the country came down so fast upon them that the French men fled Some certain ships of the Kings Ships called Hedgehogs one of them had a mischance before Westminster a firkin Men burned of powder took fire and killed seven men and the eighth man was drowned The 20 of Iuly the King being at Another mischance Portsmouth the goodly ship called the Rose with Sir George Carrow the Captain and many other Gentlemen were drowned in the midst of the Haven The French were beaten off at the Isle of Wight and likewise in Sussex at a place called New-haven One William Foxley Potmaker for the Mint in the tower of London fell asleep the 27 of April who could not be wakened neither by kicking cramping or pinching till the first day of the next term whiâ—h was full fourteen daies and fifteen nights the cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known though the same were diligently enquired after by the Kings Physitians and men of learning yea the King himself examined him and he was in all points found as he had slept but one night and he was living till the year of our Lord 1587. The 16 of Iuly were burned in Smithfield for the Sacrament Anne Askew Iohn Lassels Nicholas Overden Priest Iohn Adlam taylor and Doctor Shaxton sometimes Bishop of Salisbury preached at the same fire and recanted perswading them to do the like but they would not The Admiral of France came to England where he was gallantly and honourably entertained the English in those daies kept them at a distance and forced them to submit The 12 of December Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Henry Earl of Surrey his son was sent to the tower Henry Howard Earl of Surrey was beheaded on the tower-hill the 19 of Ianuary The 28 of Ianuary King Henry deceased and left the Crown to his son Prince Edward Lady Mary his daughter by Katherine and the third Lady Elizabeth by Queen Anne of Bullen he deceased when he had reigned 37 years nine moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVindsor Edward the Sixth An. Reg. 1 EDward the sixth began his reign the 24 of Ianuary 1546. when he was but nine years old King Henry his Father had appointed by his Will for his Privy-Councel the Archbishop of Canterbury the Chancellour the Bishop of Durham with others to the number of sixteen The sixth of February the Earl of Hertford was elected to be Protector to the Kings person the sixth of February the Lord Protector in the Tower of London endued King Edward with the Order of Knighthood King Edward was crowned at Westminster the twentieth of February An. Dom. 1557 The fifteenth of May Doctor Smith recanted at Pauls-Cross The Lord Protector and the rest of the Councel sent Commissioners into all parts of the Realm willing them to take down all images out of their Churches for the avoiding of idolatry with them were sent divers preachers to perswade the people from their Beads and at that time procession was forbidden The Church-Service read in English to the people On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester preached before the King for the which he was sent to the Tower An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1548 The seventh of Iuly a Priest was hanged and quarter'd in Smith-field for killing one Mr. Body one of the Kings Commissioners other of his Fellows were put to death in other places A great pestilence in London The 16 of September Saint Anns Church within Aldersgate was burnt An. Reg. 3 The 16 of Ianuary Thomas Seimer Lord Admiral was sent to the Tower of London he was Brother to the Lord Protector on the 20 of March he was beheaded on the Tower-hill An. Dom. 1549 The 23 of April six houses at Broken-wharf were burned In May by reason of a Proclamation for Inclosures the Commons of Sommersetshire and Lincolnshire made a commotion and brake up certain Parks of Sir VVilliam Herberts and the Lord Sturtons but Sir VVilliam Herbert slew and executed many of those Rebels In Iuly the Commons of Essex and Kent Suffolk and Norfolk rose against Inclosures and pulled down many parks and houses Also the Commons of Cornwall and Devonshire desired not only the inclosures might be disparked but also to have their old Religion these besieged the City of Exeter which was valiantly defended Iohn Lord Russel with a number of Souldiers enter'd the City of Exeter slew and took prisoners more then four thousand and after hanged a number of them in the town and about the country the Lord Grey likewise with strangers horsemen slew many people and spoiled the country The last of Iuly VVilliam Lord Marquess of Northampton entered the City of Norwich and on the morrow the rebels also entered the town burnt part thereof put the Lord Marquess to flight and slew the Lord Sheffield Divers persons were executed as aiders of the aforesaid rebels of the which one was hanged within Algate and an other at the Bridg-foot towards Southwark The rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk incamped themselves at Mount Surrey near unto Norwich against whom Sir Iohn Dudley Earl of VVarwick went with an army where meeting with the rebels they had thought all to have died in the place but God brought it to pass as well there as in all other places they were partly by power constrained partly by promise of a pardon perswaded to submit themselves the Earl of VVarwick enter'd the City of Norwich the 27 of August when he had slain above five thousand rebels and taken their chief Captain Robert Kett of Windam tanner The twentieth of September Edmond Bonner Bishop of London was sent from Lambeth to the Marshalsey for a Sermon which he preached at Pauls-cross on the first of December on the first of October he was deprived of his Bishoprick and sent again to the Marshalsey for disobeyding the Kings order in Religion The twentieth of November Robert Kett and VVilliam Kett his brother were dâ—livered out of the tower of London to Sir Edward Windam Sheriff of Norwich where Robert Kett was hanged in chains on the top of Norwich castle and William Kett hanged on the top of Windam-steeple The nineteenth of Ianuary were murdered by St. Sepulchres Church without Newgate in London two Captains that had served the King at Boloigne and elswhere the one that was murdered was Sir Peter Gambo the other Filieirga which murders were committed by Charles Gavero a Flemming who came post from Barwick to do that act the next morning he with three of his companions were taken in Smith-field and carried to Newgate and the twenty fourth of Ianuary they were all 4 hanged in Smithfield Charles Gavero Balthazar Gavero Nicholas Dissalveron and Francis Devalasco The twenty seventh of Ianuary Humphrey Arundel Esquire Thomas Holmes VVinslowe and Bury captains of the rebels in Devonshire were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The tenth of February one Bell was hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion in
of the West marches enter'd Scotland the eighteenth of April burnt and spoiled almost Dunfreize took many prisoners and returned safely the marches of England were so well guarded by the Lord Eure Sir George Bowes and other of the Bishoprick that not one house was burned nor one cow taken away out of England there were razed and overthrown and burnt in this journey above fifty strong Castles and Piles and above three hundred towns and villages The twenty seventh of May Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire were drawn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for rebellion The twenty eighth of May the Castle of Hambleton was yeelded to Sir William Drury and by him presently burned A conspiracy was made by certain gentlemen and others in the County of Norfolk ten of them were condemned of High-treason three of them were hanged and quartered which were these Throgmorton Thomas Brook and George Dead-man The fourth of August the Duke of Norfolk was removed to the Charter-house near Smithfield This day Iohu Felton was arraigned for hanging a Bull at the gate of the Bishop of Londons pallace and also two young men for coyning and clipping who were all all found guilty of high treason The eight of August Iohn Felton was drawn from Newgate into Pauls Church yard and there hanged before the Bishops pallace gate and being cut down alive was bowelled and quartered the Sheriffs returned to Tyburn with two young men which were executed for coyning and clypping The 5 of October hapned a terrible tempest of wind and rain so that many shipps and boates were drowned the water overflowing drowned many townes villages cattel houses and goods besides many men women and children were drowned in their beds An. Reg. 13 The seventeenth of February at Kingstone neat Marlech in the County of Hereford was seen the ground to open and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed and went forward the space of four daies it removed it self between six of the clock in the evening and seven the next morning forty paces carrying great trees and sheep coates some with threescore sheep in them The depth of the hole where it first broke out is thirty foot the breadth of the breach waâ— eightscore yards it overthrew Rinnastone Chappel also two high waies were removed nigh a hundred yards with trees and hedgrowes the ground in all is 26 Acres and where tillage ground was there is pasture left in place and where was pasture there is tillage ground gone upon it The first of Iune Iohn Story Doct. of the canon Law who before had been condemned of high treason was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The sixteenth of Iuly Rebecca Chamber for poysoning her husband Thomas Chamber was burnt at Maidstone in Kent The seventh of September the Duke of Norfolk was removed from the Charter-house to the Tower The sixteenth of Ianuary Thomas Duke of Norfolk was arraigned in Westminster Hall and there by his Peers found guilty of high treason The eleventh of February Kenelme Barne and Edmond Mather were drawn from the Tower of London and Henry Rolfe from the Marshall-see in Southwark all three to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered Barne and Mather for conspiracy and Rolfe for counterfeiting the Queens hand The tenth of March deceased Sir William Pawlet Knight Lord Saint Iohn Earl of Wiershire Marquess of Winchester Knight of the Garter one of her Majesties privy council and Lord high Treasurer of England he was borne in the year of our Lord 1443. he served Henry the seventh Henry the eight Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth himself did see the children of his childrens children growing to the number of 103. This year 1572 was the massacre in Paris The second of Iune was Thomas Duke of Norfolke beheaded on tower hill The twenty second of August Thomas Piercie Earl of Northumberland now brought out of Scotland whether he had fled was beheaded at York The twenty fifth of March being Wednesday in Easter week George Brown cruelly murdered near to Shooters hill in Kent a wealthy Merchant of London named George Sanders which murder was committed by the procurement of Mistress Sanders wife to the said George Sanders for the which fact George Brown was hanged in Smithfiold in London the twentieth day of April and after hanged in chaines near the place where he did the deed Mistress Ann Sanders Mistress Ann Druery and trusty Roger Mistress Drueries man being all consenting to the murther were all hanged in Smithfield on the thirteenth of May not long after Anthony Brown brother to the said George Brown was for notable fellonies conveyed from Newgate to York and there hanged The second of Inne a great tempest oâ— rain and hail hapned at Tocester in Northamptonshire where six houses in that town were borne down and fourteen more fore perished the hail stones that fell were six in hes about one child was there drowned and many sheep and other cattel The sixteenth of Iune Thomas Woodhouse Priest was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London and condemned for high treason who had judgement to be hanged and quartered and was executed at Tyburn the 19 of Iune The sixteenth of August Walter Earl of Essex sailed into Ireland with the Loâ—d Rich and many other Gentlemen the Earl after many great dangers on the sea landed at Knockfergus the Lord Rich after the like dangers landed at Castle Kilciffe Sir Brian Makephelin on the sixth of September came to Knockfergus to the Earl of Fssex and there made his submission After him Ferdorough Macgillastick Roze Oge Mackwilline did the like and divers others sent their messengers to the Earl to signifie that they were at his command as the Baron of Dongarrow Condonell Odonell and the Captain oâ— Kylulto The Earl of Essex having the Country of Clanyboy and other the Queens Majesty directed her letters to the Deputy of Ireland willing him to make the Earl of Essex General of the Irish Nation An. Reg. 16 The sixth of Iuly in the Isle of Thanet a monstrous fish of the Sea did shoot himself on shore where for want of water beat himself on the Sands and died the length of this fish was twenty two yards the neather jaw twelve foot the opening the thickness of the back whereon he lay to the top of his belly was fourteen foot his tail oâ— the same breadth between the eyes twelve foot some of his ribs were sixteen foot long his tongue was fifteen foot long The fifteenth of August being Sunday Agnes Bridges a Maid about the age of twenty years and Rachel Pinder a wench about twelve years of age both of them counterfeiting to be possessed by the Devil stood at Pauls-Cross where they acknowledged their hypocritical counterfeiting requiring forgiveness of God and the world for they made the people believe many strange things The fourth of September in the afternoon such a storm of rain happened at London
by the labour of vvell-disposed people the same vvas squenched An. Dom. 1448 Adam Molins Bishop of Chichester Keeper of the Kings Privy Seal vvas by Sea-men slain at Portsmouth Bluebeard a Fuller taken beside Canterbury for raising a Rebellion vvas hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1449 The Duke of Suffolk vvas banished the Land vvho sailing tovvards France vvas met on the Sea by a Man of War and vvas beheaded his corps vvas cast up at Dover The Commons of Kent did rise in great numbers one Iack Cade being their Captain these Rebels did great mischief putting to death vvhom they pleased until at last the King offering them a pardon if they vvould submir they condescended to it Iack Cade their Captain fled and vvas slain in the Wilde of Sussex after this the King went down into Kent and finding who were the chief of this rebellion caused them to be hang'd drawn and quartered the 29. of Iune VVilliam Bishop of Salisbury was murdered by his own Tenants An. Reg. 35 An. Dom. 1456 A great riot was committed in London against the Italians and Lumbards An. Dom. 1457 At Erith were taken four great fishes whereof two were Whales Frenchmen landing at Sandwitch wasted the town and slew the inhabitants An. Reg. 36 Sir Thomas Piercie Lord Egremount and Sir Richard Piercie his brother being prisoners in Newgate brake out by night and went to the King other prisoners took the leads of the gate and defended themselves a long while against the Sheriffs and all other Officers An. Dom. 1458 A fray in Fleetstreet between men of the Court and the inhabitants of the same street in which fray the Queens Atturney was slain for this fact the King committed the Governors of Furnival Clifford and Barnards Inn to prison and William Taylor Alderman of the Ward with many others were sent to Windsor Castle An. Dom. 1459 The science of Printing was found in Germany at Magunce VVilliam Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England in the year 1471. and first practised it at the Abbie of St. Peters at VVestminster An. Reg. 38 The land being miserably divided the King fighting many battels in midst of several dissentions was at last worsted and Edward Earle of March got his kingdome from him An. Reg. 29 Edward Earl of March came to London with a mighty power of March men and accompanied with the Earl of VVarwick the 26 of February where he was joyfully received Edward being elected was proclaimed by the name of Edward the fourth on the fourth of March and King Henry lost his kingdome when he had reigned thritty eight years six months and odd dayes Edward the fourth An. Reg. 1 EDward Earl of March began his reign the fourth of March by the name of Edward the fourth in the year 1460. The twelfth of March VValter VValker Grocer living in Cheapside for speaking some words against King Edward was beheaded The thirteenth of March Edward took his journey towards the North where between Shierburn and Tad-Caster all the North part met him and on Palm Sunday the twenty ninth of March fought a great battel in which were slain Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland Iohn Lord Clifford Iohn Lord Newel Leo Lord VVells and many of rank and quality on both sides to the number of 357 and eleaven persons but King Edward got the field the Duke of Exeter the Duke of Sommerset the Lord of Ross the Lord Hungerford fled to York to King Henry and then with the King and Queen and Prince fled to Barwick and so to Edenborough An. Reg. 3 Queen Margaret landed in the Nâ—rth where having but small succour was fain to take the Sea again and by a tempest of weather was driven to Barwick where she landed but lost her ships and goods Many battels were fought between the two Kings Henry and Edward and much blood was shed on both sides striving for supremacie one while the Commons with some of the Lords would have Henry restored again to his former dignity and another while Edward should rule at length Henry being overpowred was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Chertsey since removed to Windsor An. Reg. 4 A great pestilence and the Thames frozen over An. Reg. 11 Thomas the Bastard of Fauconbridge with a riotous company of shipmen and others of Essex and Kent came to London where being denied passage through the City he fired the gates wâ—n the Bulworks at Algate and entred the City but the Citizens killed them that entred causing the rest to flie pursued them as far as Black wall slaying many An. Reg. 12 King Edward rode into Kent where he caused inquiry to be made of the foresaid riotous persons hanged the rich by the purse and the other by the necks the Major of the town with others were beheaded there Thomas the Bastard of Falkonbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded An. Reg. 14 The Duke of Exceter was found dead in the Sea between Dover and Callice Iohn Goose was burnt on the Tower hill An. Reg. 17 An. Dom. 1478 King Edward in his progress hunted in Thomas Burdits Park at a Buck and slew many Deer among the which one was a white Buck Thomas Burdit when he understood thereof wished the Bucks head in his bellie that moved the king to do it Burditt was apprehended of treason condemned drawn from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded An. Reg. 18 An. Dom. 1479 George Duke of Clarence Edwards brothâ—â— in the Tower of London was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey An. Reg. 19 A great dearth and a great sickness in London and divers other parts oâ— the Realme An. Reg. 21 Thieves for robbing St. Martins le grand in London three were drawn to the Tower hill and there hanged and burnt the other were pressed to death An. Reg. 23 King Edward making great proviâ—â—on for war into France ended his life at Westminster the ninth of April in the year 1483. when he had reigned twenty two years one moneth and odd daies he was buried at Windsor he left issue Edward the Prince and Richard Duke of York and five daughters Elizabeth that after was Queen Cicely Ann Katherine and Bridget Edward the fifth An. Reg. 1 EDward the fifth about the age of thiâ—teen years began his reign the ninth of April in the year 1483 which Prince reigned a small space either in pleasure oâ— liberty for his unnatural unkle Richard Duke of Glocester within three months deprived him of his life and Crown as it was generally reported this Edward reigned two months and ten daies Richard Duke of Glocester An. Reg. 1 RIchard the third brother to Edward the fourth was proclaimed king the 22 of Iune in the year 1483. he put to death Anthony Woodvile Earle Rivers Lord Richard Gray the Qâ—eens brother Sir Thomas Vaughan and Sir Richard Hawes at Pomfret and William Lord Hastings in the tower of London all in one day He was
such continual lightning and thunder that the like hath not been seen nor heard by any man living An. Dom. 1564 In the moneth of December was driven or the shore at Grimsby in Lincolnshire a monstrous fish in length nineteen yatds his tail fifteen foot broad and six yards between his eyes The twentieth of September rose great floods in the Thames that the marshes were overflowed and many cattel drowned The seventh of October all the North parts of the element seemed to be covered with flames of fire proceeding from the North-East and North-West towards the midst of the firmament and descended West The twenty first of Decemb. began a frost which continued so extremely that on New-years even people went over and along the thames on the yce from London-bridge to Westminster some played at the Foot-ball divers of the Court being there at Westminster shot at the Butts upon the Thames and people both men and women went on the yce in greater numbers then in any street in London On the third day of Ianuary it began to thaw and on the fifth day was no yce to be seen between London-bridge and Lambeth which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters that bare down bridges and houses and drowned many people in England especially in York-shire it bore away Owse bridge and many other bridges The sixteenth of Iune began a tempest about nine a clock at night so great a tempest of lightning and thunder with showres of hail which continued till three of the clock in the next morning so terrible that at Chelmesford in Essex five hundred acres of corn was destroyed the glass windows of the East side of the town were beaten down and on the West and South-sides of the Church were beaten down with all the tiles of their houses besides divers barns and chimneys with the battlements of the Church which were overthrown the like harm was done in many other places as at Leed Crainbrook and Dover This year by the commandment of the Councel divers musters of light horsemen on sundry daies and in divers places about the City of London were taken by the Mayor and other Commissioners for that purpose But thus it happen'd on the eighth day of October that Sir Richard Mallory riding through tower-street toward the tower-hill there to take muster as was appointed he was met by Sir Francis Iobson then Lievtenant of the tower and by him forbidden to enter the Hill with the Sword before him whereunto no answer was made by the Mayor but the Sword was violently seized upon by the Lievtenant and his men and defended by the Officers of the Mayor so that the Lievtenant called for more Officers and assistance out of the tower and the Mayors Officers were minded to raise tower-street and some of the City so there was like to have been a great tumult but the Lord Mayor caused proclamation to be made that no man should draw a weapon or strike a stroke but every man to depart home horse-men and all till they were again warned to appear which was on the same day seventh night being likewise Munday and the fifteenth day of Octoher they did there appear before the Mayor and did muster in the very place where they were appointed where by the Councels appointment the Mayor had the Sword peaceably born before him as had been accustomed An. Reg. 8 The twenty fourth of December there arose a great storm of winde by whose rage the Seas and thames overwhelmed many persons and the great gates at the West end of Saint Pauls Church in London by force of the winde were blown open An. Dom. 1596 About this time Sir Thomas Gresham built the Royal Exchange by the advice of Queen Elizabeth at his own proper cost and charges a fit meeting place for Merchants who in former times used to meet in Lombard-street An. Reg. 9 The 22 of April by great misfortune of fire in the town of Ossestry in Wales to the number of two hundred houses besides cloth corn and cattel were consumed The seuenteenth of May in the town of Milnal in Suffolk thirty seven houses besides baâ—ns and stables were consumed with fire in the space of two houres An. Reg. 9 After a dry Summer followed a sharp Winter which caused such a scarcity of fodder and hay that in divers places the same was sold by weight for five pence the stone there followed also a great dearth of corn On the twenty eighth of March the Queen sent three of her Ships to Sea to wit the Antelope the Swallow and the Aid and one Bark against the Subjects of King Philip who fought with eleven Sail and brought home great treasure Within a while after they fought with fourteen Sail more whereof six of them were sent into the river of thames An. Dom. 1568 The Gravesend Barge was cast away and a many boats beside through a tempest The eleventh of October were taken in Suffolk at Downham-bridge seventeen monstrous fishes some of them twenty seven foot in length two miles from Ipswich The twenty seventh of Ianuary a French man and two English men were drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged the French man was quartered for coyning of gold counterfeit the English men the one had clipped silver the other for coyning tin-money The plague encreasing Michaelmas term was adjourned unto Hillary term An. Reg. 12 The Queen caused the Earl of Northumberland and the Earl of Westmerland for rebellion in the North to be proclaimed traytors and forthwith prepared an Army to suppress them the twenty fourth of November The two Earls were overthrown and fled into Scotland The other rebels were taken by the Earl of Sussex The fourth and fifth of Ianuary did suffer at Durham to the number of sixty six Constables and others among whom an Alderman of the town and one Parson Plumtree then George Bowers Marshall did see them executed in every town and other places betwixt New-castle and Wetherby about six miles in length and four miles in bredth The 22 of February Leonard Dacre having raised a number of people the Lord Hunsdon setting on him with a company of valiant Souldiers slew many of his people and forced him to fly into Scotland On Good-Friday the twenty seventh of March Simon Digby Iohn Fulthroppe Esquire Robert Pennieman Thomas Bishop Gentleman were drawn from the Castle of York and there hanged headed and quartered The seventeenth of April the Earl of Suslex with the Lord Hunsdon Master William Drury High Marshal of Barwick with all the Garrison and power of the same began a journey into Scotland and enter'd into Tividale burnt overthrew and spoiled all the Castles towns and villages before them till they came to Craling Sir Iohn Foster with a Garrison enter'd Scotland burnt and spoiled Cargeln there both the Armies met and overthrew all that came before them till they came to Godworth the Lievtenant returned to Barwick the 22 of April The Lord Scrope Warden
and hanged An. Dom. 1335 The Sea banks broke in all through England but specially in the Thames so that all the cattel and beasts near thereunto were drowned An. Dom. 1339 A sudden undation of water at New-Castle upon Tine bare down part of the Town wall where an hundred and twenty men and women were drowned An. Dom. 1350 In Oxfordshire near Chippingnorton was found a Serpent having two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of womens attire and the other face like the old attire and wings like a Bâ—tt An. Reg. 25 Men and women perished in divers places with Thunder and Lightning Fiends or Devils and strange apparitions were seen by men and spake unto them as they travelled An. Reg. 36 A great dearth and pestilence in England in which died Henry Duke of Lancaster who was buried at Leicester An. Reg. 38 A great winde in England overturned houses and Church-steeples An. reg 37. A Frost in England lasted from the midst of September to the moneth of April An. Reg. 51 King Edward ended his life at his Mannour of Shene the 21 day of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. when he had reigned fifty years four moneths and odd daies he was buried at Westminster King Richard of Bourdeaux An. Reg. 1 RIchard the Second the Son of Prince Edward being but eleven years old began his Reign the 21 of Iune in the year of our Lord 1377. in bounty and liberality he far passed all his Progenitors but for that he was young was most ruled by young counsel and regarded nothing the counsel of the sage and wise men of the Realm This thing turned the Land to great trouble and himself to great misery An. Dom. 1388 Iack Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King Wat Tyler arrested by the Mayor of the City of High-Treason was slain in Smithfield and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King An. Reg. 6 A general Earthquake the 21 of May and a water-shaking which made the ships in the Haven to totter An. Reg. 7 Iohn Bale brought to Saint Albans was hang'd drawn and quarter'd Iohn Rawe Captain of the Rebels in Suffolk was hang'd and quarter'd An. Reg. 9 The 18 of Iuly was an Earthquake An. Reg. 11 An. Dom. 1390 The Nobles rise against the King In Oxford the Welsh and Southern Scholars assailed the Northern whereby many murders were committed An. Dom. 1391 The good man of the Cock in Cheap a Brewer at the little Conduit was murdered in the night by a Thief who came in at the gutter window as it was known long after by the same thief when he was condemned for felony His wife was burned in Smithfield and his three men hanged wrongfully An. Dom. 1397 The Earl of Arundel with many more were put to death for that they rebuked the King in matters of State something liberally An. Dom. 1398 Thomas Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury was banished the Realm An. Dom. 1399 Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster deceased and was honourably buried in Saint Pauls Church An. Reg. 23 The King exacted great sums of money of seventeen Shires of the Realm and laid to their charges that they had been against him with the Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick wherefore he went about to induce the Lords both spiritual and temporal to make a submission by writing acknowledging themselves to be Traitors to the King though they never offended him Moreover he compelled them to set their hands to blanks to the end that so often as it pleased him he might oppreâ—â— them An. Reg. 23 But all this made nothing for him but all against him for within a while after he was sent to the Tower till the next Parliament which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas-day at which time he resigned all his power and Knightly title to the Crown of England and France to Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster when he had reigned twenty two years three moneths and odd daies Henry the Fourth Henry of Bollengbrook An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fourth son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was made King of England more by force then by lawful succession or election He began his Reign the 29 of September in the year 1399. An. Reg. 2 The King caused the Blanok Charters to be burnt made to King Richard Iohn Holland late Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Edward Duke of Awmarl Iohn Mountecute Earl of Salisbury Thomas Spencer Sir Ralph Lumley Sir Thomas Blunt Sir Benedict Cely Knights with others conspired against King Henry and appointed privily to murder him but their Treason was found out and they were all put to death King Richard being in Pomfret-Castle died the fourteenth day of February his body was brought to London and so through the City of London to St. Pauls Church bare-faced three daies for all beholders from thence he was carried to Langley and there buried An. Dom. 1402 Certain men affirmed that King Richard was alive for the which a Priest was taken at Warwick who was drawn hanged and quarter'd Walter Waldock Prior of Lawd was likewise hanged and headed and eight grey Friers hanged and headed at London of the which one Richard Fresby Doctor of Divinity was drawn and hanged Sir Roger Claringdon Knight a Esquire and a Yeoman were beheaded at London and divers grey Friers hanged and beheaded and two at Leicester all these had published King Richard to be alive An. Dom. 1407 A Pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand An. Dom. 1408 A Frost lasted fifteen weeks An. Dom. 1409 Henry Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph came into England with a great company pretending by Proclamation to deliver the people from the great oppression that they were burdened with but by Sir Thomas Rokebey Sheriff of York-shire he was encountred at Bramhammoor and there slain the Lord Bardolph was likewise wounded to death An. Dom. 1412 After the fortunate chances hapned to King Henry being delivered of all civil division he was taken with sickness and yeelded to God his spirit the 20 of March 1412. when he had reigned thirteen years six moneths and odd daies he was buried at Canterbury Henry of Monmouth An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fifth began his Reign the 20 of March in the year 1412. This Prince exceeded the mean stature of men he was beauteous of visage his neck long body slender and lean his bones small nevertheless he was of marvellous great strength and passing swift in running An. Dom. 1413 Sir Iohn Old-Castle for divers points touching the Sacrament before the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London VVinchester and others was convicted and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake and fled An. Dom. 1414 Certain adherents of Sir Iohn Old-Castle assembled them in Thickets field near London but the King being warned took the field before them and so took of them such numbers that
crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of Iuly After this were taken for Traytors against the king Robert Ruff Serjeant of London VVilliam Davie Pardoner Iohn Smith Groom of king Edwards stirrop and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower with many more who were charged that they had sent Letters into Brittain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembrook and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother for the which they were drawn from VVestminster to the Tower of London and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury The thirteenth of December was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London where was burnt a number of houses and all the stocks for gunnes other provision belonging to the city King Richard borrowed great sums of mony of the City but being cut off before the time of payment came the City lost it Collingborn Esquire was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London and there upon the hill was headed and quartered An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight and one Fortescue were drawne through London and at Saint Martin le grand Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs and taken Sanctuary but the Sheriffs took him again and had him to tower hill where he was beheaded and Fortescue had his pardon Henry Earl of Richmond Iasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle the Earl of Oxford and many other Knights and Esquires with a small company of Frenchmen landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August whose coming when it was heard of in VVales divers Noble men with great companies met him and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester he met with his enemies the 22 of August where between them was fought a very sharp battel in conâ—lusion whereof King Richard with divers others were slain and King Henry obtained a Noble victory and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field with the crown which was taken off King Richards head Richard was buried at the Grey-Friers Church at Leicester when he had held the crown two years two moneths Henry Earl of Richmond An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh born in Pembroke Castle began his reign the 22 of August in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom policy justice temperance and gravity and notwithstanding many great troubles and war he kept his Realm in right good order for the which he was greatly honoured of Forraign Princes On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildreds and one man more of the Parsonage there The sweating sickness began the 21 of September and continued to the end of October of the which sickness a number of people died The 30 of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster he ordained a number of chosen Archers to give daily attendance on his person whom he named Yeomen of the Guard King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City which was repayed the nexr year after Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel and Bay-salt at the like price The Cross in Cheap-side was new builded The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th by the which means the two Houses York and Lancaster were united An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Taylor within Ludgate slew himself and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth there was a great contest between the Kings Almoner and the Sheriffs of London An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings or Stilliard-men by Mercers men and others of the City of London for the which many of them were sore punished An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel Bay-salt at three pence half penny Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel white herrings at six shillings the barrel red at three shillings the Cade red sprats six pence the Cade and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun. Sir VVilliam Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country they withdrew again to their ships but the Mayor of Sandwich with certain men of the country fought with the residue that were left behind and took 169 persons who were hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk An. Dom. 1497 By meanes of a subsidy that was granted to the King a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall whiâ—h under the leading of Iames Lord Audley with Michael a Blacksmith and others came to Black-heath where the King met them overthrew them and took their Captains there was slain of the Rebels three hundred and taken fifteen hundred The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn The King sent an Army into Scotland under the Earl of Surrey and the Lord Nevil which made sharp war upon the Scots In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs fell hailstones eighteen inches about Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall went to Bodmin where being accompanied with three or four thousand men he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth second son of Edward the fourth from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants but many of the Rebels were slain and theâ— withdrew themselves to Taunton from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley where he took sanctuary and was afterward taken and pardoned his life An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and Iohn-a-water were executed at Tyburn Edward Plantagenet Earl of Warwick son to George Duke of Clarence was beheaded at Tower-hill Shortly after Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night a perillous fire began upon London-bridge near to Saint Magnus Church whereof six tenements were burnt The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire against Saint Buttolphs Church in Thames-street An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the Marshalsey broke out and many of them being shortly after taken were put to execution especially those that had lain for Felony An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Bakers house burnt in Warwick-lane with the Mistress of the house and two women servants About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire there was 160 houses consumed with most part of their goods King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April when he had reigned 23 years and 8 moneths and
Carlile from whence they were driven and many of them put to death also Sir Francis Bigott and others began a conspiracie and for the same were atainted The twenty ninth of March were twelve men of Lincolne drawn to Tiburn and there hanged and quartered for a new rebellion In Somerset shire was another rebellion began by Mr. Paulet and some other of his friends the chief of them to the number of sixty were condemned whereof fourteen were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman In Iune the Lord Darcie the Lord Hussey Sir Robert Constable Sir Tho. Pierce Sir Francis Bigott Sir Stephen Hamelton Sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife George Lumbley Nicholas Temple Robert Ask VVilliam Thrift Abbot of Fountains Anthony Abbot of Gervaur the Abbot of Rivers William Prior of Burlington all these were put to death Sir Robert Constable of Hull Ask hanged on a Tower â—t York Lady Bulmer burned in Smithfield Loâ—d Darcie beheaded at Tower hill Lord Hussey at Lincolne and the rest of them suffered at Tiburn The twelfth of October was born at Hampton-Court Prinâ—e Edward and Qâ—een Iane lost her life the 14 of October Alwin a Pâ—iest Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Evel were all hanged and quartered at Tiburn The twelfth of May Fryer Forrest was hanged and burned in Smithfield for denying the kings supremacy with him was burnt the gathering of Wales that is as much as to say Darvar an image The seventeenth of May was a great fire at Saint Margaret Pattons in London where many houses and many perâ—ons were burned Edmond Cunningsby for counterfeiting the kings signe Manual and Edward Clifford for the same cause were hanged at Tiburn The first of September was one Cartwel hangman of London and two other hanged by Clarken-wel for robbing a Booth in Bartholomew faire Henry Marquess of Exceter Earl of Devonshire Hen. Pool L. Mountacute Sir Edward Nevil the 9th of Ian. were beheaded on tower hill two Priests Crofts Collins and a Marriner were hanged and quartered at tyburn Iohn Lambert was burnt in Smithfield on Ashwednesday Iohn Potter and William Mannering hanged in Pauls Church-yard for killing of Roger Cholmley Esq in the same place The third of March Sir Richard Carew knight of the Garter and Master of the kings horse was beheaded on toweâ— hill The Vicar of VVansworth with his servant and his Chaplain and Fryer Ware wâ—â—e hâ—nged and quartered at Saint Thomas VVatrings At this time were all monasteries suppressed because the king like Ianus would look two wayes The Abbot of Reading and two Priests were hanged and quarter'd at Reading the same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glassenbury hanged and quartered at Tower-hill besides his Monastery according to an old Prophesie The Lady Anne Cleve received at Black-heath and brought to Greenwich and the sixth of the same moneth married to King Henry The ninth of Iuly Thomas Lord Cromwel Earl of Essex was committed to the tower of London the 28 of Iuly he was beheaded on tower-hill with the Lord Hungerford King Henry was divorced from the Lady Anne of Cleve The thirtieth of Iuly Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Ierome Priests weâ—e burned in Smithfield the same day Thomas Abell Edward Powel and Richard Featherstone were hanged and qâ—â—â—tered for denying the kings supâ—emacy the fourth of August were drawn to Tyburne six persons and one lead Laurence Cook Prior of Doncaster William Horn a Laie bâ—other of the Charterhouse Giles Horn Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Broomeham Darbie Kenham Robert Bird Gervis Carow all put to death for denying the sâ—pâ—emacie The King married again The eighth of August Lady Katherine Howard was â—hewed openly as Qâ—een at Hampton-Court Great draught and a great death of hot buâ—ning agues and feavours the salt water flowed above London-bridge Ralph Egerton and Thomas Harman put to death for counterfeiting the Kings bâ—oad Seal In April certain persons began a new rebellion in York-shire whiâ—h were shortly taken and put to death in several places of which Leigh Tattersal and Thornton were put to death at London Sir Iohn Nevil Knight and ten persons more were put to death at York The Countess of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower Damport and Chapman were hanged at Greenwich for a robbery The 21 of Iune Lord Leonard Grey was beheaded on the tower-hill he was Deputy of Ireland the same day were hanged at St. Thomas VVatrings Mantile Roydon and Frowds Gentlemen for spoil and murder they had done in Nicholas Pelhams Park the Lord of Dacres of the South being in company on Saint Peters day was led from the tower to tyburn and there hanged On Christmas Eve at night began a great fire in the house of Sir Iohn Williams master of the Kings Jewels where many of those jewels were burnt and a great many of them stoln The Lady Katherine Howard whom the King had married for her unchast living with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Durham was by Parliament attainted Culpeper and Durham were hanged at Tyburn The 23 of Ianuary the King was proclaimed King of Ireland the 13 of February were beheaded within the Tower the Lady Katherine Howard otherwise called Queen Katherine and the Lady Rochford An. Reg. 34 An. Dom. 1542 The seventh of March Margaret Davy a Maid was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning three housholds where she had lived The 12 of Iuly King Henry married Lady Katherine Parre late wife to the Lord Latimer Anthony Person Robert Testwood and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor A great plague was at London and therefore Michaelmas term was adjourned to Saint Albans This year â—hanâ—ed four eclipses one of the Sun the 24 of Ianuary and three of the Moon German Gardner and Lark Parsons of Châ—lsey Singleton and Assbey were hanged at Tyburn for denying the Kings Supremacy An. Dom. 1544 The third of April a Gun-powder house in East-Smithfield was blown up and therein burned five men a boy and a woman This year was taken by the Kings ships on the English Coast the number of three hundred French ships so that the Grey-Friers Church in London was laid full of wine the Austin-Friers and Black-Friers were laid full of Herrings and other fish that were taken going into France A Priest did penance at Pauls-Cross and there confessed that he pricked his finger when he was at Mass and wiped it on the Corporis and Altar cloth and went about to make the people believe that the miraculous Host did bleed after the words of Consecration The 13 of February a Priest was set on the Pillory in Cheap-side and burnt in both cheeks with the letters F and A. a paper on his head wherein was written For false accusing which judgement was given by the Lord Chancellor in the Star-â—hamber a notable example of Justice An. Reg. 37 An. Dom. 1545 The French Kings Navy coming out of New-haven and Deep arrived in Sussex afore bright Hamsted where they set some of their Souldiers a land but the Beacons were fired and
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
27 of Ian. the L. Treasurer came to Guild-Hall from the Counsel to request the citizens to prepare hundred foormen well armed to go against VViat which was granted and on the morrow were sent to Gravesend by water The twenty ninth of Ianuary the Duke of Norfolk wirh the Captain of the guard and other Souldiers and the Captains and Soldiers that were sent from London minding to assault Rochester Castle where VViat and his company lay but the Captaines of the City fled over Rochester Bridge to Wiat so that the Duke was faine to fly for London again to save his life Thus Wiats number being streightned with the Queens Ordnance and treasure the thirtieth of Ianuary he removed to Black Heath Henry Duke of Suffolk Father to Lady Iane flying into Leicestershire and Warwick-shire made Proclamation against the Queens marriage with the Prince of Spain but the people gave no regard to his words The first of February the commons of the City assembled in their Liveries at the Guild-Hall in London whether the Queen with her Lords came riding from Westminster and there after vehement words against Wiat declared that she meant no otherwise to marrie then the Counsel shall think both honourable and commodiously to the Realme and therefore willed them truly to assist her in oppressing them that contrary to their duties rebelled shee appointed Lord William Howard Lieutenant of the City and the Earl of Pembrook General of the field which both prepared all things necessary Wiat entred Southwark the third of February wherefore the draw bridge was broken down Ordnance bent to that part general pardon proclaimed to all that would give over and forsake the rebels After Wiat had lain three daies in Southwark he turned his journey to Kingson on Shroue-Tuesday in the morning being the sixth of February where he passed over the Thames and purposed to come to London in the night but by reason that the carriages of his chief Ordnance brake he could not come before it was fair day The same Shrove-Tuesday in the afternoone were two men hanged in Pauls Church-yard one of them was late Sheriff of Leicester the other a Baker On the morrow early in the morning the Earl of Pembrook and divers others were in Saint Iame's field with a great power and their Ordnance so bent that Wiat was forced to leave the common way and with a small company came under Saint Iame's wall to scape the Ordnance and so went by Chearing-Cross to the Bell-Savage nigh unto Ludgate without any ressistance in at the which gate he thought to have been received but perceiving that he was deceived of his purpose he fled back again and at Temble Bar was taken and brought by water to the Tower of London The tenth day of February the Duke of Suffolk which was taken in Leicester shire was brought to the City of London by the Earl of Huntington and one of his brethren with him and so had to the tower The twelfth of February Lady Iane and her husband Lord Gilford were beheaded The fourteenth of February about the number fifty of Wiats faction were hanged on twenty paire of Gallowes in divers parts about the City proclamation was made The seventeenth of February that all strangers should depart The twenty second of February certain of VViatt faction to the number of four hundred and more were lead to VVestminster coupled together with halters about their necks and their in the tilt yard the Queen who looked forth of her Gallery pardoned them The twenty fourth of February Henry Gray Duke of Suffolk was beheaded on the tower hill The eleventh of April Sir Thomas VViat was beheaded on the tower hill and after quartered his quarters were set up in divers places and his head on the Gallowes at Hay hill near Hide Park The twenty seventh of April Lord Tho. Gray was beheaded William Thomas Gentleman for conspiring the Queens death was hanged and quaâ—tered The tenth of Iune Doctor Pendleton preached at Pauls Cross at whom a gun was shot the bullet lighted on the Church wall but he that shot it could not be found The nineteenth of Iuly the Prince of Spain arrived at Southampton after he came to VVinchester and there going to Church was honourably received by the Bishop and a great number of Nobles on Saint Iames day the marriage was solemnized between him and Queen Mary shortly after they came to London where with great provision they were received of the Citizens the eighteenth of August The 26 of Octob. a Spaniard was hanged for killing an â—nglish-man The eighteenth of November great joy there was among the people with ringing of bells prayers for the Queen and thanksgiving in all churches for heâ— being with-childe which proved no such matter The 4 of Febr. Ioh. Rogers Vicar of St. Sepulc was bâ—â—nt in Smithfield On Easter day a Priest nâ—med VVilliam Slower with a wood knife wounded an other Priest as he was ministring the Sacrament to the people in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster for the which fact the said VVilliam on the twenty fourth of April had his right hand cut off and for opinions he held in matters of Religion was burned nigh unto Saint Margarets Church The tenth of May William Constable a millers son who had named himself to be King Edward the 6th was sent to the Marshalsea and the 22 of May he was carried about Westminster-Hall before the Judges whipped about the Palace and then through Westminster into Smithfield The first of Iuly Iohn Bradford was burned in Smithfield for Religion In the moneth of August a monstrous fish was brought to Lin of forty foot in length In October fell such abundance of rain thaâ— for the spâ—ce of six daies men might â—ow with Boats in Saint Georges fields water came into Westminster Hall half a yard deep The twenty sixth of October Doctor Ridley and Doctor Latimer were burned at Oxford for Religion William Constable who had caused letters to be cast abroad that King Edward was alive and to some shewed himself to be King Edward the thirteenth of March was drawn hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn Cardinal Pool the Sunday following was consecrated Arch-bishop of Canterbury The twenty eighth of March part of Newgate called Mannings Hall was burnt Certain persons purposed to have robbed the Queens Exchequer to the end they might be the better able to make war against her Udal Throgmorton Pecham Daniel and Stanton were apprehended and divers others fled The twenty eighth of April Throgmorton and Richard Udal was hang'd and quarter'd at Tyburn The nineteenth of May Stanton was likewise executed at Tyburn The eighth of Iune Rossey Detick and Bedell were executed at Tyburn The eleventh of Iune Sands a younger son of Lord Sands was hanged at Saint Thomas a Watrings for a robbery The twenty seventh of Iune thirteen persons were burnt at Stratford the Bow The eighth of Iuly Henry Peacham and Thomas Daniel were hanged and headed for conspiracy on Tower-hill
many grains to the number of eighty spread from the body like the branches of a tree was from the snout to the end of the longest grain seventeen inches having four issues in the grains from whence dropped forth a red water the body in bigness round about was three inches and a half the coller was very like the coller of a Mackarel this monstrous worm crawling about to have got away was stabbed in with a dagger and died which after being dried was shewed to many Honourable persons of the Realm The eighteenth of Iune one Elks Clark for counterfeiting the Queens Sign Manual to a presentation of the Parsonage of All-Saints in Hastings directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or to his Commissary General the Diocess of Chichester being void that he might be instituted Parson there was drawn hanged and quartered at Tyburn In the moneth of Iuly divers trayterous persons were apprehended and detected of most wicked conspiracy against her Majesty and also of minding to have stirred up a general Rebellion through the whole Realm for joy of whose apprehension on the fifteenth of the same moneth at night the Citizens of London caused the Bells to be rung and Bonfires to be made and also banqueting every man according to his ability some in their houses some in the streets with singing of Psalms and praising God for preserving her Majesty and the people of this land which doings of the Citizens were so well accepted of her Majesty as by letters to them directed may appear The seventh of September certain of these wicked subjects were indicted First For intending treason against the Queens own person Secondly For stirring Civil Warre within this Realm and thirdly For practising to bring in a Forraign Power to invade the Realm Seven of them appeared at Westminster on the thirteenth of September who all pleaded guilty and were condemned On the eighteenth of September the other seven were likewise arraigned who pleaded not guilty but were found guilty and were condemned These traytors fourteen of them in all were executed in Lincolns-Inn fields on a Scaffold of timber made strongly for that purpose even in the place where they had used to meet and to confer on their trayterous practises there were they hanged drawn and quartered seven of them on the twentieth of September to wit Iohn Ballard Priest Adam Babington Esquire Iohn Savage Gentleman Richard Barnwel Gentleman Chidrick Titchburn Esq Charles Tylney Esquire Edward Abbington Esquire the other seven were also executed on the 21 of September to wit Thomas Salisbury Esquire Henry Dunne Gentleman Edward Iones Esquire Iohn Travers Gentleman Iohn Charnock Gentleman Richard Gage Gentleman Ierom Bellamy Gent. The eighth of October Iohn Low Iohn Adams and Richard Dibdail being before condemned of treason in being made Priest by order of the Bishop of Rome were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The eighth of February being Wednesday according to sentence lately given by the Nobility Mary Stuart Queen of Scots about ten of the clock before noon was executed and suffered death by beheading on a Scaffold set up on purpose at the great end of the Castle of Fodringay in the presence of George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Henry Grey Earl of Kent principal Commissioners and others the Gentlemen of the country near adjoyning to the number of three hundred all her apparrel was burned but her body with the head was honourably buried at Peterborow on the first day of August next following Munday the twenty fourth of February a man was hanged for Felony at Saint Thomas a Watrings being begged of the Surgeons for an Anatomy after he was dead to all mens thinking cut down and stripped laid naked in a chest thrown in a cart and so brought from the place of execution through the Borough of Southwark and the City of London to the Chyrurgeons Hall in London near unto Aldersgate the chest being then opened the weather being extreme cold he was found to be alive and lived till thursday next following and then died The twenty third of February a Gunpowder house at Redriff was blown up and much harm done An. Dom. 1588 Great provision was made this year both by Sea and Land to withstand the invasion of the Spanish Armado against the Realm for besides the general forces of the Land appointed to be mustered and put in readiness in several Shires for the defence of the Land there was also a Levy made of two several Armies the one to make a body of a Camp to reside at Tilbury in Essex to encounter with the Enemy if he should attempt to land in any place of that country whereof the Earl of Leicester Lord Steward of her Majesties houshold was Lievtenant General as also of the armies levied against Forraigne Invasion the other to be imployed for the Guard of her Majesties person under the charge of the Right Honourable the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty the Camp at Tilbury consisting both of Horsemen and Foot-men raised out of all Shires were of Lancers two hundred fifty three of light Horsemen seven hundred sixty nine of Foot-men twenty two thousand the Army for the Guard of her Majesties person four hundred eighty one light Horsemen one thousand four hundred thirty one Footmen thirty four thousand and fifty The Navy set forth and armed for the Seas consisted partly of her Majesties ships partly of her Subjects which were furnished out of the Port-towns whereunto they belonged 269 Of this Navy the chiefest and greatest part was under the charge of the Lord Charles Howard of Essingham Lord Admiral of England and were addressed to encounter with the Spanish Fleet the rest of the Ships were assigned unto the Lord Henry Seimour Admiral of the Fleet to guard the Narrow Seas and to stay the issâ—ing out of the ships and vessels prepared by the Duke of Parma at Dunkirk The twenty third of May the Lord Admiral câ—me to Plimouth with the Fleet aforesaid finding there Sir Francis Drake in a readiness with more then 50 ships and Pinnaces the twenty fourth of Iune the Lord Admiral issued out towards Plimmouth he divided her Majesties ships into three parts viz. Sir Francis Drake in the Revenge he being Vice-Admiral with other towards the Islands of Scilly Iohn Hawkins Rear-Admiral in the Victory with other toward the Isle of Ushent and the Lord Admiral with the rest remaining in the Sleeve appointed other there all to discern if the Spanish forces did any way pass The nineteenth of Iuly intelligence was brought to the Lord Admiral by a pyrat Pinnace whose Captaine was Thomas Fleming that the Spanish Fleet was descried and that it was neer The twentieth of Iuly the Lord Admiral made toward the sea and the same day had sight of the Spanish Fleet in number by estimation one hundred fifty eight sails the Lord Admiral cast about towards the land to interrupt them from landing and having got the wind of them followed them
August great triumphs was made in London for the good success of the Earl of Essex against the Spaniard the winning and burning of the famous town of Cadiz the overthâ—ow of the Spanish Navy with orher victoâ—ies a sermon of thanksgiving was preached at Pauls Cross in the foâ—enoon and bonefiers with great joy in the afternoon August the fifteenth a new house in Fleetstreet hardly finished sodainly fell down and with it one old house adjoyning next to it by the fall whereof the man of the house with a man servant and a child were killed Sunday the fifth of December great number of people being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in Somerset-shire in the sermon time before noon a sodain darkness fell among them and storm and tempest followed after with lightning and thunder such as overthâ—ew to the ground them that were in the body oâ— the Church all the Church seemed to be on a light fire a loathsome steanch followed some stones were striâ—ken out of the Bell Tower the wiers and ironâ— of the clock were melted which tempest being ceased and the people come again to themselves some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies and their garments not perished nor any marked that were in the chansel A Parliament began at Westminster on the twenty fourth of October on the which day many people were were smothered and crushed to death pressing between White-Hall and the Colledge Church to have seen her Majesty and the Nobility riding in their robes to the said Parliament This year pepper was sold for eight shillings the pound Ianuary the twenty fifth one named Ainger was hanged at Tyburn for wilfully and secretly murdering of his own father a Gentleman and a Counsellor of Graies Inn in his chamber there An. Dom. 1958 On the third of April Twiford town in Devonshire was burnt by casualty of fire beginning first in a poor cottage a woman there frying Pancakes with straw the same fired the house and so to the town about one of the clock in the afternoon the rage of which fire lasted one houre and an half consumed four hundred houses one hundred and fifty thousand pounds consumed in money plate marchandise householdstuffe and houses fifty persons men women and children consumed an almes house preserved with poor men therein in the midst of the fire Iuly the twelfth one Iohannes Buckley a priest made beyond seas having been arraigned in the Kings Bench on the third of Iuly and there condemned of Treason for coming into this land contrary to the Statute was drawn to Saint Thomas a Watrings and there hanged and quartered his head set on the Pillory in Southwark his quarters in the high wayes towards Newington The first of September in the afternoon was great thunder and lightening at London two great cracks as it had been the shooting off Ordnance some men were hurt at the Postern by the Tower of London and one man slain at the Bridgehouse in Southwark over against the Tower November the ninth an Esquire at Greenwich was arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high-treason and on the thirteenth drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there hanged and quartered In the month of Iuly were drawn hanged and quartered 2 Priests one of them was named Hunt and the other Sprat for coming into this Realm contrary to the Statute they were executed at Lincolne two other Priests Edward Thing and Robert Nutter were likewise executed for this same offence at Lancaster also Thomas Pallafray a Priest executed at Durham and a Gentleman with him for relieving him and lodging him in his house August the fifth Iames King of Scots escaped a strange and strong conspiracy in Scotland practised by the Earl of Gowry and his brother An. Reg. 43 February the fifth in the morning being Sunday a great tempest of wind brake the Windmil beyond Saint Giles in the fields without London the miller thrown one way an other man an other one thrown north and the other south a part of the Mil-roof and half the milstone likewise thrown down Sunday the eighth of February about ten of the clock in the forenoon Robert Devoraux Earl of Essex assisted by divers noble men and gentlemen in warlike manner entred the City of London at the Temple bar crying for the Queen till they came to Fanchurch street and there entred the house of Master Thomas Smith one of the Sheriffs of London who finding himself not master of his own house by meanes of the strength the Earl brought with him and being ignorant of his intent and purpose conveighed himself out of a back door to the Lord Mayor of the City whereupon the Eearl and his troop turned into Grace street and there perceiving himself and his assistance to be proclaimed Traytors also the Citizens to be raised in Arms against him he with his followers wandring up and down the City towards Ludgate would have passed through which was closed against him so that he was forced to return to Queen Hith and from thence by water to his own house in the Strand which he fortified but understanding that great Ordnance were brought to beat down his house he yielded and was conveighed to the Tower about midnight February the seventeenth Captain Thomas Lee was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged bowelled and quartered for conspiracy against the Queen he took it upon his death that although he deserved death yet he was innocent of that he was condemned for The eighteenth of February Iohn Pibush a Seminary Priest after seaven years imprisonment in the Kings Bench was hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas a Watrings for coming into this Realme contrary to the Statute The nineteenth of February the Earl of Essex and the Earl of South-hampton were both arraigned at Westminster and found guilty of high treason Ashwednesday the twenty fifth of February the Earl of Essex was beheaded within the Tower between the houres of seaven and eight a clock in the morning being present the Earls of Hartford and Cumberland the Lord Thomas Haward Constable of the Tower for that time and not passing sixty or seaventy persons more the hangman was beaten as he returned thence so that the Sheriffs of London were sent for to assist and rescue him from such as would have murdered him The seventeenth of February Mark Backworth and Thomas Filcoks Seminary Priests were drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for coming into the realm contrary to the Statute And the same day a Gentlewoman named Ann Lina a widow was hanged in the same place for relieving a Priest in her house contrary to the Statute February the last a young Gentleman named Waterhouse was hanged in Smithfield for speaking and Libelling against the Queens proclamation and the apprahending of the Earl of Essex March the thirteenth Sir Gelly Merrick Knight and Henry Cuff Gentleman were drawn to Tyburn the one from the Tower the other from Newgate and there hanged
poste and bâ—ought the first newes to â—he king as he rod gave knowledge unâ—o his brother Sir Iohn Carie then Governour of Barwick this calme and discreet course of the English Lords in Proclaiming the King and quiet setling the whole Estate without faction or interruptiâ—n was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects as admired of Forraign Nations Aprill the fifth the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick and the next day came newes of many disordered persons that were in Armes in the Borders whereat the King was much troubled and forthwith there was power sent to suppress them and after that when the King came to London he with the advise of the Counsell set all the parts of the North Borders in as good condition as any other parts of his Dominions Aprill the tenth divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower amongst whom the Earle of Southampton was the chiefest Aprill the twenty seventh was thirteen persons slain and blown in peeces by misfortune at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe Aprill the twenty eight at Westminster a very Royall Obsequy for the late Queene Elizabeth according to the Kings appointment by his Letters to the Lords of the Privie Counsell May the nineteenth Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North and for the mutuall Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms Iune the first there was one whipped through London for presuming to come to the Court having his house infected Iune the fourth Vallentine Thomas having been many yeers prisoner in the Tower of London was arraigned at the Kings Bench Barr and there condemned of High Treason for Conspiracy against our late Queene and some of her Counsell and the seventh of Iune about Six of the clock he was drawn from the Kings Bench in Southwarke to Saint Thomas a Waterings and there hanged and quartered Iuly the second the King Solemnized the Feast of Saint George at Winsor and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter and there the chief Ladies of England did Hommage to the Queene There were also made Knights with Prince Henry the Duke of Lennox the Earle of South-Hampton the Earle of Marre and the Earle of Pembroke Within a few dayes after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley Sir Griffin Markham Knight and William watson and VVilliam Cleark Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traytors the Lord Cobham and his brother the Lord Gray Sir VValter Rawley and others The fifth of August was Commanded by the Bishops to be kept as a Holy day with Prayers Preaching and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Kings escape from being murdered by Earle Gowrie in Scotland The Plague increased most gâ—ievoâ—sly in London and thereupon it wâ—s ordered that every Wednesdâ—y theâ—e shoâ—ld be a general Fasting and Prayer with preaching through the land to dâ—aw the people to humility and repâ—ntance This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept and Michaelmas Teâ—m adjorned and to be kept at Westminster but by reason of the sickness it was afterward kept at Winchester and the Lord Mayors great triâ—mphs and feasts was this year omitted The fourth of November the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton were bâ—ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester to be arraigned and to that purpose were sent to Wâ—nchester Sir VValter Rawleigh Sir Grâ—ffin Markham Knights George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham Anthony Copley Gentleman William Watson and William Cleark Pâ—ieâ—â—s and the same day out of the Gâ—tehouse at Westminster went Sir Edward Parham he was acquitted by the Jury The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Pâ—iests and six daies after was George Brook hanged and the ninth of December Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons aâ—ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester and had made their confessions and pâ—epared themselves to die upon a suddain the Kings Warrant written with his own hand was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne High Sheriff of Hampshire â—ommanding him to stay execution these three and Sir Walter Rawleigh were returned Pâ—isoners to the Tower again the fifteenth of December From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty seâ—ond oâ— December 1603 theâ—e died of all diseases within London and the libeâ—ties thereof thiâ—ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four wheâ—eof of the Plague thirty thousand five hundred sâ—venty eight and the neâ—t year afteâ— London was clear of that infection and then were all the shires in England grievously visited note the work of God March the fifth was proclamation mâ—de for authorising the Book of Common Prayer February the twenty second Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries that they shoâ—ld forthwith depart out of the Kingdome March the fifth Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Châ—rch of England and the book of Common Pâ—ayer as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabeâ—h At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor gave competent meâ—ns â—oâ— ever for the toling of a bell in Saint Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed out of Newgate and to cease when they are executed this bell should begin to toll at six a clock in the morning and the same is made known to the Prisoners that the said bell is to put them in mind to pâ—epare themselves for death Upon the first day of May Richard Haydock a Physitian asked forgiveness of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for deluding the King and many oâ—hers under pretence of being inspired and to preach in his sleep by night with which deâ—eit he had strongly possest the vulgar as it was hard to remove them although he confessed the abuse In this moneth Iohn Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq a Gentleman of an anâ—ient family and of good reputation his Majesties servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as I may not omit to record the same to future ages the rather because I have heard sundry Gentlemen who were gooâ— horsemen â—nd likewise good Physâ—tians affiâ—me it was impoâ—sible to be done without danger of his life He â—ndertook to â—ide five several times betwixt London and York in six daies to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night he began his journey upon Munday being the twentieth day of May betwixt two and three of the cloâ—k in the morning forth of Saint Martins neer Aldersgate within the City of London and came into York the same day betwixt the houres of five and six in the aâ—ternoon where he rested that night the noxt morning being Tuesday about three of the cloâ—k he took his journey fourth of York and came to his lodging in St. Martins aforesaid betwixt the houres of 6 and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night the next morning being
Wednesday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his journey forth of London and came into York about seven of the clock the same day where he rested that night the next morning being Thursday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his joâ—rney forth of York and câ—me to London the same day beâ—wixt seven and eight of the clock where he rested that night the next morning being Friday betwixt 2. and 3. of the clock he took his journey towards Yorke and came thither the same day betwixt the howres of seven and eight in the afternoon so as he finished his appâ—inted journey to the admiâ—ation oâ— all men in five dayes accoâ—ding to hiâ— pâ—omise and upon Munday the twenty seventh of this moneth he went from Yorke and came to the Court at Greenwich upon Tueseday the twenty eight to his Majesty in as fresh and cheerfull manner as when he first began The second of Iuly 1605 seventeen Scottish Ministers contrary to the Kings former Expâ—ess Comandment hâ—ld a Sollemne Assembly at Aberdine in Scotland who being Convented foâ— the same before the Counâ—â—ll of Scotland utteâ—ly denied not onely their Loâ—dships authority in that behalf but the Kings also saying that in matters Ecclesiasticall they neitheâ— owe noâ— ought to acknowledge themselves in any subjection either to the King or to any Temporall power and that all Spâ—rituall difference ought to be tryed and determined by the Church as Competent Judges justifying their voluntary meeting to be good and warrantable by the word of God alleadging the severall Assemblies of the Aposâ—les without knowledge or conâ—ent oâ— any Temporall Esâ—ate for which Riot and for denying the Kings Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiasticall Six of the chief of them the tenth of Ianuary following at Blackness were arâ—aigned and condemned of High Treason Iuly the eighth Proclamation was mâ—de against Pirates and other English Maâ—iners and Souldiers who under pretence of Serving the Staâ—es robbed divers English men and others who made complaint thereof to his Majesty Now this is the third Proclamation against Pirats William Calverley of Carverley in Yorkshire Esquire murdered two of his own children at home at his own hoâ—se then stab'd his wiâ—â— inâ—o the body with full intent to have killed her and then instantly with like fury went from his house would have killed his childe at nuâ—se but was pâ—evented he was pâ—est to death at Yorke the fifth of March. Thomas Pearcy Robert Catesby and oâ—herâ— in the last yeer of Queen Elizabeths Raign by the Insâ—igation of certain Jesuits practised with the King of Spain to send a well furnished Army upon England promising him great aide to entertain them at their arrivall at Milford Haven and to that end the King promised to send them fifty thousand pound for Levying of Horse and Foot and preparation in England for them of Ammunition but when this was in a maner concluded upon Queen Elizabeth died and the King of Spain upon certain knowleâ—ge that King Iames was establiâ—hed diâ—pâ—tched his Embassadoâ—â—â—â—nâ— Commiâ—sioners for England for conâ—â—â—mation oâ— a laâ—â—ing Peace between them yet nevertheless the said Robert Catesby sent Thomas VVinter again to the King of Spain to Resollicite their former project but the King answered him Your old Queen is dead with whom I had warres and you have a King with whom I have ever been at Peace and amity and for continuance thereof I have sent my Commissioners and untill I see what will become thereof I will not hearken unto any other course whatsoever when VVinter returned and made this known unto Catesby Percey and the rest they began to cast about what might be done of themselves to the Advance of the Romane Catholike Religion but first they would see the event of the first Parliament if they would mittigate any former lawes and try what good the conclusion of Peace with Spain would do before they attempted any further but when they perceived that neither Parliament nor publiâ—ke peace soâ—ted in any part to their desires and that the peace concluded with Spain was rather a more ready means for the law to proceed against them then otherwise because the peace concerned onely the amity of christian princes for the general good of Christendome without any particular or private respect then Catesby told the rest he had a devise in his head that should free them and the rest of the Catholicks here in England from their oppressors and when he had found out fit Ministers for execution of his devise after they had taken oath and Sacrament for seâ—recie he told them he had devised the mean to blow up the Parliament house by undermining the same when the King and Queen and Prince and Commons were assembled which project they presently embraced and forthwith Pearcie hired lodgings close to the Parliament house and then they appointed miners who with great difficulty digged and undermined part of the wall but after a while they understood that the vante right under the Parliament house was to be let then Guido Faukes hired it this Guido Fawks was of late a Souldier in Flanders and for that purpose sent for who by consent of the rest changed his name and was called Iohn Iohnson Master Pearcies man after they had hired the vaute they secretly conveighed into it thirty and six barrels of powder and covered them over with billets and faggots About ten daies before the Parliament began an unknown party met with a servant of my Lord Mounteagles and delivered him a letter charging him speedily to deliver it to my Lord which he did when his Lord had read it and observed the dangerous contents with a special caveat not to appear the first day of Parliament he was amazed and forthwith delivered it to the Earl of Sallisbury the Kings chief Secretary and Counselloâ— of State when the Earl had judiciously observed the strange phrase and tenoâ— thereof with the terrible threats therein against the whole state he acquainted the Lord Chamberlain therewith and then they shewed it to the Lord Admiralâ— the Earls of Worcester and Northampton who instantly consulted what was fittest to be done omitting neither time dilligence nor industry all which notwithstanding they could not as yet find out the depth of this mystery and were therefore much troubled in mind because the appointed day of Parliament drue near which was Tuesday the fifth of November the Saturday before the King being returned from hunting the said Lord acquainted his Highness with what had past and when his Majesty had well noted the strange contents of the letter which purported the suddain ruine of the state the King said that notwithstanding the slight regard that should be given to scattered Libels yet this was more quick then was usually in Libels and willed them to search in all places as well not dayly frequented as of usual repair and as conceâ—ning any forraign disturbance or invaâ—ion he well knew the force and preparation of all Châ—istian Nations
and Condemned Henry Garnet Provinciall of the Iesuites in England for being acquainted with the Gunpowder plot and consealing the same for the which he was condemned to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered and his head to be set upon London Bâ—idge and according to that Sentence he was Executed the third of May at the West end of Saint Pauls Church where he acknowledged the greatnesse of his offence in consealing the treason and besought all Catholikes to forbear and desist from Treason and all other violent attempts whatsoever against Kings and Princes saying that all such practises were utterly against the Catholike Religion The twenty nine and thirtieth of March the winde was extreame violent so as it caused much Shipwrack upon the Coasts of England France and the Low Countreyes in brought in the Sea and drowned much Cattell and in Picardie neer Dyope it blew down a steeple which Slew sourscore persons in the fall thereof in Flanders and up towards Germany there were many Churches Townes Windemills and Trees blown down and the eighth of Iune following it rayned twenty four houres and the next day there arose great land floods which carried away Mills Trees and Houses made new Currants where never any was before it carried away great store of Cattell Timber and other things from off upland grounds The tenth of Iune Proclaimation was made for the banishing of all seminaries Jesuites and Roman-priests The fifteenth of Iuly the wife of Richard Homewood of East Grimsteed in Sussex without any known cause murdered her own three children and threw them into a pit and then cut her own throat likewise The twentieth of Ianuary it pleased God to send a mighty westwind which continued sixteen houres which brought in the sea by reason whereof and of high spring-tides both which encountred the land waters after a great raine which caused the River of Severn beginning as far as the Mount in Cornwal to overflow her banks all along on both sides up into Somerset shire and Glocester-shire in some places the water overflowed the banks three foot in other places five foot and some places seven foot by reason of which suddain inundation much people and cattle were drowned many Churches and villages borne down and spoyled and some utterly destroyed and in Wales in several places it did great harme in manner as aforesaid the like before was never known Maundy Thursday the second of April there hapned great inundations of water in Kent Essex Suffolk and Norfolk and the seventeenth of April there arose in the City of Coventry a most strange and dreadful inundation November the twenty sixth proclamation was made concerning the Earl of Tyrone Terconnel and others of Ireland signifying their purpose and practise to exterpit the English Nation out of Ireland and to confer and yield the kingdome of Ireland to the Pope and Tyrones soliciting forraign Princes to attempt the conquest thereof The twentieth of December proclamation was made to apprehend the Lord Maxwel who wounded the porter and so brake prison out of Edenborough Castle this Lord Maxwel ayded Iames Mackdonel to escape likewise December the eighth begun a hard frost and continued till the fifteenth of the same and then thawed and the twenty second of December it began again to freez very violently so as some persons went halfe wap over upon the ice and the thirtieth of December many people went quite over in many places and so continued till the third of Ianuary the people passed dayly between London and the Bank-side at every half ebb for the floud removed the ice and forced the people dayly to seek new paths except onely between Lambeth and the ferry at Westminster by which it became very firme passage untill the great thaw and from Sunday the tenth of Ianuary untill the fifteenth of the same the frost grew extreame so as the ice became firme and removed not and then all sorts of men women and children went boldly upon the ice in most parts some shot at pricks others bowled and daunced with other variable pastimes by reason of which concourse of people were many that set up boothes and standings upon the ice as fruit-sellers victuallers that sould beer and wine shoomakers and a barbers tent every of them had fire near unto them the fifteenth of Ianuary it began somewhat to thaw and so continued four daies together yet nevertheless the great ice upon the Thames held firm and passable and became somewhat smooth like as in the last great frost in the year 1564. which before were very craggy and uncertain the nineteenth of Ianuary the frost began again but not so violently until Sunday the twenty fourth of Ianuary and held on until the thirtieth of the same the first of February the ice began to break by little and little and the next day in the afternoon all the ice was gone and quite dissolved so as no sign remained thereof Many bridges were spoiled by this frost and much fowle peâ—ished especially small birds which in many places were found frozen to death this frost was more grievous in France and Ireland then in England February the ninth Sir Iohn Ramsey Knight Baron of Barnes Viscount Hadington married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Robert Earl of Sussex the King gave her in marriage and at dinner he drank to the Bride and the Bridegroom in a fair cup of gold which he gave him and with it six hundred pound a year pension out of the Exchequer to the longest liver of them both this the King did do to reward his faithful service against the dangerous treason of Earl Gowry in Scotland March the tenth was laid the first stone for the new building of Algate but it was not fully finished till the next year after this ouldgate was taken down and finished at the charges of the Citizens April the eleaventh George Iervas a Seminary was drawn to Tyburn and there executed April the eleaventh being Munday the quarter Sessions was held at Edmonsbury and by negligence an out malthouse was set on fire from whence in most strange and suddain manner through fierce winds the fire came to the farther part of the town and as it went left some streets and houses safe and untouched the flame flew cleare over many houses near unto it and did much spoile to many fair buildings fardest off and ceased not untill it had consumed one hundred sixty houses besides others and in dammage of wares and household goods to the full value of threescore thousand pound the King shewed a great deal of kindness to the distressed inhabitants as in giving them five hundred load of Timber to repair their houses as in preferring their best means to raise their general and particular estates and in giving them a new Charter the Knights and Gentlemen likewise of the County performed great kindness unto the townsmen the City of London gave freely towards their relief April the nineteenth at White-Hall dyed Thomas Earl of Dorcet Lord High Treasurer
avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
An. Dom. 1639 On the seventeenth of March 1639. The King set forth against the Scots attended with a Royall Army and on the seventeenth of Iune a generall accord was made at Barwick upon which the King presently disbanded his forces and returned to London whither he was no sooner come but the Scot did openly protest against the Pasification and retained the Officers of the Army in pay hereupon the King was inforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the antient Ceremonies was looked upon as addicted too much to to the Religion of Rome An. Dom. 1640 On the thirteenth of August 1640. Another Parliament assembled and the King finding that they had no desire to assist him with money to advance against the Scots but were ready to comply with them he dissolved that Parliament to the great grief both of City and countrey Iuly the eighteenth The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized Henry On the twentieth of August the King marched towards the North in his own person having received some large contributions from the Clergie and a very considerable number of the Gentry At Annick he understood of a defeat given by Generall Lesly to a party of his consisting of 3000. foot and 1200. Horse that Sir Iacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishoprick of Dirham and 300. pound a day on the Countey of Northumberland which sad newes did much afflict him On the twenty fourth of Septem the Lords being assembled with the King at Yorke it was resolved that a Parliament should be called on the third of November following In the mean time the English to gain a cessation of Arms was inforced to yeeld to the Scots unreasonable propositions This Parliament by reason of the long Sessions of it being called the long Parliament being met Master Prin Master Burton and Doctor Bastwick were released of their Imprisonment having great dammages allowed them The Earl of Straford the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Wren were impeached of High treason and to the Tower Sir Francis Windebank and the Lord Finch fled beyond the Seas and most of the Judges who had declared themselves for Ship money were voted delinquents Judge Barkely was arrested by the Usher of the Black Rod for high Treason as he sate one the Kings Bench. An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March 1641 the tryall was of the Lord Straford which continued many dayes and having said as much for himself as man could speak and the King himself interceding for him it made his cause the worse and on Wednesday the twelft of May he was beheaded on Tower Hill On the second of May the Lady Mary was married to the Prince of Orange with great solemnity Three hundred thousand pounds was ordered for the Scotch Army to send them out of England to which they were a charge unsupportable The Parliament adjourned from the eight of September to the twentieth of October and on the tenth of August the king went to Scotland and came back to London on the beginning of November following About the latter end of October brake out the barbarous inhumane Rebellion in Ireland where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of Ianuary 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen came into the house of Commons and seating him in the Speakers Chayre demanded five members of the house to be delivered to him whose names were Sir Ar. Hazelrig Master Denzill Hollis Master Prin Mr. Hamden and Master Sroud but finding they were not there he went into his coach for London being informed they were fled thither and made Proclamation for their apprehension which the Commons voted illegall and scandalous In February the King and Queen went to Canterbury with the Princes wife to the Prince of Orange the Queen understanding that the house intended to charge her with Treason went along with the Princesse her daughter into Holland Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down The king coming back to Greenwitch went afterwards towards Yorke in the mean time the Parliament doth Seise upon the Magazine at Hull and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed and the Earl of Essex appointed to be Generall the noyse of whose preparations doth hasten the King from Yorke to Nottingham where he Sets up his sttandard and much encreaseth his Forces as he marcheth on Sunday October twenty third was the great Battaile fought at Edgehill the fight terrible and five thousand slain upon the place He afterwards marcheth towards London and at Brainford defeateth a Regiment of the Parliaments but finding how numerous the Earle of Essex Army was that lay betwixt Brainford and London he retired to his Winter quarters at Oxford An. Dom. 1643 On the latter end of February 1643. the Queen who had bin accused of pawning the Jewels of the Crown came to him and brought great supplies of powder Arms and Ammunition The ensuing Summer made the King master of the North and West Some few places onely excepted The Earl of Newcastle had cleared all beyond the Trent but Hull and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice had redewced Bristol Exeter and all the Towns of any importance in the West Pool Lime and Plimotuh excepted but making some stay to reduce Glocester the Siege was raysed by the Earl of Essex and on the twentieth of September the famous Battaile of Newbery was fought where many were flain on both sides and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Reare of the Earle of Essex Army almost as far as Reading An. Dom. 1644 The K. being come to Oxford he Summoned a Parliament which appeared on the two and twentieth day of Ianuary and on the Sixteenth of the same moneth the Scots Army entred England consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse at this time Newark being besieged by Sir Iohn Meldrum with an Army of seven thousand Prince Rupert with four thousand horse and one thousand foot doth raise the siege not long afterwards Latham house was relieved by him The Queen went from Oxford to the west of England April 16. where at Exceter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains on the yeer before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford whose name was Katharine and died almost as soon as it was born The King having given a defeat to Sir William Waller at Cropredy Bridge advanced after the Earl of Essex and followed him so close that at last he forced him into Cornwal his horse taking the advantage of the night made a shift to escape but the foot came to capitulation and delivered up their Arms and Artillery there being nine thousand arms and forty nine pieces of excellent brass Ordnance the
king made such a stay in Cornwal that before he could return to Oxford the Earle of Essex was again in the head of an army seconded by the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller and at Neubery again there was a very hot incounter in which both sides drew off by degrees and the Parliaments side had the better of it Prince Rupert having marched from Latham house to York some certain moneths before there was a terrible fight at Marshon Moore between the army of the prince Rupert and the forces of the parliament where multitudes being slain there was three thousand taken prisoners twenty pieces of Ordnance and a considerable number of Officers not long afterwards York was surrendred and Colonel Brown at Abingdon performed remarkable service An. Dom. 1645 On the first of Ianuary 1645. Sir Iohn Hotham was executed on the Tower-hill for betraying his trust and on the next day his son followed the same fortune On the tenth of Ianuary the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury voted guilty of High Treason was brought unto the Scaffold on Tower-hill where his head at one blow was severed from his shoulders by the hands of the executioner The town of Taunton held out gallantly against the Kings party Pomferat was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale the Treaty at Uxbridge took no effect the Earl of Essex being thought to be too mild the Lord Fairfax is made Captain General of the Parliaments forces in the mean time the kings force who had taken the field not long before do range up and down the countreys and having relieved Chester they faced Leicester and presently after began to storm it the Kings Canons playing upon the town a whole day and a night many breaches were made and the contestation was carryed on with much resolution on both sides in some breaches they came to the push of pike on Saturday they entred the town where much treasure was taken and in hot blood many were put to the sword Sir Thomas Fairfax who as I have said was wholly made General in the place of the Earl of Essex hearing this advanced from Gilling to Naseby where observing great bodies of horse to appear on the hils neer Harborough he ordered the army to randezvouse neer to Naseby to which places the royal army made their approches Saturday the fourteenth of Iune both armies ingaged the King having the better at the first for Prince Rupert had routed one wing of the Parliaments horse and followed the chace at Maston Moor so unadvisedly that he left the whole body of the foot open to the other wing who giving them a gallant charge did put the whole army to an absolute rout and made themselves masters of the kings Camp carriage and canon and of his Cabinet also where many letters were found which the Parliament afterwards published After this Leicester was immediately reduced and General Fairfax marching into the West defeated the Lord Goring and became master of all the Garrisons in the West and for a conclusion of all had the City of Bristol surrendred unto him at the same time there being no hope of relief Pomfret and Scarborough and Carlile and some other Garrisons in the North did yield themselves unto the mercy of the Parliament and Bazing house which a long time had been besieged was stormed and taken by Lieutenant General Cromwel A great defeat was given to the Lord Hopton at Torrington and the same fortune attended Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Sherburn all being lost in the west the prince of Wales found the opportunity to conveigh himself into France The King marching toward Chester which was then besieged by Sir William Berton and Colonel Iones was persued in the way and charged in the front by the besiegers routed at Bouton heath where the Lord Bernard Stuart was killed upon the place the last of the three brethren that had lost their lives in their princes quarrel After this the King returned to Oxford and was so much incensed against his two Nephews prince Rupert and Maurice for delivering up such places of great importance in the west the loss of Bristow did most of all perplex him who thereupon when prince Rupert and his brother Maurice returned to Oxford did command them to be disarmed and would not suffer them to walk the streets with their swords by their sides as they had done formerly though afterwards they were restored again to all apparances of favour An. Dom. 1646 In the twenty first of March Sir Iacob Astley was beaten at Donnington neer unto Stow in the Wold in the which fight himself was taken prisoner and the kings hopes quite lost Wherefore on the twenty seventh of April he left the City of Oxford in a disguse and on the fourth of May did put himself into the hands of the Scots at Newark who carrid him to Newcastle which occasioned the surrender of Oxford to the Lord Fairfax on the twenty fourth of Iune following On the fifteenth of Iuly prince Rupert went for France and prince Maurice to the Hague In the midst of August or thereabouts the Scots sold the King for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in ready money the Commissioners sent by the House to receive him did bring him to Holmby On the fourteenth of September the Earl of Essex died An. Dom. 1647 In the moneth of February the Scots abandoned Newcastle and the Parliament voted the Army to disband those onely excepted who were reserved for the subduing of Ireland there began now to be some contestations in the House betwixt the Presbyterian and Independant party and the Parliament began to find that they had not the Army so much at their devotion as they conceived On the fourth of Iune Cornet Ioyce carried away the king from Holmby and brought him to Newmarket on the twenty eighth of Iune he was brought to Hatfield and from thence to Causam where after much importunity his children were permitted to come unto him at whose sight he was very joyful On the seventh of August the Lord Fairfax and his victorious Army did ride in triumph through the City of London a little before this there were eleven of the members of parliament impeached and Major General Massey and Colonel Poyntz abandoning the guarding of the City did fly over into Holland From Casam Lodge the King was removed to Hampton Court where being terrified with the apprehension of some dangers he put himself into the power of Col. Hammond in the Isle of Wight who secured him in Carisbrook Castle during his restraint in this place he wrote that excellent Book intituled Icon Basilicon Propositions were here sent unto him by both Houses of Parliament as had been before at Newcastle and Holmby house to which he returned the same answer as he did then An. Dom. 1648 The Parliament voted on the third of Ianuary that no more addresses should be made unto his Majesty February the twenty first Iudge Lenkins was brought unto the Bar of the House
for which he was fined a thousand pound and a charge was voted to be brought in against him The Welâ—h being up in arms to the number of eight thousand foot and four hundred horse were defeated by Colonel Horton There were several insurrections in Kent Cornwal Essex Suffolk Cambridge-shire and other places There was a sharp incounter at Maidstone betwixt the Kentish forces and those of the Parliaments the fight continued six houres at the last the town was taken and 1400 prisoners with good store of booty The Seamen revolt and refuse to serve the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Holland riseth in arms with the Lord Francis brother to the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis was killed about King-stone and the Earl of Holland flying to Saint Needs was taken by Col. Scroope and sent prisoner to Warwick Castle Sir Iohn Owen is taken prisoner in Wales the Kentish being scattered did put themselves in the town of Colchester which being strongly besieged by Sir Thomas Fairfax did yield upon composition Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were there shot to death and the noble L. Capel was reserved for the scaffold where he looked death in the face with an undaunted magnanimity The marriners that revolted being discontented that prince Rupert and prince Mauris were there Admirals fell off with the greatest part of their ships and return again to the Earl of Warwick Lieutenant General Cromwel having reduced Wales and the three Captains that were the ringleaders having yielded themselves whose names were Langhorn Poyer and Powel two whereof were afterwards shot to death he marched against the Scotts in Lanchashire who allthough they were formidable in their numbers yet he discomfits them takes all their Foot Canon Armes Ammunition the Duke did render himself prisoner to the Lord Gray Sir Marmaduke Langdale and Lievtenant General Middleton were both taken prisoners Following this blow Lie Ge. Crom. advanceth into Scotland suppressed all those that did there oppose him and had the towns of Barwick and Carlile delivered to him In the mean time the Parliament recal the Votes of no addresses to the King and ordered that a personal treaty should be at Newport in the Isle of Wight but the Commissioners sent thither spent so much time before they drew towards a conclusion that they gave the Officers of the Army the oppertunity to frame a remonstrance in which it was declared that the King was the sole cause of all that bloodshed which had been in the kingdome and nothing could be more expedient then to bring him to the barr of Justice in persuance whereof some of the officers having seized upon his person did bring him over to Hurst Castle in Hampshire and from thence by degrees to Windsor and at last to Westminster In the mean time the Army having purged the House of all those Members whom they conceived to be opposite to them they did erect a High-Court of Justice Serjeant Bradshaw being chosen to be presisâ—dent of it On Saturday Ianuary the twentieth his Majesty was brought from the Palace of Saint Iames unto Westminster-hall where being brought up into the Court he was no sooner sate but the Lord president told him that they were assembled by the authority of the Commons of England to proceed to his tryal for betraying the trust reposed in him by the people and commanded his charge to be read which was to this effect That being admitted King of England and intrusted with a limited power to govern according to the laws for the good of the people out of a wicked design to hold up a tyrannical power to overthrow the peoples rights he the said Charles Stuart hath trayterously and malitiously leavied war against the parliament particularly on or about the 13 of Iune 1642 at Beverley and on the 24 of August at Nottingham where he set up his Standard of war and on the 23 of October at Edgehil and at many other times in other places by which cruel and unnatural war by him levied much innocent blood hath been spilt much treasure wasted and some parts of the land spoyled even to desolation by which and by granting Commissions to the prince his son it appeareth that the said Charles Stuart is the author and contriver of the said unnatural war and thereby guilty of all the murders and Treasons committed in the said war for the which he is impeached as a Tyrant Traitor and Murtherer and it was desired that he may answer the premises that such procedings and sentences may be had upon him as are agreeable to Justice Lord President Sir you heard your Charge read and it is desired that in the behalf of the Commons of England you do put in your answer to it King I would know by what power I was called hither I was not long agoe in the Isle of Wight how I came thither it is too long to relate I would know by what lawfull Authority I was brought from thence and when I know that I shall answer Remember I am your King and what sins you bring upon your heads and think well upon it I say think well upon it before you go from one sin to a greater I will not betray my trust by answering to a new and unlawfull Authority Lord Presi If you had been pleased to have observed what had been-hinted to you you would have known by what Authority it is by that Authority which Authority require you in the name of the people of England by which you are Elected King to answer them King Sir I deny that Lord Presi If you acknowledge not the Authority of the Court they must proceed King Let me know by what Authority I am called hither I stand more for the priviledge of my people then any that is seated here Lord Press The Court desires to know whether this is all you will answer King I do desire that you would give me and all the World satisfaction in this It is no slight thing you are about I am sworn to to God for the peace of my Countrey and therefore you may do well first to satisfy God and afterwards the World by what Authority you do this There is a God in Heaven that will call you and all that gives you power to account Lord Pres The Court expects your finall Answer you desire satisfaction of their Aâ—â—hority It is by Gods Authority and that 's our present worke King That Which you have said satisfies no reasonable Man Lord Pres That is in your apprehension We that are your Iudges think it reasonabl The President commanded the King to be taken who accordingly was convayed back to S. Iamses On the Munday following the Court having met in the Painted Chamber did order that the King should be suffered to argue to the Iurisdiction of the Court which if he did the President should give him to understand That the Commons in England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted this Court whose power may not nor
into that liberty which I speak of they will never certainly enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that I am hither come for if I would have given way to an arbitrary power that is to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth sirs I should not hold you any longer I will onely say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would put this which I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have now done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have now delivered my conscience and I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdome and your own salvations Doctor Juxon Although it be very well known what your Majesties affections are to Religion yet because it may be expected that you should speak something to give satisfaction to the world therein I must beseech your Majesty to declare your self in that particular King I thank you heartily my Lord for this remembrance I had almost forgotten it in troth Sirs my conscience in religion is already as I think well known to all the world and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of Engl. as I found it left unto me by my Father and pointing to the Bishop of London this I do believe that this honest man will witnesse with me Then turning to the Officers he said Excuse me for the same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more On this the Bishop of London said unto him There is but one stage more this stage is full of noise and tumult it is but a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you from earth to heaven and there you will find an abundance of unrepented joy and comfort To this the King replied I passe from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where there is no disturbance no disturbance in the world The Bishop melting into tears assured him that he was exchanged from a temporall to an eternall crown a good exchange After this the King putting his hair under his cap after some short and fervent ejaculations in private with his hands and eyes lift up to heaven immediately stooped down and laid his neck upon the block and the King perceiving the Executioner prepared and armed to give the fatal blow said unto him Stay for the signe and after a very little pause stretching forth his hands the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body and even his enemies wept in private for what they had done in publick His body was put into a coffin covered with black velvet and carried from thence to his house at Saint Iamses where being embalmed and wrapped up in a sheet of lead it was exposed to the view of the people On Wednesday the 7 of Feb. his body was delivered to two of his servants to be buried at Windsor where the next day the Bishop of London the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hartford and the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton repaired and buried him in a vault in St. Georges Chappel it being the same vault where Henry the eight had beene heretofore interred The Life and death of Oliver Cromwel Lord Protector OLiver Cromwell was born in the town of Huntingdon he was descended from the family of the Williams in the Coun. of Glamorgan one whereof marrying with the onely child and daughter of the Lord Cromwell raised and beheaded by Henry the Eight the whole Family afterwards retained the Name of Cromwell which was thought more Honourable In the month of August 1649. Six moneths after the decease of King Charles Oliver Cromwell being chosen by the Parliament to be Governor of Ireland advanced into that Nation with a very gallant Army of Horse and Foot where having taken and besieged Dogheda by degrees became absolute master of that whole Nation In the same year Doctor Dorislaus who assisted at King Charles his death being sent as Agent into the Low Countreys was killed at the Hagne and Mr. Acham being not long afterwards sent as an Agent into Spain was killed at Madrid In the year 1650. the Common-wealth of England preparing to make war against the Scots Oliver Cromwell who for his many great services in the wars of England was made Lieutenant General was now chosen to be Generallissimo of the Armies of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax This year in the moneth of September was the famous battell of Dunbar where the English having totally overthrown the Scots did take ten Collonels 12 Lieutenant-collonels 9 Majors 47 Captains 72 Lientenants and eighty Ensignes two and twenty great Gunns and arms for fifteen thousand men In the same moneth Edenburgh and Leith were taken Col Eusebius Andrews being discovered to bring over Commissions to raise souldiers for the King of Scotland was condemned for it and beheaded on Tower hill Much about the same time Generall Blake at sea did ruine Prince Ruperts Fleet. In the year 1651. the Armes of the Crown of England were put down by order of Parliament and the Statues of King Chales were put down one of them at the old Exchange and the other at the west end of Pauls This year the Lord Saint Iohn and Mr. Walter Strickland were sent Ambassadors into Holland where they were much affronted by the English Royalists The Isle of Scilly was reduced and one Brown Bushell was beheaded at London a famous Royalist both by sea and land This year M. Love and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded on Tower-hill In the moneth of August the King of Scotland with an army of twelve thousand men did enter into England by the way of Carlile and on the third of September following was the battel at Worcester where the King of Scotland being over-powred lost the day where there were taken six Collonels of horse eight of foot thirty seven Captains of hoâ—se seventy three of foot seventy â—â—x Standards ninty nine Ensignes one hundred fifty and eight Colours all the Canon the Royall Standard the Kings coach and horses the King himself made an escape strangely and in a disguise passed unknown into France This yeare the Isle of Iersie was taken and the Isle of Man reduced and not long afterwards the strong castle of Gâ—ernsey was surrendred to the Paâ—liament In the moneth of May 1652. was the first Sea-fight betwixt the Engglish and the Hollanders Generall Blake gave the first volley and let flie three guns at Van-trumps flag to which Van-trump answered by a shot from the stern of his ship backwards signifying his disdain to veyl his flag and instead of striking his main top-saile he caused a red flag of