Mathew Apostle at Maulborowe at Bedford at CroydoÌ„ at s. Edmundsbery 22 xiiij g Mathew Apostle at Maulborowe at Bedford at CroydoÌ„ at s. Edmundsbery 23 iij A Andochy martyr 24  b Firmynmartyr 25 xj c Cyprian and Iustine 26 xix d Cosmy Damiany 27  e Exuperrij 28 viij f Michael archanâ— at Maulton at s. Iues Hadley Milnal Sittingborne 26  g Michael archanâ— at Maulton at s. Iues Hadley Milnal Sittingborne 30 KL October hath .xxxi. dayes The day is .x. houres the nighte .xiiii. ¶ Fayres xv A Remigius 1 iiij b Leodegarii 2 xij c Candidi martyr 3 ij d Frauncis confessor at Michel 4  e Fayth at Maydstone 5 x f Marci Marciliani at s. Sythes 6  g Pelagie 7 xviij A Dionisij ☞ Terme begyn 8 vij b Nicasius at Welles 9  c Wylfryde 10 xv d Trans of s. Edwarde 11 iiij e Calixt bysh at Grauesend 12  f Wolâ—rane ☞ Sol in Scor. 13 xij g Maurice martyr 14 j A Gaili confessor 15  b Maximini martyr 16 ix c Etheldrede vyrgyn 17  d Luke Euang. at Ely 18 xvij e Quirini martyr 19 vj f Austrebert 20  g Xj. M. virgyns 21 xiiij A Mary Salome 22 iij b Romani archbysh 23  c Chrispine 24 xj d Euerest 25 xix e Ursula 26  f Fast. 27 viij g Symon Iude apo at New market at Neeford at Ciceter 28  A Symon Iude apo at New market at Neeford at Ciceter 29 xvj b Symon Iude apo at New market at Heeford at Ciceter 30 v c Quyntyn martyr 31 KL Nouember hath .xxx. daies The day is .viii. houres the night .xvi. Fast. ¶ Fayres  b All sayntes day at Wakefield 1 xiij e All soules day at Blechyngly 2 ij f Wenefrede vyrgyn 3  g Amancius 4 x A Lete 5  b Leonard Newport ponde 6 xviij c Wyllybrord byshop 7 vij d Quatuor coronato 8  e Theodore martyr 9 xv f Martyn bysh of R. 10 iiij g Martyn at Marlborow Douer 11  A Paternie ☞ Sol in Sagit 12 xij b Brice at s. Edmundes bury 13 j c Trans of Erkenwald 14  d Macute 15 ix e Deposit Edmond 16  f Hughe byshop 17 xvij g Octa. Martini 18 vj A Elyzabeth 19  b Edmond kyng at Heth 20 xiiij c Present of our Lady 21 iij d Cecilie virgyn 22  e Clement bysh at Sandwych 23 xj f Grisogoni martyr 24 xix g Katheryne vyrgyn 25  A Peter byshop 26 viij b Uitalis agricole 27  c Ruffi ☞ Terme endâ—â— 28 xvj d Fast. at Maydenhead 19 x e Andrewe apost 30 KL December hath xxxi daies The daye is .vi. houres the nyght .xviii. ¶ Fayres xiij f Crisanti Darie martyr 1 ij g Libiany 2  A Deposit Osmond 3 x b Barbara virgyn 4  c Sabba ab at Puckley 5 xviij d Nicholas bysh at Spaldyng 6 vij e Oct. Andrew at Sandhorst 7  f Concep Mary 8 xv g Cypriane abbot 9 iiij A Eulalie 10  b Antippa ¶ Sol in Capri. 11 xij c Paule byshop 12 j d Lucy vyrgyn 13  e Nicasij 14 ix f Ualery 15  g O sapientia 16 xvij A Lazarus byshop 17 vj b Gracian byshop 18  c Uenesy vyrgyn 19 xiiij d Iulian martyr 20 iij e Thomas apostle 21  f 30. martyrs 22 xj g Uictor Uyrgyn 23 xix A Candidi 24  b Christmas day 25 viij c Steuen martyr 26  d Iohn Euangelyst 27 xvj e Innocentes daye 28 v f Thomas Becket at CaÌ„torbury 29  g Translat of s. Iames 30 xiij A Syluester bysh 31 A rule to knowe when the 〈◊〉 begynneth and endeth ¶ Eight dayes before any terme be the Exchequer openeth for certayntie except Trinitie terme which is but .4 dayes before ¶ Hillary terme begynneth the .xxiii. daye of Ianuary if it be not Sunday then the next daye after and endeth the .xii. daye of February ¶ Easter terme begynneth .xvii. dayes after Easter and endeth foure dayes after the Ascension daye ¶ Trinitie terme beginneth the nexte daye after Corpus Christi daye and endeth y e wednisday fortnyght after ¶ Mighelmas terme begynneth the .ix. daye of October if it be not Sunday and endeth the .xxviii. of Nouember ¶ In Easter terme on the AssentioÌ„ day In Trinitie terme on the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist In Michaelmas terme on the feast of All Sainctes In Hyllary terme on the feast of the Purification of our Lady y e Quenes Iudges of Westminster doe not vse to sit in iudgement nor vpon any Sundayes ¶ A table for .xxx. yeres to come The yeres of our Lorde God Letter Dominicaâ— Leape yeres Easter daye March or Apryll 1564 a b 2 A 1565 g  22 A 1566 f  14 A 1567 e  30 M 1568 c d 18 A 1569 b  10 A 1570 a  16 M 1571 g  15 A 1572 e f 6 A 1573 d  22 M 1574 c  11 A 1575 b  3 A 1576 g a 22 A 1577 f  7 A 1578 e  20 M 1579 d  19 A 1580 b c 3 A 1581 a  26 M 1582 g  5 A 1583 f 3â— M 1584 d e 29 A 1585 c  11 A 1586 b  3 A 1587 a  1â— A 1588 f g 7 A 1589 e  30 M 1590 d  19 A 1591 c  4 A 1592 a b 2â— M 1593 g  15 A ☞ In this table aboue what yere our Lorde God you doe chose within wrytten you shall strayght finde in the second rowe toward the left hand the Dominicall letter seruing for y e yere the third rowe sheweth the leape yeres the .iiij. rowe the number of the daye that Easter daye falleth on and the fift rowe the name of the moneth that Easter daye falleth on Note that the letter A. standeth for Apryll and the letter M. for Marche TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE and my very good Lord the Lorde Robert Dudley Earle of Leicester Baron of Dynghby Knyght of the honourable order of the Garter one of the Queenes most honorable priuie counsell and Maister of her maiesties horsse BECAVSE bothe by the vniuersall reporte of all men I heare and also by myne owne experience I perfectly know right honourable and my very good lorde how honorably and cherefully diuers workes presented to your lordship haue ben accepted I though of al others most simple was thereby encouraged to offer to your honour this my simple worke in token of my bounden duty The exaumple also of that famous Monarche Artaxerxes who so wel accepted the simple handfull of water that the poore Persian Sinetas brought him from the riuer Cyrus putteth me in good hope that youre honour who geue place to no man in humanitie and curtesie wil not mislike this simple signifieng of my good wylle For like as the mite of that poore widowe that is mencioned in the Gospell whiche she gaue in
A Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles Conteynyng the true accompt of yeres wherein euery Kyng of this Realme of England began theyr reigne howe long they reigned and what notable thynges hath bene doone durynge theyr Reygnes Wyth also the names and yeares of all the Baylyffes Custos maiors and sheriffes of the Citie of London sens the Conqueste dyligentely Collected by IOHN STOVV citisen of London in the yere of our Lorde God 1565. Whervnto is added a Table in the end conteynyng all the principall matters of this Booke Perused and allowed accordyng to the Quenes maiesties Iniunctions In aedibus Thomae Marshi KL Ianuary hath .xxxi dayes The day is .viii. houres the night .xvi. ¶ Fayres xviij A Circumcision of Christ 1  b Octa. of saynt Stephen 2 xj c Oct. of saynt Iohn 3  d Oct. Innocentes 4 xix e Deposit of saynt Edward 5 viij f Epiphanla Dom. at Salisbury 6  g Grant Withelmi 7 xvj A Lucian priest 8 v b Lewes confessor 9  c Paule the first Heremite 10 xiij d ¶ Sol in â—quary 11 ij e Rychard martyr 12  f s. Hillary martyr 13 x g Felicis 14 xviij A Archadius martyr 15 vij b S. Mauricius 16  c Saynt Anthony 17 xv d Prisce vyrgyn 18 iiij e Wolstan bysh 19  f Fabian Sebastian 20 xij g Agnes vyrgyn 21  A Uincent martyr 22 j b Emerense ¶ Terme begin 23  c Timothe at Bristow at Chirchingford 24 ix d CoÌ„uer Pauli at Bristow at Chirchingford 25  e Policarpe at Bristow at Chirchingford 26 xvij f Iulian confessor 27 vj g Ualerij bysh 28  A Theodore 29 xiiij b Basilij 30 iij c Saturnine Uictor 31 KL February hath .xxviii. daies The day is .x. houres the night .xiiii. ¶ Fayres  b Fast. Brygyd vyrgyn 1 xj c Parth. of Mary at Bath and Maydstone 2 xix f Blase bysh 3 viij g Gilbert confessor 4  A Agathe vyrgyn 5 xvj b Amandy byshop confessor 6 v c Anguly byshop 7  d Paule bysh ¶ Son in Pisces 8 xiiij e Apolen vyrgyn 9 ij f Scholastice vyrg 10  g Desidery byshop 11 x A Dorothe vyrg ¶ Terme endes 12  b Woulfrani byshop 13 xviij c Ualentyn martyr at FeuershaÌ„ 14 vij d Faustine Iouite 15  e Iulian vyrgyn 16 xv f Polycron byshop 17 iiij g Symon byshop 18  A Sabyn and Iulian martyr 19 xij b Myldred vyrgyn 20 j c Lxxix martyrs 21  d Cathedra Petri 22 xix e Fast. Locus bysexti 23  f Mathie apostle at Henly vpon Thames and at Teukesbury 24 xvij g Mathie apostle at Henly vpon Thames and at Teukesbury 25 vj A Mathie apostle at Henly vpon Thames and at Teukesbury 26  b Augustyn 27 xiiij c Oswalde byshop 28 KL Marche hath xxxi dayes The daye is .xii. houres the night .xii. ¶ Fayres tij d Dauid byshop 1  e Cedde confessor 2 xj f Maurice confessor 3  g Adrian 4 xix A Foce Eusebij 5 viij b Uictor and Uictorin 6  c Perpetue Felix 7 xvj d Deposit of Felix 8 v e Quadraginta mar 9  f Agathe vyrgyn 10  g Gorgonij martyr 11 xiij A Gregory byshop 12 ij b Theodore martyr 13 x c Longius mar ¶ Sol in aries 14  d Cyriaci mar 15 xviij e Hilary byshop 16 vij f Patrick Gertrudis 17  g Edward kyng confessor 18 xv A Ioseph the husband of Mary 19 iiij b Cutbert at Durham 20  c Benedic ab 21 xij d Aphrodosy byshop 22 j e Theodore martyr 23  f Fast. 24 ix g Anuntiae of Mary at Northampton at WaldeÌ„ at great Chart and at new 25  A Anuntiae of Mary at Northampton at WaldeÌ„ at great Chart and at new 26 xvij b Anuntiae of Mary at Northampton at WaldeÌ„ at great Chart and at new 27 vj c castel HuÌ„tingto al y e lady days 28  d Uictor martyr 29 xiiij e Quirini martyr 30 iij f Adelme byshop 31 KL Aprill hath .xxx. dayes The day is .xiiii. houres the night .x. ¶ Fayres  g Theodore vyrgyn 1 xj A Mary Egypciace 2  b Rychard byshop 3 xix c Ambrose 4 viij d Martian at Wallyngforth 5 xvj e Syxtus bysh 6 v f Egesippus at Darby 7  g Perpetuus at Bickelsworth at Byllingworth 8 xiij A Perpetuus at Bickelsworth at Byllingworth 9 ij b Perpetuus at Bickelsworth at Byllingworth 10  c ¶ Sol in Tauro at Esam 11 x d Gutlary the moÌ„day after 12  e Oswoldy archbyshop 13 xviij f Eufemie vyrgyn 14 vij g Olife 15  A Isidore 16 xv b Aniceti 17 iiij c Eleuthery byshop 18  d Alphe ¶ Terme begynneth 19 xij e Symon by The .3 sunday after Easter fayre at Louth 20 j f Symon by The .3 sunday after Easter fayre at Louth 21  g Symon by The .3 sunday after Easter fayre at Louth 22 ix A George Marke at Charing at Ipswiche Amtyll and HinningaÌ„ at Gilford 23  b George Marke at Charing at Ipswiche Amtyll and HinningaÌ„ at Gilford 24 xvij c George Marke at Charing at Ipswiche Amtyll and HinningaÌ„ at Gilford 25 vj d euangelist at Darby 26  e Anastasij 27 xiiij f Uitali martyr 28 iij g Petri Medolanensis 29  A Deposit Erkenwalde 30 KL May hath .xxxi dayes The day is .xvi. houres the nighte .viii. ¶ Fayres xj b Philip Iacob In. cru at RippoÌ„ at Stow the old at Reading Lecester CheÌ„sford 1  c Philip Iacob In. cru at RippoÌ„ at Stow the old at Reading Lecester CheÌ„sford 2 xix d Philip Iacob In. cru at RippoÌ„ at Stow the old at Reading Lecester CheÌ„sford 3 viij e Floriant martyr 4  f Godard 5 xvj g Iohn port latin 6 v A Iohn of Beuerley 7  b Aapparitio Mich. at Beuerley 8 xiii c Gengulfi martyr 9 ij d Gordian and Epimachy 10  e Ascention daye at Newcastell at Yern at Bermincham at s. Edes at bysh Standford 11 x f Ascention daye at Newcastell at Yern at Bermincham at s. Edes at bysh Standford 12  g Boniface martyr at Newcastell at Yern at Bermincham at s. Edes at bysh Standford 13 xviij A Boniface martyr at Newcastell at Yern at Bermincham at s. Edes at bysh Standford 14 vij b Seruacij confessor 15  c Translat off Bernard 16 xv d Dioscorides martyr 17 iiij e Dunston byshop 18  f Bernardyne 19 xij g Helene Queene 20 j A Whytsunday at s. Tyues at Canterbury Royston and Stow the old Kingston vpon Thames 21  b Whytsunday at s. Tyues at Canterbury Royston and Stow the old Kingston vpon Thames 22 ix c Whytsunday at s. Tyues at Canterbury Royston and Stow the old Kingston vpon Thames 23  d Whytsunday at s. Tyues at Canterbury Royston and Stow the old Kingston vpon Thames 24 xvij e Adelme byshop 25 vj f Augustin
Nortō S This yere in Smithfield was helde a great Iustes betwene the Henowayes and Englyshemen in the whiche were many feates of armes done Anno. 11. Richard Marlowe Ironmonger M. Iohn Lawe S wil. Chichley S Iohn Badley taylour was brente in Smithfielde for the Sacrament of the Aulter This yeare the market house called the Stockes in London was begon to be buylded Anno. 12. Tho. Knolles Grocer M. Io. Penne S. Tho. Pike S. This yeare a squier of Wales named Rice ap Dee which had longe tyme rebelled agaynst the Kyng was broughte to London and there drawen hanged and quartered This yeare was the Guyld Halle of London begon to be newe buylt and of an olde and lyttell cotage made into a fayre goodly house as it now apereth Anno. 13. Robert Chicheley Grocer M. Iohn Rainewel S Williā Cotton S This yeare the .xii. daye of October the Thames flowed thrise in one day And this yere the kyng caused a new coyne of nobles to be made which were of lesse value then the old by iiii.d in a noble Anno. 14. Williā waldren Mercer M Rafe Leuēhind S. williā Seuenoke S. This yeare after the great and fortunate chaunces happened to Kyng Henry beyng deliuered of all ciuile diuision and discētion he mynded to make a voiage agaynst the infidels and especially for the recouery of Ierusalem and for that cause prepared a greate army and gathered muche treasure entendyng to set forward in the same sprynge When he had thus prepared all thynges necessary for his voyage he was taken wyth an Apoplerie of the whiche he languyshed tyll his appoynted hower Duryng which sycknes as auctors write he caused his Crowne to be set on the pyllowe at hys beds head and sodeynly his pang so sore troubled hym that he laye as all hys vital spirites had ben departed such as had cure of hys body thynkyng hym to be deade couered his face with a lynnen cloathe The prince hys sonne beyng therof aduertysed entered into the Chamber and toke away with hym the crowne and departed the father beyng sodaynly reuyued out of his traunce quickely perceyued y e lacke of his crown and hauyng knowledge that the prynce had possessed it caused hym to repayre to his presence requirynge of hym for what cause he had so misused hym selfe The Prynce aunswered syr to my iudgement you semed dead wherfore I as your next heyre tooke it as myne and not as yours wel sonne sayd the kyng what ryght I had to it and howe I enioyed it God knoweth well quod the Prynce if you dye kynge I wyll haue the garlande and trust to kepe it with the sworde as ye haue done well sayde the kyng I commyt all to God and remember you to doo well and with that turned hym selfe and shortly after departed in a chamber of the Abbottes of Westmynster called Hierusalem the xx daye of Marche in the yere of our lorde .1412 When he had reigned .13 yeres syxe monethes and nyne dayes and was buried at Cauntorbury King Henry the fifth Anno Regni .1 HEnry y e fifte began his reigne the .xx. daye of Marche in the yere of our lorde .1412 and deceased the last day of August in the yere .1422 so he reigned .ix. yeres fyue monethes and tenne dayes He was a Prynce of great noblenes prowes of stature and personage talle and sclender of nature gentle and lyberall in dedes of armes expert and cunnyng wherby he conquered manfully his enemies and broughte Fraunce to his subiection before the death of his father he applied and gaue hym selfe to all vice and insolencie of lyfe and drewe vnto hym riotous and wildely disposed persones but whan he was admitted to the rule of the land sodaynly he became a newe man and turned all that rage of wyldnes into sober and wyse behauior and vice into vertue and that he myght not be agayne corrupted he charged all his olde companions that vpon payne of their lyues none of them should come within tenne myles of the place that he was lodged in He caused Iohn Lidgate monke of Bery to translate certayne verses of the psaltar into english myter whiche he vsed in his deuyne seruice This yere about haruest tyme was syr Iohn Olde castell knight appeached for an hereticke and committed to pryson but he brake out of the tower and went to Walis where he lyued .iiii. yeres after Anno. 1. Wil. Crowmer Draper M. Ioh. Suttō S. Iohn Mycol S. Certayne adherentes of the forenamed syr Iohn Oldecastel intending the destruction of this lande and subuersiō of the same assembled them in Thickettes fielde nere vnto saynt Gyles in great number whereof the kyng beyng informed toke the fyeld afore them and foke of them so many that all the prysons in and about London were filled The chiefe of them whiche were .xxix. were condempned by the Clergie of heresie and attaynted of hyghe treason as mouers of warre agaynst their kyng by the temporall lawe in the Guyldhall adiudged for treason to be drawen hāged and for heresy to be cōsumed w t fire whiche was executed accordingly in Ianuary folowyng The chiefe of these rebelles was syr Robert Acton knyght Iohn Browne Esquser and Iohn Beuerley priest as testyfieth Edward Hal. Anno. 2. Thomas Fauconer Mercer M. Iohn Michell S. Tho. Allyn S. This yere the kyng made great prouision to sayle into Fraunce with an army whyle he was shipping of his people syr Rychard erle of Cambrydge syr Rychard Scrope treasorer of England and syr Thomas Graye knyght were arrested for treason and so strayghtly examyned that it was cōfessed that they were purposed to haue slayne the kyng by the corrupting of the Frenche men wherfore they were all three adiudged to die and were headed at Hampton Then kyng Henry tooke shypping with a great power and sayled into Normādie toke the town of Harflewe where he was compassed about with a great hoste of french mē to y e nūber of .40000 He hauyng but .13000 footemen and 2000. speares He slewe of his enemies 10000. and toke prisoners nye as many This was called the battayle of Agyncourt of the whiche ye may reade more at large in Fabian and Hall Anno. 3. Nycholas Walton Draper M. Wil. Cābridge S Allein Euerard S This yere the Emperour Sigismōd came into Englād to entreate a meanes of peace betwene the kynges of England and Fraūce but al was in vayne for in the ende no peace could be concluded and kyng Henry went agayne into Fraunce Anno. 4. Henry Barton Skinner M. Ro. Wodyngtō S Iohn Couentree S This yere in Fraunce kynge Henry obteyned many victories and gotte all the townes and holdes in Normandy sauyng Roban whiche he strongly besieged This yere on Easter day was a great fraye in saynt Dunstones churche in the East the begynners thereof was the lorde Straunge and
and the inhabitantes of the same strete which fray began in the nyght and continued tyll the next day where were many mē slayne and hurt on bothe parties Anno. 21. Iohn Thirley Irōmōger M. Tho. bewmoūt S Rich. Nordon S The steple of Paules churche in London was set on fyre with lightnyng and lastly quenched by great diligence of many men but chiefly through the labour of a priest of Bowe in cheape Anno. 22. Thomas Carworth Grocer M Nicolas wilford S Iohn Norman S An act was made by the common coū sayle of London that vpon the sondaye should no maner of thyng within the francheses of the Citie be bought or sold Anno. 23. Henry Frowicke Mercer M. Stephē Foster S Hugh Wyche S Kyng Henry by the aduice of the erle of Suffolke toke to wyfe Margaret the kynges daughter of Sicile and refused the daughter of the Erle of Arminake with whome he had made his fyrst contract which thyng was cause of muche miserie and trouble in England as fyrst the losyng of Normandy the diuision of the lordes within the realme the rebellion of the Commonaltie agaynste the Prince and fynally the Kynge deposed and the Quene with the prince fayne to flee the realme Henry Chicheley byshop of Canturbury dyed who in hys lyfe time builded two houses for studentes in the vniuersitie of Oxenforde called Alsolne colledge and Bernarde colledge Anno. 24. Symond Eyre Draper M. Iohn Derby S Godfrey Fildyng S Thys Symon Eyre afore named builded the Leaden hall in London and also a beautifull chapell in the east ende of the same Ouer the gate whereof was written as foloweth Dextera Domini exaltauit me That is to saye The Lordes ryght hande hath exalted me Wherby be doyng so notable a worke for the common weale also lefte a notable example to other Citezens commyng after hym whom God likewise exalteth with such temporall blessynges that they be not vnthankefull to God and theyr cōmon weale wherin they haue receued them This yere was a peace concluded with France for one yeare Anno. 25. Iohn Onely Mercer M. Robert Horne S. Godfrey Boloyne S. Humfrey Duke of Gloucester and protectour of Englande was at the parliament of Bury arrested and .vi. days after he was found dead in his bedde of his deathe are dyuerse opinyons whych I ouerpasse Hee was huryed at Saint Albones William Wamflete a man of greate deuotion wysedome and Iustice was made byshop of Winchester and Chancelloure of Englande thys man to the fortheraunce of letters and studious yong men erected the famous colledge of Marye Magdalene in Oxenford Anno. 26. Iohn Gidney Draper M. Williā Abraham S. Thomas Scotte S. This yeare was taken the towne of Fogers from the Englyshemen which was the cause that all Normandye was loste after warde Anno. 27. Stephen Browne Grocer M. Williā Catlow S. Williā Marrow S. This yeare Roan was yelded to the Frenche Kyng Anno. 28. Thomas Chalton M. William Hulyn S. Tho. Canynges S. The Marques of Suffolke was banished the land for .v. yeares to appeace the rumor of the commons of England for the death of the duke of Gloucester who saylyng toward France was mett on the sea by a shyp of warre and there presently beheaded by the capitayn called Nicholas of the tower and the dead corps cast vp at Douer vpon the sandes the fyrst day of May. The commons of Kent in great number assembled on Black Heath hauyng to their captain Iack Cade naming him self Mortimer Against whom the kyng sent a great armye but by the sayd capitain and rebelles they were discomfited and syr Humfrey Stafford Williā hys brother wyth many other slayne After this victorie the Capitaine and rebelles cam to London and cut the ropes of the drawe brydge and entred the citye and stroke his sworde on London stone saying Nowe is Mortymer lord of this citie Upon the third day of Iuly he caused the lorde Saye to be brought to the Guylde Hall of London there to be arraigned Whyche before the Kynges Iustices desyred to be tried by his peres but the capitayn perceyuing hys delay by force tooke hym frome the officers and at the standarde in Cheape smote of hys head Hee also beheaded syr Iames Cromer at the mylls ende And pytchynge these two heades on two polles entred the Cytie and in despite caused them beynge borne before hym in euery streete to kysse togyther After thys murder succeded open robberye wythin the Cytie But the Maior and other sage Maiestrates perceiuynge theymselues nother to bee sure of goodes nor lyfe determyned to expulse this vngracious companye and sente to the Lorde Scales keeper of the tower who promysed hys ayde wyth shootyng of ordinaunce and Mathewe Gough was appoynted to assyst the Mayre so the capitaines of the Citie tooke vpon them in the nyght to keepe the brydge prohybytyng the Kentyshe men to passe The rebelles hearyng the bridge to be kept ranne with great force to open that passage where betwene bothe partes was a fierce encounter The rebelles draue the Citelyns frome the stoulpes at the Brydge foote to the drawe bridge and sette fyre in dyuers houses In conclusyon the rebelles gat the drawe bridge and drowned and slewe manye This conflict endured tyll .ix. of the clocke in the mornyng in doubtfull chaunce so that bothe partes agreed to desiste from fyght tyll the next day vpon condition that neither Londoners should passe into Southwarke nor the Kentishmen in to London Then the archbishop of Canturbury being Chancellor with the byshop of Winchester passed into Southwarke where they shewed a generall pardon for all offenders vnder the kynges greate seale whyche they caused to be proclaymed wherevppon the whole multitude retyred home but through a proclamation beyng made that who so coulde apprehend the sayd Iacke Cade shoulde haue a M. markes one Alexander Iden founde hym in a gardein who in hys defence slewe the said Iack Cade and brought his body to London where his head was set on London brydge The bishop of Salisbury was murdred by y e cōmons of the west countrey Anno. 29. Nicolas Wiford grocer M Io. Middleton S Williā Dere S The whole duchy of Normandy was yelded to the frenche kynge by meanes of the Quene and the duke of Somerset whiche caused so muche trouble in England that mortall warre ensued Anno. 30. Williā Gregorie skinner M Mathew Philip S. Christop wartō S. A commotion began thys yere by the duke of Yorke and other noble menne which was appeased for a tyme and the malice dissembled Anno. 31. Godfrey M. Feldyng M. Richard Lee S. Richard Alley S. Thys yeare the Quene was delyuered of a Prynce who was called Edwarde Anno. 32. Iohn M. Norman M. Draper M. Iohn Waldern S. Thomas Coke S. Before this Maiors yeare the Maior sheriffes and commons were wonte to ryde to Westmynster when the Maior should take hys charge but
Castile King Henry the eight Anno Regni .1 THe renoumed prince HeÌ„ry the eight beyng .xviii. yeres of age succeded his father in the gouernance of this realme and began his reigne the .xxii. day of Aprill in the yere of our Lord .1509 and deceased in the yere .1546 the .xxviii. day of Ianuary so he reygned .37 yeares .ix. monethes and .vi. days Of personage he was tall and myghtie in wytte and memorie excellent of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie and gentlenesse as was comely in so great a prince Margaret mother to Henry the .viii. buylded .ii. colledges in Cambridge and Willyam byshop of Lyncolne buylded Brasenos in Oxenford Kyng Henry maried the lady Katherin late wyfe to prince Arthure Richard byshop of Wynchester buylded Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxenforde Anno. 1. Thomas Bradbury mercer M George Monoxe S Iohn Doket S Thys yeare syr Rycharde Empson knyght and Edmund Dudley Esquier who had ben great counsaylours to the late kyng Henry the seuenth were beheaded at the tower hyll the .xvii. daye of August Whose attachement whervpon folowed y e execution was thought to be procured by the malyce of theym who wyth theyr auctoritie in the late Kynges dayes were offended orels to shyft the noyse of the straight execution of penall statutes in the late Kynges dayes by punyshment of those persons so saythe Halle Thys Edmonde Dudley compyled one notable boke and named it the tree of common wealth The oryginall copie whereof I haue seene though rudely written worthy for the excellencie thereof to be written wyth letters of golde A copy wherof I haue geuen to the ryght honorable lorde the Earle of Leicester Sir WylliaÌ„ Fitz wylliaÌ„s was disfranchysed because he would not be sheriffe This yeare master doctor Colet deane of Poules erected a free schole in Paules churche yarde in London and committed the ouersyght therof to the maisters and wardeynes of the company of Mearcers because hym selfe was borne in London and sonne of Henry Colet whoe was a Mearcer and Maior of London Anno. 2. Henry Keibell mercer M. Iohn Milborn S Iohn Reste S Henry the fyrst son of king HeÌ„ry the right was borne on new yeres day for ioyâ— wherof a great iustes was kepte at Westminster on saint Mathewes day folowyng the chylde dyed Anno. 3. Roger Achiley Draper M. Nico. Shelton S Tho. Mirfyn S King Henry sent the lord Darcy with a goodly company of men into Spayne to ayde the kynge hys father in lawe against the Moores but ere he arriued a peace was concluded betwene theym wherefore shortely after he retourned home agayne The same tyme syr Edwarde Poynyngs accompanied with the lord Clinton and dyuers other was sente into Gelderland with .xv. C. archers to aide the prince of Castile at the requeste of Margaret Duches of Sauoye and Regent of Flanders Syr Edmond Haward and the lorde Thomas Haward toke Andrew Barton and .150 Scots with .ii. great ships The kyng of Scottes requyred hys shyps that were lately taken to bee restored accordyng to the league but answer was made by kyng HeÌ„ry that the matter perteined nothing to the league because that Andrew Barton was a pirate and robber on the seas The .xv. day of Ianuary was holden a parliament in the which two fiftenes and two tenthes of the clergie wer graÌ„ted to ayde the king in his warres that he entended agaynst the French kyng Anno. 4. William Copinger fishmoÌ„ger M. Rob. Holdernes S Rich. Haddon S Rob. FeÌ„rother S This yeare was finyshed the beautifull steple with the lanterne of Bowechurche in cheape The lorde Marques Dorset with diuers other lordes and knyghtes was sent into Spain with an army of .13000 men who a good part of the sommer dyd much harme in Guyon by spoilyng the countreis But in wynter returned by meanes of a flixe which fell among his men Sir Edward Haward admirall of Englande with a great nauie scowred the seas and then went toward Britayne Kyng Henry sent forth a nauy of .xxv. shyppes among the which the Regent a shyppe royall was chiefe Sir Edward Haward lorde admirall of Englande through his to muche hardinesse was slayn in Britayn after whoÌ„ his brother syr Thomas Hawarde was made admirall by the Kyng The nauies of Englande and France metynge at Britayne Baye foughte a cruell battaile in the whiche the regent of England and a Caricke of Fraunce beyng crappled together were burned and their captaynes with theyr men all drowned the englishe capitayn was sir Thomas Kneuet who had wyth hym 700. men in the frenche carricke was sir Piers Morgan with .900 men Anno 5. WilliaÌ„ Brown mercer M. Iohn Dawes S. Iohn Bridges S. Roger Basforde S. Kyng Henry beyng confederate with the Emperour and the kyng of Spayn passed with a great power into France where hauyng in wages vnder his banner the Emperor Maximilian all the nobilitie of Brabant Flaunders Holland he discomfited the whole power of France conquered Turwyn and the great citie of Turney In thys time the kynge of Scots not withstandyng that he was sworn on the sacrament to kepe peace inuaded this land with a myghty Armie but by the good diligence of the Quene and the policie and manhode of the Erle of Surrey the kynges lieutenant he was hym selfe slayne with .xi. of his erles and the Scottes discomfyted but not wythout great losse of Englyshemen Before this tyme the townes about London as Islington Horton suche other had so enclosed the common fields with hedges and dyches that neyther the yong men of the citie myght shoote nor the ancient persons walke for their pleasure except either theyr bowes and arrowes wer broken or taken away or the substanciall persons arested or endited saying That no Londoner shoulde go out of the citie but in the hygh ways This saying sore greued the LoÌ„doners and sodainly this yeare a great number of the Citie assembled in a mornyng a turner in a fooles cote cam crying thorough the citie shouels spades so many people folowed y t it was wonder and within a short space al the hedges about the townes were cast down and the dâ—ches filled and euery thing made plain The kynges counsaile hearyng of thys assemblie came to the graye friers and sent for the Maior and counsaile of the citie to knowe the cause which declared to them the noysance done to y e citisens and their commodities and liberties taken from them though they wold not yet the coÌ„minaltie whiche were anoyed would plucke vp and remedy the same When the kynges counsayle had heard the answer they dissimuled the matter and coÌ„manded the Maior to see that no other thynge were attempted and to cal home the citisens which when they had done their enterprise came home before the kyngs couÌ„sell and the Maior departed without any more harme doyng and soo after the fieldes were neuer hedged Sir Iohn Wallop burned diuers tounes and villages in Normandie
the towre wharffe of London where syr Edmond Walsyngham lieftenant of the Towre stayed them bothe and tooke bothe the captaynes and their men The vii daye of Aprill the lord maister of the Rhodes came to London and laye at saynt Iohnes in Smythfielde The .17 day of Iune y e terme was adiourned to Mighelmas after because of the sweting sicknes that thē reigned in London other places of this Realme This yere because of y e sweting sicknes ther was no such watch in Lōdō at Midsomer as beforetime had hē acustomed The vii day of October came to lōdō a legate from Rome called Cardinall Campegius who afterward with Cardinall Wolsey sate at the Black fryers in London where before them was brought in question the kinges mariage with Queene Katheryne as to be vnlawfull but they longe tyme protracted the conclusion of the matter whiche delaye kyng Henry tooke very displeasauntly in so muche that shortly after the Cardinall Wolsey was deposed frō the Chauncelorshyp of Englande c. as ye may reade in Edward Haule Anno. 20. S. Iohn Rudstone Draper M. Ra. warrē S. Iohn Lōg S. The .xxix. daye of Nouember the parysh priest of Hony lane and a yong mā that some tyme was vsher of saynt Anthonies schole bare fagottes at Paules and two other one a ducheman the other an Englysheman bare tapers of ware The .viii. daye of May a pouchmaker bare a fagot at Paules The .vi daye of September one Iohn Scot woodmonger did penaunce in Chepe and other places of y e citie goyng in his shert bare legged bare footed and proclamation made at the standard at Leden hal at Erace church vpō his demeanor against the Maior Aldermen and the shirifes The .xviii. daye of October was the Cardynall discharged of his Chauncelorshyp the kyng seased al his goodes and his palaice at Westmynster called Yorke place into his hādes and the 25. daye of the same moneth the Cardinall went from Yorke place to Ashere with xxx persons and no more and there to abyde tyll he knewe further the kynges pleasure The .xxvi. daye of October was syr Thomas More made Chauncelour of England and sworne kepte his rome all one daye Wyllyam Tyndale translated the newe testament into englysh and printed the same beyonde the seas A peace was agreed vpon betwene kyng Henry of Englande the Emperour the Frenche kynge the kynge of Boheme and Hungary The thyrd day of October the kyng came to his place of Brydewell and there he and his nobles put on their robes of parliament so came to the black friars and there sat in their robes began the parliament Anno. 21. Syr Raufe Dodmer Mercer M. Mich. Dormer S Wal. Chāpion S Cōmaundement was geuē by kyng Henry to the byshops that Tyndales translation of the newe testament shuld be called in and that they should see an other set forth to the profit of the people The xiii day of Ianuary was a great fyre in the Uintry and much hurt done The .24 day of Ianuary were .iii. mē one a Gascoyne and twoo Irishe men drawen from newgate to the towre hil and there hanged and quartered for coūterfeityng the kynges coyne The .xvi. daie of May was a gybet set vp in Fynsbury field and a mā hanged in chaines for murderyng doctor Myles Uicar of saint Brydes The .v. daye of Iuly was one hanged in chaynes in Fynsbury field for murdering mistres Kneuets mayde at saint Antolins parishe Kyng Henry vpon occasion of delay y t the byshop of Rome made in his controuersie of diuorcemēt through displeasure of such reports as he heard made of hym by the Cardinalles to the court of Rome and thirdly pricked forwarde by some councellors to folowe the example of the Germaynes lastly caused proclamation to be made in Septēber forbyddynge all his subiectes to purchase any maner of thing from the court of Rome Anno. 22. sir Th. Pargitour Salter M. wil. Daūcie S I. Choping S The .v. day of April was a cooke named Rychard Rose boyled in a cauldron of brasse in Smythfield for poysoning y e byshop of Rochesters seruaūtes other The Cardinall being before cast cōuict in a premunire in Nouember was arrested by the erle of Northūberland at Cawood and died at the abbey of Leicester the .28 day of Nouēber was there buried as he shuld haue ben brought to the tower of London The whole clergie of Englād beyng iudged by the kinges learned counsel to be in the premunire for maintaining y e power legatiue of y e Cardinal were called by proces into the kynges benche to answere wherefore in their conuocatiō they concluded a submissiō wherin they called the king supreme head of y e church of England and were cōtented to geue the kynge .100000 poundes to pardon them their offences touching the premunire by acte of parliament This yere the kyng purchased at his pleasure y e whole house of saint Iames and al the medowes about y e same And there made a fayre māsion and a parke and buylded many costly and commodious houses for great pleasure The .xix. daye of August the byshop of Norwich burned a batcheler of lawe called Thomas Bilney The .xxii daye of October one Paitmer a marchaunt and a glasier bare fagottes at Paules crosse Anno. 23. S. Nich. Lambert Grocer M. Ri. Greshā S Ed. Altam S The .xxvii. daie of Nouember was a monke of Bury burned in Smithfielde The .iiii. daye of December was one Ryce Grifyn a gentylman of Wales beheaded at the tower hyl and his man hanged drawen and quartered at Tyborne for treason The .xxvii. daye of Ianuary a Duche man bare a fagot at Paules crosse The last day of April was one Baynam burned in Smithfield The .xxv. daye of May was taken betwene London and Grenewiche twoo great fyshes called Herlpoles bothe a male and a female This yere the othe that the clergie was wonte to make to the byshoppe of Rome was made doyde by statute and a newe othe confirmed wherein thei cōfessed the kyng to be supreme head Syr Thomas More after sute made was discharged of the Chauncelorshyp the .xvi. daye of Maye And the fourth of Iune the kynge dubbed Thomas Audeley knyght and made hym keeper of the great seale And not long after lord Chauncelour of England Thomas Cromwell maister of the kynges Iewell house began to bee in great fauour with kyng Henry was nowe of his counsell The .xv daye of Iune were fyue men drawen from newgate to the tower hil and there hanged and quartered for coynyng of syluer and clyppyng of golde The fyfth daye of Iuly was a priest dwellyng at saint Androwes besyde the wardrop drawen from newgate to the tower hyll and there hanged and quartered for clippyng of golde Also in Iuly the
who was before the common sergeant of London as is aforesayd The .iiii. day of Iune a man and hys wyfe borne in Holland were burned in Smithfield for the arrians heresie The .xviii. day of Iune wer .iii. monks of the Charterhouse named Ermewe Midlemor Nudygate drawen to Tyborne and there hanged and quartered The .xxii. day of Iune was doctor Fysher byshop of Rochester beheaded at tower hyll his head was set on London bridge and hys bodye buryed wythin Barkyng churche The .vi. day of Iuly syr Thomas More was beheaded at the tower hyll for deniall of the kinges supremacie The erle of Kyldar dyed in the tower of London and his son Thomas Fitzgarret rebellyng in Ireland slewe the byshop of Deuelyng and toke the kinges ordynaÌ„ce Wherefore kyng Henry sent thyther sir William Skeuington wyth a company of souldiours In October the kyng sent doctor Lee to visite the abbeys priories and nonneries in England to put out all religious persons that would go and all that were vnder the age of .xxiiii. yeres and all such monkes chanons fryers that were so put out the abbot or prior shold geue euery one in stede of their habite a priestes gowne and .xl. s. of money And the nonnes to haue such apparell as secular women weare and to goe where they would he toke out of monasteries and abbeyes their reliques and chiefest iewelles Anno. 27. sir Iohn Alleyne mercer M. HuÌ„fr Monmothe S Iohn Cottes S The .xi. day of Nouember was a great procession at London by the kynges coÌ„mandement wherin the waites of the Citie goyng formost folowed the chyldren of the grammer schole of the mercers chapell with theyr master the scholers of Sainct Antonies with theyr master and vsher the scholers of Poules schole with their master vsher then al the minstrels of London in theyr best apparell and the mayster of the sayde mynstrelles with his coller next went the crouched fryers the Austen fryers the whyte friers the graye fryers the blacke friers all in copes wyth theyr crosses and Candelsticks The chanons of saint Mary Auderies of sainct Bartholomewes of Esyng Spittle of sainct Spyttle wyth the pryours of the same houses wyth theyr Crosses candelstyckes and vergerers before theym then the clerkes of London in copes the priestes of London in theyr copes And then the Monkes of newe abbeye of Berdmondsay abbay and of Westminster al syngynge the Letanie with Faburden theyr Crosses candelstyckes and Uergerers before theim After them came Poules quier wyth theyr residensaries The byshoppe of London and the abbottes mytered in theyr Pontificalibus After theym came the Bachelers of the companye of the lorde Mayor in theyr beste apparell After them the Lorde Maior in a gowne of blacke veluet wyth a hoode of the same and the Aldermenne in theyr gownes of scarlette after theym the craftes of London in theyr degrees The numbre of copes that were worne in this Procession was .vii. C. and .xiiii. The laste daye of December the Lorde Maior of London gaue commandement to all paryshes in the same to brynge in before hym the names of all the Chauntries in theyr paryshes and who had the gyfte of the same The .viii. daye of Ianuarie dyed lady Katherine do wager at Kymbalton and was buryed at Peterborowe Quene Anne ware yelow for the mournyng In February were geuen to the king by a parliament with the consent of the abbottes all religious houses that were of .300 marke and vnder On May day beyng the .xxviii. yeare of kyng Henry he beyng at a Iustes at Grenewiche to the admiration of all men sodeynly departed to Westmynster hauynge onely with hym .vi. persons The next day lady Anne Bullein Quene was had to the tower and there for thynges layd to her charge shortely after beheaded the .xix. day of May. And on the ascension day folowyng the kyng ware white for mournyng The same tyme were apprehended the lorde Rocheforde brother to the said Quene Henry Noris Marke Smeton william Brierton and Francis weston all of the kynges priuie chamber whiche also aboute matters touchynge the Quene were put to death the .xxii. daye of Maye The weke before whitsontyde beyng the .20 day of Maye the kynge maried Lady Iane daughter to syr Iohn Seymor knyghte whiche at Whytsontide was openly shewed as Quene The .viii. day of Iune the Kyng held his hyghe courte of parliament In the whyche parliament tyme the byshops clergie of this realm held a solempne conuocation at Paules churche in London where after muche disputynge and debatyng of many matters they publyshed a boke of religion entitled Articles deuised by the kynges hyghnes In this boke is specially mencioned but .iii. sacramentes with the whiche the Lincolneshice men were offended and fearyng the vtter subuertion of theyr olde religion which they had lyued in so many yeares raised a greate commotion and gathered together wel nere .20000 men agaynst whom the kyng dyd sende a stronge power wherof when the rebelles had knowledge they desyred pardon brake vp theyr armie and departed euery man to his home but theyr capitains were apprehended executed This yere the .xix. day of Iune beynge saint Peters day the kyng held a great iustyng and triumph at Westmynster where were ordeyned .ii. lyghters made lyke shyps to fyght vpon the water the one of them burst in the myddest and a seruant of maister Kneuets in his harneys leapyng betwene bothe shyppes was drowned And in the other shyppe a gunne burste her chamber and mayned .ii. of the mariners The men of Lincolnshyre beyng pacified and quieted as ye haue heard immediately wythin syxe dayes after beganne a newe Insurrection in Yorkeshyre for the same causes But the rude people were more incensed thoroughe tales whyche were spreadde by certayne personnes as that all theyr syluer Chalices Crosses â—ewelles and other ornamentes should be taken out of theyr churches That no man should bee maryed or eate any deyntie meate in hys house but he should pay a tribute for the same to the kynge These people were gathered togyther to the noumber of forty thousand hauyng for their badges the .v. woundes with the figure of the Sacrament and Iesus written in the myddest and called theyr rebellion a holye pylgremage in token that they intended to fyghte for the maintenance of christen religion Anno. 28. Sir Rafe Warren Mercer M. Rich. Paget S. Will. Bowyer S. The .xii. day of Nouember sir Thomas Neweman bare a faggot at Poules Crosse for that he sange Masse withgood ale The .xiii. day of November one mayster Roberte Pagyngton a Mercer of London was slayne with a gunne as he was goyng to Masse at saynet Thomas of Akers nowe called the Mercers chapel but the murderer was neuer openly knowen Agaynste the rebelles of Yorkshyre aboue named the Kyng sent the duke of Norffolke the Duke of Suffolke the Marques of Excester and other
proclamacion made that the shilling which of late was called down to .ix. d. shoulde be currant for .vi. d. the groat ii d. y e half grote .i. d. a peny a eb The .xi. daye of October beyng sunday the Lorde Marques Dorset was created Duke of Suffolke the lorde erle of Warwycke was created Duke of Northumberlande and the erle of Wilshere was created Marques of Wynchester and syr William Herbert the maister of the horse was created erle of Penbroke dyuers mē made knightes The .xvi. daye of October beyng fryday the duke of Somerset was brought agayne to the towre of London and in the next mornyng the duchesse his wife was brought thither also and there wēt also with the Duke the lorde Graye of Wylton syr Rafe Uane and syr Thomas Palmer and dyuers other gentlemen of his famyliers Anno. 5. Rychard Dobbes Skynner M. Iohn Lambert S Iohn Cowper S The .xxx. daye of October beyng frydaye was proclaymed a newe coyne of money both syluer golde soueraynes of syne golde at .xxx. s. Angels of fyne golde at .x. s. and dyuers other pieces of golde of lesser value a piece of syluer of v. s. and a piece of two s vi d. the sterlyng shylling .xii. d. sondry other smaller pieces of money The .vi. daye of Nouember beynge fryday the old Quene of Scottes roade through Londō Cheape with a great company of Englyshmen wayting on her after she had layne foure dayes in the byshops place beside Paules church The firste daye of December beynge tuesday the Duke of Somerset was arraygned at Westmynster haull was there acquited of treason but condemned of felony by vertue of an act of parliament made against conuenticles and vnlawfull assemblies The .vii. daye of December beynge monday was a generall muster of the horsemen whiche were in the wages of the nobles of the Realme and for the whiche the kynges maiestie allowed yerely for euery man .20 pound the which muster was made vpon the caussey ouer against the kynges palayce at saynt Iames. the number of horse was extemed to be a thousande The .xxii. daye of Ianuary beyng friday Edward Duke of Somerset kyng Edwards vncle before mencioned was beheaded at the towre hil the people beyng there to beholde the execution were sodenly in a great feare fewe or none knowing the cause but this I sawe the Duke beyng on the scaffolde by .viii. of the clock in the mornyng enclosed with the garde the warders of the towre and other the people of a certaine hamlet whiche were warned to be there by .vii. of the clock to geue their attendance on the Lieftenant nowe came through the posterne and perceiuing the prysoner to be alredy on the scaffolde the formoste began to runne with their bils on their shoulders cried to their felowes to folowe fast after which sodennes of these men so weaponed thus running caused the people being next which best sawe thē to thinke that some power had come to haue deliuered the Duke from execution which caused them to crye awaye awaye wherupon the people ran one end way not knowynge whether and they which tarried to know some cause of this hurly burly had thought some pardon had be brought some sayde it thundered some sayd the ground shoke but the occasion was as I haue sayde This syxt yere of Edwarde the syxt on the .xx. daye of February the marchauntes of the Stylyarde at London were put from theyr pryuyledge of occupiyng whiche they of long tyme before had vsed The .xxvi. daye of February beynge Fryday Syr Raufe a Uane and six Miles Partryge were hanged vpon the gallowes at towre hyll and syr Mychell Stanhope with syr Thomas Arrūdell were beheaded vpon the scaffold which foure wer condēned as accessary in that whiche the Duke was condemned for This yere the sea brake in at Sandwiche in so much that it dyd ouerflowe all the Marshes there aboute it ouerflowed the marshes besyde Wolwich beyonde saynt Katherynes The last day of April through negligence of the gonne pouder makers a certain house with thre last of pouder was blowen vp burnt the sayd gonpouder makers beyng .xv. in number were all slayne at the towre hyll a litle from the Minoris beside London on the back side of newe abbey The .iii. daye of August was borne a marueilous straūge monster at a place called Myddeltō .xi. myles frō Oxēford a womā broght forth a child which had ii perfect bodies frō y e nauell vpward were so ioyned together at the nauell that when they were layde in lengthe the one head and body was eastwarde and the other west the legges for bothe the bodies grew out at y e myddes where the bodies ioyned and had but one issue for the excremēt of both the bodies they lyued .xviii. dayes and when they were opened it appeared they were women children The .viii. daye of August there were taken about Nuynborough three great fyshes called Dolphins or by some called Kygges and the weke folowyng at Blackwall were syxe more taken and brought to London and there solde the least of thē was greater then any horse The same moneth the commons of the citie of London chose thre sherifes eyther after other and euery one of thē refused the office and fyned for it as it was thought twoo hundred pounde a piece and then the commons chose one Iohn Mainarde who toke it vpon him whiche about .ix. or .x. yeres before had geuen out wares and Iewelles as it was thought to y e sūme of .2000 marks to be payde hym when he were sherife of London The same moneth of August began the great prouision for the poore in London towardes the whyche euery man was contributorie and gaue certayne money in hande and promysed to geue a certain wekely The first house which was begon was at the Graye friers in Newgate market which went forward with all spede The .vii. daye of October were two great fyshes taken at Grauesend which were called whirlepooles they were afterwarde drawen vp aboue the bridge The .xiiii. day of October the bishop of Durhā called Cuthbert Tunstall was broughte before the Commissioners at the place of sir Arthur Darcy knight vpon tower hyll where he was depriued from his sayd byshoprike Anno. 6. George Barnes haberdasher M. will Garret S Io. Mainarde S This sir George Barnes gaue y e wind myll which standeth toward the east in Finsbery field to the company of the haberdashers of London to that entente that the profites risyng therof should be distributed to the poore almose people of the same companie And also he gaue to the parson and churche wardeyns of saint Bartholomew the little certayne tenements for the which they be bound to distribute to the poore people of the same paryshe .xviii. d. in breade euery sonday for euer The .xxi. day of Nouēber beyng mondaye the children were taken
contrey dyd remayn By this meanes the Britaynes with theyr kyngedome loste their name But they whiche affirme that name to be deriued of their kyng or queene without doubte be deceiued The countrey soyle towardes the sea coaste and in other places in the valleys and playnes is most fertile which yeldeth bothe to man and beaste great plentie of fruite and grasse but in other places for the moste parte it is bareyne and lesse fruitfull because it lacketh tyllage for whiche cause husbandmen do lyue hardly eating Oten cakes and drinkyng milke myxte with water and sowre whay There be many townes and strong castels and .iiii. Bishoprikes if the byshoprike of Hereforde be couÌ„ted in England as y e late writers declare The fyrst byshoprike is Meneue so called of Meneua whiche at this day they call Sainct Dauids a Citie very auncient situated vpon the sea coast and bouÌ„deth westward toward Ireland An other is Landaeffe the thirde Bangor and the fourthe All Saint Asaph whiche be vnder Tharchbyshoppe of Canterburye The walshmen haue a language from thenglishmen which as they say that fetche their Petigree frome the Troianes do the partly sounde of the Troian antiquitie and partly of the Greeke But how soever it is the walshemen do not pronounce their speache so pleasantely and gentilly as thenglyshmen dooe because they speake more in the throte contrary wise thenglishemen rightly folowynge the Latines do expresse theyr voyce somewhat within the lyps which to the hearers semeth pleasant swete And thus much of wales the third part of Britaine Nowe foloweth the fourthe and laste parte of Britayne named Cornewall This part beginneth on that syde whiche standeth toward Spayn westward Toward theast it is of bredth .iiii. score and tenne myles extendyng a lyttle beyonde saynt Germains which is a very famous village situated on the right hand vpon the sea coast where the greatest breadth of that countrey is but .xx. myles for thys parcell of lande on the right hand is compassed with the coaste of the mayne sea and on the left hande with that arme of the sea whiche as before is declared parteth the lande and runneth vp to Chepstoll where the couÌ„trey is in fourme of a Horne For at the fyrst it is narowe and then growethe broader a little beyonde the said towne of saint Germaine Eastwarde it bordreth vpon England West south and Northe the mayne sea is rounde about it It is a very barreyn soyle yeldynge fruite more through trauaile of the tyllers and husband men theÌ„ through the goodnes of the grouÌ„d but there is great plentie of leade and tyn in the myning and dyggyng wherof doth specially consist the liuynge sustentation of thinhabitants In this only parte of Britayn euen to this daye continueth the nation of the Britaines whiche in the begynnynge brought out of Gallia occupied inhabited that Ilande yf credite maye be geuen to them whyche reporte the firste inhabitantes of Britaine to come out of the Cities of Armerica The argumeÌ„t profe wherof is because y e Cornishmen do speake y e langage which the Britains vse now in France whom the Britons do cal BritonaÌ„tes This thing to be more true an old ancient chronicle dothe declare wherin I found written not Cornubia but Cornugallia compounded of Cornu a horne the forme wherof that countrey hath and of Gallia out of which contrey thinhabitantes came fyrst the maner of which name is not to be mislyked Their tongue is farre dissonant from englishe but is muche like to the Walshe tongue because they haue many wordes coÌ„mune to both tonges yet thys difference there is betwene them when a walsheman speaketh the Cornyshe man rather vnderstandeth many woordes spoken by the Walshman then the hole tale he telleth whereby it is manyfest that those thre people dooe vnderstande one an other in like maner as the Southerne Scottes doo perceiue and vnderstand the Northern But it is a thyng very rare and meruailous that in one Iland there should be such varietie of speches Cornewall or Cornugall is in the Diocesse of Excetour whyche was ones woorthye to bee counted the fourth part of the Iland as well for the contrarietie of language as for the fyrst inhabitantes thereof as is beforesayde Afterwardes the Normans which constituted a kyngdom of all those thre partes reckned Cornewall to bee one of the counties or shires of the contrey Thus muche of the particular descryption of Britayne that the whole bodye of the realm by the membres may be the better knowen to some peraduenture that neuer heard the same before The forme of the Iland is triquetra or thre cornered hauyng three corners or three sydes Two wherof that is to say The corner toward theast and thother toward the weast bothe extending northwardes are the longest The third syde whiche is the south syde is farre shorter then thother for the Iland is greater of length then of bredth And as in the other two partes is conteyned the lengthe euen so in the laste the breadth In whyche place the breadthe begynneth and so continuyng from the South parte to the north it is but narowe The fyrste and ryght corner of whyche Ilande eastwarde is in Kente at Douer and Sandwyche From whence to Caleys or Boloygne in France is the dystance of .xxx. myles From this Angle which is agaynst Fraunce to the thyrde Angle whyche is in the Northe in Scotlande the mayne whereof boundeth vpon Germany but no land seene and there the Iland is lyke vnto a wedge euen at the very angle of the land in Scotland The length wherof is .vii. hundreth myles Agayne the lengthe from this Corner at Douer in Kent to the vttermost part of Cornewall beynge saynt Myghels mount whych is the west part or weste angle is supposed to bee .300 myles FroÌ„ this left Angle beyng the west part and thuttermoste parte of Cornewall whiche hath a prosâ—ect towards Spain in whyche part also standeth Irelande sytuated betwene Britayne and Spayn to the northe angle in the further parte of Scotlande in which part the Ilande doth end the leÌ„gth is .viii. hundred miles in whiche parte there be very good hauens and saufe harboroughes for shyppes and apt passage into Ireland beyng not past one day saylyng but the shorter passage is from Wales to Waterforde a towne in Ireland vppon the sea coast muche lyke to that passage betwene Douer and Calaice or som what more but y e shortest passage of all is out of Scotlande From this last Angle to Hampton whiche is a towne vpon the sea coast with a hauen so called toward the southe and therefore called South-hampton betwene the Angles of Kent and Cornewall they doo measure by a strayght lyne the whole lengthe of the Ilande and doo say that it conteyneth 800. myles as the breadth from Meneua or Saint Dauids to Yarmouth whiche is in the vttermost part of the Iland towardes the East doth conteyn .200 miles for the breadth of the Iland is in
ryches of the abbays to be brought into his treasory he made also the news Forest in the countreye of Southampton for the atchiuyng which enterprise he was forst to cast downe dyuers townes and churches .xxx. myles of length and replenysshed the same with wylde beastes and made sharpe lawes for the maintenance and increase of the same Auno .10 Roger erle of Hertforde Ranulphe earle of Norffolke conspired agaynste kynge Wyllyam beyng in Normandye both whiche were by hym outlawed and chased oute of the Realme And Waldiffe that was duke of Northumberland and Earle of Huntyngdon and Northampton who vttered the conspiracie was beheaded at Wynchester buried at Crowlande in Lyncolnshire Anno. 13. AT this tyme Oswalde Byshop of Salisburye was famous in England The kyng gaue the Erledome of Northumberlande to Waltar byshoppe of Durham who was after slayne by the men of Northumberland Anno. 15. RObert the eldest sonne of William by the counsell of Philippe kyng of France inuaded his fathers Duchye of Normandye wherwith Wyllyam beynge greately dyspleased gaue hys sonne a stronge battayle in whyche it fortuned Robert to mete vnwares in the field with his father and bare hym to the earthe But perceyuynge by the voyce who it was forth with he lept from his horse and saued his father By whiche dede he was reconciled and peace betweene them was agreed Anno. 16. Whyle kyng William of Englande was in Normandy the Northumbers rebelled About this .xvi. yere earle Waryng erle of Shrewsbury made two abbeis wherof the one was in the suburbes of Shrewsbury the other at wenloke Anno. 19. KYnge Wyllyam caused a newe manner of Tribute to be leuyed thoroughout this Realme for euery hyde of land that is twenty acres vi s. And not long after commanded a valuation to be takeÌ„ of all lands fees and possessions and diligent serche also to be made what numbre of men and cattell were within this land And accordynge to the quantitie and number therof gathered an other payment Anno. 20. Englande was vered wyth manye plagues For greate morayne fell emonge cattelle brennynge feuers and hunger emong people greate bareynnesse vpon the earth and muche hurte was done in manye places by the mysfortune of fyre aud specially in LoÌ„dor For Fabyan and other aucthors affirmeth that a part of Poules was brent at that same tyme namely the .vii. daye of Iuly Kyng William buylded two abbeys in Englande one at Battell in Sussex the other nere to London called Barmondsay He buylded the third at Cane in Normandy He ended his life y e ix day of Septembre and was buried at Cane in Normandie He had .v. children Robert to whom he gaue Normandy Richard who dyed in his youth William Ruffus and Henry which wer kinges after hym And one doughter named Adela who he gaue in mariage to Stephen Erle of Bloâ—s who gotte on her Stephen that after was kynge of England as sayth Hardyng VVilliam Rufus or VVilliam the Red kyng Anno regni .1 WIllyam Ruffus the seconde sonne of Willyam conqueror began his reygne ouer the realme of England the ninthe day of Septembre in the yeare of oure Lorde .1087 and deceased in the yeare of our Lorde 1100. the fyrst day of August so that he reigned .xii. yeare .xi. monethes lackyng .viii. dayes He was variable and inconstant of his demeanor very couetous and therewithall cruell For he burdened his people with vnresonable taxes He pilled the ryche and opprest the poore And caused many to lose their landes for small causes And what he thus got by pillyng of hys people be prodigally and wastfully spente in great banketting and sumptuous apparell And as one auctor writeth who wrate in the tyme of Henry the thirde he would neither eate drynke or weare any thyng but that it coste vnmeasurably deere And for an exaumple hee wryteth whiche is to be noted in these oure dayes that in a morning his chamberlayne bryngyng hym a newe payre of hosen he demanded what they cost his chamberlayn answered .iii. s. Wher with the kynge beynge wrothe as this author affirmeth saide as foloweth Fye a dibles q the king who sey so vile a dede Kyng to weare so vyle cloath but it costened more Bye a payre for a marke or thou shalt a corry sore A worse payre ynongh that other swithe hym brought And said they costned a mark vneth he them so bought Ye belamy q y e king these were wel thought In this maner serue me outher ne serue me nought OUt of this aucthor I haue taken the saying of K. William Ruffus because it importeth the simplicitie of apparel in those days vsed If kinges in those dayes ware hose of .xiii. s .iiii. d. the price then maye subiectes in these days imitate his chamberlayn to weare of inferior price of .iii. s. Whiche price he thought king W. Ruffus wold not haue disdained but as his chamberlayne spared the kynges priuie purse in byeng hose in those days So now some of meane lyuyng spare not theyr owne and others to employe vpon one paire whiche wold bye princes hose for a hole yere as this hystorie reporteth Robert Curthoise his elder brother came with an armie into Englande against William wherof when the said WilllaÌ„ had knowledge he entreated peace Anno. 2. Dyuers Lordes of this realme conspired against William Ruffus and assaulted dyuers townes within EnglaÌ„d They stirred in like maner against him Robert Curthoyse duke of Normandy the second tyme. But William vanquished the traytours chased them oute of this realme and made peace wyth hys brother Robert This second yere was a great earthquake the .xi. daye of haruest that ouerturned many houses and churches in Englande Anno. 3. The Scottes spoyled Northumberland Wherfore William Ruffus prouided a nauie and sayled thither where after dyuers conflictes and skirmishes a peace was concluded Anno. 4. A great tempest fell on sainct Lukes day in sundrye places of Englande and speciallye in Wynchecombe where a great parte of the steple was ouerthrowen with thundryng and lyghtnyng in London the wynde ouertourned .vi. hundreth houses and the roofe of Bow church in Cheape wherwith was slayn mo than .xx. persones Anno. 5. In this yere William Ruffus wente into Northumberland repayred suche holdes and castels as the Scots by their warres had impaired and builded other there besydes as the Newe castell on Tyne c. This v. yere the roofe of Salisburye Churche was cleane consumed with lyghtnyng Anno. 6. In Englande fell wonderfull abundance of raine and after ensued so great frost that horses and cartes passed commonly ouer great ryuers when it thawed the great cakes of yce brake down many great bridges The Welshemen rebelled but they wer vanquished their duke or captain named Rees slayn in battaile And after when their woddes wer cut down they becam by litle little to more quietnes
the tyme of kynge Henry the syxt it was ordeined that the same ounce should be deuided into .xxx. partes called .xxx. pence and in kynge Edwarde the fourthe his tyme into .xl. partes called .xl. pence And in kynge Henry the eyght his dayes into .44 partes called 3.s S. â— but the weyght of the ounce troye and the measure of the foote was ordeined euer to be at one stynt Anno. 52. Allein Souch M. Thomas Basyng S. Robert Cornhyll S. Gylbert de Clare Earle of Glocester for vnknowen displeasure allieng hym selfe with the exiled gentilmen other nobles of Englande rose against the kyng and held the citie of London buildyng therin bulwarkes and caste dytches and trenches in dyuers places of the cytie and Southwarke and fortified it wonderously The kyng lying at the abbay of Stratforde also assaulted the same citie more then a moneth as it is to bee red in Fabian but by diligent labour vpon his partie and by the Legate and the kyng of Romaynes on the other partie Agrement was made betwene the king and hym In this meane tyme many robberies were done wherefore foure that bare the cognisance of the Earle of Darby were put in sackes and caste in the Thames Anno. 53. Aleyn South M. WilliaÌ„ de DurhaÌ„ S. Walter Haruy S. Uariance fel betwene the felowships of goldsmythes and â—aylers of London whiche caused great rufflying in the citie and many men to be slayne For whiche ryot .xiii of the chiefe capitaines were arreigned cast and hanged Aleyn South was discharged of his Mayraltie by the kyng and Stephen Edworthe made constable of the towre and custos of the citie The disherited gentylmen were this yere reconciled to the kynges fauour And the fiue citizens which had remayned prysoners in the towre of Wyndsour the whych the Kyng had geuen to his son Edwarde when they had made theyr ende with greate summes of money were deliuered Anno. 54. Thomas fitz Thomas M williaÌ„ Hadstock M Anketil de Aluern M The ryuer of Thamis was so harde frosen from the feast of S. Andrewe to Candelmas that men and beasts passed ouer on foote from Lambeth to Westmynster The marchandises was caried from Sandwiche and other hauens vnto London by lande The citie of LoÌ„don with the reuenues therof was geuen to prince Edward Anno. 55. Iohn AdriaÌ„ vintener M. walter Potter S Iohn Taylour S Prince Edward sailynge into Aâ—ia agaynst the infidels by his policy manly actes so demeaned hymself that often times he put the Turks to great shame disworshyp For despite wherof they suborned a false Sarasyn by whose treason he was wounded with a venemous dart and therof was longe sicke after This yere the liberties of London wer newely confirmed And this yeare the steple of Bowe churche in Cheape fell downe and slue many people both men and women Anno. 56. Io. Adrian vintener M. Greg. Rokesle S. Henry walleis S. This yeare deceased Richard king of Almayn and Erle of Cornwale brother to the kyng and was buryed at Hayles an abbey of white monkes by hym before tyme buylded In June began a great riot in the citie of Norwich wherethrough the monasterie of the Trinitie was burned And for that fact the king rode down made enquiry for the chief doers therof wherof .xxx. yong men were condemned drawen hanged and brent This yere were diuers prodigies and strange tokens sene in diuers places of Englande Anno. 57. Sir walter Haruy M Richard Pariâ— S. Iohn Bedill S. In the beginning of this yeare kynge Henry sickned and he called before him sir Gilbert Clare erle of Glocester and caused hym to be newly sworne to kepe the peace of the lande to the behofe of Edward his sonne then dyed the .xvi. day of NoueÌ„ber in the yere of our lorde 1272. when he had reigned .lvi. yeres xviii dais He was buried at Westminster vpon the southe syde of saincte Edward He buylded a greate part of the same Churche King Edwarde the firste surnamed Longshanke Anno regni .1 EDwarde the fyrst after the conqueste surnamed Longshanke began hys reigne ouer this realme of England the .16 day of Nouember in the yere .1272 and deceased the .vii. day of Iuly in the yeare .1307 so he reigned â—4 yeres .vii. moneths and .xx. dayes Of stature he was tall and mighty of body but nothyng grosseâ— his eies were somewhat blacke in tyme of anger semed fyerye Of suche a noble and valyaunt heart that his courage neuer faynted in moste harde and dangerous enterprises Of witt excellent of great towardnes and apt to euery thing that he him selfe applied Anno. 1. Sir walter Haruy knight M. Io. Horne S walter porter S In the end of this yere the kynge returned into EnglaÌ„d Ther was yet busines about chusynge of the Maior for dyuers would haue made such a Maior as they had lyked But for that tyme they were disappoynted whiche in the yeare folowyng vpon the same daye toke further effect Anno. 2. Henry walleis M. Nicolas wichester S. Henry Couentrie S. On the day of Symon and Iude wheÌ„ Philyp Tailor which before was chosen to be Maior and should as that day haue taken his charge in the Guylde hall of London diuers citisens put hym besyde the maires seate set therin sir walter Haruy y e rumor wherof came tofore y e kyng who put them both out and chose Henry Frowike Custes of the citie who continued tyll Candelmas At which tyme Walter Haruy was set in auctoritie as Maior and continued the full of that yeare The kyng of Scottes dyd homage to kyng Edwards for the Kyngedome of Scotlande The kyng ordeined certayn new lawes for the welth of the realme emong the which was one that bakers making breade lackyng weight assigned after y e price of corne should fyrst be punyshed by losse of their breade and the seconde by enprisonment and thirdly by the correction of the pillorye Myllers for stealyng of corne to be chastised by the tumberyll And this to be put in execution he gaue auctoritie to all Mayres Bailiffes and other officers through EnglaÌ„d and specially to the Maior of London Anno. 3. Gregory Rockesle M. Lucas Batencourt S. Henry Frowycke S. Kyng Edward buylded the castell of Flynt and strengthened the castell of Rutland other agaynst the welshmen Anno. 4. Gregory Rockesly Maire Iohn Borne S. Rafe Blunt S. The statute of mortmayn was enacted by kyng Edward Michell Tony was hanged drawen and quartered for treason Anno. 5. Gregory Rockesle M Robert de Bracy S Rafe Fenour S King Edward gaue vnto Dauid brother to Lewlyn prince of Wales the lordshyp of Froddesham This Dauid attended in the kynges courte and dyd vnto hym pleasant seruice to the intent to espie the kynges secrete counsel and if any thyng were done or spoken to the hurt of his brother that he
won muche of his landes But shortly after kyng Edwards commyug a peace was concluded for .ii. yeares and thens he went to Burdeaux The Scotts by the enticement of the frenchmen and settinge on of one William Wallace rebelled and put the englishmen to muche trouble and losse of many men emong which was sir Hugh Tresyngham This yere certain persons of the city of Lōdon brake vp the tonne in the ward of Cornhyll and toke out certain prisoners that thither were cōmitted by sir Iohn Britton for the which .ix. of them were greuously punished by long imprisonment and great sines The tunne aboue named is now y e cūdit in Cornhill The kyng comming againe into England and so to Winchester the citesēs of Lōdō made such labor vnto his grace that they obteined grant of their liberties that had in some part be kept from them by the terme of .xii. yeres or more Anno. 27. Henry Walleis M. Richard Reshā S. Thomas Sel◠S. This yere the kyng made cruell war vpon the Scots and had of them a great victorie and then they yelded them selues agayn to his grace and mercy This yeare also the kynge called in certaine coynes of money called pollardes Crocardes and rosaries Anno. 28. Elis Russell M. Iohn Armencer S. Henry Fringrith S. Kyng Edward heryng of the vntruthe and rebellion of the Scottes made his third voyage against them wherin he subdued a great part of the land and toke the castel of Estriuelyn with other and made the lords sweare to hym fealtie and homage Anno. 29. Elis Russel M Luke Haueryng S. Rich. Champeis S. Thys yeare the Kynge gaue vnto Edwarde hys sonne the Princedome of Wales and ioyned there vnto the Dukedome of Cornewall and the crie dome of Chester Anno. 30. Iohn Blunt M. Robert Caller S. Peter Bosham S. This yeare the Kyng helde a greate parliament at Canturbery Anno. 31. Iohn Blunt Maior Hugh Pourte S. Simon Parys S. This yere Kyng Edward made great warres in Scotland where he had many great victories Anno. 32. Iohn Blūt M Williā Cōbmartein S. Iohn de Burford S. This yeare the Kyng caused great inquirie to be made of the behauior of his Iustices through out his realme which was called Broyly Baston Anno. 33. Iohn Blunt M. Roger Parys S. Iohn Lincolne S. Wylliam Wales whiche had don so many displeasures to Kyng Edwarde in Scotland was taken drawen hanged and quartred at London on S. Bartylmewes eue and his head sette on London brydge The nobles of Scotlande in a parliament at Westmynster volūtaryly were sworne to be true to the kynge of Englande and to kepe the lande of Scotlande to his vse against all persons Anno. 34. Iohn Blunt M. Raynold Doderil S. Wylliā Causon S. Robert le Bruse cōtrary to his othe to kyng Edwarde before made assembled the lordes of Scotland and caused hym selfe to be crowned When kynge Edwarde heard of this treason he went with haste into Scotlande where he chased syr Robert le Bruse and all the power of Scotlande and tooke many of the noble men prysoners Anno. 35. Iohn Blūt M. Symon Belet S. Godfrey de la cōduit S. The warres continuyng in Scotlād the noble kyng Edwarde ended his lyfe the seuēth day of Iuly in the yere .1307 When he had reigned .34 yeres ◠monethes and .21 dayes He lyeth buryed at Westmynster in the chappel of saynt Edward vpon the south syde in a playne tōbe of marble at the head of his father King Edward the second Anno Regni .1 EDwarde the second sonne of of the first Edward prince of wales borne at Carnaruan began his reigne ouer the realme of England the vii day of Iuly in the yeare of our lord 1307. who was deposed the .25 day of Ianuary and in the yeare .1326 so that he reigned .19 yeres He was fayre of body but vnsted fast of maners and disposed to lightnes he refused the company of his lordes and men of honour and hanted the company of villeins and vile persous He gaue hym self to ouermuch drinkyng and lightly wold disclose thinges of great councell and beside that he was geuen to these vices of nature He was made muche worse by the counsail and familiaritie of certain euill disposed persons As Piers of Gaueston Hugh Spencer others whose wanton coūsaile he folowyng gane himself wholly to the appetite and pleasure of the body not regardyng to gouerne his commune weale by sadnes discretion and iustice Which thing caused first great varīace betwene him and his lords so that shortly he became to his lordes odible aud in the end was deposed from his kingdom Anno. 1. Sir Iohn Blunt M. Nicolas Pigot S. Michel Drury S. King Edward toke to wife Isabel y e doughter of Philip y e fayre king of France He gaue Piers of Gaueston the erledom of Cornwall the lordshyp of wallingford was ruled al by his counsell Anno. 2. Nicolas faringdō M. Williā Basyng S. Iohn Butler S. The kyng callyng to mynd the displesure don vnto him his familiar Piers Gaueston by the bishop of Chester commanded hym to the Tower of London where he was streightely kepte many dayes after But the lordes perceauyng the kyng geuen all to wantonnesse and that he was much prouoked thervnto by the meanes of Piers of Gaueston caused the kyng to banishe him the realme and so hee wente ouer into Irelande where the kyng notwithstandyng comforted hym wyth many rych gyftes and made him chief ruler of that countrey Anno. 3. Thomas Romain M. Iames of s. Ed. S. Roger Palmer S. The kynge and hys lordes were at great stryfe for the banyshmēt of Piers of Gauestone in so muche that the king would not be pleased vntill he were agayn restored This yere was the Ile of Rhodes recouered from the Turke by the knightes of the order of saynt Iohn Baptist. This yere the crouched friers came fyrst into England Anno. 4. Rychard Rofham M. Symon Croppe S. Pet. Blacknay S. Piers of Gaueston more and more encreased in so muche that he had the custody of all the kynges iewelles and tresure of the whyche as sayeth Fabian and other he tooke a table and a payre of tressels of golde and conueyghed thē with other iewelles out of the lande He also brought the kyng to manyfolde vyces as adultery and suche other Wherfore the lordes agayne banyshed hym out of England into Flaunders to the kynges great displeasure Anno. 5. Iohn Gysours M. Symō Merwod S. Rich. Wylford S. Piers of Gauestone was agayne by the kyng called out of Flaūders wherfore the lordes beyng confederate besieged hym in the castell of Scarborough where they tooke him and brought him to Gauersyde besyde Warwycke and smote of his head to the great discontētyng of the kynges mynde This yere the kyngs fyrst sonne named Edward was borne at Wynsore Anno. 6. Iohn
syr Iohn Trussell knyght through the quarel of their two wyues through the whiche fraye many people were sore wounded and hurt and one Thomas Petwarden Fyshmōger slayne out of hande wherefore both the frayers were brought to the Counter in the Pultrye and the lord Straunge for begynning the sayd fraye was the next sunday accursed at Paules crosse Anno. 5. Richard Marlowe Iremōger M. Henry Reade S. Iohn Gedney S. This yere syr Iohn Oldecastell was sent vnto London by the lorde Powes out of Wales the whiche syr Iohn for heresie and treason was conuicte and for the same was draweu to saint Gyles fielde where he was hanged on a newe payre of Gallowes with chaynes and after consumed with fier About this tyme the parson of Wrotham in Norfolke whiche had haunted newe market heath and there robbed and spoiled many of the kyngs subiects was with his concubyne brought vp to Newgate where he lastely died Anno. 6. Wil. Seuenoke Grocer M. Rau◠Barton S. Iohn Parnesse S. Kyng Henry conquered Rone subdued all Normandie and was proclaymed Regent of Fraunce for terme of the lyfe of Charles beyng then kynge And after his decease y e crown of Fraūce with all ryghtes belōgyng to the same to hym and his heyres For confirmation wherof he toke to wyfe Catheryne the daughter of Charles Anno. 7. Richard Whittingtō Mercer M. R. Whittinghā S Iohn Butler S This yere kyng Henry retorned into England and so to London and at west mynster Catheryn his wyfe was crowned the .xxiiii. daye of February Anno. 8. Wyl Cābridge Gro. M. Iohn Butler S. Iohn Welles S. The Duke of Clarence kyng Henries brother was ouer set by the Dolphyn of Fraūce and slayne to the kynges great displeasure Kyng Henry went again into Fraūce and made warre vpon the Dolphyn Anno. 9. Ro. Chichely gro M. Richard Gosselyn S. Williā Weston S. The begining of this yere O. Catherin was deliuered at windsor of a yōg prīe◠whose name was Henry and the tenth daye of August was the newe weather cocke set on Paules steple And this yere the Queene retorned into Fraunce to kynge Henry where was a ioyful metyng but after folowed sorowe for shortly after the kyng being at Bofes in Uincent he wered syck and died the last daye of August in the yere of our lorde .1422 when he had reigned nyne yeres fyue monethes ten dayes he buylded the Shene and Sion and lyeth buried at westmynster King Henry the sixt Anno Regni .1 HEnry the sixt being an infant of .viii. monethes of age began his reigne ouer this realme of England the last day of August in the yere of our lord .1422 he was deposed the fourth day of March in the yere .1460 So he reigned .xxxviii. yeres syxe monethes and foure dayes continuyng the tyme of his youthe he was committed to the gouernaunce of Duke Humfrey of Glocester his vncle whan he came to mans state he was of wytte and nature symple gentyll and meke and loued better peace thē warre quietnes of mynde then busines of the world honestie then profite rest case then trouble and care all trouble veration vnquietnes iniuries that euer happened to hym whiche were many great he suffered so paciently that he reputed them to be worthely sent to hym of God for his offences He fauoured good letters excellently well in token wherof be erected two famous Colledges the one at Cambrydge called the kynges colledge the other at Eaton by meanes wherof good learnyng greatly increased In the begynnyng of this his reigne dyed kyng Charles of Fraunce by reason wherof the kyngdome of Fraunce should come vnto kyng Henry and the nobles of Fraunce except a fewe that helde with the Dolphin delyuered the possession therof vnto the Duke of Bedford Regent of Fraunce to the vse of kyng Henry Anno. 1. William Walderne M. Will. Estfield S. K. Tattarsale S. A subsidie was graunted for three yeres fyue nobles of euery sack of woll that should passe out of the lande A priest was burned for heresie called William Tayler This yere the West gate of London now called newe gate was newly builded by the executors of Richard Whittington late Mayor of London Anno. 2. William Crowmar Draper M. Nicho. Iames S. Th. Wadford S. This yere the Duke of Bedford wan from the Dolphyn of Fraunce manye strong holdes and townes and nere to a towne called Uernell be discomfited the Dolphyns whole power for in that fight were slayne .iii. erles and many other noble mē .5000 cōmō soldiours Syr Roger Mortimer for treasō was condemned by acte of parliament and hanged and quartered This yere Iames kyng of Scottes was deliuered who had remayned prysoner in England .xviii. yeres and he maried in saynt Mary Adries in Southwarke the lady Iane daughter to the erle of Somerset cosyn to kyng Henry Anno. 3. Iohn Michel M. Symon Seman S Iohn Bywater S This yere the kynge of Portingale came into England and was honourably receyued This yere by the parliament holden at Westminster was graunted to the kyng for thre yeres to helpe hym in his warres a subsedy of xii d. in the pounde of all marchaundyzes brought in or caried out of the Realme and .iii. s of euery tonne of wyne the whiche was then called tonnage and pondage but synce it hath been renewed at sondrye parliamentes and nowe is called custome Furthermore it was enacted that all marchaunt straungers should be lodged within an englysh host within .xv. days of their coming to their porte sale and to make no sale of any marchandyse or thei were so lodged then within .xl. days folowyng to make sale of all that they brought and if any remayned vnsolde at the sayde .xl. dayes ende that then all suche marchandyse so vnsolde to be forfeyte to the kyng Anno. 4. Iohn Couētre Mercer M. Wil. Milrede S Iohn Brokle S Grudge and variaunce betwene the Duke of Gloucester protectour of England and his halfe brother the byshop of Wynchester whiche was appeased by the regent of Fraunce and debated by a parliament at Leicester as ye maye reade at large in Edwarde Haull Anno. 5. Iohn Raynewell Fishmōger M. Iohn Arnolde S. Io. Nightham S. This Iohn Raynewell Maior of Lōdon before named gaue certayne landes or tenemētes to the citie of London for the whiche the same citie is bounde to paye for euer all suche fyftenes as shall be graunted to the kyng so that it passe not three fyftenes in one yere for three wardes of the same that is to say Dougate warde Bellynsgate warde and Algate warde This yere the englysh men besiegyng Orliaunce the noble valiaunt knight syr Thomas Mountague was slayne by a great misfortune whose death was the beginnyng of al mischiefe to the Englysh men for after this mishappe they lost by litle and litle all their possessions
in Fraunce Anno. 6. Iohn Gidney Draper M. Hē Frowick S. Rob. Otley S. This yere a womā dwelling in white Chappell paryshe without Algate of London was in the nyght murdered by a Bryttaine or Frencheman whom she had cheryshed and brought vp of almes Who conueying suche iewelles stuffe as he myght carie was taken in Essex and brought vp to London but a sone as he came in the parishe where he had committed the murder the wyues cast vpon hym so muche fylthe and ordure of the strete that not withstanding the resistaunce made by the Cōstables they slewe hym out of hande Anno. 7. Henry Barton Skinner M. Th. Dushous S Iohn Abbot S This yere the Duke of Norfolk was lyke to haue been drowned passinge through London bridge his barge beyng set vpon the pyles whelmed ouer so that he and very fewe escaped beyng drawen vp with ropes the rest were all drowned Anno. 8. William Estefield Mercer M. Williā Russe S. Ranfe Holland S. This yere was kyng Henry crowned at Westmynster of whom Iohn Lydgate mūke of Bury made many goodly verses in prayse and commendation of hym and his coronatiō as ye may reade them in Robert Fabian bothe of this coronation and also of his coronation at Paris in Fraunce Anno. 9. Nicholas Wotton M. walter Chertsey S Robert Large S This yere at Abyngton began an insurrection of certayne lyght persones that entended to haue wrought muche mischiefe but they were quieted by the lorde protector and the chiefe authour beyng baily of the towne named Wylliam Maundeuyll a weaner otherwyse namyng hym selfe Iack sharpe of wygmores land in Wales with other were put to death This yere was one Richard Russel a woll man drawen hanged quartered at Tiborne for treason Anno. 10. Ioh. Welles Grocer M. Iohn Adyrlee S. Step. Brown S. This Iohn Wels of his goodes caused the conduit named the Standarde in cheape to be buylded in Anno .1442 This yere kyng Henry was crowned at Paris by y e Cardinal of Winchester And this yere the kyng retorned into England and so to London where he was receiued with great ioy triūphe Anno. 11. Io. Parneis Fyshmōger M. Iohn Olney S. I. Paddesley S. This yere was sene in the southwest a sterre called a Comete or blasing ster Anno 12. Ioh. Brokley Draper M. Tho. Chalton S. Iohn Kyng S. The Erle of Huntyngton was sent with a cōpany of soldiours into Fraūce where he atchieued many great feates of armes Anno. 13. Roger Otley Grocer S. Th. Barnwel S Simond Eyre S This yere was a great frost that such marchandise as came to the Thames mouth was caried to London by lande This frost endured from the xxv day of Nouember vnto the .x. day of February whiche was .x. wekes And this yere deceased Iohn Duke of Bedford regent of Fraūce after whose decease all thynges went backwarde with the Englyshemen in Fraunce Anno. 14. H. Frowick Mercer M. T. Catworth S. Ro. Clopton S. Charles of Fraunce recouered the citie of Paris and wanne by force the towne of Harflewe and of saynt Denis expelling murdering the Englyshmen in great number The Duke of Burgoyne besyegyng Calieis was fayne to flye leue muche of his ordinaunce behynde hym at the commyng of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester who pursued hym eleuen dayes and destroyed the countrey as he went vnto saynt Omers Anno. 15. Iohn Mychel M. Tho. Morsted S. Williā Gregorie S. This yere on the thyrd day of Ianuary dyed Queene Catheryne mother to kyng Henry the syxt and wyfe to Henry the fifth and lieth buried at Westmynster This yere on the fourtene day of Ianuary the gate on London brydge with the tower vpon it next to Southwarke fell downe and .ii. of the furdest arches of the sayd bridge but as God would no man therwith peryshed This yeare it was enacted by a parliament that euery alient housholder in this realme shoulde paye wekely to the Kynge .xvi. d. This yeare all the lyons in the tower of London dyed whiche had ben there a long tyme. Anno. 16. William Eastfield Mercer M. Wil. Chapman S. William Hallis S. The kyng caused a greate obyte to be kept in Poules churche for Sigismund the Emperour who was knyght of the Garter Anno. 17. Stephen Browne Grocer Mai. Hugh Dyker S. Nicolas Yod S. This yere on new yeres day a stacke of wodde fell downe at Baynardes Castell and slewe .300 men and hurt many other There was so great a dearthe in Englande that the poore people made them breade of fetches peason ferne rootes This yeare by the falle of a strayre at Bedford .xviii. persons were slayn In this yeare the Cundyte in Fletestrets was begon by sir Wylliam Eastfield late Maior of London and fynished of hys owne coste without any one peny charge to the Citie This yeare dyed Roberte Chicheley grocer and twise Maior of Lōdon who wylled in his testament that vpon hys Mynd day a good competēt dyner shold be ordeyned for .2400 poore men housholders of the Citie if they myght bee founde and .xx. li. in money distributed amongst theym whyche was to euerye man .ii. d. Anno. 18. Robert Large Mercer M. Robert Marshall S. Philyp Malyas S. A prieste was burned at the Tower hyll on the .xvii. day of Iune whiche of the common people was counted an holy man for that he said the poster n shold synke as afterwardes it dyd and suche lyke thynges they made theyr prayer to hym and arrered a greate heape of stones and pyght there a Crosse by night vntyll a commandement was geuen by the kyng to the contrary The postern of East Smythfielde agaynste the tower of London sanke by nyght the .xviii. of Iuly Anno. 19. Iohn Paddisley goldsmith M Iohn Sutton S. wil. Wetynhale S. Elianor Cobham wyfe to Humfrey Duke of Gloucester and other persons namely maister Roger Bolynbroke a cunnynge negromancer and Margerye Iourdemayn cōmonly called the witche of Eie were accused that by sorcery and enchantmentes they practised the kynges death as by an image of ware whiche through their diuelysh incantations should lytle and litle wast and consume and so lyke wyse the Kyng to weare out of his life Wherefore beyng examined conuicte Elianor Cobham was iudged to doo penaunce as to beare a taper .iii. dayes thorough the chiefest streetes of the Citie of London and so to be exiled to the Ile of Man vnder the kepyng of syr Thomas Stanley knyghte Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen hanged and quartered at Tyborne and Margerye Iourdemayn the witche was burnt in Smythfielde Anno. 20. Ro. Clopton Draper M. Wil. Combis S Richard Riche S This yeare the Towne of Depe was besieged by the Lorde Talbot and rescued by the Frenchemen Thys yere was a fray in Fletestrete betwene the Innes of Courte
agayne by his kepers and by the kynges commaundement cast in the Tower of London where after he was shewed at westminster in Chepe on scaffoldes and stocked to the great wonderment of many people This yeare one Godfrey a carpenter toke downe the Wethercock of Paules and set it vp agayne This yeare the Englishe marchants beyng long absent out of Flaunders commynge into Flaunders with marchandise wer receyued into And warpe with generall procession so glad was the towne of theyr returnyng whiche was by theyr absence sore hyndred and impoueryshed Anno. 14. Sir Iohn Perciuall mar tailer M. Tho. bradbury S Stephē Ienins S At saincte Thomas Watryng a strypling was put to execution whych called hymselfe Edwarde Earle of Warwycke and sonne of George Duke of Clarence whiche George synce the begynnyng of Kyng Henries reygne was kept secretly in the tower of London Thys yere master Iohn Tate aldermā of Lōdon began to edifie S. Anthonies churche iu London with a notable free schole to the same adioynynge and also one almes house for poore people The .xvi. day of Iuly beyng sonday and the next sondaye folowyng .xii. persones bare faggots at Paules crosse Anno. 15. Nicholas Alwyn mercer M. Iames wilforde S. Richard Bronde S. This yeare the .xvi. daye of Nouember was arraygned at Westmynster Perkyn Warbeck and .iii. other which Perkyn and one Iohn a Water were executed at Tyborne the .xxiii. daye of the same moneth of Nouember And soone after on the .xxviii. daye of Nouember was the Erle of Warwike put to deathe at the Tower hylle and one Blewet and Atwood at Tyborne This yere was a great death in London Whereof after Fabyan dyed .xx. thousande but after Halle hys Chronicle .xxx. thousand In Maye the Kynge and Quene sailed to Calaice and at saynct Peters they mette wyth the Duke of Burgoyne Anno. 16. William Remington Fishmōger M. Iohn Dawes S. williā Stede S. This yere the Kyng buylded new his manour at Shene changed the name therof and named it Richemont and he buylded newe his place called Baynardes castell in London and repayred his place at Grenewiche with muche other buyldynge Syr Edmund de la Poole Duke of Suffolke departed secretly by meane of whom was lyke to haue ben a newe insurrection Kyng Henry trouthplighted his daughter Margaret to Iames the Kyng of Scottes and the .4 day of October landed at Plymmouth Katherin daughter of the kyng of Spayne and thys yeare was fynished by master Tate the churche of sainct Anthonies Anno. 17. sir Iohn Shawe goldsmith M. Sir Lau. Ailmer S Henry Hede S This syr Iohn Shawe mayre of London before named caused the kitchens and other houses of office to be bnylded at the Guylde hall of London and sens that tyme the Mayors feastes hath ben there kept where as before that tyme they were kept eyther at the Grocers or the marchant Taylers Halle On saint Erkenwalds day prince Arthur beyng but .xv. yeare olde was maried unto Katherin daughter to Ferdinando Kynge of Spayne the .xiiii. of Nouember whiche Arthur shortly after departed this mortal life at Ludlow and was buried at Worcester The dyche from Thames to Holborn bridge was new caste Anno. 18. Bartho Rede Goldsmith M. Hēry Keble S Nico. Nines S In this yere began the newe worke of the Kynges chapell at Westmynster and Elizabeth Quene of England dyed at the Tower of London in chyldebed and was buried at westminster Shortly after was dame Margarete the Kynges daughter maryed to the Kynge of Scottes This yeare the felowshyp of Taylers in London purchased a graunte of the Kynge to bee called Merchaunts Tayloures Anno. 19. sir williā Capell Draper M. Christo. Hawes S. Robert wattes S. Tho. Granger S. The .xxi. daye of Nouember was a dreadfull fyre vppon the north ende of London bridge And vpon the .vii. daye of Ianuary were certayne houses consumed wyth fyre agaynst sainte Botulphes church in Thames strete and the xxvii day of Marche was an house burned against saint Martins le grand and the same day was hurt done wyth fyre in the parishe of saint Peter the poore This yeare was holden a parliament where was ordeyned a new coyne of siluer as grotes halfe grotes and shyllinges with halfe faces and in the same parliament was graunted to the Kyng the loane of .36000 li. Anno. 20. Iohn Winger Grocer M. Roger Achilley S Williā Browne S This yeare the lyberties of the Cytie of London were agayne confirmed Anno. 21. Thomas Kneisworth Fishmōger M. Rich. Shore S. Rog. Groue S. This Thomas Kneysworthe Maior of London of his owne goodes buylded the Cundyte at Byshoppes gate Moreouer he gaue to the companye of the Fishmongers certayn tenements for the whyche they be bounde to fynde iiii scholers that studye arte two to be at Oxenforde the other two at Cambridge euery of them to haue .iiii. li. the yere for their exhibition They be boūd also to geue to .xiii. aged poore people of their company to euery of them euerye weke viii.d to euery of them at Bartylmeutide a winter garmēt of frise or such like for euer And also to geue to y e prysons of Newgate Ludgate euery yere xi.s whose notable workes by him done are wel worthy of remembrance and to be folowed of others Edmonde dela Poole was conueyed through the citie vnto the tower of London and there left as prisoner This yere Philip king of Castile and hys wyfe were weather dryuen into Englande as they were passynge towarde Spayn◠who were honorably receiued by the Erle of Arundell at the kynges appoyntment with .iii. C. horses all by torchelyght Anno. 22. Sir Rich. Haddon mercer M. wil. Copinger S Tho. Iohnson S wil. fitz william S Thys yere the kyng of his goodnesse deliuered out all prisoners in London whiche lay for .xl. s. aud vnder Anno. 23. William Browne mercer M. Williā Butler S. Iohn Kyrkeby S. In the ende of Aprill dyed william Browne maior and for hym was chosen Laurence Ailemer draper who serued out that yere This yeare syr William Capell was put in suite by the Kynge for certayne thynges by hym done in the tyme of his Maioraltie Anno. 24. Stephen Genings M. M. tailer M. Tho. Ermeu S. Rich. Smith S. This yere was finyshed the goodlye hospitall of the Sauoy nere vnto Charing crosse whiche was a notable foundation for the pore done by king Henry the seuenth This yere dyed this moste noble and famous prince kyng Henry the seuenth which was in the yere .1509 the .xxii. day of April when he had reigned .23 yeres and eight moneths and was buryed at Westminster in the new chapel which he had caused to be builded and lefte behynd him Henry prince of Wales whiche after him succeded lady Margaret quene of Scottes and lady Mary promised to Charles kyng of
kyng put downe the priorie of Chrichurche in London and all the Chanons of the same place the kynge sent to other places of the same Religion This yere in August and September the kyng repayred the towre of Lōdon and made there muche buyldyng The fyrst of September was my lady Anne Bulleyne made Marques of Penbroke at Wyndsore The .vii. daye of October the kynge went to Caleys and to Bulloyne and came ouer agayne the .xiii. daye of Nouember followyng Anno. 24. Syr Steuē Pecocke Haberda M. Rich. Rainold S. Iohn Martyn S. Nich. Pynchō S. The .xv. daye of December was a great fyre at the byshop of Lyncolnes place in Holborne whyche dyd muche hurte The .xvii. daye of Marche was Edward Haule gentylmā of Graies Inne chosen to be common sargeant of the citie of London Whiche Edward Haule made the notable boke of Chronicles The .x. day of Aprill was a dole geuē at saint Marie Audries in Southwark at the whiche was so muche preace of poore people that there was smouldred iiii men .ii. women a boie starck dead This yere on saint Erkenwaldes daie kyng Henry had maried the lady Anne Bulloyne at Caleyce and the .xii. daye of Aprill beynge Easter eue next followyng she was proclaymed Queene of Englande The .12 day of May one Pauiar being the town clerke of Londō hōg him self This yere on Whitsonday beyng the last day of May was y e lady Anne Bulleyn solemnely honorably crowned at Westminster The .xvii. day of Iuly were two marchantes slaine on the water of Thames toward Westminster by one Wolfe his wyfe who suffered for the same as ye shall here after The .7 day of Septēber was the lady Elizabeth daughter to king Hēry borne at Grenewich there christened at the fryers church the .x. daye of September The .5 day of October was a great fire at Baynardes castell did great hurt The .24 day of October being sonday ther was a scaffold set vp at Pauls cros and theron stode a nonne named Anne Barton of Courtopstrete besyde Canterbury and twoo Monkes of Canterbury and two obseruaunt fryers and the parson of Aldermary in London called maister Gold an other priest-confessour to the sayde nonne and twoo laye men and there preached at that time the byshop of Bangor called the abbot of Hyde where he shewed their offences and so from thence they were sent to the tower of London Anno. 25. sir Christoper Askew Draper M. Wil. Formā S. Tho. Kitson S. This yere Pope Clement cursed king Henry and the realme of Englande This curse was hanged on a churchdore at Dunkirke in Flaunders and taken downe by one William Locke a Mercer of London The .xxviii. daye of Ianuary was a great fyshe taken at Blackwall called a whale and was brought vp to westmynster to the kyng to see so brought downe to broken wharffe and there cut out Commissioners were sent all ouer England to take the othe of all persons to the acte of succession for the refusall of whiche othe doctour Fysher byshop of Rochester syr Thomas More late lorde Chancellor of England were sent to the tower of London The fyrst day of April wer Wolf and his wyfe hanged on two gybets at the turnyng tree in Lambeth marshe for murdryng of the two marchant strangers afore named The .xx. day of Aprill were .ii. monkes of Canturbery .ii. obseruant friers the persone of Aldermary in London and the Nonne called the holye Mayde of Courtopstrete in Kent all these were drawen from the tower of London vnto Tyborne and there hanged and beheaded and their heades set on London bridge and other gates of the Cytie of London and their bodies buried The .xx. daye of Aprill all the craftes and companies in London were sworne to the Kyng and to the Quene Anne and their heyres The .xxvi. yere of the kyngs reigne the .xv. day of May was a great fyre at Salters hall in Breadstrete and much harme doone The .v. day of Iune were all seruants and prentices of the age of .20 yeres or aboue sworne to the Kyng and Quene Anne his wife and to the issue of them The .ix. day of Iuly was the lord Dacres of the north arrained at Westminster of hygh treason where he so wittyly and directely confuted hys accusers that to theyr great shame he was found by his peres not gyltie The .xxii. day of Iuly was one Iohn Frith a yong man of excellent wyt and learnyng burned in Smythfield for his opinions concerning the sacrament and with hym a yong man called Andrewe Hewet a taylours seruant The .xi. day of August was all the places of the obseruant Friers as Grenewyche Canterburye Rychmounte Newarke and newe castell put downe and Austen Friers sette in their places and the same obseruauntes were put in places of gray fryers The .xiii. daye of Auguste was a greate fyre at Temple barre and muche hurte doone and certayne persones burned The .xvi. daye of Auguste was burned the kyngs stable at Charyng crosse otherwyse called the mewes wherein was burned many great horses greate store of haye The .xxi. day of September doctour Taylour maister of the Rolles was discharged and for hym maister Thomas Cromwell was appointed and sworne the .ix. day of October who afterward bare great rule Anno. 26. Sir Iohn Champneis skinner M Nicol. Lewson S. Wil. Denham S. In Nouember was held a parliament wherin the byshop of Rome with all his authoritie was cleane banyshed this realme and commandement geuen that he shoulde no more bee called Pope but byshop of Rome that the kyng should be reputed and taken as supreme heads of the Churche of England hauyng ful aucthoritie to reforme all errors hereses and abuses in the same Also the first fruites and tenthes of all spirituall dignities and promotions were granted to kyng Henry by acte of parlyament The .xxix. day of Aprill the pryor of the Charter house of London the prior of Beual the prior of Exham and a brother of the same called master Reignoldes and a prieste called mayster Iohn Haile vicar of Thistilworth wer al condemned of treason and iudged at westminster to be drawen hanged and quartered at Tyborne who were there executed the fourth daye of May and theyr heades and quarters set on the gates of the citie of London and at the Charter house of London was set one quarter The .viii. day of May the kyng commanded all about his court to poll their heades to geue them ensāple he caused his owne head to be polled likewise The .xxv. day of May was a great examination of heretikes borne in Hollād there was examined .xix. men and .vi. women of the same countrey borne The seconde day of Iune Edwarde Halle the famous Chronicler was chosen an vnder sheriffe of London by the Maior and common counsell
wyth a great army by whom after the day and place was appoynted to fyght sodeynly the nyght before the battayle shuld haue ben the water that was betwene them rose in suche wise that the two armies coulde not come together by occasyon whereof the capitaines of bothe parties had communication of peace and promise was made to the rebelles that such thyngs as they were greued with shold be redressed by the kynges authoritie wherwith they beyng contented by the prouidence of God departed withoute bloudshedyng Aske that was chiefe of this rebellion in Decēber came to London and was not onely pardoned but also receiued and rewarded with other gyftes of the kyng but he dyd not long enioye his prosperitie Aboute the same tyme a priest aboucher were hanged at wyndsor for speaking in the behalf of the Yorkshyre mē This yere in Decembre the Thames at London was all ouer frosen Wherfore the kyng with his beautifull spouse Quene Iane rode thorough London to Grenewyche The thirde daye of Februarye was Thomas Fitzgarret late Earle of Kyldare and fyue of his vncles drawen hanged and quartered at Tyborne for Treason Also in this moneth of February Nicolas Musgraue Thomas Gilby and other stered a newe rebellion and besieged the Citie of Carlile frome whense they were driuen and many of them taken and put to deathe In the same moneth of February syr Francis Bygot sir Robert Constable and other began an other conspyracie and for the same wer attainted and executed in the moneth of Iune The .xxix. day of March beyng Mandy thursday were .xii. men of Lincolne drawen from Newgate to Tyborn and there hanged and quartered .v. wer priestes and .vii. were laye men one was doctor Makerel a white chanō an other was y e vicar of Louth in Lincolneshyre The .15 day of May in the .29 yeare of Henry the .viii. the lorde Darcy and the lorde Hussey were had from the tower of London vnto Westminster there condemned of treason In Iune the Lorde Darcye the lorde Hussy sir Robert Cōstable sir Thomas Percye sir Francis Bigot sir Stephen Hamelton sir Iohn Bulmer his wife Williā Lomley Nicholas Tēpest the abbots of Ierney and Riuers Robert Aske were all put to death sir Roberte Constable was hāged on Beuerley gates Aske was hanged in chaynes on a tower at Yorke Syr Iohn Bulmers wife burned in Smithfield the lord Darcie beheaded at Tower hylle the lorde Hussey at Lincolne and the other suffered death at Tyborne This yere at the feast of saint George the lorde Cromwell was made knyght of the Garter In October on sainct Edwardes eue was borne at Hampton courte the noble Prince Edwarde and shortely after Quene Iane lefte her lyfe the .14 day of October Anno. 29. Sir Rich. Gresham Mercer M. Iohn Gresham S. Tho. Lewen S. The .viii. day of Nouember the corps of the Quene was caried to Windsore and buried with great solempnitie The Kyngs maiestie kept his Christmas at Grenewyche in his mournynge apparell and so was all the court tyl the morowe after Candelmas day The .xviii. daye of Ianuary a salter of London was set on the pyllory for packyng and sellyng of rotten herryng and vsing of false weyghtes The .xviii. day of February a seruant of my ladye Pargetours was drawen hanged and quartered for clyppynge of golde The .xxv. day of February syr Allyn a priest and a gentylman were drawen to Tyborn and there hanged and quartered for treason The .xxi. day of Marche Henry Harffam customer of Plymmouth was drawen frome Newgate to Tyborne and there hanged and quartered for treason And one Thomas Ewell lykewyse was hanged and quartered The .xxii. day of May in the .30 yeare of Henry the .viii. frier Forest was hanged and brent in Smithfield for deniyng the Kinges supremacie wyth hym was brente the Image of Daruell Gathern of Wales The .xxvii. daye of Maye was a greate fyre at saynt Margaret Pattens called Roode Lane where were many houses burned and .ix. persons were there burned to death in that fyre In Iuly was Edmonde Conyngslie attaynted of treason for counterfaityng of the kynges sygne manuell And in August was Edward Clyfforde for the same cause attaynted and bothe put to execution as traitours at Tyborne The first daye of September beynge the sonday after Bartilmew fayre was one Cratwell hangman of London and two persons more hanged at the wrestlyng place on the backeside of Clerkenwell besyde London for robbynge of a bouthe in Bartylmewe fayre at which execution was aboue .20000 people as it was iudged In September by the speciall motion of the lord Cromwel all y e notable images vnto the whyche were made anye speciall pilgremages and offerings wer vtterly taken awaye as the Images of Walsyngham Ipswyche Worcester the Lady of wilsedon with many other and lykewise all shrines In October and Nouember the abbeis wer suppressed al friers monkes chanons nonnes and other sectes of religion were roted out of this realme Anno. 30. Sir Wil. Forman Haberda M. Wil. Wilkinsō S Nicho. Gybson S This Nicholas Gibson sheryfe and Grocer of London afore named buylde a free schole at Ratclyffe nere vnto London appoyntyng to the same schole for the instructiō of .lx. poore mens chyldren in lernyng and vertuous educatiō a schole maister and an vsher with a stipende of tenne pounde by the yere to the maister and .vi. pound xiii.s iiii.d to y e Usher He also buylded certayn almesse houses adioynyng to the sayd schole for xiiii poore and aged persons suche as through impotencie and age are not able to susteyne the trauell and toyle of the worlde who quarterly doe receyue vi s viii.d a pece for euer And the sayd worshypfull and deuout gentleman duryng his lyfe dysdayned not in his own person many tymes to vysite them Addyng to their lyuyng in the tyme of his abode and house kepyng there reliefe of his owne borde wherby appeared the great zeale he bare to the reliefe of the poore and not only by wordes after the maner of many in these dayes but in workes he manifested the fruytes of charitie accordyng to suche example as many of his predecessors had lefte to the posteritie And lyke as of his owne free lyberalytie he hath begonne this commendable monument I meane the maintenāce of this poore house of christ so I praye that some of his successors or other of abilitie wil adde to y e same some further reliefe and increase of lyuynge wherby in these dere dayes wherein thinges be at great pryces not only learning the honor of all cōmon wealthes but also those nedy impotent persons may be better furnyshed of necessaries The .xvi. day of Nouember was the Black fryers in London suppressed and the next day the whyte fryers the next daye the Graye fryers and the Monkes of the Charterhouse and so all the other immediatly after The .xxii. daye
of Nouember was one Iohn Nycholson otherwyse Lambert a priest burnt in Smythfielde Also in Nouember were Henry Marques of Excester and erle of Deuōshire and syr Henry Pole knyghte the lorde Mountague and syr Edward Neuell brother to the lorde of Burganysent to the towre The two lordes were arraigned the last day of December at Westminster before the lord Audley of Walden lord Chaunceller highe stewarde of Englād there found gilty the third day after was arraigned sir Edwarde Neuell syr Geffray Pole two priestes called Croftes and Collyns one Holland a marriner and all attainted the ix daye of Decēber were the sayde two lordes and syr Edward Neuel beheaded at the tower hyll the two priesies Holland were drawen to tyborne and there hanged and quartered and syr Ieffray Pole was pardoned The .22 day of Decēber a priest Hēry Daunce a Brycklayer an Organ maker bare fagottes at Paules crosse On Ashwensday were Iohn Iohnes Iohn potter William Manering hāged in the princes lyueries because thei were the princes seruantes on the south side of Paules churchyard for killing of Roger Cholmeley Esquier in the same place of malyce pretended The thyrd daye of Marche was syr Nicholas Carewe of Bedingtō in Surrey knyght of the gartar and maister of the kynges horse beheaded at towre hil The thirde daye of Marche the kyng created at Westmynster syr Willyam Pawlet knyght treasorer of his housholde Lorde saynt Iohn and syr Iohn Russell comptroller of his housholde lorde Russell The same tyme the kynge caused all the hauens to be fortyfied and rode to Douer and sent cōmissioners through out all the Realme to haue his people muster and at the same season on Easter daye was there .ix. vnknowen ships liyng in the downes wherfore all Kent arose and mustered in harness the same daye The .xxviii. daye of Apryll beyng in the .xxxi. yere of Henry the eight began a parliament at Westmynster in the whiche Margaret Coūtesse of Salisbury Gertrude wyfe to the Marques of Excester Reinold Pole syr Adrian Foskewe and Thomas Dingley knyght of saynt Ihons and dyuers other were attaynted of treason Folkewe and Dingley were beheaded the .x. day of Iuly This yere the .viii. daye of May the citezins of London mustered at the Myles ende all in bryght harneys with coates of whyte sylke and cloth and chaines of golde in thre great battayls the number was .xv. thousande besyde wyffelers and other wayters who in goodly order passed through London to Westmynster and so through the sanctuary and round about the parke of S. Iames and so up through the fielde and came home through Holborne The .viii. daye of Iuly the Uicar of Wandsworth with his chaplayne and his seruaunt and fryer Wayre were all foure drawen from the Marshalsey vnto saint Thomas a Wateryngs and there hanged and quartered for treason In August the great Onele Odonele of Irelande inuaded the Englyshe pale and burned almost .xx. myles within the same wherfore the Lorde Graye beyng deputie there assembled a strong power and draue hym back The .xvi. daye of September Duke Frederick of Bauarie the Palsgraue of Rhine the Marshal of duke Iohn Frederick electour of Saxony with other came to London by whom the mariage was concluded betwene kyng Henry the lady Anne sister to Wyllyam the Duke of Cleue Anno. 31. Syr William Hollis Mercer M. Tho. Feyrie S. Th. Hūtlow S. This Thomas Huntlow shryue before named gaue to the company of the Habardashers certain tenementes for y t which they be bound to geue to .x. poore almes people of y e same cōpany euery one of thē .viii. d. euery fryday for euer And also at euery quarter diner to be kept by the masters of y e same cōpany to be genē to euery one of those .x. poore people before named a peny lose of bread a potle of ale a pece of bief worth .4 d. in a platter with porage and .4 d. in money The .14 day of Nouēber Hughe Feryngdon abbot of Reding .ii. priestes the one called Rug the other named Onion were attainted of high treason for deniyng y e kyng to be supreme head of the church were drawen hanged quartered at Redyng The same days was Richard Whiting abbot of Glastēbury lykewyse attainted hanged and quartered on towre hyll besyde his Monastery for the same cause The first day of Decēber was Iohn Beche abbot of Colchester put to execution for the lyke offence In Decēber were appointed to waite on the kynges highnes person .50 gentlemē called Pencioners or speres lyke as they were in the first yere of y e kyng The third daye of Ianuary was the lady Anne of Cleue receiued at Blacke heath and brought to Grenewych with great tryumphe and the syxt daye of the same moneth she was maried to kynge Henry The .18 daye of Apryl was Thomas lorde Cromwell created erle of Essex made great chamberlayne of England whiche euer the erles of Oxenforde had before that tyme. In A parliament whiche began the xviii daye of Apryll the relygion of S. Iohnes in Englande whiche of moste men was named the knyghtes of the Rhodes was dissolued wherof hearing syr Wyllyam Weston knyght prior of S. Ihones for thought dyed on the Assention day beyng the fifth day of May. In Maye the .xxxii. yere of his reigne was sent to the towre doctor Wilson doctor Samson bishop of Chichester for releuīg certain prisoners which denied the kings supremacy and for y e same offēce was one Richard Farmer Gro. of London a ryche and a welthy man and of good estimacion commytted to the Marshalsey and after in Westmynster hall was arraigned and attainted in the premunire and lost all his goodes The .ix. daye of Iuly Thomas lorde Cromwell late made Erle of Essex being in the counsayle chamber was sodaynly apprehended and committed to the tower of London The .xix. daye of the same moneth he was attainted by parliament and neuer came to his answere whiche lawe he was the autour of he was there attainted of heresie and hyghe treason And the .xxviii. daye of Iuly beheaded at the tower hyll with the lorde Hungerforde Kyng Henry by authoritie of parliament conuocatiō was dyuorsed from his pretensed mariage made with the lady Anne of Cleue and it was enacted that she shoulde bee taken no more as Queene but called the ladye Anne of Cleue The .xxx. daye of Iuly Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard Wylliam Ierome priestes were burned in Smythfield The same daye Thomas Abell Edward Powell and Rychard Fetherstone were drawen hanged and quartered for denying the kynge to bee supreme head of the churche of England The fourth daye of August were drawen from the towre to tyborne syx persons one led betwene two sergeātes and there hanged and quartered one was the Priour of Dancaster an other a Monke of
the Charterhouse of LondoÌ„ maister Gyles Horne a moÌ„ke of Westmynster one Philpot one Carewe and a fryer all were put to death for treason This yere the ditches about London were newe caste The .viii. daye of August was the lady Katheryne Haward shewed opeÌ„ly as Queene at Hampton court which dignitie she enioyed not long The latter end of this yere was great death of hote burnyng agues flyxes such a drought that welles and smal ryuers were dryed vp and many cattayle dyed for lack of water the salte water flowed aboue London bridge Anno. 32. Syr Wyl Roche Draper M. Wyl Laxton S. Mart. Bowes S. The .xxii. daye of December was Egerton and Harman put to death for counterfaytyng the kynges great seale In Aprill the .33 yere of Henry the eight certaine priestes and lay men began a newe rebellion in Yorkeshyre which were shortly takeÌ„ and put to execution in diuers places of which Leigh Tatorsale and Thornton were put to death at London the .28 daye of Maye and syr Iohn Neuel knyght was executed at Yorke The same daye the countesse of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower of London she was the last of the right lyne and name of Plantagenet The .ix. day of Iune were Damport and Chapman two of the kinges garde hanged at Grenewich for robberies in example of all other The .xxviii. daye of Iune the lorde Leonard Graie whiche before was deputie generall of Irelande was beheaded at the towre hyll for certayn treason whiche he had committed The .28 day of Iune were haÌ„ged at S. Thomas a waterynges Mantell Royden and Froudes gentylmeÌ„ for a spoile and murder that they had done in one of the kynges parkes vpon May morning the lorde Dacres of the South beyng in company with them and on the morow whiche was saynt Peters day the lorde Dacres was led from the towre a foote betwene the two sherifes through the citie to tyborne and there put to death for the same offence This sommer the kyng toke his progresse to Yorke The fyrste daye of Iuly was a Welsheman drawen hanged and quartered for prophecying the kings maiesties death Anno. 33. Syr Michel Dormer Mercer M. sir RoulaÌ„d Hil S HeÌ„ry Suckley S The lady Katheryne Haward whom the kynge had maried for her vnchaste lyuing committed with thomas Culpeper Frauncis Dereham was by parliament attainted Culpeper and Dereham were put to death at tyborne the x. day of December The xiii day of February were beheaded within y e towre the lady Hawarde otherwyse called Q. Katherine and the lady Rocheforde And shortly after kyng Henry maried the lady Katherine Parre that had bene wyfe to the lord Latimer syster of the Marques of Northampton At this parliameÌ„t the kyng was proclaymed kyng of Irelande which name his predecessours neuer had but were called lorde of Irelande In the begynning of Marche dyed sir Arthur Plantagenet Uicecounte Lisâ—e bastarde to kyng Edward the fourth in the towre of London vnattainted The .x. daye of Marche a mayde was boyled in Smythfielde for poysonynge many persons In May the .xxxiiii. yere of his reigne kyng Henry toke a loane of money of al suche as were aboue the value of .50 pounde and vpwarde The fourth daye of Iuly the Scottes began to inuade the borders spoylyng burnyng as it had bene in open warre for whiche cause a garryson was sent thether then the Scottes pretended a peace and yet neuertheles in the meane space spoyled the borders In reuengement wherof syr Robert Bowes made a rode into ScotlaÌ„d wher he with other were taken without puttyng to raunsome Then the kynge sent the Duke of Norfolke with an armie royall but at Yorke the armie was stayed And after long consultation the Scottes woulde not agree to any reasonable conditions wherfore the Duke went forward burnyng and wastyng all the marches and there taried without any battayle proffered by the kyng of Scottes vntyll the myddest of Nouember followyng Anno. 34. Io. Coates Sal. M. HeÌ„ Hoblethorn S. Hen. Hancotes S. After the departure of our armie froÌ„ Scotland the kynge of Scottes made a rode into EnglaÌ„d and did much harme but at the last syr Thomas Wharton and syr Wyliyam Musgraue with a few of the borderers met with the Scottes on saynt Katheryns eue the .xxiiii. of Nouember wher by the great power of God they beyng in number .15000 were ouerthrowen in whiche conflicte was taken the lord Maxwel the erles of Glencarne and Sassilles with all the capitaines of the armye And on saynt Thomas euen the Apostell they were brought to the towre of London where they laye that nyght the next daye followyng they were by the kinges charge apparelled all in sylke and rode through the citie to Westmynster where they were sworne to be true prysoners and then were they delyuered to the custody of dyuerse noble men whiche honorably entertayned them In this season an Harold of EnglaÌ„d rydyng on the borders syde to do a message was met by certayn rebels which cruelly agaynst all lawe of armes slew him in his cote armor but they for this dede were sent to the kyng the yere followyng who executed theÌ„ for y e offence At neweyeres tyde the Scottes that were takeÌ„ by Carlyle were by the kyng sent home agayne with great giftes vpoÌ„ condition to agree to certayne artycles for the welth of both Realmes The thirde daye of Iune in the .35 yere of HeÌ„ry the eight the Abrine a lord in Ireland with dyuers of the wylde Irysh submitted them to kyng Henry And in Iuly the sayde Abrine was created Erle of Clawricarde This yere in Iuly kyng Henry sent ouer .6000 men to Landersey whether also came the Emperour in proper person with a great army and shortly after came down the Frenche king in proper person with a great army and offred to geue battayle to the Emperour by reason wherof the siege was raysed The .28 daye of Iuly were burnt at Wyndsore thre persons Anthony person Robert Testwood HeÌ„ry Filmer This yere was a great death in London of the pestilence therfore Mighelmas terme was adiourned to saint Albons and there was kept to the ende Anno. 35. Syr Wil. Bowyer Draper M. Iohn Toules S Rich. Dobbes S Syr Wyllyam Bowyer deceased the xiii day of Aprill about Easter and syr Raufe Warren serued out the resydue of that yere The begynning of this Maiors yere that is to saye at Alhallontyde a roade was made into Scotland by the garryson there who burned .60 villages and toke great praies both of men beastes In Nouember the Englyshmen that were sent to Laundersey came home agayne A lytle before Christmas the Uiceroye of Sicill came from the Emperour to kyng Henry in Ambassade of whom he was honorably entertained shortly retorned agayne This yere beyng leape yere chaunsed foure Eclipses
one of the Sonne the .xxiiii. daye of Ianuary and three of the moone a straunge thyng and suche as had not happened since the tyme of Charles the great In the beginning of lent lorde Edward Seymer erle of Hertforde was made lieftenāt of the north partes and sent thether with an armie for y e defēce of that countrey The beginning of Marche Germine Gardyner Larke parson of Chelsey besyde London and Syngleton were executed at Tyborne for denying the kyng to be supreme head of the churche and shortly one Ashbee was lykewyse executed for the same The .xxii. daye of Marche the lorde Admirall with a great nauy departed from the port of Londō towardes Scotlande The fourth daye of Apryll a gonne poulder house called the black swanne standyng vpon east smythfielde was blowen vp with other houses nighe adioynyng and therein were burned fyue men a boye and a woman Upon Maie euen in the .36 yere of Henry the eyght died the lord Thomas Audeley hygh Chancellor of England After whome succeded lorde Thomas Writhesley Upon May daye the nauye sente by the Lord admirall which vntyll thys tyme had no good wynde tooke their voyage into Scotlande from Tynmouth wyth whom was the lorde Edwarde Seymor Erle of Hertford the kynges lieutenāt and generall captain of the army whiche the fourthe daye of May arriued at Lyth the hauen of Edenborough and toke the towne of Lyth and spoyled it after which they made toward Edenboroughe where at a certayne brydge the Scottes had layde theyr ordynance but by the pollicie and manhode of our captaines and souldiors the Scottes ordynance was won and discharged against them selues and thereby were put to flyght after thys the towne of Edenborough sente vnto the armye pretendynge to delyuer the towne vppon certayne condytions to the behofe of oure Kynge But when the armye entred they were inuaded by them for whiche cause the Towne was destroyed and cleane wasted Kyng Henry and the Emperoure agreed ioyntely to inuade the realme of France wyth two great powers About this tyme kyng Henry made great prouisiō for a voiage into France A proclamation made enhaunsynge the value of gold to the rate of xlviii.s and syluer to .iiii. shyllynges the ounce It is to be noted that at thys tyme the kynge caused to be coyned the base moneys whych was called down the fyfth yeare of Edwarde the .vi. and called in the seconde yere of Quene Elizabeth After the whytson holye dayes the Duke of Norffolke and the Lord pryuie seale with a great army tooke their voyage into Fraunce and besieged Mutterell where they laye vntyll the Kynge hadde wonne Boloygne Not longe after the Duke of Suffolke with many other noble men passed the seas and encamped before Boloigne on the East syde The xiiii daye of Iuly kyng Henry hym selfe wyth a goodly companye passed from Douer to Calaice and the .26 day encamped on the north syde of Boloygne after whose comyng the towne was so sore battered wyth gonneshott and certayne of theyr Towers beynge vndermyned soo shaken wyth force of gunne powder that after a monethes siege the captayne sente woorde to the kyng that he would yelde the towne to his behofe vpon condition that all whiche were within myght departe wyth bagge and baggage whiche conditions Kyng Henry mercyfully graunted and the Bulleynors departed one and other to the numbre of .4454 The .xxv. day of Septembre the kyng entred into hyghe Boloigne wyth the nobilitie of hys realme and the trompettes blowyng that it reioyced all the whole hoast to heare The fyrst daye of October kyng Henry departed frome Boloigne towarde Douer and at his goyng he dubbed .iiii. knyghtes at the water syde Ambassadours were sent both frome the Emperour and the french Kyng for peace to Kyng Henry but for so muche as he would not geue vp Boloigne nothyng was concluded The .ix. day of October in the night the frēch mē cam vnwares vpōth english mē in base Boloigne and slewe of theym a great number Howe beit they were shortly chased from thense and the base towne holden after in good quiete Anno. 36. Williā Laxton grocer Mai. Iohn Wilford S. Andrew Iudde S. This yere was taken by the Kynges shyps of the weste countrey and of the Englysh coast the numbre of .300 frenche shyppes and more The .xxvi. day of Ianuary there camped on the weste syde of Boloigne beyonde the hauen an army of Frenchemen to the number of .xviii. thousand and laye there ten days and the .vi. day of February they wer all put to flight by the Erle of Hertforde and the lorde admirall then beynge Lorde deputie of Boloigne The .vii. day of Iune in the .37 yere of kyng Henry the .viii. a great army of Frenchmen came nere to the hauen of Bulleyne and skirmished with the Englyshmen and thys armye beganne to buylde a fort whych before they departed they dyd accomplishe The French kyng prepared .ii. great armies agaynst the Englishmen one by sea an other by lande that vpon the sea was aboue .200 shyppes besyde galeys This nauye made shewe dyuers tymes to haue landed in the Isle of wyght at Portesmouth and other where but euer they perceyued suche prouysyon made by kynge Henry that nothynge was done woorthy memorye but that theyr sort by Boloine was in the meane tyme fynyshed Worde was brought that the french menne entended to lande in the Isle of Wyght Wherfore the kyng wente to Portesmouthe At whyche tyme of the kynges abode there a goodly shyppe of Englande called the Mary Rose wyth syr George Carewe the capitayne and many other gentylmen were drowned in the myddest of the hauen by greate negligence and folye Certayne frenche men landed in the Isle of Wyght but they were dryuen away with losse of theyr captaine and many souldiours In August the lorde Edwarde Seymor erle of Hertforde was sente by the Kyng into Scotland with an armye of xii thousande men where he destroyed dyuers towns and the middle marches and greatly endomaged the Scottes This yeare in Auguste dyed Charles duke of Suffolke a very noble gentylman and full of actiuitie This yeare the .xii. day of September the Churche of saynt Gyles without Creplegate was brent Anno. 37. sir Martin Bowes goldsmith M. George barnes S Rafe Alleyn S The .xxiiii. day of Nouember a parliament begon at Westminster where was graunted to the Kyng a Subsydie of ii.s viii.d of the pounde of mouable gooddes and .iiii. shyllynges the pounde in landes to be payde in twoo yeare and all Colleges Chauntryes and hospitalles were committed to the kynges order durynge hys lyfe to alter and transpose whyche hee promysed to doo to the glory of God and the common profyte of the realme Aboute thys tyme the Lorde admirall landed in Normandye and brente the suburbes of Traiport dyuers villages along the sea coast and destroyed and toke almost all the shyppes in the hauen which was a
to doo that acte And beyng hanged for the same with his three men in Smythfielde sayde at his death he would neuer repēte it they were al foure hanged on the fryday next after whiche was the .xxv. daye of Ianuary The .xxvii. daye of Ianuary Humfrey Arundell capitaine of the rebelles in Deuonshyre was hanged drawen and quartered at tyborne with dyuers other as Wynslade Holmes Bery c. About the same tyme Robert Kyte capitaine of them that rose in Norfolke together with his brother Wyllyam was condemned and sent to Norwiche where the sayde Robert was hanged in chaynes vpon the toppe of Norwyche castell The two capitaynes Arundell and Kite were brought to Londō about one tyme and so was the prophecie fulfilled that they and their company had great affiance and trust in that is that they should mete at London which they interpreted to prosperitie as cōquerours and not to punishement as traytours About the beginninge of February in the fourth yere of Edward the syxte the Ambassadours of Englande and Fraunce consulted of a peace to be had betwene both Realmes whiche after was concluded The .vi. day of February the Duke of Somerset king Edwards vncle was deliuered out of y e towre y e same night be supped with the erle of Warwick at the sherifes house called maister Yorke The .x. day of February One Bel a Suffolke man was drawen from the towre to tyborne and there hanged and quartered for mouyng a newe rebellion in Suffolke and Esser On mondaye being the last daye of Marche a generall peace was proclaymed betwene the kynges of Englande and Fraunce in the same peace were included the Emperour the Scottes The .25 daye of Aprill the towne of Bulleyn was yelded vp vnto the Frēch king and his capitaines toke the possession which was so great comfort to the Frenchemē that at their entryng of the towne many of them kneled down and kissed the stones of the streates The ii day of May one Ioane Knel otherwyse called Ioane Butcher or Ione of Kēt was burned in Smithfield for heresy that Christ toke no fleshe of the virgin Mary but passed through her body as through a conduicte Not long after certain leude persons attempted a new rebellion in some part of Kent but they were sone repressed certayne of the chief as Rychard Lyon Goddard Gorran and Rychard Irelād were apprehended and put to death for the same the .xiiii. daye of May. Anno. 4. sir Andrewe Iud Skin M. August Hinde S Iohn Lyon S This syr Andrewe Iudde afore named erected one notable schole at Tunbrydge in Kent wherein be brought vp and noryshed in good learnynge great store of youth as well bred in that shyre as brought from other countries adioynyng A noble act and correspondent to those that haue bene done by lyke worshipfull men and other in olde tyme within the same citie of London This yere vpon a thursdaye beynge the .xvii. daye of December the Thames beneth the brydge dyd ebbe flowe three tymes within .ix. houres and the same daye tyme the byshop of Wynchester who had lyen in the towre from the morowe after saynt Peters day the first yere of Edward y e sixt was brought vnto Lambyth by water before the byshop of Canterbury other the kynges cōmissioners where were obiected vnto hym certayn articles on the kynges behalfe and day assigned him to answer The .xxiiii. daye of Ianuary was a parliament holdē at Westmynster and was contynued vntyll the .xv. of Aprill At this time besides diuers other thīgs it was enacted that priestes chyldren should be legytimate This yere on saynt Valentins daye beyng the fifth yere of Edward the sixt at Feuersham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was kylled by the consente of his owne wyfe For this act iust punyshement was afterwarde taken vpon those that were the doers and consenters to the same The wyfe her self was burned at Canterbury the .xiiii. daye of Marche the same daye two other were hanged in chaynes at Feuersham and a woman brent Mosby and his syster were hanged in Smithfielde at Londō And Black wyll the Ruffyan that was hiered to do the acte after his first scape was apprehended and burnt on a scaffolde at Flyshyng in Sealande The .xiiii. daye of February beynge saturday D. Stephen Gardiner byshop of Wynchester was depriued of his byshoprike and so committed to the towre agayne Into his place was translated doctor poynet who before was byshop of Rochester The .24 daye of Apryll beyng Frydaie a duche mā was burned in Smithfielde for heresy who helde the detestable opinion of the Arrians The .viii. daye of Maye a proclamation was made that from and after the last daye of August then next ensuyng our shyllyng of the value of .xii. d. shuld be currant but for .ix. d. and a groate for three pence by reason of whiche proclamatiō ensued great dearth of al thinges for the people couetyng to reyse the losse of theyr mony vpon suche kynde of wares or victual as they occupyed did dayly enhaunce the pryce moste myserablye appressyng the poore The .25 daye Maye beyng Monday betwene the howers of eleuen and one of the clock at after noone was an erthquake of halfe a quarter of an howre long at Blechynglye at Godstone at Croydon at Albery at dyuers other places in Southery Myddlesexe The .ix. day of Iuly being thursday the forsayd proclamatiō which was appointed to take effect the last day of August next commyng by reason of the infaciable couetousnes of the people oppressyng the poore was shortened vnto this present daye and tooke effecte immediatly vpon the publyshynge of the same whiche was done betwene .ix. tenne of the clocke before noone so that immediatly a shilling went for .ix. pēce and a grote for .iii. d. and no word spokē of y e small money as pēce half grotes by reason wherof there was no small mony to be gottē to geue y e poore people The sweating sicknes begā in Londō the .viii. day of Iuly the .x day of Iuly it was most vehement whiche was so terrible that people being in best health were sodaynly taken and dead in .xxiiii. houres or .xii. or lesse for lack of skyll in guydyng them in their sweate And it is to be noted that this mortalitie fell chiefly or rather only on men and those also of the best age as betwene .xxx. and xi yeres of age also it folowed Englysh men as well within the Realme as in straunge countreis wherefore this nacion was muche afearde of it and for the tyme began to repente and remember God from whom the plague might well seme to be sent among vs. But as the disease in time relēted so our deuociō also in short space decaied the first weke died in Lōdō .800 persōs thē it ceased The .xvii. day of August beyng mōday was
into the Hospitall at the gray friers called Christes Hospitall to the number of fower hundred In the sommer past the other yeare king Edward wēt in progresse into the west countrey where he had so muche exercise of haukynge and huntynge as was thought by some at that tyme to be daungerous vnto his health Towarde wynter he returned to London from thense to Grenewitche where all the Christmas season was passed with muche pleasauntnes and myrthe vntill at lengthe in Ianuarie he felle sycke of a cough whyche ended in a consumption of the lyghtes The sunday before Candelmas which was the .xxix. daye of Ianuarie in the vii yere of Edward the .vi. came a commission to the Churche wardens of all paryshes in London that all their lynnen as albes chesebels and surplices whiche were not occupied reseruynge necessarie linnen for the churche should bee geuen vnto the Hospitall aboue named The .xx. day of May by the encouragemēt of one Sebastian Gabota .iii. great shyppes well furnished were set foorthe for the aduenture of the vnknowen voiage to Moscouia and other easte partes by the northe seas And about the same tyme .ii. other shyps were sent foorth to seke aduentures southwardes In May whiles kyng Edwarde laye daungerously sycke Lorde Gylford the duke of Northumberlandes fourth son maryed lady Iane the Duke of Suffolkes daughter whose mother being then aliue was doughter to Mary king Henries sister whiche fyrste was maried to the frenche kynge and after to Charles duke of Suffolke In this tyme many were punyshed in Englande for talkynge rasshely that the Kyng shoulde be deade and dyuers also for sayenge that he was poysoned for that rumour was spred throughoute the Realme The .22 day of Iune a great thunder began about a .xi. of the clock and dured almoste the space of two houres and about .xii. of the clocke was a wonderfull terrible clap at which clappe the lyttell doore of saint Denyse church in London was driuen open and the locke thereof with a great parte of the lynyng of the same doore was torne awaye Kyng Edward beyng about the age of .xvi. yeres as is sayd before was long sick of a consumption of the lightes and the .vi. day of Iuly ended his life he was in this hys youthe a prince of suche towardnes in vertue learnynge and all goodly gyftes as Europe seldom tymes or neuer hath sene the like and therfore no meruaile considering the state of the realme if all true englyshe hartes dye muche lament soo vntymely death in so tender youthe and so toward a prince The .x. daye of Iuly beyng monday the deathe of Kyng Edwarde was publyshed The same daye in the after noone aboute fower of the clocke the Lady Iane doughter of the lady Frances the Duchesse of Suffolke whyche Lady Iane was maryed vnto the Lord Gyiford Dudley the fourthe sonne vnto the Duke of Northumberland was conueyed by water to the tower of London and betwene .vii. and .viii. of the clocke in the euening proclamation was made throughout the citie whereby was declared by sondry circumstāces that king Edwarde beyng deceased by his wylle had assigned the sayde lady Iane to bee quene and therevppon so proclaymed Quene of England Thys matter was very greuouslye taken of the commom people and a greate numbre of gentilmen for the loue they bare to Lady Mary and the ryghte of her title At thys tyme the state of this realme might wel seme moste myserable wherin the nobilitie and counsell on the one parte and the gentlemen and commons of the other appered to be fully bent to mayntayne two contrary titles For when it was heard that the lady Mary was fled to Framingham castell in Suffolk the people of the countrey almoste wholly resorted vnto her and in Oxenforde syr Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire syr Edmunde Peckham and in dyuers other places many men of worshyp offryng them selues as guides to the common people gathered greate powers and with all spede made towarde Suffolke where ladye Mary was In thys meane tyme the .xiii. day of Iuly by appointment of the counsell the Duke of Northumberland the Erle of Huntingdon the lorde Grey of Wilton and dyuers other with a great numbre of men of armes went to fetche her by force and was on their way as farre as Bury but not long after the counsell partly moued with the right of her cause partly consideryng that the moste of the realme was wholly bent on her syde changed theyr myndes and assembled them selues at Baynardes castell and there commoned with the erle of Pembroke and immediatly came into Cheapeside with the kyng of heraldes where they proclaimed the lady Mary doughter to kyng Henry the .viii. and quene Katherine quene of Englande France and Irelande defendor of the faithe c. the xix day of Iuly kepyng as prisoners in the tower lady Iane lately proclaimed and Lorde Gylford her husband When this was heard in the dukes campe many of his souldiours forsoke hym and be returnynge to Cambridge proclaimed the Ladye Marye Quene and on the twenty day at nyght beyng apprehended of the garde he with other was brought to the Tower of London the fyue and twentye daye of Iuly Thus was the matter ended wythout bloudshedde whyche menne seared woulde haue brought the deathe of many thousandes Queene Mary Anno Regni 1. MArye the eldest daughter of king Henry the .viii. began her reigne ouer thys realme of England the vi day of Iuly in the yeare of our Lord .1553 deceased in the yere of our Lorde .1558 the .17 day of Nouember so she reigned .v. yeares .v. moneths .xi. days she was proclaimed Quene at London the .xix. day of Iuly and the .xx. day at the castel of Framingham and afterwarde beynge accompanied with a goodly bande of noble men gentylmen and commoners gathered out of all partes of the realme came to London and entred the tower the .iii. day of August In her fathers tyme and brothers tyme dyuers noble men byshops and other were caste into the tower somme for treason layde to their charge as the Duke of Norffolke and the Lord Courtney sonne to the Marques of Excester some for mainteinyng the Popes supremacie as D. Lonstall byshop of Durham and other whiche continued there prisoners at the Quenes commyng to the tower to all these and many other she graunted pardon and restored them to theyr former dignities Lykewise dyd she vnto doctour Gardener bishop of Winchester whom she dyd not only sette at libertie but also made hym hygh chauncellour of Englande For the greate fauour that she shewed to the lord Courtney whom she made Erle of Deuonshyre many men were in opinion that she purposed to haue maryed hym but in the end it proued otherwyse As all sortes of men almoste dyd reioyce that Quene Mary had recouered the crowne so many notwithstandyng muche feared alteration of religion by her For manyfest signification therof was geuen
day of Nouēber D. Cranmer Archbishop of Canturburye lady Iane that was before proclaimed Quene and the lorde Gylford her husbande were openly arreigned condemned for treson This yere the .xxv. of Nouember beyng saincte Katherins daye after euensong began the quier of Poules to go about the steple synging anthemes with cresset lyghtes after the old custome at vi of the clocke at nyght The laste daye of Nouember beynge saynt Andrewes day began the procession in latine the byshop curates persons and the whole quiere of Poules with the Maior and aldermen and the prebendes in their grey amyses c. The .v. day of December the parliament was dissolued in the whyche parliament all statutes that were made either of Premunire in tyme of king Hēry the .viii. or concernynge religion and administration of the sacramentes vnder kyng Edwarde the syxt were repealed and communication was had of the quenes mariage with kyng Philyp the Emperours sonne The beginnyng of Ianuarie the emperor sent a noble man called Ecmondane and certayne other ambassadours into England to make a perfecte conclusion of the mariage betwene Kyng Philyp and Quene Mary The .xx. day of Ianuary the lord Chancellor with other of the counsaile declared openly vnto the Quenes maiesties houshold that there was a mariage concluded betwene her grace and the kyng of Spayne whiche shoulde be a greate strength honour and enrichyng to the realme of England The purpose of this mariage was so greuously taken of dyuers noble men and a great numbre of gentylmen and commoners that for this and religion they in suche sort conspired agaynst the quene that if the matter had not brokē out before the tyme appointed menne thought it would haue brought muche more trouble and danger For syr Thomas Wyat in Kente beyng one of the chief fearynge that the matter was by certaine persones bewrayed sodenly about the .xx. day of Ianuary gathered a certayne company and muche incensed the people of those partes agaynste the quene saying That she and the counsel intended not onely by alteration of religion to bryng in the pope but also by mariage of a stranger to brynge the realme into miserable seruitude and bondage When report of this was brought to London the Queene with so muche spede as might be sent the duke of Norfolke with a company of souldiours into Kent against Wiat where the duke meting with Wyat not farre from Rochester bridge was forsaken of his souldiours and returned to London In this meane tyme Henry duke of Suffolk father to lady Iane lately proclaimed Quene fleynge into Leycestershyre and Warwikeshire with a small company in dyuers places as he went agayne proclaimed his daughter but the people did not greatly inclyne vnto him Wherfore when the erle of Huntyngton that was sent to pursue hym came to Couentrie and was receiued into the citie the duke hauyng no great power or strength of menne about hym was brought therby into a streight and hydyng hymselfe in a parke of hys owne by Couentrie was bewrayed by one of his seruauntes and so taken and by the erle of Huntington brought prysoner to London whyle thys stirre and trouble was the Emperours ambassadours for feare of daunger departed out of the realme and the same daye beyng the fyrst of Februarie the Quene came frome Westminster to the Guyld hall in London and there after vehement woordes agaynste Wyate declared that she ment not otherwyse to marry then the Councell should thynke both honourable and commodious to the realm And if they thought good that she could continue vnmaried as she had done y e greatest part of her age and therfore wylled theym truely to assist her in repressynge suche as contrarye to theyr dueties rebelled When she had done vnderstandynge that many in London dyd fauour Wyats part she appoynted lorde William Haward lieutenant of the citie and the Earle of Pembroke general of the field whiche bothe prepared all thynges necessarye for theyr purposes with greate prouision of men and artillerie Whyle thys prouysion was makynge Wyate came nere vnto the citie and was entred into Southewarke the third day of Februarie and the morow after Candlemas daye wherefore the drawe bridge was broken downe ordinance bent to that parte generall pardon proclaimed to all them that woulde geue ouer and forsake the rebels and a greate rewarde appoynted to hym that toke Wyate prisoner After Wyat had layne .ii. dayes in Southwarke he turned hys iorney to Kyngston on Shroue tuisday in the mornyng beyng the sixte of Februarie where he passed ouer the Thames and purposed to haue come to London in the night but by means that the cariage of his chiefe ordinance brake he was so letted that he could not come before it was farre daye At that tyme the erle of Pembroke and diuers other were in saint Iames field with a great power and theyr ordinance so bent that Wiate was faine to leaue the common way and with a smalle company came vnder saint Iames wall frome the danger of the ordinaunce and so wente by Charing crosse vnto Ludgate without resistence and there thought to haue be let in But perceiuyng that he was defeated of his purpose he returned and aboute temple barre was resysted and yeldyng hymselfe was taken prisoner Proclamation was made in London that no man vnder pain of death should kepe in his house any of Wiats faction Wherfore they were all brought forth and shortly after about the number of fifty were hanged on .xx. paire of gallouses made for that purpose in dyuers places in and about the citie The .xii. day of February lady Iane the duke of Suffolkes daughter and her husband lord Gylford whiche hytherto had ben kept in the tower were nowe be headed for feare least any other shold make lyke trouble for her title as her father had attempted to doo The .17 of February was proclamatiō made that all strangers should voyd the realme within .xxiiii. days next ensuing vpon payne of confiscation of their goods all free denisens marchantes embassadoures and theyr seruants except The .xvii. daye of Februarie Henry Duke of Suffolke was condempned of reason the fourth day after beheaded at the tower hyll and hys bodye buried in the tower The .23 of February about .240 prisoners of Wiats faction went with halters about theyr neckes toward Westminster who had theyr pardon in chepe The .xv. day of Marche the Earle of Deuonshire whom the Quene at her fyrst entring deliuered out of the tower and ladye Elisabeth also the Quenes syster were both in suspicion to haue consented to Wyats conspyracie and for the same were apprehended and committed to the Tower The .x. of Aprill Cranmer archbishop of Canturbury Ridley of London and Hugh Latymer ones byshop of worcester were conueyed as prisoners from the tower of London to Wyndsor and after frome thence to the vniuersitie of Oxforde there to dispute with the diuines and learned men of the contrary
opinion The .xi. daye of Aprill syr Thomas Wiat chiefe capitayn and ryngleader of the rebels was beheaded at tower hyll and after quartered his quarters were sette vp in dyuers places and his heade on the gallowes at Hay hyll where it was soone after stolne awaye and his fyngers and toes cut of from his quarters and conueyed The .27 of Aprill the lorde Thomas Gray brother to the late duke of Suffolke was beheaded William Thomas a gentylman and certaine other persons were apprehended for conspiring Quene Maries death the same William Thomas for that offence the .xviii. day of May was drawen hanged and quartered at Tyborne The .xix. day of May the lady Elizabeth was brought out of the Tower by water and so conueyde to Richemount from thense to Wyndsore and so by my lorde Williams to Rycote in Oxfordeshyre and from thens to Woodstocke where she remayned The .xxiiii. day of Maye beynge the feast of Corpus Christi a ioyner that dwelte in Colman streete called Iohn Strete wold haue takē the Sacrament out of the priests hands in Smithfield in the tyme of procession but he was resisted taken and put in Newgate and then he fayned hym selfe madde The fowerth day of Iune was taken down all the gallowes that were about London The same day began the crosse of Cheape to be newe gylded The .xxii. daye of Iune was a proclamation made concernyng shootynge in handgunnes and bearyng of weapons The .xv. daye of Iuly in the seconds yeare of Quene Mary Elisabeth a yong wenche of the age of .xvi. or .xviii. yeres did open penance at Paules crosse standyng vpon a skaffold al the sermon time where she confessed openly that she beyng inticed by lewde councell had vpon the .xiiii. day of Marche last passed counterfait certayn speches in an house nere vnto Aldersgate in London aboute the which the people of the whole citie wer wonderfully molested Some saying it was an angel some the holy ghost speakynge in a walls On this maner she behaued her selfe she laye and whystled in a strange whistell made for the nones then were .iii. or .iiii. companions confederate with her which toke vpon them to interprete what the spirit said expressyng certain sedicious opprobrious words against the quenes highnes The .xix. day of Iuly kyng Philyp the emperours sonne passyng out of Spain came into England arriued at South hampton the .iiii. daye after he came to Winchester in the euenynge and there goyng to the churche was honourably receiued of the bishop and a great number of nobles for that purpose appointed the next day he met with the quens with whom after he had long and familiar talke The second day beyng sainct Iames day the mariage was in honorable maner solemnised betwene him and quene Mary At this time the emperors embassadour being present openly pronounced y t in consideration of that mariage the emperour had granted geuen vnto his sonne the kingdom of Naples Shortly after kyng Philip and quene Mary departed from Winchester and with a goodly companie were broughte to London there with great prouision were receyued of the Citizens the .xviii. day of August At that time a man came as it wer flying vpon a rope from Paules steple to the deanes walle In October the emperor sent ambassadours into Englande to yeld vnto his sonne kynge Philip the Dukedome of Millayne Anno. M .2 P .1 Iohn Lyon grocer M. Dauid Wodroffe S. William Chester S. The .xxiii. of Nouember Cardinall Poole came oute of Brabant into Englande and was receyued with muche honour in all places as he passed At the same tyme he was by parlyamente restored to his old estate and dignitie that he was put frome by kynge Henry the quenes father and shortely after came into the parlyamente house where the kyng quene and other states were all present Then he declaryng the cause of his legacie fyrst exhorted thē to returne to the cōmunion of the church restore to the moste holy father and pope hys due aucthoritie secondly he aduertised them to geue thankes to God that had sent them so blessed a kynge and quene fynally he signified for so much as they had with great gentylnes restored him to his honour and dignitie that he most earnestly desyred to se them restored to the heauenlye courte and vnitie of the churche The next day the whole court of parliament drue out y e forme of a supplication the summe whereof was that they greately repented theym of that schisme that they had lyued in And therfore desired the quene and the Cardinal that by their meanes they myght be restored to the bosome of the holy churche and obedience of the sea of Rome The next day the Kyng queene and Cardinall beyng present the lorde Chancellour declared what the parliamente had determyned concernyng the Cardinals request and offred vnto the kynge and Quene the supplication before mencioned whiche beyng read the Cardinall in a large oration declared howe acceptable repentaunce was in the syghte of God c. Immediatly he makynge prayer vnto God by authoritie to hym committed absolued them and restored them to the churche of Rome When all this was done they wente all vnto the chapell and there syngynge Te Deum with greate solempnytie declared the ioye and gladnesse that for thys reconciliation was pretended The .ii. day of December beyng sonday the kynges maiestie the Lord cardinall and diuers other of the nobilitie repaired to saint Paules church in London and so vnto a wyndow of the same directly against the crosse wher the byshop of winchester being lord Chācellor of Englande made a sermon declaryng howe this realme was agayne restored and vnited vnto the churche of Rome The .27 of Decēber the prince of Piamont duke of Sauoy with other lordes wer receiued at Grauesend by the lord priuie seale other so conueyde along the ryuer of Thames thorowe London bridge to Westmin to y e kings palaice In the beginnyng of Ianuary the parliament was dissolued Wherin among other thynges it was enacted that the statutes before tyme made for the punishement of heretikes and the confirmation of the popes power should be reuiued and in so good force as euer they had ben before kynge Henries reigne and that such acts as were made against the supremacie of the Pope shoulde bee cleane abrogated and abolished The .ix. day of Ianuarie the prince of Orenge beyng receyued at Grauesende was conueyed along the ryuer of Thamis through London bridge and landed at the duke of Suffolkes place The .iiii. of February being monday Iohn Rogers vicar of S. Sepulchres was burned in Smithfield The .vii. of February the lorde Strange being maried at the court the same day at nyght was a goodly pastime of Iuga cana by cresset lyght there were .lxx. cresset lightes The .xviii. of February the byshop of Ely with the lord Mountacute dyuers other well apparelled rode forthe of the citie of London
towards Rome ambassadours from the king quene councel The .xvi. daye of Marche a weaner which dwelled in Shorditche was burned in Smithfield The xiiii day of Aprill in Anno .1555 beyng Ester day a certain desperate person named Williā Flower with a wod knyfe wounded a priest as he was ministrynge the sacrament to the people in S. Margarets churche at Westminster for the whiche offence the said William Flower was burned at westmynster in saint Margarets church yarde the .xxiiii. day of Apryll In Maye the Lorde Cardynall Poole the lorde Chauncelloure of Englande the Earle of Arundell hygh steward of Englande and the lorde Paget wente ouer sea to Calyce and nere vnto Mark treated with the emperors and Frenche kynges Commyssioners for a peace to be had betwene the sayde princes Cardinall Poole beyng president there who returned agayne into Englande about the myddest of Iune without any agrement makyng On the tenthe daye of May a ladde called Wyllyam Fetherstone aboute the age of eyghtene yeares whoe named hym selfe to be kyng Edwarde the vi was taken about Eltham in Kente and conueyed to Hampton court there brought before the counsell who examined hym why he named hymselfe to bee kyng Edward he requirynge to be pardoned sayd he wist not what he did but as he was counsailed apperyng manyfestly to be a desperate foole and so was cōmitted to the marshalsey The .xxviii. day of May the aforesayd ladde was had out of the Marshalsey in a carte and so caryed throughe London to Westminster wyth a paper on hys head wherin was written that he named hym selfe kyng Edwarde And after that he had bene thus caryed round aboute Westmynster hall before all the Iudges and others he was then whipped about the sayde Hall and after set at lybertie The later ende of Iune was a certain muttering traiterously attempted about Wadehurst in Suffex but it was spedily perceyued and wyttyly repressed About the fyrste of Iuly Iohn Bradforde was burned in Smithfield This Bradforde was a man of very sober and honest lyfe and therefore the byshoppes woulde haue ben very glad to haue had hym recant and abiure his opinion The .xii. day of August the .3 yeare of quene Mary was a terrible fyght on the sea betwene the Duchemen and frenchmen nere vnto Romney marshe where as .xi. shyps were brent and sonke that is .vi. frenche shyppes and fyue greate hulkes and certayne hulkes taken by the Frenche men In the beginning of Septēber the king went ouer sea to Calice and so forthe to Brusselles in Brabant to visite the emperour his father The begynning of October fell suche rayne that for the space of vi days men mought row with boates in saint Georges field the water came into westminster hall and there stoode halfe a yarde depe Also into the palaice of westmynster and into Lambeth Churche that men mought row about the church with a whirrie The .xvi. day of October doctor Ridley and doctour Latymer were burned at Oxenforde Anno. M .3 P .2 wil. Garret haberdasher M Thomas Lee S. Iohn Machā S. In October and Nouember a parliamēt was holden in the which the quene beyng persuaded of the clergie that she could not prosper so long as she kepte in her handes the reuenues of the churche yelded vp vnto the spirituall menne the fyrste fruites and tenthes of all byshoprikes benefices and ecclesiasticall liuinges which in king Hēries time were by parliament annexed to the crowne before the ende of this parliamente dyed Stephen Gardener Chancellour of England on the .ix. day of Nouember and was buried at Wynchester and in hys place was appointed doctor Heath archbyshop of Yorke Philpot was burned the .xviii. daye of Nouembre Kyng Philyp beginnyng to gouerne the low countreys committed vnto him by his father about the .xviii. day of Ianuarie entred into Andwerpe and was receiued with great solemnitie The .iiii. day of Marche appered a blasyng sterre and continued the space of xii dayes William Fetherston who before had named hym selfe to be kyng Edward as you haue herd in the yere last past now said he had of late sene and spoken with kynge Edwarde for the whiche he was drawen to tyborne and there hanged quartered the .xiii. day of Marche The .xxi. day of Marche D. Cranmer archbyshop of Canterbery was burned at Oxford and the same daye the lorde Cardinall Poole song his fyrst masse at Grenewich in the friers church on sonday next folowynge he was consecrated archebyshop of of Caunterbury at the same friers churche with great solemnitie and on the .xxv. daye of Marche beyng the feast of the annunciation of our Ladye in the yeare .1556 he was stalled at Bowechurche in Cheape On Palmsonday euē being y e .28 of Marche part of the prison house of Newgate at Lōdon was burnt by casualtie of fire This yeare a certain conspiracie was made by certaine meane persons in England whose purpose was to haue robbed the quenes Escheker to this entent that they myghte bee able to mainteyne warre agaynste the quene This matter was vttered by one of the conspiracye whereby Udall Throgmorton Peckham Daniel and Stanton were apprehended for the same and dyuers other fled into France The .xxviii. day of Apryll Throgmorton and Richard Udall wer drawen to Tyborne and there hanged and quartered The .xix. of Maye Stanton was likewyse executed at Tyborne The .viii. daye of Iune one Rossy Dedyke and Bedle were also drawen to Tyborn and hanged quartered The .xxvii. daye of Iune were .xiii. persones brent at Stratforde the bowe for matters of religion The .viii. day of Iuly Henry Peckham and Iohn Daniel were hanged and headed at the tower hyll and theyr bodyes buried at Barkyng churche Anno. M .4 P .3 sir Tho. Offley marchāt taylour M. Wil. Harper S. Iohn white S. About this tyme began the hofe burnyng feuers and other strange diseases wherof died many olde persons so that in London there dyed frome the laste of Nouēber vnto the last of Decēber .vii. Aldermen whose names were Henry Herdson sir Richard Dobbes late maior sir Williā Larton late maior syr Henry Nublethorn late maior sir Iohn Chapneis blynde late maior sir Iohn Oliffe late sheriff sir Iohn Greshā late maior The .16 of December a smyth beyng a stranger borne was arraigned at Newgate for makynge counterfeated keyes wherwith to haue opened Newgate in the nyght and so to haue slayne the keper and lette foorth the prysoners at whyche tyme of his arraignement hauyng a knyfe about hym he thrust hym in who gaue witnesse agaynst hym so that he dyed therof for the whiche acte after that .xii. men had gyuen theyr verdict against him and iudgement passed he was immediatly takē from the barre and in the strete before the Iustice hall his hand beyng striken of his body was hanged on a new gybbet set vp for that purpose the same tyme the keeper of newgate was indicted for that the sayde
prisoner had weapon about hym The .iiii. of Ianuarie a shippe passyng before Grenewiche the court beynge there shotte of her ordinaunce and one piece beynge charged with a pellette of stone was shot into the court but thankes be vnto God it dyd no hurt but passed through the walles The .xxvii. day of Februarye an ambassador came to London from the emperour of Cattay Moscouie and Russe lande who was honorably met and receyued at Totâ—ham by the merchantes venturers of London rydyng in veluet coates and chayues of gold and by them conducted to the barres at Smithfield and there receiued by the lorde maior of London with the aldermen and sheriffes and so by the lorde Maior aldermen and merchant venturers conueyed thorough the Citie vnto maister Dimokes place in Fanchurch strete wher he lodged vntill the .12 of May next folowyng in the yere .1557 at the which tyme he toke hys iourney to Grauesend there toke shyppyng with the prymrose and iii. other shyppes to sayle to Moscouie The lorde Sturton with muche iniuâ—ye and crueltie murthered two men and for the same was araigned and condemned at Westminster the .ii. daye of Marche he was conueyed through London to Salisburye and there hanged with .iiii. of his seruantes the .vi. daye of Marche King Philip who had ben a good season in Flaunders to take the possession and gouernement of the low countreis â—â— Marche returned into Englande and the .xxii. day he passed through London beynge accompanied with the Quene and the nobles of the realme but because greate trouble was towarde betwene hym and the kyng of France he taried not long here but about the third of Iuly next folowyng passyng the seas agayne into Flanders made great prouision for warre agaynste the Frenche kyng The quene thynking her husbandes quarell to be hers also proclaymed open war agaynst France and not long after sent ouer an army of one thousand horsemen .iiii. thousand footemen ii M. pioners to ayde kynge Philip whereof the erle of Pembroke was generall The .24 day of Aprill in the yere .1557 Thomas Stafford other englishmeÌ„ to the numbre of .xxxii. persones commyng out of France toke the castell of Scarborough whiche they enioyed .ii. dayes and then were taken and broughte to London wher on the .xxviii. day of May the sayd Thomas Stafford was beheaded at the Tower hyll and vpon the morowe were three of hys companye drawen to Tyhorne and there hanged and quartered The tenthe daye of Auguste in the fyfthe yeare of Quene Marye were taken of Fraunce the chiefest Capitayns that the Frenche kyng hadde as foloweth The duke of Moâ—tmorency Constable of France and his sonne called Monsieur de Meru the duke of Monpencier the duke of Longueuille the Mareshal of S. Andrew the Ringraue Coronal of the Almains Roche du Main the Conte of Roche foucaulâ— The Vicont of Touraine the Baron of Curton the Prince of Manâ—us besyde many gentylmen and Capitains Thys yeare on the .xv. daye of Iuly dyed the ladye Anne of Cleue at Chelsey and was buryed at Westmynster the .viii. day of August The .xviii. daye of Auguste was taken the town of saint Quintine by king Philyppe wyth the healpe of Englishe menne at the siege whereof the Lorde Henry Dudley youngest sonne to the Duke of Northumberland was slayne wyth a gunne This yeare before Harueste wheate was solde for .iiii. marke the quarter Malt at foure and fortye shyllynges the quarter Beanes at forty shyllyngs the quarter Rye at forty shillyngs the quarter and pease at .xlvi. shillinges .viii. d. But after harueste wheate was solde for .v. s. the quarter malt at .vi. s .viii. d â—ye at .iii. s .iiii. d. and in the countreye wheate was solde for .iiii. s. the quarter malt for .iiii. s. viii d. and in some place a bushell of rye for a pound of candels whiche was .iiii. d. Anno M .5 P .4 Thomas Curteys fishmoÌ„ger S. Rich. Malarie S. Iames Altam S. The fyrst of Ianuary the frenchmen came to Calaice with a great army and layd siege thervnto and within .iiii. or v. dayes were maisters therof and shortly after wan all the pieces on that syde the sea To many it semed strange how that towne whiche so many yeares had bene fortified with all munitions that could be deuised shold nowe in so shorte space be taken of our ennemies It is to be noted that the counsell of England raysed great power to haue gone to the defence of that towne but such tempest rose as the like in many yeares had not ben sene wherby no shyppe could broke the sea and suche of the shyppes as aduentured were wonderfully shaken and forced by the saide teÌ„pest to returne agayne with great daunger The French king also inuaded Flanders and spoyled and brent Dunkirke before kynge Philyp could come to the rescue but before the frenche men returned out of Flanders the Fleminges and the englyshe shyppes metyng with them vppon the sandes betwene Dunkirke and Grauelyne slewe of theym a great numbre Agaynst sommer greate preparation was made both on kyng Philyp and the Frenche kyngs parties and they reteined styll myghty armies of purpose to inuade eche other but nothyng beynge doone towarde wynter they brake vp their campes Thys Wynter the quarterne aques contynued in lyke maner or more behementely then they hadde doone the laste yeare At this tyme also dyed so many priests that a great numbre of paryshes in dyuers places of this realme were vnserued and no curates could be gotten for moneye This yeare in Iune were .vii. burned at one stake in Smythfield and in Iuly were syxe bnrned at Brainforde at one stake and dyuers other in other places Anno M. 6. P. 5. Sir Thomas Lee mercer M. Tho. Hawes S. Rich. ChaÌ„pion S. Kyng Philippe beynge absent oute of this realme Quene Mary beyng dangerously sycke ended her lyfe the .xvii. day of Nouember when â—he hadde reigned .vi. yeares .iiii. monethes and .xi. dayes The same daye dyed Cardynall Poole and a lyttell before two of her phifitions and dyuers byshops and noble menne whome the Quene had estemed greatly Quene Elisabeth Anno regni .1 AFter the decease of Queene Mary our gracious and soueraigne lady Elisabeth to the greate comfort of Englande was with ful consent proclaymed quene the .xvii. daye of Nouember in the yere 1558. Not longe after she came frome Hatfielde in Hartefordshyre where she then abode vnto the Charterhouse in London and wente frome thens to the tower there she remayned vntyll the xiiii day of Ianuary folowyng at which time the LoÌ„doners hauyng made sumptuous prouision she passed through the citie to her palaice at westminster shewyng very comfortable and gentil countenance vnto the people the next day folowing her grace was crowned in saint Peters church at Westminster by doctor Oglethorpe byshop of Carlile The reporte of this was very ioyfull to suche as in Quene Maries tyme for religions sake
no doubt the poore remember it God bee mercyfull vnto vs and defend vs from the lyke if it be his wyll Anno. 5. sir Iohn White grocer M. Edward Bankes S Roulād Haiward S This Maior begynnyng his yeare the xxviii day of October kept no Maiors feast at the Guyld hall as it had ben accustomed before tyme Also he toke his othe at the vttermost gate of the tower of London The .vi. yere of the quenes maiesties reigne begynnyng the .17 of Nouember thankes bee geuen to God was a peaceable yeare and the plague of pestilence well ceassed in London yet neuerthelesse for feare thereof Hillarie tearme was kept at Hertforde castell besyde Ware This yeare .1564 the .23 day of Apryll was a ioyefull peace proclaymed wyth the sounde of trompets betwene Englande and Fraunce And nowe the plague beynge thankes be to God cleane cessed in London bothe Easter and Mydsomer tearmes were kept at Westminster This yeare through the earnest sute of the armorers there was on the Uigile of Sainct Peter a certayne kynde of watche in the Citie of London whiche dyd onely stand in the hyghest stretes of Cheape Cornhyll and so forthe towardes Algate whyche was to the commons of the same citie for the most parte as chargeable as whenne in tymes paste it was moste commendably done where as this beyng to very smal purpose was of as smalle a number of people well lyked The seconde daye of October in the after noone was a solempne Obsequie kepte at Saincte Paules Churche in London for Ferdinando the Emperour late beynge departed out of this mortall lyfe and lykewyse the morowe nexte after in the forenoone where was a goodly hearce erected in the vppermoste quyre of the same Churche garnyshed wyth scutchins and baners of his armes very costely and sumptuous The whole doyng therof wyth the sermon are at large sette foorthe in a Boke of that matter in print Anno. 6. Rich. Malary mercer M. Edward Iackman S Lyonell Ducket S The .xx. daye of Nouember beyng monday in the mornyng about .vi. of y e clocke through negligence of a mayden with a candell the snuffe fallynge in an hundred pound weight of gunpouder thre houses in Bucklers bury wer sore shaken and the backer partes of the same houses were blowen and shattered in pieces the mayden was so burnt that she dyed therof within .ii. dayes after It is to be noted that if this pouder had layne in a sellar or lower parte of the house as it laye in a garrette it hadde done muche more harme Wherfore I aduyse menne to loke warely to suche ware The .21 day of December beyng S. Thomas day began a frost whiche continued till the .iii. day of Ianuary on new yeres euen people went ouer the Thames on the yce alonge the Thames from London bridge to Westminster and agaynward great number of people playde at the foote ball as boldly and thankes to God as safely as on the drye lande on New yeres day beynge monday on tuisday and wednesday dyuers gentylmen others set vp pricks on the Thames and shot at the same and great numbers of people standyng at eyther pricke beholdynge the same And the people bothe men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers then in any strete in London The costardmongers stode in dyuers places and playde at the dyce for apples on the yce on the wednesday at nyght it began to thaw but men went ouer and along the Thames on thursday all day but on fryday beyng the .v. day of Ianuarye at night was no Ice on the Thames to be sene but that all men mought row ouer and alonge the same it was so sodeynly consumed whiche sodeyn thaw caused suche great flouds and hye waters that it bare downe many bridges and houses and drowned many people The .26 day of Ianuary being friday at night tyme were .ii. tides in the space of .ii. houres at London on the morow beynge saterday was lykewise .ii. in the mornyng and .ii. at nyght on sonday beyng the .28 day of Ianuarie were lykewyse .ii. tydes in the mornynge and at nyght but one as orderly it had ben accustomed This yere in the citie of Chester was a wonderfull cure wroughte by the power of god in his minister master Lane vpon a maiden named Anne Milner of the age of .xviii. yeares who had bene possest with an horrible kind of torment and sycknes about the space of .18 or .19 wekes All whiche time of her sicknes her tormentes beyng terrible and her sustinance very smal or almost nothyng now sodeinly the .16 day of February she was restored to her perfect healthe thanks be giuen to god as ye may rede more at large in a letter imprinted of the same subscribed by the handes of diuers worshypfull knyghtes and gentilmen of that citie The .xxix. day of April the archbishop of Almacarne a byshoprike in Ireland made an escape out of the toure of London who had layn there prisoner about iii. quarters of a yere There was great searche made for hym but he coulde not be founde within the realme The .xx. day of Iune the Lady Lineur was sent prisoner to the toure of Lōdon This yere on S. Peters euen at night was the lyke standyng watche in London as was the same night .xii. moneths or very lyttle better The .xvi. day of Iuly about .ix. of the clock at night began a terrible tempest of lightning and thunder with shoures of hayle which lightnyng and thunder continued vntyll .iii. of the clocke on the next mornyng In the whiche tempest much harme was doone in and aboute Chelmsford in Essex as by destroying◠of .v. C. acres of corne the heatynge down of all the glasse wyndowes on the east side of the said towne of the west and south sydes of the churche the beatyng of the tyles of theyr houses throwyng downe dyuers barnes and chimneys with the battilments of their churche c. The hayle stones beynge measured were found to be vi inches aboute as ye may reade more at large in a boke of the same matter imprinted At the same tyme was muche harme doone in many other places of this realme as at Ledes at Crābroke at Douer ink ēt c This yere Christopher prince margraue of Baudon with Cicelie his wife sister to y e kyng of Swethlād after a lōg daungerous iourney wherin they had trauayled almost .xi. monethes saylyng from Stokholme in Swethland to Finland then crossing the seas ouer to Lyfflād from whens they cam by land al the voyage about by Pole land Fryseland Russye Mahelbrig thoroughs Saxon lande so to Antwarpe in Brabant then to Calaice at the laste in Septēber they landed at Douer and the .xi. day of the same they cam to London and wer lodged at the earle of Bedfords place nere vnto Iuie bridge wher within .iiii. days after that is to say the .xv. day of