duke of Lancaster who was buried at Leicester An. Reg. 38 A great winde in England overturned houses and Church-steeples An. reg 37. A Frost in England lasted from the midst of September to the moneth of April An. Reg. 51 King Edward ended his life at his Mannour of Shene the 21 day of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. when he had reigned fifty years four moneths and odd daies he was buried at Westminster King Richard of Bourdeaux An. Reg. 1 RIchard the Second the Son of Prince Edward being but eleven years old began his Reign the 21 of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. in bounty and liberality he far passed all his Progenitors but for that he was young was most ruled by young counsel and regarded nothing the counsel of the sage and wise men of the Realm This thing turned the Land to great trouble and himself to great misery An. Dom. 1388 Iack Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King Wat Tyler arrested by the Mayor of the City of High-Treason was slain in Smithfield and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King An. Reg. 6 A general Earthquake the 21 of May and a water-shaking which made the ships in the Haven to totter An. Reg. 7 Iohn Bale brought to Saint Albans was hang'd drawn and quarter'd Iohn Rawe Captain of the Rebels in Suffolk was hang'd and quarter'd An. Reg. 9 The 18 of Iuly was an Earthquake An. Reg. 11 An. Dom. 1390 The Nobles rise against the King In Oxford the Welsh and Southern Scholars assailed the Northern whereby many murders were committed An. Dom. 1391 The good man of the Cock in Cheap a Brewer at the little Conduit was murdered in the night by a Thief who came in at the gutter window as it was known long after by the same thief when he was condemned for felony His wife was burned in Smithfield and his three men hanged wrongfully An. Dom. 1397 The Earl of Arundel with many more were put to death for that they rebuked the King in matters of State something liberally An. Dom. 1398 Thomas Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury was banished the Realm An. Dom. 1399 Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster deceased and was honourably buried in Saint Pauls Church An. Reg. 23 The King exacted great sums of money of seventeen Shires of the Realm and laid to their charges that they had been against him with the Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick wherefore he went about to induce the Lords both spiritual and temporal to make a submission by writing acknowledging themselves to be Traitors to the King though they never offended him Moreover he compelled them to set their hands to blanks to the end that so often as it pleased him he might oppreâ—â— them An. Reg. 23 But all this made nothing for him but all against him for within a while after he was sent to the Tower till the next Parliament which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas-day at which time he resigned all his power and Knightly title to the Crown of England and France to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster when he had reigned twenty two years three moneths and odd daies Henry the Fourth Henry of Bollengbrook An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fourth son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was made King of England more by force then by lawful succession or election He began his Reign the 29 of September in the year 1399. An. Reg. 2 The King caused the Blanok Charters to be burnt made to King Richard Iohn Holland late Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Awmarl Iohn Mountecute Earl of Salisbury Thomas Spencer Sir Ralph Lumley Sir Thomas Blunt Sir Benedict Cely Knights with others conspired against King Henry and appointed privily to murder him but their Treason was found out and they were all put to death King Richard being in Pomfret-Castle died the fourteenth day of February his body was brought to London and so through the City of London to St. Pauls Church bare-faced three daies for all beholders from thence he was carried to Langley and there buried An. Dom. 1402 Certain men affirmed that King Richard was alive for the which a Priest was taken at Warwick who was drawn hanged and quarter'd Walter Waldock Prior of Lawd was likewise hanged and headed and eight grey Friers hanged and headed at London of the which one Richard Fresby Doctor of Divinity was drawn and hanged Sir Roger Claringdon Knight a Esquire and a Yeoman were beheaded at London and divers grey Friers hanged and beheaded and two at Leicester all these had published King Richard to be alive An. Dom. 1407 A Pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand An. Dom. 1408 A Frost lasted fifteen weeks An. Dom. 1409 Henry Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph came into England with a great company pretending by Proclamation to deliver the people from the great oppression that they were burdened with but by Sir Thomas Rokebey Sheriff of York-shire he was encountred at Bramhammoor and there slain the Lord Bardolph was likewise wounded to death An. Dom. 1412 After the fortunate chances hapned to King Henry being delivered of all civil division he was taken with sickness and yeelded to God his spirit the 20 of March 1412. when he had reigned thirteen years six moneths and odd daies he was buried at Canterbury Henry of Monmouth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fifth began his Reign the 20 of March in the year 1412. This Prince exceeded the mean stature of men he was beauteous of visage his neck long body slender and lean his bones small nevertheless he was of marvellous great strength and passing swift in running An. Dom. 1413 Sir Iohn Old-Castle for divers points touching the Sacrament before the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London VVinchester and others was convicted and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake and fled An. Dom. 1414 Certain adherents of Sir Iohn Old-Castle assembled them in Thickets field near London but the King being warned took the field before them and so took of them such numbers that
all the prisons in London were full of them divers of them were executed An. Dom. 1415 The King rode to Southampton where was discovered a great conspiracy against him by Richard Earle of Cambridge Sir Thomas Grey and Henry Scrope and others who were executed at Southampton An. Dom. 1416 The King entred the Sea with a thousand Sail and the third night after arrived at Normandy He laid siege to Hartslue which was yeelded to him he foâ—ght the battel at Agent-Court where he had a marvellous victory An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1417 On Easter day at a Sermon in Saint Dunstones in the East of London a great fray hapned where many people were fore wounded and Thomas Pettwarden Fishmong slain The beginners of the fray was the Lord Strange and Sir Iohn Russel Knight through the quarrel of their two wives were brought to the Counter in the Poultry and excommunicated at Pauls-Cross An. Reg. 6 An. Dom. 1418 Sir Iohn Old-Castle being taken after he had broke out of the Tower was sent to London by the Lord Powes out of VVales whiâ—h Sir Iohn was convict by Parliament and sent to Saint Giles in the fields and was there hanged consumed with fire An. Reg. 7 An. Dom. 1419 The Parson of VVrotham in Norfolk which had haunted Newmarket-hith and there robbed and spoiled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate at London and there died An. Reg. 9 At this time such was the general and capital command of the King of England in France as their own Chronicles testifie that in the Court of Chancery in Paris all things were sealed with the Seal of King Henry of England and the Great Seal of England was there new made and used wherein was the Arms of France England as the King sat in chair of State he held two Scepters in his hands in his right hand was a Scepter smooth and plain only the proportion of the French coyn commonly called the French crown and in his left hand he held a Scepter full of curious arts carved and vvrought vvith the Arms of England as is used in the English money and on the top thereof a Cross the French were much vexed thereat but knevv not hovv to help themselves An. Reg. 10 An. Dom. 1422 King Henry being at Boys at Vincent waxed â—â—ck and died the last day of August in the year 1422. when he had reigned nine years five moneths and odd daies he was buried at VVestminster Henry of Windsor An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Sixth being an Infant of eight moneths old began his Reign the last of August in the year 1422. the governing of the Realm was committed to the Duke of Glocester and the guard of his person to the Duke of Exeter and to the Duke of Bedford was given the Regency of France An. Reg. 4 The morrow after Simon and Iudes day the Mayor caused a great watch to be kept with most part of the Citizens in armour to stand by the Duke of Glocester against the Bishop of VVinchester who lay in Southwark with a great power of Lancashire and Cheshire men but the matter was appeased by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury An. Reg. 5 The 28 of September was an earthquake which continued the space of two houres An. Reg. 6 From the beginning of April unto Hallow-tide was such abundance of rain that not only hay but corn also was destroyed An. Reg. 7 The Duke of Norfolk passing through London-Bridge his Barge overwhelmed so that thirty persons were drowned and the Duke with others that escaped were drawn up with ropes So under God the people stood their friend And sav'd them by a Rope that 's some mens end An. Reg. 8 A Brittain murdered a Widdow in VVhite-Chappel Parish without Algate and bare away her goods but being pursued he took succour in the Church of Saint George in Southwark from whence he was taken and forswore the Land but as he came by the place where he did the murder the women of the Parish with stones and sheeps-horns and dirt off the dung-hills made an end of him An. Dom. 1431 At Abbington began an Insurrection of certain lewd persons that intended to have wrought much mischief but the chief Author being Bailiff of the Town named William Mundevile a Weaver with some others were put to death An. Dom. 1432 The King of England crowned in Paris but within a while after lost all his Father got in France An. Dom. 1433 Four souldiers of Calice beheaded and a hundred and ten banished and before that time was banished one hundred and twenty An. Reg. 13 The Thames was frozen that the Merchants which came to the Thames mouth were carried to London by land An. Reg. 15 The gate on London-bridge with the Tower next to Southwark fell down and the two furthest arches of the said Bridge and no man perished An. Reg. 16 All the Lions in the Tower of London died An. Reg. 17 A great wind in London blevv down almost one side of the street called the Old-Change An. Dom. 1439 Sir Richard VVich Vicar of Hermetsworth in Essex was burnt on Tower-hill the 17 of Iune An. Dom. 1440 The 18 of Iuly the Postern of London by East-Smith-field against the Tower of London sunk by night An. Dom. 1441 A stack of wood at Bernards-Castle fell down and killed three men by the fall of a stair at Beford where the shire day was kept eighteen persons were slain An. Dom. 1442 Eleanor Cobham Dutchess of Glocester was cited to appear before Henry Chichely archbishop of Canterbury to answer certain matters of Necromancy Witchcraft Sorcery Heresie and Treason vvhere when she appeared the aforesaid Roger was brought forth to witness against her and said that she vvas the cause and first stirred him to labour in that art then she vvas committed to the ward of Sir Iohn Stuard Knight then vvas taken also Margery Gurdmain a Witch of Ely vvhose Sorcery and Witchcraft the said Eleanor had a long time used wherefore the said Witch vvas burned in Smith-field The ninth of November Dame Eleanor appeared before the archbishop and others and received sentence of Penance vvhich she performed on the 17 of November she came from Temple-Bar vvith a taper of vvax in her hand from Fleet-street to Pauls vvhere she offer'd her taper to the altar on Wednesday next she vvent through Bridg-street Grace-Church-street to Leaden-hall and so to Christ-Church by Algate on Friday she vvent through Cheap to Saint Michaels in Corn-hill in form aforesaid The eighteenth of November Roger Bolinbroke vvas arraigned dravvn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1445 On Candlemass Eve in divers places of England vvere heard terrible thunders vvith lightning whereby the Church of Baldock in Hartfordshire the Church of VValden in Essex and divers others vvere sore shaken and the Steeple of Saint Pauls in London about three of the clock in the afternoon vvas set on fire in the midst of the shaft but
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
Kingdom and not accusations against those who were then the principall Ministers of state dissolved the Parliament The contagion raging in London Michaelmas Terme was ordered to be kept at Redding and speciall Instructions were given to the Judges to put in execution the statutes against Recusants An. Dom. 1626 On the sixth of February the solemnity of his Coronation were celebrated And a Parliament was called again on the sixt of the same moneth where the King demanding a supply for monies and representing that on the yeer before the Fleet miscarried at Cuziz for wat of it Master Clement Cooke son to the Lord Cooke stood up and said it was better to dye by a forraign Enemie then to be destroyed at home at which most insolent words the King was much troubled and instead of satisfaction hearing of a Declaration that was then contriving by some busy heads he disolved that Parliament also This yeer the King of France seized An. Dom. 1527 on all the English ships which lay at Burdeaux and other places and then began an open war against England wherefore in the yeer following the Duke of Buckingham with ten of the Navy Royall and ninety Marchantmen set sayl from Portsmouth and landed at the Isle of Ree from whence in September following he was beaten off with the loss of 2000. common Souldiers and fifty Officers An. Dom. 1628 The Rochellers having sollicited the King of England whom they found to be powerfull at Sea for his assistance the King called another Parliament on the seventeenth of March where a bill being drawn up against Tunnage and Poundage which the King by no meanes would condescend unto the Parliament was adjourned the twentieth of Decemb. In the meantime the Duke of Buckingham being ready again to set sayl from Portsmoth was killed by Iohn Felton a discontented officer of the last yeers Army who for that offence was hanged up in chaines neer unto the place where the murder was committed The Duke being slain the Earl of Lindsey was chosen Admirall who found the Haven of Rochell so strongly barred that it was impossible for his Ships to force their way give relief unto the besieged who thereupon submitted to their King without delay In the yeer 1629. a peace was concluded betwixt England and the two Crownes of France and Spain The Parliament called on the yeer before was dissolved by the King who extreamly complained against the carriages of some men in the House of Commons who being examined by the Lord Treasurer were sent some of them to the Tower some to the Gatehouse and some to the Fleet. Charles Iames eldest son to the King was borne at Greenwitch May the thirteenth and dyed almost as soone as he was borne being first Christened by one of the Kings Chaplains An. Dom. 1630 Doctor Layton a Schotchman having wrote a Book inciting the people to kill all the Bishops had his nose slit his eares cropt and was stigmatized in the forehead Peter Paul Rubin the famous Painter having made overtures for a peace with Spain the said peace was afterwards proclaimed November the twenty seventh 1630. In which it was articled that the King of Spain should use all his power and interest with the Emperour for the restitution of the Palatinate to King of Bohemiah Charles Duke of Cornewall by birth was born at Saint Iame's May 19. 1630. An. Dom. 1621 On the twenty fifth of Aprill the Earl of Castle-haven being Arraignen at the Kings Bench Bar and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy was by his Peeres condemned and executed on the Tower Hill the fourteenth of May following On the 4. of Novem. the Queen was delivered of her eldest daughter who was baptized Mary An. Dom. 1632 The Church of Saint Pauls was this yeer begun to be repaired and on the second of December the King was visited with the small pox An. Dom. 1633 May the thirteenth the King went to Scotland attended with a gallant train and on the tenth of Iune he was crowned at Edenbrough and on the twentieth of Iuly returned safe to the Queen at Greenwitch This yeer the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Doctor Abbot died and Doctor Land then Bishop of London succeeded in his place On the thirteenth of October the Queen was delivered of her third son who was Baptized Iames and on the twenty fourth of the same moneth was Created Duke of York Orders were sent into Scotland for the observing of the Church Discipline as in England which was the the occasion of great tumults and the sad war that followed An. Dom. 1634 The Dutch this yeer began to incroach upon his Majesties Dominions by Sea which was defended by Grotius in his Book intituled Mare Liberum and answered by Master Selden in his book intituled Mare Clausum Writts being issued out to rayse money for a certain number of Ships to be set forth for the defence of the Nation which then was called Ship money some of the discontented members of the former Parliament were absolutely against it and it begat a great quarrell An. Dom. 1635 On the sixth of March 1635. William Iuxon Bishop of London was made Lord Treasurer On the eighth of Ianuary the Lady Elizabeth was borne who survived her father but dyed with hearts grief not long afterwards An. Dom. 1636 In September the Earl of Arundel was sent Ambassadour extraordinary to the Emperour This yeer 1636. Master Prin Doctor Bastwick and Master Burton in the moneth of Iune were sentenced in the high Commission Court and ordered to be banished c. Master Hamden refusing to pay Ship money sentence passed against him by twelve of the Judges who absolutely declared for the legality of it only Judge Hutton and Judge Crook dissented An. Dom. 1637 On the twenty third of Iune 1637. the Book of Common prayers being begun to be read in Scotland according to the Kings orders there began a great uprore all the Churches protesting absolutely against it whereupon by the Kings Command a Proclamation was published and severe penalties to be inflicted on the contemners of it but nothing would prevail whereupon the Marques of Hamilton was sent down to Scotland and a treaty there was but it took no effect for during the said treaty the Scots had provided all things necessary for war and not long afterward Episcopacy was there totally abollished This yeer on the seventeenth of March the Queen was delivered of a daughter who at the Font received the name of Ann. This yeer there were great contestations in Scotland two Petitions were presented against the Common prayer book Proclamations were made at Edinborough and severall places for preventing of disorders but to no effect for the Covenanters every where began to rayse Arms impose texes seise on the Kings Castles and prepare for war having chosen David Lesly an old Soldier for their Generall On the latter end of October the Queen mother came into England which many people looked upon as a forerunner of mischief
into that liberty which I speak of they will never certainly enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary power that is to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth sirs I should not hold you any longer I will onely say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would put this which I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have now done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have now delivered my conscience and I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdome and your own salvations Doctor Juxon Although it be very well known what your Majesties affections are to Religion yet because it may be expected that you should speak something to give satisfaction to the world therein I must beseech your Majesty to declare your self in that particular King I thank you heartily my Lord for this remembrance I had almost forgotten it in troth Sirs my conscience in religion is already as I think well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of Engl. as I found it left unto me by my Father and pointing to the Bishop of London this I do believe that this honest man will witnesse with me Then turning to the Officers he said Excuse me for the same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more On this the Bishop of London said unto him There is but one stage more this stage is full of noise and tumult it is but a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you from earth to heaven and there you will find an abundance of unrepented joy and comfort To this the King replied I passe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where there is no disturbance no disturbance in the world The Bishop melting into tears assured him that he was exchanged from a temporall to an eternall crown a good exchange After this the King putting his hair under his cap after some short and fervent ejaculations in private with his hands and eyes lift up to heaven immediately stooped down and laid his neck upon the block and the King perceiving the Executioner prepared and armed to give the fatal blow said unto him Stay for the signe and after a very little pause stretching forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body and even his enemies wept in private for what they had done in publick His body was put into a coffin covered with black velvet and carried from thence to his house at Saint Iamses where being embalmed and wrapped up in a sheet of lead it was exposed to the view of the people On Wednesday the 7 of Feb. his body was delivered to two of his servants to be buried at Windsor where the next day the Bishop of London the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hartford and the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton repaired and buried him in a vault in St. Georges Chappel it being the same vault where Henry the eight had beene heretofore interred The Life and death of Oliver Cromwel Lord Protector OLiver Cromwell was born in the town of Huntingdon he was descended from the family of the Williams in the Coun. of Glamorgan one whereof marrying with the onely child and daughter of the Lord Cromwell raised and beheaded by Henry the Eight the whole Family afterwards retained the Name of Cromwell which was thought more Honourable In the month of August 1649. Six moneths after the decease of King Charles Oliver Cromwell being chosen by the Parliament to be Governor of Ireland advanced into that Nation with a very gallant Army of Horse and Foot where having taken and besieged Dogheda by degrees became absolute master of that whole Nation In the same year Doctor Dorislaus who assisted at King Charles his death being sent as Agent into the Low Countreys was killed at the Hagne and Mr. Acham being not long afterwards sent as an Agent into Spain was killed at Madrid In the year 1650. the Common-wealth of England preparing to make war against the Scots Oliver Cromwell who for his many great services in the wars of England was made Lieutenant General was now chosen to be Generallissimo of the Armies of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax This year in the moneth of September was the famous battell of Dunbar where the English having totally overthrown the Scots did take ten Collonels 12 Lieutenant-collonels 9 Majors 47 Captains 72 Lientenants and eighty Ensignes two and twenty great Gunns and arms for fifteen thousand men In the same moneth Edenburgh and Leith were taken Col Eusebius Andrews being discovered to bring over Commissions to raise souldiers for the King of Scotland was condemned for it and beheaded on Tower hill Much about the same time Generall Blake at sea did ruine Prince Ruperts Fleet. In the year 1651. the Armes of the Crown of England were put down by order of Parliament and the Statues of King Chales were put down one of them at the old Exchange and the other at the west end of Pauls This year the Lord Saint Iohn and Mr. Walter Strickland were sent Ambassadors into Holland where they were much affronted by the English Royalists The Isle of Scilly was reduced and one Brown Bushell was beheaded at London a famous Royalist both by sea and land This year M. Love and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded on Tower-hill In the moneth of August the King of Scotland with an army of twelve thousand men did enter into England by the way of Carlile and on the third of September following was the battel at Worcester where the King of Scotland being over-powred lost the day where there were taken six Collonels of horse eight of foot thirty seven Captains of hoâ—se seventy three of foot seventy â—â—x Standards ninty nine Ensignes one hundred fifty and eight Colours all the Canon the Royall Standard the Kings coach and horses the King himself made an escape strangely and in a disguise passed unknown into France This yeare the Isle of Iersie was taken and the Isle of Man reduced and not long afterwards the strong castle of Gâ—ernsey was surrendred to the Paâ—liament In the moneth of May 1652. was the first Sea-fight betwixt the Engglish and the Hollanders Generall Blake gave the first volley and let flie three guns at Van-trumps flag to which Van-trump answered by a shot from the stern of his ship backwards signifying his disdain to veyl his flag and instead of striking his main top-saile he caused a red flag of
battail of Edge hill was fought an reg 17. After many battels at Newbery Marston Moore Naseby and other places the King was quite worsted and enforced to fly to the Scots an reg 22. The King being sold to the English by the Scots was brought from the Isle of Wight and being tryed by a High Court of Iustice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal an reg 23. XXV Oliver Cromwel Protector AFter the death of King Charles Oliver Cromwel having made himself famous by many great atchievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax and advancing into Ireland he took Drogheda by storm and pursuing his victories he became absolute master of that Nation anno 1649. and 1650. The great battail at Dunbar was fought where the Scots were totally overthrown two and twenty great guns taken and arms for fifteen thousand men an 1651. The arms of the Crown of England and statues of King Charles were put down by order of Parliament 1651. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded both on Tower hill 1651. The great battail at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown an 1652. Many great battails at sea betwixt English and Hollanders 1652. and 1953. The Lord General Cromwel was declared and sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 1654. The Hollanders obtained peace of the English 1654. A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF All the wonders and remarkable passages since William the Conquerour till the Raign of King Charles Written for the benefit of posterity To the Reader REader I have taken pains to abstract out of the Chronicle all the remarkable wonders and passages of concernment from William the Conqueror to the raign of King Charles I hope thou art not so ignorant but that thou wilt find it and grant it useful for us and our posterity hereafter Vale. Wonders and remarkable passages William Conquerour An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1069 A Gelricus Bishop of Durham being accused of treason was imprisoned at Westminster An. Reg. 4 Such a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereaved all the Monasteries and Abbies of England of their gold and silver sparing neither Challice nor Shrine An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham bought of King William the Earldome of Northumberland wherein he used such cruelty that the inhabitants slew him An. Dom. 1076 An. Reg. 11 The earth was hard frozen from the middest of November to the midd'st of April An. Dom. 1077 An. reg 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon appeared a blazing Star neer unto the Sun An. Dom. 1078 An. reg 13 This year King William builded the Tower of London An. Dom. 1079 An. reg 14 Thurstone Abbot of Glassenbury in his Church caused three monks to be slain and eighteen men to be wounded that their blood ran down from the Altar to the steps An. Reg. 15 This year was a great wind on Christmas day a great Earthquake and roaring out of the earth the sixth of April An. reg 20 There was a great floud so Pauls Church burnt that hills were made soft and consumed and with their fall overwhelmed many villages to the great amazement of all An. reg 21 In a province of Wales called Rose was found the Sepulchre of Gawen upon the sea shore who was sisters son of Arthur the Great king of Brittain being in length fourteen foot King William being at Roan in Normandy went with a great Army into France spoyling all things as he passed last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorits that were inclosed there the king cheared his men to feed the fire and came himself so neer that with the heat of his harness he got a disease also the Kings horse leaping over a ditch did burst the inner parts of the King with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted and returned to Roan where shortly after he ended his life the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had raigned 20. years eight months and sixteen dayes I would have the Reader understand that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this kings dayes nor in any kings dayes else and that is the reason that the date of years do not follow in order for I skip a great part of needless things because I would not be too tedious nor abuse thy patience too much William Rufus An. Reg. 4 Agreat tempest fell on St. Lukes day especially in Winchcomb where a great part of the Steeple was overthrown and in London the wind overturned 606. houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheap-side wherewith some persons were slain An. Reg. 6 This year was a great famine and so great a mortality that the quick were scant able to burie the dead An. Reg. 11 All the land that sometimes belonged to Earl Goodwin by breaking in of the sea was covered with sands and is yet to this day called Goodwin sands An. Reg. 13 In the summer blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Barkshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting in the new Forrest sir William Tirrel shooting at a dear at unawares hit the King in the brest that he fell down dead and never spake word his men and especially that Knight hid themselves but some came back again and laid his body upon a colliers cart which one poor lean beast did draw to the City of Winchester where he was buried he reigned twelve years eleven months lacking eight daies Henry Beauclark Henry the first An. Reg. 2 VVInchester and Glocester burnt An. Reg. 5 There appeared about the sun four circles and a blazing star An. Reg. 13 This year was a great mortality of men and murren of beasts An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles dâ—d so fail of water that in the midst of the Channel the smallest vessels and boates could not pass the self same day the Thames did suffer the like want of water for between the Tower of London and the Bridge not onely with horses but also a great number of men and children did wade over on foot An. Dom. 1115 Chichester was burnt many storms and a blazing starr An. Dom. 1116 In March was exceeding lightning and in December thunder and hail and the moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood An. Dom. 1119 An. Reg. 20 King Henry having tamed the French men and pacified Normandy returned into England in which voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his son and Mary his daughter Richard Earl of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of 160. persons were drowned An. Reg. 23 The City of Glocester burnt An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced
was buried at Westminster in the new Chappel which he caused to be builded he left issue Henry Prince of Wales who succeeded in the Kingdome Lady Margaret Queen of Scots and Lady Mary promised to Charles King of Castile Henry the Eighth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Eighth at the age of eighteen years began his reign the 22 of April Anno 1590. of personage he was tall and mighty in wit and memory excellent the third of Iune he married Lady Katherine his first wife who had been late wife to Prince Arthur deceased On Midsommer day the King and Queen were crowned at Westminster An. Dom. 1510 Sir Richard Emson Knight and Edmond Dudley Esquire who had been great Councellors to King Henry the seventh were beheaded on Tower-hill the eighteenth of August An. Dom. 1515 Richard Hunne a Merchant-Taylor of S. Margarets Parish of Bridge-street who had been put in the Lollards Tower about the end of October was now the fifth of December found hanged in the same place and after burned in Smithfield An. Dom. 1517 The Thames was frozen that men with horse and carts might pass betwixt Westminster and Lambeth An. Dom. 1517 An. Reg. 9 On May-eve was an insurrection of young men and Apprentices of London against Aliens of the which divers were hanged vvith their Captain Iohn Lincorn a Broker the residue Ill May-day to the number of four hundred men and eleven vvomen tyed in ropes all along one after another in their shirts came to Westminster-hall vvith halters about their necks and vvere pardoned An. Dom. 1518 Many died in England of the svveating sickness and especially about London wherefore Trinity Term was one day at Oxford and then adjourned to Westminster An. Dom. 1521 The 27 of May was Edward Duke of Buckingham beheaded King Henry wrote a book against Luther and therefore the Pope named him Defender of the Faith An. Dom. 1524 In December in the City of Coventry Francis Philip Christopher Pickering and Anthony Mainle intended to have taken the Kings treasure of his Subsidy as the same came towards London therewith to have raised men and to have taken the Castle of Killingworth and then to have made wars against the King for the which they were drawn hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the other of their conspiracy were executed at Coventry An. Dom. 1526 The eleventh of February four Merchants of the Still-yard did penance at Pauls and Doctor Barnes bare a faggot An. Dom. 1527 An. Reg. 19 In November December and Ianuary fell abundance of rain that thereof ensued great floods which destroyed corn-fields pasture and beasts then was it dry till the twelfth of April and from that time it rained every day and night till the third of Iune Such a scarcity of bread was then at London and all England over that many died for want of succour The bread-carts coming from Stratford to London were met by the way and the people were ready to pâ—ll it out of the carts insomuch that the Mayor and Sheriffs were forced to go and rescue the same and see the carts brought to the markets appointed Wheat was then at fifteen shillings the quarter shortly after the Merchants of the Still-yard brought from Dansk such store of wheat and rye that it was better cheap in London then in any part of the Realm beside An. Reg. 23 Richard Rice a Cook was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchesters house The eleventh of April seven men with their horses and a ferry man were drowned at Lambeth Thomas Bilney was burned at Norwich An. Reg. 24 An. Dom. 1532 The 25 of May was taken between London and Greenwich two great fishes called Hurlepools Five men were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for coyning and clipping of money A great fish was taken at Blackwall which was brought to Westminster to the King An. Reg. 26 The 15 of May was a great fire at Salters Hall in Bredstreet The fourteenth of August was a great fire at Temple-bar the sixteenth of August was the Kings Stable burned at Charing-cross wherein were burned many great horses and great store of hay An. Dom. 1537 The Prior of the Charter-house at London the Prior of Beval the Prior of Exham Reynolds a Brother of Simon and Iohn Hail Vicar of Thisleworth were all condemned drawn and hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn the fourth of May. The eighteenth of Iune three Monks of the Charter-house of London Exmewe Middlemore and Nidigate were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The 22 of Iune Doctor Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was beheaded on the Tower-hill The sixth of Iuly Sir Thomas Moor was beheaded on Tower-hill Within a while after the Lady Ann Queen was had to the Tower and there for things laid to her charge was shortly after beheaded The nineteenth of May the Lord Rochford Brother to the said Queen Henry Norrice Mark Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the Kings Privy Chamber about matters touching the Queen were put to death In the beginning of October at an Assise for the Kings subsidie kept in Lincolnshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nine and twenty thousand persons together against those the king did send the Duke of Suffolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Rutland with a strong power whereof when the Rebels heard they desired pardon brake up their Army and departed home but their Captains were apprehended and executed The ninth of October a Priest and a Butcher were hanged for speaking in the behalf of the Lincolneshire men they were hanged at VVindsor After began an insurrection for the sames causes in York-shire the people gathered to the number of forty thousand against those Rebels the king sent the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Marquess of Exceter with a great Army with whom a battel was appointed to be fought on the Eve of Simon and Iude but there fell such rain the night before that the two armies could not meet wheâ—eupon they desired the D. of Norfolk to sue to the King for a pardon and that they might have their liberties whiâ—h the Duke promised and rid post to the king then lying at Windsor to know his pleasure and so appeased them Ask that was the chief in this rebellion came to London and was not onely pardoned but rewarded with gifts the king dealt with this Ask as his Father did with Perkin Warbeck let him alone a while to see what he would do and these kings did but just play with these miscreants as the cat playes with the mouse for they were both of them hanged The twelfth of December the Thames being frozen the king and Queen Iane rode through London to Greenwich The third of February was Thomas Fitz Garret son and heir to the Earle of Kâ—ldare beheaded and five of his Uncles drawn hanged and quartered at Tiburn in this moneth Nicholas Musgrave Thomas Gilby and others stirred a new rebellion and besieged the City of
the country came down so fast upon them that the French men fled Some certain ships of the Kings Ships called Hedgehogs one of them had a mischance before Westminster a firkin Men burned of powder took fire and killed seven men and the eighth man was drowned The 20 of Iuly the King being at Another mischance Portsmouth the goodly ship called the Rose with Sir George Carrow the Captain and many other Gentlemen were drowned in the midst of the Haven The French were beaten off at the Isle of Wight and likewise in Sussex at a place called New-haven One William Foxley Potmaker for the Mint in the tower of London fell asleep the 27 of April who could not be wakened neither by kicking cramping or pinching till the first day of the next term whiâ—h was full fourteen daies and fifteen nights the cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known though the same were diligently enquired after by the Kings Physitians and men of learning yea the King himself examined him and he was in all points found as he had slept but one night and he was living till the year of our Lord 1587. The 16 of Iuly were burned in Smithfield for the Sacrament Anne Askew Iohn Lassels Nicholas Overden Priest Iohn Adlam taylor and Doctor Shaxton sometimes Bishop of Salisbury preached at the same fire and recanted perswading them to do the like but they would not The Admiral of France came to England where he was gallantly and honourably entertained the English in those daies kept them at a distance and forced them to submit The 12 of December Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Henry Earl of Surrey his son was sent to the tower Henry Howard Earl of Surrey was beheaded on the tower-hill the 19 of Ianuary The 28 of Ianuary King Henry deceased and left the Crown to his son Prince Edward Lady Mary his daughter by Katherine and the third Lady Elizabeth by Queen Anne of Bullen he deceased when he had reigned 37 years nine moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVindsor Edward the Sixth An. Reg. 1 EDward the sixth began his reign the 24 of Ianuary 1546. when he was but nine years old King Henry his Father had appointed by his Will for his Privy-Councel the Archbishop of Canterbury the Chancellour the Bishop of Durham with others to the number of sixteen The sixth of February the Earl of Hertford was elected to be Protector to the Kings person the sixth of February the Lord Protector in the Tower of London endued King Edward with the Order of Knighthood King Edward was crowned at Westminster the twentieth of February An. Dom. 1557 The fifteenth of May Doctor Smith recanted at Pauls-Cross The Lord Protector and the rest of the Councel sent Commissioners into all parts of the Realm willing them to take down all images out of their Churches for the avoiding of idolatry with them were sent divers preachers to perswade the people from their Beads and at that time procession was forbidden The Church-Service read in English to the people On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester preached before the King for the which he was sent to the Tower An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1548 The seventh of Iuly a Priest was hanged and quarter'd in Smith-field for killing one Mr. Body one of the Kings Commissioners other of his Fellows were put to death in other places A great pestilence in London The 16 of September Saint Anns Church within Aldersgate was burnt An. Reg. 3 The 16 of Ianuary Thomas Seimer Lord Admiral was sent to the Tower of London he was Brother to the Lord Protector on the 20 of March he was beheaded on the Tower-hill An. Dom. 1549 The 23 of April six houses at Broken-wharf were burned In May by reason of a Proclamation for Inclosures the Commons of Sommersetshire and Lincolnshire made a commotion and brake up certain Parks of Sir VVilliam Herberts and the Lord Sturtons but Sir VVilliam Herbert slew and executed many of those Rebels In Iuly the Commons of Essex and Kent Suffolk and Norfolk rose against Inclosures and pulled down many parks and houses Also the Commons of Cornwall and Devonshire desired not only the inclosures might be disparked but also to have their old Religion these besieged the City of Exeter which was valiantly defended Iohn Lord Russel with a number of Souldiers enter'd the City of Exeter slew and took prisoners more then four thousand and after hanged a number of them in the town and about the country the Lord Grey likewise with strangers horsemen slew many people and spoiled the country The last of Iuly VVilliam Lord Marquess of Northampton entered the City of Norwich and on the morrow the rebels also entered the town burnt part thereof put the Lord Marquess to flight and slew the Lord Sheffield Divers persons were executed as aiders of the aforesaid rebels of the which one was hanged within Algate and an other at the Bridg-foot towards Southwark The rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk incamped themselves at Mount Surrey near unto Norwich against whom Sir Iohn Dudley Earl of VVarwick went with an army where meeting with the rebels they had thought all to have died in the place but God brought it to pass as well there as in all other places they were partly by power constrained partly by promise of a pardon perswaded to submit themselves the Earl of VVarwick enter'd the City of Norwich the 27 of August when he had slain above five thousand rebels and taken their chief Captain Robert Kett of Windam tanner The twentieth of September Edmond Bonner Bishop of London was sent from Lambeth to the Marshalsey for a Sermon which he preached at Pauls-cross on the first of December on the first of October he was deprived of his Bishoprick and sent again to the Marshalsey for disobeyding the Kings order in Religion The twentieth of November Robert Kett and VVilliam Kett his brother were dâ—livered out of the tower of London to Sir Edward Windam Sheriff of Norwich where Robert Kett was hanged in chains on the top of Norwich castle and William Kett hanged on the top of Windam-steeple The nineteenth of Ianuary were murdered by St. Sepulchres Church without Newgate in London two Captains that had served the King at Boloigne and elswhere the one that was murdered was Sir Peter Gambo the other Filieirga which murders were committed by Charles Gavero a Flemming who came post from Barwick to do that act the next morning he with three of his companions were taken in Smith-field and carried to Newgate and the twenty fourth of Ianuary they were all 4 hanged in Smithfield Charles Gavero Balthazar Gavero Nicholas Dissalveron and Francis Devalasco The twenty seventh of Ianuary Humphrey Arundel Esquire Thomas Holmes VVinslowe and Bury captains of the rebels in Devonshire were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The tenth of February one Bell was hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion in
of the West marches enter'd Scotland the eighteenth of April burnt and spoiled almost Dunfreize took many prisoners and returned safely the marches of England were so well guarded by the Lord Eure Sir George Bowes and other of the Bishoprick that not one house was burned nor one cow taken away out of England there were razed and overthrown and burnt in this journey above fifty strong Castles and Piles and above three hundred towns and villages The twenty seventh of May Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire were drawn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for rebellion The twenty eighth of May the Castle of Hambleton was yeelded to Sir William Drury and by him presently burned A conspiracy was made by certain gentlemen and others in the County of Norfolk ten of them were condemned of High-treason three of them were hanged and quartered which were these Throgmorton Thomas Brook and George Dead-man The fourth of August the Duke of Norfolk was removed to the Charter-house near Smithfield This day Iohu Felton was arraigned for hanging a Bull at the gate of the Bishop of Londons pallace and also two young men for coyning and clipping who were all all found guilty of high treason The eight of August Iohn Felton was drawn from Newgate into Pauls Church yard and there hanged before the Bishops pallace gate and being cut down alive was bowelled and quartered the Sheriffs returned to Tyburn with two young men which were executed for coyning and clypping The 5 of October hapned a terrible tempest of wind and rain so that many shipps and boates were drowned the water overflowing drowned many townes villages cattel houses and goods besides many men women and children were drowned in their beds An. Reg. 13 The seventeenth of February at Kingstone neat Marlech in the County of Hereford was seen the ground to open and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed and went forward the space of four daies it removed it self between six of the clock in the evening and seven the next morning forty paces carrying great trees and sheep coates some with threescore sheep in them The depth of the hole where it first broke out is thirty foot the breadth of the breach waâ— eightscore yards it overthrew Rinnastone Chappel also two high waies were removed nigh a hundred yards with trees and hedgrowes the ground in all is 26 Acres and where tillage ground was there is pasture left in place and where was pasture there is tillage ground gone upon it The first of Iune Iohn Story Doct. of the canon Law who before had been condemned of high treason was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The sixteenth of Iuly Rebecca Chamber for poysoning her husband Thomas Chamber was burnt at Maidstone in Kent The seventh of September the Duke of Norfolk was removed from the Charter-house to the Tower The sixteenth of Ianuary Thomas Duke of Norfolk was arraigned in Westminster Hall and there by his Peers found guilty of high treason The eleventh of February Kenelme Barne and Edmond Mather were drawn from the Tower of London and Henry Rolfe from the Marshall-see in Southwark all three to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered Barne and Mather for conspiracy and Rolfe for counterfeiting the Queens hand The tenth of March deceased Sir William Pawlet Knight Lord Saint Iohn Earl of Wiershire Marquess of Winchester Knight of the Garter one of her Majesties privy council and Lord high Treasurer of England he was borne in the year of our Lord 1443. he served Henry the seventh Henry the eight Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth himself did see the children of his childrens children growing to the number of 103. This year 1572 was the massacre in Paris The second of Iune was Thomas Duke of Norfolke beheaded on tower hill The twenty second of August Thomas Piercie Earl of Northumberland now brought out of Scotland whether he had fled was beheaded at York The twenty fifth of March being Wednesday in Easter week George Brown cruelly murdered near to Shooters hill in Kent a wealthy Merchant of London named George Sanders which murder was committed by the procurement of Mistress Sanders wife to the said George Sanders for the which fact George Brown was hanged in Smithfiold in London the twentieth day of April and after hanged in chaines near the place where he did the deed Mistress Ann Sanders Mistress Ann Druery and trusty Roger Mistress Drueries man being all consenting to the murther were all hanged in Smithfield on the thirteenth of May not long after Anthony Brown brother to the said George Brown was for notable fellonies conveyed from Newgate to York and there hanged The second of Inne a great tempest oâ— rain and hail hapned at Tocester in Northamptonshire where six houses in that town were borne down and fourteen more fore perished the hail stones that fell were six in hes about one child was there drowned and many sheep and other cattel The sixteenth of Iune Thomas Woodhouse Priest was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London and condemned for high treason who had judgement to be hanged and quartered and was executed at Tyburn the 19 of Iune The sixteenth of August Walter Earl of Essex sailed into Ireland with the Loâ—d Rich and many other Gentlemen the Earl after many great dangers on the sea landed at Knockfergus the Lord Rich after the like dangers landed at Castle Kilciffe Sir Brian Makephelin on the sixth of September came to Knockfergus to the Earl of Fssex and there made his submission After him Ferdorough Macgillastick Roze Oge Mackwilline did the like and divers others sent their messengers to the Earl to signifie that they were at his command as the Baron of Dongarrow Condonell Odonell and the Captain oâ— Kylulto The Earl of Essex having the Country of Clanyboy and other the Queens Majesty directed her letters to the Deputy of Ireland willing him to make the Earl of Essex General of the Irish Nation An. Reg. 16 The sixth of Iuly in the Isle of Thanet a monstrous fish of the Sea did shoot himself on shore where for want of water beat himself on the Sands and died the length of this fish was twenty two yards the neather jaw twelve foot the opening the thickness of the back whereon he lay to the top of his belly was fourteen foot his tail oâ— the same breadth between the eyes twelve foot some of his ribs were sixteen foot long his tongue was fifteen foot long The fifteenth of August being Sunday Agnes Bridges a Maid about the age of twenty years and Rachel Pinder a wench about twelve years of age both of them counterfeiting to be possessed by the Devil stood at Pauls-Cross where they acknowledged their hypocritical counterfeiting requiring forgiveness of God and the world for they made the people believe many strange things The fourth of September in the afternoon such a storm of rain happened at London
An. Dom. 1639 On the seventeenth of March 1639. The King set forth against the Scots attended with a Royall Army and on the seventeenth of Iune a generall accord was made at Barwick upon which the King presently disbanded his forces and returned to London whither he was no sooner come but the Scot did openly protest against the Pasification and retained the Officers of the Army in pay hereupon the King was inforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the antient Ceremonies was looked upon as addicted too much to to the Religion of Rome An. Dom. 1640 On the thirteenth of August 1640. Another Parliament assembled and the King finding that they had no desire to assist him with money to advance against the Scots but were ready to comply with them he dissolved that Parliament to the great grief both of City and countrey Iuly the eighteenth The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized Henry On the twentieth of August the King marched towards the North in his own person having received some large contributions from the Clergie and a very considerable number of the Gentry At Annick he understood of a defeat given by Generall Lesly to a party of his consisting of 3000. foot and 1200. Horse that Sir Iacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishoprick of Dirham and 300. pound a day on the Countey of Northumberland which sad newes did much afflict him On the twenty fourth of Septem the Lords being assembled with the King at Yorke it was resolved that a Parliament should be called on the third of November following In the mean time the English to gain a cessation of Arms was inforced to yeeld to the Scots unreasonable propositions This Parliament by reason of the long Sessions of it being called the long Parliament being met Master Prin Master Burton and Doctor Bastwick were released of their Imprisonment having great dammages allowed them The Earl of Straford the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Wren were impeached of High treason and to the Tower Sir Francis Windebank and the Lord Finch fled beyond the Seas and most of the Judges who had declared themselves for Ship money were voted delinquents Judge Barkely was arrested by the Usher of the Black Rod for high Treason as he sate one the Kings Bench. An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March 1641 the tryall was of the Lord Straford which continued many dayes and having said as much for himself as man could speak and the King himself interceding for him it made his cause the worse and on Wednesday the twelft of May he was beheaded on Tower Hill On the second of May the Lady Mary was married to the Prince of Orange with great solemnity Three hundred thousand pounds was ordered for the Scotch Army to send them out of England to which they were a charge unsupportable The Parliament adjourned from the eight of September to the twentieth of October and on the tenth of August the king went to Scotland and came back to London on the beginning of November following About the latter end of October brake out the barbarous inhumane Rebellion in Ireland where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of Ianuary 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen came into the house of Commons and seating him in the Speakers Chayre demanded five members of the house to be delivered to him whose names were Sir Ar. Hazelrig Master Denzill Hollis Master Prin Mr. Hamden and Master Sroud but finding they were not there he went into his coach for London being informed they were fled thither and made Proclamation for their apprehension which the Commons voted illegall and scandalous In February the King and Queen went to Canterbury with the Princes wife to the Prince of Orange the Queen understanding that the house intended to charge her with Treason went along with the Princesse her daughter into Holland Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down The king coming back to Greenwitch went afterwards towards Yorke in the mean time the Parliament doth Seise upon the Magazine at Hull and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed and the Earl of Essex appointed to be Generall the noyse of whose preparations doth hasten the King from Yorke to Nottingham where he Sets up his sttandard and much encreaseth his Forces as he marcheth on Sunday October twenty third was the great Battaile fought at Edgehill the fight terrible and five thousand slain upon the place He afterwards marcheth towards London and at Brainford defeateth a Regiment of the Parliaments but finding how numerous the Earle of Essex Army was that lay betwixt Brainford and London he retired to his Winter quarters at Oxford An. Dom. 1643 On the latter end of February 1643. the Queen who had bin accused of pawning the Jewels of the Crown came to him and brought great supplies of powder Arms and Ammunition The ensuing Summer made the King master of the North and West Some few places onely excepted The Earl of Newcastle had cleared all beyond the Trent but Hull and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice had redewced Bristol Exeter and all the Towns of any importance in the West Pool Lime and Plimotuh excepted but making some stay to reduce Glocester the Siege was raysed by the Earl of Essex and on the twentieth of September the famous Battaile of Newbery was fought where many were flain on both sides and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Reare of the Earle of Essex Army almost as far as Reading An. Dom. 1644 The K. being come to Oxford he Summoned a Parliament which appeared on the two and twentieth day of Ianuary and on the Sixteenth of the same moneth the Scots Army entred England consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse at this time Newark being besieged by Sir Iohn Meldrum with an Army of seven thousand Prince Rupert with four thousand horse and one thousand foot doth raise the siege not long afterwards Latham house was relieved by him The Queen went from Oxford to the west of England April 16. where at Exceter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains on the yeer before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford whose name was Katharine and died almost as soon as it was born The King having given a defeat to Sir William Waller at Cropredy Bridge advanced after the Earl of Essex and followed him so close that at last he forced him into Cornwal his horse taking the advantage of the night made a shift to escape but the foot came to capitulation and delivered up their Arms and Artillery there being nine thousand arms and forty nine pieces of excellent brass Ordnance the
that was set on shore in Spain The two brothers were brought to England and a long time prisoners in Chelsy Colledge from whence they had the fortune to make their escape An. Dom. 1657 The rich Plate fleet being after much expectation come to Spain Blake understanding where they had unladen resolved with himselfe though he missed of the money to be revenged on the purse and made up to them with the greatest part of the strength he had and burned and sunck sixteen great vessails amongst which there were five Gallions the Admirall Vice-Admirall and Rear-Admirall the greatest part whereof had Brasse Ordnance mounted on them His Highness rewarded this service of Blakes with a Diamond Ring worth a thousand pound On the beginning of May the English were sent to assist the French with a body of six thousand Foot under the Command of the Noble Sir Iohn Reynolds In the middle of the moneth of Iune his Highness was installed in the Protectorship when the Trumpets sounded there were few or almost no acclamations of the people although the numbers were almost infinite who thronged to behold him at his Investment into his new dignities This veer the Fort of Mardike was convaied unto the English and Sir Iohn Reynolds comming for England was at Sea most unfortunately if not cruelly cast away Generall Blake being sick died in the sight of Plimmouth and had the Honour to be buried in the Chappell of Henry the Seventh Henry Cromwell the younger son of the Protector was made Lord Deputy of Ireland and not long afterwards the Court began to be full of Jealousies for now there was a new report of another conspiracy against the Protector for the effecting whereof VVhitehall should have been set on fire by one Iohn Syndercombe and some others Syndercombe was apprehended and sent to the Tower and sentenced to lose his life which many that knew his crime affirmed would never be by a publike Execution he died suddenly in the Tower on the night before his execution to the murmuring of many and the admiration of all howsoever his Body was brought to Tower Hill where it was buryed under the Scaffold and to increase yet more the noyse of the people it had a stake drove through it On the fourth of February 1658. his Highness put a period to the Parliament then being on the proceedings whereof so many hopes depended he said he would trust no more to men but rely on GOD onely The Parliament being thus dissolved a high Court of Justice was presently erected Many young men were acccused and at this court of Justice were condemned to dye whose last words on the ladder and the haltars about their necks were that they were drawn in by those men who afterwards did accuse them the old Knight Sir Henry Slingsby said he was trappanned Colonel Ashton and some others who were hanged drawn and quartered confessed rather a desire then any ability to put the plot in execution and all of them absolutely denied and seemed to abhor that most barbarous and desperate design of setting the City on fire At the same time and for the same plot Doctor Iohn Hewyt was beheaded on the Tower hill whose death was much lamented by many learned Divines but above all by the pious Lady his wife who not long afterwards petitioned to the Parliament for justice for the death of her husband In this year on the second of Iune a Whale of a prodigious bulk being sixty foot in length and of a proportionable bigness was cast upon shoar not far from Greenwich which was taken to be a presage of new events to come The English and French having overthrown the Spaniards in a memorable battail not far from Dunkirk which was at that time besieged by them it was the means that not long afterwards the most considerable Town of Dunkirk was surrendred to the English In Iuly the Lady Elizabeth Cleypole second daughter to the Protector departed this life she was a Lady of a gallant spirit and dyed in the flower of her age which struck more to her Fathers heart than all the heavy burden of his affairs so great a power hath nature over the dispositions of men when the tye of blood is seconded by love likenes she dyed with good lessons in her mouth and seemed to despise the frailty of greatness and the pomp of the earth her last words were very memorable and left a great impression in the brest of her Father Not long afterwards it pleased God that the Protector fell sick himself he languished about a fortfortnight of a disease which at the beginning was but an Ague but on Friday morning the third of September he had all the signs of a dying person and about three of the clock in the afternoon he departed the world being disserted his vital parts were found to be sound and whole only his heart was dryed up and no blood in it to make it either moist or warm His greatest care was to name a Protector to be his successor which was Richard his eldest Son a Gentleman of great hopes of a generous spirit and beloved even of those who were enemies to his Father of whose short Protectorship we will give you as short but as precise a view as possibly we can committing nothing that is superfluous nor omitting any thing that is memorable The Life of RICHARD Son to OLIVER during the short time of his Protectorship OLiver the Protector of these three Nations was no sooner dead but on the day following being Saturday Septem 4. Richard his eldest son was proclaimed Protector with great solemnity both at the old Exchange and in other places the Commanders of the Army were the first that acknowledged him and they were the first that forsook him The flatteries of the people did seem to promise a long continuance to his regency for from the first week of his Protectorship almost to the last there were nothing but gratulations from one place or another to him with as many protestations that they would live and die in his service The very same they presented to the Parliament when the supremacy of power was restored unto them to be as officious no doubt to third interest if a third interest had gained the predominancy The first care of our neece Protector was for the funerals of his father which were resolved should be solemnized with extraordinary magnificense to leave more glory on the name of his father and to beget a greater estimation in his own Wherefore being imbalmed and wrapped in a sheet of Lead the hearse on the 26 of September was conveighed about ten of the clock at night from White-hall to Somerset house where it remained some daies in private before it could be in a readiness to be exposed to the publike view The Effigies more richly adorned then ever was any King of England was lâ—id first on a bed of state afterwards it was set upright there was nothing admitted that was