Chattels whatsoever even in like manner as it is used and accustomed in London Regna Regum 19. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1291. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch William Gatepath John Rook. William Kerswell William Buffett Regna Regum 20. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1292. Mayors and Bayliffs William Gatepath William Kerswell Henry Goldecot William Well Richard Montin Bishop Quivell in the Eleventh year of his Government 18. Octobris by drinking a Syrup and in too hasty swallowing it was choaked and lies buried in the Lady Chappel of his own Church The Franciscan or Grey Fryers reported that he died of God's just Judgment for that he favoured not nor would suffer them to build their new intended House notwithstanding his promise made to the King of so doing This Mayor with Richard Poltymore Herbert de Pyne and William le Speke Knights were witnesses to a Deed of one Ongarus de Sancto Milone a Citizen hereof wherein he gave to the Dean and Chapter of this Church his Wood at Stoke called Stoke-Wood and united the same to their Mannor of Stoke now commonly called Stoke Canonicorum Regna Regum 21. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1293. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Tantifer John Feniton John Cook Alexander Coryton Robert Newton Thomas Bitton 15. Januarii was installed Bishop of this Diocess the See of Canterbury being void by John Roman Arch. Bishop of York Hugh Courtney the second of that name was now made Earl of Devon as Heir General to the Lord Ridevers late Earl of Devon that is to say the Son of Hugh the Son of John the Son of Robert and Mary the Daughter and Heir to William Ridevers named William de Verona the Son to Baldwyn the First the Son to Richard Ridevers the first Earl of Devon so created by King Henry the First Son to William the Conqueror Regna Regum 22. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1294. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch Walter Langdon John Rook William Buffett John Horn Modus forma processus quomodo Meretrices infra Civitatem praedictam sunt attachiandae Rot. 15. Regna Regum 23. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1295. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch Walter Langdon William Kerswell William Buffett Roger Wheaton Customia pro vinis solebat reddi de antiquo pro singulo dolio 4 d. Rot. 31. Regna Regum 24. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1296. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer Walter Langdon William Kerswell Robert Newton Roger Wheaton Consuetudo est quod viginti quatuor de Communi Concilio dictae Civitatis elegi debent solebant per consensum majoris partis dictae societatis Regna Regum 25. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1297. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer Walter Langdon Robert Newton William Kerswell Henry Trecott The King came into the County of Devon and visited the House of Plimpton and took this City in the way of his return homewards A Composition made between the City and the Dean and Chapter for a Lane leading to the City-walls between St. Catharques Almes-house and the Black Fryars now the Earl of Bedford's house Regna Regum 26. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1299. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer William Buffett William Kerswell Roger Wheaton Nicholas Paige It was now found by Verdict that as the Lands within this City of a Freeman descend to any person so by the Custom the Freedom of he said City descendeth therewith Regna Regum 27. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1299. Mayors and Bayliffs John Horn Nicholas Paige Roger Beynim Robert Newton Stephen Bennant Inquisitio capta fuit versus maritum pro eo quod verberavit male tractaverit uxorem unde commissus fuit Goale Rot. 23. Major Communitas consituere solebant Custodes de in Portu Exonicensi ad scrutandum in navibus batellis alibi ne aliquis monetum argentum vel aurum extra Regnum transvehat Rot. 26. Libertas seu Franchesia Civitatis Exoniensis descendit per successionem haereditariam sive â—i Patre Fratre vel Avunculo vel quocunque alio cui quis haeres existis Rot 36. Regna Regum 28. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1300. Mayors and Bayliffs William Gatepatb John Paige Jordan Atlane Robert Newton John Perour Edmond Earl of Cornwal died sans issue whereby the Earldom reverted again to the Crown and came to the King's hands Regna Regum 29. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1301. Mayors and Bayliffs William Tantifer Stephen Langdon William Kerswell John Gervis Roger Beynim The Mayor of this City was this year chosen by the Voyces of four and twenty Free-men and Citizens hereof upon their Oaths Rot. 1. Great contention arose between the Dean and Chapter of this Churth and the Warden and Fryers Preachers commonly called the Black Fryers touching the Burial of Sir Henry Rawley Knight whose Corps the Dean and Chapter required to be presented at St. Peter's Church before it should be interred which the said Fryers refusing to do yet the Dean and Chapter caused it there to be brought where the same being presented 't was sent back again to the Fryer's house which they would not receive therein but made fast their Gate by means whereof the said Corps lay so long unburied 'till it stank and at last the Canons were enforced to bury it in St. Peter's Church Regna Regum 30. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1302. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Roger Newton Walter Duport Thomas Farthein Michael Champernon An Agreement made between the Dean and Chapter and the Pryor and Fryers Preachers That no person within the said City and Suburbs should be buried within the Church or Cemitery of the said Fryers but that he should first be presented at St. Peter's Church Rot. 16. A great contention arose between the Mayor and Commonalty of this City and the Tenants of the Lord of Kenton and Wyke Earl Marshal of England for denying to pay Murage for their Wares and Merchandizes Rot. 13. About this time flourished one Walter of Exeter so named being here born who was a Monk of the Order of St. Bennet and dwelt in a little Cell in Cornwal called St. Caroke near about Lystithiel he was well seen in History and at the request of one Baldwyn a Citizen here wrote the History of Guy of Warwick Regna Regum 31. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1303. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Wheaton Walter Langdon William Kerswell William Buffett Henry Trecott A Controversie arose between the Mayor and Commonalty and the Tenants of Kenton touching certain Attachments made upon the River of Exe. The like difference arose between the Tenants of Kenton against the Inhabitants of Limston and Prattishead Rot. 18. Sundry persons breaking ground in Croll ditch for standings before the time appointed for Lammas Fair were all attached to answer the Mayor and Commonalty for the same Rot. 42. Consuetudo in Civitate Exoniensi est approbata quod liceat unicuique Civi infra eandem Civitatem omnia Tenementa quae in eadem Civitate habuerit aut perquisiverit in
William Coscom John Pearse William Railsford Robert Stoke A great part of Exbridge by means of high waters fell down and sundry persons therewith destroyed Regna Regum 9. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1385. Mayors and Bayliffs Adam Scutt Thomas Smithays Peter Hadleigh Thomas Wondry William Oke Sir Philip Courteny the King's Cousin made Lord Deputy of Ireland Regna Regum 10. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1386. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Symon Grendon Henry Hull John Webb John Shaply Enacted in Parliament commonly called Insanum Parliamentum or the mad Parliament that this Realm shall be governed by Twelve Peers under the King of which number Thomas Brentingham Bishop of this Diocess for his Wisdom and great experience was appointed one Regna Regum 11. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1387. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Bosom William Oke John Grills Richard Pewterer Baldwin Whitley The Cordwainers and Curriers of this City were first incorporated Consuetudo est in Civitate Exoniensi quod omnia Tennementa infra eandem Civitatem suburbia ejusdem sunt legabilia quod nullum legatum factum de hujusmodi terris valet si testamentum non sit proclamatum irrotulatum in plena Curia coram Majore Ballivis dictâ— Civitatis seisina inde liberata per subballivos ejusdem Rot. 11. Regna Regum 12. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1388. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Henry Allen John Russell William Gerviâ— John Ponton Quilibet liber homo dictae Civitatis secundum Consuetudinem ibidem in quolibet placitâ— personali babebit certum diem respondendi ad quem diem sic praefixum potest facere defaltam deinde distringas versus cum adjudicari debet Rot. 49. Regna Regum 13. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1389. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Bosom Adam Gould Symon Grendon Thomas Smithays William May A great number of people here died the City being infected with the Plague Regna Regum 14. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1390. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford John Shapleigh John Russell Reymond Gosse Robert Eascon A Portugal Ship loaden with Corn arrived at Exmouth and unloded before license was had of the Mayor wherefore the said Goods were seized on as forfeited but on the payment of a Fine of four pounds at the request of Edward Earl of Devon the Goods were restored Rot. 41. Regna Regum 15. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1391. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Bosom William Custom William Gervis Symon Grendon William Oke Bishop Brentingham was a liberal Benefactor to the Vicars Choral of this Church by finishing those Buildings in the Calander-hay which were left undone by his Predecessors Regna Regum 16. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1392. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford John Panton John Russell Reymond Gosse Henry Hull Regna Regum 16. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1393. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Bosom William Oke William Gervis Symon Grendon William Coscom Regna Regum 18. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1394. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Philip Shapbigh Henry Hull John Ponton Thomas Easton Bishop Brentingham having well governed this Church Four and Twenty years December 3. died and lies buried in the North-side of the body of his own Church right opposite to the Courtneys Monument between two Pillars under a large Marble Stone whereon was the said Bishop's Portraicture Inlaid in Brass which is so worn out by time or imbezeled by plundring hands in this sacrilegious Age as that no Arms Effigies or Inscription remain Regna Regum 19. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1395. Mayors and Bayliffs Simon Grendon Thomas Wandry Richard Pewterer Roger Doly William Coscom Edmond Stafford Doctor in the Civil Laws 20. Junii was elected Bishop of this See and accordingly consecrated at Lambeth by William Courtney Arch Bishop of Canterbury Regna Regum 20. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1396. Mayors and Bayliffs John Talbot Henry Hull William Wilsford William Oke Robert Wyndet Inquisitio capta versus Johannem Daintry Willielmum Clerk pro insultu facto infra Coemeterium Sancti Petri Exoniensis super Richardum Talbot Johannem Stow super quo sunt arrestati missi Prisonae quousque c. Regna Regum 21. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1397. Mayors and Bayliffs Adam Scutt William Wilsford John Batten John Russel Richard Lark stoke The King created John Holland Earl of Huntington Duke of â—xeter and exiled or banished Thomas Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellour of England in whose place this Bishop Stafford was elected Lord Chancellour who at the Parliament shortly after holden at Westminster he being Speaker of the higher House made a very Learned Oration to prove the absolute Power and Authority of A King whose Theme was Rex unus erit omnibus unus Regna Regum 22. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1398. Mayors and Bayliffs Simon Grendon Richard Pewterer Robert Easton Thomas Wandry Ralph Swan The King is deprived and Henry Duke of Lancaster is proclaimed King by the name of Henry the Fourth Regna Regum 1. Henry the 4. An. D. 1399. Mayors and Bayliffs John Grey John Batten John Russel John Wilsford John Shaply John Holland the late created Duke of Exeter was beheaded Regna Regum 2. Henry the 4. An. D. 1400. Mayors and Bayliffs William Wilsford Robert Easton Richard Kenneridg Thomas Wandry Peter Sturt John Holland late Duke of Exeter had two fair Mansion-houses in this Western Countrey one whereof was within the Castle of Exeter heretofore a beautiful and Princely House but now wholly destroyed and hardly any Monument thereof left The other was at Dartington besides the Town of Totnes and now in the possession of Arthur Champernon Esquire Regna Regum 3. Henry the 4. An. D. 1401. Mayors and Bayliffs William Oke John Lake John Wilsford Roger Doly John Shaply Consuctudo Civitatis Exoniensis est in curia ibidem quod defendens in placitis Assisae nove disseisinae super adjornamentum essonii post tertiam defaltam semper dies datus est partibus in octo dies Rot. 42. Regna Regum 4. Henry the 4. An. D. 1402. Mayors and Bayliffs William Wilsford Thomas Easton Nicholas Boughwood John Shepherd Richard Lark stoke In the Parish Church-yard of Budley in the County of Devon A Stone sheweth this Inscription â—rate pro anima Radulphi Node This as Tradition delivers was the Sepulture of one that presumed to fly with artificial Wings from that Tower and so falling broke his Neck which Phaetonical fact of his hath well deserved the name of Node be the Inscription what it is who being a Native of this City gives me here an occasion to mention him Bladud a British King who for his love to Learning went to Athens and brought from thence four Philosophers and brought from thence four Philosophers and Founded the first Vniversity at Stanford near Oxford which was afterwards translated to Oxford he was the first discoverer of the hot Baths in Somerset-shire and being a famous Magician and practising that Art by attempting to fly
John Cutler Bennet Drew John Coscom John Browne John Merefield A long controversie arose between the Mayor and Commonalty and the Dean and Chapter about St. Lydwel's Fee which was afterwards by an Act of Parliament determined and the bounds and limits thereof ascertained as by an exemplification thereof it appeareth which bears date 4. May this year Regna Regum 16. Henry the 6. An. D. 1437. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hull Richard Oreng William Atwill John Kelly William Hodge The Butchers of this City had a confederacy and amongst themselves made this ensuing order That they would not keep any Shops or standings in the Shambles but only in their own dwelling houses and accordingly John Smith and John Tayler two of the company put the same in execution but the matter being discovered and heard before the Mayor the Confederates were committed to Ward where they remained till they had revoked their said order and paid the Fines severally imposed on them Regna Regum 17. Henry the 6. An. D. 1438. Mayors and Bayliffs Bennet Drew Hugh Germin Vincent Hart John Coscom William Duke The Bishop claimed to have Cognisance of pleas within his Court or Fee Regna Regum 18. Henry the 6. An. D. 1439. Mayors and Bayliffs William Cook John Bagg John Smert Robert Ford William Hoody Bishop Lacy now began the building of the Chapter-house in the Cloister adjoyning to his own Church which is a very fair and sumptuous structure Regna Regum 19. Henry the 6. An. D. 1440. Mayors and Bayliffs William Vpton John Keluleigh Bennet Wichalse William Crymell John Latch Every Foraigner in an Action of Debt here brought before the Mayor and Bailiffs shall do his Law with his own hand only but every Citizen and Inhabitant with his own and two other hands Rot. 5. Regna Regum 20. Henry the 6. An. D. 1441. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Cook Hugh Germin Thomas Parson John Coscom John James Regna Regum 21. Henry the 6. An. D. 1442. Mayors and Bayliffs John Cutler Peter Bray John Obley John Standbury Andrew Thring By the Custom of this City every Inhabitant with the same selling Ale and Bread within the Liberties of the said City and not Free of the same shall pay quarterly to the Mayor and Commonalty hereof for the use of the said City 7 d. ob Rot. 49. Regna Regum 22. Henry the 6. An. D. 1443. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin William Crymell John Clerk John Peacock Thomas Rowse Regna Regum 23. Henry the 6. An. D. 1444. Mayors and Bayliffs John Shilling ford John Beaufitz John Tayler John Gage Nicholas Hamlin This Man being elected Mayor for the year ensuing refused to be sworn and to execute the Office whereupon an advertisement was forthwith made to the King and Council who sent a Writ under the Privy-Seal directed to the said John Shilling ford commanding him on pain of one thousand pound to accept of the said Office who upon the Monday next after the Feast of St. Valentine at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of that day came to the Guild-hall and was there sworn accordingly And albeit at his first entrance into the said Office he took the same on him unwillingly yet afterwards did he perform it with chearfulness and got great Applause by his diligence therein Regna Regum 24. Henry the 6. An. D. 1445. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hull John Clerk John Germin John Botty Walter Swan The Dean and Chapter of this Church founded and built the High-School within this City for the better education of youth in good literature and appointed a Master thereof for whose encouragement a convenient house for his habitation adjoyning to the said School was erected and a pension of 20 l. per Annum allowed him Regna Regum 25. Henry the 6. An. D. 1446. Mayors and Bayliffs John Shilling ford John Germin Richard Druell John Bobidge Thomas Sampson Emmet the Wife of Robert Webber being presented for a Scold and speaking certain slanderous words of one John Lucas was therefore punished notwithstanding the Ordinary cited her into his Court and claimed the Jurisdiction but the Mayor would not permit the same Rot. 6. 54. Regna Regum 26. Henry the 6. An. D. 1447. Mayors and Bayliffs John Shilling ford John Germin John Hamond Nicholas Hamlyn John Spine This Mayor was a very wise Man and well learned in the Laws of the Realm bold and sturdy and in his Government very just and upright and so well directed he the same to the great benefit of the Common-Wealth of this City as few of his Predecessors had done better In his time was the long and troublesome suit between Bishop Lacy and the Dean and Chapter of this Church against the Mayor and Commonalty of this City touching their liberties which suit this Mayor did follow with all care and diligence which was referred to Thomas Courteney Earl of Devon and Sir William Bonvill Knight who determined the said differences by their Award one branch whereof was That the Mayors and Bailiffs their Successors and Officers should for ever thereafter carry their Maces within the said Church of St. Peter's Cemetary and Fee without disturbance of the Bishop Dean and Chapter and their Successors or any of their Officers which the rather I here insert for that of late some opposition hath been hereunto made Exbridge was now in great decay the stone work thereof being much foundred and the higher part being all of Timber was consumed and worn away And this Mayor being of good credit and acquainted with John Kemp then Arch-Bishop of York and Cardinal and one of the Executors of Henry Beauford Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester who for his Wealth was called the rich Cardinal This Mayor requested the said Arch-Bishop Kemp to contribute some relief towards the new building of the said Bridge which he promised but the Mayors sudden death thereafter frustrated both the promise and expectation Regna Regum 27. Henry the 6. An. D. 1448. Mayors and Bayliffs John Câ—tler William Duke Walâ—er Sams Thomas Evelton John Avell The Bishop of Winchester Thomas Earl of Devon and John Lord Sturton 3. Aug. came to this City and brought with them a command from the King directed to the Mayor for the loan of some Money to be levyed on the Inhabitants of this City for the victualling and furnishing of three ships to convey certain Souldiers into Britain which supply was speedily and very chearfully granted Rot. 63. Regna Regum 28. Henry the 6. An. D. 1449. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Bennet Wichalse William Bishop William Atwill Thomas Sampson They that become Bail for any Man here arrested if they bring him not in at the next Court do forfeit one hundred shillings Regna Regum 29. Henry the 6. An. D. 1450. Mayors and Bayliffs Wiliam Crymell William Bishop William Efford John Friend Robert May The Stewards of this City heretofore named Seneschalli were now called Ballivi or Bailiffs Regna Regum 30. Henry the 6. An.
Cathedrall Church between some young Gentlemen divers of them being grievously wounded and because the said Church in common opinion was thereby thought to be unhallowed and polluted by blood shedding The Dean and Chapter therefore commanded the Church-doors to be shut up and the services therein to cease until the said Church should be new hallowed or consecrated which in the Dyocesans absence they procured one Thomas then Suffragan to the Bishop of Bath to restore the said Church to it's former state Regna Regum 39. Henry the 6. An. D. 1460. Mayors and Bayliffs William Duke Thomas Calwoodly William Hogge Thomas Hayle Richard Duke This City resenting the King's distress did levy a contribution within the same and did set out one and thirty Soldiers well arrayed and sent both the Men and Money unto the King with their Letters still testifying their readiness to serve his Grace on all occasions Regna Regum 1. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1461. Mayors and Bayliffs John Kelly John Hamlyn John Hammond John Turner Thomas Blowyer The Conduit at Carfoix commonly called the great Conduit was new builded by means of William Duke late Mayor of this City who being well affected towards the same Edw. the 4. did not only oversee the work but at his own charges covered it with Lead Regna Regum 2. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1462. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin John Thomas William Aysh Walter Gervis Thomas Hayle The Glovers and Skinners were first incorporated by the Mayor and Common-Council of this City whose first Master was named John Macyr and their Wardens John Hackworthy and Simon Carew And 't was ordered by the said Master Wardens and Company that no person of their said Fellowship should sell any Wares belonging to that Art and Mystery being Foraigners goods upon pain to pay for every such offence twenty shillings Regna Regum 3. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1463. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Druell Richard Jeffery John Hammond John Coming Henry Wychalse An Ordinance made by the Mayor and Common Council of this City that every Baker within the same and Suburbs thereof should from time to time grind all his Corn at the Cities Mills c. Duryurd and Crickelpit Rot. 1. 'T was also ordered that every Inhabitant within the said City that holds therein any Tenement for the term of nine and twenty years commonly reputed a Town-term should be returned to serve in Juries if the said Tenement be of the yearly value of forty shillings Rot. 2. The King by his Letters Patent dated 21. July gave to this City all Felons goods Maudlin Fair with many other privileges Regna Regum 4. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1464. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Richard Rumwell John Hart Robert Chubb Richard Baker The Guild-hall being ruinous and in decay was new builded By the ancient Custom of this City no excommunicated person can put in suit of Law any other person whatsoever Rot. 2. Regna Regum 5. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1465. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Druel John Hammond Robert Symons John Coming John Ruett Bishop Nevill having finished the Chapter-house begun to be built by his immediate Predecessor and having well governed this Church about ten years space was translated hence to York and made Arch-Bishop thereof who was rendred famous for that prodigious Feast there made at the time of his instalment Regna Regum 6. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1466. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Thomas Hayle Richard Clerk William Obley Stephâ—n Rudgway John Booth Doctor of Law elected Bishop of this Church and 22. Feb. was thereunto consecrated by Thomas Bourchier Arch Bishop of Canterbury Thomas Calwoodley and Richard Clerk elected Citizens hereof to serve in Parliament procured an Act for paving the streets of the said City which then were full of Pits dangerous and noisom Regna Regum 7. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1467. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Calwoodley Richard Baker Robert Russel Thomas Pyke Nicholas Nawns A Controversie arose between the Bishop and the City touching a Tower on the Cities Walls behind the Bishop's Palace at the lower end of his Orchard where the Bishop's Prison was then kept by reason whereof he claimed the Inheritance of the same but on a fair Trial it proved to the contrary which said Tower the City pulled down and employed the Lead and other materials thereof towards the reparation of the said Walls Regna Regum 8. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1468. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hamlyn Robert Clubb Thomas Blowyer Richard Nawns John Luffingcâ—t Humphry Lord Stafford made Earl of Devon Regna Regum 9. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1469. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Smith John Coming William Fewnding Robert Newton Robert Gyles The King was pleased in person to visit this City and was well entertained by the Mayor to whom the King at his departure hence gave a Sword commanding that it should be always carried before the Mayor and his Successors At the King 's first coming hither the Mayor delivered him up the Keys of the Gates and the Maces and withall a Purse with one hundred Nobles therein which the King graciously received but the Keys and Maces he re-delivered to the Mayor to be used as formerly The Queen and Prince being likewise here the City presented to them twenty pounds a piece in Gold Regna Regum 10. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1470. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Richard Clerk John Orenge Thomas Bond John Gibbs Bishop Booth built the Bishop's stately Chair in the Quire of his Church which being finished he could not quietly sit down therein so troublesome were the times by reason of the Civil Wars between the two Houses of York and Lancaster Hic jacet Johannes Keys Praecantor bujus Ecclesiae fundator primus missae celebrandae post horam decimam qui obiit undecimo die Novembris hoc Anno. In the Quire of the Cathedral he lies buried Regna Regum 11. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1471. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Jeffery Hugh Germin Walter Gervis David Johns John Tybott John Bernard Tertio Augusti died Richard Jeffery in whose stead Hugh Germin was elected Mayor to supply that Office for the remaining part of this year The Cawsey between the City and Cowley-bridge paved by a Priest Regna Regum 12. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1472. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Clerk John Oreng John Atwill William Durk Thomas Ivelton The useful service of the night Belman chiefly instituted to prevent Fires and Felonies began in this Man's Mayoralty Regna Regum 13. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1473. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Rumwell William Obleigh John Tyâ—ott Robert Bouefant Richard Byrch The Duke of Clarence came hither and was honourably received and entertained at the Cities publick charge A Composition was made between the Abbot of Shâ—burn and the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of this City touching the passage of Exmouth by deed dated 3. Augusti Regna Regum 14. Edw. the 4. An. D. 1474. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin
quatuor usque fuit Dr. Vilvain Iscia Peucair Moncton Excester of old Were four Names well known giv'n which ever hold 1. That this City hath been often infested with Hostility none but such as are unacquainted with History can be ignorant First I find it begirt with the Forces of Vespatian General unto Claudius the Roman Emperour whereof an old Authour thus writes Vespatianus cum Exercitu Romano Civitatem nunc vocatam Exeter octo diebus obsedit Stowe sed minimè praevaluit Jâ—ffery Monmouth Arvirago Rege Civibus auxilium tunc praestante Anno Domini 49. 2. The Danes arriving out of Norway in the mouth of the River Exe bent their fury against this City whose Trenches towards the North yet remain visible as so many sculptures of their siege but the same was stootly defended and the Enemy repulsed with much shame and infamy which was in the Reign of Alphred King of the West-Saxons Anno Domini 875. whereof an Historian says thus Exercitus Danorum a Wartham nocte quadam foedere dirupto ad Exancester se diverterint quod Britannicâ— dieitur Caerisk Heveden audito Regis adventu ad puppes fugerunt 3. Histories report that a Battle was fought at Pinhos a place about two miles distant from this City against the Danes Anno Domini 1001. who besieged this City with great fury and were as valiantly withstood at length by the power and help of the County of Devon the Citizens sallied out and encountred the Enemy in their Camp where the fight was cruel and the slaughter great and being discomfited they departed with Ignominy The Danes alledge two principal causes that provoked them to attempt the Conquest of this Kingdom whereof one for the rarity I may not omit Lethbrook alias Lethbreech Verstegan fol. 159 a Noble-man of Royal Blood amongst the Danes flying his Hawk nigh the Sea-shore together with her game fell into the Sea which to save he took a Boat and with the violence of the Tempest suddenly arising was driven into England at a place called Roddam in Norfolk from whence he was brought unto the King unto whom he declared his birth and adventure and for his skill in Hawking wherein he excelled was by the King kindly entertained whereat Beric the King's Falconer being much troubled with envy and observing time to single out Lethbrook in fine murthered him in a Wood whose body was discovered by a Spaniel Dog and Beric of the Fact suspected and afterwards convicted thereof was adjudged to be put into Lethbrook's Boat and so committed to the mercy of the Sea but the Fates thus decreed That Beric a strange accident was driven on the coast of Denmark near the place where Lethbrook put forth and the Boat being known Beric was examined what became of Lethbrook who treacherously accused Edmond King of the East-Angles of the Fact whereof the Danish King glad of the occasion raised an Army and made Captains thereof Hunguar and Hubba the two Sons of Lethbrook whom the rather to encourage to revenge their Sisters wrought with their Needles in an Ensign the proportion of a Raven which from thenceforth they did bear as no small sign of their good luck yet carried they that ominous Banner not long unconquered the same being in a short space with many of their lives lost This Hubba in the days of Alphred the Saxon Monarch landed at Appledore a maritime Town in the North-part of Devon nigh Bideford and Barnstable with three and thirty sail of Ships as he came out of South-Wales where he had wasted all in his way with Fire and Sword and there lying siege to the Castle of Kenweth they were so valiantly withstood Stowe fol. 78. as that the Danes lost twelve hundred men their said Banner taken and their Captain Hubba slain whom they buried on the shore near his ships and after the manner of Northern Nations piled on him a heap of copped stones as a Trophy of his memorial whereof the place took name Hubbaston so much spoken of by Antiquaries and albeit the stones were long since swept away by the Seas encroaching yet the name still remains on the strand near Appledore aforesaid and to this day commonly known by the name of Whibleston 4. After the great massacre of the Danes by the command of King Etheldred in this Island Swayn King of Denmark landed here with a great Army Anno Domini 1030. and beleagred this City which was manfully withstood for two months space but at length through the treachery of one Hugh a Norman here entrusted as Governour by Queen Emma Swayn entred Baker's Chron. fol. 13. and put all to Fire and sword and levelled the whole City to the ground whereof grievously complains an Authour Hoveden thus Swayn Rex Danorum per injuriam proditionem Normanici Comitis quem Emma Domina praefecerat Civitatem Exoniensem infregit spoliavit murum ab orientali usque ad occidentalem portam desiruxit cum ingenti praedà naves repetiit and had scarcely recovered her self When William the Conquerour laid close siege thereunto against whose furious attempts the Citizens made no less valiant opposition until such time as part of their Wall fell down whereupon they were constrained to surrender The King then in token and Commemoration of this Victory altred the Gates of the Castle And likewise took their several and respective Oaths to become his Liege-Subjects for the future Anno Domini 1068. 6. In the Reign of King Stephen upon the revolt of Baldwyn Rivers then Earl of Devon to the part of Mawd the Empress they fortified this City and Castle against him and were enforced after a long and tedious siege through Famine to yield Anno Domini 1140 since which time it hath been thrice besieged and with gallant resolution defended 7. First By Hugh Courteney Earl of Devon on the behalf of King Edward the Fourth who by mediation was removed 9 Ed. 4. Annoque Domini 1469. 8. Next Perkin Warbeck that imaginary and counterfeit Prince laid close siege hereunto 'till Edward Courteney Earl of Devon who in the service was wounded together with the Lord William his Son and others raised the same and with much magnanimity repulsed the Rebels 12 H. 7. 1497. 9. Lastly From the Tenth day of June being the Monday in Whitson-week to the Sixth day of August then next following by the Insurrection of the Commons of Cornwal and Devon this City was strictly besieged for five and thirty days space without any intermission And albeit the Citizens were miserable pinched with Famine and for the last twelve days lived on Horse-bread and Horse-flesh yet still retained their Loyalty to their Soveraign Lord the King And at last through much difficulty were relieved by the courage and valour of George Lord Russel whom the King sent down as General of an Army for their deliverance by whom the Enemy was vanquished and on the Sixth day of August in the second
a special care as well for the appeasing of the said Tumult and Ryot as for the punishment of the Offenders according to the nature and quality of their Offence Regna Regum 19. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1345. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton Nicholos Halberton Robert Treseler William Hascom John Sutton The Plague of Pestilence reigned here almost three years space Regna Regum 20. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1346. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Furbor John Gist Robert Noble John Pleigh Walter White This Robert Noble having a beautiful Daughter named Helen who was beleaguered with many Lovers in so much that she might justly with the Poet complain In me turbaruunt luxuriosa proci But she bidding a defiance to them all resolving within her self to die a Virgin by leading a single life one of the number despairing of any success in his Suit bestowed on her this Encomium As noble Helen was the cause Of ten years War in Troy So Helen Noble is the cause Of this my great annoy Regna Regum 21. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1347. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton Thomas Spicer John Bonleigh John Sutton John Newton Arnulphus Atwere summonitus fuit ad respondendum Henrico Hughton tempore Majoratus de placito vasti recuperaverit damna sua juxta consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae Here happened a great contention about the Election of the Mayor and other Officers this year about which great troubles were like to have ensued had they not been happily prevented For avoiding the like for the future it was ordered by the Mayor and Common Council of this City that from henceforth no person should be chosen Mayor hereof but a wise grave sober and an honest man and had been tried in the Office of a Steward of the said City for one whole year And further that he be able to expend yearly of his own Freehold five pounds at the least And that he should be chosen only by a double Jury that is to say by four and twenty persons who upon their several and respective Oaths should make their Election according to this Order Regna Regum 22. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1348. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Halberton Robert Noble John Whitâ— Nicholas Godescott Robert Noble junior John Byrch Upon the death of Nicholas Halberton late Mayor of this City who died 14. Julii Robert Noble was elected into the said Office to undergo the same for the residue of the said year Regna Regum 23. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1349. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Bridport John Spicer Henry Furbor John Otrey John Sleigh In Easter Term this year in the King's Bench at Westminster 't was found by Verdict that the Passage Lastage and Key of Prattished at Exmouth and all the Profits thence arising were and are parcel of the Fee Farm of this City holden of the Duke of Cornwal as a Member of the Mannor of Lydford under the yearly rent of 20 l. Regna Regum 24. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1350. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Bridport Robert Brown Thomas Spicer John Gyst Richard Olliver Decanus Capitulum Exoniae clamant cognitionem omnium placitorum infra Feodum sanctae Sativule extra Portam orientalem Civitatis praedictae coram Ballivis suis ibidem exceptis placitis Coronae Sir John Carew Baron of Carew made Lord Deputy of Ireland Regna Regum 25. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1351. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Bridport John Swanton Roger Atwill Richard Somaster John Spicer Wiliielmus Milbury Indictatus fuit eo quod implacitaverit Thomam Furbor in Curiâ Christianitatis coram Officiali Archidiaconatus Exoniensis Regna Regum 26. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1342. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Bridport Richard Olliver Thomas Spicer Robert Browne John Gyst De attachiamento capto extra Portam orientalem in suburbiis Exoniensibus quarens in misericordia pro eo quod injuste ibidem cepit Regna Regum 27. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1353. Mayors and Bayliffs John Spicer Roger Atwil Symon Atpitt John Otrey John Samaster The Pasture of Croldich alias Southenhay was set to rent for five shillings per Annum Licentia petita concessa pro discarcandis navibus in portu Exoniensi Regna Regum 28. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1354. Mayors and Bayliffs John Spicer John Gyst Roger Atwill Henry Furbor William Bennett John Weeks Esquire elected the first Recorder of this City and had a pension of three pounds per Annum allowed him and afterwards this Officer was chosen yearly like the Mayor and other Officers of the said City Testamentum Reginaldi at Hayne in quâ— legavit Tenementa sua in suburbiis Exoniensibus ad Ecclesiam-beati Petri Exoniensis pro sustentatione incarceratorum in Castro Exoniensi Licentia data est per Majorem hujus Civitatis pro discarcanda navi apud Colepool Regna Regum 29. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1355. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Bridport John Hull Roger Atwill John Otrey Robert Browne Regna Regum 30. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1356. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gyst William Bennett William Gervis Henry Furbor Adam Brâ—sinter Memorandum quod in placito inter Adamum Wilsford quaerentem versus Willielmum Bennet difendentem coram Richardo Thorp sociis sii Justiciariis Domini Regis de Banco pro insultu facto in Exonia Ballivi Civitatis Exoniensis venerunt clamant inde libertatem suam quia hujusmodi libertas eis allocata fuit hic scilicet in Termino Michaelis Anno Regni Regis nunc Tertio Ideo habeant libertatem Simile nunc concessum fuit inter Adamum King quaerentem versus Willielmum Plumtree defendentem Regna Regum 31. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1357. Mayors and Bayliffs John Spicer Nicholas Brittestow John Hull Roger Atwill John Dirkin Inter Nicholam Brittestow versus Willielmum Thorold simile privilegium concessum fuit The King sent hither his Letters Patent under his Great Seal bearing date 25. Martii whereby he required the speedy supply of Three Ships and in every of them threescore Mariners and twenty Archers which the City soon procured and delivered them over to one Gervis Aldlamy than Vice Admiral of Devon who conducted them to Sandwich and there presented them to John Montegomer Lord High Admiral of England Prince Edward brought over into England John the French King and sundry of his Noblemen all as Prisoners who landed at Plymouth and from thence came to this City where they were honourably received and so conveyed to London Regna Regum 32. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1358. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Nolle Robert Browne John Ally William Gervis William Stokleigh Regna Regum 33. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1359. Mayors and Bayliffs John Spicer John Dirkin Roger Atwill Richard Olliver Walter Atwood Bishop Grandison built the two last Arches in the West end of his Church from the Font there covered the Roof of the whole and finished the Buildings of the same Licentia concessa est pro discarcanda navi apud Colepool per Finem quadraginta
D. 1451. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Thomas Rowse Thomas Sampson John Salmon John Hamond The King in a progress this year 16. Julii came to this City and in this manner was received At his first coming into Devon he lodged at the Abby of Ford where he staid one night at the costs of the Abby from thence he came to Ottery St. Mary where he was received with great solemnity and lodged in the Colledge there two nights and from thence came hither and by the way was met withall First by the most part of the Knights and Gentlemen of the County of Devon the Mayor and Commonalty of this City being above three hundred persons and every one of them apparelled in the Cities Livery met Him at Honyton's Clift next the Clergy met him at Livery Dole clothed in their Copes and Vestments and at the Cross without the South-gate the Mayor delivered to the King the Keys of the Gate and rode in before Him bare-headed carrying the Mace before the King through the streets which were richly hanged with Silks and Tapestry unto the Broad-gate where the Bishop Canons and Quire apparelled in their Copes received Him with a procession the King alighting from his Horse followed them on Foot into the Cathedral Church of St. Peter up to the High Altar and having there paid his Tribute of Prayers and Oblations thankfully to God Almighty was brought into the Bishop's Palace and there lodged It so happened that the next day thereafter the King's Justices by vertue of his Commission to them directed sate in the Bishop's Hall and there kept Goal-delivery two Men being indicted arraigned found guilty and condemned for Treason and should have been executed but the Bishop and Chapter being therewithal grieved told the King that the Justices sate in Commission within their Sanctuary contrary to the privileges thereof and orders of Holy Church wherefore the King to appease them pardoned the two condemned persons The King remaining here eight days his charges were equally born by the Church and City and then returned to London Regna Regum 31. Henry the 6. An. D. 1452. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Pope John Avell Thomas Evelton Andrew Thring Walter Pafford John Carminoke a Citizen hereof went out to Duryurd-wood and cut down six Timber Trees and brought them home who being questioned for the same said that he was a Freeman of this City and so one of the Lords of the said Wood and therein justified himself yet was he committed to prison and paid his Fine for the said Trespass Regna Regum 32. Henry the 6. An. D. 1453. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin John Tillerd Walter York Robert Smith Henry Dâ—lling A great fight happened on Clift-heath between Thomas Courteney Earl of Devon and the Lord William Bonvil Baron of Shut where many persons were grievously wounded and much hurt done the occasion whereof was about a dog but great displeasure thereby came to the City where presently after the fight the Lord Bonvil sheltred himself which the Earl took amiss thinking it had been so done by the City in some displeasure to himself Regna Regum 33. Henry the 6. An. D. 1454. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Oreng John Betty Vincent Here Thomas Kelly John Spyne This Mayor was a Gentleman of a noble Parentage descended from the Family of the Orenges who dwelt in the Countreys of Anjow and Mayn and came over when Sir John Fastalff Governour of Anjow and Mayn recovered the Castle of St. Owen descended from Sir Guillam Orenge then Captain thereof in the fifth year of this King's Reign This Richard gave the same Arms that the said Sir Guillam did Viz. Argent Three Smiths Barnacles impaled gules who afterwards became sick being infected with the disease of the Leprosie who notwithstanding his great birth and Nobility his wealth and ability yet most humbly submitted himself to the good pleasure of Almighty God and was contented to dwell among the Lazar people in St. Mary Magdalens Hospital without the South-gate of the said City where he finished his days and lies buried in the Chancel of the Chappel belonging to that House Thomas Kelly and John Spyne two of the Bayliffs went forth of the City and absented themselves from the Courts without the Mayor's license for which offence they were both committed to Prison Fined and paid the same accordingly Regna Regum 34. Henry the 6. An. D. 1455. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Germin Richard Druell Thomas Evelton Thomas Blowyer John Turner Bishop Lacy having well governed this Church 35. years 23. May died and lies buried in the North-side of the Quire of his own Church George Nevil second Son of Richard Nevil Earl of Salâ—â—bury was the next elected Bishop of this Diocess who 25. Novemb. was consecrated being not full twenty years of Age and at his Age of twenty five was made Lord Chancellor of England Regna Regum 35. Henry the 6. An. D. 1456. Mayors and Bayliffs William Duke Thomas Calwoodly Richard Jeffery Robert Smith William Pry William Crymell late Mayor of this City being duly summoned to attend the Mayor at the Council Chamber and refusing to appear was therefore abridged of having any more his Canon bread and Wine Money Regna Regum 36. Henry the 6. An. D. 1457. Mayors and Bayliffs John Kelly John Friend William Hogge John Turner John Hamond The East-gate of this City by reason of a long standing became ruinous and fell down in the mid day without hurting any person Regna Regum 37. Henry the 6. An. D. 1458. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Druell Robert Smith William Hogge John Hamlyn John Barsly A controversie now happened between the Cordwainers and the Tuckers of this City contending which of their Companies should have the preheminence in their march in the Mayor's watch upon Midsomer-Eve for the present appeasing of which discord 't was ordered that both Companies should march together one of either Company hand in hand At the same time happened another Controversie for the manner in these days was that the Mayor and Aldermen did use to ride in their Robes at every Midsomer-watch and John Kelly late Mayor of the said City being warned thus to attend the Mayor in the said Watch according to the ancient usage and Custom of the said City which he refusing to do was for his contempt fined ten marks and paid the same accordingly a commendable precedent of an upright Government when without respect of Persons Laws and Justice are kept observed and impartially administred for as the Soul is the life of the Body so the keeping of good Orders and Laws is the preservation of all Cities and Common-wealths the Apostles rule herein being very remarkable Where there 's no order there 's certainly confusion no mean between them being admitted Regna Regum 38. Henry the 6. An. D. 1459. Mayors and Bayliffs John Betty John Spyne John Turner Richard Rumwell John Thomas This year there happened an affray in the body of St. Peters the
years space was removed hence and consecrated Bishop of Bath and from thence translated to Winchester he was a great favourer and furtherer of Learning for the better increase whereof he founded and built Corpus Christi Colledge in the Vniversity of Oxford and also a fair Free Grammar School at Grantham in Lincoln-shire and another at Taunton in Somerset-shire in his latter days he waxed blind and dying in Winchester was there honourably buried in his own Church Oliver King one of the King's Chaplains in Ordinary Dean of Windsor and Register of the Noble Order of the Garter there was consecrated Bishop of this Church 20. Februarii by John Morton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Regna Regum 10. Henry the 7. An. D. 1495. Mayors and Bayliffs John Calwoodley John Bonefant Philip Bullock John Wilkin Nichâ—las Aburn 'T is Inrolled that the Custom of this City is that every Artificer dwelling here and not Free shall pay every Wednesday and Friday ob for all such Wares as they shall set to sale until such time as they shall be Free of the said City Rot. 19. Also that the liberties of the said City for Cognisance of pleas to be held before the Mayor hereof was allowed in certain Actions had before Thomas Bryan and his fellows Justices of the Common Bench at Westminster in Easter Term. Anno 11. Rot. Ed. 4. c. Regna Regum 11. Henry the 7. An. D. 1496. Mayors and Bayliffs John Atwill Walter York William Frost Thomas Langworthy William Binks A great division happened amongst the Citizens about the Election of the Mayor and for avoiding the like for the future 't was ordered by the Mayor and Common Council hereof that no Man should be Mayor or bear any Office here nor any Election held good unless the same were done according to the Ancient Orders and Customs of the said City and withall that the Mayor and Four and twenty of the said Common Council should elect the Mayor and all other Oficers of the said City Regna Regum 12. Henry the 7. An. D. 1497. Mayors and Bayliffs William Frost John Danester Richard Hewett John Buckenam William Wilkinson Perkin Warbeck that Imaginary and counterfeit Prince besieged this City till Edward Courteney Earl of Devon who in the service as wounded together with the Lord William his Son raised the same and repulsed the Rebels Ordered that the present and all future Mayors shall have their Scarlet Gowns and Cloaks lined with Sarcenet and every Receiver General to have a Gown of Crimson in grain and every one of the Four and twenty to have his Gown of Violet or murry colour in grain There want two Rolls of the Records of the Courts of this year wherein are set down the manner and order of the Election of the Mayor and Officers of this City whereof the King being advertized and desirous to have the Government hereof quiet and peaceable summoned the Mayor and Common Council before him and being informed the manner of their Election and the many troubles incident thereunto directed this method and delivered the same ingrossed in Parchment under his Privy Seal a Copy whereof is hereafter inserted which hath been ever since duly observed And to begin this order the King named one William Frost formerly one of his Servants and one of the Bailiffs of the said City the year next Precedent to be Mayor whom to encourage to persevere in his duty the King took off his Sword from his side and gave it unto the Mayor with a Cap of maintenance to be worn and carried in state before him and his Successors for ever as 't is used in the City of London Henry by the Grace of God King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland To all and every of our Subjects to whom shall appertain these our Letters hearing or seeing greeting Whereas in divers times past great inconveniencies strifes and debates have been had and made within this our City of Exeter for the Election of a Mayor four Bailiffs four and twenty of the Common Council and four Serjeants at the Mace of the same as by the grievous complaints of the Citizens and Inhabitants of our said City unto us thereupon made more plainly it hath been declared And for a peaceable Election of and upon the premises hereafter to be used and had within our said City We of our especial Grace tender Love and Zeal which we have and bear to our said City and for the redress restfulness and Common-weal of the same by the assent and consent of the Common Council of our said City and other sad and discreet Citizens of the same Have ordered provided and established that from henceforth there shall be Four and twenty of the most sufficient and discreet Citizens and Inhabitants of our said City of the Common Council for term of their lives and none of them to be removed except it be for poverty disease great Age or other cause reasonable which causes shall be adjudged and determined by the said Four and twenty or by the more part of them and after decease of any of the Four and twenty or the removing of them as is before rehearsed that then the residue of the said Four and twenty shall elect and choose unto them another Citizen most sufficient and Inhabitant of our said City to fulfill the whole number of the said Four and twenty according as the custom is of the four and twenty Aldermen within our City of London the names of the said four and twenty of the Common Council now named before us in a Schedule hereunto annexed Also we Will that the Monday next before the Feast of St. Michael th' Archangel yearly hereafter the Mayor of the said City of Eâ—eter for the time being with his Brethren and Commons of our said City that then shall be Franchized Men shall assemble themselves in the Guild-hall of our said City and then and there the Four and twenty or the more part of them upon their Oaths by privy scrutiny and by the Report of the Recorder and Town-clerk for the time being upon their Oaths shall Elect and choose Two of the most able Citizens of the said four and twenty for a Mayor of our said City for the year then next ensuing which hath been approved before in the Office of a Mayor or else of a Receiver The Mayor then for the time being always excepted to be elected one of the Two persons so before named to be elected as is before rehearsed Also we Will that the said Four and twenty at the same time shall Elect and choose Four Bailiffs whereof one shall be Receiver and that as well of the Four and twenty as of other the most able Citizens and Inhabitants within our said City so that they be Franchised Men and of good name and Fame Also we Will that the same day the said Four and twenty shall Elect and choose Three Serjeants Franchised Men of our said City who best can
making his Apprentice Free before the end of his term Small was the resort in the beginning to the Yarn Market but the house being built it encreased which did not a little trouble the Crediton Men having used their utmost endeavours to interrupt this settlement fearing hereby that their Market formerly the only Market in these Western parts for the sale of Kersies Wool and Yarn would be much neglected if not utterly destroyed They brought the matter in question before the Lords of the Council and Entitled the Bishop of the Diocess therewith but in fine they had the repulse and the Market here continued to be one of the greatest benefits accruing to the said City ten thousand pound weekly being therein bestowed in Serges The King was here proclaimed King of Ireland formerly called Lord of Ireland Regna Regum 33. Henry the 8. An. D. 1541. Mayors and Bayliffs William Buckenam John Way John Peryam John Macy Robert Sweet A young Child named Thomas Hunt standing near to the wheel of an Horse-mill which Nicholas Reev Brewer had erected to the great dislike of the Millers was by mischance come within the compass of the cog-wheel and therewith torn in pieces And on an Inquisition taken 't was found that the said Wheel was the cause of the Child's death whereupon the said Mill was forthwith demolished and the Horse as a Deodand seized on to the Cities use Regna Regum 34. Henry the 8. An. D. 1542. Mayors and Bayliffs John Buller John Woolcott John Drake Christopher Potter Richard Limbear Goods forfeited for non-payment of the duty of the Town Custom and composition made for the same Goods of a Felon on his Attainder forfeited to the City and seized on by the Sheriff Robert Bridgman Fined for counterfeiting the seal of the Leather John Row Junior Fined for selling Leather unsealed in the open Market Regna Regum 35. Henry the 8. An. D. 1543. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Tooker John Holmer John Hurst William Parsons William Downman The Spanish Embassadour taking this City in his way towards London This Mayor at his own charge lodged and honourably entertained him and his whole company in his own house during their abode here being the space of three days Goods seized as forfeited for non-entry of the Town Custom Ordered that the Sheriff of this City and County for executing of a common process for a Freeman shall demand and take but Twelve pence and for an Inhabitant but Sixteen pence Ordered that the Sheriff do make up his Accompt yearly between Michaelmas and Christmas Regna Regum 36. Henry the 8. An. D. 1544. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Prestwood John Maynard John Webb William Halse Hugh Pope At the Mayor's Election all Freemen of the City ought to be present and give their Voices upon pain without a reasonable excuse of dis-franchisement The Commons of this City gave a free benevolence towards the reparation of the Walls The New-haven or Water-course of Exe was now begun to be made towards the charges whereof most part of the Parish Churches of this City gave some portion of their Plate amounting in the whole to nine hundred ounces of silver parcel gilt Sir Thomas Bodley the honourable Founder of the publick Library in the Vniversity of Oxford a great restorer of Learning and a munificent Benefactor hereunto was 2. Martii born here Regna Regum 37. Henry the 8. An. D. 1545. Mayors and Bayliffs William Hurst Nicholas Lymett Robert Midwinter Henry Booth John Berry Shop Fines imposed upon sundry Foraigners inhabiting within the City Part of Cowley Bridge fell down Regna Regum 38. Henry the 8. An. D. 1546. Mayors and Bayliffs John Britnall John Tuck field John Stowell Edward Bridgman Thomas Grigg Goods seized on as forfeited being laid on Land without Licence the Town Custom duty not discharged nor agreement made for the same Januarii 28. the King died and his only Son Edward the Sixth of the Age of nine years was proclaimed King Regna Regum 1. Edw. the 6. An. D. 1547. Mayors and Bayliffs John Midwinter John Drake Thomas Skidmore John Bodley John Blackall Goods seized as Foraign bought and sold and redeemed by a Fine Nicholas Reev one of the Common Council for several misdemeanours dismissed of the said Society Nicholas Lymett another Member of the said Society being blind was on his petition likewise dismissed Regna Regum 2. Edw. the 6. An. D. 1548. Mayors and Bayliffs John Blackaller William Tothill Jeffery Arundell Henry Maunder John Tocker From the 10th day of June to the 6th day of August then next following by the insurrection of the Commons of Devon and Cornwall this City was so strictly besieged especially for 35. days and that albeit for the last 12. days the Citizens lived on Horse-bread and Horse-flesh being miserably pinched with Famine yet remained they faithful to their Liege Lord and Soveraign The King and in fine by the valour of John Lord Russel whom the King sent hither as General of an Army for their deliverance the Enemy was vanquished In reward of which great service thus performed by the City the King bestowed on it his Mannor of Exiland adjoyning to the same and parcel of the Suburbs thereof and renewed their Charter of which deliverance an Anniversary is here solemnly and thankfully observed on the 6th day of August Regna Regum 3. Edw. the 6. An. D. 1549. Mayors and Bayliffs John Tuck field William Smith Richard Prestwood William Reynolds Thomas Lambert This Bishop Voysey through the whole course of his Life appeared Court-like and bountiful which in the end turned not so much to his credit as the spoil of the Church for of two and twenty Lordships which his Predecessors had enjoyed and left to him of a great yearly revenue he left but Three to his Successor and those also leased out And where he found fourteen Mansion-houses excellently well furnished he left but one of them behind him and that very bare and naked robbed of all its Furniture and yet charged with sundry Fees and Annuities by which means this Bishoprick sometimes accounted one of the best is now become one of the meanest in Temporal Lands who having governed this Church about twenty six years surrendred it into the King's hands Whereupon Miles Coverdale who the year immediately precedent attended upon the Lord Russell in the service of the commotion was at Lambeth 20. Sept. consecrated Bishop hereof by Thomas Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The City purchased from the Crown the Fee or Mannor of St. Nicholas within this City a Priory lately dissolved by Act of Parliament Two Citizens for colouring of Foraigners goods were dis-franchised Regna Regum 4. Edw. the 6. An. D. 1550. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Prestwood John Hurst Walter Staplehill Peter Lake Thomas Beaufitâ— The bounds and limits of the County were by Act of Parliament ascertained and confirmed Bishop Coverdals translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English and being unwilling to be disturbed in his
for the Judges of Assizes that come this Circuit which was advanced on the motion of Mr. Recorder Martin as from the Judges A patent under the common Seal granted to the Right Honourable Earl of Dorset Lord Treasurer of England to be Lord High Steward of this City who at Whitehall 19. Aprilis as he sate in Council died suddenly Regna Regum 6. James An. D. 1608. Mayors and Bayliffs John Prowse John Marshall Thomas Amy Christoyher Spicer John Blight Goods seized on as forfeited being Foraign bought and sold and composition made for the same A Gelding as a Deodand forfeited to the City and seized on accordingly Regna Regum 7. James An. D. 1609. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Crossing John Sheer William Grigg John Hayn William Birdall An Act of Parliament made for the continuance and repair of Head-weare on the River of Exe and the new Leat cap. 19. Regna Regum 8. James An. D. 1610. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Borough Ignatius Jourden Thomas Flay John Jourden John Lynn An exemplisication had of an Act of Parliament lately made for Trews-wear◠John Pearse one of Mr. Hurst's Alms-men expelled the said House for disobeying the good Orders and Constitutions thereof by marrying a Woman under the Age of fifty five years Regna Regum 9. James An. D. 1611. Mayors and Bayliffs John Lant Thomas Martin Nicholas Spicer John Crocker John Tirry Thomas Tooker lately Elected Sword-bearer of this City was arraigned before the Judges of Assizes at the Castle of Exon for the murther of his Wife found guilty thereof and had sentence to die and was accordingly Executed at Hevitree Gallows A voluntary contribution of 30 l. in money was here made and sent to the poor of St. Sidwells whose Houses were lately destroyed by sire Several Bridges over the new Work or Haven builded Regna Regum 10. James An. D. 1612. Mayors and Bayliffs William Newcomb John Modyford William Mace Abraham Paul Anthony Salter The Goods of an attainted person seized on for the Cities use and composition made for the same Northen-hay levelled and a pleasant walk made thereon and upon the Mount over against Gallants-Bower seats or Benches of Timber erected and all at the Cities charge Regna Regum 11. James An. D. 1613. Mayors and Bayliffs Jeffery Waltham John Gupwill John Chafe Gilbert Sweet James Taylor A Patent under the Common Seal granted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to be Lord High Steward of this City Regna Regum 12. James An. D. 1614. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Walker Thomas Crossing John Levermore George Passemere Henry Willett Regna Regum 13. James An. D. 1615. Mayors and Bayliffs John Marshall John Tayler Richard Prowse Hugh Germin William Bartlett The goods of an attainted person seized on as forfeited to this City Regna Regum 14. James An. D. 1616. Mayors and Bayliffs John Sheer Thomas Amy Nicholas Martin Christopher Clark William Reade An exemplification of a Decree had out of the Exchequer touching the Fishing in the River of Exe. Regna Regum 15. James An. D. 1617. Mayors and Bayliffs Ignatius Jourden Peter Colleton Adam Bennet John Hakewill John Savage Mr. Recorder Duck being chosen Reader of Lincolns Inn two Hogsheads of Claret Wine were presented him from this City as a Testimony of their respects towards him Regna Regum 16. James An. D. 1618. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Martin John Acland Nicholas Ricroft Roger Yeo Alexander Osborn Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight in the first year of this King's Reign at Winchester before Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer was attainted of High Treason which said sentence did lie Dormant Almost 16. years during which time he continued a Prisoner in the Tower until about three years last past when he was permitted to go at large and had a Commission for a Voyage to Guiana and after his return was remanded to the Tower the Record of the Attainder being brought and certified into the King's Bench he was by Habeas Corpus directed to the Lieutenant of the Tower brought unto the Bar where being demanded what he could say why the Court should not proceed and grant execution against him replyed that the King had employed him as General of a Voyage and gave him power of the lives of others and whether this did amount to a pardon or no he knew not to whom the Court replyed that the King pardons no Treasons by any implication but by express words and so execution was awarded against him and he committed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex and by them was brought to the Gate house and the next day being the 29. of October this year was beheaded in the great Court at Westminster He was a person of as rare endowments of mind as this Age did afford in any capacity take him as a States-man Seaman Soldier or Learned Writer Tam Marti quam Mercuri◠his own Motto in every respect he well deserved whose real worth and vertues to describe is a sufficient task for an abler Pen well remembring that old sentence praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine I cease Some say that he was born at Budley in Devon others that he was a Native hereof and born in the house adjoyning to the Palace-gate on either account as our Countrey-man I held it unfit to pass him by altogether in silence Regna Regum 17. James An. D. 1619. Mayors and Bayliffs John Prowse George Pyle Walter White John Pearse George Langworthy Joan Garnsey Widow placed in Mr. Hurst's Alms-house and being married contrary to the orders of the said House she and her Husband both were thence expelled Edward Hert Town-clark of this City surrendered his said Office to the Chamber wherein John Martin Chamberlain of the said City was Elected and during his life enjoyed both the said Offices simul semel Regna Regum 18. James An. D. 1620. Mayors and Bayliffs Hugh Crossing John Linn William Skinner Richard Saunders Thomas Tooker Bishop Cotton having well governed this Church about 23. years 26. Augusti died and lies buried in the South-side of the Quire of his own Church In whose memory a fair Monument is there erected with his Portraicture or Effigies in Alabaster which in the late troubles was removed into an Isle at the upper end of the said Church and in a marble stone these ensuing Verses inscribed Memoriae Reverendi Patris Dignissimi Praesulis Domini Gulielmi Cottoni olim Exoniensis Episcopus Sacrum Venentur titulos alii atque encomia captent Tu propria virtute nites Dignissime Praeful Corda virum tumulus tibi sunt Epitaphia linguae Virtutesque tuae tituli quae dissita multis Juncta tibi zelus prudens prudentia mista Serpentem innocuà caute Moderata Columbà Foeta operumque fides opera edita abdita mundo Abdita sic humilis pietas jubet edita caelo Mite supercilium faices angusta sereni Vultus Majestas fróntis veneranda serena Ira fugax solem rarò visura cadentem Mensa
benigna domusque patens aditusque paratus Condivit tua dicta lepos gravitasque leporem Pacificis placidus tantum hostis seditiosis Non tibi sublimi mores in sedc superbi Vita nec in prima ut multis fuit imâ— Cathedra Praelatusque gregi sed non elatus honores es Two other Verses were hereunto added and thus translated A Paulo ad Petrum pia te Regina vocavit Cum Petro Paulo Caeli Rex arcâ— locavit Whom the Queen from Paul to Peter did vemove Him God with Paul and Peter plac'd above Valentine Cary Doctor in Divinity on the 20. day of November then next following was consecrated Bishop of this Diocess Regna Regum 19. James An. D. 1621. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Borough Thomas Wakeman Francis Crossing Henry Batâ—ishill John Garland A Patent under the Common Seal of the City granted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Suffolk to be Lord High Steward thereof Regna Regum 20. James An. D. 1622. Mayors and Bayliffs John Modyford John Jourden Roger Mallock Richard Harbert John Monugwell Licence given Grace Sheer Widow by the Chamber to send her Son Joseph Snow an Orphan of this City beyond the Seas The Chamber in procuring the Charter for establishing the Hospital of St. John's within the East-gate of the said City and in repairing and new building of the Edifices thereunto belonging did expend above 400 l. Regna Regum 21. James An. D. 1623. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gupwill Nicholas Spicer James Tucker John Cooze Trisfram Miâ—hell The Commission of the Deputy Lieutenants of this City and County was renewed Regna Regum 22. James An. D. 1624. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Crossing Thomas Flay Hugh Crocker Nicholas Mercer Augustin Drake A Patent under the Common Seal of the City granted to the Right Honourable William Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery to be Lord High Steward thereof The Plague here entred in the Month of July and continued very hot for one years space sweeping away many Families Regna Regum 1. Charles the 1. An. D. 1625. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Walker Nicholas Martin William Golding James White George Jourden This Mayor being Elected refused to accept of the Office in regard of the contagious sickness here still reigning but withdrew himself into the Countrey whereupon a petition was sent hence to the King who commanded this Mayor to undertake the Office on his Allegiance whereunto he readily yielded obedience and performed it very worthily A Pest-house in the Parish of St. Sydwells was purchased by the City for the benefit of such poor people as were or should be infected with the Plague No common Beggars in the open streets of the City were permitted but presently sent to the Work house or house of Correction to get their bread by the sweat of their brows idleness being the root of all evil it being no less true then a witty saying That the Devil tempts all men but the idle man who tempts the Devil the idle man's brain being a shop for the Devil to work in Regna Regum 2. Charles the 1. An. D. 1626. Mayors and Bayliffs John Tayler John Hakewill Robert Walker John Berry Joseph Trobridg Bishop Cary having well governed this Church about 6. years 10. Junii died and lies buried in the North-side of the Quire of St. Paul's Church London but hath a stately monument of Marble with his Effigies Pourtrayed in Alabaster erected as his memorial in an Isle at the upper end of his own Church Upon whose decease Regna Regum 3. Charles the 1. An. D. 1627. Mayors and Bayliffs John Acland Gilbert Sweet George Harris John Anthony Richard Madeck Joseph Hall Doctor in Divinity was Elected and 23. Decembris consecrated Bishop of this Diocess The King under his great Seal renews the Cities Charter A Pump erected near St. Paul's Church The City of Sarum being infected with the Plague of Pestilence for the better relief of their sickly poor a considerable sum of Money was here collected and sent to them Regna Regum 4. Charles the 1. An. D. 1628. Mayors and Bayliffs John Lynn Francis Crossing John Tayler Jun. John Cupper Humphry Bidgood In the Lady Chappel of this Cathedral is a fair monument erected to the memory of Sir John Doderidge Knight who died 13. Septembris and his Effigies is lively Pourtrayed in Alabaster in his scarlet Gown and Robes and a Court Roll in his hand He was first Serjeant at Law to Prince Henry then Solicitor General to King James of famous memory after that principal Serjeant at Law to the said King and lastly called by him to be one of the Judges of the Honourable Court of King's Bench where he spent the rest of his days being 17. years He was so general a Scholar as 't is hard to say whether he were better Artist Divine Common or Civil Lawyer he departed this Life at Forsters near Egham in Surry and according to his desire his body was brought down and here interred 14. Octobris then next following whose Epitaph is thus inscribed Learning adieu for Doderidge is gone To fix his Earthly to an Heavenly Throne Rich Vrn of Learned Dust scarce can be found More Worth inshrined in six foot of ground NVnC obiit DoDerigVs JVDeX Another fair Monument thereunto adjoyning is erected in memory of his Lady with this Inscription on a marble stone Hic jacet Domina Dorothea uxer Johannis Doderidge Militis unius Justiciariorum Domini Regis ad placita coram Rege tenenda assignati filia Amisii Bampfield Militis quae obiit primo Martâ— Anno Domini 1614. and in an Escutcheon their Arms impaled sc 1. Argent two Pales Wavy Azure between 9. Cross Croslets gules 2. Or on a bend gules three Mollets d'argent Regna Regum 5. Charles the 1. An. D. 1619. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Spicer Adam Bennet John Marâ—in Thomas Blackall Jâ—hn Madâ—ck A Patent under the Common Seal granted to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Weston Lord High Treasurer of England to be Lord High Steward of this City A considerable sum of money here collected by way of a voluntary contribution and sem to the Town of Cambridge being infected with the Plague Regna Regum 6. Charles the 1. An. D. 1630. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomes Flay Roger Mallock James Geuld John Gill William Blackall The Earl of Arundel Lord High Marshal of England coming to this City was by the Mayor and his Brethren honourably entertained Prince Charles was born 29. Maii at St. James near Charing-Cross and baptized Sunday 27. Junii then next following at whose Birth Heaven it self seemed to open one eye more then ordinary a star appearing all that day and two days thereafter the Sun was Eclipsed This Mayor procured great quantities of Corn there being a likelihood of a scarciry and much fuell he bought in the Summer and supplyed the necessities of the Poor therewith in the Winter without any advantage to himself Regna Regum 7. Charles the 1. An. D.
1631. Mayors and Bayliffs Nicholas Martin John Crocker Symon Snow John Parr Marmaduke Bevercomb Nicholas Vaghan Gentleman elected Muster Master of this City and a pension of 6 l. per Annum conferred on him Goods taken on two Felons who are since on their legal Tryals condemned and executed restored to the right owners The Lady Mary the King 's Eldest Daughter was born 4. Novembris at St. James aforesaid Regna Regum 8. Charles the 1. An. D. 1632. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hakewill James Tucker Richard Crossing Ralph Herman Richard Mayne The Free-school within the East-gate of this City erected founded by the Mayor Bayliffs and Commonalty hereof for the education of youth in good Literature who allow the Master thereof a dwelling house adjoyning to the said School and a yearly pension of 30 l. and 10 l. more to an Usher Felons goods forfeited to the City and seized on accordingly Regna Regum 9. Charles the 1. An. D. 1633. Mayors and Bayliffs Gilbert Sweet Robert Walker Philip Crossing Richard Yeo Edward Anthony The Chamber on the Poors behalf therein by a decree in Chancery recovered of the Dean and Chapter of this Church the sum of 286 l. An Estate of a Felo de se forfeited to the City and composition made for the same James Duke of York was born 13. Octobris at Regna Regum 10. Charles the 1. An. D. 1634. Mayors and Bayliffs Francis Crossing John Hayne Christopher Brodridge Thomas Knott John Pinny Philip Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Elected Lord High Steward of this City by Patent under the Common Seal thereof A fair cap of maintenance of Velvet richly wrought with Gold with a suitable scaberd for the Sword of Justice usually carryed before the Mayor was procured and made use of accordingly by the Sword-bearer in honour of the City Sir Nathaniel Brent Knight Deputed by and under William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury came into this Diocess by way of a visitation before whom a Latin Sermon was here Preached by Dr. Kellet one of the Canons Residentiary of this Church and other decent entertainment both by the City and Clergy conferred on him Regna Regum 11. Charles the 1. An. D. 1635. Mayors and Bayliffs Adam Bennet John Penny James Marshall John Clarke Robert Trescott Stephen Olivean Upon the death of John Clark late one of the Bailiffs Stephen Olivean was Elected in his place to supply that Office for the residue of the year Several attempts made to bring in the River through the City Goods seized on as forfeited being Foraign bought and sold Regna Regum 12. Charles the 1. An. D. 1636. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Mallock Richard Saunders Alan Penny Thomas Ford Henry Every The sum of 32 l. in Money and also a Garden adjoyning to St. Katherines Alms-house recovered from Robert Michell Doctor in the Civil Laws by vertue of a decree obtained in the High Court of Chancery for the poor people of the said House A new Church-yard 24. Augusti St. Bartholomew's day was here solemnly consecrated by Bishop Hall a piece of ground formerly called Fricruhay â—ying within the Walls of the said City and in the West quarter thereof which said ground was given by the City and levelled and inclosed by the concurrent charge of both Church and City by the careful over-sight of the Mayor Regna Regum 13. Charles the 1. An. D. 1637. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Crossing Thomas Tooker John Colleton Nicholas Corwithean Humphry Tocker Peter Hellyar Elected School-master of the English Free school within St. John's Hospital and Master of the Boys in that House hath been a liberal Benefactor thereunto Regna Regum 14. Charles the 1. An. D. 1638. Mayors and Bayliffs James Tucker Christopher Clark Christopher Parr Oliver Tapper Richard Evans Licence granted to Richard Saunders Merchant to sue Nicholas Bolt Merchant at the Common Law they being both Freemen of this City The Chappel at St. John's Hospital was again consecrated by Bishop Hall being newly beautified at the sole charge of Alice Hele Widow Regna Regum 15. Charles the 1. An. D. 1639. Mayors and Bayliffs Rebert Walker Henry Battishill Richard Sweet Thomas Kendall William Spiller The Town of Taunton in Somerset being visited with the Plague the sum of 185 l. 17 s. 4 d. was sent to them as a voluntary collection here made for the relief of the poor of that Town This Mayor and Mr. Simon Snow were Elected our Citizens to serve in the ensuing Parliament Any Person marrying an Aldermans Daughter may freely claim his Freedom of the City Regna Regum 16. Charles the 1. An. D. 1640. Mayors and Bayliffs John Penny Walter White Samuel Crocker John Lovering John Butler Twelve Doctors of several Professions born within this City and at one time were all living one of them is the Authour of these ensuing verses namely Dr. Robert Vilvain who saith thus Bis sex Exoniae sunt intra moenia Nati Doctores Pariter qut viguere diu Theiologi quinque Medici sunt quatuor ex his Sunt tres Juridici qui viguere simul Thus Translated by the same Authour There were twelve Doctors born in Exeter Within the Walls who lived long together Of these were Five Divines and Four Physicians Who liv'd together but Three sole Civilians 1. John Bridgeman Lord Bishop of Chester 2. George Barkham Dean of Buckin in Essox 3. George Hakewill Chaplain to Prince Henry and Arch-Deacon of Surry 4. Michael Germin Chaplain to the Queen of Bobemia And 5. Anthony Short these are the Divines 6. Sir Simon Baskervil Knight 7. Robert Vilvain 8. Richard Spicer 9. Anthony Salter these are the Physicians 10. William Spicer 11. Joseph Martin And 12. Robert Michell these are the civil Lawyers Regna Regum 17. Charles the 1. An. D. 1641. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Saunders Hugh Crocker Nicholas Broking Thomas Pitt John Lavers Bishop Hall having well governed this Church about 14. years was translated hence and installed Bishop of Norwich whose Life and Doctrine were most exemplary he died 8. Septembris Anno Domini 1656. A branch of whose will I thought good to relate sc In the Name of God Amen I Joseph Hall D. D. not worthy to be called a Bishop of Norwich c. I bequeath my Soul c. my Body I leave to be interred without any Funeral pomp at the discretion of my Executors with this only Monition that I do not hold God's House a meet Repository for the dead Bodies of the greatest Saints This Reverend Prelate may be said to have died with his Pen in his hand whose writing and living even expired together Ralph Brownrig Doctor in Divinity was the next Elected and 3. Maii consecrated Bishop of this Diocess who albeit he lived about 18. years after his said consecration yet by reason of the intestine Wars in this Kingdom he never came hither Regna Regum 18. Charles the 1. An. D. 1642. Mayors and Bayliffs Christopher Clark John Cupper Christopher Clark Jun. Philip Foxmill Nicholas
their Loyalty to the King page 162 Several Officers of the Ecclesiastical Court did penance and why page 25 King DAme Isabella King Henry the Third's Sister married to Frederick the Emperour page 9 Richard Earl of Cornwall Crowned King of the Romans page 7 14 Several Kings Queens and Princesses visited this City page 22 30 81 87 92 104 158 174 Richard and Edmond Earls of Cornwall dying without Issue the Earldom reverted to the Crown page 18 31 The City is parcel of the Dutchy of Cornwall and under what yearly Rent held page 48 49 Diverse persons made Lord Deputies of Ireland page 53 63 Kings Queens and Princesses proclaimed their Births Marriages and Deaths page 5 10 18 33 34 61 69 69 73 91 104 106 120 122 126 127 128 143 153 154 158 166 Queen Mawd's Anniversary abolished page 111 Governours appointed over the King's person page 63 73 Subsidies granted to the Crown page 10 44 74 The King in his Writ names the Mayor and Bailiffs hereof Justices of his Peace page 38 The Mannor of Exiland given by King Edward the Sixth to the City and why page 123 Charters granted and renewed to the City page 151 King Charles the Second bestowed his Sisters Picture on the City and why page 175 Law REliefs due and from whom page 25 105 107 108 Two Verdicts for the City one for Exiland and the other for the privilege of Lammas Fair page 44 Fines here levyed for passing of Lands and Inrolment of deeds page 49 What persons shall serve in Juries and have Actions page 86 None may be sued by an Excommunicated person page 86 A Jury sued on a Writ of Attaint page 108 The Punishment of him whose House or Chimney is on Fire page 137 Seats in the Castle built for the Judges in the Circuit page 144 Deadands seised on to the Cities use page 62 121 143 144 Learning DIverse Learned Men Natives of this City page 4 13 38 156 The Bible Translated and divided into Chapters page 6 124 When and by whom the History of Guy of Warwick was written page 32 Several Schools herein Founded and by whom page 79 129 142 153 155 Mayor THe Mayors Antiquity and various appellations of precedent Governors page 1 The day and manner of the Mayors Election page 22 31 52 98 99 The Mayor constitutes a deputy by Patent page 47 160 Mayors dying in their Mayoralty page 16 48 52 61 69 88 106 112 134 135 136 143 169 Commissions of Oyer and Terminer sent hither to the Mayor and Justices page 51 The Mayor brings an Action of Wast page 52 Mayors elected and refusing are fined others by the King's Command accept of the Office page 78 132 150 168 Two Swords and a Cap of Maintenance bestowed on the Mayor by two Kings page 87 154 One five times Mayor and bore Magistracy in the Reigns of four Princes page 91 The black Roll delivered from Mayor to Mayor and how lost page 95 Several persons of honour entertained by the Mayor page 88 121 127 137 138 153 At the Mayor's Election all Freemen Inhabitants here are to attend and give their voices page 122 A Mayor hath a numerous Issue page 126 At the Mayor's Election a Deputy appointed in the Recorders place page 139 Several Mayors Knighted page 144 158 174 By whom Aldermen are chosen and the extent of their Jurisdiction page 26 Nusances NUsances complained of and redressed page 26 40 41 117 Countess's Wear found by Verdict to be a Nusance page 27 Every Inhabitant is to convey away his own rainy Water page 70 75 105 Observations SEven Children born at a Birth strangely delivered from death page 17 Change of Weather page 8 10 134 Courteneys Pedigree derived from William the Conquerour page 29 63 A chast Virgin page 51 Several persons attempting to fly broke their necks page 66 67 Diverse ominous predictions fulfilled page 92 93 120 Sir Thomas Dennys Knight lived in the Reigns of seven Kings and Queens of this Realm page 107 Two Hogsheads of Wine carried by a Horse page 135 Comets appeared page 136 169 At the Assizes the Judge five Justices and eleven of the Jury died by an ill smell page 137 Two Sparks and their Wives buried in one day and one Grave page 173 Several persons died by a damp arising out of a Well page 160 A strange deliverance of a person and his Wife from a Well page 161 Persons slain by the fall of an house page 177 Officers REcorders Receivers Stewards and Serjeants at Mace page 16 53 80 When the Musical Waits were first entertained page 68 168 The night Belman appointed and why page 88 The Treasurer of the Church made Master of the Rolls in Chancery page 90 The first Chamberlain of the City page 127 The death of several Officers page 106 109 128 139 141 143 154 159 161 169 Fees due to a Serjeant at Mace on an Execution page 115 Fees due to the Sheriff on a common Process page 122 When the Sheriff is to make up his account page 122 New Maces made for the Serjeants and where to be used page 79 144 Lord High Stewards of the City page 144 146 149 150 152 154 168 Presents bestowed on Recorders page 92 146 Several Offices enjoyed together page 148 Officers elected and fined for non-acceptance thereof page 109 114 115 161 Ordinances ORdinances made by sundry Bishops of this Church page 5 6 26 All Bakers of the City to grind their Corn at the Cities Mills page 86 Ordinances touching the Receivers and Stewards of the City page 91 Plague THe Plague of Pestilence herein page 9 51 61 62 64 90 104 118 133 138 150 A Pest-house provided for the sick page 143 150 170 Relief sent hence to several Towns visited with the Plague page 170 171 172 Parliament BIshops had anciently their Palaces in London for their habitation in Parliament time page 10 41 Bishops learned Speeches made in Parliament for reformation of the Clergy page 65 73 An Act of Parliament for ascertaining the bounds of St. Sydwell's Fee page 77 Another for paving of the Streets of the City page 87 Another for making of a new Haven page 120 Another for ascertaining the bounds of the County page 124 Another for the preservation of the right of Orphans page 129 Another that all Gavel-kind Lands here shall be Inheritable as Lands at the Common Law page 137 Another for the continuance and repair of Head-Wear on the River of Exe page 145 Who eligible and elected to serve in Parliament as Citizens hereof page 87 96 126 127 135 155 166 176 An exemplification of an Act of Parliament for Trew's-Wear page 145 An Insurrection made declaring for a Free Parliament page 164 165 War AN Army sent hence to fight the Infidels in the Holy-land and their Conductors page 7 8 Persons slain in the Barons War page 8 42 43 St. Edmond King of the East-Angles shot to death by Pagans page 14 Several Kings supplyed hence with
year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth Annoque Domini 1549. the Gates of the City were again opened In remembrance whereof an Anniversary with much joy and solemnity is here kept and thankfully observed on every sixth day of August Of which good service thus worthily performed by the Citizens hereof a Learned Authour of late thus speaks Whoso example God grant all Cities may follow Boswell in his Armory of Honour for 110. and withal learn to be noble by Exeter A Modern Authour and Native of this City Dr. Vilvain of late wrote this Distich and translated the same Vrbs sitâ— Devoniae in Medie cui Excestriâ— nomen Cincta fuit decies obsidione gravi In mid'st of Devon Exeter City seated Hath with Ten Sieges grievously been sireitned 'T is well known what sufferings Persons of the best Quality within this City in the time of the late Rebellion did undergo by manifesting their Loyalty to their Soveraign Lord and King even by Fines Imprisonments by Sea and by Land Compositions Sequestrations Decimations and what not A Sequestrator was then found to be like the great Sultan's horse that where he treads the grass grows no more In a word they ruined the Father begger'd the Son and strangled the hopes of all Posterity in many flourishing Families as too sad experience hath informed too many now alive My Litany or supplication is stedfast Dii terris talem nostris avertite pestem Reform the wicked World most gracious God Heal our Back-slidings and remove thy Rod. And one Gentleman amongst sundry others for their Loyalty to the King here murthered being priviledged to be decently Interred in St. Sydwell's Church without the East-gate of the said City his Corps was thither attended by some thousand Persons of a depressed party of which number I then thought my self happy to be one In whose memory this ensuing Epitaph was Inscribed on his Tombstone viz. Hic jacet Hugo Grove de Enford in Comitatu Wiltoniae Armiger in restituendo Ecclesiam in asserendo Regem in propugnando legem ac libertatem Anglicanam captue decollatus decimo sexto Maii 1655. Whose Speech on the Scaffold at the time of his Execution here followeth Good People I Never was guilty of much Rhetorick nor ever loved long Speeches in all my Life and therefore you cannot expect either of them from me now at my death all that I shall desire of you besides your hearty prayers for my Soul is that you will bear me witness that I dye a true Son of the Church of England as it was established by King Edward the Sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles of ever blessed Memory that I die a loyal Subject to King Charles the Second my undoubted Soveraign and a Lover of the good old Laws of the Land the just privileges of Parliament and the right liberties of the people for the re-establishing of all which I undertook this engagement and for which I am now ready to lay down my life God forgive the Judges and Council perverting the Laws God forgive the bloody-minded Jury and those that procured them God forgive Captain Crook for denying his Articles so unworthily God forgive Mr. Dove High Sheriff of Will and all others fâ—â—â—wearting so maliciously against me God forgâ—â—â—ll mine enemies I heartily forgive them God bless the King and all that love him and turn the hearts of all that hate him and God bless you all and be merciful to you and my Soul The last Speech of John Penruddock Esquire on the same Scaffold and on the same day being Wednesday 16. Maii 1665. likewise beheaded Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of Death I thank God who hath given me the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Gentlemen IT hath ever been the Custom of all persons whatsoever when they come to die to declare themselves in order to the satisfaction of the World whether they be guilty of the facts of which they stand charged the crime for which I am now to die is High Treason as 't is said I cannot deny but that I was at Southmolton in this County but whether my being there or my Actions amount to so high a crime as High Treason I leave to the Law and World to judge If I were conscious of any base end in this my undertaking I would not be so injurious to my own Soul or disingenuous to you as not to make a publick acknowledgement thereof I suppose that divers persons as they are byassed by their several interests and Relations will give their opinion to the World concerning us 'T is impossible therefore to express my self in those particulars as not to expose both my Judgement and Reputation to others on a breach of Charity concerning me or my Actions I thought sit to decline all discourse which may give them a capacity either to injure my self or cause My Trial was Publick Honourable and Eminent my several Examinations I believe will be produced when I am in my Grave I will refer you therefore to my first Tryal which I am sure some of you heard and to the latter which many of you in good time may see Had Captain Crook done himself and us that right that a Gentleman and Soldier ought to have done I had now enjoyed my own right and had not been here this day I forgive the Man with all my heart truly he did us an injury by enforcing those Articles upon us which his own Conscience tells him he had no intention to perform but truly Gentlemen his protesting against those Articles which he himself with so many protestations and importunities put upon us hath drawn so much dishonour and blood upon his head that I fear some heavy Judgement will pursue him although he hath been false to us I pray God I do not prove a true Prophet to him I am very glad that some of our party have enjoyed the benefit of his Articles though I am thereof deprived albeit I drew them with my own hand thus much I am obliged to say for the honour of the Soldiery who have been so far from the breaking of any Articles given to others that they have rather bettered them then otherwise 'T is now my misfortune to be made a Precedent and an example together but I will not do the Protector so much injury as to load him with this dishonour seeing that I have been informed that he would have made good our Conditions if Crook that gave them had not abjured them This is not a time for me to enlarge on any Subject seeing I am now become the subject of death my self but as I said that the Articles were drawn by my hand I thought my self obliged to a particular Justification of them I could tell you of some Soldiers that are turned out of his Troop for defending of those Conditions of ours but let that pass and for ever hence-forward instead of Life Liberty and
Estates which we lost by not having the benefit of the Articles let hanging drawing and quartering be the denomination of Captain Crook's Articles Nevertheless I thank the Lord Protector for that he hath indulged me so far as to have my Head severed from my Body I should now give an account of my Faith but truly Gentlemen this poor Nation is rent into so many several opinions as that 't is impossible to give you my own without displeasing some of you however if any be so critical as to enquire of what Faith I die it is the same belief of the Apostles and of Athanasius Creed I have subscribed and do own the Nine and Thirty Articles of the Church of England if this will not satisfie I refer my self to this Reverend Doctor Short to whom I have unbosomed my self as to the particulars of my Religion And now having given you an Account concerning my self I hold my self obliged in duty to some of my Friends to take off some suspicion that lies upon them I mean as to some Persons of Honour with whom upon my examination I was charged to have a correspondency withal concerning this business viz. The Lord Marquess of Hertford the Marquess of Winchester and the Earl of Pembrook I did then acquit them and do now second it with this protestation that I never had any correspondency with any of them in relation to this particular business or indeed to any that concerned the Protector or his Government As for the Marquess of Winchester I saw him some twelve years since and not later and if I should see him here present I believe I should not know him As for the Earl of Pembrook he was not a Man likely to whom I should discover my thoughts because I know not how he stands affected I was likewise examined concerning my Brother Freke my Cousin Hastings and Mr. Dorrington they are Men of very great Estates which may make them liable to this Inquisition and endeavoured to be brought into my condition but I do here so far acquit them as to give the World this protestation That I am confident they are as innocent as the youngest Child here I have no more to say to you now but that I am in Charity with all Men and I thank God I can forgive my greatest persecutors I can go on my bare knees to the greatest of mine enemics to forgive them And I do freely forgive all that ever had a hand in my Death I have offered the Protector good security for my future demeanour as I suppose he could have expected if he had thought sit to have given me my Life Certainly I should not have been so ungrateful as to have employed it against him I do humbly submit to God's pleasure knowing that the Issues of Life and Death are in his hands my Blood is but a small sacrifice If it had been saved I am so much a Gentleman as to have given thanks to him that preserved it and so much a Christian as to forgive them that takes it away but seeing God by his Providence hath called me to lay it down I submit to him Death is a debt a due debt owing by all it is terrible to nature but I look on it without terrour it pleased God to make me a good Husband and I am not come to pay this Debt before it be due I am not ashamed of the cause for which I die and I hope that none of my Friends or Allyants will be ashamed of it or of the Ignominy of my death seeing it is for so good a Cause I do not look upon it as the pulling down of my Family but the raising it up one story higher I am not so prodigal of Nature as to throw away my Life but have used all yet none but Honourable and honest means to preserve it These unhappy times have been very fatal to my Family Two of my Brothers slain and my self going to the slaughter it is God's Will and I must submit to that Providence I must render a due acknowledgement of the great civilities I have received from this City of Exeter and from some Persons of Quality and for the plentiful provision made for the Prisoners especially I thank this noble Sheriff for his many great favours and courtesies towards us and in particular to my self and I desire the Sheriff to present my due respects to the Protector and although he had no mercy for my self yet that he would have respect to my Family for the business I now die I look on it as an Individuum vagum I know not what they mean when they assert this to be Treason except they make it like the Wind in the Gospel to blow where it listeth I know not to what end it may come I pray God that my own and my Brother's blood who is now to die with me may be the last I am now stripping off my cloaths to fight a duel with death and conceive no other duel to be lawful but my Saviour hath pulled out the sting of this mine enemy he made himself a Sacrifice for me I do not account that man deserving a drop of his blood that will not spend all for him in a good cause As I now put off these garments of cloth so I hope I have put off my garments of sin and have put on the Robes of Christ's Righteousness here which will bring me to the enjayment of his glorious Robes anon I desire to see the Axe and he kissed it saying I am like to have a sharp passage of it but my Saviour hath taken away the sting of death and I hope he will sweeten it to me Thus I commit my Soul to God my Creator and Redeemer look on me O Lord at my last gasping hear my Prayer and the Prayers of all good people I will close with praying for the King I thank thee O God for all thy dispensations towards me Glory be to God on high on Earth peace and good Will towards Men Causa non poena seu passio facit Martyrem To dic in the defence and for the Testimony of any Divine Truth is truly to be a Martyr Memorable hath been the stedfast obedience and fidelity of this City to the Crown in the various succession of Ages and Times of the Britains Romans Saxons Danes and Normans which have been well remunerated by their several and successive Kings in their distinct Reigns as is manifested by the many and large Immunities Liberties and Priviledges from time to time conferred on their City Whatever the Antiquity of this City be I find that 't was built before London even at Brute's first landing here by his Nephew Corinaeus on whom Brute bestowed this Western Country Hooker Stowe Bale Anno Mundi 2855. The same being before Christ's Incarnation eleven hundred years and upwards And presently thereafter Brute built London calling it Troynovant This City is thought to be one of the first Cities that
the Britains constituted in this Island which was so done Anno Domini 162. 1. Edward Son of Alphred King of the West-Saxons who divided England into Shires Anno Domini 888. held a Parliament or great Committee within this City 2. Athelstan his Son having driven out of this City the Britains and minding to make a full Conquest both of them and this their Countrey fiercely pursued them into Cornwall where he wholly subdued them And having obtained such a Victory returns again to the City which during his abode herein he re-edified and environed the same with a Stone-wall of a mile and half in compass Sir Thomas Smith de Rep. Angl. in a manner circular saving towards the West and beautified with Battlements It being formerly inclosed only with a Ditch and fortified with a few stakes Hovedenâ— whereof an Antiquary maketh mention in these words sc Hanc urbem primus Rex Athelstanus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Britonibus redactam turribus munivit muro ex quadratis lapidibus cinxit ac Antiquitus vocatant Moncton nunc Exeter vocari voluit ac ibi sedens non tam lacerata ejusdem Civitatis Moenia reparabat quin mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum Monasterium pro Monachis Deo Sancto Petro famulantibus 3. And I find in another Charter thus That those of this Monastery might sine ulla molestia animi Militare coram Dominu Rege and should be always Free ab omni Regali seculari gravedine tam Majori quam Minori exceptis perpetua oratione pontium constructione sola expeditione the meaning of which last word hath been expounded to be when the King goeth to War in person then those of this Monastery were personally to attend him 4. The Saxons called it Moncton from the multitude of Monasteries in this place Anno Domini 450. which so continued the space of many hundred years even until the Reign of the aforesaid King Athelstan who Anno Domini 932. first called it Exeter 5. This King Athelstan granted Stone fol. 85. and freely gave to this City two Mints for Coynage in token of their Integrity and great trust he reposed in them Anno Domini 930. 6. King Canute to expiate the oppression and cruelty of his Father Swayn made Restitution of their Lands and Privileges lately destroyed And likewise bestowed on the Cathedral Church of St. Peter within the said City the Mannor of Stoke whence his adjunct Canon came 7. King Edward the Confessor for the greater dignity of the place translated hither the Bishop's See from Crediton who with his Queen Edith installed Leofric Lord Chancellour of England and one of the King 's Privy Council to be the first Bishop of this Church Within the Quire adjoyning to the High Altar is a Monument fairly Arched and under the same Arch are three seats with side pillars of Brass erected in memory of the said King Edward Edith his Queen and Leofric the first Bishop of Exeter the middle of them being the Seat of the said Bishop sitting in his Pontisicalibus between the King and the Queen And that it may further appear what great favour and honour this Bishop received both from the King and the Queen at his Instalment which was on the seven and twentyeth day of May in the sixth year of the said King's Reign Annuque Domini 1049. I here recite the very words mentioned in the said King's Charter sc I King Edward taking Bishop Leofric by the right hand and Edith my Queen by the lefe do install him the first and most famous Bishop of Exeter with a great desire of abundance of blessings to all such as should further and encrease the same ☞ but with a fearful and execrable curse upon all such as should diminish or take any thing from it This King was the first that miraculously healed Disease commonly called Struma Stone fol. 96. or the King's-Evil which blessing God hath continued to all his Successors even to this very day Queen Edith remained his Wife for eighteen years space her Epitaph viz. Antiqua fuit orta domo pia vixit inivit Virgo pudica thorum sponsa pudica polum 8. William the Conquerour in the second year of his Reign Annoque Domini 1067. freely bestowed St. Stephen's Church within this City on this Cathedral and made the Bishop Patron thereof And in his general Survey we read thus of this City In Civitate Exonia habet Rex C C C. Domesdâ—â—â— domus XV. minas reddentes Consuetudinem Hac reddit XVIII libras per annum de his habet B. Vicecomes VI. Libras ad pensum arsuram Colliny XII libras ad numerum in Ministerin Edithae Regina In bac Civitate sunt vastaae XLVIII domus postquam Rex venit in Angliam Haec Civitas Tempore Regis Edvardi non geldabiliâ— nisi quando Londoniâ— Ebâ—racum Wintonia gelelabunt haec erat dimidia marca argenti ad oput militum Quando Expeditio that per terram aut per mare serviebat haec Civitas quantum quinque Hidae terrae 10. After King Stephen's Usurpation Maâ—â—d the Empress Anne Domini 1160. Enlarged their Liberties to whose memory for some hundreds of years they kept an Anniversary 11. King Henry the First granted them A Charter to be Free from all Customes in England both by Land and Water with many other large Priviledges and Immunities which have been since confirmed and enlarged by sundry successive Kings and Princes of this Realm namely King Henry the Second King Richard the First King John Richard King of the Romans King Henry the Third Edmond Earl of Cornwall King Edward the First King Edward the Second King Edward the Third King Richard the Second King Henry the Fourth King Henry the Fifth King Henry the Sixth King Edward the Fourth King Henry the Seventh King Henry the Eighth King Edward the Sixth Queen Elizabeth and King Charles the First 12. King Edward the First who with his Queen in this City kept their Christmas by his Letters Patent bearing date the tenth day of March in the third year of His Reign granted to this City a yearly Tribute or Collection to be made of all manner of Wares brought hither to be sold towards the paving of the streets repairing of the Walls and better support and maintenance of the said City which in old English is called Bagavel Bethugavel and Chippingavel 13. King Henry the Sixth in the Thirtyeth year of his Reign came hither and was well entertained lodging in the Bishop's Palace where during his abode his Justices of Oyer and Terminer kept Gaol-delivery before whom Two Men were arraigned for Treason found guilty and had sentence of Death but the Bishop Dean and Chapter being therewithal grieved went to the King and declared to him that the said Justices sate in Commission within their Sanctuary contrary to the privileges thereof and orders of Holy Church wherefore the King to appease them
Fore-runners of Rebellion therein perish may that Sin be like the untimely Fruit of a Woman that never comes to see the Sun May Unity Unanimity and Uniformity be still within our Gates and like Walls and Bulwarks for its defence May the two staves of Beauty and Bands Order and Government and Brotherly Unity here for ever flourish May that twisted Cord never be untyed Let no Alexander's Sword be ever found to cut asunder this much stronger then a Gordian knot May Justice and Judgement herein run down as Water and Righteousness as a mighty stream that Injustice like an Ocean may never have power to drown all with it's inundation And the God of all this Order be evermore with us and bless us And may all those everlastingly prosper that wish well so our Sion and pray for the Peace of Jerusalem A perfect Catalogue of all the Bishops of this Church the County wherein they were born the particular days of their Instalment or Consecration continuance of Government the time of their Deceases and places of their respective Burials together with their Coats of Armory and Mottoes described THe Church of Exeter beareth Gules a Sword in Pale Blade and Hilt proper two Keys in Saltier Or in this Atchievement joyning Peter and Paul  Bishops Counties Installed or Consecrated Governed Deceased Buried Nulla Salus Homine He bears Or a Cross flurt sable having in the Fess point a Miter of the First 1. Leofricus Lord Chancellour of England one of the King 's Privy Council Lorain 27. Maii 6 Edward the Confessor 1049. almost 24. years 20. Decem. 1073. In St. Peter's Church-yard and since by enlarging of the Church under the South tower under a grey marble stone Virtus premitur non opprinitur He bears Gules a Bend Argent surmounted of a Fess Or. 2. Osbertus Normandy 28. Martii 7 William the Conquerour 1074. 30. years 3. Maii 1104. In his own Church In cruce Victoria He bears Azure a Saltier Or. 3. William Warewest Normandy 13. August 4 Hen. 1.1104 20. years 9. September 1124. In Plympton Priory in Devon founded by himself Firm en Foy He bears Checky Or and Gules a chief Verry 4. Robert Chichester Devon 9. January 28 Hen. 1.1128 22. years 4. February 1150. In his own Church on the South-side of the High Altar In cruce Victorâ—â— He bears Azure a Saltier Or. 5. Robert Warewest Devon 17. Martii 15 Stephen 1150. 9 years 20. Aprilis 1159. In Plympton Priory aforesaid by his Uncle and mediate Predecessor Nil amatum nisi cegnitum He bears party per pale Gules and sable six Dolphins neyant Argent 6. Bartholomew Iscanus Exeter 25. Maii 5 Hen. 2.1159 14. years 7. Augusti 1174. In his own Church Fugiunt crucemtenebrae He bears Argent a cross and a chief sable 7. John the Chanter Exeter 6. Octobris 30 Hen. 2.1184 6. years 15. Decembris 1190. In the South-side of the Quire of his own Church opposite to the door that leads into the Bishop's Palace Aut vincam aut peribe He bears Or a Lyon Rampant Gules a Border Azure mitred of the First 8. Henry Marshall London 27. Aprilis 2 Rich. 1.1191 12. years 1. Maii 1203. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church Henos est onus He bears Azure three Mitres Or 2. and 1. 9. Synion d' Apulia Apulia 12. Decembris 8 Johannis 1206. 18 years 16. Novemb. 1224. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church behind the Pulpit there Difficilia quae Pulchra He bears Gules two Bends Wavy Or. 10. William Brewer one of the King 's Privy Council Devon 30. Decembris 9 Hen. 3.1224 19. years 24. Julii 1244. In the middle of the Quire of his own Church Veritas erit Victrix He bears Lozengy Or and Sable 11. Richard Blondy Bedfordshire 28. Martii 29 Hen. 3.1245 12. years 24. Martii 1257. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church Vincit patientia He bears Or on a Cheuron Sable three cinquefoils of the first between two keys erect in chief and a Sword of the second 12. Walter Bronscomb Exeter 10. Aprilis 42 Hen. 3.1258 23. years 22. Julii 1281. In the Lady Chappel of his own Church Vincit Patientia He bears Azure a Cross Argent between two Roses above and beneath two Flower-de-luces Or. 13. Peter Quivell Warwickshire 29. Decembris 10 Edward 1.1281 11. years 18. Octobris 1292. In the Lady Chappel of his own Church â—â—od me deficit Christo sufficit He bears Ermine a Fess Gules 14. Thomas Bitton Wiltshire 15. Januarii 22 Edward 1.1293 14. years 21. Septemb. 1307. In the Quire of his own Church at the Foot of the High Alear Mediocria firma He bears Argent two bends Wavy Sable 15. Walter Stapledon Lord Treasurer of England and one of the King 's Privy Council Devon 28. Septembris 1 Edward 2.1037 20. years 15. Octobris 1327. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church nigh the High Altar Loyall au Mort. He bears a Cheuron between ten Crosses formy d' Argent in a field Gules 16. James Berkley Glocestershire 26. Martii 2 Edward 3.1328 4. months 24. Julii 1328. In his own Church Peâ—it ardus virtus He bears palewise of six Argent and Azure a bend Gules thereon a Mitre between two Eaglets displayed Or. 17. John Grandison Herefordshire 8. Octobris 2 Edward 3.1328 42. years 15. Julii 1370. In a Tomb of Lead in a Chappel by himself builded and adjoyning to the West wall of his own Church Vincit qui patitur He bears Sable a Fess imbattelled between three Katherine wheels 18. Thomas Brentingham Lord Treasurer of England and one of the King 's Privy Council Devon 10. Martii 44 Edward 3.1370 24. years 3. Decembris 1394. In the North-side of the body of his own Church near the North dore Gard ta foy He bears Or a Cheuron Gules 19. Edmond Stafford Lord Privy Seal afterwards Lord Chancellor of England and one of the King 's Privy Council Staffordshire 20. Junii 19 Richard 2.1395 23. years 4. Septemb. 1419. In the Lady Chappel of his own Church on the North-side Fatâ— prudentia Major He bears Argent a Fess engrailed sable thereon three Trefoils d' Or. 20. John Catherike Cheshire 8 Novembris 7 Hen. 5.1419 2. months 11. Januarii 1419. In a Church at Avynion He bears Argent a bend sable and thereon three Roses of the First 21. James Cary. Devon 10 Februarii 7 Henry 5.1419 6. weeks 24. Martii 1419. In a Church at Florence 〈◊〉 est le pluis grand â—oneur He bears Azure three Skovellers heads Argent erazed 22. Edmond Lacy. Herefordshire 6. Aprilis 8 Hen. 5.1420 35. years 23. Maii 1455. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church Bien defend le droit He bears Gules a Saltier Argent 23. George Nevill Lord Chancellour of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford and one of the King 's Privy Council Durham 25. Novembris 34 Henry 6.1455 10. years translated
to York 4. Septemb. 1476. In the Cathedral Church of York â—â—scimur Patimur He bears Argent three boars heads erazed and erect Sable a File of three points Gules 24. John Booth Cheshire 22. Februarii 6 Edward 4.1466 12. years 1. Aprilis 1478. In St Clement Danes Church London without Temple-bar Quod verum tutum He bears Or three Torteauxes a lable in chief Azure 25. Peter Courtency Devon 18. Novembris 19 Edward 4.1479 9. years Translated to Winchester 20. Decemb. 1491. In the Cathedral Church of VVinchester Omnia vincit amor He bears Azure a Pelican in her Nest proper 26. Richard Fox Lord Privy Seal and one of the King 's Privy Council Lincolnshire 27 Januarii 3 Hen. 7.1488 6. years Translated to Bath and from thence to Winchestor 2. Februarii 1528. In the Cathedral Church of Winchestor Modus est Pulcherrima virtus He bears Argent on a Cheuron sable three Escalop shells of the first 27. Oliver King Cornwall 20. Februarii 9 Hen. 7.1494 5. years Translated to Wells 20. Novembris 1499. In Windsor Church Finis coronat opus He bears Gules three Cushions Argent tasseled Or. 28. Richard Redman Hartfordshire 14. Decembris 14 Hen. 7.1499 5. years Translated to Ely In the Cathedral Church of Ely Deâ—â— undine He bears sable six Swallows in pile Argent 29. John Arundell Cornwall 15. Martii 19 Hen. 7.1504 2. years 19. Februarii 1506. In St. Clement Danes Church without Temple-bar London Vita est vigilia He bears sable a Cheuron Or between three Owls proper on a chief of the second three Roses Gules 30. Hugh Oldham Lancashire 3. Aprilis 22 Hen. 7.1507 16. years 25. Junii 1523. In a Chappel on the South-side 〈◊〉 the Quire of his own Church Nulli praeda He bears Argent a Cross Sable thereon a bucks head cooped between four Doves Argent a chief Azure charged with a cross croslet between two Roses d' Or. 31. John Voysey Lord President of Wales Warwickshire 23. Julii 15 Henry 8.1523 26. years Resigned prout Postea In the Church of Sutton Colshill in Warwickshire Vero nihil Verius He bears quarterly per Fess Indented Gules and Or in chief a Rose between two Flower-de-luces in base a Flower-de-luce between two Roses all counterchanged 32. Miles Coverdale York-shire 20 Septembris 3 Edw. 6.1550 3. years 20. Maii 1565. In St. Bartholomew's Church behind the Royal Exchange London Nulli Praeda. He bears ut Prius 33. John Voysey Warwickshire 4. Septembris 1 Mariae 1553. 3. years 9. Octobris 1555. In the Church of Sutton Colshill in Warwickshire La Familla des Justs Deluâ—urera He bears Ermine a Lyon Rampant Gules Crowned Or langued and armed Azure 34. James Turbervill Dorsetshire 1. Maii 4 Mariae 1556. 2. years and half deprived 1 Novembris 1559. In the body of the Quire of his own Church Merces mea Christus He bears Azure a pale engrailed Ermine between two Lyons Rampant Argent langued and armed Gules 35. William Alleigh Buckinghamshire 14 Julii 1 Elizabeth 1560. 9. years 15. Aprilis 1570. In the body of the Quire of his own Church nigh the High Altar Post mortem vita He bears Azure a Pheon Argent 36. William Bradbridg Somersetshire 28. Aprilis 32 Elizabeth 1570. 8. years 27. Junii 1578. In the North-side of the Quire of his own Church Speruit pericula virtus He bears a Lyon Rampant standing to a Saltier engrailed Gules 37. John Walton Lancashire 24. Augusti 20 Elizabeth 1578. 14. years 13. Martii 1593. In the South-side of the Quire of his own Church Bye labor levit He bears Argent ten Torteanxes in pile in chief a label of three points Azure 38. Gervis Babington Devon 2. Maii 35 Elizabeth 1594. 3 years Translated to Worcester  In the Cathedral Church of Worcester Aquila non capit muscas He bears Argent a bend fable between three Ogresses 39. William Cotton London 16. Maii 39 Elizabeth 1597. 28 years 26. Augusti 1621. In the South-side of the Quire of his own Church He bears ut Prius 40. Valentine Cary. Northumberland 20. Novemb. 19 Jacobi 1621. 6. years 10. Junii 1626. In the North-side of the Quire of S. Paul's Church London Silentis Spe. He bears sable three Talbots heads erazed Argent 41. Joseph Hall Leicestershire 23. Decembris 3 Caroli 1.1627 14. years Translated to Norwich 8 Septembris 1656. In Hyem Church near Norwich Vuescit vulnere virtus He bears Argent a Lyon Rampant sable gutty Or langued and armed Gules between three Cressants of the same 42. Ralph Brownrig Suffolk 3. Maii 18 Canoli 1.1642 18. years and half 7. Decemb. 1659. In the Temple Church London Birmitas in Coelâ—â— He bears Azure a Cheuron between three Leopards heads Or. 43. John Gauden Essex 2 Decembris 12 Caroli 2.1660 A year and half Translated to Worcester 21 Septembris 1665. In the Cathedral Church of Worcester Crâ—â— scalâ— Coeâ—â— He bears Azure a Cross flory Or. 44. Seth Ward Hartfordshire 20 Julii 14 Caroli 2.1662 5. years Translated to Sarum    Bishops Counties Installed or Consecrated Governed Deceased Buried Rose Munda He bears Ermines three Roses Argent seeded Or. 45. Anthony Sparrow Suffolk 23. Novembris 19 Caroli 2.1667    Chamberlains ALbeit the Office of a Chamberlain be very Ancient and usual in other Cities within this Realm especially in London yet was it here erected but of late years and therefore not as yet reduced to that perfection which 't is elsewhere Queen Elizabeth in the Third year of Her Reign was pleased to grant unto this City a Charter for Orphans which in Her Fifth year was confirmed by Act of Parliament of much more Antiquity this Officer cannot well pretend himself to be The first person elected into the said Office was 1. John Hooker 21. Septembris 2 Mariae 1554. 2. William Tickell 15. Septembris 43 Elizabethae 1601. 3. John Martin 7. Junii 11 Jacobâ— 1612. 4. William Prowss 26. Junii 22 Jacobi 1624. 5. Richard Tickell 21. Aprilis 5 Caroli 1629. 6. John Crewkern 14. Aprilis 12 Caroli 1636. 7. John Dore. 1. Decembris 22 Caroli 1646. 8. Richard Izacke 25. Octobris 6 Caroli 2.1653 Swordbearers THe Swordbearer is an Officer of late Erection appointed in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Annoque Domini 1497. In which year the King came personally hither and in respect of the good service then done by the Mayor and Citizens hereof against Perkin Warbeck and his Complices The King not only applauded the courage and loyalty of the Citizens but also well rewarded them in sundry particulars amongst which he bestowed on them an honourable Cap of Maintenance to be worn and also a Sword of Justice which he then took from his own side to be born before the Mayor on all publick occasions for the decent carriage whereof in an orderly manner this Officer was Instituted whose duty chiefly consisteth in two points viz. 1. To bear the Sword as
Testamento suâ— legare cui voluerit Rot. 49. Regna Regum 32. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1304. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Wheaton Walter Langdon William Kerswell Robert Newton Walter Duport Ordered that no person shold buy any Wares Merchandizes or Victuals bringing hither to be sold until the said Goods be brought into the Market upon pain of forfeiture of the same Stat. 5. Edw. 6. cap. 14. Also that no person bringing any Wares or Merchandizes by water to this City shall unload or put the same to sale 'till the Custom be paid Stat. 1. Edw. 6. cap. 13. Regna Regum 33. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1305. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Walter Langdon Robert Ashperton William Kerswell Henry Trecott Regna Regum 34. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1305. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Walter Langdon Robert Newton William Kerswell Henry Trecott Bishop Bitton having well governed this Church fourteen years on St. Matthew's day being 21. Sept. died and in the middle of the Quire of his own Church lies buried The King dyed 7. Julii and his Son Edward the Second was Crowned in February following Regna Regum 1. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1307. Mayors and Bayliffs William Gatepath Jordan Atlane Jordan Perour Thomas Farthein Michael Turand Walter Stapledon elected Bishop of this Diocess and Consecrated at Canterbury by Robert Winchelsy Arch-Bishop thereof 28. Sept. He was descended of Noble Parentage which being joyned with his Learning Wisdom and Policy got him into great favour with the King who made him one of his Privy Council and Lord Treasurer of England He founded and erected two Houses in Oxford the one named Stapledon's Inn but since Exeter Colledge the other called Hart-Hall he was also a special Benefactor to St. John's Hospital here Regna Regum 2. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1308. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Michael Turand Walter Duport Robert Newton Thomas Farthein This Bishop approaching towards the Eastgate of this City descended from his Horse and went on foot to St. Peter's Church the whole Street whereon he walked being covered with black cloath which as soon as he was passed over was taken up again and given to the poor he was installed here with great Pomp and Solemnity but about his Feast and service thereof there fell some discord between him and Hugh Courteney Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Hugh Courteney Knight who claimed to be Steward of the said Feast for that he held the Mannor of Slapton of the Bishop by that service at length the difference was thus made up viz. 1. First that the said Hugh Courteney and and his Heirs being of lawful age and holding the said Mannor of Slapton shall be Stewards at the Feast of the installing of every Bishop of this See 2. Also that they shall at the first coming of the Bishop to Exeter meet him at the Eastgate of the said City when he descendeth from his Horse and then going a little before him on the right hand shall keep off the press of the people from him and attend him into the Quire of the Cathedral Church there to be installed 3. Also the said Hugh Courteney and his Heirs shall at the said installing Feast serve in the first Mess at the Bishop's own Table 4. Also in consideration of which service the said Hugh Courteney and his Heirs shall have for their Fee four Silver Dishes of those which he shall so place in at the first Mess two Salt-sellers one Cup wherein the Bishop shall drink at that Meal one Wine-pot one Spoon and two Basons wherein the Bishop shall then wash All which said Vessels are to be of Silver Always provided that the said Hugh Courteney or his Heirs being of full age do attend the said service in person if not hindered by sickness or the King 's Writ procured by the said Bishop or his Successors then to appoint some worshipful Knight to supply the place by a Deputation and shall swear that his Lord is so sick that he cannot personally attend the service Then shall the Knight be admitted to perform the same and shall have to the use of his said Lord the Fees aforesaid And if the said Knight alleageth that his Lord is by the procurement of the Bishop served with the King 's Writ and thereby hindered from attendance and will swear this to be true in his conscience he shall then be admitted to do the same service unless the Bishop will positively swear the contrary In which case the Knight shall depart without doing the said service or receiving any thing for the same for that turn only 5. Also the said Hugh Courteney and his Heirs shall do all other services to the said Bishop and his Successors for the said Mannor of Slapton which appertain to the same for evermore And furthermore if the Heirs of the said Hugh Courteney be of lawful age or not at the time of the Feast of this Instalment and performed not the service as aforesaid that then they shall not have any of the said Silver Vessels nor any other thing due for the said service for that time by reason of their said Office nor any other person in their name or Behalf 6. Also it shall not be lawful for the said Hugh Courteney his Heirs or Assigns at the Feast of the Instalment of any Bishop of Exeter for the time being to put in oâ— put out any person or to do any other thing by himself or others belonging to the said Feast by reason of his Office or that he shall demand or require any more or other thing than what is before declared 7. And furthermore the said Hugh Courteney and his Heirs and the Knight aforesaid who shall do the said service for them shall have Hay and Provender for their Horses and for their servants Horses attending on them and also his Livery of Wine and Candles as is meet and convenient 8. In consideration of which premises to be hereafter had without any denial or contradiction for evermore The said Hugh Courteney for himself and his Heirs hath quietly remised and released to the said Bishop and his Successors all other exactions demands or quarrels for and concerning the said Office Fees or any other thing belonging to the said service of Stewardship for evermore Given at Newton Plympton under the Seals of the said Bishop Dean and Chapter the morrow after the Feast of St. Thomas th' Apostle Anno Domini 1308. and the second year of King Edward the Second Witnesses William Martin Philip Courteney Thomas Chichester Stephen Haccomb Roger Novant Thomas Archdeacon John Bickton John Troyagn Knights Robert Stockhay John Buttlesgate Robert Vpex Henry Buckrell cum multis aliis Regna Regum 3. Edw. the 2. An. D. 1309. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Thomas Farthein Walter Duport William Newton William Kerswell A controversie arose whence ensued great troubles between Hugh Courteney the third Earl of Devon and the Mayor and Commonalty of this City the occasion
this year being in all 437. years distant from its first Foundation yet is the same so uniformly compacted as if it had been builded by one man and done in an instant of time Regna Regum 44. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1370. Mayors and Bayliffs Martin Battishill Walter Whithenn John Grey John Nymett John Webb Bishop Grandison died on St Swythen's day 15. Julii and lies buried in a Tomb of Lead within a Chappel built and adjoyning to the West wall of his Cathedral Church by himself To which he was a very liberal Benefactor and worthily governed the same about two and forty years This Tomb was of late ransack'd by sacrilegious hands his leaden Cossin in hope of a prey taken up the ashes scattered about and his bones thrown I know not where surely the Reliques of this worthy Prelate deserved a more reverend respect even amongst savage Beasts Regna Regum 45. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1371. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Plenty John Grey Thomas Webb John Bâ—ll John Gimmerâ—ll By the King 's especial favour Thomas Brentingham refusing the Bishoprick of Hereford to which he was also now chosen was elected and 10 Martii Consecrated Bishop of this Diocess by William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Edward the Black Prince returns sick from France with the Princess his Lady and Richard their Son who was afterwards King of England by the name of Richard the Second and arrived at Plymouth in their way towards London came to this City where they were honourably entertained Regna Regum 46. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1372. Mayors and Bayliffs John Gist Walter Atwood Roger Atwill Robert Stoke Walter Fowk Joyning to this Tomb is a fair Gravestone richly inlaid with Brass of the Portraiture of Peter Courteney Son of the foresaid Earl Hugh and Margaret who was Captain of Callis the Arms thereon engraven are 1. Courteney by it self 2. Impaled with Bohun whose Epitaph so much thereof as yet remaineth legible here followeth Devoniae natus Comes Petrusque vocatus Regis cognatus Camerarius intitulatus Ecclesiae gratus Capitaneus ense probatus Vitae privatus fuit hinc super asira relatus Et quià sublatus de mundo transit amatus Coelo firmatus maneat sinc fine beatus Thus translated The Earl of Denshieâ—'s Son Peter by name Kin to the King Lord Chamberlain of Fame Captain of Callis for Arms well approved Who dying was above the Stars removed And well belov'd went from the World away To lead a blessed life in Heaven for aye Regna Regum 47. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1373. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Plenty Robert Wilsford Adam Scutt Richard Bozom Thomas Wâ—bber John Russell Upon the death of Roger Plenty late Mayor of this City who died 7. Decemb. Robert Wilsford was chosen in his stead to undergo the said Office for the residue of the Year The Plague of Pestilence entred this City chiefly occasioned through excessive heat Regna Regum 48. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1374. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Adam Gould William Gervis Thomas Webber John White Regna Regum 49. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1375. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford John Talbott William Gervis Robert Stoke William Fowk Consuctudo est in Civitate Exoniensi à tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit quod qualemcunque statum alicujus mariti uxor habet in aliquibus terris Tenementis Idem maritus post prolem inter ipsos habitam potest continuò quocunque tempore posteà durants inter eos matrimonio dimittere dictae uxoris suae terras Tenementa cui voluerit Regna Regum 50. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1376. Mayors and Bayliffs John Grey John Nymett Adam Gould Walter Whitrow Richard Stayâ—â— Johannes Wells Rogerus Mabb attachiati fuerunt pro eo quod emerunt forstallaverunt pisces apud Alphington ad mercatum hujus Civitatis venientes Rot. 5. The King died in June and Richard the Second aged nine years was Crowned in July next following Regna Regum 1. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1377. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Adam Scutt William Gervis John Russell Reymond Gosse Omnia Messuagia Tenementa terrae in Civitare Exoniensi suburbiis ejusdem sunt partibilia legabilia divisibilla Rot. 13. 42. Bishop Brentingham made one of the King 's Privy Council and shortly thereafter Lord Treasurer The King Confirmed the Cities Charters and inlarged them with new Liberties and Priviledges This City built and set forth a fair Ship for the King 's present service against the French Regna Regum 2. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1378. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford Reymond Gosse William Dawn Henry Scam Peter Hadleigh Consuetudo est approbata in quodam placito Assise frisce Forcie quod quilibet homo seisitus de Tenementis ut de jure uxoris suae post exitum inter eos habitum donare dimittere potest toto tempore durante intor eos matrimonio pro libito suâ— Tenementa quae fuerunt de jure uxoris suae pro termino vigiâ—ti noveâ— Annorum durante quo termino uxor hujusmodi mariti baredes eorum ab omni actione seu ingressis excludi debent Rot. 3. 49. Ed. 3.16 Regna Regum 3. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1379. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford John Read William Gervis John Russell Richard Browne The City by reason of a great Plague was left almost desolate Regna Regum 4. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1380. Mayors and Bayliffs John Grey John Russell William Gervis Henry Wescoâ—t Henry Scam One William Bremelham was indicted for arresting one Peter Hadleigh without the Southgate in the Highstreet there and carrying him to the Bishop's Prison Regna Regum 5. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1381. Mayors and Bayliffs John Nymett Richard Bosom William Gervis Henry Wescott William Coscom Omnia deodanda infra Civitatem Exonisem suburbia ejusdem Civitatis pertinent ad Majorem Communitatem dictae Civitatis Rot. 45. Omnia quae movent ad mortem sunt deodanda Bishop Brentingham is discharged of being Lord Treasurer Regna Regum 6. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1382. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford William Gervis Symon Grendon Baldwyn Whitleigh Thomas Smythayes Consuetudo est in Civitate Exoniensi quod si aliquis Tenementa sua infra candem Civitatem vel suburbia legavit alicui haredibus de corpore suo procreatis vel procreandis per defectum hujusmodi exitus Executores Tenementa illa vendere alienare possunt quamvis Tenentes hujusmodi eadem prius alienaverint quia Executores eundem statum defuncti de jure habent Rot. 47. Vxorâ—s alicujus Tenentis in Feodo Talliato nondebent dotari de Tenementis Talliatis secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae Rot. 48. Regna Regum 7. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1383. Mayors and Bayliffs John Talbot John Panton Henry Allen Peter Heighly John Webb Regna Regum 8. Rich. the 2. An. D. 1384. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Wilsford
Rugemom grew suddenly sad affirming through a Prophecy that his days should not be long thereafter even when he had seen Richmond which howsoever vain proved a prediction true and that not of this Castle as he misinterpreted but rather of Henry Earl of Richmond afterwards King Henry the Seventh who the year ensuing gave him Battle at Bosworth in Leicester-shire and slew him in the open Field such resemblance was there between the names of Richmond and Rugemont Regna Regum 2. Rich. 3. An. D. 1484. Mayors and Bayliffs Matthew Jubb John Weston John Hooker John Whitlock John Starr The fore-part of the Guild-hall and the Council Chamber were new builded The King sent to the Mayor to be supplyed with certain Soldiers for his present service whereupon twenty Men well arrayed were delivered to Sir Ralph Hastings to be conducted to the place appointed and to remain there for twenty days space at the Cities charge and the said Sir Ralph during his abode here was honourable entertained and one Biston the King's Messenger was well rewarded for his journey hither touching the aforesaid expedition Regna Regum 3. Rich. 3. An. D. 1485. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Russell Henry Hanniford Philip Atwill Mathew Allington Nicholas Hamlyn Bishop Courteney finished the North Tower of his Church and freely bestowed the Clook Bell therein bearing his Christian name Peter Under which Tower in an Isle there purposely erected lies interred one William Sylke sometime Subchaunter of this Church and reported to be the Donor of the Luminaries or Candle-lights yearly burnt in the Quire of the said Church between the Feasts of Alhallontide and Candlemas an effigies of whose Skeleton is there largely pourtrayed in white Alabaster under a fair Arch thus inscribed Sum quod eris fueramque quod es pro me precor ora William Sylke Seven Fairs are here kept viz. Ashwednesday Shere-Thursday Whit-Monday St. Mary Magdalen Lammas St. Nicholas and St. Thomas Regna Regum 1. Henry the 7. An. D. 1486. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Calwoodley Thomas Bond George Chapman Walter Champnys John Bonefant The King not forgetting the fidelity of Peter Courteney Bishop of this Church gave him the Bishoprick of Winchester on whose Translation hence Richard Fox the King 's faithful Counsellor 27. January 1488. was consecrated Bishop of this Diocess by Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and also made Lord Privy Seal and one of the King 's Privy Council and afterwards was so to King Henry the Eighth This noble Prelates Memory shall be eternally blessed for being the cause of the most happy marrying of the Lady Margaret this King's Daughter unto James the Fourth King of Scotland by whose glorious issue Great Brittany now enjoyeth the heighth of splendour and felicity Regna Regum 2. Henry the 7. An. D. 1487. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Newton Jobn Hooker Henry Faux Richard Turner WIlliam Baker The Barbers of this City were Incorporated under the common Seal hereof Ale-tasters appointed to see that wholesome Beer should be made and sold Consuctudo est Civitatis Exoniensis quod quilibet Inhabitans infra eandem Civitatem ac non existens liber ejusdem Mercimonia vel aliquam artem frequentans debet annuatim reddere redditum donec sit liber Rot. 49. Regna Regum 3. Henry the 7. An. D. 1488. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Clerk George Chapman John Rudgway John Ector William Eastcott Bishop Fox and Sir Richard Edgecomb were sent hence as Embassadours to James King of Scotland for continuing a peace between the Two Kingdoms Sir Robert Willoughby Lord Brook was sent over to Britain to the aid of the Duke thereof with Eight Thousand Men and for his better accommodation in the service The King sent his Letter to the Mayor of this City who forthwith supplyed him with Two Hundred Soldiers well arrayed Edward Courteney Earl of Devon was made a Free and Franchized man of this City as Son and Heir to Sir Hugh Courteney a Freeman hereof This Edward was of a second House unto Thomas Courteney Earl of Devon who taking part with King Henry the Sixth was slain at Teuksbury-field who dying without Issue male the Earldom descended to this Edward Son to Sir Hugh de Courtney the Son of Sir Hugh de Courteney second Son to Edward Earl of Devon and Ancestor to this Thomas slain at Teuksbury-field aforesaid Regna Regum 4. Henry the 7. An. D. 1489. Mayors and Bayliffs Stephen Rudgway Matthew Allington Robert Bonesant Walter York Simon Davy Order was taken by the Mayor and Common Gouncil of this City by an especial command from the King and his Privy Council that every Inhabitant here should be furnished with sufficient Arms for himself and Family and accordingly was every man assessed to his number in order to his ability This year were delivered to the Mayor the day when he was sworn into the said office a certain Roll called the Black Roll and a Book therein which contained the ancient Orders Priviledges and Customs for the good Government of the said City with other things relating to the state and dignity thereof In which Book the like was contained touching the City of London and order taken that the same should yearly be delivered over from Mayor to Mayor This Roll in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth was by one Griffith Ameridith delivered unto Sir William Cecil Knight Secretary of State to that King and never returned Regna Regum 5. Henry the 7. An. D. 1490. Mayors and Bayliffs John Hooker John Calwcodley Richard Vndy Wymond Austin John Welsh The Weavers and Fullers incorporated under the common Seal of this City Regna Regum 6. Henry the 7. An. D. 1491. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Chubb Nicholas Hamlyn Robert Bonefant William Nordon John Goscott Roger Holland and Thomas Dennis Esquires were admitted and sworn Freemen of this City but because they did not inhabit within the same 't was ordered that they should not give their voices for the Election of any Mayor or other Officer hereof Bishop Fox and George Lord Dawbney were sent hence in an Embassage to Charles the French King for conclusion of a Peace between the Two Kingdoms which was effectually obtained This Bishop Fox was Godfather to the King 's second Son named Henry who was afterwards King of England by the name of Henry the Eighth Regna Regum 7. Henry the 7. An. D. 1492. Mayors and Bayliffs John Atwill Walter Champnis John Winter Ralph Pudesly Richard Cliff Edward Courteney Earl of Devon made a Freeman of this City Regna Regum 8. Henry the 7. An. D. 1493. Mayors and Bayliffs John Colshill Richard Vndy John Danester Richard Nordon John Merefield The best Wheat in the Market was sold for six pence the Bushel The Cappers Haberdashers and Felt-makers incorporated under the common Seal of this City Regna Regum 9. Henry the 7. An. D. 1494. Mayors and Bayliffs William Obleigh John Slugg Thomas Andrew John Hull Thomans Olliver Bishop Fox having well governed this Church six
whereby the Parishioners lost their Land The Chamber not liking such untrusty dealings of any of their Members called him before them and finding that he had betrayed a trust reposed in him for the Poor dismissed him of their Society and dis-franchized him of the liberties of the City Regna Regum 15. Henry the 8. An. D. 1523. Mayors and Bayliffs John Symons Thomas Hunt John Britnall Richard Faux Roger Luxton John Holmer This John Symons died 27. Septembris being Tuesday and the next day after his Election and Thomas Hunt was chosen to supply the Office until William Hurst the new Mayor Elected did return from London and take his Oath in whose absence the rest of the Officers then chosen were sworn according to the ancient Custom of the City Bishop Oldham died 25. Junii and lies buried in a Chappell on the South-side of the Quire of his own Church built on purpose for his Interment dying excommunicated John Voysey alias Herman Doctor of the Laws and Dean of this Church was by the King being his Chaplain in Ordinary and Dean of his Chappell 23. Julii preferred to this Bishoprick and afterwards made Lord President of Wales and had the Government of the King 's eldest Daughter the Lady Mary Princess of Wales and afterwards Queen of England whose Godfather he was Bishop Voysey and the Earl of Devon sent to Dover to receive the King of Denmark Regna Regum 16. Henry the 8. An. D. 1524. Mayors and Bayliffs William Hurst Henry Hamlyn William Buckenam John Woolcott William Davy One Joan Luter a common Strumpet being frequently admonished of her debauched Life and Conversation and not reforming the same This Mayor went in person to her house brought her thence and committed her to Ward that she might receive due punishment for her said offences her Lovers and Companions hearing the news used all means possible to prevent the same who seeing they could not prevail with the Mayor to inlarge their Harlot attempted to rescue the Prisoner insomuch that William Somaster then Sword-bearer attending his Master the Mayor in the High-street for his defence was enforced to draw his Sword and in fight defeated the said Lovers whereupon their Wench was sent to the House of Correction and afterwards whipped openly at the Carts Tail Regna Regum 17. Henry the 8. An. D. 1525. Mayors and Bayliffs William Bennet Robert Buller John Winter William Holmer John Tuckfield The Lord Henry Courteney Earl of Devon created Marquess of Exeter and shortly afterwards beheaded The Farm of Weapons here forfeited for breaking of the King's Peace was devised to Richard Faux Several Writs of ne Molestando sent to Bristol to discharge the duty of Town Custom pretended to be due to them from the Freemen of this City from the payment whereof by sundry Charters they are exempted Regna Regum 18. Henry the 8. An. D. 1526. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hamlyn Robert Hooker Nicholas Lymett John Trubâ—dy William Hussy William Hussy one of the Bailiffs neglecting to keep his Dinner according to a former Order in that behalf made was therefore Fined 4 l. and paid it accordingly Regna Regum 19. Henry the 8. An. D. 1527. Mayors and Bayliffs John Britnall John Blackaller John Croft John Seller John Duck The Custom was pleaded touching a Childs portion and 't was proved that if any Freeman died leaving a Wife and Children his goods were to be divided into three equal parts whereof the Widow was to have one third part the Children another third part and the Executor to have the other third part but in case he leaveth Children and no Wife then are the goods to be divided into two equal parts whereof the Children are to have one moiety and the Executor or Administrator is to have the other moiety or halfendeal of the said goods Rot. 36. John Broadmere late Mayor and now one of the Aldermen of this City obstinately refusing to render an Accompt and to pay what he owed them And being often summoned to attend them and refusing was Fined ten Marks and required forthwith to appear and submit himself on pain of disfranchisement which he did accordingly A good precedent when Magistrates without respect of Persons thus impartially administer justice Regna Regum 20. Henry the 8. An. D. 1528. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Buller Gilbert Kirk John Maynard William Tothill Robert Whitread Goods of a Felon on his Attainder forfeited to the City and seized on accordingly John Northbrook distrained for non-payment of his Shop Fine Two Freemen hereof for suing two other Freemen in the King's Bench out of the Jurisdiction of this Court for matters properly here determinable contrary to their Oaths were both dis-franchised Another for the like offence submitted to a Fine Ordered that the presentments be weekly estreated and brought into the Mayor's Court by the Serjeants at Mace which they refusing to do are to lose their Offices By the Custom of this City every person condempned in any Action within the Courts hereof ought to pay the Serjeants at Mace for levying of the same a penny of every shilling if the condempnation be not above 40 s. if it exceeds 40 s. the party condempned shall pay twelve pence of every pound Regna Regum 21. Henry the 8. An. D. 1529. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Hooker William Peryam Thomas Spurway Robert Turner Robert Tooker John Breknoll for abusing John Thomas with slanderous words in the Council Chamber being both Members thereof was Fined and paid accordingly 40 s. John You another Member of this Society in respect of his great Age and Impotency was on his petition dismissed hence John Ryse Treasurer of this Church builded the new Calendar-hay within St. Peter's Close Regna Regum 22. Henry the 8. An. D. 1530. Mayors and Bayliffs John Blackaller Richard Martin Thomas Prestwood Richard Mawditt Stephen Larimore A pension of twenty shillings per Annum by Patent under the Common Seal of the City granted to Anthony Hertney Surveyor to the Marquess of Exeter for his Life This year the King added in the end of his style Supremum caput Ecclesiae Anglicanae Regna Regum 23. Henry the 8. An. D. 1531. Mayors and Bayliffs Gilbert Kirk Hugh Paige Thomas Bonefant William Chanon Edward Sheer The last Wills and Testaments of John Nosworthy and Thomas Andrew late Mayors of this City according to the ancient Custom hereof were here proved in the King's Court held at the Guild-hall Thomas Bennet a Master of Arts was condemned of Heresie and a Writ de Haeretico comburendo being brought to Sir Thomas Dennis Knight Sheriff of the County of Devon commanded a stake to be erected in Southen-hay in order to the said Bennet's execution which the Chamber would not suffer and therefore was carryed to Livery-dole and there burned to death In which place the said Sheriff afterwards Founded and Erected a fair Alms-house for twelve aged Men to inhabit allotting to each of them a low Room and a Chamber over the same
and a little plat of ground for a Garden all enclosed with a Wall and twelve pence a piece weekly for their maintenance with a Gown and a hundred Faggots yearly for ever And a decent Chappel within the said House and a Chaplain to read Prayers daily therein unto them Regna Regum 24. Henry the 8. An. D. 1532. Mayors and Bayliffs William Peryam Thomas Hoig John Tuck field Roger Blackall William Takle A Pale erected in St. Peter's Close between St. Martin's Church and the Sub-Dean's House which was by the Chamber ordered to be taken down and accordingly done by giving notice thereof to the Dean and Chapter of this Church it being a nusance or encroachment Regna Regum 25. Henry the 8. An. D. 1533. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Martin John Thomas Humphry Andrew Richard Rateliff William Burges The eldest Son of every Member of the Common Council hereof may claim and have his Freedom in the life-time of his Father A pension of four pounds per Annum by Patent granted to Thomas Cromwell Esquire one of the King 's Privy Council during his Life under the Common Seal of the said City Another pension of five Marks per Annum by Patent likewise granted under the said Seal to Sir William Courteney Knight for his Life Regna Regum 26. Henry the 8. An. D. 1534. Mayors and Bayliffs John Britnall Thomas Hunt Richard Colwell John Rixley John Shelder Thomas Carew Son to Baron Carew that was slain with the shot of a Gun at Turwyn as he sate in Council a proper young Gentleman seeking preferment by the Wars fell in favour with my Lord of Surrey Lord High Admiral under this King and served at Floden-field where a Scottish Knight challenging to fight with any English-man prayed the Lord Admirall that he might answer him which granted he soon met his Antagonist in the Field and with great applause vanquished him Afterwards attending the Lord Admiral riding to discover the Country espyed a band of Scots at some distance approaching towards them who fearing a surprize hasined to a Bridge but by the way Mr. Carew intreated the Lord Admirall to exchange Apparel with him whereby if need required he might the better provide for himself which done and he richly Armed with my Lord Admirall's Armour turned his Horse ath'wart the Bridge so that none could well pass by which means the Lord Admirall escaped the Enemy and he the while stoutly defended himself but in fine was taken prisoner and so carried to Dunbar Castle in Scotland where he was well entertained by the Lady of the said Castle who had a Brother Prisoner in England in hope of an exchange which was soon effected on his return home the Lord Admiral made him his Vice-Admiral and shewed him all respect possible This Gentleman being a Native hereof and descended of so worthy a Family I held it necessary to render him in this place thus much of his deserved right Regna Regum 27. Henry the 8. An. D. 1535. Mayors and Bayliffs William Hurst Thomas Spurway Bennet Clubb John Lane Nicholas Walrond The Court Rolls of this year are all wanting Here died a multitude of people through the infection of the Plague Every Freeman that takes an Apprentice ought to Inroll his Indenture with the Town-Clark on pain of five shillings Regna Regum 28. Henry the 8. An. D. 1536. Mayors and Bayliffs John Blackaller John Buller William Burgoyn Peter Stretch John Allen Towards the end of this Man's Mayoralty the King by his Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England dated 3. Augusti 29. Regni constituted this City a County of it self dividing it from the County of Devon and thereby granted them all Liberties and Priveleges belonging to the same A voluntary Benevolence and Contribution made by the Inhabitants of the County of Devon towards the building of Cowley-Bridge Regna Regum 29. Henry the 8. An. D. 1537. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Hunt William Buckenam William Smith John Peter William Berryman William Jourden was indicted found guilty and condemned for high Treason before Sir Richard Pollard Knight a Commissioner for that purpose appointed under the Great Seal of England who sate in trial of the said offence in the house of John Croston Register in St. Mary Arches-lane within this City There fell abundance of Rain which made the Waters so high and violent as that one of the peers of Exbridge fell down In the Evening of the day precedent one John Cove who had been at Doncaster under the command of the Marquess of Exeter was returned home to his house beyond the said Bridge and the same night being in his Bed one end of his house next to the water side fell down his Servants in the Chamber over him in bed a sleep fell into the River and were drowned but he and his Wife lying in a low Room were carryed into the River bed and all he commanded his Wife not to stir and he using sometimes his hands and then his Feet instead of Oars kept himself on the West side of the River out of the violent stream there glyding and through God's great mercy got an Hillock where the Waters were shallow and so both recovered the Shore in safety Regna Regum 30. Henry the 8. An. D. 1538. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hamlyn Robert Tooker Nicholas Reev John Paramore John Manustephin This Mayor was the first devisor that the weekly Markets for Wool Yarn and Kersies were here Erected for the compassing whereof he waded through difficulties not only with his dissenting Brethren at first but also with the Inhabitants of the Town of Crediton who for a while did much impugn the same Henry Marquess of Exeter and the Lady Gerthrud his Marchioness were both Arraigned found guilty and condemned of High Treason and 12. Decembris was he Executed for the same but the Lady was reprieved John Bonefant one of the Attorneys of this City 10. Augusti then next following was hanged drawn and quartered in Southen-hay for the like offence Regna Regum 31. Henry the 8. An. D. 1539. Mayors and Bayliffs Gilbert Kirk Thomas Prestwood Griffith Amerideth Moris Levermore William Lott About the end of November one of the middle Arches of Exbridge fell down and was again speedily Erected by the Bridge-Warden towards which reparation he bought great stones at the Priory of St. Nicholas Founded by William the Conquerour and lately deceased whereby a Prophecy long before reported was fulfilled sc That the River of Exe should run under St. Nicholas Church An Act of Porliament procured for the raising of a new work or Haven for the better conveyance of Goods in Boats and Barges to and from this City Regna Regum 32. Henry the 8. An. D. 1540. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Spurway John Midwinter Richard Sweet Robert Cotton John Thomas Consuctudo Civitatis Exoniensâ—s est quod omnia terrae Tenementa insra eandem suburbia ejusdem sunt divisibilia legabilia John Potell dis-franchised for
old Foot-Soldiers were dispersed throughout the Kingdom whereof 1500. were sent hither and all to prevent the like Insurrections that happened in Exeter whence ensued an Ordinance of Parliament that no Soldier should presume to depart five miles from his quarters on pain of losing his arrears and death Then marched General Monk into the City of London with his Army consisting of 7000. old Soldiers whom God in his wonderful mercy was pleas'd to make instrumental of restoring our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second to his undoubted Dominions after a long and tedious Exile without the effusion of one man's blood who landed at Dover 26. Maii 1660 and came into London the 29. day of the same month and was Crowned King at Westminster the 23. day of April then next following to the great joy of His Three Kingdoms On Friday 11. Maii 1660. Charles the Second was proclaimed King of England Scotland France and Ireland at several publick places within this City viz. At the Guild-hall the little Conduit in St. Peter's Church-yard at the Bear-corner in South-gate-street at the great Conduit and at St. John's Bow with great solemnity during all which time the said Conduits ran with Wine The Mayor Aldermen Common Council-men Officers and Livery-men being in their Scarlet and other Gowns Robes and Liveries respectively attended on by a Troop of Horse commanded by Major Hagedott and the several Companies of the Trained Bands herein with many thousand Inhabitants on Foot shouting aloud for joy the Bells ringing Canons playing from the Castle whilst the Soldiers gave many a Volly of shot and at night Tar-barrels and Bonefires capered aloft al which was thus done with the greatest expression of gladness that possibly could be imagined Regna Regum 12. Charles the 2. An. D. 1660. Mayors and Bayliffs Christopher Lethbridge John Pynn John Anthony Edward Eveleigh Abraham Gibbs This City presented the King with 700 l. in Plate to welcome his return home And to His Sister the Princess Henrietta Mariae born within this City 200 l. more in Plate John Gauden Doctor in Divinity was â—â— Decembris consecrated Bishop of this Diocess who coming from London hither was in the way saluted by sundry Gentlemen both of the City and Countrey and being attended on by several Coaches and some hundred of Horse was with great joy and solemnity brought herein Grenvill Weeks Gentleman Elected Muster Master of this City and County and a pension of 6 l. per Annum allotted him for the same Standings erected in South-gate-street and covered over head being a place formerly appointed and still used as a Sergemarket in which Commodity 10000 l. weekly is here bestowed An Order made or rather continued by the Mayor and Bailiffs that if any person should be here imprisoned upon a plaint and the Plaintiff bring not the Declaration into the Court in Writing within three weeks after the Arrest and file the same that the Defendant should be discharged from his Imprisonment Sir James Smith Knight and Robert Walker Esquire were Elected our Citizens to serve in Parliament appointed to be held at Westminster on the 8. day of May next ensuing Regna Regum 13. Charles the 2. An. D. 1661. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Gandy John Acland Benjamin Olliver George Knowling George Shapcott The Musical Waits hereof after many years sequestration were restored to their places and pensions This City presented to the Queen Mother 300 l. in Plate as a Testimony of their joy for her Majesties safe return home Bishop Gauden against the Feast of Christmas gave the sum of 50 l. amongst poor House-keepers of this City A Decree had in the High Court of Chancery against George Speke Esquire for the new building of Mr. Wynard's Alms-houses demolished in the late troubles the Poors pay therein encreased and other grievances complained of redressed Bishop Gauden having well governed this Church a year and half was translated hence and consecrated Bishop of Worcester On whose removal Sâ—th Ward Doctor in Divinity and Dean of this Church 20. Julii was consecrated Bishop hereof The King in pursuit of an Act of Parliament grants Commissions under his Great Seal to diverse Gentlemen in every County of England for the regulating of all Corporations therein Regna Regum 14. Charles the 2. An. D. 1663. Mayors and Bayliffs John Martin Isaac Mawditt John Butler Alan Penny George Tuthill John Gibbons Andrew Quash This Mayor being elected and refusing to accept of the said Office the King was advertized thereof by way of a petition hence who commanded the said Mayor to undertake the same whereunto he readily yielded obedience and performed his trust therein with much reputation and honour A Patent under the common Seal of the City granted to my Lord Duke of Albemarle to be Lord High Steward hereof A Freeman hereof for colouring of Foraigners goods dis-franchised Two new Receivers chose and sworn successively to be in a capacity of being elected Mayors of the said City Regna Regum 15. Charles the 2. An. D. 1663. Mayors and Bayliffs John Butler Stephen Olivean Anthony Salter M. D. Nicholas Isacke John Gandy Benjamin Beard Henry Smith Two others chosen and sworn Receivers successively for the end mentioned in the year next precedent Isaac Mawditt 30. Augusti died in the time of his Sheriffalty and within four days thereafter Stephen Olivean the present Receiver was elected Sheriff for the residue of the year Paris-street without the East-gate of this City being much decayed was well repaired and paved which was as necessary and as commendable a work as hath been done of late years the care and over-sight whereof this Mayor undertook and soon dispatched the same Regna Regum 16. Charles the 2. An. D. 1664. Mayors and Bayliffs Alan Penny Anthony Salter in Med. Doctor George Tuthill John Parr Robert Bucland Richard Hooper A Comet for many days together appeared within our Horizon whence ensued a War between us and the Dutch This Mayor died 21. Martii being Tuesday at night and the Monday following being Easter-Monday Anthony Salter Doctor in Physick and Brother-in-law to the said Mr. Penny was elected Mayor and the Monday thereafter solemnly sworn in Court to execute the said Office for the residue of the year In the interval viz. 23. Martii the King's Declaration pronouncing War against the States of the United Provinces was here with great solemnity proclaimed The Lieutenant and Alderman being in their Scarlet Gowns the rest of the Company and officers together with the several Corporations within this City in their Gowns and Formalities by the Deputy Herald at Arms with a Troop of Horse four silver Trumpets Drums c. A pleasant Walk made on Northen-hay and above 200. young Elms on each side thereof planted A new place of Burial appointed at the lower end of Southen-hay and enclosed with a Brick-Wall and 28. Octobris being St. Simon and Jude's day by the Right Reverend Bishop Ward with all solemnity was the same consecrated and
secured at the lower end of the new Haven they likewise did cut out a new Leat through the Marsh-ground about half a mile in length and also a Pool wherein near an hundred sail of Ships may with safety at all times ride and from thence to the said Key Boats and Barges may daily pass up and down through the River to load and discharge the Merchants goods which formerly could hardly be so done in a weeks time for which good end sundry new and other Lighters are here provided in readiness and the rate for conveyance of all Goods and Merchandizes abated almost a third part which worthy undertaking being thus projected was this Summer vigorously carried on and compleated by the daily indefatigable endeavours of Mr. Henry Smith Receiver General of the said City whereby he hath very much obliged us all In which said work the Chamber having expended about the sum of three thousand pounds whereunto Doctor George Cary Dean of this Church hath been a liberal Benefactor Regna Regum 20. Charles the 2. An. D. 1676. Mayors and Bayliffs William Glyde Thomas Bale Daniel Gundry George Sanford Joseph Boson Bishop Sparrow having well governed this Church about nine years force was translated to the Bishoprick of Norwich in whose stead Thomas Lamplugh Doctor in Divinity was 3. Octobris elected Bishop of this Diocess and 12. Novembris at Lambeth by Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury consecrated thereunto READER THese few Lines should have been placed in the Four and Twentyeth year of the Reign of Charles the First James Gould was Mayor in which year be pleas'd to add what follows After the King's Death Proclamations being brought to this Mayor he refused to proclaim or receive them but with scorn and contempt being by the Messenger left in his house threw them out of his door And when the Judges of the Assizes in their Circuit came hither he likewise slighted them and would not acknowledge their power for which they Fined him two hundred pounds for the recovery whereof they troubled him in the Court of Exchequer to which he appeared and defended himself so well and so far until the Attorney General entred A non vult prosequi against him And at the next Summer Assizes the Judges Executed their Commission at Tyverton where before or since they never sate which was purposely done by way of Revenge of this Mayor's stubborness towards them who was a person of a low stature but of an undaunted courage of whom may truly be said what was once attributed to King Alexander the Great Mens tamen in parvo corpore Magna fuit Hebrews 13.16 To do good and to distribute forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased 'T Is not only equal but just that such as have been Founders of Hospitals or Benefactors unto them should have due respect in preserving their memories from violation or ruine And no less for the encouragement of others to tread in their footsteps and to imitate them in their vertues for vertues are but personal vices communicative In short I have here set down a perfect Catalogue of the Names and Gifts of all such worthy Benefactors as by their last Wills and Testaments or otherwise have given any Lands Rents Annuities or Money for and towards the relief of poor people in several Alms-houses within this City and County of Exeter whose charitable Acts herein ought not to be silenced and buried in the Pit of Oblivion but to be had in an everlasting remembrance As 't is good not to do evil so 't is evil having time and opportunity not to do good Here you 'l find several kinds of Charity wherein you may observe that these worthy persons have made it their study to discover the several necessities of the Poor and have left behind them a store-house of provision for them that are in need even Bread for the Hungry Cloth for the Naked Salve for the Wounded Relief for the Sick a House for them that are Harbourless Education and Maintenance for the Younger a Bank for the Merchant and Tradesman in Extremity For Riches are called Goods not because they make us good but because we may do good with them if God give us grace and opportunity Charity for certain is the Rich Man's School where he ought to learn works of Mercy both in heart and hand the Disciples had all things amongst themselves in common not by a legal community but a charitable communication for Charity is bonum sui diffusivum not perfect unless imparted the charitable Man is the best Friend to himself laying up in store for the time to come for every good work he doth is a grain of seed for Life Eternal read the Scripture which if you believe put it forthwith in practice Proverbs 14.21.19.17 Psalm 41.1 2.3 Eccles 11.1 2. and let your good works go before you that your Father's Name in Heaven may be glorified Charity ought to be free and 't is accounted as no gift when that which is given can no longer be with-held Bis dat qui cito dat the gift is doubled by a speedy deliverance Lay not up Riches for Moths and Worms and for Children that are Wicked who play and sport upon their Fathers Graves but rather follow the example of our Saviour who went up and down doing good in healing of Diseases and doing works of Alms and Charity than which he hath not laid on us any other duty with a stricter injunction good works are necessary to Salvation though not to Justification as the Tree with her Fruits the Sun with his Light the Fire with his Heat and the Water with her moisture Shew me thy Faith â—aith St. James by thy works which are viae ad Regnum sed non causae Regnandi they are the way to the Kingdom but not the cause of reigning there we are not saved propter opera and yet sine operibus we shall not enter Heaven Let us take a pattern from the Emperour Titus who thought he had lost a day wherein he had not done some Act of Charity how many of our Fore-fathers have we read of who went up and down the streets to find out the necessities of the Poor as meet Objects to be relieved with their Charity Let me advise you to whom God hath given a greater measure of these Earthly Riches to dispense with some part thereof as these your pious Ancestors have done for God expects it from you be not as a possessor but as a Steward and know withall that you must be accountable for the Poors portion before God And if you love Riches saith St. Augustin put them in a place assured for Eternity Pliny saith that the greatest Divinity is to see a mortal Man oblige his like and that it is the shortest way to arrive at Eternal Glory the practice of giving Alms is so excellent as 't will make you therein with all humility be it spoken like God himself for his Nature
Februarii 1 Jacobi Anno Domini 1603. inter alia devised to the said Alms-house the sum of three shillings and four pence yearly for ever Richard Lant of Kingston in the County of Surrey Esquire towards the rebuilding of the said Alms-house it being much decayed freely gave the sum of one hundred pounds and endowed the same together with Bonvill's Alms house in Rocks-lane in the said City with Lands of the yearly value of fifty pounds for ever He bears party per pale Argent and Gules a cross engrailed counterchanged 8. William Lord Bonvill Founded an Alms-house in Rocks-lane alias the Combrew within this City for twelve poor people and endowed the same with Lands of the yearly value of one and twenty pounds eleven shillings and four pence which with his other Lands by the Attainder of the Marquess of Dorset heir to the said Lord Bonvill the same fell to the Crown but the Poor were still paid by the King's Receiver and upon their respective deaths the Mayor and Aldermen of this City name others to succeed them by vertue of Queen Elizabeths Letters Patent to them granted on that behalf dated 7. Novembris 4 Regni Annoque Domini 1562. He bears sable six mullets Argent 3. 2. and 1. The aforesaid John Baker gave more to this Alms-house by his said Will the sum of three shillings and four pence for ever The aforesaid Stephen Rudgway gave more yearly to this Alms-house six pence half-penny 9. John Stevens Doctor in Physick and sometime a Canon Residentiary of this Church next without Bickly-gate Founded an Alms-house for thirteen poor people calling it St. Catharines Alms-house and gave towards their relief yearly seventeen shillings and four pence but with meat and drink their necessities were daily supplyed through the Charity of the Canons Residentiary of the said Church and their houses to be repaired by the Dean and Chapter to whom the nomination of the Alms-men therein was left after the Founders death He bears Gules on a bend Or three garlands Vert. The aforesaid William Hern gave more to the said Alms-house yearly the sum of 2 l. 16 s. 4 d. A Garden behind their house and six and thirty shillings more is yearly paid them as the interest of thirty pounds recovered Anno Domini 1636. by vertue of a Decree obtained in the High Court of Chancery against Robert Michell Doctor in the Civil Laws and others Robert Hall Doctor in Divinity and late Treasurer of this Church by his last Will and Testament in writing dated 25. Aprilis Anno Domini 1667. inter alia bequeathed to the said Alms-house the sum of ten pounds per Annum for ever to be paid them quarterly by equal portions He bears sable three Talbots heads erazed Argent 10. William Wynard Esquire sometime Recorder of this City Founded an Hospital without the South-gate of the said City calling it God's house for twelve poor Men allotting to each of them eight-pence weekly towards their maintenance the government of which said house he left to his heirs and that they should in all things perform his will he appointed the Mayor and Bailiffs of this City to be Overseers thereof and twice yearly that is to say within eight days of Easter and St. Michael th' Arch-angel to visit the said house with power to hear the complaints of the poor therein and to redress them reform all abuses or cause them so to be done which said Alms-house in the fury of the late intestine Wars within this Kingdom being destroyed by Fire was began by vertue of a Decree obtained in the High Court of Chancery by the said Visitors rebuilded at the charge of Terâ—tenant and Defendant in that suit George Speke of White Lackington in the County of Somerset Esquire and several complaints redressed amongst which the poors pay is encreased weekly to two shiliings to each person therein and shortly the sum of 12 l. per Annum more to be added thereunto for the better relief of the said Alms-men He bears Argent on a bend Azure three mollets of the first 11. John Hurst late of this City Merchant by his last Will and Testament dated 16. Novembris 6 Edward 6. Anno Domini 1552. gave six several Tenements lying within the Parish of Alhallows on the Walls for the habitation of six poor people and six other Tenements a shop and a stable lying in St. Mary Arches-lane towards their maintenance also he gave two hundred marks in Money to be paid them by two shillings weekly He bears Argent a star of eight points Gules in chief a â—able of three points of the second 12. William Hurst Esquire who had been five times Mayor of this City Founded an Alms house without the East-gate for the better relief of twelve poor people allotting to each of them twenty shillings per Annum the government of which said house he wholly left to the Chamber of this City as by his deed Indented bearing date 19. Octobris 10 Elizabeth Anno Domini 1568. may appear He bears ut Prius John Lant Esquire sometime Mayor of this City by his last Will and Testament bearing date 9. Julii 12 Jacobi Anno Domini 1614. bequeathed to the said Chamber the sum of 100 l. in Money for the better support and maintenance of the said Alms-house He bears party per pale Argent and Gules a cross ingreiled counterchanged 13. John Davy Esquire thrice Mayor of this City by his Deed indented bearing date 10. Februarii 42 Elizabeth Anno Domini 1600. founded an Alms-house within the Parish of St. Mary Arches for the relief of two poor Men and their wives and two single persons men or women and settled the sum of sixteen pounds per Annum for their maintenance that is to say to the married men and their wives fourteen pence a piece and to the single men or women eighteen pence to each of them He gives Azure three cinquefoils Or on a chief Argent a Lyon Passant Gules 14. The aforesaid William Hern by his said Deed gave to two poor people in a house without the South-gate of this City who were afterwards removed and settled in a house within the Key-gate the sum of eight shillings and eight pence yearly He bears ut Prius The aforesaid John Baker gave more to these poor people by his said Will yearly the sum of two shillings 15. Thomas Flay Esquire late Mayor of this City by his last Will and Testament bearing date 26. Junii 10 Caroli Anno Domini 1634. bequeathed diverse Lands and Tenements to Elizabeth his Widow and Relict to the end that she should erect four convenient houses within the Parish of St. Paul in the said City for the habitation of four poor widow women allotting to each of them weekly twelve-pence which said trust the said Elizabeth Flay hath well performed and through her own Charity hath added twelve-pence a piece weekly to every one of them and also at her own charge hath added and erected