great companies so had come to the outer part of the Citie as to Ratcliffe Saint Katherins Southwarke and other the suburbes and many of them were entred the Citie where they robbed the Flemings at Blanchapeltoâ— and other places making them to flye out of the Citie with sorrow ynough On Wednesday folowing the tower of London was yéelded The tovvre of London yéelded to the Mayor of London to the Mayor and his brethren the AldermeÌ„ who forthwith entred the same and delyuered King Henrie of his imprisonment and lodged him in the Kings loding On the Fryday following came to London the Archbyshoppe of Yorke brother to the Earle of Warwike the Lorde Prior of Saint Iohns and other to the number of 2000. men of armes On the morrow following came the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwike the bastard Fawconbridge with other to the number of foure thousand men On the. vj. day of October Iohn Fortescue the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwike the Archbishop of Yorke the Lorde of Saint Iohns with other entred the Towre of London and King Henrie being there prisoner K. H. restored nigh the space of nine yéeres they elected him to be their lawfull King and forthwith rode with him through London to the Bishops Pallace where he rested til the. xiij of October on which day he went a procession Crowned in Paules Church the Earle of Warwike bare his traine and y e Earle of Oxforde his sworde c. King Edward was proclaimed vsurper of the Crowne and Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester was founde in the top of an high trée in the Forest of Wabridge in the Countie of Huntington and brought to London and beheaded at y e Towre hill and was buried at the Blacke Friers Iohn Crosby Iohn Ward the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Stockton Mercer the 28. of October Sir Iohn Crosby Knight one of the late named Sherifes of London for this yeare deceased in Anno Domini 1475 Sir Iohn Crosby his giftes to the Citie and was buryed in the Parishe Churche of Saint Helen in Byshoppes gate stréete vnto the repayring of which Parishe Churche he gaue fiue hundred markes and. xxx pounde to be distributed to poore housholders in the warde of Byshops gate to the repayring of the Parish Church at Heneworth in Myddlesex fortie pounde to the repayring of London Wall one hundred pounde toward the making of a new Towre of stone at the South ende of London bridge if the same were begun by the Maior and commonaltie within x. yéeres next after his deceasse one hundred pounde to the reparations of Rochester bridge x. pound to euerie the prisoners in and about London liberally Also he gaue to the Wardens and Commonaltie of the Grocers in London two large pottes of Siluer chaced halfe guilte waying xitj. pounde v. ounces of Troy weyght to be occupyed in their common hall and else where at their discretions Quéene Elizabeth wyfe to Edward the fourth being in the Sanctuarie at Westminster Prince Ed. born in the SaÌ„ctuarie was deliuered of a Prince on the. iitj. of Nouember who was after King Edward the fifth King Edward with the Lord Hastings the Lorde Say ix hundred Englishmen iij. hundred Flemings would haue landed in Essex but there the Erle of Oxfordes brother put them Anno reg 11 off and after he landed sore weather beaten at Rauenesporne within Humber on Holdernesse and there rose on him Holdernesse 1471 men whose Captayne was sir Iohn Westerdale a Priest after cast into the Marshalsea at London As K. Edward passed the countrey he shewed y e Erle of Northumberlandes letters and Seale that sent for him saying that he came to claime no tytle of the Crowne but only his Dukedome of Yorke nor would not haue done afore but at y e exciting of the Erle of Warwike and cryed in euery place K. Henrie and Prince Edwarde wearing an Estriche Feather Prince Edwardes lyuerie King Edward came to Notingham where sir William Stanley syr William Norres and diuers other broughte him men so that he had then 4000. or more Then Edward marched towarde Lecester where the Earle of Warwike and Marques Mountacute had 4000 men and would haue fought with King Edwarde but that he had receyued letters from the Duke of Clarence that the should not fight vntill he came Whervpon he kéeping Lecester still suffered Edwarde to marche towarde London A 〈…〉 of Clarence with seuen thousand 〈…〉 Edward agréed to him brake all the promises made in Fraunce King Edwarde comming to London by Master Vrswike the Recorders meanes and others entred into the Byshoppe of Londons Palaice by a King Henry againe sent to the Tovver Posterne and there tooke King Henrie and the Archbyshop of Yorke and sent them both to the Towre on MauÌ„dye Thursday The Earle of Warwike the Duke of Excester the Marques Barnet field Mountacute the Earle of Oxford w e many Knights came with their host towarde Barnet Wherefore King Edward tooke King Henrie with him preoccupied y e town of Barnet all the night the Earle of Warwike his retinue remained on the plaine without the towne shooting guÌ„nes one at the other And in y e morning being Easter day and y e xiitj of Aprill they fought in a thick mist from iitj. of y e clock in the morning till x. diuers times the Earle of Warwikes men supposed that they had gotte the victorie of the fielde but it happened that y e Earle of Oxfords men had a starre w e streames both before behinde on their liueries and King Edwards men had the sunne with streames on their lyuery whervpon the Earle of Warwikes men by reason of the myst not well decerning the badges so lyke shot at the Earle of Oxfordes men that were on their owne parte and then the Earle of Oxforde and his men cryed treason and fled with eight hundred men The Marques Mountacute was priuily agréed wyth King Edwarde and had gotten on hys lyuerie but one of his brothers the Earle of Warwikes men espying this fell vppon him and killed him The Earle of Warwike séeing all this lepte on a horse to flye and comming to a woodde where was no passage one of Kyng Edwardes men came to hym kylled hym and spoyled hym to the naked skynne Sir William Tirrell Knyghte was kylled on the Earle of Warwikes â—â—rt The Duke of Excester fought manfully and was dissâ—â—yled wounded and lefte for deade from seuen in the morning tyll 4. of the clocke in the afternoone and then beyng brought to a seruauntes house of his there by called Ruthland he had a Chirurgion and after was conueyed into Westminster Sanctuarie The Lorde Cromwell sonne and heire to the Earle of Essex the Lord Barnes sonne and heire to the Lord Say were slaine on King Edwardes partie and on both partes to the number of foure thousande which were buryed on the same playne where
might in any wise grow vnto me hereafter And this I haue here promised and sworne procéedeth of myne owne desire and frée volunte and by no constraynyng or coaction In witnesse of all the which things aboue written I Richarde Duke of Yorke aboue writ subscribe with mine owne hand and seale This oth he also toke at Westminster and at Couentrey at sundry times Anno. reg 31 Sherifes Maior Richard Lee Richard Alley the 28. of September Godfrey Filding Mercer the 28. of October On the Twelfth day after Christmas the King holding a Robert Fabian 1453 solempne feaste at Westminster made his two bretherne on the mothers side Knightes he also made Edmunde the elder Earle of Richemonde and Iasper the yonger Earle of Penbrooke In the moneth of Marche as witnesseth Gagwine was the Towne of Harflewe wonne by the Frenchmen And soone after the Citie of Bayons was giuen vppe by appointment that the souldioures shoulde leaue theyr armoure behinde them The one and twentith of July Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsburie wyth his sonne Lorde Lisle and Syr Edwarde Hull Knight was slaine besides Burdeaux and the Lorde Molins was taken prisoner who was after deliuered for a greate raunsome On Bartholmewe daye at the Wrestling neare vnto Clearken well a Gentleman belonging to the Prior of Saint Iohns made a rumour or tumulte for the whiche by the commaundement of the Maior he was arrested by Richard Alley one of the Sherifes and deliuered to Paris a Sergeant but suche resistance was made by partes taking that the Sherife was faine to craue help of the Maior who with his brethren the Aldermen arose from the game strengthned the Sherifes and for the rescue of the said Gentleman one named Calleis came out of Saint Iohns with a greate strength of Archers to resiste the Maior in the which fray a Yeoman of Saint Iohns was â—laine and many other sore hurte the Maior himselfe escaped hardly for his Cap was smitten from his head with an arrowe but the Maior with his Citizens putte the other to flight sente the principall of them to Newgate and then toke his place again til y e games were ended by which time the Citizens had gathèred them selues in greate nuÌ„ber and fetched him home neuer Maior so strongly nor so honorably Anno reg 32 This yeare the King lay longsicke at Claringdon was in greate daunger to haue ended his life The thirtéenth daye of October the Quéene at Westminster was deliuered of hir firste sonne who was named Edwarde Iohn Waldren Thomas Cocke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1454 Iohn Norman Draper the 28. of October Before thys time the Maiors Aldermen and Commoners of the Cytie of London were wonte all to ride to Westminster when the Maior shoulde take hys charge but this Maior was rowed thyther by water for the whiche the watermen made of hym a song Rowe the boate Norman c. The ninth of Marche in the nighte was a greate fire nexte wythout Ludgate in a Cordwayners house whyche Cordwayner wyth hys wife thrée yong men and a mayde were all burnte the prisoners of Ludgate were remoued to Newgate bycause they were almoste smouldered An reg 35. Sherifes Maior Iohn Fielde William Tayler the 28. of September Stephen Foster Fishmonger the. 28. of October A greate Fray at London by the Sanctuarie men of Saint Martins le graunde who issued forth and hurte dyuerse Citizens but it was appeased by the Maior and hys brethren The one and twentith of May king HeÌ„ry taking his iorney 1455 from Westminster toward Saint Albons to mete with the Duke of Yorke the Earles of Warwicke and Salisburie lodged that nighte at Wateforde or Wadeforde on thys side Sainte Albons and on the morning earely he came to Saint Albons wyth hym assembled on hys partye the Dukes of Somerset and of Buckingham the. Earles of Penbroke Northumberlande Deuonshire Stafforde Dorset and Wiltshire the Lordes Clifforde Sudley Barons and Roos wyth diuerse Knights Esquiers Gentlemen and Yeomen to the nuÌ„ber of 2000. and more And at the same time were there assembled Richard Duke of Yorke Richarde Earle of Warwicke Richarde Earle of Salisburie with diuerse Knightes and Esquiers in the fielde called Keyfielde beside Saint Albons The King hearing of the dukes comming with the Lords aforesaid pight his banner in a place called Goselowe which place was sometimes called Sandforth in Saint Peters stréete commaunded in strong manner to kéepe the wardes and Barriers of the same Towne The Duke of Yorke knowing the strength made againste him abyding in the fielde afore sayde from seuen of the clocke in the morning vntill it was almost ten of the Clocke without any stroke smitten on eyther parte by the aduise of hys Counsell sente vnto the King vnder these wordes following Wordes in writing by the Duke of Yorke to the King PLease it vnto your excellente grace Richarde Duke of Yorke to take hym as your true liege manne and humble subiecte and to consider and tender at the reuerence of God and in the way of Charitie the true intent of my commyng and to be good and gratious Soueraigne vnto me and all other your true liege menne whych that with all their power and mighte will be readye to lyue and dye with you in your right and to do al things as shal like your Maiestie royal to commande vs if it be to the worship of the Crowne of England and the welfare of this your noble Realme Moreouer gratious Lorde please it vnto youre Maiestye Royall of youre greate goodnesse and rightewisenesse to encline youre will to heare and féele the rightwise parte of vs youre true Subiects and Liege men Fyrste praying and beséeching to oure Soueraigne Christe Jesus of hys hyghe aod mightye power to giue the vertue of Prudence and that throughe the prayer of the glorious Martyre Sainct Albon gyue you verye knowledge of oure trothes and to knowe the intent of our assembling at this time For God that is in Heauen knoweth oure intent is rightfull and true And therefore we praye vnto that mighty LORDE in these woordes Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae wherefore gracious Lorde please it your Maiestie royal to deliuer such as we will accuse and they to haue like as they haue deserued And this done you to be honorably worshipped as moste rightfull King and our true gouernour And if we shoulde nowe at this tyme be promised as afore thys time is not vnknown haue bin promises broken whiche haue bin full faithfully promised and therevpon greate othes sworne we will not nowe cease for no suche promises nor othe tyl we haue them which haue deserued death or else we to dye therefore The aunswere by the King to the Duke of Yorke I King Henrie charge and commaunde that no manner person of what degrée estate or condition soeuer he be abyde not but that they auoyde the field and not be so hardie to make resistaunce against me
hundreth men wherefore Wyat caused a two péeces of Ordinance to be layde on the ende of the Bridge whiche so feared them on the other syde that they durst not abyde then caused hée thrée or foure of hys Souldyers to leape into the Thamis and to swimme to the other syde who lewsed the Westerne Barges whyche there lay tyed and so brought them ouer and by that meanes he passed the water it was woonderfull what paynes hée tooke himselfe comming on foote amongst them neyther dyd they stay anye whitte all that nyghte but came almost to Brayneforde or euer they were discryed by the Quéenes scoutes who there by chaunce méeting Brette and hys companye Brette sayde to the scoute backe villayne if thou goe farther to discouer any thing héere thou shalte dye out of hande the scoute returned in great hast The same day in the afternoone were two men hanged Execution in Paules Church-yard on a Gibbet in Paules Church yard by Marciall law the one being seruant to the Duke of Suffolke and late Sheriffe of Leycester the other a Baker one of the white coates sent out of the Citie agaynste Wyat and the same day came tidings that the Duke with his bréethren were taken The same day towards night there was laden tenne or twelue Cartes with OrdinaÌ„ce as Billes Pikes Speares bowes arrowes powlder shotte shouels mattockes baskets and other munitions two Culâ—erings one Sacre thrée Fawcons and a Fawconet all which stuffe stayde in Paules Church yard The same night also aboute fyâ—e of the clocke a Trompetter went about and warned all horssemen and men of armes to be at Saint Iames field and all footemen also to be there by sixe of the clocke in the next morning The Quéenes scoute vpon his returne to the Court declared Wyats béeing at Brayneforde whiche sodeyne newes made all in the Courte wonderfullye afrayde Drommes went through London at four of the clocke commanding all Souldiours to armour and so to Charing crosse Wyat hearing that the Earle of Pembroke was come into the fields he stayde at Knightes bridge vntill day where his men being very wéerie with trauell of that night and the day before and also partly féebled and faint hauing receyued small sustenance since their comming out of Southwarke restlesse There was no small ado in London and likewise the Tower made great preparation of defence By tenne of the cloke the Earle of Pembroke had set his troupe of horssemen on the hill in the high way aboue the newe bridge ouer against Saint Iames his footemen were set in two battels somewhat lower and néerer Charing Crosse at the lane turning downe by the bricke wall from Islington ward where he had set also certayne other horssemen and he had planted his Ordinance vpon the hill side In the meane season Wyat and his company planted his Ordinance vppon VVyat in Saint Iames fielde a hill beyond Saint Iames almost ouer against the Parke corner and himselfe after a few words spoken to his Souldyers came downe the old lane on foote hard by the Court gate at Saint Iames with four or fiue auntients his menne marching in good array Cuthbert Vaughan and a two antients turned downe towarde Westminster The Earle of Pembrokes horssemen houered all this whyle without mouing vntill all was passed by sauing the tayle vpon which they did set and cut off the other marched forward in array and neuer stayd or returned to the ayde of theyr tayle the greate Ordinance shotte off freshly on both sydes Wyats Ordinance ouershotte the troupe of Horssemen The Quéenes Ordinance one péece strake thrée of Wyats company in a rancke vpon the heads and slaying them strake through the wall into the Parke more harme was not done by the greate shotte of neyther partie The Quéenes whole battayle of footemen standing still Wyat passed along by the wall towardes Charing Crosse where the sayde Horssemen that were there set vppon parte of them but was soone forced backe At Charing Crosse there stoode Sir Iohn Gage Lorde Chamberlayne wyth the Garde and a number of other béeing almost a thousande the which vppon Wyats comming shotte at hys companye but at the last fledde to the Court gates which certayne pursued and forced wyth shotte to shutte the Court gates against them In thys repulse the sayde Lorde Chamberlayne and others were so amazed that manye cryed Treason in the Courte and hadde thought that the Earle of Pembroke who was assaulting the tayle of hys Enimies hadde gone to Wyat takyng hys parte agaynst the Quéene there was running and trying out of Ladyes and Gentlewomen shutting of dores and windowes and suche a shriking and noyse as was wonderfull to heare Wyat wyth hys menne marched still forwarde all along to Temple Barre and so thorough Fleetestreete tyll hée came to the Bell Sauadge an Inne nigh vnto Ludgate wythout resistance hys menne goyng not in any good order or array It is sayde that at Strand certayne of the Lorde Treasurers hand to the number of thrée hundreth men whereof the Lorde Chidioke Powlet his sonne was Captayne met them and so going on the one side passed by them going on the other side without any thing saying to them Also this is more strange the sayde Wyat and hys company passed along by a greate companye of harnessed men whiche stoode on both sides the stréetes without anye withstanding them And as he marched forward through Fléetestréete most with their swords drawne some cryed Quéene Mary hath graunted oure request and giuen vs pardon other sayde the Quéene hath pardoned vs thus some of Wyats men came euen to Ludgate and knocked calling to come in saying there was Wyat whome the Quéene had graunted to haue their requestes but the Lorde William Howarde stoode at the Gate and sayde auant Traytor thou shalt not come in héere Wyat a while stayde and rested hym vppon a stall ouer agaynste the Bell Sauadge Gate and at the last séeing hée could not gette in to the Citie and béeing deceyued of the ayde hée hoped for returned backe agayne in array towards Charing Crosse and was neuer stopped till hée came at Temple barre where certayne Horssemen which came from the fielde mette them in the face and then beganne the fyghte agayne tyll Clarensus an Herraulte came and sayde to Mayster Wyat Sir you were best by my counsell to yéelde you sée thys daye is gone agaynste VVyat taken you and in resisting you can gette no good but bée the death of all these your Souldioures to youre great perill of Soule perchance you maye fynde the Quéene mercifull and the rather if yée stint so greate bloudshead as is lyke héere to bée Wyat héerewyth béeyng somewhat astonyed although hée sawe hys menne bente to fyghte sayde well if I shall néedes yéelde I wyll yéelde me to a Gentleman to whome Sir Mawrice Barkeley came streight and bade hym leape vp behynde hym and another tooke Thomas Cobham and Wyllyam Kneuet so carryed them behinde them vpoÌ„
Edwarde After he had bin carried aboute Westminster ball before the Judges he was whipped about the Pallaice and then through Westminster into Smithfielde and then banished into the North in whyche Countrey he was borne and had bin sometime Lackey to sir Peter Mewtas The firste of Julye Iohn Bradford was burned in Smithfielde Bradford brent Anno reg 3. this Bradford was a man of very sober and honest life and therefore the Bishops woulde gladly haue had him recant and abiure his opinions The xij of Auguste was a terrible fighte on the sea betwéene the Dutchmen and Frenchmen néere to Romney Marsh whereas xj ships were brent and suncke In thys moneth of August in Suffolke at a place by the Sea side all of harde stone and pibble called in those parts a Shelfe lying betwéen the towns of Orford and Alborough where neuer grewe Grasse nor anye earth was euer séene there chaunced in this barraine place sodainely to spring vppe without anye tyllage or sowing great abundaunce of Peason whereof the poore gathered as men iudged aboue The necessity of the poore by God releeued an hundred quarters yet remayned some rype and some blossoming as many as euer there were before to the whiche place rode the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Willoughbey with others in greate number who found nothyng but harde rockey stone the space of thrée yardes vnder the roots of those Peason whyche rootes were greate and long and â—erye swéete c. On Bartholomew euen after the Lorde Maior and Aldermen of London hadde ridden aboute Saint Bartholomews Disputation at Christes Hospitall as had bene accustomed at S. Bartholomevvs in Smithfielde faire they came to Christs Hospital within Newgate where they heard a disputation betwéene the Schollers of Paules Schoole Saint Anthonies Schoole and the Schollers of the said Hospitall for whom was prouided thrée games which was thrée Pennes the best Pen of siluer and guilte valued at v. sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of Saint Anthonies Schoole the Maister of that Schoole had vj. sÌ„ viij d. the second a Pen of siluer parcel guilt valued at iiij sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of Paules Schoole and hys Mayster had v. sÌ„ in money the thyrde a Pen of siluer valued at iij. sÌ„ wonne by a Scholler of the saide Hospitall and his Maister had iiij sÌ„ and there were two Priestes Maisters of Arte appointed for Judges whyche had eache of them a siluer Rule for their paines valued at vj. sÌ„ viij d. the péece The disputation beyng ended the Maior and Aldermen entred the Hall where the chyldren of the Hospital vse to dyne and hadde fruite and wine and so departed King Philip wente ouer seas and landed at Callais on King Philip vvent ouer into Flaunders the fourth of September where he was honorably receyued by the Lorde Deputie and the Maior of the Staple of Callais an Alderman of London named sir Andrew Iudde who presented his Maiestie wyth a Purse and a M. Marks of Golde in it that night the Kyng was lodged in Staple Inne and on the morrowe he departed from Callais towards Brussels in Brabant to visite the Emperour hys father he gaue at his departing among the souldyours of the town of Callais M. crowns of gold and there accompanied him in his iorney of English Lords the Earle of Arundale Lorde Steward of the Quéenes house the Earle of Penbrooke the Earle of Huntington and others On Michaelmasse euen the prisoners that laye in the Nevv Counter in VVoodstrete Counter in Bredstreete were remoued to a newe Counter made in Woodstreete of the Cities purchase and building the whiche remouing was confirmed by a common counsell assembled at the Guild hall for that purpose On the laste of September by occasion of greate winde Great lande vvaters and raine that had fallen was suche greate floudes that that morning the Kings Palaice at Westminster and Westminster hall was ouerflowen wyth water vnto the Stayre foote goyng to the Chauncerie and Kings Benche so that when the Lorde Mayor of London should come to present the Sheriffes to the Barons of the Exchequer all Westminster hall was full of water and by reporte there that morning a Whirrie man rowed with his Boate ouer Westminster Bridge into the Pallaice Courte and so through the Staple gate and all the Wooll Staple into the Kings stréete all the Marshes on Lambeth side were so ouerflowen that the people from Newington Church coulde not passe on foote but were carryed by boate from the said Church to the Pinfold neare to Saint Georges in Southwarke Thomas Leigh Iohn Machil the 28. of September Sheriffes Ridley and Latimer brent The xvj of October Doctor Ridley and Maister Latimer were brent at Oxforde Sir William Garrard Haberdasher the 28. of October Maior First fruites and tenths restored to the Cleargie In October and Nouember a Parliament was holden in the whych the Quéene yéelded vp vnto the Spirituall men the first fruits and tenths of all Bishoprickes Benefices Ecclestasticall liuings In this Parliament was graunted A subsedie to the King and Quéene a subsedie of the Layty from v. l. to x. l. viij d. of the pound from x. l. to xx l. xij d. of the pound and from xx l. vpwarde xvj d. of the pound and al strangers double and the Cleargie granted vj. sÌ„ of the pounde Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the Cardinal to visite euery Parish Churche in London and Middlesex to sée their Reliques repayred and the Images of the Cruciâ—â—â— wyth Mary and Iohn thereon to be fixed Stephen Gardener Byshoppe of Winchester Chauncellor Doctor Gardner deceassed â—â— Englande dyed the ix of Nouember and was buryed at Winchester On Newyeres day the Quéene gaue the great Seale to Doctor Nitholas Heath Archebyshoppe of Yorke and made him Lorde Chauncellor shée likewise gaue the priuie seale to the Lorde Paget and made him Lord priuie Seale these were bothe Londoners borne In thys moneth of February the Lord Maior of London and the Aldermen entred into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof accordyng to the gifte of King Edward nowe confirmed by Quéene Marie The xxvj of February William Conestable alias Fetharston The Millers son fayning to be King Edvv. was arraigned in the Guild hall of London who had caused letters to be caste abroad that King Edward was aliue and to some he shewed hymselfe to be King Edward so that many persons both men and women were troubled by him for the which sedition the said William had bin onte whipped and deliuered as is aforesaide But nowe he was condemned and the thirtéenth of March he was drawne hanged and quartred at Tyborne A Blazing Starre was séene at all times of the nighte the sixth seauenth eight ninth and tenth of Marche The xxj of March Doctor Cranmer Archbyshop of Canterburie Doctor Cranmer brent was burned at Oxfolde and the same day Cardinal Poole sang his firste Masse at Greenewiche in the
order of the Garter one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuy Counsell and Lorde high Treasorer of England at his Manour of Basing Thys worthy man was borne in the yeare of our Lorde 148â— the firste yeare of King Richarde the thirde and lyued aboute the age of 87. yeares in sixe Kings and Quéenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edwarde the sixth Quéens Marie and Quéene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of them was greately fauoured Hymselfe did sée the chyldrâ—n of hys childrenâ— children growen â—o the â—â—â—ber of â—03 Aâ—â—â—â— blessing gyuen by God to men of hys â—â—â—â—ing The xxv and xxvj of March by the commaundement of the Quéenes Maiestie hir Councel the Citizens of London assembling at their â—â—â—â—â—all Halles the Maisters chose oute â—he moâ—â—e 〈◊〉 â—â—◠〈◊〉 persons of euerye their companies to 〈…〉 eâ— of thrée thousande whom they appoynted to be Pikemen and 〈◊〉 â—hâ— Pikemen were forthwith armed in â—aâ—â—â—â—â—râ—eâ—â— and â—â—â—â—r furniture according there vnto the Gunners had euery of them hys Callyuer with the furniture and 〈◊〉 on theyr heaâ—es To these were appoynted dyuers valiant Capitaines who to â—â—aine them vp in warlike â—eaâ—◠〈◊〉 them â—â—râ—ce euery wéeke sometimes in the Artillery yarde teaching the Gunners to handle their péeces sometime at the Miles end and in Saint Georges fielde teaching them to skyrmishe In the whyche skyrmishe wythe Miles end the tenth of Aprill one of the 〈◊〉 of the Goldsmiths company was shot in the 〈◊〉 wyth a péece of a scowring sticke lefte in one of the Calyuers whereof he dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in S. Paules Churcheyarde al the Gunners marching from the Miles end in battaile ray shotte off theyr Calyuers at hys graue On May day they mustred at Grenewich before y e Quéens Maiestie where they shewed manye warlike feates but were hindred by the weather whych was all day showring they returned that nighte to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lorde Ferrers of Earles of Essex and Lincolne created Chartley and Viscount of Herâ—fonde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lorde Clinton and Say hyghe Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eight of May the Parliament beganne at Westminster Barons made and that same daye in the Parliament by the Quéenes Maiesties Writtes sir Henrie Compton Knight Lorde of Comptâ—n in the Hole sir Henry Cheyney Knight Lorde of Tudington sir William Pawlet Knight of Basing and sir Henrie Norrice Knight Lorde of Rycote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament for so muche as the whole Realme of England was excéedingly pestred with Roags Uagabonds and sturdy beggers by meanes wherof dayly hapned diuers horrible murders theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourtéene yeres beyng taken begging vagrant and Roags brente through the â—are wandring misorderly shoulde be apprehended whipped brent through the griâ—â—le of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compasse for the firste time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bulloke was hanged on a Gibbet by the Well with two Buckets in Bishoppes gate stréete of London for robbing and most shamefullye murdering of a Merchaunt named Arthure Hall in the Personage of Saint Martine by the saide Well Thys Martin hadde procured the saide Arthure Hall to come to the sayd Personage to buy of hym certaine Plate but after the saide Arthure hadde well viewed the same he saide this is none of your Plate it hathe Doctor Gardeners marke I knowe it to be his that is true said Martin Bullocke but he hath appoynted me to sell it c. After thys talke whyles the said Arthure was weighing the Plate the same Martin fetcht out of the Kitchen a thicke washing Béeâ—le and commyng behinde hym strake the saide Arthure on the head that hée felled him with the firste stroke and then strake hym againe and after tooke the saide Arthures Dagger and sticked hym and wyth hys knyfe cut hys throate and after woulde haue trussed hym in a Danske Cheste but the same was too shorte wherevppon he tumbled him downe a paire of stayres and after thinking to haue buryed hym in the Seller hys legges being broken with the fyrst fal and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the Seller staires béeyng wynding wherefore he cutte off hys legs wyth an Hatchet and in the ende trussed hym with Strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be carryed to the water side and so shipped to Rye The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towardes Fraunce Embassador being accompanyed with the Lords Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sandes and the Lord Clinton sir Arthure Chambernowne sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edwarde Hastings Knightes wyth dyuers other Gentlemen who takyng ship at Deuer cutte ouer to Bolongne where they were very honorably receyued from thence conueyed by iorneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of y e kings named Le Chasteau de Loure being attended on by the Kings Officers Fiue dayes after they wente to the King at a house called Madril where the Kyng wyth his two brethren the Admirall and the moste parte of the Nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and broughte them into the house where they dyned and remayned till Sondaye followwyng from whence the Kyng and hys nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the Kyng his two brethren and oure Embassador ryding in one Coche togither and the Nobles of England and Fraunce being so placed also in Coches came to the saide Castell of Loure and there dyned After dinner the King our Embassadour with the Nobibilitie of bothe Realmes wente to a Churche named Saint Germaine where the Frenche King his brethren and Nobilitie hearde Euensong the Noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell til Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the Nobles of Fraunce to the Kyng and hys brethren that awayted their commyng where was League vvith Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce confirmed the league whyche hadde bin concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of April deputies beyng there for the French partie Frauncis Momorencie Reignold Virago Sebastian de Lanbespine and Paul de Foix. And for the Quéene of Englande sir Thomas Smith and Maister Walsingham Embassadors Thys being done they departed without the wals of Paris to a Garden of pleasure where they supped after supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the nobles of Englande to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tuisday the Duke of Aniow the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson hys yonger brother and so passed in banquetting and feasting wyth riche giftes on bothe partes On Fridaye the Nobles of
Lorde 1579. and being come into England went vnto the Courte shewed all his trauaile vnto the Counsell who considering that he had spent a great part of his youth in shraldome and bondage exâ—eÌ„ded to him their liberalitie to maintayn hym in hys age to their great honors and encouragement of all true harted Christians This yeare in the moneth of September was finished y e Tovver on London bridge finished newe and most beautifull Tower on London bridge the fouÌ„dation whereof was layde in the moneth of August Anno. 1577. as more at large is shewed In the moneth of September October fell great winds â—ouds and raging floudes in sundry places of this Realme where through many men cattel and houses wee drowned In y e towne of Newport the cotages were borne downe the corne lost pasture grounde ouerwhelmed and cattayle drowned In the towne of Bedford the water came vp to the Market place where Cupbords Chestes stooles and formeâ— swam about the houses their fewel corne and hey was wrackt borne away Also the towne of Saint Edes in Huntingtonshire was ouerflowen sodainely in the night when al men were at rest y e waters brake in with suche a force y t the town was almost al defased the swans swam down the Market place al the town about the boats did floate Gormanchester was sodainely supprest their houses flowen full of water when men were at their rest their cattaile were distroyed aboute the 14. of October The sea did swell the MerchaÌ„ts lost their goods many were drowned which were after found both on sand and land in great numbers Martin Caltrope Iohn Hart Sherifes the 28. of September Sir Nicholas Woodroofe Habardasher the 28. of Octob. Maior On Saterday the 21. of Nouember Anno reg 20 Sir T Gresham deueased sir T. Gresham knight Agent to the Q. highnesse who had in his life time builded the Royal Exchange in London as is afore shewed deceased at his house in Bishops Gate stréete of London and was buried in the Parish Church of Saint Elen the On the xxviij daye of Marche one Francis alias Marmaduke 1580 One hanged in Cheape for murdering of Serieant Grace Gloâ—â—r was hanged on a gibbet set vp for that purpose by the Staâ—â—â—rd in Cheape for wilfully murdering SerieaÌ„t Grace after he was by him arrested Also on the next morow being the nine and tweÌ„tith day of March one Richard Tod that shoulde haue beâ—e hanged in Eastsmithfielde by the Tower for murdering of Mistresse Skinner a widow there was hanged at Tiborne The sixth of Aprill being Wednesdays in Easter wéeke Earthquake about six of y e clocke toward euening a sodayne Earthquake hapning in London almost generally through out England caused suche amazednesse of the people as was wonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest prayers vnto Almightie God The great clocke bell in the Palaice at Westminster stroke of it selfe againste the hammer wyth shaking as diuerse clockes and Bels in the Citie and elsewhere did the like the Gentlemen of the Temple being at Supper ranne from the Tables and out of theyr Hal with theyr kniues in their handes a péece of the Temple Church fell downe some stones fell from Pauls Churche And at Christes Churche in the Sermon while a stone fell from the toppe of the Church whiche killed out of hand one Thomas Grey an Apprentice an other stone also brused his felowe seruaunte named Mabel Eueret so that she liued but foure dayes after diuerse other were sore hurt with running out of the Church diuerse chimneyes in the Citie part of them fell downe the houses were so shaken This Earthquake continued in or about London not passing one minute of an houre and was no more felt but Eastwarde in Kent and on the sea coast it was felt thrée times As at Sandwich at sixe of the clocke the land not only quaked but the sea so foamed that the shippes tottered At Douer also at the same houre was the like so that a péece of the Cliffe fel into the sea with also a péece of the Castle wall there A péece of Saltwood Castle in Kent fell downe and in the Church of Hide the Bels were harde to sounde A péece of Sutton Churche in Kent fell downe the Earthquake being there bothe hearâ— and felte And in al these places and other in East Kent the same was felt thrée times to moue to wit at vj. at ix â— xj of the clocke The ninetéenth of Aprill the Ferrye at Lambeth was Feâ—ry at Lambeth drovvned drowned with fiue men and foure horses other two menne and fiue horsses swam to land and were saued The first day of May after xij of the clocke in the nighte Earthquake iâ— Kent was an Earthquake felt in diuers places of Kent namely at Ashforde Great Chart c. which made the people there to rise out of their beds and ruÌ„ to the Churches where they called vpon God oy earnest prayers to be merciful vnto them The xviij day of May about one houre before Sun setting diuerse Gentlemen of worship good credite riding from Castels Ships seene in the ayre Bodman in Cornewal towards Foy there appeared to their séeming in y â— Northeast a very great mistor fog muche like vnto the sea and the forme of a cloude in the fashioÌ„ of some gret Castel with flags streames thereon as it were standing in the Sea whiche presentlye vanished awaye In whose stéede and in néere the same place appeared another cloud which altered into the likenesse of a great Argosie furnished with Mastes and other necessaries hir sayles séeming ful of winde made hir way on the Southweast of the Castel hauing streamers and flags very warlike with two boates at either sterne There incontinent appeared againe the forme of a Castel and behinde the same came folowing on the Southweast side another greate Argosie furnished as the firste This being past there appeared thrée or foure Galeis with their Mastes and flags in warlike sort hauing boates at their sternes and thereby appeared other small clouds to the number of xij which altered into the proportion of the sayde Castels and one following another as soone as any of them vanished other came in their roomes thys continued the space of an houre Shortly after the sightes T. Churchyard VVonders in VViltshire and Somersetshire in y e ayre aforesayde a worthy Gentleman in the Countrey writ to a right good gentleman in y e Court y â— there was séen vpon a downe called Brodwels Downe in Somersetshire lx personages all clothed in blacke a furlong in distance froÌ„ those y e beheld them after their appearing and a little while tarying they vanished away but immediately another straÌ„ge company in like maner colour and number appeared in the selfe same place and they encountred one another and so vanished away And the thirde time appeared that number
wéete Radulphus fitz Algede Winiard le Douershe c. gaue the foresayde Lands called Knighten Gild to the same Church but Othowerus Accolinillus Otto and Gefferey Earle of Estsex Constables of the Tower of London by succession with-helde by force a portion of the same lande that is to say East Smithfield néere to the Tower to make a Uineyard and would not depart from it by any meanes till the seconde yeare of King Stephen when the same was adiudged and restored to the Church of the holy Trinitie King Henry hauing greate warres with Lewes King 1116 Anno. reg 17 Cro. Peter of France the Realme of England was sore oppressed with exactions The Towne of Peterborow with the stately Churche there was burned downe to the ground In March was excéeding lightning and in December 1117 Anno. reg 18. Tempest and Earthquake thunder and hayle and the Moone at both times séemed to be turned into bloud This yeare in Lumbardy was an Earthquake continued fortie dayes whiche ouerthrewe many houses and that Floriacen whiche was maruellous to be séene a Towne was moued from his seate and set a good way off Mathild the Quéene wife to King Henry of Englande 1118 Anno reg 19. Mathew Paris deceassed at Westminster and was there buryed in the Reuostrie She founded the Priorie of Christes Church within the East gate of London called Aldgate and an Hospitall of Mathilds Hospitall Saint Giles in the fielde without the Weast part of the same Citie The order of the Templers began Knightes of the Temple Many sore battayles were fought in France and Normandy betwéene the King of England and of France 1119 Anno reg 20 1120 Anno reg 21. The Kings children drovvned W. Malme Mathew Paris King Henry hauing tamed the Frenchmen and pacifyed Normandy returned into Engalnde in whiche voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his sonnes and Marye his daughter Richard Earle of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of one hundred and sixtie persons were miserably drowned the Sea being calme King Henry marryed Adelizia the Duke of Louans 1121 Anno reg 22. daughter at London from thence the King with a great armie wente towarde Wales but the Welchmen met him humbly and agréed with him at his pleasure The Citie of Glocester with the principall Monasterie was brent againe as before and Lincolne was burned 1122 Anno reg 23 Glocester brent Lib. Glocest Mathew Paris 1123 Anno reg 24. VVarvvike vvith the Colledge King Henry sayled into Normandy where he remayned long trauelling to quiet that Countrey Henry Earle of Warwike and Margaret his wife founded the Colledge of Saint Mary in y â— towne of Warwike And Roger de Belemound his sonne Earle of Warwike and Aeline his wife translated the same Colledge into the Castell of Warwike in Anno 1123. At that time were nine parishes in Warwike Saint Sepulcre Saint Hellens of these twayne were made one Priorie of Saint Sepulchre Alhalowes Saint Michaell Saint Iohn Saint Peter Saint LawreÌ„ce Saint Iames these fiue last Liber Warwicâ—â— Io. Rouse were ioyned to Saint Maryes in Anno 1367. Saint Nicholas Waleran Earle of Mellent is takeÌ„ in Normandy by King 1124 Anno reg 25 1125 Anno reg 26 Mathew Paris Taxtor Coyners punished Henry and he with many other are imprisoned at Roane Iohn Thremensis Cardinall came into England who inueying sore against Priestes Concubines was himselfe detected of whoredome The King caused all the Coyners of England to haue their priuie members cut off and also their right hand bycause they had corrupted the Coyne Henry the fourth Emperour being dead as it was said 1126 Anno reg 27. The Empresse returned into England Giraldus Cambr. and Mawde the Empresse returning into England dwelte with the Quéene in hir Chamber bycause she was suspect of hir husbands death but some affirmed him to be long after in England lyuing as an Hermite and in the end to be buryed at Chester King Henry held his Courte with great magnificence Floriacen in his Castell of Winsore and there assembled all the nobilitie of his Realme where when the Archbishop of Yorke woulde haue Crowned the King equally with the Archshop of Canturbury by the iudgement of all menne he Archbishop of Yorke vvith his Crosse cast out of the Kings Chappell was repulsed the bearer of his Crosse togither with the Crosse was throwne out of the Kings Chappell for it was affirmed that no Metropolitane out of his owne Prouince might haue any Crosse borne before him The feast being ended the King with all the States of the Realme togither came to London and there at the Kings commandement William the Archbishop and the Legate of the Romish Churche and all other Bishops of the English Nation with the Nobilitie tooke an othe to defend against all men the Kingdome to his daughter if she suruiued hir father except that before his deceasse he begate some sonne to succéede him The King also granted to the Churche of Canturburie and to William and his successors the custodie and Constableship of the Castell of Rochester for euer The Archbishop of Canturbury assembled a counsell of Bishops 1127 Anno reg 28. Abbots and other Prelates at Westminster where they determined many causes concerning Ecclesiastical businesse and the King with his counsell confirmed them King Henry went with a warlike army into Fraunce bycause 1128 Anno reg 29 Lodowike the French King defeÌ„ded the Erle of Flaunders the Kings Nephew and enimy At this time men had such a pride in their haire that they Men vveare haire like vvomen W. Malme 1129 Anno reg 30 Mathew Paris contended with women in length of haire King Henry helde a Counsell at London wherein it was graunted him to haue the correction of the Cleargie whiche came to an euill purpose for the King tooke infinite summes of mony of Priests and suffred them to do what they would Robert Deolley Knight great Conestable of England was the first founder of Osney King Henry gaue his daughter the Empresse to Geffrey 1130 Anno reg 31 1131 Anno reg 32 Rochester brent Richard Diuiensis 1132 Anno reg 33 Carleil a Byshopricke Geruasius Gualter Couen London brent Geruasius Doro. Thomas Wikes Plantagenet Earle of Angiou In the Moneth of May the King beyng present the Citie of Rochester was sore defaced wyth fire The King made a Bishopricke at Carleil Mawde the Empresse did beare to Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Angiou a sonne and named him Henry which when the King knewe hée called hys nobles togyther and ordayned that his daughter and the heires of hir body should succéede him in hys Kingdome In Whitsonwéeke a great fire beginning at Gilbert Beckets house in Weast Cheape consumed a greate parte of London from thence to Algate with the Priorie of Channons of the holy Trinitie and many houses of Office thereto
Pallace of Westminster men did row with wherries in the midst of the Hall and they rode on Horsebacke to their Chambers A Parliament at Marton wherein was made the Statutes Anno reg 21 Statutes of Marton Sherifes Maior 1237 of Marton Henry Cocham Iordan of Couentry the 28. of Septem Andrew Bokerell Peperer the 28. of October By the Kings procurement Octobon a Cardinall came into England as Legate from y e Pope the second day of July This yeare passed a stormie and troublesome weather and very vnhealthfull so that no man coulde remember that euer so many folkes were sicke of the ague Iohn Scot last Earle of Glocester deceassed and the Countrey Anno reg 22 Nic. Triuet Iohn Beuer. Sherifes Maior returned to the King for lacke of heires Iohn Tolason Geruas the Cordewenor the 28. of Sept. Andrew Bokerell Peperer the 28. of October Simon de Mountfort sonne to Simon Earle of Mountford for doubt that Quéene Blanche mother to the French King was offended with him fledde into England and was made Earle of Leycester and Steward of England by King Henry and had the Kings sister Elianor widdow of William Nicholas Triuet Io. Beuerla Marshall giuen him to wife Octobone being lodged in the Abbey of Osney the Schollers 1238 Mathew Paris Ypodigma Legate put to his shiftes of Oxford slew his mayster Cooke who was also the Legates brother and the Legate for feare gate him into the Stéeple of the Church where he held him till the kings officers comming from Abingdon conuayed him to Wallingford where he accursed the misdoers Odo de Kilkenny as Standerdbearer of the Schollers was taken with twelue other and cast in prison and long after went from Saint Paules Church in London to the Legates Scholers did penance at London Iohn Beuer. house which was Durham place vngirded withoute gowne bareheaded and barefooted whereby they asked him forgiuenesse and then the Legate restored them to their Uniuersitie A Scholler of Oxford fayning himselfe madde enterprised to haue slayne the King in his Chamber at Wodstocke King in darge◠Anno reg 23 but he was taken and after long emprisonment plucked in péeces with Horsses at Couentrie Iohn Coders Iohn de Wilehale the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicho. Triuet 1229 Richard Renger the 28. of October Simon de Mountfort whome the King had made Earle of Leycester after he had agréed with his elder brother Earle Almericus for the same Earledome being also Steward of Gascoine induced the King of England to recognise that he would hold of the King of France the land of the Baseles the chiefe Towne whereof is Bayon and was in times past a Kingdome of it selfe and so by acknowledging to be of the fée of the King of France excluded the King of Castile who chalenged the sayd fée to belong to the King of Spayne The Tower of London was fortified which the Citizens Mathew Paris Tovver of London fearing least it were done to their detriment complayned to the King who answered that he had not done it to their hurt but sayth he I will from henceforth do as my brother Ypodigma Anno reg 24 doth in building and fortifying of Castels who beareth the name to be wiser than I am Quéene Elianor bare a sonne named Edwarde at Westminster the 22. day of June Roger Bongye Ralph Ashwye the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1240 William Ioyner the 28. of October Richard Earle of Cornewall the Kings brother tooke his iourney towardes Ierusalem with many other noble men of England Upon Saint Georges night the stone gate and bulwarke Mathew Paris which the King had caused to be builded by the Tower Bulvvarke by the Tovver of London was shaken with an Earthquake and fell downe but the King commanded the same to be builded againe stronger than before Lewlin Prince of Wales deceased and then betwixt his bastard sonne Griffin his legitimate son Dauid nephew to y e K. of Englād by his sister great gréeuous destructiō rose for the principalitie but at length Griffin being taken of his brother was cōmitted to prison Many strange and great Fishes came ashore whereof xj were Sea Bulles and one of huge bignesse passed vp the Monstrous Fishes Riuer of Thamis through the Bridge at London vnhurt till he came as farre as the Kings house at Mortlake where he was killed Aldermen chosen in London whiche had the rule of the Wards of the Citie but were euery yeare changed Anno reg 25 Aldermen in London Sherifes Maior 1241 Iohn Gifers Michaell Tony the 28. of September Gerard Bat the 28. of October The Jewes were constrayned to pay twentie thousand Markes at two tearmes in the yeare or else to be kepte in perpetuall prison Gilbert Marshall Earle of Penbroke dyed without the Towne of Hereford being brused in Turneament and was Iohn Beuer. buryed at London in the new Temple Walter his brother hardly obteyned the Earledome bycause he procured that Turneament contrarie to the Kings will and pleasure This Walter dying without issue his heritage was diuided Nic. Triuet betwixt the sonnes of his fiue sisters The walles and Bulwarkes that were newly builded about the Tower of London in the building whereof the Bulvvarkes by the Tovver Mathew Paris King had bestowed more than twelue thousand Markes were agayne vnrecouerably throwne downe as it were with an Earthquake for which chance the Citizens of London nothing sory were much amazed for they were threatned that the sayde walles and bulwarkes were builded in despight of them to the end that if any of them woulde presume to contende for the Liberties of the Citie they might there be imprisoned and to the ende that many mighte bée Anno reg 26 layde in diuers prisons many lodgings were made there that no one should speake with another Iohn Viell Thomas Duresme the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1242 Nic. Triuet Ypodigma Roger Bongey the 28. of October King Henry with a great armie sayled into Normandy purposing to recouer Poyters Guine and other Countreys but after many bickerings to the losse of Englishmen he treated a peace Elianor daughter to Geffrey Earle of Briteyne and sister to Arthure ended hir life prisoner in the Castell of Bristow Iohn Fitz Iohn Ralph Ashwye the 28. of September Anno reg 27 Sherifes Maior Roger Bongey the 28. of October Hugo de Albeneto Earle of Arundell dyed and his inheritance was diuided among foure sisters Also Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent dyed at his Manor of Banstede and was buryed in the Church of the Friers Preachers at London vnto the whiche Churche he gaue his noble Pallace at Mathew Paris Westminster whiche afterwardes the Archbishop of Yorke bought of them and made it his Inne since commonly called Yorke place now White Hall The Thamis ouerflowed the bankes about Lambeth and 1243 Great flouds drowned houses and fieldes the space of
London Belyall coueting to snatch the money from the executors hands but missing of their purpose they fell on the poore people murthering 129. and drowned 30. of them bycause one of them had bewrayed their former wicked purposes This yeare was made an Acte of common counsell for Price of Pulterie prices of victuals to be sold at London by consent of the King and Nobilitie concerning the price of Powlterie A fatte Cocke for thrée halfepence two pullets for thrée halfepence a fat Capon for two pence halfepeny a Goose foure pence a Mallard thrée halfe pence a Partridge for thrée halfe pence a Feasant four pence a Heron sixe pence a Plouer one peny a Swanne for thrée Shillings a Crane for xij pence two Wodcocks for thrée halfe pence a fatte Lambe from Christmas to Shrouetide sixtéene pence and all the whole yeare after for four pence Iohn Armenter Henry Fingrie the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 28. Elias Russell the 28. of October The King made cruell warre vpon the Scottes and had of them a great victorie and then they yéelded themselues to his mercie This Realme was troubled with false money whiche False Money 1300 Wil. Rishang was called Crokden and Pollard coyned in partes beyond the Seas and vttered for sterling so that many thereby were deceyued whiche vpon Saint Stephens day was clouen in two and was accompted but halfe the value On Easter euen the same money was forbidden through all England and after called in and new coyned to the Kings great aduantage A sodeine fire enclosed the Monasterie of Glocester the Rob. of Glocester Cloyster Belfrie the great chamber with other buildings was consumed For the establishment of the peace betwéene England and France King Edward tooke to wife Margaret sister to Philip Wil. â—aking le Bew then King of France they were married at Canturburie Lucas de Hauering Richard Champes the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Anno reg 29. Elias Russell the 28. of October King Edward made his voyage against the Scottes wherin he subdued a great part of the land tooke the Castell of Estreuelin with other made the Lords sweare to him fealtie and homage In the meane while the Quéene was conueyed to London againste whome the Citizens to the number of 600. rode in one liuerie of red and white with the cognisance 1301 of their misteries brothered vpon their sléenes and receiued hir four miles without the Citie and so conuayed hir to Westminster Robert Caller Peter de Bosenho the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 30 Sir Iohn Blound the 28. of October The King gaue to Edward his sonne the Princedome of Wales and ioyned thervnto the Dukedome of Cornewall and the Earledome of Chester He kept his Christmas in Scotland 1â—02 with a great armie but at y e instance of the French King he granted truce and returned About the feast of all Saintes the King sent a great power into Scotland Hugh Pourt Simon Paris the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 31 Tho. de la More 1033 Ex Record Sir Iohn Blount the 28. of October The Scottes rebelling against King Edward made William Wales their leader wherefore the King hauing his Armie readie passed by the Castell of Striueling ouer the whole land nonc offering them battayle but fléeing before the sword This yeare on the twelfth of March before Iohn Blound Maior of London William Leyre Thomas Romaine William Robert Fitz VValter acknovvledgeth his seruice done to the Citie of London Biton Walter Finchingfeld Hen. Glocester Willi. Mazarar Salamon Coteler Iohn Wengraue Iohn Darments Nicholas Picote Aldermen Hugh Pourt Simon de Paris Sherifes before vj. men of euery ward of London Roberte Fitz Walter acknowledged his seruice to the same Citie and sware vpon the Euangelistes that he woulde be true vnto the liberties thereof and maynteyne the same to hys power and the counsell of the same Citie to kéepe c. The right that beloÌ„ged to Robert Fitz Walter Chastelein of London Lord of Wedeham were these The sayde Robert and his heires ought to be and are chiefe Banerars of London in fée for the Chastelerie which he and his ancesters had by Castle Baynard in the said Citie In time of warre the sayde Robert and his heires ought to serue the Citie in manner as followeth that is The sayd Robert ought to come he being the twentith man of armes on horsebacke couered with cloth or armour vnto the great Weast dore of Saint Paule with his Banner displayed before him of his armes and when he is come to the sayd dore mounted and apparelled as before is sayde the Maior with his Aldermen and Sheriffes armed in their armes shall come out of the sayd Church of Saint Paule vnto the sayde dore with a banner in his hande all on foote whiche banner shall be Gueles the Image of Saint Paule Golde the face hands féete and sword of Siluer and assoone as the sayde Robert shall sée the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffes come on foote out of the Churche armed with such a Banner he shall alight from his Horsse and salute the Maior and say to him Sir Maior I am come to do my seruice which I owe to the Citie and the Maior and Aldermen shall answere we giue to you as to our Banerar of fée in this Citie this Banner of the Citie to beare gouerne to the honor and profit of the Citie to your power and the sayd Roberte and his heires shall receyue the Banner and shall goe on foote out of the gate with the Banner in his hands and the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffes shall follow to the dore and bring a Horse to the sayde Roberte worth twentie pounds which Horse shall be sadled with a saddle of the armes of the saide Robert and shall be couered with sendall of the saide armes Also they shall presente to him xx â— sterling money and deliuer to the Chamberlayne of the said Robert for his expences that day Then the sayde Robert shal mount vpon the horse which y e Maior presented to him with y e Banner in his haÌ„d and assone as he is vp he shal say to the Maior that he cause a Marshall to be chosen for the host one of the Citie which Marshal being chosen y â— sayde Robert shall commaund the Maior and Burgesses of the Citie to warne the commoners to assemble togither they shal al go vnder the Banner of Saint Paul and the said Robert shall beare it himselfe vnto Aldegate and there the sayde Robert and Maior shall deliuer the sayde Banner of Saint Paule from thence to whom they shall assent or thinke good And if they must make any issue forth of the Citie then the sayd Robert ought to chose two forth of euery warde the most sage personages to forsée to the safe kéeping of the Citie after they be gone forth And this Counsell shall be taken
fact he was drawne hanged and quartered To this Counsell came two Earles and two Clearkes sente from the Princes electours signifying that their election was made to the King for the dignitie of the Kingdome of Almayne These messengers the Kyng receyued King Edvvard elected King of Almayne with due honour but aunswered them that hée woulde not take so great honour vppon hys shoulders vntill hée had the Crowne of France due vnto him in peaceable possession A little after Easter there were great Justings holden Iusting at Lincolne at Lincolne by the Duke of Lancaster where were presente many Ladyes with the Countesse and also certayne messengers sente from the King of Spayne for the Lady Ioane daughter to the King that should be maryed to their Mayster the Kings sonne whome hir husbande méeting she dyed of the great Pestilence so that he followed hir to the graue The same yeare King Edward with his eldest sonne the Earle of Warwike and the Bishop of Winchester went to Caleis from whence the King sente the Duke of Lancaster to Denemere to receyue in his behalfe fealtie and homage of the Earle of Flanders â—hich thing was by the sayd Earle perfourmed Henry Picard Simon Dolseby the 23. of September Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Great PestileÌ„ce Tho. Waâ—sing Iohn Loueken Fishmonger the 28. of October There beganne amongst the East Indians and Tartarians a certayne Pestilence which at length waxed so generall infecting the middle region of the ayre so greatly that it destroyed the Sarasins Turkes Sirians Palestinians and the Gretians with a wonderfull or rather incredible death in so much that those peoples béeing excéedingly dismayde with the terrour thereof consulted amongst themselues and thought it good to receyue the Christian Faith and Sacramentes for they had intelligence that the Christians whiche dwelte on this side the Gréekish Sea were not so greatly more than common custome was troubled wyth sicknesse and mortalitie At length this terrible slaughter passed ouer into those Countreys which are on this side the Alpes and from thence to the partes of France which are called Hesperia and so by order along into Germany and Dutchland And the seauenth yeare after it beganne it came into England and first beganne in the Townes and Ports ioyning on the Sea coastes in Dorsetshire where euen as in other Countreys it made the Countrey quite voyde of inhabitantes so that there were almost none left aliue From thence it passed into Deuonshire and Somersetshire euen vnto Bristowe and raged in suche sort that the Glocestershiremen woulde not suffer the Bristowmen to haue anye accesse vnto them or into their Countrey by anye meanes but at length it came to Gloceâ—â—or yea and to Oxforde and London and finally it spread ouer all England and so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sortes was lefte aliue when Church yardes were not sufficiente and large ynough to burie theyr dead in they chose certayne Fields appoynted for that purpose Gualter Mayny Lord of Mayny borne in Cambray who serued in company of Henry Duke of Lancaster in his great Records of the Garter actes of Gaseoyne and Gâ—ien after this time made Knight of the Garter in England hauing a respect to the danger that might fall in time of this Pestilence then begonne in England if the Churches and Church-yardes in London might not suffise to bury the multitude he purchased a péece of ground called Spittle Croft for that it belonged to the Mayster and bréethren of Saint Barthelmewes Spittle conteyning Register of the Charterhouse Ex Carta thirtéene acres and a rodde without the barres of Weast Smithfield and caused the same to be enclosed and dedicated by Ralph Bishop of London in the which place in the yeare Charterhouse Church-yard by London following was buryed more than fiftie thousand persons as is affirmed by the Kings Charters which I haue séene and also by an inscription fixed on a stone crosse in the same place And in memorie thereof the same Gualter Mayny caused vpon the same grounde a Chappell to be builded Anno reg 23. and after founded the same to be an house of Charterhouse Roâ—de Auesburie Charterhouse at London founded Monkes Also about the same time one Iohn Cory procured of Nicholas Prior of the Church of the Holy Trinitie néere vnto Alâ—gate one tost of ground néere vnto East Smithfield for the buriall of them that dyed that it mought be called the Church yard of the Holy Trinitie which ground he caused to be enclosed and dedicated by Nicholas Northbroke Bishop of London in the which place King Edward the third by consent of the sayd Prior and Couent founded the Abbey Nevv Abbey by the Tovver of London founded Liber trinita Lond. Lib. Eastminster of Saint Mary of Grace in the yeare 1359. placing therein an Abbot and Monke of the order of Cisteaux whiche were white Monkes and named the place Eastminster All sutes and pleading in the Kings Bench and other places for a season ceassed Uery fewe noble men dyed among whome departed Iohn Mountgomery and his Lady the Lord Clisteles Captayne 1349 of Caleis dyed at Caleis and was buryed in the white Friers at London Of the common people togither with Religious and Clearkes there dyed an innumerable sorte for no man but God onely knewe how many There dyed from the first of January to the first of July in the Citie of Norwich 57374. persons besides Ecclesiasticall Mendicants Norvvich Regist of Norwich Anâ—â— ecclesi â—â—â— Yermouth and Dominikes There was buryed in the Church and Church-yard of Yermouth in one yeare 7052. men and women before which time the Personage there was worth 700. markes by yeare and afterwardes was scarse worth fortie pounde the yeare This note was certified to King Henry the seauenth in the â—â— of his raigne and the same is written on the gates of the Church of Yermouth This great Pestilence began at London about the feast of All Sainctes in y â— yeare 1348. What time this Pestilence had wasted all England y e Scots greatly reioycing mocked sware oft-times by the vile death of y â— Englishmen but y â— sword of Gods wrath departing froÌ„ thence slew coÌ„sumed the Scots in no lesse nuÌ„bers than it did the other It also wasted the Welchmen and within a while passed ouer into Ireland where it destroyed a great nuÌ„ber of English people that dwelt there but suche as were right Irishmen borne y â— dwelt in the hilly countreys it scarcely touched so that few of theÌ„ died therof This plague coÌ„tinued sometime in one place sometime in another vntill the yeare of our Lord 1357. The same yeare for a truce or finall peace to be concluded the B. of Norwich the Earle of Northampton the Earle of Stafford Richard Talbot Walter Mayny Knightes sayled ouer the Sea into France whom y â— Frenchmen met peaceably but they would not agrée to a
set on fire the army passing to the water side wente ouer it in diuers places From thence they went and lodged at the Towne and Castell of Ambion On Wednesday they trauelled an euill iourney and hurtfull to the Horsse for lacke of water On Thurseday Theodorike Dale Porter of the Princes Chamber was made Knight thence the Army passed by a good towne called Vlmes the middleward passed vnto the good Towne of the Earle of Lile called Arnile where they lodged that night The Prince lay at the Friers Minors where was greate abundance of Muskadell béeing prouided for the Countesse of the I le which was all spoyled This daye also the good Towne of Pipions was destroyed with the Castell thereof called Redote On Friday the army passing by a long stonie way lodged at Lamian On Saterday returning backe towarde Gascoigne they lefte on their right hand the great poole of Esbone and Carkason and all the iourney that they wente before and the rereward lodged at a good Towne called Abier and the middleward at Puchâ—iancies where a Castell béeing defended withstoode them a season but at length was wonne and the Prince lay beyonde the Bridge by a faire running water on both sydes whereof the Countrey was spoyled with fire togither with the good Towne of Pesaunce where the vawarde was lodged y â— night On Sonday they trauelled a long iourney bycause the Prince should be lodged in the great Abbey of our Lady de Prolion where in seuerall Cloysters did liue 100 Predicants wherevnto the Prince was deuoutely receiued In y â— day the army set on fire y e towne of Lemeins where there was far greater Couents of Religions than at Carkason Also they brent the faire Towne called Falanges vnto which towne belonged xxj Windmilles They brent also the townes of Vnlard Serre with all y e whole CouÌ„trey lying theraboutes On Monday the middleward lodged at the good towne called Dealpuhbon which long time was defended but at length gotten by force the Castell whereof yéelded vnto the which Towne and Castell the Prince coÌ„manded that no harme should be done by fire On Tuesday earely passing ouer y e riuer of Beseile they entred into a couÌ„trey which was broade About one aclocke they came before a great Abbey called Bourgbon where the Earle of Fluxens with great ioy receyued the Prince he being newly escaped out of prison from Paris where he had laine by the space of two yeares and the said Earle remained from that time faithful to the Prince This day they rode in the Lordships and seigniories of the same Earle by the Townes of Masell and Colmon and on the right hand they passed by the greate Towne of Saint Canole and the high Castel called Hautripe but on this day they brent nothing for reuerence of the foresaid Earle and his Uineyards but passed agayne ouer the water of Arage leauing also Tolous as they did at the first but then one mile on the left hand and now four leagues on the right and the middle ward was lodged in the great Towne of Mermount which togither with the Castell was brent On Wednesday they passed by the Castell of the Earle of Flux called Mounthane at the foote whereof all the horsemen passed ouer the great water of Geround and there tooke the Towne and Castell of North then leauing the Riuer of Gerond on the left hand and so passed vnto the towne of Marconaw which they tooke then they returned ouer the Riuer againe and tooke the strong Towne of Carbone On Thurseday y e armie rested On Friday word was brought to the Prince that the French were vp and had gathered a great force which they had deuided into fiue great battels being in the field not far from them wherevpoÌ„ our men set themselues in battayle aray about one mile from the place where they lodged and béeing now readie to fight some one of the Souldioures by chance start a Hare wherevpon a great shout was made which the enimies hearing they sente out fortie light Horsemen to sée what was the cause thereof who drawing nigh to the English armie and perceiuing them to be set in battayle aray returned backe againe and declared what they had séene wherevpon presently the whole armie of Frenchmen fled with great feare The same day Barthelmew Burwash Iohn Chandos and Iames de Audley with xxiiij light horsemeÌ„ were appointed scoutes comming to y â— tayle of y â— Frenchmen they toke prisoners xxxij Knightes gentlemen amongst whome they toke the Erle of Romeme also they slewe many Carters and Wagoners The Prince lodged in y e towne of Muwose On Saterday they marched to the Castell of Oradrie in which Castell the Prince lodged and in the morning they brent it On Sonday the two and twentith of Nouember about euening they perceyued that theyr enimies were on the other side of y e gret Hil harde by the great towne of Gemount so that the English men being be-nighted sent out lx lyghte horssemen and certaine bowmen vnto the righte hande of the towne called Auremount where finding 400. menne of armes of the Conestable of Fraunce they chased them out of the Towne and slewe and toke many the middle Warde lodged at Auremount and the Uawarde at Colimont Earelye in the morning the Wagoners being commaunded to remayne in the Towne of Auremount all the residue being deuided into troupes went into the fielde wayting for the comming of theyr enimies all in vaine for the Prynce taking the Towne of Gamount was tolde that his enimies fled away at midnight On Twesday the armye lodged in the fielde and for lacke of Water their horsse were faine to drinke Wyne whereof it came to passe that the nexte daye their horsses were so drunke they coulde not goe right forth and many of them dyed On Saint Katherines daye wyth muche a doe they came to Water and leauing the Towne of Florence on theyr righte hande they passed to the greate towne called Silard and the middle warde was lodged at a Towne called Realmount which they toke by maine force and therefore brent it On Thursday they rested On Fryday they trauayled a long iourney by Walled townes and strong Castels the middle warde lodged at Serde On Saterday they passed ouer a certaine Water with great difficultie and through woods till they came to a good Towne called Mesin On Sondaye the Prince rested and toke homage and othes of the Townesmen Monday Sainte Andrewes daye trauelling a long iourney they came to the Towne of Tolows where were thrée Castels On Twesday the prince trauelled to the Castel of Melan wher he lodged On Wednesday the Prince came to Regla wher his horsses and Wagons passed throughe the riuer of Gerond In thys Anno reg 30 towne of Regla the Prince appointed diuerse Barons and suche like to Winter in diuerse places of the Marches to the intente they shoulde kéepe the inland parts of Gascoigne against the French men The Prince of Wales
to pretend some excuse for his going alone after he should méete with the Duke as lacke of victualles or such like and so to take a byway thorough Wales and there to rayse a power he accorded to goe to the Duke and then Masse being celebrate the Earle of Northumberlande sware vpon the host that the Duke should holde all that he had tolde the king The Earle hasted the king forwarde to horssebacke but the King prayed the Erle to go before vnto Rutland there to prepare dinner The erle rode a pace till he came where he mighte sée his people vnder the mountaine whom he muche commended for obseruing his commaundement The King passing the water rode a four miles before he came to the Rock where when he sawe the ambushes was K. R. betraye◠sore abashed knowing well he was betrayed by the Earle for he was in such a place as he coulde not escape The Sea beating on the one side and the Rock kéeping him in on the other and if he shoulde haue fled backe they woulde haue caught him or he could haue come to Conway for he had not past thrée and twentie in all of his company The K. dissēding the Rocke the Earle came and knéeling down excused the matter saying he hadde caused those people to come to guarde his person but the king tolde him fewer wold haue serued and that it was contrarie to his othe for he had promised to haue but sixe in his company and sayde therefore that he would goe backe to Conway but the Earle aunsweared that nowe sith he had him he would leade him to the Duke as he had promised ten dayes since and so he caused Breade and Wine to bee broughte and offered the king who durst not refuse it and after leaping on horssebacke againe they rode to Rutlande to dinner and after to Flinte where they lay that night The Morrow being the two and twentie day of August the King got him to the Castell Wals where he beheld the D. with al his host of an hundred thousand men comming by the sands there came before that were departed from the army the Archbishop of Canterburie sir Thomas Percy and the Earle of Rutland from whom the Duke had taken the office of Conestable more for a colour than for displeasure for they bare the Dukes order and not the Harte whyche was the kings the Archbishoppe entred firste and after the other with a great traine they went vp to the dungeon and then the King came downe from the walles vnto whō they did reuerence lowlye on their knées the King toke them vp and drew the Archbishop apart and they two talked lōg togither but the Earle of Rutland kept him aloof They toke horsse againe and rode towards the Duke that now approched neare The Kyng went vp againe to the walles lamēting sore when he saw the Dukes hoste within two bowe shootes of the Castell who compassed it rounde about down to the sea The Earle of Northumberland wente forthe to the Duke who after long talke concluded that the duke should not enter the Castel before the King had dyned for he was fasting so the Earle returned and the King was set to dynner with whome sate his assured friends the Earle of Salisburie and the Bishop of Carlile sir Steuen Scrope and Feribe they sat long and eate little for they had no haste to rise After dinner the Duke entred the Castel all armed his Basenet excepted King Richard came downe to méete the Duke who as soone as he saw the King fell downe on hys knées and comming neare vnto him he knéeled the second time with his hat in his hand and the king then put off his hoode and spake first faire cousin of Lancaster yée are righte welcome The Duke bowing lowe to the grounde answeared my Lord I am come before you sent for me the reason why I wil shew you The cōmon fame among your people is suche that yée haue for the space of twentie or two and twentie yeares ruled them very rigorously but if it please our Lorde I will helpe you to gouerne better The Kyng aunswered fayre cousin of Lancaster sith it pleaseth you it pleaseth mée wel The Duke spake as yée haue heard to the king he spake also to the Bishop of Carlile to sir Stephen Scrope and to Feribe but to the Earle of Salisburie he spake not whereby the Earle perceyued that the Duke hated him deadly The duke with an high sharp voyce bad bring forth the Kings horsses and then two little nagges not worthe fortie franks were brought forth the King was set on the one and the Earle of Salisburie on the other and thus the Duke brought the King from Flinte to Chester where he was delyuered to the Duke of Glocesters sonne and to the Earle of Arundales sonne that loued him but a little for he had put theyr fathers to death who ledde hym strayghte to the Castel The thirde day they went to Nantwich and the next daye to newe Castle and there the Earle of Warwickes son mette thē and so iournying forth the next day they came to Stafford after they departed to Lichfield where the K. thought to haue escaped slypping downe into a Gardaine out of a Windowe of a great Tower but he was espyed and thrust into the Tower againe from Liechfielde the Duke went to Couentrie but before they coulde come thyther the Welchmen did them much harme and slew many of them and the Englishmen when they by great chaunce coulde take anye of the Welchmen they tyed them to their horsse tayles and drewe them after them through ways ful of stones caused them to die miserablye The Duke passed from Couentrie to Deintrie the next day to Northampton from thence to Dunstable then to Saint Albons and a fiue or sixe miles before hys comming to London the Maior and the Companyes in their lyueries with greate noyse of Trumpets mette the Duke doyng more reuerence to hym than to the Kyng reioycing that God had sente them suche a Prince that had conquered the Realme within one monthes space When the Duke came within two miles of the Citie the duke caused the hoste to stay and then said to the commons of the Citie My maisters beholde here youre King consider what yée will doe wyth him They answered they woulde he should be ledde to Westminster wherevppon he was deliuered vnto them and they ledde him to Westminster and from thence by water to the Tower of London The D. entred into London by y e chief gate rode through Cheape to Sainte Paules where he was after lodged in the Bishops Pallace fiue or sixe dayes and after at Saint Iohns without Smithfield where he remained xv days from thēce he remoued to Hertforde where he abonde thrée wéekes and then came backe to London to hold the Parliament that began the firste Wednesday of October in Westminster Hall which they had hung and trimmed sumptuously and hadde caused
Colledges are called the new Colledges dedicated to our blessed Lady He builded the great body of the Church of Saint Swithens in Winchester where the Sermons are made where his body is enterred a very princely worke neyther did he for all this diminish any thing of his ordinarie housholde charges and fedde as the writing engraued on his Sepulchre sheweth both rich and poore He deceassed at the age of fourescore yeares He dyed rich for beside that he gaue to his kinsefolke and to the poore he gaue somewhat to euery Church in his Dioces He gaue many things to the King and to his owne seruants and to his Colledges neyther do I doubt but y t he that thus liued is now with God whome I beséech to reyse vp many like Bishops in England Iohn Leyland writeth by the reporte of Doctor London Iohn Leyland that this William Wikeham was borne at Wickham in Hampshire and was sonne to one William Perot parishe clarke there of which place he tooke his surname and that one Mayster Wodale of Wickham brought him vp at schole where he learned his Grammer and to write faire After this the Connestable of Winchester Castell at that time a great ruler in Hampshire gote Perot alias Wickham of Wâ—dall and made him his Clearke Edward the third comming to Winchester Castell liked Wickham and tooke him to seruice and vnderstanding that he had mind to be a Priest made him first Parson of Saint Martins in London and then Deane of Saint Martins le Graund and then Archdeacon of Buckingham He made him also surueyor of his buildings as of Windsore Quinborow in Kent and other buildings After this he preferred him to be bearer of the priuie Sealt mayster of the Wardes and Forrests and Treafourer of the Kings reuenues in France then Bishop of Winchester Chancellour and Treasourer of England as it very manifestly sayth Iohn Leyland appeareth by writing The blacke Prince scant fauoured Wickham wherefore Wickham procured to kéepe the Prince in battell out of the Realme but at length Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and Alice Peeres Concubine to Edward the third caused him to be banished the Realme and then he dwelled in Normandy and Picardie seauen yeares Edward the thirde yet liuing but he was restored about the second yeare of Richard the second of whome he had a generall pardon Aboute the feast of Saint Valentine the sonnes of the Barle of Marches sonnes Earle of March were taken out of the Castell of Windsore and ledde away into Wales to Owen Glendouerdewe but shortly after were recouered againe The Smith that made the keyes by the which they that conuayde them got into them had first his hands and then his head cut off The Lady Spencer Sister to the Duke of Yorke and widow of Thomas Lord Spencer before executed at Brestow being apprehended and committed to prison accused hit brother the Duke of Yorke to be chiefe author in stealing away of the Earle of Marches sonnes wherefore the sayde Duke was kept by Sir Iohn Pelham in the Castell of Pemsey till the next Parliament After the feast of the Purification of our Lady the King assembled his Barons at London to treate of the gouernement of the Realme and to haue ayde of money to be giuen him but the Nobles would not at that time obey his request In the Lent following therefore the King caused the Cleargie and the Barons to assemble at Saint Albons for the matter aforesayd but by reason the Nobles stroue against him there was nothing done and so departed on Palme sonday About the fiftéenth of March in a fight betwixt the Englishmen 1405 Conspiracy against King Henry by the Archbishop of Yorke other and Welchmen the sonne of Owen Glendouerdewe was taken and fiftéene hundred with him were taken or slayne Henry Percy Earle of Northumberlande Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall Thomas Lord Bardolph and other coÌ„spiring against King Henry assembled togither the Citizens of Yorke and many other to stand with them for the commoditie of the Realm And to animate the commons to be the readier vnto this businesse they set articles vpoÌ„ the dores of the Monasteries Churches of the same Citie written in English agaynste the King bycause he had put downe King Richard offering themselues for those articles to liue and die which caused great number of people to resort to them but Ralph Neuill Earle of Westmerland that was not farre off togither with Iohn Duke of Lancaster the Kings sonne being enformed of these things gathered an armie with spéede to goe against the Archbishops company but all was in vayne for the Archbishops power was farre greater than theirs wherevpon the Earle of Westmerland sente messengers to enquire of the Archbishop the cause of so great an assembly in armour contrarie to the Kings peace wherevnto the Archbishop answered that he tooke nothing in hand against the Kings peace and he was in armour and munited with men only for feare of the King whome he could not safely come vnto to speake but his purpose he said was good and coÌ„modious both for y e King Realme if happily they would know it theÌ„ he shewed a scedule in which y e articles were conteyned which when the Earle of Westmerland had read he with word and countenance praysed the Bishops holy and vertuous intent and promised that he and his would prosecute the same with the Archbishop The Archbishop being glad of this beléeued the Earles words perswaded the Earle Marshall being vnwilling therevnto to go with him to a place appointed to talke togither to whome they with like number came and the writing with the Articles was read ouer streightway the Earle and they that were with him gaue their assent to these articles then sayde the Earle being subtiller than the rest behold the labour that we haue takeÌ„ in hand is come to such end as we would haue it and the people hath now bin long in armour let some of your meÌ„ beare word vnto the people to go their way home and to lay downe their armour and euery maÌ„ to fall to his occupation and accustomed labour in the meane season we in token of concord will drinke togither that the people on both sides shall sée it and without delay after they had takeÌ„ each other by the hands a Knight was sent on the Archbishops behalfe to beare word to y e people that it was peace and to command euery man to lay downe their armour and to go to their owne home The people beholding signes of peace the Lords drinking togither being awéeried with the vnaccustomed trauell of war turned the reines of their bridles homewards and so it came to passe y â— wheÌ„ the people of y e Archbishops side went away y e nuÌ„ber of the aduersaries increased as before it was appointed the Archbishop did not perceiue y t he was betrayd vntill such time as y e Earle
arrested him he arrested the Marshall also and many other with him to all which it was promised y t they should haue no harme but that promise was not kept for both the Archbishop Archbishop of Yorke beheaded the Earle Marshall were beheaded when the King came to Yorke the morrow after Whitsonday After this wheÌ„ the King had punished the meÌ„ of Yorke at his pleasure he set forth with an armie to pursue the Earle of Northumberland and Thomas Lord Bardolph and tooke all maner of munition with him and an armie of 37. thousand fighting men The Earle of Northumberland perceyuing the Kings intent gote himselfe to Berwike with thrée hundred horsse and froÌ„ thence into Scotland The King being bent against the Earle of Northumberland went to Berwike from whence the Earle fledde into Scotland and the Lord Bardolph with him whome Dauid Lord Fleming the Scotte receyued into alliance The King vnderstaÌ„ding that the Earle was fled he commanded them in the Castell to render it vnto him whiche when they refused to do the King caused a greate Gunne to be shotte whiche ouerthrewe parte of a Tower wherevpon they of the Castell gaue ouer and submitted themselues to the King who caused some of them to be beheaded and the residue to be sent to prisons After this the Castell of Alnewike and the rest of the Earles Castels were with small ado rendred to his handes with which successe the King being encouraged went streight into Wales where contrarywise nothing prospered with him wherefore he returned loosing Charets Cartes and Wagons to the number of 50. with his Treasure so that comming backe to Worcester he sent for the Archbishop and Bishops and declared to them his misfortune desiring theÌ„ to help him to whome the Archbishop answered that he woulde talke with the Cleargie in that matter In the meane season the Frenchmen came to succour the Welchmen with 140. Shippes they lâ—nded in Milford Hauen hauing lost almost all their horsses for lacke of fresh water The Lord Barkley and Henry Pay burnt fiftéene of those Shippes in the same Hauen These Frenchmen beséeged the Towne of Carmarden and tooke it graunting to the inhabitants all their moueable goodes and to goe whether they would The same time the foresayde Lorde Barkley Thomas Anno reg 7. Swinborne and Henry Pay tooke fourtéene Shippes of the French in the whiche they tooke the Steward of France and right Captaynes more The Towne of Reystone in Hartfordshire was brent Reyston brent Henry Barton William Groome the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Woodcocke Mercer the 28. of October This yeare all the Weares in Thamis from the Towne VVeares in the Thamis and Medvvay destroyed of Stanes in the Weast vnto the water of Medway in the East by the Maior and communaltie of London were destroyd and the trunckes brent for the which great plea and discord followed betwéene Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords and Knightes of the one party and the Maior and communaltie on the other partie but the Citizens preuayled by vertue of their Charter and Statutes A Parliamente beganne whiche lasted nigh one Parliament A great taske 1406 whole yeare for after the Knightes of the Parliament had long delayde to graunt to the King a subsedie yet in the ende being ouercome they granted the taske demanded The Priestes and the Friers that liued of almes were forced euery one to pay halfe a marke Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland the L. Bardolfe by the counsell of Dauid Fleming fled into Wales for he had declared to them that the Scottes had conspired to deliuer them vnto their owne King in exchange for other prisoners and for this doing of Dauid Fleming the trayterous Scottes flew him and reysed such a ciuill warre amongst theÌ„selues that in the ende they were constreyned to request truce for a yeare which when they had obteyned the Scottes sente Iames the sonne of Robert King of Scottes being but The King of Scottes sonne and heire taken on the Sea nine yeares olde towardes France there to be brought vp and to be instructed in the pleasant eloquence of the French tongue whome certayne marriners of Cley in Norffolke tooke on the Seas and with him a Bishop and the Earle of Orkney to whome his Father had committed him and they brought him into England and deliuered him to the King who forth with burst out into a laughter and sayde surely the Scottes mighte haue sente him to me for I can speake French The Bishop escaped and fledde but the Earle of Orkeney and the sayde Iames the yong ladde was sent to the Tower of London where he remayned prisoner till the second yeare of Henry the sixth whiche was aboue eightéene yeares The Frenchmen came to help Owen Glendouerdew with 38. Shippes whereof 8. were taken full of armed men the rest escaped into Wales but not long after were taken fiftene Shippes laden with Wine and Waxe Whilest the Parliament yet continued the Duke of Yorke was restored to his olde dignitie whome many men thought to haue bin dead in prison Edmond Holland Earle of Kent married the Duke of Anno reg 8. Millaynes daughter in the Priory of Saint Mary Ouery in Southwarke Nicholas Wootton Geffrey Brooke the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Richard Whittington Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Couentry and Iankin Carpenter executors to this VVhittington Colledge founded Richard Whittington with his goodes builded Whittington Colledge in London and a great part of the Hospitall of Saint Barthelmew in Smithfielde He builded the Library of the Grey Friers and the East end of the Guild Hall in London with diuers small conduites called Bosses and the Weast Nevvgate builded Gate of London called Newgate Also Iankin Carpenter one of the executors to the Worshipfull Knight Sir Richard Whittington aforenamed of his owne costes and charges caused to be paynted aboute the Cloyster of Saint Paules Church in London a most excellent monument or remembrance of Death the originall patterne whereof was sometime deuised by Machabre a Doctor of France and therefore called The Daunce of Machabre which Daunce was richly paynted about Saint Innocents Cloyster in Paris with Metres in French signifying The Daunce of Death commonly called the Daunce of Paules the spéeches of Death to all estates and their seuerall answeres againe to Death all whiche being translated into English by Iohn Lidgate Monke of Bury was as afore sayde richly paynted in the sayd Cloyster of Saint Paules Church and therefore commonly called The Daunce of Paules Henry Pay and other with him of the fiue Portes with Tho. Wals fiftéene Shippes tooke an hundred and twentie Shippes which lay at ancker in the Sea of Briteine laden with Iron Salt Oyle and Rochell Wine This Sommer through corruption of the ayre so great a Plague was shedde vpon mens bodyes as was not séene the like in many yeares in this land so that men
to be made to any Prince of England The King gaue them all generallye thankes for theyr good mindes towardes hym and therewyth exhorted them to the zeale of the publike prosperitie and honoure of the Realme If anye man hadde offended hym he pardoned theyr trespasse and desyred heartily of GOD that if hée shoulde rule and doe all things well to the honoure of GOD and the prosperous commoditie of the Realme that then God woulde suffer him to be Crowned But if hys fortune shoulde bée to doe otherwyse that then GOD shoulde take hym to hys mercye and suffer hym rather to be buried than to enterprise the charge of the Realme The ninth day of April he was crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arundell Archebyshoppe of Canterburie after whyche Coronation he called vnto hym all those young Lords and Gentlemen that were the folowers of his yong actes to euerye one of whome he gaue rich and bounteâ—â—s giftes and then commanded that as many as would chaÌ„ge their maners as he intended to doe should abide with him in his Courte and to all that woulde perseuer in theyr former light conuersation he gaue expresse commaundemente vpon paine of their heades neuer after that day to come in his presence About this time Thomas Duke of Clarence the Kings brother came from the coastes of Aquitaine who as we said before was sent to ayde the Duke of Orleaunce againste the Duke of Burgoine A great part of the Citie of Norwich was brent with all Tho. Wals the house of the Frier Preachers and also two Friers of that order Sir Iohn Oldcastle at that time Lorde of Cobham for diuerse pointes touching the Sacrament before the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie the Bishops of London Winchester other was conuict and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake ouer the walles in the night and escaped about the feast of Simon and Iude. Iohn Stutton Iohn Michel the. 28. of September Sherises Maior Sir William Cromer Draper the. 28. of October Richard the second somtime king of England which was at the first enterred in the church of the preaching Friers of Langley was takeÌ„ vp and royally buried at Westminster with no small charges to the King The K. kéeping his Christmasse at his manour of Eltham vij miles from London was warned y â— certain had conspired against him eyther to haue taken or sodainly slain him his brethren on Twelfth day â—t night whervpon the king sent word to the Maior of LondoÌ„ y t he should arrest all suspitious persons wherevpon the Maior forthwith caused euery AldermaÌ„ in his ward to kéep great watch and about tenne of the clocke at nighte wente hymselfe wyth a strong power to the signe of the Are wythoute Byshoppes Gate where they apprehended the man of the house called Iohn Burgate Carpenter and vij other sent them to Eltham where they confessed before the Kyng that they were confederate with Sir Iohn Oldcastell to fight against him and his Lords in Saint Giles fielde aboue Holborne On the morrow after the Twelfth day the King King Henry kept the field by S. Giles vvithout Holborne reâ—â—â—ued priuily to Westminster and with a greate armie kept the fielde of Sâ—â—â—t Gâ—les for he was warned that Sir Iohn Oldcastell and Sir Roger Acton woulde be in the same field on the next day following with fiue and twentie thousand people and the same night were taken more than fourescore men in armour of the same faction Also the King being told of an amâ—â—shment gathered in Harengay Parke â—â—nte thither certayne Lordes who tooke many among whome was one William Murlâ— a rich â—aultmaÌ„ or Bruer of Dunstaple who had his two Horsses trapped with Golde following him and a paire of gilt Spurres in his bosome for he thought to haue bin made Knight on the morrow by the handeâ—â—â— Sir Iohn Oldâ—â—stell The twelfth of January thréesâ—â—râ— and nine of them were condemned of treafoâ—â— Many men hanged and some brent in Ficketâ— field at Westminster and on the morrow after seauen and thirtie of thâ—â— were drâ—â—â—â—â— from the Tower of London to Newgate and so to Saint Gâ—â—â—â— and there in a place called Fickets fielde were all hanged and â—eâ—â—ien of them brent Gallowes and â—â— The xix of January were drawne and hanged Sir Iohn Beâ—erley Priest Iohn Bâ—â—gate Carpenter a Text writer in Sâ—â—â—â— Iohns stréete and a Glouer on London bridge and shortly after Sir Roger Aâ—â—on Knight was taken who on the tenth of February was drawne hanged and buryed vnder the Gallâ—wes The twentith of February deceassed Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Conterburie Anno reg 2. The King taking compassion vpon Henry Percy a yong 1414 man who by his Grandfather Henry Percy Earle of Northâ—â—â—â—erland was caryed into Scotland after the death of his father who was sâ—aine in the battell of Shrewsburie when this yong man was then but a child commanded theÌ„ that were of his kindred and néerest friends to solicite for his reclayming home agayne out of Scotland minding not only to honor him by calling him home agayne but also to â—â—â—â—â— him Earle of Northumberland In the moneth of May a Parliament was begon at Leycester Parliament at Leycester Porter of the Tovver executed and there was a Porter of y â— Tower of LoÌ„don drawne hanged and headed whose head was sent to London and set ouer the Tower gate for consenting to one that brake out of the Tower named 〈◊〉 In this Parliamente Iohn the Kings brother was made Duke of Bedford Humfrey Dukes created his brother Duke of Glocester and Richard brother to the Duke of Yorke was made Earle â—â— Cambridge To this Parliament came the Embassadors of the French King and also of the Duke of Bâ—â—gâ—â—dy but not with like inâ—â—â—te and purpose for the D. of â—â—â—gâ—ndy desired ayde against the â— of Orleance promising as men layd more than he was able to perfourme wherefore the King of England â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 Embassadors to them both amongst whome were the Bishops of Durham and Norwich as chiâ—f 〈…〉 were oft times sent into France and the French Kings Embassadors were sente hither with great cost on both â—â—â—â—s but no hope of peace to be had On Mary Magdalens day in London Iohn â—â—â—nser Esquire with mine of his men set vpon and â—lew The Queenes Chancellour flayne Iohn Tâ—â—bey Clearke Archdeacon of Hunâ—â—â—gâ—â— and Chancellour to Quéene Ioane late wife to Henry the fourth for the which fact the sayd Esquire and foure of his men fled to Saint Annes Church within Aldersgaiâ— where they were mured vp with boord and watched day and night till the xxj of August on the which day they forsware the lande Men foresvvare the land and passed through the Citie towards Caleis in their shirtes and bréeches eache of them hauing a Crosse in hys hand This yeare dyed the â—oalours of Newgate and Ludgate Prisoners dyed of London and many prisoners in Newgate to
fiftéene dayes they were not deliuered from thys séege they should deliuer to the King the Towne and Castell and when the day was come they perfourmed promise and this was the first Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene that the King subdued to his power After the King had thus obteyned that Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene and that there was none other Riuer or floud mighte lette his iourney with all the hast he might he entred hys iourney towardes Roane The Citizens hearing the approche of their enimies and fearing least they shoulde bée lodged in the Suburbes whiche were muche larger than the Citie was within the walles and was also muche replenished with Monasteries Churches and Towers burned the same and made all euen with the grounde To this Citie on the thirtith day of Julye thys victorious King approched agaynste whome came the Citizens with theyr Garrisons and men of warre where the more parte of all that day they continued in battell and fought sore on both partes but the Frenche were forced to séeke their succour within the walles of the Citie whome in theyr recoyle the King pursued still before the Citie where hée ordered his séege in this maner First the King with a noble company of yong hardy men lodged himselfe before the gate of Saint Hillarie The Duke of Clarence with his power was lodged before the gate of Caulx The Duke of Excester after he was câ—me to the king was lodged with his people before the gate of y e Castel called Beanuice Erle Marshal was lodged before y e gate called Markeuile The Earle of Warwicke after he was come from the Castle of Donfrounte was lodged vpon the Hil where the strong Monasterie of Saint Katherie was The Erles of Salisburie and Huntingdon were lodging ther vpon the other side of the Riuer of Seene vpon whom their enimies made many assaults and bycause the Riuer of Seene diuided the English hoaste in two partes the King caused to be made a strong bridge of Tymber ouer the same Riuer that when néede shoulde require they might haue frée passage on foote and horsse and bycause their enimies shoulde not approch vnto it w t their ships or Galleys the K. caused to be made a great cheyne to be drawen ouer the Riuer betwixt the citie and the Bridge At that tyme the King of Portingale coâ—â— to the King of England sent a nauie of shippes wel manneâ— into the Kings ayde whom the King commaunded to lye betwixte the Citie and the sea to enclose the Citie from all succours by Water The towne of Caudbeke fearing the daunger of the time couenaunted with the King of England that when the Citie of Roane were taken and deliuered into the Kings obeysaunte they in like manner woulde yéelde them to him without any assaulte and vnder the same appointed according with the King xiiij other defensible Townes and Castels that were nigh borderers vnto Roane After many cruell battayles and assaultes the Citizens fearing at leÌ„gth to be famished dayly put out of the Citie gret number of poore people and other but the hunger encreasing they were forced to eate their horsses dogges cattes rattes and mise and these and other like things were consumed eaten Then the plague of famine entred the Citie so that the people for defaulte of reliefe dyed that the liuing might scarcely burie the deade whereby that noble Citie was brought into so muche miserie that it is not lesse maruayle than pitiful to heare In this mean time during this siege of Roane The duke of Excester besieged the Citie of Eneroys also about the xx of August king Henrie had thrée maruellous victories in Normandie The first was that one hundered Englishmen take iij. great Lords at a place called Kilbuife and put to flight thrée hundred and fourescoure persons besides The second was foure hundered of his enimies entred within the suburbes of the Towne of Ebroicens and eleauen Englishmen chased them away and toke foure of them and slew twelue tooke 40. of their horsses The thirde was the enimies would indéede haue taken the town which was called Leuers but the Captaine of the same with an hundered of our men wente out against a thousand of them and ouercame them toke 180. gentlemen of the enimies Aboute thys tyme also Captaine de la Bouche toke the Towne of Pontoys by Paris The Parson of Wrotham in Norffolke whiche haunted New market Heath and there robbed and spoyled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate of London where he dyed in prison Iohn Brian Ralphe Barton the. 28. of Sep. Iohn Parnesse Sherifes the. 28. of October This Iohn Brian Sherife as he came one a time from Wapping in the Woose thinking to haue eased himselfe beyond Saint Katherines Mill fell into the Thamis and was dragged vp againe by his men and the Miller but dyed therof within a seauen-night in whose place was chosen Iohn Parnesse William Seuenoke Grocer the. 28. of October Maior This William Seuenoke when he was a newe borne babe was founde at a Town called Seuenoke in Kent where by charitable people he was christened by the name of William and for that hys father or mother could not be known they gaue him to surname Seuenoke being by theÌ„ broughte vp till he was able to serue they then bounde him prentise with a Citizen of London where after his good seruice God indued him with such wisedome and wealthe that he came to be Maior of that Citie who being not vnthankefull to God and the common wealth among other his charitable workes founded in the Towne of Seuenoke where he hadde bin nourished a Frée schole and thirtéene almes houses When the Citizens of Roane perceyued themselues maruellously afflicted by famine as is before shewed and also to be in dispaire of succour from the Frenchmen nowe after halfe a yeares siege and more vpon certaine conditions they deliuered to the king of England their Citie castle Tower Abbayes Churches houses Citizens Captaynes Garisons and generallye all things that were within the Citie whatsoeuer they wer The xix day of Januarie there had dyed within this Citie as was sayde for defalt of victuals during this siege mo than xxx thousand people This Anno reg 7. 1419 noble King the rather to relieue this oppressed Citie ordayned the same to be the chiefe Chamber of all Normandie and ordayned hys exchequer hys Treasurie and hys coynage to be kepte in the same he also â—dified a strong tower behinde the Castle Whilest the King ordered his businesse at Roane he sente diuerse Lordes with strong puissaunce of people to receyue the Castelles of Townes borderyng vppon Roane amongst whom the Duke of Clarence in short tyme redused to the King the mightie Castell of Galiarde the Towne of Vernon the Towne of Naunte the Castall of Bandmounte and manye other strong places and holdes The Earle of Salisburie wyth the Garrison to hym assigned tooke the Town of Hounslowe the
and she was conuicte of the sayde Articles then was it asked if she woulde saye anye thing agaynste the witnesses wherevnto she aunsweared nay but submitted hyr selfe The seauen and twentith daye of October she abiured the Articles and was adioyned to appeare again the ninth of Nouember In the meane time Thomas Southwel dyed in the Tower of London as himselfe had prophesied that hée shoulde neuer dye by Justice of the Law William Combis Richarde Riche the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Elianor CobhaÌ„ did penaunce Robert Clopton Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember Dame Elianor appeared béefore the Archbishoppe and other in the sayde Chappel and receyued hyr penaunce which she perfourmed On Monday the. xiij of Nouember she came froÌ„ Westminster by water and landed at the Temple Bridge from whence with a taper of waxe of two pounde in hir hande she went throughe Fleetestreete hoodlesse saue a kerchefe to Paules where she offered hyr Taper at the high Aulter On y e Wednesday next she landed at y e Swan in Thamis stréete then went through Bridgestreet Grace Church Streete streight to Leaden Hall and so to Christ Church by Aldegate On Fryday she landed at Queene Hiue and so went through Cheape to Saint Michels in Cornehil in fourme aforesayd at all which times the Maior Sherifes and Craftes of London receyued hir and accompanyed hir This being done she was committed to the ward of sir Thomas Stanley wherein she remayned duryng hyr life in the castel of Chester hauing yerely an hundred marks assigned for hyr finding whose pride false couetise and lecherie were cause of hir confusion The xviij of NoueÌ„ber Roger Bolingbroke with sir Iohn Hum Priest and William Woodham Esquire was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London where the sayde Iohn and William had their Charters but Roger Bolingbroke was condemned had iudgemeÌ„t of sir Iohn Hody chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the same day he was drawen froÌ„ the Tower to Tiborne there hanged and quartered when y e said Roger shold suffer he said y t he was neuer guilty of any treason against the kings person but he hadde presumed too far in his cunning whereof he cryed God mercie and the Justice that gaue on him iudgemente liued not long after Henrie Beauchampe succéeded in hys fathers inheritaÌ„ce who being kept two yeares in the Kings hands was restored to al his liuings with greate glory for he was crowned King of Wight by the kyngs owne handes and nominated chiefe Earle of England A challenge was done in Smithfield within listes before 1442 A Combat in Smithfielde the King by the Lorde Beawfe of Aragon and Iohn Ansley Esquire of the Kings house whiche Ansley hadde the fielde and at the Kings hande was made Knight and the Anno. reg 21 Lord Aragon offered his harneis at Windsor In the moneth of August was a great fray in Fleetstreete betwéene the yong Studentes of the Innes of Courte and the inhabitauntes of the same stréete whiche Fray began in the night and so continued the assaultes and bickeryngs till the next day in whiche season muche people of the Cytie was thyther gathered and diuerse men on both partes slaine and many hurte but lastly by the presence of the Maior and Sherifes this Fray was appeased of whiche was chiefe occasioner one of Cliffords Inne named Herbotel Thomas Beaumount Richard Norden the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Iohn Athirle Ironmonger the. 28. of October Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset was made Duke of Somerset and Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie The stéeple of Waltham Holy Crosse in Essex was brente with lightning on Candlemasse day The Citizens of Norwiche rose against the Priour of 1443 Christes Churche wythin the same Citie and would haue fiered the priorie they kept the towne by strength againste the Duke of Norffolke and all his power wherefore the Kyng sente thyther the chiefe Judge Iohn Fortescue wyth the Earles of Stafforde and of Huntington who indicted many Citizens and the Priour also The Liberties of the Citie were seysed into the Kings hand and Sir Iohn Clifton made Captaine there and manye of the Citizens fledde ouer the seas c. Anno reg 22. Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wilforde Iohn Norman the. 28. of September Thomas Catworth Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn Earle of Huntington at Windsore was made Duke of Excester Iohn Beauforde Duke of Somerset deceased and was buryed at Wimborne The Earle of Stafforde was created Duke of Buckingham Henrie Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Duke of Warwicke 1444 Cro. of â—ewx vnto whom the King gaue the Castell of Bristowe with all the appurtenances which King Iohn had kept in his haÌ„ds he gaue vnto him also the Isles of Garnsey and Iarnsey The Earle of Dorset was made Marques of Dorset and the Earle of Suffolke Marques of Suffolke King Henrie sent into Fraunce Ambassadours William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke Adam Molens Bishoppe of Chichester and kéeper of the priuie seale sir Roberte Roos and other to treat of a marriage betwéene King Henrie and Margaret the kings daughter of Scicil which was concluded in the Citie of Towres in Touraine Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Stephen Poster Hugh Wich the. 28. of September Henrie Frowike Mercer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke with other went againe into Fraunce for to conduct the sayd Lady Margaret into England On Candlemasse euen in diuerse places of England was heard terrible thunders wyth lightning wherby the church of Baldoke in Hertfordshire the Churche of Walden in Essex diuerse other were sore shaken And the stéeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clocke in the after noone was set on fire in the middest of the shaft but by the labour of many well desposed people the same was quenched and no man perished The stéeple of Kingstone was likewise fiered by the same lightnings Ladie Margaret landing at Portchester went from thence 1445 by water to Hampton rested there in a place called Gods house from thence she went to the Abbay of Tychfielde and Quene Margaret crovvned was there wedded to King Henry y e xxij of April She was receyued at the Blackeheath by the Citizens of London ryding on horsebacke in blewe gownes with brodered sleues and red hoods the 28. of May and on the 30. of May she was crowned at Westminster hir badge was the Daysie With the fall of Kingstone steple one man was slaine Kingston steple fell An reg 24. Sherifes Maior Leaden hall in Lon. builded and many sore hurt Iohn Darby Godfrey Filding the 28. of September Simon Eyre draper the 28. of October This Simon Eyre builded the Leaden hall in London to be a store house for graine and fewell for the poore of the Citie also a beawtifull Chappel in the East end of y e same ouer the gate whereof he
his traine came to the Kings Campe the thirtéenth of August and there was receyued wyth greate magnificence The thrée and twentith of August the towne of Turwine Turvvine yeelded to K. Henry was giuen ouer vnto the Kyng of England wyth condition that all men in the Towne mighte safely passe wyth horsse and harnesse and so on the foure and twentith of Auguste there came oute of the towne foure thouâ—and men of warre and moewell appointed whereof sixe hundred were well horsed theyr standardes borne before them The sixe and twentith of August the King remoued to Singate and there it was agréed that the walles gates bulwarkes and towers of Turwine shoulde be defaced razed and caste downe of whyche conclusion the Emperoure Turvviue raced and brent sent word to Saint Omers and to Aire whych being ioyous of that tydings sente thither Pioners and so they and the Englishe Pioners brake down the wals gates and towers and filled the ditch and fiered the towne except the Cathedrall Churche and the Palaice and all the ordinaunce was by the King sente to Aire to be kept to his vse After this it was concluded that the King in person shoulde laye hys siege to the Citie of Turney wherefore hée sente forwarde thrée goodly battayles the firste was conducted by the Earle of Shrewsburie the seconde battell led the King hymselfe wyth whome was the Emperour The rerewarde was conducted by the Lorde Harbert and so the firste nyghte they laye in campe beside Aire The fourtéenth of September the King and hys armye came to Beatwin and on the morrowe passed forwarde and came to a straite where was a Forde whiche with greate difficultie they passed and the next day they passed a bridge called Fount Anandiew c. The one and twentith daye of September the Kyng remoued hys Campe towarde Tourney and lodged wythin thrée myles of the Citie the whyche nighte came to hym the Emperour and the Palsgraue the people about King Henry beâ—ieged Turney Tourney were with theyr gòodes fledde to the Citie and yet the Citie hadde no menne of warre to defende it but wyth multitude of Inhabitantes the Citie was well replenished The Kyng came in aray of battell before Tourney planted his ordinaunce rounde abonte the Citie dyuers frenches were caste and rampiers made so that no Citizens coulde issue oute nor no ayde come to them Wherevpon at length to wéete on the nyne and twentith of September the Citie was yéelded Then the King appointed the Lorde â—isle the Lorde Burgeyny and the Lorde Willoughby to take possession whyche wyth sixe thousande menne entered the Citie and tooke the market place and the walles and then Mayster Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner called before him all the Citizens and sware them to the Kyng of Englande the number of whiche Citizens were four score thousande On the seconde daye of October the King entred the citie of Turney and there ordayned sir Edwarde Poynings Knight of the order of the Garter to be hys Lieuetenaunt wyth Captaines horsemen archers and artillerie conuenient hée made hys Almoner Thomas Wolsey Byshoppe of Tourney and then returned to Callaice and sayled Thomas VVoolsey Bishop of Turney from thence to Douer on the foure and twentyth of October In this meane tyme Iames King of Scottes notwithstanding he was sworne to kéepe the peace inuaded this lande with a mightye armye but by the good dilligence of the Quéene with the pollicie and manhoode of the Earle of Surrey the Kings Lieuetenannt he himselfe was slaine at Bramstone vpon Piperd hill with thrée Byshoppes two Abbots twelue Earles seuentéene Lords besides Knights and Gentlemen and seauentéene thousande Scottes and all the ordinaunces and stuffe taken the ninth of September there were slaine of the Englishe men aboute fiue thousande The dead body of the King of Scottes was broughte vp to London and so conueyed to Sheene where I haue séene the same lapped in Lead lye in an olde house vnburyed Iohn Dawes Iohn Bridges the 28. of September Sherifes Roger Bafford William Browne Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Tate Maior Mercer On Candlemasse daye the Kyng made Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey Duke of Norffolke Thomas Lorde Howard Earle of Surrey Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester at Lambeth in the Archbishop of Canterburies palace and not long after he maoe sir Edward Stanley Lorde Mountegle In March folowing Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner 1514 T. VVolsey B. of Lincolne Anno reg 6 Hedges plucked vp ditches filled and Bishoppe of Tourney was consecrate Byshoppe of Lincolne as successour to William Smith late deceassed All the hedges wythin one myle and more euery waye aboute London were pulled downe and the ditches fylled vp in a morning by a number of yong men Citizens of London bycause those enclosures hadde bin hinderaunce to their shooting The ninetinth of May was receyued into London a Cap of Maintenance and a sworde sente from Pope Iulie the seconde which was presented to the King on the Sonday nexte with greate solempnitie in Saint Paules Churche The seauenth daye of August a peace was proclaimed betwixte the Kings of England and of Fraunce duryng theyr lyues In October a marriage was made betwéene Lewis the twelfth King of Fraunce and Ladye Mary the Kyngs sister of England Iames Yarford Iohn Mundy the 28. of September Sherifes Maior George Monox Draper the 28. of October This George Monox Mayor of London of his godly disposition reedified the decayed stéeple of the parishe Churche of Waltham Stowe in the Countie of Essex adding thereunto a side I le with a Chappel where he lyeth buryed And on the North side of the Churchyarde there he founded a fayre large Almose house for an Almose Prieste or Schoolemaywomenster and thirtéene poore almes folke eight men and fiue women appointing to the sayde almes Priest or Schoolemayster for his yearely wages 6. l. 13. sÌ„ 4. d. and to euerye one of y e almes folke 7. d. a wéeke 5 l. to be bestowed yéerely 1515 among them in coles And ordeyned that the sayd almes Priest should on Sondayes and festiuall dayes be helping assistant to the Uicar or Curate there in the celebration of Anno reg 7. diuine seruice and on the wéeke dayes fréelie to apply and teache yong children of the saide parishe to the number of Free Schoole at VValtham Stovv thirtie in a Schoolehouse by him there builded for that purpose Moreouer he gaue to the parish Clearke there for the time being a yearly stipend of 26. sÌ„ 8. d. for euer a Chamber by the sayde Almes house to the intent he should helpe the sayd Schoolemayster to teach the said children And hath giuen faire lands and tenements in the Citie of London for the perpetual maintenance of the premisses to Gods glory foreuer He also for the great commoditie of trauellers on â—â—â—e made a continuall cawsey of Timber ouer the marâ—â—â—s from
might haue oppressed and how by hys pitie he had reléeued them wherefore he would héere after that for kindnesse they shoulde shewe hym none vnkindnesse but inuiolably kéepe that league which was coÌ„cluded In the moneth of May was proclamation made against Proclamation against vnlavvfull gâ—â—es all vnlawfull games and commissions awarded into euerie Shire for the execution of the same so that in all places Tables Dice Cardes and Bowles were taken and brent but when yong men were restreyned of these games and pastimes some fell to drincking some to ferretting of other mens Conyes and stealing of Deare in Parkes and other vnthristinesse The sixth of September was proclamation for Golde Gold ennaunced the French Crowne foure shillings sixe pence the Angelet seauen shillings and sixe pence the Riall xj sÌ„ iij. d. c. Stephen Peacocke Nicholas Lambart the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Sir Thomas Semer Mercer the 28. of October In the monethes of Nouember December and Januarie Great raynes and land vvaters fell such rayne that thereof ensued great fluddes which destroyde Corne fields Pastures and Beastes then was it drie till the twelfth of April and from that time it rayned euery day and night till the third of June whereby Corne fayled sore in the yeare following After the deliuerie of the French King out of the Emperours 1527 bondage and his sonnes receyued in hostage for the Emperours and the King of Englands securitie of all Anno reg 19. such demaundes and requestes as should be demaunded of the French King The Cardinall Wolsey lamenting the French Kings calamitie and the Popes great aduersitie who yet remayned in the Castell Angell trauelled all that he could with the King and his Counsell to take some order for the quietnesse of them both At last it was thought good that the sayde Cardinall shoulde take vppon him the Kings commission to trauell beyond the Seas in this matter Cardinall sent Embassador into France and by his witte to compasse a perfect peace among those potentates wherevpon he was commanded to prepare himselfe to this iourney which he tooke vpon him He had with hym the Earle of Darby the Bishop of London Lord priuie seale Sir Henry Gilfort Knight of the Garter comptroller of the Kings house the Lord Sands Knight of the Garter Lord Chamberlayne of the Kings house Doctor Taylor Mayster of the Rolles Sir Thomas Moore Knight Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster the Bishop of Deuelin the Lord Mountegle the Lord Harrenden Sir Iohn Dudley Knight Mayster Ratclife Maister Willowby Mayster Parker Mayster Sturton Uicounts and Baroâ—â— sonnes and heires Sir Francis Brian Sir Edward Semer Sir Robert Gernigam Doctor Stephen Gardener Secretarie Doctor Peter Vannes Secretarie Of the priuie Chamber Maister Hennege Maister Arundell Maister Kneuet Maister Alford Phisitions Doctor Frances Doctor Smith Gentlemen Ushers of the priuie Chamber Maister Walgraue Maister Elles Sir Thomas Denis high Chamberlen Maister Sentâ—lere Uizchamberlaine Gentlemen Ushers M. Wentworth M. Hansard M. Pemercy M. Constable M. Werren Of houshold M Cade Steward sir Wil. Gascoigne Treasurer M. Gostike Comptroller M. Broughton Mayster of the Horsse Doctor Allen Doctor Benet Doctor Duke Deane of the Chapell Doctor CapoÌ„ Almoner y â— Archdeaâ—â— of Canterbury the Archedeacon of Carleile sir Iohn Sent-Iohn sir Richard Sands Knights c. in al to y e number of 900. horses Then marched he forwarde from hys owne house at The pompous ryding of the Cardâ—â—aâ— Westminster throughe London ouer London bridge hauing before hym all the Gentlemen thrée in a rancke in Ueluet Coates and the moste of them greate chaines of Golde aboute their neckes and all hys Yeomen followed hym with Noblemens and Gentlemens seruants al in Orenge tawney coates with the Cardinalles Hat and a T. â— for Thomas Cardinall embrodered vpon all the Coates aswell of hys owne seruants as of al the reste of Gentlemens seruantes and hys Sumpter Mules whyche were twentie or more with all his cariage of Cartes and other of hys traine were passed before He rode like a Cardinall verye sumptuouslye on hys Mule wyth his spare Mule and spare horse trapped in Crimosin Ueluet vpon veluet and stirrops guilt folowing him And before hym he had his twoo great Crosses of siluer his two great Pillers of siluer the Kings broade Seale of Englande and hys Cardinals Hat and a Gentlemanne carying hys Ualence otherwise called his Cloake bagge whyche was made of fine Scarlet altogyther embrodered very richly with Golde hauing in it a cloake Thus passed he forth throughe London and all the waye euerye daye in his iourney he was thus furnished hauing hys Harbengers in euerye place before whych prepared lodging for hys traine The first iourney that he made was twoo myles beyond Dertford in Kent vnto sir Thomas Wiltshires house and the reste of hys traine were lodged in Dertford and in the countrey there-aboutes The nexte daye he marched to Rochesâ—â—â— where he was lodged in the Byshoppes Pallaice and the rest of his traine in the Citie in Strowde The third day he rode to Feuersham and there was lodged in the Abbey his traine in the towne there and some in the Countrey there-aboutes The fourth daye he rode to Caunterburie where he encountred wyth the worshipfull of the town and Country and lodged in the Priorie of Christchurch and all hys traine in the Citie where he continued thrée dayes in whiche season there was a greate fayre in the Towne by reason it was the feast of Thomas of Canterburie At whych daye there was a solempne Procession wherein the Cardinal then went apparelled in hys Legantine Ornamentes with hys Hat on his heade who commaunded the Monks and the Quéere to sing the Letany after this sorte Sancta Maria or a pro Papa nostra Clemente the Cardinall knéeling at a Stoole before the Quéere dore all the while the Monks and their Quéere stoode in the body of the church singing the Letany The eleauenth of July the Cardinall arriued at Calleis who was receiued with all the Officers and Counsell of the Towne the Maior of the Towne and the Maior of the Staple in Procession and in the Lauterne Gate he knéeled and made his prayers that done they passed on before vntill he came to Saint Maries Churche from whence he repayred with a greate number of Noblemen and Gentlemen béeing Péeres of the Towne vnto a place called the Checker where he was lodged and kepte his house as long as he abode in the Towne When all his traine and carriage was landed and euery thing prepared for his iourney he called all hys Noblemen Gentlemen beyng seruants vnto him into hys priuie Chamber where they being al assembled before hym he sayde I haue called you hither to the intent to declare vnto you that I consider the duetie you beare me and the good will that I semblably beare to you séeing your intendment to further the aucthoritie that I haue by Commission whiche your
Ueluet and Sylke in the Lyuerie of their Ladyes on whome they gaue theyr attendaunce after them followed the Guarde in coates of Goldesmyths worke in whyche order they rode forthe tyll they came to Fan-churche where was made a Pageaunt all of children apparelled like Merchantes whyche welcomed hir to the Citie wyth twoo proper propositions bothe in Frenche and in Englishe and from thence she rode vnto Grace Churche corner where was a costlye and maruellous cunning Pageaunt made by the Merchantes of the Stiliarde therein was the mounte Pernassus wyth the fountaine of Helicon whyche was of white Marble and foure streames wythoute pype dydde ryse an Ell hyghe and mette togyther in a little cuppe aboue the fountaine whych fountaine ranne abundantly with rackte Reynishe Wine till night on the mountaine sate Apollo and at hys féete sate Caliope and on euery side of the Mountayne sate foure Muses playing on seuerall swéete Instrumentes and at theyr féete Epigrammes and Poesies were written in golden Letters in the whyche euerye Muse according to hir propertie praised the Quéene From thence the Quéene wyth hir traine passed to Leaden hall where was a goodly Pageaunte with a tipe and heauenly Rose and vnder the tippe was a goodly roote of Golde sette on a little mountaine enuironed wyth red Roses and white oute of the typpe came downe a Faulcon all whyte and sette vppon the roote and incontinent came downe an Angel wyth greate melodie and sette a close Crowne of Gold on the Faulcons head and in the same Pageant sate Saint Anne wyth all hir issue beneath hir and vnder Mary Cleophe sate hir foure children of the whiche chyldren one made a goodlye Oration to the Quéen of the fruitefulnesse of Saint Anne and of hir generation trusting that lyke fruite shoulde come of hir Then shée passed to the Conduite in Cornehill where were the thrée Graces seâ—te in a Throne afore whome was the spring of Grace continually running wine afore the fountaine sate a Poet declaring the propertie of euery Grace that done euery Lady by hirself according to hir propertie gaue to the Quéene a seuerall gifte of Grace That done she passed by the greate Conduite in Cheape whiche was newly painted wyth armes and deuises out of the whiche Couduite by a goodlye fountaine sette at the ende ranne continually Wine both white and Claret all that afternoone and so she rode to the Standarde whyche was richely painted with Images of Kings and Quéenes and hanged with banners of Armes and in the toppe was maruellous swéete harmony bothe of Songs and Instruments Then she wente forwarde by the Crosse whyche was newly guilte till she came where the Aldermen stoode and then Maister Baker the Recorder came to hir wyth lowe reuerence making a proper and briefe proposition and gaue to hir in the name of the Citie a thousand Mark in Golde in a purse of Golde whyche shée thankefullye accepted wyth manye good wordes and so rode to the little Conduite where was a riche Pageaunt full of melody and Songs in whyche Pageaunte were Pallas Iuno and Venus and afore them stoode Mercurie whiche in the name of the thrée Goddesses gaue to hir a Ball of Gold deuided in thrée signifying thrée giftes which these thrée Goddesses gaue to hir that is to say Wisedom Riches and Felicitie As she entred into Pawles Gate there was a prettie Pageant in which sate thrée Ladyes richly clothed and in a circle on their head was written Regina Anna prosper procéede and raigne The Lady in the midst had a Tablet in the which was written Veni amica coronaberis and vnder the Table sate an Angell with a close Crowne And the Lady sitting on the right hand had a Tablet of Siluer in whiche was written Domine dirige gressus meos And the third Lady had a Tablet of Gold with letters of Azure written Confido in domino and vnder their féete was written Regina Anna paris regis de sanguine natam Et paries populis aurea saecla tuis And these Ladyes cast downe Wafers on the whiche the â—ayd two Uerses were written From thence she passed to the East ende of Pawles Church against the Schoole where stoode a Scaffolde and Children well apparelled which sayde to hir diuers goodly Uerses of Poets translated into English to the honor of the King and hir which she highly commended And then â—he came to Ludgate whiche Gate was new garnished with Gold and Bise and on the Leades of Saint Martins Church stoode a goodly Quéere of singing men and children which sang new Ballets made in prayse of hir grace After that she was past Ludgate she procéeded towarde Fléetestréete where the Conduite was newly paynted and all the Armes and angles refreshed and the Shalmes melodiously sounding Upon the Conduite was made a Tower with foure turrets and in euery turret stoode one of the cardinall vertues with their tokens and properties which had seueral speaches promising the Quéene neuer to leaue hir but to be ayding and comforting hir and in the midst of the Tower closely was such seuerall solemne instruments that it séemed to be a heauenly noyse and was much regarded and praysed and besides this the Conduite ran Wine claret and redde all the after noone so she with all hir company and the Maior rode forth to Temple Barre which was newly paynted and repaired where stoode also diuers singing men and Children till she came to Westminster Hall whiche was richly hanged with cloth of Arras and newly glased and in the midst of the Hall she was taken out of hir Litter and so ledde vp to the high Deske vnder the cloth of estate on whose left hande was a Cupbord of tenne stages high maruellous riche and beautifull to beholde and within a little season was broughte to the Quéene with a solemne seruice in greate standing spice plates a voyde of spice and sutteltyes with Ipocrase and other Wynes whyche she sente downe to hir Ladyes and when the Ladyes had drunke she gaue harty thankes to the Lordes and Ladyes and to the Maior and other that had giuen their attendance on hir and so withdrew hirselfe with a fewe Ladyes to the White Hall and so to hir Chamber and there shifted hir and after wente in hir Barge secretely to the King to his Manour of Westminster where she rested that night On Whitsonday the first of June the Maior cladde in Crimson Ueluet with his coller and all the Aldermen Coronation of Queene Anne and Sheriffes in Skarlet and the Counsell of the Citie tooke their Barge at the Crane by seauen of the clocke and came to Westminster where they were welcomed and brought into the Hall by Mayster Treasurer and other of the Kings house and so gaue their attendance till the Quéene shoulde come foorth betwéene eyght and nine of the Clocke she came into the Hall and stoode vnder the cloth of estate and then came in the Kings Chappell and the Monkes of Westminster all in riche Coapes and
putte in places of the Grey Fryers The fourtéenth of August was a greate fire at Temple Bar Fire at Temple Barre and certaine persons burned The sixetéenth of Auguste was burned the Kings Stable The Kings Stable brent at Charing Crosse called the Mewes wherin was burned many greate horses and greate store of Haye The one and twentith of September Doctour Taylour Thomas Croâ—vvell Master of the Rolles Maister of the Rolles was discharged of that office and Thomas Cromwell sworne in his place the ix of October The Earle of Kildare dyed prysoner in the Tower of London and his sonne Thomas Fitz Garet rebelled in Irelande slew Doctour Allen Bishop of Deueling and tooke the kings Ordinaunce wherefore the King sente thither sir William Skeuington with a company of souldiours Nicolas Leueson William Denham the 28. of September Sherifes Maior The Popes authoritie abrogated Sir Iohn Champneis Skinner the 28. of October In Nouember was held a Parliament at Westminster wherein the Pope with al his aucthoritie was cleane banished this Realme and order taken that he should no more be called Pope but Byshoppe of Rome and the King to bée reputed and taken as supreame head of the Churche of Englande hauing full aucthoritie to reforme all errours heresies Firste fruites tenths giuen to the King 1535 Anno reg 27 Charter house Monkes and abuses of the same Also the first fruits and tenths of all spirituall dignities and promotions were granted the king with a subsidy of the laity of twelue pence in y â— pound with a fiftéenth and a tenth The nine and twentith of Aprill the Prior in the Charter house at London the Prior of Beuall the Prior of Exham Reynoldes a brother of Sion and Iohn Haile Uicar of Thistleworth were all condemned of Treason who were drawne hanged and quartered at Tyborne the fourth of May theyr heads and quarters set on the gates of the Citie al saue one quarter whyche was set on the Charterhouse at London The eighte of May the King commaunded al about hys Polled heades commaunded Courte to poll their heades and to giue them example hée caused hys own head to be polled and from thence forth his bearde to be notted and no more shauen Hollanders condemned for heretiques The fiue and twentith daye of Maye was in Saint Paules Churche at London examined ninetéene men and sixe womeÌ„ borne in Holland whose opinions were firste that in Christ is not two natures God and Man secondely that Christe tooke neyther flesh nor bloude of the Uirgin Mary thirdlye that children borne of Infidels shall be saued fourthly that baptisme of Children is to none effecte fifthly that the Sacrament of Christes bodye is but breade only sixtly that hée who after his Baptisme sinneth wittingly sinneth deadly and cannot be saued Fourtéene of them were condemned a man and a woman of them were burned in Smithfielde the other twelue were sent to other townes there to be brent Charter house Monkes executed The eightéenth of June thrée Monks of the Charterhouse at London named Exmew Middlemore and Nidigate were drawne to Tyborne and there hanged and quartred Byshoppe of Rochester beheaded The two and twentith of June Doctour Iohn Fisher Byshoppe of Rochester was beheaded on the Tower hill hys head was set on London Bridge and his body buryed within Barking Curchyard The sixte of July sir Thomas Moore was beheaded on Sir Thomas Moore beheaded the Tower hill for deniall of the Kyngs Supremacie and then the body of Doctour Fisher Byshoppe of Rochester was taken vp and buryed with sir Thomas Moore in the Tower Doctour Foxe the Kyngs Almoner was made Bishoppe of Hereforde and Hugh Latimer Bishoppe of Worcester the blacke Frier of Bristowe was made Byshoppe of Rochester In August the Lorde Thomas Gerard sonne to the earle of Kildare was taken in Ireland and sent to the Tower of London In October the King sente Doctour Lee and other to visite Abbeys visited the Abbeys Priories and Nunneries in Englande who putte forth all religious persons that woulde goe and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yeres and closed vppe the residue that woulde remayne and tooke order that no manne shoulde come to the houses of women nor women to the houses of menne but onelye to heare theyr seruice all religious menne that departed the Abbot or Prior to gyue them for their habite a Priestes gowne and fortie shyllyngs of money the Nunnes to haue suche apparell as Secular women weare and to goe where they woulde He tooke out of Monasteries and Abbeys theyr reliques and chiefest Jewels Humfrey Monmouth Iohn Cotes the 28. of September Sherifes These Sheriffes in the beginning of their yeare put away twelue Sergeants and twelue Yeomen till they were forced by a Courte of common Councell to take them againe Sir Iohn Allen being one of the Kinges Councell was at the Kings requeste chosen Maior of London Sir Iohn Allen Mercer the 28. of October Maior This sir Iohn Allen when he deceassed in Anno 1544. Charitable deedes of sir Iohn Allen. and hadde béene twice Maior of London and of Councel with the King as is aforesaide he gaue to the Citie of London a riche collar of Golde to be worne by the Maior whyche Collar was firste worne by sir William Laxton on Sainct Edwards daye to the election of the newe Maior who gaue to euery Warde in London twentie pounde to be distributed to the pore housholders besides to one hundreth and twentie persons thrée score men euerie of them a gowne of broad cloth and a blacke cappe and thréescore women to euerye of them a gowne of the like cloth and a white kerchiefe The eleauenth of Nouember was a greate Procession Procession at London of all the religious men thrée Bishoppes and foure Abbots mytered whyche was for ioy the French King was recouered of hys health In the moneth of December the names of all Chauntries Names of Chauntries were taken and who had the gifte of them The eighte of Januarie dyed Lady Katherine Dowager Katherine Dovvager de ceassed at Kimbalton and was buryed at Peterborowe The nine and twentith of January Quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time whych was borne dead In a Parliament begonne in the moneth of Februarye Aparliament was graunted to the King and his heyres al religious houses Small houses suppressed 1536 Anno reg 28 in the Realme of Englande of the valewe of two hundred pound and vnder with al lands goods to them belonging the number of these houses then suppressed were 376. the value of their lands then 32000 pound and more by yere the mouable goods as they were sold Robin Hoods penniworths 10000. pound the religious were tourned oute to the worlde more than 10000. On May daye was a greate iusting at Greenewich where were Chalengers the Lorde Rocheford and other and Defendors Iustes
â—ll the Londoners parte of the Gard and more than thrée â—artes of the retinue wente to the Campe of the Kentishmen where they still remayned At this discomfiture the Duke lost eyght péeces of brasse with all other munition and Ordinance and himselfe with few other hardly escaped The last of January Wyat and his company came to Dertforde and the next day they came full and whole to Greenewich and Depeford where they remayned Thurseday Fryday and the foorenone of Satterday On the Fryday which was Candlemas day the most parte of the housholders of London with the Maior and Aldermen were in harnesse yea this day and other dayes the Justices Sergeants at the Lawe and other Lawyers pleaded in harnesse In this meane time Henry Duke of Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane fléeing into Leycestershire and Warwikeshire with a small companye in diuers places as he went made Proclamation agaynst the Quéenes marriage with the Prince of Spayne c. but the people enclined not to him The first of February Proclamation was made at London that the Duke of Suffolke was discomfited and fled with his two bréethren And also that Sir Peter Carow with his vnckle Sir Gawyn Carow and Gibbes were fledde into France and further that the Quéene did pardon the whole Camp of the Kentishmen except Wyat Harpar Rudstone and Iseley and that who soeuer could take Sir Thomas Wyat except the sayde foure persons should haue an hundred pound Lands to hym and his heires for euer The same day in the afternoone being Candlemas euen the commons of the Citie assembled in their Liueries at the Guild hall whether the Quéene with hir Lords and Ladyes came Queene Mary came to the Guild hall in London riding from Westminster and there after vehement wordes against Wyat declared that she meant not otherwise to marrie than the Counsell should thinke both honourable and commodious to the Realme and that she could continue vnmaryed as she had done the greatest part of hir age and therefore willed them truly to assist hir in repressing such as contrarie to their duties rebelled When she had done vnderstanding that many in London did fauour Wyats part she appoynted Lord William Howard Lieutenant of Lord VVilliam Hovvard Lieutenant of the Citie the Citie and the Earle of Pembroke General of the Field which both prepared all thyngs necessarie for theyr purpose In the meane season to wéete the third day of February VVyat came into Southvvarke about thrée of the clocke in the after noone Sir Thomas Wyat and the Kentishmen marched forwarde from Depeford towards London with fiue Ancients béeing by estimation about two thousand which their comming so soone as it was perceyued there was shot off out of the white Tower sixe or eyght shotte but missed them sometime shooting ouer and sometime short After knowledge thereof once had in London forth with the Draw Bridge was cut downe and the Bridge Gates shutte The Maior and Sheriffes harnessed commanded each man to shutte in their shoppes and windowes and to be ready harnessed at their dores what chance soeuer might happen By this time was Wyat entred into Kentstreete and so by Saint Georges Churche into Southwarke Himselfe and part of hys company came in good aray downe Barmondsey streete and they were suffered peaceably to enter Southwarke without repulse or anye stroke stricken eyther by the inhabitants or of any other yet was there many men of the Countrey in the Innes reysed and brought thither by the Lorde William and other to haue gone against the sayd Wyat but they all ioyned themselues to the Kentishmen and the inhabitantes with their best enterteyned them Immediatly vpon the sayde Wyats comming hée made Proclamation that no Souldyour shoulde take anye thyng but that hée shoulde pay for it and that hys commyng was to resist the Spanish Kyng c. At the Bridge foote he layde two péeces of Ordinance and beganne a greate trenche betwéene the Bridge and hym Hée layde one other péece of Ordinance of Sainte Georges and one going into Bermondsey streete and one other toward the Bishop of Winchesters house On Shroue Tuesday the sixth of February Sir Thomas Wyat remoued out of Southwarke towarde Kingston Bridge which was done vpon this occasion The nighte before hys departing out of Southwarke by chance as one VVyat remoued out of Southvvarke of the Lieutenants men of the Tower named Thomas Menchen rowed with a Sculler ouer against the Bishop of Winchesters place there was a waterman of the Tower staire desired the sayde Lieutenants man to take him in who did so which béeing espyed of Wyats men seauen of them with Harguebusses called to them to land agayne but they would not whereupon each man discharged their péece and killed the sayd waterman which forthwith falling downe dead the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man and the dead man in his boate which thing was no sooner knowne to the Lieutenant but that euen the same night and the next morning he bent seauen great péeces of Ordinance Euluerings and Demi-Canons full against the foote of the Bridge and against Southwarke and the two Stéeples of Saint Oliues and Saint Mary Oueryes besides all the péeces on the white Tower one Culuering on Diueling Tower and thrée Fauconets ouer the Water gate which so soone as the inhabitants of Southwarke vnderstoode certayne both men and women came to Wyat in most lamentable wise saying Sir we are all like to be vtterly vndone and destroyed for your sake oure houses shall by and by bée throwne downe vpon our heads to the vtter spoyle of thys Borough with the shotte of the Tower all ready bente and charged towardes vs for the loue of God therefore take pitie vppon vs at whiche wordes hée béeyng partly abashed stayde awhile and then sayde I pray you my friendes bée contente a whyle and I will soone ease you of this mischiefe for God forbid that you or the least héere should be killed or hurt in my behalfe And so in most spéedye manner hée martched awaye As he marched towards Kingstone he met by chance a Merchant VViat marched tovvards Kingstone named Christopher Dorell whome he called saying Cosen Dorell I pray you commend me vnto your Citizens the Londoners and say vnto them from me that when libertie and fréedome was offered them they woulde not receyue it neyther woulde they admitte me to enter within their Gates who for theyr fréedome and the disburthening of theyr gréefes and oppression by Strangers would haue franckely spente my blond in that their cause and quarrell but nowe well appeareth theyr vnthankefulnesse to vs their friendes which meaneth them so much good and therefore they are the lesse to bée moned héereafter when the miserable tyrannie of Strangers shall oppresse them and so hée wente forwarde This daye by nighte hée came to Kingstone where the Bridge was broken and kepte on the other syde by two
Mulmucius King Pag. 24 Muster of horssemen Pag. 1050. agayne Pag. 1052 Muster at Greenewich by Londoners Page 1112 Merchant Taylors freeschoole founded Page 1116 Mary Rose a Shippe drowned Pag. 1032 Men brent in the Hedgehog a Ship Pag. 1031 Mathew Hamont an Heretike brent Pag. 1195 Marmaduke Glouer hanged in Cheape Page 1209 Monstrous child Pag. 1212. 1213 Magdalen colledge in Cambridge Pag. 1220 Merton Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1221 Magdalen Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1217 Magdalen Hall in Oxford Pag. 1223 Mary Hall in Oxford Pag. 1223 Michaell house in Cambridge Pag. 1220 N. NOble men that came with William Conquerour Pag. 153 Names of Chantries taken Pag. 1006 Nero a Romaine Pag. 3â— Newcastell vpon Tine founded Pag. 172. the towne drowned Pag. 378 New Abbey by the Tower of London founded Pag. 407 Newgate of London builded Pag. 619. on fire Pag. 1100 New Testament first printed in english Page 967 Newman priest bare a fagot at Paules Crosse for singing Masse with good Ale Pag. 1010 New Coyne Pag. 1072 againe Pag. 1115. agayne Page 1117 Newhauen by Bolleine wonne by the French Pag. 1042 Nightwalkers in London did murther all they mette Pag. 209 Night as light as the day Pag. 1125 Norwich a Bishops see Pag. 173. brent Pag. 208. Pag. 294. citie walled Pag. 315. steeple brent Pag. 715. brent Pag. 890 Notingham brent Pag. 191. beseeged Pag. 198 Nonne Eaten founded Pag. 206 Northampton beseeged Pag. 282 Noble of gold Pag. 574 Newelme hospitall Pag. 652 Nunnes burnt in their Abbey Pag. 121 Nelson executed Pag. 1192 Newport towne ouerflowed Pag. 1209 New Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1217 New Inne in Oxford Pag. 1223 O. OCT auius Augustus a Romane Pag. 34 Order of the Garter founded at Windsore Pag. 415 Ocation made by the D. of BuckinghaÌ„ Pag. 811. the same Duke of Buckingham beheaded Pag. 845 Otto of Bromswike chalengeth combate with Iohn Duke of Lancaster Pag. 426 Owen Glendouerdew Pag. 551. Pag. 557. his sonne taken Pag. 563 Owen Tewther brake out of Newgate Pag. 640. beheaded Pag. 709 Oxford builded Pag. 20. an Vniuersitie Pag. 127. Castel builded Pag. 163. forsakeÌ„ Pag. 237. Orial Colledge in Oxforde Pag. 1221 Outâ—rier and Bell man for the daye Pag. 1123 Owes bridge borne downe Pag. 1126 P. PArkes Pag. 4 Policletus a Romaine Pag. 43 Pâ—te a riuer in Eastsex Pag. 99 ParliameÌ„t at Winchester Pag. 288. at Marleborow Pag. 293. at Westminster Pag. 297. at Barwicke Pag. 306. at Stepenâ—eth Pag. 309. at Carelile Pag. 319. at Northampton Pag. 326. at Yorke Pag. 343. at Northampton Pag. 358. at Salisburie Pag. 359. at Winchester Pag. 360. at Notingham Pag. 361. at Yorke Pag. 367. at Northampton Pag. 370. at London Pag. 372 Pag. 374. at Westminster Pag. 381. at London Pag. 386. at Westminster Pag. 387. Pag. 420. Pag. 427. Pag. 431. Pag. 458. Pag. 611. at London Pag. 619. Pag. 624. of Battes at Leycester Pag. 629. at Westminster Pag. 631. Pag. 636. at Bury Pag. 650. at Westminster Pag. 664. at London Pag. 679. at Couentrie Pag. 691. at Westminster Pag. 700. Pag. 713. Pag. 718. Pag. 738. Pag. 861. Pag. 86â— â—â—t the Blackefriers Pag. 932. 968 Paules Church in London founded Pag. 92. brent Pag. 166. repaired ibidem newe work Pag. 276. Pag. 335. weathercocke blowne downe Pag. 878. new Schole Pag. 894. steeple brent Pag. 1116. gates blowne open Pag. 1128. Parson of Saint Mildreds brent Pag. 859 Poultery prised Pag. 310 Pageants new made in London Pag. 930 Parishes in England Pag. 932. in London Page 1120 Paginton slayne with a gonne Pag. 1016 Pallace at Westminster brent Pag. 897 Patrike-Brumpton ouerturned Pag. 1188 Penisellus King Pag. 31 Petronius a Romayne Pag. 44 Pertinax Emperour Pag. 58 Peters Church in Cornehill a Bishops see Pag. 56 Pellagius a Britayne Pag. 73. an heretike Pag. 7â— confuted Pag. 78 Peterborow founded Pag. 101 Peterpence payd to Rome Pag. 116 Pestilence great in England Pag. 405 Pestilence Pag. 568 Saint Petroâ—us at Bodmin in Cornewall Pag. 131 Pestilence Pag. 271. Pag. 478. Pag. 510. Pag. 747. Pag. 166. Pag. 172 Peterborow burned Pag. 182 Peter of Pomfret Pag. 241. hanged Pag. 243 Peter Colledge Pag. 1216 Pierce Plowman his visions Pag. 387 Peterpence forbidden to be payd Pag. 461 Penbroke hall Pag. 1217 Pecocke Bishop of Chichester abiured Page 682 Perkin Werbecke Pag. 825. Pag. 868. Pag. 869. Pag. 871. hanged Pag. 873 Philip king of Castile landed in England Pag. 878 Pictes first inhabit the marches Pag. 28 Pickering builded Pag. 30 Pirthus king Pag. 31 Pilton priorie Pag. 131 Piked shoes forbidden Pag. 717 Pirates hanged Pag. 271 Priuiledges vnto Saint Edmondsbury Page 131 Priests married remoued Pag. 163 Priest at Masse slayne with thunder Pag. 208 Priests became theeues Pag. 460 Prisoners in Newgate and Ludgate dyed Page 586 Porchester builded Pag. 28 Porrex king Pag. 30 Portgreues of London Pag. 218 Porter of the Tower headed Pag. 586 Posterne by the Tower of London fell Page 642 Prodigious signes Pag. 31 Portesmouth Pag. 84 Popes authoritie abrogated Pag. 1003 Powled heads commanded Pag. 1004 Prouosts of London Pag. 218 Prouinciall counsell at Oxford Pag. 255 Proclamation againste the family of loue Pag. 1213 Prince of Wales the kings eldest son Pag. 311 Priuiledge to Clothworkers Pag. 373 Priorie and hospitall of Saint Bartholmew in Smithfield founded Pag. 178 Printing first Pag. 687 Preached at Paules Crosse Doctor Goddard Pag. 724 Prisoners of the Marshalsea brake out Pag. 877 Priests saying Masse apprehended Pag. 1177 Priories suppressed by Cardinall Wolsey Pag. 939 Prince Arthur married Pag. 874. deceassed ibidem Prisoner brake froÌ„ the sessioÌ„s house Pag. 959 Prince of Piamont came into England Page 1095 Prince of Orange conducted to the Tower of London Pag. 1095 Publicans whipped Pag. 203 Publicans with their bloudy procession Pag. 409 Plimmouth spoyled Pag. 556 Q. QVatbridge or Catwarbridge in Essex Pag. 126 Quaffing and drunkennes punished Pag. 133 Queeneheth in London Pag. 270 Queenes Attourney slayne Pag. 685 Queeneborough Castell builded Pag. 461 Queene tooke Sanctuary Pag. 724. 767 Queene of England chased Pag. 279 Queenes Colledge in Cambridge Pag. 1217 Queenes Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1221 R. RAmsey founded Pag. 133 Rampire builded at Caleis Pag. 401 Ralph Stafford slayne Pag. 498 Redargius King Pag. 31 Rebellion in Kent and Essex Pag. 480 Recorder of London Fitz William Pag. 817 Register booke in euery Church to bee kept Pag. 113 Religious houses graunted to the king Page 1015 Rimo King Pag. 30 Richborough Pag. 36 Riot and euill life the destruction of the Britaines Pag. 79 Ripendun or Ripon Pag. 122 Richarde the first King Pag. 216. tooke hys voyage to Hierusalem Pag. 220. taken prisoner Pag. 222. builded the walles of Vienna Pag. 223 Riot in London Pag. 292 Risebanke Castell builded Pag. 403 Rye spoyled Pag. 471 Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke rebelleth Pag. 563 beheaded Pag. 564 Richard the secoÌ„d made prince of Wales Pag. 468. crowned King Pag. 470. married Pag. 489. Pag. 518. entreth ScotlaÌ„d Pag.