great damage upon the land and the net spring extraordinary rain fell even till Saint Iames-tide and yet upon the humble and hearty prayers of the people in all Churches it pleased Almighty God to send a more plentiful harvest then had been in many years before Friday the sixteenth of October 1612. at eleven a clock at night aririved at Gravesend the most illustrious young Prince Fredrick the fift of that name Count Palatine of the Reyne being very princely attended he was received by Sir Lewis Lewkenor Knight master of the ceremonies whom the King had sent before to attend the coming of the Prince upon knowledge of his arrival the King sent speedily the Duke of Lenâ—x with other Earls and Barons to signifie his hearty welcome and the next Sunday they accompanied the Palsgrove by Barge from Cravesend to VVhite Hall where Prince Charles Duke of York received him at his first landing and brought him up into the great bankqueting house where he was entertained by the King Queen Henry Prince of Wales and the Lady Elizabeth The twenty ninth of October the Palsgrave dined at Guild-Hall and the chief nobility of the Land where he had presented unto him a rich Bason and Eure and two Liverypots richly engraven and richly guilded Friday the sixth of October died the most noble and hopeful Prince Henry Prince of Wales he was royally buried in the Chappel Royal at Westminster the seventh of December Upon Saint Thomas day the Palsgrave and Grave Marris were elected Knights of the Garter and upon Sunday the seventh of February the Palsgrave and Grave Maurice was enstalled at Windsor The fourteenth of February being Shrove Sunday the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave in as most royal manner as ever Princes were with masking tilting and turnament and many rare showes both by land and water where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in behalf of the City and themselves presented the bride with a very fair chain of oriental Pearl And thus Reader have I presented thee a chain of the best oriental pearles I could pick out of K. Iames his raign being most remarkable and worthy observation who was called a second Solomon and the peace-maker of Christendome and had peace with all Nations and I conclude thus If we by Kings again should ruled be We wish to have no worse a King then he This land did flourish by the trades increase He rul'd he swai'd he liv'd he di'd in peace Remarkable Passages The Life and Reign of King Charles Anno. 1600 CHarles the second Son of King Iames on the ninetenth day of November in the yeer 1600. During his Infancy he was of a very sickly constitution and at his birth so unlike to live that his Christening was dispatched in haste but as he grew in yeers he did grow into strength An. Dom. 1602 Being two yeers old he was Created Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Rosse and Barron of Ardmanock An. Dom. 1603 On the twenty sixth of March King Iames had newes that Queen Elizabeth was dead by Sir Robert Cary for which good newes this young D. of Albany was afterwards committed to the charge and governance of Sir Robert Caries Lady An. Dom. 1604 On the seventh of Iune 1604. he was created Duke of Yorke An. Dom. 1606 and in the sixth yeer of his age 1606. he was taken from the charge of the women Master Thomas Murray a Scot by Nation was made his Tutor he profited exceedingly in the knowledge of good letters An. Dom. 1611 In the 11. yeer of his age was he made Knight of the Garter and in the yeer following he lost his Brother Prince Henry whom he immediately succeded in the Dukedom of Cornwall An. Dom. 1616 On the third of November 1616. he was creared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint An. Dom. 1622 And on the eighteenth of February 1622. attended with the Duke of Buckingham Sir Francis Cottington and Master Indimion Porter he being disguised took Ship at Dover arrived at Bulloign in France and having casually had a sight of Lady Henretta Mariah at a Mask at Paris he rode post from thence to the Court of Spain An. Dom. 1623 On the seventh of March he arrived at Madrid and the King of Spain being informed by Count D Olivares what a hazzardous adventure he had taken to have a sight of the Infanta he had that Royal entertainment given him which a Princely Sutor might expect and by his Courtly and Gallant behaviour did win much on the affections of the Infanta and the Articles of the Marriage were agreed upon but the Pope protracting time and there being no hope of the Restitution of the Palatinate which was one of the gratest occasion of his Journey having desired leave to return he with much danger arrived at Portsmouth on the fifth day of October 1623. The treaty with Spain being not now likely to proceed it was now thought fit to negotiate a Marriage with the Princes Hennaretta Mariah the youngest daughter of France which in the yeer 1624. was carrion by the Earle of Holland and afterwards concluded by the Earl of Carlile and King Iames did seem to be exceedingly well pleased with it An. Dom. 1624 On the yeer following March the seventh King Iames died at Thebalds and immediately afterwards Prince Charles was Proclaimed at the Court Gate King of Great Brittain France and Ireland The Funeralls of the deceased King were celebrated on the seventh of May and presently afterwards were the Espousals of King Charles with the Lady Hennaretta Mariah who on the twelfth of Iune landed at Dover the King being then at Canterbury did meet her the next day at Dover His first complement unto her was that he would be no longer master of himself then he was a servant to her And this love he continued to the last houre of his life for on the day before his unfortunate end his daughter the Lady Elizabeth with the Duke of Yorke being with much adoe permitted to come unto him he desired the Lady Elizabeth to assure her mother if ever she again did see her that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his affections should be the same to the last On the Thursday following they came from Gravesend to Whitehall with a very great company of Lords and Ladies and the Great Guns from the Ships and the Tower of London did thunder forth their gratulations as shee passed by them On Saturday the eightenth of Iune there was a Parliament assembled but the plague growing hot it was adjourned to Oxford where the King did put them in minde as before of necessity of putting forth his Fleet the in pursuance of the war in which they had ingaged his father but the began now to quarrell at the greatnesse of the Duke of Buckingham and laid something to his charge in reference to the death of his father whereupon the King expecting monies to advance the affaires of the
The faithful Analist OR The EPITOME OF The ENGLISH History GIVING A true Accompt of the Affairs of this NATION from the Building of the Tower of LONDON in the days of William the Conquerour to the Throwing down the Gates of the said City by the command of the PARLIAMENT which sate before the Secluded Members were admitted in the Yeer 1660. IN WHICH All things Remarkable both by Sea and Land from the Yeer 1069. to this present Yeer of 1660. are truly and exactly represented Lipsius in Tacit. In Historiâ pressum concisum dicendi Genus praestat copioso LONDON Print for W. Gilbertson in Giltspurstreet TO THE Right Worshipfull and Right Worthy MATTHEVV GILLEY Esquire Honored Sir IT hath been heretofore as much the Commendation as the Industry of the ablest Wits to contract much into little by which they have been as Beneficial to the Memory as the Apprehension For in long Discourses or Sentences be they never so accute the apprehension often fails and is lost before it can arrive to the period of them and the Memory which can retain that which the Vnderstanding never fully apprehended must be needs prodigious Sir In this Book you shall find much in little the History of almost a thousand years contracted into a Manuel and that which is profitable unto all men must needs be ungrateful unto none There is nothing memorable from the Conquest to these present Times that is here omitted whether you look upon the magnificent of our ancient buildings or the gallant Exployts of this Nation both by Sea Land against domestick and forraign Enemies or rare Revolutions of State or the sad labours of the English Swords that were drawn of late for the purity of Reformation which as yet is more in the Idaea then the Embryo and is rather discovered then obtained Sir should I insert more as much more I might I should but anticipate your understanding I shall only humbly desire you to grant this compendious Chronicle your Protection and if there be life in History as no doubt there is you shall live with it And it shall be Honour for me to be found to be The humblest and most faithful of all that serve you W. G. A Table of the most remarkable passages in the lives of all the Kings and Queens of England from William the Conqueror to the late Lord Richard the Protector I. William the Conqueror SUch a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh Anno regni 3. The earth hard frozen from the midst of Novem. to the midst of Apr. an reg 11. So great a floud by immoderate raine that hills were made soft and in their fall overwhelmed many villages that lay under them to the great amazement of all an reg 20. II. William Rufus BY a great tempest in London the wind overturned six hundred and six houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheapside an reg 4. So great a famine and pestilence that the quick were not able to bury the dead an reg 6. All the Land belonging to Earl Goodwin was covered with sands by an inundation of the Sea which place ever since is called Goodwin sands an reg 11. Blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Berkshire an r. 12. The King hunting in Newpark in Hampshire was accidentally killed by the glance of an Arrow ann reg 13. wanting one moneth and some few daies III. Henry the first called Beauclark THere appeared about the Son four circles and a Blazing Star ann reg 5. In March and December exceeding great thunders and lightnings and the Moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood an reg 18. So low an ebb betwixt the Tower of London and the Bridge that men women and children did wade over on foot an reg 15. A great fire beginning in the West-cheap consumed a great part of London all along from thence to Algate an reg 33. The King dying in France his body being powdered with salt and wrapped in buls hides was conveighed from thence and buried a◠Redding in Berkshire an reg 35. IV. King Stephen THe town of Bath and Saint Peters Church in it were both consumed with fire an reg 3 Many Cities and towns in several places of this Land were either destroyed or defaced with fire in the time of this King and his Predecessor It is memorable in this King that although during his whole raign he had continual warrs yet he never burdened the people with taxes V. King Henry the second LOndon Bridge was new builded of timber by Peter a Priest of Cole-Church an reg 10. So great an Earthquake in Ely Norfolk and Suffolk that it overthrew them that stood upon their feet and caused the Bells to ring in the steeples an reg 12. The City of Leicester burned by the Kings command the walls and Castle razed and the inhabitants dispersed into other cities for their disobedience to their King an reg 20. A fish was taken neer to Orford in Suffolk which had the shape of a man it was kept in the Castle of Orford for the space of six months for a wonder it would eat greedily all manner of meat but could not speak a word at the last he stole away from his keeper and ran to the sea again an reg 33. VI. King Richard the first called Ceur de Lion IN the daies of this King were Robin Hood and little John the lawless subjects of so many Ballads Robin Hood maintained a hundred tall men and Archers so expert that four hundred have sled at the twang of their bow The Iews of Norwich St. Edmonsbury Lincoln Stamford and Lyn were plundered at York five hundred of them besides women and children did betake themselves unto the Castle to defend themselves which the people assaulting the Iews grew so desparate that they cut the throats of their own wives and children and did cast them over the walls on the Christians heads and having committed this execrable murder they burned both the house and themselves an reg 7. VII King Iohn HAyl as big as the eggs of hens an reg 4. Many men and women were destroyed by thunder and lightning an reg 8. The Arches and stone work of the London bridge were finished an re 9. Three thousand persons endeavouring to preserve themselves from the fire not far from London bridge so indiscreetly did throng into the boats that were ready to receive them that they were devoured by the water anno reg 15. VIII Henry the third A Young man who called himself Iesus and desired to be crucified and an elderly woman who called her self Mary the mother of Christ and who had bewitched the young man to his madness were both brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury who caused them both to be closed up between two walls of stone where most miserably they ended their wretched lives an reg 5. So terrible a thunderclap was heard when Mass was saying
by the labour of vvell-disposed people the same vvas squenched An. Dom. 1448 Adam Molins Bishop of Chichester Keeper of the Kings Privy Seal vvas by Sea-men slain at Portsmouth Bluebeard a Fuller taken beside Canterbury for raising a Rebellion vvas hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1449 The Duke of Suffolk vvas banished the Land vvho sailing tovvards France vvas met on the Sea by a Man of War and vvas beheaded his corps vvas cast up at Dover The Commons of Kent did rise in great numbers one Iack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief putting to death vvhom they pleased until at last the King offering them a pardon if they vvould submir they condescended to it Iack Cade their Captain fled and vvas slain in the Wilde of Sussex after this the King went down into Kent and finding who were the chief of this rebellion caused them to be hang'd drawn and quartered the 29. of Iune VVilliam Bishop of Salisbury was murdered by his own Tenants An. Reg. 35 An. Dom. 1456 A great riot was committed in London against the Italians and Lumbards An. Dom. 1457 At Erith were taken four great fishes whereof two were Whales Frenchmen landing at Sandwitch wasted the town and slew the inhabitants An. Reg. 36 Sir Thomas Piercie Lord Egremount and Sir Richard Piercie his brother being prisoners in Newgate brake out by night and went to the King other prisoners took the leads of the gate and defended themselves a long while against the Sheriffs and all other Officers An. Dom. 1458 A fray in Fleetstreet between men of the Court and the inhabitants of the same street in which fray the Queens Atturney was slain for this fact the King committed the Governors of Furnival Clifford and Barnards Inn to prison and William Taylor Alderman of the Ward with many others were sent to Windsor Castle An. Dom. 1459 The science of Printing was found in Germany at Magunce VVilliam Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England in the year 1471. and first practised it at the Abbie of St. Peters at VVestminster An. Reg. 38 The land being miserably divided the King fighting many battels in midst of several dissentions was at last worsted and Edward Earle of March got his kingdome from him An. Reg. 29 Edward Earl of March came to London with a mighty power of March men and accompanied with the Earl of VVarwick the 26 of February where he was joyfully received Edward being elected was proclaimed by the name of Edward the fourth on the fourth of March and King Henry lost his kingdome when he had reigned thritty eight years six months and odd dayes Edward the fourth An. Reg. 1 EDward Earl of March began his reign the fourth of March by the name of Edward the fourth in the year 1460. The twelfth of March VValter VValker Grocer living in Cheapside for speaking some words against King Edward was beheaded The thirteenth of March Edward took his journey towards the North where between Shierburn and Tad-Caster all the North part met him and on Palm Sunday the twenty ninth of March fought a great battel in which were slain Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iohn Lord Clifford Iohn Lord Newel Leo Lord VVells and many of rank and quality on both sides to the number of 357 and eleaven persons but King Edward got the field the Duke of Exeter the Duke of Sommerset the Lord of Ross the Lord Hungerford fled to York to King Henry and then with the King and Queen and Prince fled to Barwick and so to Edenborough An. Reg. 3 Queen Margaret landed in the Nâ—rth where having but small succour was fain to take the Sea again and by a tempest of weather was driven to Barwick where she landed but lost her ships and goods Many battels were fought between the two Kings Henry and Edward and much blood was shed on both sides striving for supremacie one while the Commons with some of the Lords would have Henry restored again to his former dignity and another while Edward should rule at length Henry being overpowred was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Chertsey since removed to Windsor An. Reg. 4 A great pestilence and the Thames frozen over An. Reg. 11 Thomas the Bastard of Fauconbridge with a riotous company of shipmen and others of Essex and Kent came to London where being denied passage through the City he fired the gates wâ—n the Bulworks at Algate and entred the City but the Citizens killed them that entred causing the rest to flie pursued them as far as Black wall slaying many An. Reg. 12 King Edward rode into Kent where he caused inquiry to be made of the foresaid riotous persons hanged the rich by the purse and the other by the necks the Major of the town with others were beheaded there Thomas the Bastard of Falkonbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded An. Reg. 14 The Duke of Exceter was found dead in the Sea between Dover and Callice Iohn Goose was burnt on the Tower hill An. Reg. 17 An. Dom. 1478 King Edward in his progress hunted in Thomas Burdits Park at a Buck and slew many Deer among the which one was a white Buck Thomas Burdit when he understood thereof wished the Bucks head in his bellie that moved the king to do it Burditt was apprehended of treason condemned drawn from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded An. Reg. 18 An. Dom. 1479 George Duke of Clarence Edwards brothâ—â— in the Tower of London was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey An. Reg. 19 A great dearth and a great sickness in London and divers other parts oâ— the Realme An. Reg. 21 Thieves for robbing St. Martins le grand in London three were drawn to the Tower hill and there hanged and burnt the other were pressed to death An. Reg. 23 King Edward making great proviâ—â—on for war into France ended his life at Westminster the ninth of April in the year 1483. when he had reigned twenty two years one moneth and odd daies he was buried at Windsor he left issue Edward the Prince and Richard Duke of York and five daughters Elizabeth that after was Queen Cicely Ann Katherine and Bridget Edward the fifth An. Reg. 1 EDward the fifth about the age of thiâ—teen years began his reign the ninth of April in the year 1483 which Prince reigned a small space either in pleasure oâ— liberty for his unnatural unkle Richard Duke of Glocester within three months deprived him of his life and Crown as it was generally reported this Edward reigned two months and ten daies Richard Duke of Glocester An. Reg. 1 RIchard the third brother to Edward the fourth was proclaimed king the 22 of Iune in the year 1483. he put to death Anthony Woodvile Earle Rivers Lord Richard Gray the Qâ—eens brother Sir Thomas Vaughan and Sir Richard Hawes at Pomfret and William Lord Hastings in the tower of London all in one day He was
crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of Iuly After this were taken for Traytors against the king Robert Ruff Serjeant of London VVilliam Davie Pardoner Iohn Smith Groom of king Edwards stirrop and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower with many more who were charged that they had sent Letters into Brittain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembrook and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother for the which they were drawn from VVestminster to the Tower of London and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury The thirteenth of December was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London where was burnt a number of houses and all the stocks for gunnes other provision belonging to the city King Richard borrowed great sums of mony of the City but being cut off before the time of payment came the City lost it Collingborn Esquire was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London and there upon the hill was headed and quartered An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight and one Fortescue were drawne through London and at Saint Martin le grand Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs and taken Sanctuary but the Sheriffs took him again and had him to tower hill where he was beheaded and Fortescue had his pardon Henry Earl of Richmond Iasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle the Earl of Oxford and many other Knights and Esquires with a small company of Frenchmen landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August whose coming when it was heard of in VVales divers Noble men with great companies met him and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester he met with his enemies the 22 of August where between them was fought a very sharp battel in conâ—lusion whereof King Richard with divers others were slain and King Henry obtained a Noble victory and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field with the crown which was taken off King Richards head Richard was buried at the Grey-Friers Church at Leicester when he had held the crown two years two moneths Henry Earl of Richmond An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh born in Pembroke Castle began his reign the 22 of August in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom policy justice temperance and gravity and notwithstanding many great troubles and war he kept his Realm in right good order for the which he was greatly honoured of Forraign Princes On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one man more of the Parsonage there The sweating sickness began the 21 of September and continued to the end of October of the which sickness a number of people died The 30 of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster he ordained a number of chosen Archers to give daily attendance on his person whom he named Yeomen of the Guard King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City which was repayed the nexr year after Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel and Bay-salt at the like price The Cross in Cheap-side was new builded The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th by the which means the two Houses York and Lancaster were united An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Taylor within Ludgate slew himself and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth there was a great contest between the Kings Almoner and the Sheriffs of London An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings or Stilliard-men by Mercers men and others of the City of London for the which many of them were sore punished An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel Bay-salt at three pence half penny Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel white herrings at six shillings the barrel red at three shillings the Cade red sprats six pence the Cade and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun. Sir VVilliam Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country they withdrew again to their ships but the Mayor of Sandwich with certain men of the country fought with the residue that were left behind and took 169 persons who were hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk An. Dom. 1497 By meanes of a subsidy that was granted to the King a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall whiâ—h under the leading of Iames Lord Audley with Michael a Blacksmith and others came to Black-heath where the King met them overthrew them and took their Captains there was slain of the Rebels three hundred and taken fifteen hundred The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn The King sent an Army into Scotland under the Earl of Surrey and the Lord Nevil which made sharp war upon the Scots In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs fell hailstones eighteen inches about Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall went to Bodmin where being accompanied with three or four thousand men he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son of Edward the fourth from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants but many of the Rebels were slain and theâ— withdrew themselves to Taunton from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley where he took sanctuary and was afterward taken and pardoned his life An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and Iohn-a-water were executed at Tyburn Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick son to George Duke of Clarence was beheaded at Tower-hill Shortly after Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night a perillous fire began upon London-bridge near to Saint Magnus Church whereof six tenements were burnt The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire against Saint Buttolphs Church in Thames-street An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the Marshalsey broke out and many of them being shortly after taken were put to execution especially those that had lain for Felony An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Bakers house burnt in Warwick-lane with the Mistress of the house and two women servants About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire there was 160 houses consumed with most part of their goods King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April when he had reigned 23 years and 8 moneths and
Carlile from whence they were driven and many of them put to death also Sir Francis Bigott and others began a conspiracie and for the same were atainted The twenty ninth of March were twelve men of Lincolne drawn to Tiburn and there hanged and quartered for a new rebellion In Somerset shire was another rebellion began by Mr. Paulet and some other of his friends the chief of them to the number of sixty were condemned whereof fourteen were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman In Iune the Lord Darcie the Lord Hussey Sir Robert Constable Sir Tho. Pierce Sir Francis Bigott Sir Stephen Hamelton Sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife George Lumbley Nicholas Temple Robert Ask VVilliam Thrift Abbot of Fountains Anthony Abbot of Gervaur the Abbot of Rivers William Prior of Burlington all these were put to death Sir Robert Constable of Hull Ask hanged on a Tower â—t York Lady Bulmer burned in Smithfield Loâ—d Darcie beheaded at Tower hill Lord Hussey at Lincolne and the rest of them suffered at Tiburn The twelfth of October was born at Hampton-Court Prinâ—e Edward and Qâ—een Iane lost her life the 14 of October Alwin a Pâ—iest Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Evel were all hanged and quartered at Tiburn The twelfth of May Fryer Forrest was hanged and burned in Smithfield for denying the kings supremacy with him was burnt the gathering of Wales that is as much as to say Darvar an image The seventeenth of May was a great fire at Saint Margaret Pattons in London where many houses and many perâ—ons were burned Edmond Cunningsby for counterfeiting the kings signe Manual and Edward Clifford for the same cause were hanged at Tiburn The first of September was one Cartwel hangman of London and two other hanged by Clarken-wel for robbing a Booth in Bartholomew faire Henry Marquess of Exceter Earl of Devonshire Hen. Pool L. Mountacute Sir Edward Nevil the 9th of Ian. were beheaded on tower hill two Priests Crofts Collins and a Marriner were hanged and quartered at tyburn Iohn Lambert was burnt in Smithfield on Ashwednesday Iohn Potter and William Mannering hanged in Pauls Church-yard for killing of Roger Cholmley Esq in the same place The third of March Sir Richard Carew knight of the Garter and Master of the kings horse was beheaded on toweâ— hill The Vicar of VVansworth with his servant and his Chaplain and Fryer Ware wâ—â—e hâ—nged and quartered at Saint Thomas VVatrings At this time were all monasteries suppressed because the king like Ianus would look two wayes The Abbot of Reading and two Priests were hanged and quarter'd at Reading the same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glassenbury hanged and quartered at Tower-hill besides his Monastery according to an old Prophesie The Lady Anne Cleve received at Black-heath and brought to Greenwich and the sixth of the same moneth married to King Henry The ninth of Iuly Thomas Lord Cromwel Earl of Essex was committed to the tower of London the 28 of Iuly he was beheaded on tower-hill with the Lord Hungerford King Henry was divorced from the Lady Anne of Cleve The thirtieth of Iuly Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Ierome Priests weâ—e burned in Smithfield the same day Thomas Abell Edward Powel and Richard Featherstone were hanged and qâ—â—â—tered for denying the kings supâ—emacy the fourth of August were drawn to Tyburne six persons and one lead Laurence Cook Prior of Doncaster William Horn a Laie bâ—other of the Charterhouse Giles Horn Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Broomeham Darbie Kenham Robert Bird Gervis Carow all put to death for denying the sâ—pâ—emacie The King married again The eighth of August Lady Katherine Howard was â—hewed openly as Qâ—een at Hampton-Court Great draught and a great death of hot buâ—ning agues and feavours the salt water flowed above London-bridge Ralph Egerton and Thomas Harman put to death for counterfeiting the Kings bâ—oad Seal In April certain persons began a new rebellion in York-shire whiâ—h were shortly taken and put to death in several places of which Leigh Tattersal and Thornton were put to death at London Sir Iohn Nevil Knight and ten persons more were put to death at York The Countess of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower Damport and Chapman were hanged at Greenwich for a robbery The 21 of Iune Lord Leonard Grey was beheaded on the tower-hill he was Deputy of Ireland the same day were hanged at St. Thomas VVatrings Mantile Roydon and Frowds Gentlemen for spoil and murder they had done in Nicholas Pelhams Park the Lord of Dacres of the South being in company on Saint Peters day was led from the tower to tyburn and there hanged On Christmas Eve at night began a great fire in the house of Sir Iohn Williams master of the Kings Jewels where many of those jewels were burnt and a great many of them stoln The Lady Katherine Howard whom the King had married for her unchast living with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Durham was by Parliament attainted Culpeper and Durham were hanged at Tyburn The 23 of Ianuary the King was proclaimed King of Ireland the 13 of February were beheaded within the Tower the Lady Katherine Howard otherwise called Queen Katherine and the Lady Rochford An. Reg. 34 An. Dom. 1542 The seventh of March Margaret Davy a Maid was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning three housholds where she had lived The 12 of Iuly King Henry married Lady Katherine Parre late wife to the Lord Latimer Anthony Person Robert Testwood and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor A great plague was at London and therefore Michaelmas term was adjourned to Saint Albans This year â—hanâ—ed four eclipses one of the Sun the 24 of Ianuary and three of the Moon German Gardner and Lark Parsons of Châ—lsey Singleton and Assbey were hanged at Tyburn for denying the Kings Supremacy An. Dom. 1544 The third of April a Gun-powder house in East-Smithfield was blown up and therein burned five men a boy and a woman This year was taken by the Kings ships on the English Coast the number of three hundred French ships so that the Grey-Friers Church in London was laid full of wine the Austin-Friers and Black-Friers were laid full of Herrings and other fish that were taken going into France A Priest did penance at Pauls-Cross and there confessed that he pricked his finger when he was at Mass and wiped it on the Corporis and Altar cloth and went about to make the people believe that the miraculous Host did bleed after the words of Consecration The 13 of February a Priest was set on the Pillory in Cheap-side and burnt in both cheeks with the letters F and A. a paper on his head wherein was written For false accusing which judgement was given by the Lord Chancellor in the Star-â—hamber a notable example of Justice An. Reg. 37 An. Dom. 1545 The French Kings Navy coming out of New-haven and Deep arrived in Sussex afore bright Hamsted where they set some of their Souldiers a land but the Beacons were fired and
Yarmouth there was a fish by force of the Easterly wind driven ashore the length thereof from the neck to the tail was seventeen yards and a foot the head was great for the chap of the jaw was three yards and a quarter in length with teeth of three quarters of a yard in compass great eyes with two great holes over them to spout water her tail was fourteen foot broad in thickness from the back to the belly she was four yards and a half An. Reg. 26 Iames Earl of Desmond in Ireland wandring without succour being taken in his Cabbin by one of the Irish his head was cut off and sent to England where the same as the head of an arch traytor was set on London-Bridge on the thirteenth of December The thirteenth of December a fire beginning in a Brew-house in the town of Nantwich from the West end of the town the flame was dispersed so furiously that in short time a great part of the South side and some part of the East side was burned down to the ground which fire continuing from six a clock in the evening till six a clock in the morning consumed in a manner all the whole town and about the number of two hundred houses besides Brew-houses barns stables and in all about six hundred houses Iohn Sommervile of Edstow in Warwickshire of late discovered and taken in his way coming to have killed the Queen confessed that he was moved thereunto by certain trayterous persons his Kinsmen and Allies as also by reading of certain seditious books lately published for the which the said Sommervile Edward Arden Esquire Mary Arden his wife Father and Mother-in-law to the said Sommervile and Hugh Hall Priest were on the sixteenth day of December arraigned in the Guild-Hall in London where they were found guilty and condemned of High-Treason On the nineteenth of December Iohn Sommervile and Edward Arden being brought before the Tower of London to Newgate and there shut up in several places within two houres after Sommervile was found to have hanged himself and on the morrow after Edward Arden was drawn from Newgate to Smithfield and there hanged and quartered whose head with Sommerviles was set on London-Bridge and their quarters on the gates of the City On the tenth of Ianuary William Carter was arraigned and condemned of High-Treason for printing a seditious book and was so the same drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The seventh of February were arraigned at Westminster Iohn Fenne George Haddock Iohn Munden Iohn Nutter and Thomas Hemerford all these were found guilty of High-Treason and had Judgement to be hanged and quartered and were executed at Tyburn on the twelfth of February An. Dom. 1584 The 21 of May Francis Throgmorton was arraigned at the Guild-Hall in London where being arraigned and found guilty of high-treason had Judgement to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd the tenth of Iuly next following the said Throgmorton was conveyed by water from the Tower of London to the Black-Friers stairs and from thence by land to the Sessions Hall in the Old-Bailey without Newgate where he was delivered to the Sheriffs of London laid on a hâ—rdle drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The 21 of Ianuary Jesuits Seminaries and other Mass Priests to the number of twenty one late â—â—isoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were shipped at the Tower-Wharf to be conveyed towards France and banished this Land for ever The second of March William Parry was drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Westminster and there in the Palace Court was hanged and quartered for high-treason as may appear by a book entituled A true and plain Declaration of the horrible Treasons practised by William Parry that Arch Traytor The twenty seventh of April Philip Howard Earl of Arundel for attempting to have passed beyond the Seas without license of the Queen was sent to the Tower On the twentieth of Iune Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland prisoner in the Tower of London upon suspition of high-treason was found there to have murdered himself The fifth of Iuly Thomas Aâ—â—field Seminary Priest and Thomas Welby Dyer were arraigned at London and found guilty and had Judgement to be hanged as Felons for publishing books containing false seditious and slanderous matter these on the next morning were executed at Tyburn On the fourth of August at the end of the town called Nottingham in Kent eight miles from London the ground began to sink three great Elms being swallowed up and driven into the earth past mans sight The fourteenth of September Sir Francis Drake General as well by Sea as by Land Christopher Carlile Esquire Lievtenant General Martin Frobisher with divers other Gentlemen Captains and two thousand and three hundred Souldiers in twenty two Ships and Pinnaces departed from Plimmouth and passing by the Isles of Bayon and the Canaries arrived at Saint Iago which City they took and burn'd after they sailed to Saint Domingo which they spoiled and ransacked and retiring homewards razed and spoiled the City and Fort of Saint Augustine in Terra Florida and the twenty seventh of Iuly in Anno 1586. arrived at Plimouth The nineteenth of September to the number of thirty two Seminary Priests and other prisoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were imbarqued to be transported to Normandy and banished for ever The nineteenth of Ianuary Nicholas Devoreux was condemned of treason as being made Priest at Rhemes in France also Edward Barbat Priest for coming into this Realm was likewise condemned of treason and both drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered on the 21 of Ianuary On the same day a maid was burned in Smithfield for poysoning of her Aunt with whom she lived and would have poysoned her Unkle but that she was prevented The fourteenth of March at the Assizes kept at the City of Exeter in Devonshire before Sir Edward Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Serjeant Floriday Sir Iohn Chichester Sir Arthur Basset and Bernard Drake Knights Thomas Carew Richard Cary Iohn Fortescue Iohn Waldran and Thomas Risdon Esquires and Justices of the Peace of the common people died very many Constables Reves Tythmen and Jurors especially of one Jury being twelve of them died eleven a strange sickness This sickness began first among the prisoners and then fastned on the rest by degrees The seventeenth of March a strange thing happened Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire one of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pentioners had a horse which died suddenly and being ripped up to see the cause of his death there was found in a hole of the heart of the horse a worm and of a wondrous form for it lay on a round heap in a Call or skin in the likeness of a toad which being taken out and spread abroad was in form and fashion not easie to be described the length of which worm divided into
August great triumphs was made in London for the good success of the Earl of Essex against the Spaniard the winning and burning of the famous town of Cadiz the overthâ—ow of the Spanish Navy with orher victoâ—ies a sermon of thanksgiving was preached at Pauls Cross in the foâ—enoon and bonefiers with great joy in the afternoon August the fifteenth a new house in Fleetstreet hardly finished sodainly fell down and with it one old house adjoyning next to it by the fall whereof the man of the house with a man servant and a child were killed Sunday the fifth of December great number of people being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in Somerset-shire in the sermon time before noon a sodain darkness fell among them and storm and tempest followed after with lightning and thunder such as overthâ—ew to the ground them that were in the body oâ— the Church all the Church seemed to be on a light fire a loathsome steanch followed some stones were striâ—ken out of the Bell Tower the wiers and ironâ— of the clock were melted which tempest being ceased and the people come again to themselves some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies and their garments not perished nor any marked that were in the chansel A Parliament began at Westminster on the twenty fourth of October on the which day many people were were smothered and crushed to death pressing between White-Hall and the Colledge Church to have seen her Majesty and the Nobility riding in their robes to the said Parliament This year pepper was sold for eight shillings the pound Ianuary the twenty fifth one named Ainger was hanged at Tyburn for wilfully and secretly murdering of his own father a Gentleman and a Counsellor of Graies Inn in his chamber there An. Dom. 1958 On the third of April Twiford town in Devonshire was burnt by casualty of fire beginning first in a poor cottage a woman there frying Pancakes with straw the same fired the house and so to the town about one of the clock in the afternoon the rage of which fire lasted one houre and an half consumed four hundred houses one hundred and fifty thousand pounds consumed in money plate marchandise householdstuffe and houses fifty persons men women and children consumed an almes house preserved with poor men therein in the midst of the fire Iuly the twelfth one Iohannes Buckley a priest made beyond seas having been arraigned in the Kings Bench on the third of Iuly and there condemned of Treason for coming into this land contrary to the Statute was drawn to Saint Thomas a Watrings and there hanged and quartered his head set on the Pillory in Southwark his quarters in the high wayes towards Newington The first of September in the afternoon was great thunder and lightening at London two great cracks as it had been the shooting off Ordnance some men were hurt at the Postern by the Tower of London and one man slain at the Bridgehouse in Southwark over against the Tower November the ninth an Esquire at Greenwich was arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high-treason and on the thirteenth drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there hanged and quartered In the month of Iuly were drawn hanged and quartered 2 Priests one of them was named Hunt and the other Sprat for coming into this Realm contrary to the Statute they were executed at Lincolne two other Priests Edward Thing and Robert Nutter were likewise executed for this same offence at Lancaster also Thomas Pallafray a Priest executed at Durham and a Gentleman with him for relieving him and lodging him in his house August the fifth Iames King of Scots escaped a strange and strong conspiracy in Scotland practised by the Earl of Gowry and his brother An. Reg. 43 February the fifth in the morning being Sunday a great tempest of wind brake the Windmil beyond Saint Giles in the fields without London the miller thrown one way an other man an other one thrown north and the other south a part of the Mil-roof and half the milstone likewise thrown down Sunday the eighth of February about ten of the clock in the forenoon Robert Devoraux Earl of Essex assisted by divers noble men and gentlemen in warlike manner entred the City of London at the Temple bar crying for the Queen till they came to Fanchurch street and there entred the house of Master Thomas Smith one of the Sheriffs of London who finding himself not master of his own house by meanes of the strength the Earl brought with him and being ignorant of his intent and purpose conveighed himself out of a back door to the Lord Mayor of the City whereupon the Eearl and his troop turned into Grace street and there perceiving himself and his assistance to be proclaimed Traytors also the Citizens to be raised in Arms against him he with his followers wandring up and down the City towards Ludgate would have passed through which was closed against him so that he was forced to return to Queen Hith and from thence by water to his own house in the Strand which he fortified but understanding that great Ordnance were brought to beat down his house he yielded and was conveighed to the Tower about midnight February the seventeenth Captain Thomas Lee was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged bowelled and quartered for conspiracy against the Queen he took it upon his death that although he deserved death yet he was innocent of that he was condemned for The eighteenth of February Iohn Pibush a Seminary Priest after seaven years imprisonment in the Kings Bench was hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas a Watrings for coming into this Realme contrary to the Statute The nineteenth of February the Earl of Essex and the Earl of South-hampton were both arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high treason Ashwednesday the twenty fifth of February the Earl of Essex was beheaded within the Tower between the houres of seaven and eight a clock in the morning being present the Earls of Hartford and Cumberland the Lord Thomas Haward Constable of the Tower for that time and not passing sixty or seaventy persons more the hangman was beaten as he returned thence so that the Sheriffs of London were sent for to assist and rescue him from such as would have murdered him The seventeenth of February Mark Backworth and Thomas Filcoks Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for coming into the realm contrary to the Statute And the same day a Gentlewoman named Ann Lina a widow was hanged in the same place for relieving a Priest in her house contrary to the Statute February the last a young Gentleman named Waterhouse was hanged in Smithfield for speaking and Libelling against the Queens proclamation and the apprahending of the Earl of Essex March the thirteenth Sir Gelly Merrick Knight and Henry Cuff Gentleman were drawn to Tyburn the one from the Tower the other from Newgate and there hanged
and quartered as being actors with the Earl of Essex March the fifteenth a new Scaffold was carried from Leaden Hall in the night to the Tower hill and there set up by torch light The eighteenth of March Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Christopher Blunt Knights were upon the new scaffold beheaded Two men were set on the Pillory in Fleetstreet whipped with gaggs in their mouths and their ears cut off for attempting to have robbed a Gentlewoman in Fetter lane in the day time putting gaggs into the mouths of the servants of the house because they should not cry out one of these thieves was afterward hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas Watrings August the twenty sixth Desmond and an other Knight brought out of Ireland were sent to the Tower of London In November the Lady Mary Ramsey widow to Sir Thomas Ramsey sometime Mayor of London was buried in the Parish Church or Hospital of Christ-church by Newgate-market a charitable dole or armes was given for her on the same day in the afternoon at the Leaden Hall seventeen poor people being weak and aged were there among the sturdy beggars crushed and troden to death Lightning and Thunder often before Christmas and in the holydayes and an Earthquake at London on Christmas Eve at noon In the month of Ianuary news came out of Ireland that on Christmas day that the Spaniards and Irish were overcome and slain in great numbers and the English were victors The eighteenth of Ianuary at night Bonfiers were made with ringing of Bells for joy of the news out of Ireland the victory of our men against Tyrone Windsor Boate was cast away against Black Friers stairs by a tempest April the nineteenth Peter Bullock Stationer and one named Ducket for printing of books offensive against the Queen and State were hanged at Tyburn April the twentieth Stichborne William Kenson and Iames Page Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The last of Iune Atkenson a customer of Hull was set on the Pillory in Cheap and with him three other who had been brought thither on horseback with their faces towards the horse tail and papers on their heads they were there whipped on the Pillory and lost their ears by judgement of the Star-Chamber for slanderous words by them spoken against the Counsel The same day in the afternoon fell great lightning and thunder with hail-stones in many places of nine inches compass which in Sandwich in Kent lay a foot deep on the ground broke the glass windows of their Churches and many tiles off their houses some barnes were fired with lightning February the seventeenth William Anderson alias Richardson a Seminary Priest was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for being found in England contrary to the Statute In the month of March the Q lying at Richmond dangeros sick strait watches were set in London with warding of the Gates Lanthornes with lights all the night hanged out of Windowes at which newes the people were sore perplexed Thursday the twenty fourth of March about two of the Clock in the morning deceased Queen Elizabeth at her Mannor of Richmond in Surrey being aged seventy yeers and had Reigned four and forty yeers five moneths and odd dayes whose Corps was privily convaied to White Hall and there remained till the twenty eight of Aprill and then buried at Westminster The same day aforesaid the Nobility and Councell of State with as great peace prudence and providence as the heart of man could imagine assembled themselves together and far beyond the general imagination of all men being a matter of remarkable conscernment took speedy order aswell for the instant manifesting the Queens death as in publishing to the whole Realme for their lasting comfort the true and lawfull Successour and about eleven of the clock the same Thursday in the forenoone which according to the computation of the Church of England is the last day of the yeer 1602. being accompanyed with the Lord Major Aldermen and Sheriffes of London and many other of most Reverend and Honourable quality at the Cross in Cheape Proclaimed Iames the Sixth of that name King Scotland to be the right King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith being lineally descended from Margaret the eldest daughter to King Henry the Seventh by Elizabeth his wife which was the eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth the said Margaret was married to King Iames the fourth of that name King of Scotland in the yeer of our Redemption 1503. who had Issue Iames the fifth Who was father to Mary Queen of Scotland and the said Mary was mother to Iames the Sixth Monarch of the Island of great Brittany and King of France and Ireland This forenamed Proclamation was most distinctly and audibly read by Sir Robert Cecill Principall Secretary unto Queen Elizabeth also the Lords and Privie Counsellors of Estate with great diligence send speedily Condinge Messengers to his Majesty into Scotland who manifested their whole proceeding with tender of their zealous love and duty and the peoples universall joy and great desire to see their King which his Majesty most graciously accepted approved all their proceedings and returned them all Princely thanks Authorizing the Lords and others late Privie Counsellours of Estate to the Queene to persist as they had begun until He came personally unto them This Change was very Plausable and well pleasing unto the Nobility and Gentry and generally to all the Commons of the Realm among whom the name of a king was to strange that few could Remember or had seen a King before except they were aged persons considering that the Government of the Realme had continued neer the space of fifty yeeres under the Reigne of two Queens which is the far greater part of an old mans age but tidings hereof being brought to the king in Scotland he called a Coâ—nsell to him and taking order for setling all things in his Realme of Scotland began his voyage towards England King Iames. An. Reg. 1 PResently upon the death of Queene Elizabeth of Famous memory the Nobility of this land and Pâ—ivie Councellors of estate unto the said Queen accknowledged Iames the sixth then King of Scotland for their lawfull king and within six houres after her death the said Lords and Counsellors gave full satisfaction unto the people by three proclamations the first at the Court Gate the second at the Cross in Cheapside and the third at the Tower by the name of Iames the First King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith the King being then full thirty six yeers of age and Crouned King of Scots in his infancie began his Raign over the Isle of Great Brittany the 24. of March 1602. The Nobility and State aforesaid with â—ll speed sent Charles Piercy and Master Thomas Sommerset with Letters unto the King signifiying the death of the Queene and the tender of their duties love and alegianâ—e but Sir Robert Carie rid
poste and bâ—ought the first newes to â—he king as he rod gave knowledge unâ—o his brother Sir Iohn Carie then Governour of Barwick this calme and discreet course of the English Lords in Proclaiming the King and quiet setling the whole Estate without faction or interruptiâ—n was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects as admired of Forraign Nations Aprill the fifth the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick and the next day came newes of many disordered persons that were in Armes in the Borders whereat the King was much troubled and forthwith there was power sent to suppress them and after that when the King came to London he with the advise of the Counsell set all the parts of the North Borders in as good condition as any other parts of his Dominions Aprill the tenth divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower amongst whom the Earle of Southampton was the chiefest Aprill the twenty seventh was thirteen persons slain and blown in peeces by misfortune at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe Aprill the twenty eight at Westminster a very Royall Obsequy for the late Queene Elizabeth according to the Kings appointment by his Letters to the Lords of the Privie Counsell May the nineteenth Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North and for the mutuall Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms Iune the first there was one whipped through London for presuming to come to the Court having his house infected Iune the fourth Vallentine Thomas having been many yeers prisoner in the Tower of London was arraigned at the Kings Bench Barr and there condemned of High Treason for Conspiracy against our late Queene and some of her Counsell and the seventh of Iune about Six of the clock he was drawn from the Kings Bench in Southwarke to Saint Thomas a Waterings and there hanged and quartered Iuly the second the King Solemnized the Feast of Saint George at Winsor and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter and there the chief Ladies of England did Hommage to the Queene There were also made Knights with Prince Henry the Duke of Lennox the Earle of South-Hampton the Earle of Marre and the Earle of Pembroke Within a few dayes after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley Sir Griffin Markham Knight and William watson and VVilliam Cleark Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traytors the Lord Cobham and his brother the Lord Gray Sir VValter Rawley and others The fifth of August was Commanded by the Bishops to be kept as a Holy day with Prayers Preaching and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Kings escape from being murdered by Earle Gowrie in Scotland The Plague increased most gâ—ievoâ—sly in London and thereupon it wâ—s ordered that every Wednesdâ—y theâ—e shoâ—ld be a general Fasting and Prayer with preaching through the land to dâ—aw the people to humility and repâ—ntance This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept and Michaelmas Teâ—m adjorned and to be kept at Westminster but by reason of the sickness it was afterward kept at Winchester and the Lord Mayors great triâ—mphs and feasts was this year omitted The fourth of November the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton were bâ—ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester to be arraigned and to that purpose were sent to Wâ—nchester Sir VValter Rawleigh Sir Grâ—ffin Markham Knights George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham Anthony Copley Gentleman William Watson and William Cleark Pâ—ieâ—â—s and the same day out of the Gâ—tehouse at Westminster went Sir Edward Parham he was acquitted by the Jury The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Pâ—iests and six daies after was George Brook hanged and the ninth of December Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons aâ—ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester and had made their confessions and pâ—epared themselves to die upon a suddain the Kings Warrant written with his own hand was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne High Sheriff of Hampshire â—ommanding him to stay execution these three and Sir Walter Rawleigh were returned Pâ—isoners to the Tower again the fifteenth of December From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty seâ—ond oâ— December 1603 theâ—e died of all diseases within London and the libeâ—ties thereof thiâ—ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four wheâ—eof of the Plague thirty thousand five hundred sâ—venty eight and the neâ—t year afteâ— London was clear of that infection and then were all the shires in England grievously visited note the work of God March the fifth was proclamation mâ—de for authorising the Book of Common Prayer February the twenty second Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries that they shoâ—ld forthwith depart out of the Kingdome March the fifth Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Châ—rch of England and the book of Common Pâ—ayer as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabeâ—h At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor gave competent meâ—ns â—oâ— ever for the toling of a bell in Saint Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed out of Newgate and to cease when they are executed this bell should begin to toll at six a clock in the morning and the same is made known to the Prisoners that the said bell is to put them in mind to pâ—epare themselves for death Upon the first day of May Richard Haydock a Physitian asked forgiveness of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for deluding the King and many oâ—hers under pretence of being inspired and to preach in his sleep by night with which deâ—eit he had strongly possest the vulgar as it was hard to remove them although he confessed the abuse In this moneth Iohn Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq a Gentleman of an anâ—ient family and of good reputation his Majesties servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as I may not omit to record the same to future ages the rather because I have heard sundry Gentlemen who were gooâ— horsemen â—nd likewise good Physâ—tians affiâ—me it was impoâ—sible to be done without danger of his life He â—ndertook to â—ide five several times betwixt London and York in six daies to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night he began his journey upon Munday being the twentieth day of May betwixt two and three of the cloâ—k in the morning forth of Saint Martins neer Aldersgate within the City of London and came into York the same day betwixt the houres of five and six in the aâ—ternoon where he rested that night the noxt morning being Tuesday about three of the cloâ—k he took his journey fourth of York and came to his lodging in St. Martins aforesaid betwixt the houres of 6 and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night the next morning being
and that whatsoever plot and treason was now in hand it must be performed in some unsuspected place and by some homebâ—ed Traytors whereupon new search was made about the Court and Parliament house but coâ—ld not as â—et find any thing out worthy their labours all which labors all which searches was performed with such silence and discretion as there rose no manner of suspition either in Court or City the Lord Chamberlain whose office it most concerned never rested day nor night and the night before the Parliament as Sir Thomas Knevet with others scouted about the Parliament house espied a fellow standing in a corner very suspiciously and asked him his name and what he was and what he did there so late who answered very bluntly his name was Iohn Iohnson Master Pearces man and keeper of his lodgings Sir Thomas Knevet still continued his search in all places and returning thither again found him lingring there still searched him and found under his cloke a dark Lanthorne with a candle burning in it and about him other signes of suspition that he stood not there for any good then the Knight entred the vaut where he found the powder covered with faggots and billots and then the Lord Chamberlain commanded the Traytor to be bound and being now three of the clock in the morning he went unto the King and with exceeding joy told his Majesty the treason was found out and the traytor in hold the King desired to see Faukes who when he came before the King used like trayterous speeches as he did at his first apprehension affirming he was the onely man to performe this treason saying it sore vexed him that the deed was not done and for that time would not confess any thing touching the rest of the conspirators but that he himself onely alone was the contriver and practiser of this treason Between five and six a clock in the morning the Conusel gave order to the Lard Major of London to look well to the City and in very calme manner to set civill watch at the Citie Gates signifying therewithall that there was a plot of treason found out and that the king would not go to Parliament that day the same day in the afternoon the manner of the treason was by way of Proclaimation made known unto the people for joy whereof there was that night within the City and about as many bonfires as the streets could permit and the peole gave humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for their King and Countreyes right blessed escape Within three dayes after two other Proclamations were made signifying unto the people who were the chief Conspirators with commandment to apprehend Pearcy and Catesby and to take them alive if it were possible which said Pearcy and Catesby were gone to Holback in Warwick Shire to meet Winter Grante and others where under pretence of a great hunting they made account to raise the Countrey and surpâ—ize the lady Elizabeth from the Lord Harrington whom they meant to Proclaime Queen and in whose name they meant to take up Arms being perswaded that the King the Prince and the Duke of Yorke were at that time blown up in the Parliament House but when they found their treason was known and prevented and saw the Kings Forces round about the house so as they could not escape Pearsey and Catesby very desperately issued out and fighting back to back were both flain with one Musket shot Saturday the ninth of November the King went to Parliament where in the presence of the Queen the Prince the Duke of Yorke the Embassadours of the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke and the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of the same he made a very solemne oration Manifesting the whole Complott or this treason Ianuary the nineteenth a great Porpaise was taken alive at West-Ham in alittle Creeke a mile and a half within the land and was presented unto Francis Gofton Esquire Chief Auditor of the Imprests and within a few dayes after a very great Whale came within eight miles of London whose length was divers times seen above the Water and the same was judged to be a great deal longer then any Ship in the River A few dayes before Christmass the Parliament broke up and began to sit again the twenty second of Ianuary being Tuesday and continued untill the twenty seventh of May next following in which Parliament they gave the King and and his Successours three entire Subsidies and six Fifteens and then the Parliament was proroâ—ged untill the eighâ—eenâ—h oâ— November at this 〈◊〉 the Clargie gave unto the King and his Successors four entire Subsidies and in this Parliament it was enacted that the fifth of November should be kept Holy day for ever with preaching and giving God thanks for his mercy in preventing that terrible danger of the late practise by Pearcy and Catesby with the rest of their wicked Crew to blow up the Parliament House Ianury the twenty seventh at Westminster were Arrained Thomas Winter Guydo Fawkes Robert Keyes and Thomas Bates for plotting to blow up the Parliament House Digging in the Mine taking oath and Sacrament for secresie and Sir Everard Digby for being made acquainted with the said treason yeelding assent to it and taking his corporal oath for secrecy all which Inditements were proved against them and by themselves confessed and thereupon had Judgement given them to be Drawn Hanged and quartered their limbes to be set upon the City Gates and their heads upon London Bridge according to which sentence the thirtieth of Ianuary Sir Everard Digby Robert Winter Iohn Graunt and Baites at the West end of Saint Pauls Church and the next day after the other four were executed in the Parliament yard and six of the eight acknowledged their guiltiness in this horrible plot and dyed very penitently but Graunt and Keyes did not so Saturday the twenty second of March between six and seven a clock in the forenoon a rumor was so dainly spread throughout the Court and the City of London that for certain the King that morning was slain as he was a hâ—nting in Okeing Parke twenty miles from London which dreadful newes still increased untill nine of the Clock being seconded by Infinite suggestions by reason whereof it was generally received for truth and thereupon the Court Gates were kept shut The Lord Major began to set Cuard at the City Gates and to raise the Trained bands Sir William Wade Liverenant of the Tower did the like with his Hamlets within his liberties and the Parliament was much amazed but by eleven of the Clock the joyfull news of the Kings good health was made known in London by Proclamation as it had been at the Court an houâ—e before whereat the people began to revive their vexed spirits which till then were wonderously surcharged with hearts grief This flying newes went three dayes journey into the Countrey before it was surpâ—est Friday the twenty eight of March 1606. wâ—s Araigned
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
away and convayed to Whitehall On Munday Ianuary 29. The King desired that he might have the happines to see his children which was granted him they were with him three or four hours and at the parting there was a sad farewell betwixt the Father and the children On the day following he received the Sacrament and about ten of the clock being attended by a Regiment Doctor Iuxon being on the right hand of him and Colonell Tomlinson on the leâ—t he walked on foot thâ—oâ—gh the Parke from S. Iamses to White-Hall In the way some of the Foot Souldiers reviled him the King hearing of them did pittie them and said Alas poor men they will speak as much of their own Colonell for a tester And going on he desired the Bishop of London and the Colonell to go a little faster for said he I am now going for a Heavenly Crown which I do with less trouble of Spirit then I have often fought for an earthly Diadem As soon as he came into White-Hall he immediately retired himself into his cabanet chamber where he continued in his devotions and dinner being ready he refused to eat and onely refreshed himselfe with a Manchet and a Glass of Claret wine About one of the clock he was conveyed through the Banquetting house and a way being made through the great Window he came upon the Scaffold which was covered with black where he beheld two Executioners and both of them disguised with visards which nothing affrighted him and pulling off his doublet he was to be seen by all in a Silk Wast-coate of Azure Colour The multitude that were on the ground making a great and confused noyse which were increased by many Troops of Horse that were neer unto the Scaffold to attend the Execution he addressed him to Colonell Tomlinson in these words I shal be very litle heard of any body else I shall therefore speake a word unto you here Indeed I could have held my peace very well if I did not think that holding of my peace would make some men to suppose that I did submit as much unto the guilt as to the punishment But I conceive it is my Duty first to God and then unto my Countrey to clear my self boâ—h as an honest Man a good King a good Christian I shall begin first with my Innocence and introth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the world knows that I never did begin a war with the two houses of Parliam and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend to incroach upon their priviledges They began upon mine It was the Militia they began upon They confessed that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me And to be short if any body will look into the Dates of the Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise to the Declarations he will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I So that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me I do hope that God will clear me of it I will not for I am in charity and God forbid that I should lay it upon the two hoâ—ses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt but I believe that evil instruments betwixt them and me have been the chief Cause of all this bloodshed so that as I finde my self clear of this I hope and pray to God that they may also Yet for all this God forbid that I should be so evil a Christian as not to say that Gods judgement are just upon me Many times he doth pay Justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this that an unjust sentence that I suffered to take effect is now punished by an unjust sentence upon me So far I have said to shew you how that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope poynting to Doctor Iuxon there is good man will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular who have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knowes I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all My charity must go further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray to God with Saint Steven That this be not laid to their charge and withall that they may take the right way to the peace of the kingdom for my charity commands me not onely to forgive particular men but to indeavour to the last Gaspe the peace and happiness of the Kingdom So sirs I do wish with all my soul that they may indeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and put you in a way First you are out of the way for certainly all the way that you ever had yet as far a I could find by any thing is in the way of conquest Certainly this is an evil way for conquest in my opinion is never just except there be a good and a just cause either for matter of wrong or a just title and then if you go beyond the first quarrell that you have that makes it unjust in the end that was just at first for if there be onely matter of conquest then it is a great robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that he was the great Robber himselfe was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I doe thinke for the way you are in you are much out of the way Now sirs for to put you in the way believe it you wil never go right nor wil God ever prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my successor and the people their due I am as much for them and more then any of you you must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely a Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I do onely give you a touch of it For the people I do truly desire their liberty and freedome as much as any body whosoever but I must tell you that their liberty and their freedom consists in having government under those laws by which they live and their goods may be most their own it is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Soveraign and a Subject are clean different things and therefore untill you do that I mean that you do put the people