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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43591	The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington three times Lord Major of London, who lived in the time of King Henry the Fift, in the year 1419 : with all the remarkable passages and things of note which hapned [sic] in his time, with his life and death / written by T.H.; Whittington and his cat.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1780; ESTC R10116	14,660	56

in three severall Kngs reigns Now to cut off all circumstances and come close to the matter we may easily find what this man was by the pious and religious acts done in his life to the Cities present grace use and benefit and to his own blessed memory for ever In the Vintry Ward he built a Church and dedicated it to Saint Michael calling it Pater noster in the Royal and added to it a Colledge founded to Saint Mary and placed herein a Prestdent and four Fellows which ought to he Masters of Arts besides other yearly allowance to Clerks and young Shollers neare which he everted an Hospitall which he called Gods House for thirteene poor men and these according to the devout superstition of those daies were to pray for the soules of his Father in law Hugh Fitzwarren and Dame Molde his wife for whom he erected a fair Tombe in the Church he before built leaving also a place for himself and Dame Alice his Lady when it should please God to call them In which place they were afterwards both of them according to their degree very honourably interred great mourning and much lamentation being made for him by the commons of the City in regard he was a man so remarkable for his charity And on the west side of the City he built that famous gate and prison to this day call'd Newgate and thereupon caused the Merchants arms to be graven in stone He added to St. Bartholmews Hospitall in Smithfield and was at the charge of repairing thereof Further at the Gray-Fryars in London he erected a Library as a testimony of the great love he had to learning which he began in the year of our Lord 1421. and finished it in the year following Moreover that place which is call'd the Stocks to this day betwixt Cheapside and Cornhill a gooly house of stone which serveth for a flesh-market and a fi●h-market greatly beneficiall to the City Besides he enlarged Guildhall and glazed most or all of the windows at his own cost and charges paving the Hall and contributing largely to the Library adding to the se Basses Conduit which yeeldeth store of sweet and wholsom water to the generall good and benefi of the City In the year 1397. when Sir Richard Whittington was first elected Lord Maior that Rebell Sir John Oldcastle was taken in the Territories of the Lord Powesse not without danger and hurt of some that took him At which time all the States of the Realm were assembled in Parliament at London therein to provide the King of a Subsidy and other aid of money and munition who took great pains beyond the Seas in France these Lords and others when they heard that the publick enemy was taken they agreed all not to dissolve the Parliament untill he were examined and heard to answer in the same whereupon the Lord Powesse was sent for to fetch him up with power and great aid who brought him to London in a Litter wounded very much having received seventeen wounds and also a Clerk which he called his Secretary with him tha t was of of his counsell in all his secrets As soon as the aforesain Sir John Oldcastle was brought into the Parliament before the Earl of Bedford who then was left Regent and governour of the Realm in the time of the Kings absence being in France and other Lords and States His Inditement was read before him of his forcible insurrection against the King and State in Saint Gyles Fields and other treasons and outrages by him committed the question was asked how he would excuse himself and shew why he should not be judged to dye according to the Law But he seeking other talk began to talk discourse of the mercies of God that all mortall men that would be followers of God ought to preferre mercy above Judgement and that vengeance pertained only to the Lord and ought not to be practised by them that worship but to be left to God alone with many other words to detract the time untill the Lord chief Justice admonished the Regent not to suffer him to spend the time so vainly in molesting of the Nobles of the Realm whereupon the Duke of Bedford Regent commanded him to answer formally and punctually to the matter laid to his charge The said Sr. Iohn being thus urged at last after deliberation taken hee said it is the least ast thing that I account of to he iudged by you as of mans judgement and again he began to talk but nothing to the purpose untill the chiefe Justice commanded him again to answer finally and to answer them if he could why he should not suffer death according to his desert To which he stoutly answered that he had no Judge amongst them so long as his Leige Lord King Richard was alive and in his Realm of Scotland which answer when he had made because there needed no further witnesse hee he was there presently censured to be drawn and hanged upon a Gallows and there to be burnt hanging upon the same Which Judgement was executed upon him the thirteenth day of December in Saint Gyles fields where many honourable persons were present and the last words that he spake was to Sir Thomas Eupingham adjuring him that if hee saw him rise from death to life again the third day he would procure that his Sect which he had raised might be in peace and quiet Hee was hanged by the neck in a chain of Iron and after consumed by fire Moreover it is recorded that in time of this worthy Pretor Sir Richard Whittington the glorious City of Constantinople was taken by Mahomet the second Prince of the Turkes whose Souldiers sacked it with all extremity and omitted no manner of cruelty or violence either to virgins aged women nor sucking babes This Sir Richard Whittington had traffick from thence by his Factors which there abode and were then taken prisoners so that he lost neare upon fifteen thousand pounds which when he heard of never was so much as cast down or dismayed but said God will send more yea such was the incessant practice of the Turkish tyranny upon this imperiall City as it exceeded the damage rapes and spoyles of other Cities They also beheaded at the same time Constantine the Christian Emperour thereof and put his head upon the top of a Launce and with derision caused it to be carryed thorow the Turkish Campe In the space of a week after there hapned a horrible tempest of Thunder and Lightning which burned almost eight hundred houses and spoiled three thousand people at the sacking of the aforesaid City by the said Mahomet The Turkes found therein so much treasure that they wondred that the Citizens would not spend it upon souldiers for their owe defence but so dotingly to spare the true spending thereof to become an enticing prey for their unreconcileable enemies for indeed it was thought that if the State would have hired souldiers and given them good pay they