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CHRONICLE

GREY FRIARS OF LONDON,

KDITED BY

JOHN GO UGH NICHOLS,F.S.A. LOXD. AND XEWC.

PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LII

LONDON

:

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON. PRINTEK-S

PARLIAMENT STREET.

NO. Llll.J

COUNCIL

OF

THE CAMDEX SOCIETY

FOR THE YEAH 1851.

THE BIGHT HOX. LOKD l^RAYBKOOKE, F.S.A.

WILLIAM HENRY BLAAL"\V, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.

JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. Treas. S.A. Director.

JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. Y.P.S.A. Treasurer.

C. PLTITON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A,

WILLIAM DLTIRAXT COOPER, ESQ. F.S.A.

BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ. M.R.S.L.

SIR HEXRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A.

EDWARD FOSS, ESQ. F.S.A.

THE REY. JOSEPH HL'NTER, F.S.A.

PETER LEYESQLT:, ESQ. F.S.A.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD LOXDESBOROUGH, F.S.A.

FREDERIC OUYRY, ESQ. F.S.A.

WILLIA^l J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A., Secretary.

ALBERT WAY. ESQ. M.A.. F.S.A.

THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.

The Cor.vcLL of iLe Campen Society de^irt it to Le uuder-

stood that they are not auswerable for ar;y opinions or obserra-

tioiis that mayaj>pear in the Society's puUicTitions : the Editors of

the several work; being alone responsible for the same.

y

PREFACE.

The [ir'j?Gnt Chronicle lias hitherto remained riot merely un-

j ublished, but alnK>st -wholly unnoticed. It is now presented to

the Camden Society in a full conviction of its value.

The Editor has given it the title of The Ciikokicle of the

Gkey Feiaks of London: t'j.whicli it has an indisputable claim,

inasmuch as it formed a [.orticai of the Register-book of that frater-

nity. This title., however, mus: be taken mereh' as disting-uishing

the present compilation ft-om others of the same class, and not as

esplatiatory of its contents. In its original character it is not a

religious but a civic Clii'onicle.

It is weU known that history, m the form of Chronicles, was a

favourite portion of the literature of the middle a^es. The annals

of a country were usually kept according to the years of the

/' sovereign's power, and not those of the Christian asra. The Chro-

nicles compiled in large cities were arranged in like manner, Avith

the years reckoned according to the amiual succession of chief

magistrates. Thus, in the present instance, though the Clu'onicle

is primarily arranged in reigns, and the years are numbered bv

those reigns, yet the period of time included in each year commences

with the London mayoralty at the end of October, and the events

which follow belong not only to the two ensuing months of that

year of our Lord, but also to the next year until the end of October;

and not only to that year of the king's reign, but to a portion more

or less of the next vear ol' the reiirn, accordinir as the date of the

VI PKEFACE.

accession of the monarcli varied from tliat of the flavor's entrance

into office."

The present compilation is therefore properly a London Clu'onicle;

but the Editor deemed it unnecessary to copy from the manuscript

the succession it contains of Mayors and Sheriffs, as their names have

now been fi-equently printed elsewhere in other Londoii Clironicles,

and in fact in its earher portions the manuscript consists of little else.

Kor would the book ha-s'e been worth printing at all in its original

character of a London Chronicle, had it been nt^thing more ; for in

the early reigns its entrit^s are slight and fragmentary, and occa-

sionally incorrect, as some of the marginal notes will show.

It was usual for London Chronicles to commence with the reign

of Richard the First, that being the date from which the roll of

cliief magistrates, at first termed Bailiffs, had been preserved. Such

is tlie case with a Latin Chronicle kept in the Town Clerk's office,

and wliich has been already presented to the Camden Society under

the title of "Liber de Antiquis Legibus."' Its narrative descends

only to the year 1274. The French Chronicle of London, which

has also been printed for the Camden Society, embraces the period

from 1259 to 1343. The Enghsh Chronicle of London, which w-as

edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, commences witb the civic ara of

1189, the 1st Richard I. and extends to the year 1483. Some

portions of it are highly curious. Arnold's Chronicle, like our own,

» Appended to Grafton"? Cbronicle will be found a table constructed for the express

purpose of meeting the difficulties which arose from the mode of reckoning above described.

It is entitled " A Table deelariug the reignes of everie King of this realme sithen the

conquest, and the yeares of our Lorde and monethes and dayes of their beginning, and

also the names and surnames of all the Maiors and Shirifes of London, with the yere and

dave of their entrance into their charge." For every year this table presents four dates :

1. the commencement of the year of our Lord, which was the ifith March ; 2. that of the

King's accession, as the case might be; 3. that of the entrance into office of the B;iilifi's

and Sheriffs, which was the •2Sth Septembor ; and 4. that ottlie eiitriinfc into office of tlie

Mavor, the 2Sth October. It extends from a.D. 11S9 to 156S.

is little more than a list of !^Iayors and Slieriti's : it commences at

the same period, and extends to 1-520. T^vo otlicr London Chronicles

still in manuscript are dt-scribei: in the annexed notc.^ Besides

these, Fabyan's printed Chronic]-; is to be classed as a London one.

His name concludes the list: for though Grafton, Holinshed, and

the indefatigable John SLO^ve. jmd others beside, may have been

Londoners, their l>ooks were general Chroiiicles, and not arranged

accordinfr to the succe<<ion of Mayors and Sheriffs,

Of all the foregoing, Arnold's Chronicle is that %yliich most nearly

resembles the present, det.-dling the same events, though not quite

* The following List of Lx>ridon Cnronici-s mav he found useful:

1. [In Latin.] Liber de Aniiq-L? Legiru.^ : extending from 11 S9 to 1274. Printed

for the Cutnden Society, 1>4'1

2. [In French.] Tbe French Cnronick of London : from 12.".9 to 1343. Printed for

the Camden Society, 1S44.

3. [In Latin.] The MS. HarL 5444 : from 1195 to 1316.

4. [In English.] The ]^:S. Artindel XIX. in the College of Arms: from 11 &9 to

1451. It is prepared in blank to kst to 1475, and there are some additions, but of little

importance, dovrn t<> 152'2. (Se* the prefac-r to the French Chronicle of London, p. ii.)

5. [In English.] The Chronicle of London, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in 4to. 1S27,

from the MS. Hajl. 565, and MS. Conon. Julius, B. i. extendihg from 11 SS to 14 S3.

—

Another MS., hut with considerable variations, which was unknown to Sir Harris

Xicoias. is preserved in the MS. Cotton. Cleopatra, C. iv. flf. 21—CI. It commences

with the expedition to Harfleur in 1415, and terminates, li);e the MS. Harl. 5G5, in 1443.

6. A Tablet which hung at the tomb of the Duke of Lancaster iu St. Paul's cathedral,

contained a brief chronicle in Latin and English. See this printed in the same volume,

pp. 174—187, and from the same MS. I: extends to the coronation of Henry TI. at

Paris in 1432.

7. Arnold's Chronicle : from 11S9 to 1520. The greater part of thLs book consists of

charters, bulls, ordinances, and formularies for legal documents. It was reprinted, under

the editorship of Dr. Dibdin, in 4to. ISll, with this title :" The Customs of London,

otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing, among divers other matters, the original

of the celebrated Poem of The Nnt-Brown Maid. Reprinted from the First Edition, with

the additions included in the Sercond."

S. Fabyan's Chronicle : from tbe earliesitimes to the year 1516; and continued in sub-

sequent editions to 1533, to 1542, aiid to 1559. Reprinted in ISll, 4to. edited by Sir

Henrv- Ellis.

so fully, down to the ITtb Hen. YII. a.d. 1502. After that dnte.

tliese two LoDdon Clu-or.icles are -uholly difierent m their content?.

Stowe had either the possession or the loan of the nianuscript

before us. and his small and compact hand is to be seen in tvro or

tliree places in correction of the original Avriter.^ But we do not

find that he made rail use of it : of its passages relative to rehoious

matters, which are tlie most curious of the whole, he has given

but a small ^^-r-rtion; and our Chronicle escaped the research of

the equally industrious, and still more voluminous, ecclesiastical

historian, the Rev. John Strype.

It is towards the end of the reign of Henry the Eighth that this

Cln'onicle begins to have a character of its own. The writer had a

watchful regard to the religious changes of the times, and he naturally

recorded those in p;\rticular which occurred within the sphere of his

personal observarion, in the city of London, and in the metropolitan

church of St. Paul. He appears to have retained possession of the

book after the dissolution of the house of Grey Friars, and the dis-

missal of the rest of Ids fraternity ; and from that time we may

su}ipose that he continued his record in pursuance of his old habits,

with no other object tlian his own satisfaction. It is therefore not

to the Grey Friars as a body, or to the attention and accui-acy of their

successive registrars, that we have to attribute the cliief historical

value that exists in the following pages : but rather to the indi-

vidual merit of him whom vre may fairly regai'd as the last of the

' StoTve ha* vrrinen the -word " falce"" against the passage stating the poisoniDg of king

John in fol. 3£7 b. At the frx't of fol. S43 is ^litten in Stowe's hand :—

" John BriaD skrive [see p. 14 of the present volume] was df^wnyd hy seint Katheryns

mylle. Reg. 6."

Another of his c-?rrections is described in the note at p. 15.

He names the " Reg. of the Gray Fryers" as his authority for the story of Jady Hun-

gerford. (Cnronicie. edit. 1631. p. 517.)

TEE FACE. IX

LonJoii Franciscmis. Beyond tlie-e circumstances, we liaA'e no

evidence upon v,lncli any speculations can be founded as to his name

or position. From liis frequent notices of Saint Paul's it nn'ght be

sunnised that he had soine official connection Avith the catliedral

church : but the close vicinity of his residence would alone alfbrd

him sufficient opportunities of observation.

With these brief remai-ks our Chronicle may be left to tlie just

appreciation of the reader. Some notice, however, is due to the

Fraternity in whose Register it was recorded. Though the Cln'onicle

itself contains but few and incidental items of their history, they were

by no means negligent of its due cornmemoration : but that was done

in another shape, and in the Latin language, in an earlier part of the

same volume. Tliis Piegister is, in fact, one of the amplest autlso-

rities for the history of the Friai's Minors, as they once flourished in

England ; and a descriptive account of the whole volume cannot be

deemed inappropriate in this place.

It may be acceptiible to prefix a few historical dates, derived in

part from the same source. Saint Francis, the founder and pati'on

of the Friars !Minors,^ was born at Assisi in Italy in the year 1182;

and he was still a young man when lie commenced his scheme of

religious observance. The Eule of his Fraternity was approved by

Pope Innocent III. in 1210, revised in the Lateran council of 1215,

and confirmed by Honorius III. in 1224. At the first general con-

vention of the fraternity in 1217 its numbers were already consider-

able: and in 1219 it consisted of more than five thousand members.

Elate with his success. Francis determined to appoint Provincial

' This designation wa* adopted ia token of tlieir deep htimility : Fuller supposed in

allusion to .TacoVi's words in Gen. xxxii. 10, ^.i-j,, Minor orn'iiihuf: I'diftiria tuis.— Cliurcli

Hist. vi. 270.

CAMD. SOC. b

I\IinisTer5 in the principal kingdoms of Europe. In the year 1224,

tvi-o Tears before the death of their founder.^ a deputation of nine of

the fraternin-. four clerics and five laics, arrived in England, with

Ituers recomuiendatorv ti-om Pope Honorius III. and took up their

first residence in the Benedictine priory of the Holy Trinity at Can-

terljury. in ^vhich city five of their number soon after formed the

first Franciscan convent in England.

The other four proceeded to London, and were first entertained

for fifteen days in the house of the Friars Preachers, or Dominicans.

Afterwards they hu'ed a house in Cornhill of Joint Travers, tlien

sberifi'. where they made some small cells, and continued mitil the

foUovring summer, wheii the devotion of the citizens enabled them

to remove to the site of their future residence near Xewgate. Tlieir

first and princijjal benefactor was John Iv.-y}t. citizen and mercer, who

gave them some land and houses in the parish of St Nicholas in the

Shambles, by deed dated in the 9th Hen. HI, Upon this they

erected their original building. The first chapel, which became the

choir of the church, was built at the cost of sir William Joviier.

who was mayor of London in 1239: the nave was added bv sir

Hemw Waleys, who was mayor during several years of the reign of

Edward 1.:^ the chapter-house by Vralter the potter, citizen and

* ATDong the otLer numerous errors of ^Ir. Stevens in his Supplementary Mona?ticon

(advened to hereafter) is a misprint, p. 112. of " 1224 " for 122C. as the date of tlie death

of Saint Francis.

^' After "Walter Heny, who was mayor of London at the accession of Edward I., there

were only three mayors during the thirty-five years of his reign. Walter Her\7 had been

elected by the citizens in the last year of Henn- III. (see the French Chronicle of London,

p. 11), but for some time after the chief magistrate was elected by the aldermen only, and

the otfiCe became in consequence almost perpetual. Henry AValeys was Hervy"s successor

for one year : then Gregory de Rokesley (presently mentioned in the text) for seven years:

and then Waleys for four years ; after which the king seized the liberties of the city into

bis own hands, and appointed a cuFfos or warden, who continued for twelve years.

TKEFACE. M

alderman (sheriff in 1270 uiid 1273), %vho also presented all

the brazen pots necessary for tlie kitchen, infirmary, and other

(•iiices : the dormitory ^Yas erected by sir Gregoi'y de Rohesley,^

mayor from 1275 to 1282 : the refectory by Bartholomew de Castro,

another citizen : the infirmary by Peter de Helyland ; and the

studies by Bonde, king of the heralds.

The prhicipal contributor to the cost of supplyhig the convent

-u-ith -water was William, called from his trade the Taylor, and who

served King Henry the Thnd hi that capacity.^ ^

Waleys was then reajipointed, and died mavor in 1302 ; after vhieli Sir John le Blount

was mayor during the six remaining years t;f Edward's reign. It is ver^ possible tbat

"NValcys and Roke^iey bad the credit of erecung tL> buildings of tbe Grey Friars, not

because tbey were done at their personal expense, but by contributions of the citizens

under their patronage and superintendence. Waleys was apparently an equal or greater

benefactor to the hou>e of Franciscan Sister; without Aldgate, in whose chapc-l bis bones

were laid to rest. See the note upon him in the French Chronicle of London, ii. 12.

» Rokesley was buried in the church of the Grey Friars : Viut a perpetual chantry for

the repose of his soul was established in the church of St. Mar%- Woolnoth. See the note,

ibid. p. 20.

>> The chapter of tlie Register from which these particulars are abstracted may be

transcribed as a specimen of this very curious record :

—

Frii,\afv'ndo.cio trchsia FrairuM Mlnoriin London.

In primis Capellam, qua.' postmodum facta est magna pars Chori. construxit eis dominus

^Villielmus Joyner, et ad alias domos ccnstruendas donavit per vices expensas .cc. libras

sterlingorum.

Navem ecdesiffi construxit magnis sumptibus dominus Henricus de Galis [i. < "^ aley*]j

maior London, et per multos annos redditus quos fratres solvebant diversis domibus ali-

corum religiosorum redemit. et fratres de illis redditibus deoneravit; cujus memoria mbenedictioue sit etema. Amen.

Capitulim eis construxit dominus Walterus le potter, civis et aldermauus London, et

omnia vasa erea pro coquina. infirmaria, et aliis otficinis necessaria eciam donavit.

Vestibclvm constructum est de bonis eommunibus. [litis -teas a slip oj xl<c irrdcr^s

pth.for it teas agaiiu't ill ri'lc of laS order io claim an-i/ jjroj'eiiy 'fhatticr, so he added,

elimosinis scilicet, a,ul juadt t/.i^ iitstrtior,., Frater Thomas Feltham istud elongavit et

multipliciter adornavit armariis tam inferius quam superius. Et aquaductum de pissina

communis lavatorii iliud [/. iliuc] adduxit. [et] multa utilia a[lia] procuravit. tS''i'e?is

hu-f riiistroufJattd thi:. " and brought thither the Aqueduct of most pure Water fur the com-

A more magnificent cLurch was erected abuut a century later.

when first the chou' was rebuilt, chiefly at the cost of ^Margaret of

France, the second wife of king Edward the First,, who assigned it

for her place of interment : and the nave Avas added from the hene-

nuTi Washiijg.'" insttod (.'". " And be brought thither a water-pipe from the cistern of

the Common Lavatorj',*" flick i'-;.* iu the Cloister, a.! ii ftoitd iKort pri.<:ifdii aft'/'i'-o.rdti.

In tiu Ictu.rs patent of Zi ffth. VIII. d <'.« d-:scilhr:d as " unum hnacrura cupri duplicatum

ccm plumbo eontinentem per estin-itionem in lougitudine octodeciiu acnt- et in profundi-

tate duos pedes et dimidium.*"

DORJUTOEIUM lotum cum lectis -: cameris necessariis construxit doininus Greyorius de

Rokvsley maior Londinensis.

RefectcpRIUm coDstruxi: domir.z.- Bartholoiueus de Castro civis Londiiiensis. et p&vit

semper fratres in die sancti Banhc-l Oit-i.

Altaria vero qure se exienduu; in longum versus austrum constructa fuerunt de diversis

corcmuuibus eli^lo^inis. Sed dosiinus Henricus de Galeys dedit meremeum, cuius me-

inoria in benedictione sit. Amen. Std-ms aj'jiaroditi 'in'tsrtod meremeum (tie timber)

fct incrementum, for le ho.-' tniH.-ier-id it'• the Improvement."

Infirmauiam construxit pro mi^ma parte Petrus de Helyland. dando ad ejus construc-

tioneni .c. libras stc-rlingorum.

.

STt:DiA pro magna parte constmcta fuerunt de bonis Bonde Regis hcraldorum. Le roi

de heraus. Sieverw mi^rtod He la:ter irords Henry Ileruns. The yartii is a llrio r/ liie

heredds 'uot mentioned in yoMe'f EiMor,/ of ilvf Colkye of Arins. Stuire calls line Bevis

Bond, / fcfjiect fro.ii wiareadinc the vords bonis Bonde, ('hirh arc hotl in nd inl-, like

c.tltr proper ',<,fi-«e.< ','/, tic MS. M: TroUope Cp. %) ho^ altered Bevis to Roger, / do r,ot

l.nov; tr/itther On ar.y auilorit.j.

Aquedectum construxenint inrra. scripti. In primis caput aqueductus contuii: AVilliel-

mus Taylour, sartor domini Henrici regis tercii post conquesmm. ad instanciam fratris AVil-

lielmi de Basniges. qui totum ac-irducium proeuravit et usque ad finem complevit. Set

expenses sive sumptus administr&verunt felicis recordationis dominus Henricus rex Anglise

iilustris supramemoratus. Salekynui de Basynge optimae indoiis adolesceus, dominus Henricus

de Frov^ke.et dominus Henricus de Basynges milites. Isti fuerunt coopei-atores et coad-

jutores prsecipui. Et postea frater Galfridus de Camera novam domuni in secundo capite

construxit etantiquam melioravii. et omnes defectus notabiles investigavit et correxit. et

niulta bona pro eodem procuravi; et fecit; cuius adjutores prsecipui fuerunt Alanus Gille

cum consorte sua civis Lond', doziinus Henricus Darcy qui dedit .c. solidos pro cistrina de

bonis, Johannes Tr\-ple eciam coidjuvantes ojius compleverunt. Pro cujus eciam anima

fratres minores haliuerunt Loncini omnibus computatis .c. et x li. et xvij s. v d. q".

Cuius animte propicietur Deus. Amen. Thoupli tle.H latter cIchus are ma rer-i ch_ar.it

icr.irld seem tint tl. rents, cm-.'},-:.-': rollO'. I7s. 5hK rtre kIoIUi derived fron. tie henc-

factions of Jolm of Britany, Earl of Itichmoiid, and his niece Mary

CouJitess of Pembroke. It was 300 ftet long, 89 feet wide, and G4

feet liigh. All tlie columns and the pavement were of marble.^

This church Mas completed in 1327, leaving Ijeen twenty-one years

in building. It suffered considerable injury from a storm in the

\-ear 1343.'^' and was then restored by the king, from regard to the

memory of his mother.

faciloTi^ of Join Triijih, orfvoin lis t/oudj ofUv d'.ath.for the irut rending is rertf prolalh/

de bonis Jobannis Tn-jjle. S'cre-iif.loirat.-, has y-'-ni v vcr./ d\ftrchi vci-fion : "TbeFriiirs

Miijors bad at London, all Tbings computed, 110^ 17.«. 5^<?., to whose Souls God t.e

merciful, Arutn."

[Xext follovrs, " Ut sciatur poficio cacLiium £ j'-jeductus fratrum Minorum Lond' "—

a

Ycn- euriou; description. The mLin cbur.riC-1 or j !j.e i> treced undc-i New gatt, throtiyh tbt-

rivulet at Ho'liom-bridge. up Leather-Ian-; (•' Livrune-lane "), and so to the conduii-bead>

iu the fields. Having a vacant page, I have apT-'inded this to the Prefaue. at p. xxxiv.

Postmodum autem frater Thomas de Fe!tb;im Je pissina communi'= lavacri in claustro

lavatorium ad vestibulum advexi:. et Eulta boaa in vestibulo expendit anno domini

M'.cc. (hlayd). Item anno domini l-i.2'2- renovata sunt lavacra in claustro, cum deposiio

fratrii. Robert! Yonjrge. Snmma expensarum 27 li. 9 s. 1 d. ob.

DiSPENSAM HosPiTUM cum c-ameris versus Infirmariam procuravit frater Ricardus

Knotte. et multa alia bona babueruni fratres de procuratione ejus a WUlielmo Albone.

ScOLi cum LocCTOKiO dispensa, cum cameris. et alia edificia necessaria constructa sunt

de bonis eonimunibus sicut fieri p^oterant. quia parva erant omnia et non muitum sump-

tuosa; et in biis morabantur fratres usque ad annum domini 13G°. Tempore veropncdicto

roultum crevit erga fratres et conventuci devotio el afl'ectio fidtlium, et secundum earn

cousequenter crevit fratrum numerosa multitndo in tantum quod aliquando centum,

aliquando plures, et rare pauciores conventuaie^ fratres London' babebantur. Et loca

constructa qua? pro paucis sufficiebant f'C^stea tazi multis sufiicere nou poterant, et idcirco

nova et amjdiora fideles inceperunt ij.si? constrjere prout inferius declaratur. dr. &:.

* DiscrqAlo loru/iludirds et loAitudmU iccit-'U ci aliitaddi'n sujrratiuta:. In priinis

eontinet ecclesia in longitudine ccc. pedum de j-edibus Sancti Pauli. Item in latitudine

iiij^'ix. pedum de pedibus Sancti Pauli. Item in altitudine a terra usque ad tectum

Lxiiij. pedum de pedibus Sancti Pauli. Et ut patet omnes calumpna.' et [I. sunt] de

marmore et totum pavinientum de marmore. (Register, fol. 325 b.) Malcolm says of

the present Christ church that " the f.avemeut is partially composed of coarse red marble,

\vuicb is evidently part of that of the old church of the Grey Friars." Londinium Redi-

vivum, iii. 345.

' A notice of this occuis in the F'rencL Ciiroi;i<:ie of London, p. b7.

XIV I'KEFACE.

The library was a later iiddition to the house/ and owed its

foundation to the liberality of Sir Richard Whirtington, the cele-

brated mayor in the reign of Henrv the Fifth.

The few particulars wliich our Chronicle contains of the history of

the Grey Friars may here be briefly indicated. Their arrival in

England is noted unier tlie 7th Hen. III. :^ and tlieir first })ro-

vincial chapter in LoL:Ion in the last year of Henry V.^ In 145G

is recorded tlie activity of theii- provincial, doctor Goddard, in ap-

peacliing Peacock bishop of Chichester of heresy.'^ In August.

1498, was the second provincial chapter of the Friars ^^linors in

London : the stricter order of the Observants commencing at the

same time.^' On .Sair.t Ge-.-rge's day, 1502, they relinquished the

'' London russet,"" which tlicy bad for some time vrorn, and resumed

tlie undyed white-grey vrliicli had been their original habit.^ On the

feast of Saint Francis. .July IG, 1508. the mayor and aldermen were

* L>i firniUic'itji,' (i'-r/' ;;'<'-. AniiO doniini M'^. cccC. xxj". veiierauilis vir Rieardus

Wvttyngtoii mercer et maior LonJ" incerit novam librariam, po?uitque jirimum lapidem

fundalem xxj". die C>e;oliris. in festo siincti Hillarionis abbatis. Et anno sequente ante

festuni Nativitatis Ciiristi fdi: domus errata (erecta I' ) et cooperia. Et in tribus annis

se^uentibus fuit terrata (i.e. floored), dealbata, vitrata, ambonibus. scanni? {I. scamnis)

et cellatura ornata (i.e. /?';•/. .V/.€cZ '(r.VA dc'^ls, fef'lu':, and vairvscotlrig or ctiUrig: not. us

Stf:t,is 'makes it, "shelves, starnes, and carving.") Et libris instaurala. Et expensse factae

circa jirasdicta se extendunt ad ccccc.hi. li. IGs. S d. de qua summa solvit pra?dictus

Ricardui- Whyttyngion cccc. li. et re.-riduum solvit Reverendu' pater frater Tiiomas

Wviiclielsey et amici sui : quorum aniruabus propicietur Deu?. Amen, i^fouc Las

airqjliftd this desrri/'t'.on or Whitti. ^itous lAhrary h.i statii.ri tlot it teas " 129 foot in

length and 31 in breadth, a'J wainscoted about, having twenty. eight desks, and eight

double settles of wainscot.'" The adineasv.re'inenti' 'acre 'pruhaUii his oiCK tahing : the dtds

and do'uhU settles, and hooh Ck the desbs, are enwucraitd in king Senr^/s letters patent.

Item pro scripto doctoris De lira in 2''°* volu''"* jacente jam in cathenis c. marcas, de

quibus frater Johannes Frensc-he remisit 20.'.

Item pro 4"''. archangelis circa sejiulturam Reginje Isabell.TC. 37^.

Item pro leetura domini H-;>stien?ii jam jacenti? in cathenis. 5 marcis. (fol. 325, b.)

'- P. 3. • P. 15. '^ P. 20. ' P. 2G.

Compare the th.'f-t sevens': <talem<'-iit> in pp. 27. 2s. and tlie ij'.'tc.

PJiEFACE. XV

received with procession as founders, a custom which corithiued •

long after : '^ but it was not until 1522 that the convent began to

provide a feast for tlie corjxiration c»n that anniversary.''^ In 1.524

king Henry and cardinal Wolsoy personally visited the house ; and

shonly after TTilliam Reiiscrofte. a refractory lay l.irother of the

'Jbservants of Greenwich, was committed to the custody of the

Franciscans.*^ The next year they were visited by doctor Alleyu

on the part of the cardinal. f' In 1.528, in the case of a prisoner

who had broken away from the ses-ions at Newgate,*^ the convent

asserted its right of sanctuary, a privilege that co\ild scarcely be

often put in requisition, as the much-frequented sanctuary of Saint

Martin le Grand was in the innnedid:e vicinity.

The Friars Observants and the Carthusians ^ were strenuous in

their opposition to the religious chancres made by King Henry \^III'.

The Franciscans seem to have acquiesced in the course of events

more passively., and the only part those in London are recorded to

liave taken Avas to give sepulture to some of the victims of the

tyrant's displeasure. The corpse of the holy ]\Iaid of Kent was

interred in their cemetery.^ as were several of the Northern rebels.^^

On the 12th Xov. 1539. Thomas Chapman, doctor of divinity, theu-

warden, and twenty- five of his brethren, signed and sealed their

deed of surrender to the Eng, which they professed to be the result

of theii" having arrived at a profomid conviction "that the perfeccion

C'f Christian li^^mg dothe not consiste in dome ceremonyes, weryng

of a grey coatte, disgeasing our selffes aftyr straunge fassions,

cokynges, nodviigs, and bekynges, in gurd^mg owr selffes wythe a

g-urdle full of knots, and other like papisticall ceremoiiyes, wherin

P. 2L^.

we have InTi moost prvncipally practysed and raisse-lyd in tvnie'^

past : but tlie verv Tru -wave to please God, and to live a tru

Christian man. vrythe owte all ^-jDocrasie and fa}nied dissiniulaciun.

is sinceerlv declaryd nnto ns Ly owre master Christe, Lis evangelists

and apostoles:" whcrefo]-e tliey declared their determination thence-

fonh to'•' Conform our selties unto the vdll and pleasure oi' owr

Supreme Hed undre God, in erthe. the King's [Majestie, and not to fol-

low the supersticious tradicions of ony fbryncicall potentate or peere."

The terms of this surrender might he thought to liave been dic-

tated to the friars '" by the King's ministers, were they not pericctly in

accordance with a letter written by the warden to lord Cromwell,

in which he l-egs for '' a dispensation of our papistical slanderous

aiijiarel. the which I think it pleaseth God that we shall no more

wear.'"^ and '• to cliange all customs, usages, and manners, the

living and apparel that hath been offensive to God's people.""

After the surrender, the house of the Grey Friars was not given

up to immediate destruction. It ap})cars to have remained unoc-

cupied, in the King's hands, until th.e year 154-4, when, together

with the houses of the late Austin and Black Friars, it became a

receptacle for the merchandise captured at sea fi'om the French.

'We are told in our Chronicle ^ that ever}' part of the Grey Friars*

church was on this occasion filled with wine : but, except the irijury

it miizht sustirin bv such rouidi usaire, it had not hitherto been

" It is, however, to be remarked that the surrenders of the Franciscans oi' Coventry

and of Stamford contain precisely the same expressions ; see Fuller's Histori- of Abbeys,

p. 319, Stevens's Mona.sticon, i. 1S9, 157, or the new Monasticon, vi. 1514,1534. It

may, therefore, be concluded that they were generally adopted through the fraternity.

•> See this letter in Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, vol. iii. p. 33(i; and, with the

deed of surrender, in Trollope's Histon.- of Christ's Hospital.

^ P. 4S.

dismantled. King Henry's letters patent of 1546 shew that tlie

" partitions " or sci-eens remained Loth in the church and chancel,

tiie altars, pictures, images, and pu!j)it; tlie monuments and gra\-e-

.^t'jnes: the candlesticks, organs, and desks.''

"We have seen how the convent had been originally estaLlished

by the charity of the principal citizens, how its library had been

added by the bounty of Whittington, and how the mayor and

aldermen were recognised as the "founders." Like other ''IbunderSj"

or patrons of religious houses. ;it this crisis, tliey would naturally be

inclined to urge those hereditary claims which were advanced, with

more or less success,, by various [Toprietors who occupied a similar

position throughout the country; and many Londoners, though

perplexed by the new doctrines, and intimidated by the arbitrary

measures of the sovereign:!, would retain some desire for the })re-

servation of this magnificent chui'ch. In the latter days of King

Henry, when he exhibited signs of returning sympathy with the

interests of religion, he was induced to make an important grant to

the city, for the general reliei' of the poor, and for the main-

tenance of divine service in the quarter where the Franciscans had

flourished. It consisted of the whole church of the late Friars

Minors, and the whole site of their house, the buildings called the

Fratrye, the Lybrarie, the Dortor, and the Chapiter House : the

Great Cloyster, and the Littell Cloyster : including all the chambers

and buildings which had been recently in the tenures of George

• From an entry in the parish books of Chris: Church seen hy Malcolm it appears that,

v^hen the property was transferred to the city, there were 600 ounces of plate in the

sacristy valued at 150Z., copes, vestments and other ornaments estimated at 200?., the

belb 100?., the altars, chapels, 8tone,s. pews, iron. &c. 50/., the church it!«elf, the lead,

timber, and soil thereof, 300?.—total S('0/. ; and the lands belonging to it were valued

at r>0/. ICjs. per ann.—Lond. Red. iii. 334.

coil). SOC. c

Wooclv^-ard and Edwrn-d ^Metcalf!, those wliich liad been occupied by

Owen Mone. the Hall and cellar beneath it occupied by Hugh

WilJoughby, one of the king's serjeants-at-arms, and otlier buildings

on the north of the Little Cloister occupied by Richard Tredray

:

further, the kirig conveyed to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens

by the same g]-ant all the late hosjiital of Saint Bartholomew hi

West Smithfield. with the church thereof, several contiguous houses,

and numerous small estates in all parts of the city which had

belonged to the same hospital, as well as some in chstant parts of the

country : also the parish churches of Saint Nicholas and Saint Ewen

within Newgate, with some adjacent tenements. It was arranged

tliat the church of the Friars ]\Iinors should become a parish church,

to be called by the name of Christ's church within Newgate, and be

parochial for all the inhabitants within the twci parishes of Saint

Nicholas and Saint Ewen (which two churches it was intended to

remove), and for that part of the parish of Saint Sepulchre which

lay within Newgate, which gate was also to be reputed as being

witliin the said parish. The church of the late hospital of Saint

Bartholotnew was in like manner to become a parish church, under

the designation of Saint Bartholomew the Less. The mayor and

citizens were to be the future patrons of both churches ; but Thomas

Birkehed was appointed the first vicar of Clu'ist church by the

king's letters patent, with a yearly pension of 26/. IS^t. 4(1. Further,

the mayor and citizens were empowered to appoint one priest to be

%-isitor of Newgate, wdth an annual stipend of 10/. ; and five other

priests in Christ church " in aid of the vicar in celebrating divine

services and administering the sacraments and sacramentaUa there,"'

each of whom was to receive 8/. yearly; also one other priest in the

late hosj)ital, which was now to be called the House of the Poor in

PREFACE. xix

Wc=t Siiiitlmekl,. and wlio was to l^e JesignatcJ the Hosj.itler.

The ]ios].ital was to accommodate one hundred aged, sick, or

impotent men and women, attended on hy a matron, twelve nurses., and

a resident surgeon. The corporation of London was bound to sustain

tliese establishments by indentures made with the king, dated the

27th December. 1546j and the estates were granted and the lounda-

tion confirmed bv letters patent dated on the IStli January fbllov.-ing.'^

]\leanw]iile, on tlie 3rd of January", being the first Sunday in the

new year, as related in our Chronicle., the church that was sometime

the Grey Triars' was again set open., and mass said at the altai's— it

will be recollected that no Enghsh st-rvice had hitherto been estab-

lished—by divers priests.'' On the same day, as Stowe tells us,

doctor Ttidley, then bishop of Rochester—and who, only a few

months after, succeeded Bonner in the see of London—preached at

Paubs Cross, declaring the king's gift, how that he had bestowed,

for the relief of the poor, the hospital of Saint Bartholomew in

Smithfield, lately valued at 305/. 6.^:. 7t/.. and the church of the Grey

Friars, valued at 32/. 19>. 7(7., and for the maintenance of the new

parish church of Christ church had assigned lands valued at five

hundj-ed marks.

It was probably imagined that the ])omp with which the new ye:ir

witnessed the commencement of rehgious services in the long dese-

crated church of the Franciscans was in accordance with the altered

mood of the Supreme Head of the Church of England. But this

was as the flickering of the lamp in its socket. Before the close of

the same month the great despoiler and small restorer lay dead in

the palace of which lie had deprived tlie archbishops of York.

' Both these documtnts arc- printed at leiii^rih in Troilnj>e"s Historv of Ciirist's I!o?p:ial,

1S34. 4to. Api-ci^dis. No.. 1. and II.

^ See p. ^3.

XX riiEFACE.

In the autumn of the same year tlie Reformers instituted a more

rigorous visitation of churcljes than any tliat liad previously taken

])lace. All images were at liiat time pulled down throughout

England, and all churches new v,-hite-limed.^ At the same time all

the altars in the church that v.-as S':.metime tlie Grey Friars", with

t:]t.^ walls and stalls of the cjioir. were renjoved and sold., and the

^^ hole reduced in length, in order to luake it more consistent with the

requirements of an ordinary parish church,^ the arrangements for

which were shortly after completed, the neighhcim'ing churches of

Sahit Nicholas and Saint Eweu being removed.'^ All the tontLs and

larize gravestones were at the same tirne*^ taken avray, and sold for

the jjaltry sum of fifty pounds, or thereabouts. ^ Amidst the general

destruction of ancestral memorials which was accomplished in

those days of heartless and impious spoliation, this act perhaps ex-

ceeded all others of the kind. The church of the Grey Friars had

l»een the favourite place of sepulture with those of the aristocracy of

England who had died in the metropolis. According to the reckon-

ing of "Weever the church had been honoured with the sepulture of

' See p. 54.

'' The " \ve«t church,"' or nave, wa.^ aftc-rwardf rented to Henr}- Bolton, a schoolmaster,

for 10.'. per ann. See this and other particulars respecting the slate of the church in

Klizabeth's reign in Malcolin. iii. S33.

^ See p. 55.

* From Weever's statement of this transaction it might be understood that it took place

in 1545; for he says they were sold " hy Sir Martin Bowes, Maior of London, An. 1545.'"

Sir Martin was mayor in 1545 : but Store's statement is that they were sold by Sir Martin

Bowes, goldsmitli and alderinan of London ; who evidently derived his authority to sell

them, not as mayor, but in some other way. He was under-treasurer of the royal mint,

a-id probably a commissioner for the sale of church property. The city miglit therefore

employ him as a man of experience in such transactions It is asserted in Knight's

London, vol. ii. 334. that Sir Martin "caused himself to be buried where he had set so

bud a precedent;"' but this is one of many errors in the article in that work on Christ's

lIo>pititl. Sir Martin B-jwes was buri-d a: St. Mary's V\'oolnoth.

<^ Stowe'h Survav.

Fi:ErACE. XXI

four Queens, four Ducliesses, fuur Countesses, one Duke,, two E.arls,

eight Baroiis." and some tliirty-five Knights : and in all six hundred

sixty and tliree persons of quahty. Stowe tells us that " there were

nine tombs of alabaster and marble,, invironed with strikes of iron, in

the choir: and one tomb in the body of the church, also coped

with iron ; besides seven-score grave-stones of marble.*' Botli

Stowe and Weever derived their information from a catalogue of all

the sepulclu'al monuments, made some time before the expulsion of

the Friars, which is still preserved in their register, and which has

been edited in the fifth volume of the Collectanea Topographica et \'

Genealogica. This record is a very valuable one in a genealogical

point of view. To the artistic ar.tiquary it would liave ofi'ered

greater interest had it described the character of the monuments

more fully ; but it particularizes the " raised tombs," and they were

more nmnerous than Stowe calculated. lu the choir were those of

queen IMargai'et the first foundress of the new church, of queen

Isabella, of John earl of Pembroke, John ]ord Dynhara, K.G., sir

Robert Chalons, and Richard Hastings lord Willoughby and Welles.

In the Lady chapel were those of Alice lady Kingston 1439, and sir

Walter Langley 1470: in the chapel of the Apostles, south of the

" The Queens were, Margaret consort of Edv.-ard the First; Isa'ticila consort of Edward

tbe Second; Joan queen of Scots, daughter of Edward tlie Second; and Isabella queen of

Man. Besides these the church had received the heart of a fifth queen, Alianor consort

of Henrj- the Third, and also the heart of king Edward the Second, -which was deposited

under the breast of his queen's effigv. The Duchesses were but two : Beatrice duchess of

Briiany, daughter of king Henry III., and Alianor duchess of Buckingham, 1530 ; the

Duke v.as the captive duke of Bourbon ; tbe Earls were John Hastings earl of Pembroke,

1369, and Stowe adds the name of Roger Mortimer earl of March, beheaded in 1329,

but which is not in the register ; the Countesses were Margaret de Rivers countess of

Devon, Margaret Marshal countess of Norfolk, 13S9, (erroneously called a duchess by

Stowe,) Isabella counte.ss of Bedford, daughter <:•! king Edward I.; and the lady reckoned

by Weever a? a founb was probably Elizabeth kdy Novillu, mother of Rolph earl of West-

iiierland. It is, how.ver. uncertain whether there was not also a countess of Menitith.

elioir. was a great raised tomb of alabaster to sir Walter Blount

knight of the garter 1474,. and another to John Bluunt Inrd ^Mount-

joy 1485 ; in the chapel of Saint Francis v.-as a small raised torab to

sir John Robsai'd knight of the garter, and others to ^^'illiam Dan-

vers under-treasurer of England 1439, sir Ste|t]!on Jeini}TjS alderman

of London 1523. and Hugh Acton citizen and taylor 1530: in the

ajnbulatory, between the choir and altars, was an effigy of Theo-

phania_. the nurse and mistress of queen Isabella : and coram altaribus

(probably at the eastern extremity of the church, like the Xine Altars

at Durliam) were raised tombs to sir John Deverc-ux stewai'd of the

king's house. &c. K.G. 1365. Jolm Norbury treasurer of England,

Elizabeth lady Uvedale daughter of the last, and the lady iMount-

chensi, an efiigy of temp. Edw. L In the north aile was the raised

tomb of "William Harmer citizen and salter 1512, and in the south

aile that of doctor John TavUe chancellor of St. David's 1509. Such

were some of the most cimspicuous monuments ; but the number of

persons of distinguished character can only be estimated by perusing

the catalogue itself.^

The Historian of Cin-ist's Hospital has treated the grant of

Henry YHL as inoperative, and has assened tliat during the early

part of Edward's reign its provisions lay entirely dormant.^ But

tliis is altogether a mistake. ]\Ir. TroUope was probably thiriking

ojilv of his inunediate subject, that is to say, a pubhc school;

' Stowe, in his Survay, has enumerated the principal names, but his list is full of

clerical errors.—During the excavations made on the site of the church of the Grey Friars

about the year 1S34, vrere foj^nd two ancient inscribed gravestones, which are not in-

cluded among those catalogue-i in the Register. They commemorate Philip de Srepham,

or .Shropham, a monk of Ely, aad Bernart de .lambe, probably oneot the Italian merchants,

of whom many were here interred. Etchings of these gravestones, which are preserved

in the burial-ground of Christ church, have been made b\ ?vlr. E. B. Price, F.S.A.

' History of Christ's Hospital. b\ ihc' Kev. WiiiiaiE TrollopL-. i;:.'4, 4to. pj>. o^K o4.

but no such estaLlishment \vris as yet in contemplation. I'jie

tAvo parislies of Cljrist churcli and Saint Bartholomew's the Le-s

Avere fully constituted by Henry's grant, and so was the control

of the city over the hospital of Sai:;it Bartholomew : and the city

retained all the estates which the grant conveyed, neither receiving

or requiring any subsequent confirmation of them irom king Edwai-d

the Sixth. Among those estates v.as tiie late house of the Grev

Friars, but "with no specific instructions as to the purposes to ^vllich

it should be devoted. It? dis}iosal appears to haxe been left to the

(h'scretion of the citizens ; by \>-lioni the measurts proposed for the

relief of the poor were ke])t in vieAv. 'though possibly they -were some-

v.diat delay c-u in their execution. They in fact required time, and

funds : for it was part of the original arrangement that the roval

grants should be met by a general contribution from the citizens.

Besides, the first measure accomplished was the hundred beds at St.

Bartholomew's,'' though those were soon found to be insufficient.

A commission was a]>pointed by the king, and books were sent

romid to all the wards of the city, m order to collect contributions.

This, as in more modern davs, would occupy some time. On the

17th Feb. 1551-2, "the bookes of the reliefe of all the wards of

London towards the new Hospitals" were received bv the kino's

commissioners ; and on that occasion the council dhied with master

Cowj^er the sheriti'.''

In 'May 1552 we find bishop Bidley writing to secretary Cecill,'^

' "The ordre of the Hospital of S. Bartholomewes in AVest-Smythfielde in London ""is

a curious little 12mo. volume of 70 leaves, printed '• Londini. Anno 1552 '—before the

institution of the other city hospitals. It may be seen in the City Lilirarj- at Guildhall.

'' Store's Chronicle.

' The bi~Lcj."s letter is printed in Stn-pe"s Stovve, fol. 1720, vol. i. p, 17(', and in

Troliope's Christ's Hospital, ji. 37. At the sanie tinje the city presented a memorial to

the pri\7 council '• to sue for the king's majesty".- house at Bridewoli,"" and unfolding the

scheme of their prop:,.-.a ch.Miti.^, wliic!, uill be found in Maicohu's Londinium. ii. 5n^.

to state that the citizens -were Avilhng to provide for the poor "•' both

meat, drink, clothing, and firing," but that tliey lacked lodging

:

wherefore he ]>roceeded to beg " a wide, large, ernptv house of the

king-'s majesty called Bridewell, that would wonderfully well serve to

lodge Christ in,"—under which hoh' name, with much too free an

adaptation of Matthew ::xv. 35, 3G, &:c. the bishop was pleased to

designate the pjoor, then '• Iving abroad, in the streets of London,

both hungry, naked, and cold." ^ Tliis application ultimately re-

ceived a favourable reply, but not for nearl}- a year after.

Meanwhile, the citizens themselves did not cease in tlieir exertions

to niitigate the cr_\-ing evil of a large houseless population. On the

iOth July, 15-52, began the preparing of the Grey Friars liouse for

the poor fatherless children ; and also, in the latter end of the same

mo}itli, began the repairing of Saint Thomas's Hospital in Southwark,

for poor impotent and lame persons.^ This hospital had been an ad-

junct of the priorj" of Bermondsey, and had been pm-chased b}- the

city of the crown, in 1550, as parcel of the lordship and manor of

Southwark.

In the following month a fi'esh collection was set on foot. " This

moneth of August began the great provisioii for the poore m London,

towards the which every man was conti-ibutor}-, and gave certaiue

monev in hand, and covenanted to give a certam [sum] weekly.'"^

' The same picture was graphically drawn by Thomas Lever. Master of St. John's

college, in Cambridge, when he preaehed before the king on the fourth Sund.iy in Lent

in 1550 :" O merciful Lord I (he exclaimed) what a number of poor, feeble, halt, blind,

lame, sickly,—yea. with idle vagabonds and dissembling caitifl's mixt among them, lye and

creep, begging in the miry streets of London and Westminster ! " It wa5 not until the end

of Elizabeth's reign, as is well known, that the parochial system of relief to the poor

t-t-came the law of the land.

'' Stowe's Chronicle.

' liiid. An early account of the moneys collected is printed by Strype in his edition

.f StoweV Survey. ]72'^ vol. :. p. 175. from the ]\1SS. of archbi-hoj, Parker. The

Ill tlie course of four mouths tlie repairs at the Grey Friars ^^-ere

completed, aud ou tlie 23d of November the poor children were

received, to the number of almost four hundred." ^Yllen the lord -

mayor aud aldermen rode to Saint Paul's on the afternoon of the

folloA^-ing Christmas day. all the children stood in array from Saint

Laurence lane in Cheap towards Paul's, being 340 in number.

attired in one livery of russet cotton,^ the boys with red caps, and

the girls with kerchiefs on their heads, having a woman-keeper

bet^veen every twenty children, and accompanied also by the phy-

sicians aud four surgeons, and the masters of the hospital—who were

some of the most eminent citizens.'

.

On the 10th of April, 1553, the lord mayor was summoned to

the court at TVhitehall, where he received from the king's mouth

an intimation that the appropriation of the royal manor-house of

Bridewell place to the objects of a tlouse of Occupation, or work-

house, would be conceded, and that further the kiug would grant for

the maintenance of that house, and for the hospital which the city

had already undertaken at Saint Thomas's in Southwark, all the

rents belonging to the Savoy hospital, which amounted to about 700

marks per annum, and also the beds and furniture of the Savoy,

—

which had been converted into a hospital by Henry the Seventh, but

was now to be resumed by the croM7i.'^ This gi'ant was accomplished

" wViole Benevolence " of the citizens had amounted to 2'A7(jl.-. and the erection and

furniture of the two houses (that is, St. Thomas and Christ's Hospitals) had been

2A7yi. 10.^. lOd.

' Stowe : see also the present Chronicle, p. 7C.

'' At the following Easter, Slowc described the boys as "all cloathed in plonket coates

and red caps, and the ruavden children in the same livery." Plonket wa.s a blue colour:

as .Stowe himself explains this passage in his Surray—"and in Easter next they were in

Vilue at the Spittle, and so have continued ever since."'

•^ Stowe; the present Chronicle, p. 'G: and Macbyn's Diary, p. 25.

"* The excuse made for discontinuinc tiie hospital at tlit Savoy was that, though intended

CAMD. SOC. (7

XXVI PliEFACE.

In- letters patent which passed tlie great seal on tlie 26th of June, within

a shorter time of king Edward's death than that which had elapsed

between the ibrmer grant and the death of king Henry. By these

letters patent '"it was directed that the three hospitals should in

future he called " the hosytitals of king Edward the Sixth., of Christ,

Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle."

It is the pleasure of those who celebrate the origin of the school

now called Christ's Hos])ital, to designate king Edward the Sixth as

it5 special founder. Captivated with the beau-ideal of an amiable

prince, a youth the patron of youth, a scholar the friend of scholars,

such a tlie'.ne, in such hanis, has naturally amplified itself into a

goodly Protestant legend, almost rivalling sume of those of the

earlier creed. An historical antiquar}- woidd receive little thanks if

he ventured to brush rudely against the hallowed dew of so much

loval poetry and pious enthusiasm. Still, it will be evident from the

preceding statement of facts that king Edward had very little to do

with the foundation of Christ's Hos])ital. Both the house itself, and

the revenues foi' its sup[>nrt, came from his predecessor, or were

raised by the bounty of the citizens themselves ; and we do not trace

any thing bestowed upon it '\w Edwai'd's letters patent beyond the

name by which it should bt known. And that is nothing more than

occurred in scores of other instances throughout the country—many a

grammar-school being named the school of Henry VHI. Edward VI.

or Elizabeth respectively, merely because it was established (or in

many cases remodelled) under authority derived from the soverein'n.

for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers, it " was now made but a lodging of loyterers,

vagabondes, and strumpets that kv all day in the fieldes. and at night were harbored

there; the which wa5 rather the maintenaunce of begge^A- than the reliefe of the poore."'

Grafton's Chronicle.

• Printed at length in TrollopeV History of Christ's Hospital. Appendix No. V.

Moreover, Christ's hospital ^vas rjot ibunded as a school ; its object

vv as to rescue young children from the streets, to sljelten i'eed. clothe,

and lastly to educate tbem—in ^hort, to do exactly Avhat in later

times lias been done bv each individual parish i\<Y tlie orjihan and

destitute offspring of the poor. Any high-flo\N-n eulogies upon Ed-

Avard's love of learuini' are consequently in this case wholly nns-

applied. It does not ai'^-ear that he even assisted in what the citizens

were doing at the Grey Friars. All that can be affirmed is, that he

was the founder of Bridewell hospital, and that he recognised

Christ's hospital and St. Thomas's, which the citizens had already

set on foot: the former having been originally tlieir own foundation,";'

and the latter having l:>ecome tl.eir property by purchase.

The story runs that the king's attention was directed to this good

work by a sermon preached before him by bishop Ridle}' in the year

1552 : and that in consequence the ki^ig sent by the bishop a letter to

the mayor, declaring his special commandment that the mayor should

travail therein.^ There is no reason to doubt that the sermon was

preached, or that the amiable king was anxious to fulfil the part re-

quired of him : but this was not mitil after the citizens themselves had

done what they could, and found that they required further aid from

the crown. Bishop Ridley himself, in his farewell letter to his friends,

Avritten shorth' before his martyrdom, attributed the chief merit to

the city magistrates : ^ first to sir Ricljard Dobbs, in ^hose mayoralty

» Grafton.

'' So long before a* the mavomltT of Sir Richard Greshain in ]5o7-S, the year of king

Edward's birth, the citj had pedtioned king Henn- to have assigned to them the disposi-

tion and governance of the*'iii. hospiti.!!' or spyialls, commonly called Seynt Maryes

Spvtiill, Seynt Barthilmewes Spytall. and .So^^t Thomas Spytall, and the New Abbey of

Tower-hill, founded of good demotion by ancient fathers, and endowed with great posses-

sions and rentes, oiuly for the rclif^'e. conjf"ric, and hclj'vng i^f the puic and ini]>oieiit

the renewed effort was made, and v\-ho invited the bishop into the

city council-chamber to advise with the aldermen thereon,—and

next to his successor sir George Barnes, whose " endevour was to

liave a House of Occupation set up,'' and for that purpose procured

the princely palace of Bridewell from " that godly king, that

Christian and j>eerless prince."'"

Ylv. Trollope tells us that '-'In the month of June, 1553, the yo\;ng

king received the corporation at the palace, and presented them with

the charter, the children also being present at the ceremony.'"* This

is jrurely legendary, as much so as the velvet cuat and silver buttons

wjiieh he says are among the archaic myths of the school-bc>vs.^

It v.'as on the 10th of April, as already" stated, that the king oave

audience to the mayor. On the 26th of June, Avhen the letters

patent jiassed the seal, lie was languishing in his last ilhiess. Xor if

he had lived on in health would he have delivered his charter to the

corporation with the ceremonial represented. l\Ir. Trollope has

adopted as a piece of contemporary evidence the great picture which

hangs in the hall of Christ's hospital, not being aware of the element

of jx)etry which it contains, stiff and ungainly as its composition

people, riot beynge able to Lelpe tbemsellfes.'"— See this letter in Stnpe's Eccles. Memo-rials, i. 265; Trollope's Christ Hospital, p. 26; or Burgon"s Life of Gresham, i. 26.

By Trollope. " Seynt Maries spytall "is misprinted '• Scynt Georges." St. Man "s spiuil

vras without Bishopsgate, and at its surrender had nine-score beds, well furnished for

receipt of poor people. (Stowe's Snrvay.)

» History- of Christ's Hospital, p. 41.

^ The blue-coat boys, it seems, indulge in some yer\ amusing speculations on their now

obsolete costume. ' It has been imagined that the coat was the mantle, aud the yellow,

as it is technically called, the sleeveless tunic of the monaster}-; the leathern girdle also

corresponding with the hempen cord of the friar. There is an old tradition arnnng the

boys, that the dress was originally of velvet, fastened with siher buttons, and an exact fac-

simile of the ordinary"habit of their royal founder.""— History of Christ's Hospital, p. 50.

rUEFACE. XXIX

seems to be—that it is in fact symbolical and not real in its incidents,

and was painted long after tbe time supi>osed to be represented,

probably in the following centiny.:'

Tliese remarks will not be thought wholly nnnecessary, inasmuch

' This picture if usually attril)uteJ to HoUjein, but in error. It is an am]jlitieatioii of

Holbein's picture of the same suliject, wLich ii at Bridewell bospital. That picture con-

lains only eleven figures, including the painter Liiuself ; tbe picture at Christ "^ bospital

has ninety or more, and not only is it very inferior as a work of art, but obviously of

j<osteiior date in point of costume.

Holbein's picture at Bridewell, which must have been painted shortly before his death

(if that event, as L- generally supposed, occurred in Londoi^. in 1554), is a highly valuable

one. and a worthy companion to that which he painted for the Barber-Chirurgeons,

rvpresenting their receiving their charter frorn'Henry YIII. in 15-11. The king is seated

under a canopy of state, and delivers the charier with the great seal attached to the lord

mayor, who with the two sherifis kneels to his right hand. Behind them stand the lord

chancellor (bishop Goodrich) and another attendant. To tbe left stand—a person in a

iaeed gown, holding a roll in his band, and supposed to lie sir Robert Bowes the ma-'ter

of the rolls; and a nobleman wearing the garter, said to be the earl of Pembroke [but on

what authority I do not know. One would rather imagine he might be the duke of

Northumberland great master of the household, or lord Darcy tbe lord chamberlain.]

Behind these are two other piersons, undistingiiished by their costume; and. next the edge

of the picture, Holbein himself. A large engraving was made of this picture by Tertue

in the year 1750.

Tne picture at Christ's hospital is derived from HoJbemY so far a": the jirincipal

figures go. The number of aldermen kneeling to the right is increased to eight; and to

the left are bishop Ridley and three others also kneeling. In the background the

governors of the hospital are standing with their wands, to the number of about forty.

Besides these, a boy and girl of the bos]>ital are kneeling before the king, and fourteen

others of either sex are ranged in couples along the front of the picture, the rows being

terminated by a beadle and a matron. This picture is very neatly engraved on a small

s<^e by Mr. Augustus Fox, as the frontispiece to Mr. TroUope's Historv- of Christ's

Hospital. Its demerits are criticised " with candour" by Malcolm, who says the king's

figure, thoush insignificant from its small size, is the only one whose attitude is easy,

nartiral, and dignilied. This is obviously because it is more faithfully copied than the

rest from the Bridewell picture. Malcolm, however, had no suspicion that the picture at

Christ's Hospital was not actually Holbein's work. ]^Iy own impression is that it is of

the period of James I. or Charles 1.

There is also in the hall of Christ's Hospital a correspondent but still larger picture, in

which king Charles the Second apf>ears as the principal personage. This was painted

y Venio. chiefly at the itistigation of Mr. Pcjiys. (Trollopc, ]>. 12-J.)

as the " admirable description of the scenC; preserved bv one tclio

was no doubt an eye-xcitness—the gi'eat painter Holbein."—has ab-eady

passed forth into our popular literature.^ But still let us preserve

ouj- faith in the interesting anecdote related by Grafton and StOMe. that

v.-Iien the scheme for the endowment of the royal hospitals was

placed before the pious prince, and. accoi'ding to the usual practice,

a blank had been left for the amount of property which it should be

lawful for the city to hold in mortmain for this object, Edward with

his own hand wrote in the sum, " four thousand marks by the

year,''"^ and then exclaimed, in the hearing of his council, " Lord, I

yield thee most hearty thanks that thou hast given me life thus long,

to iinish this work, to the glory of thy name I"'"

Some of the buildings of the ancient convent, including the Fratry

and Refiectory, were standing in the early part of the present

century.*^ The walls and windows of "Whittington's Library were

to be seen m a mutilated state on the north side of the cloisters, and

there are many engravings which represent them.'' Even now tlie

southern walk of the friars' cloisters remains, and its pointed arches

and buttresses may be seen from the exterior. The western walk of

^ London, edited by Charles Knight, 1842, &vo. vol. ii. p. 334. Ad expression of

opinion follows that the scene is a real representation of the old palace at Westminster.

'" King Henn's grant had limited the amount in the same place to one thousand marks.

' After which foundation established, adds Grafton, " he lived not above two days.'' This

is jirobably a misprint for Un days. Edward lived exactly ten days after the date of the

letters patent; but it would be to some earlier stage of the business that the anecdote (if

literally true) would belong. It appears that the letters patent were preceded by an

indenture between the King and the City, as in the case of the former royal grant. This

indenture escaped the researches of Mr. Trollope : but Strii-pe says it bore date in June,

and he ha.« given an abstract of it, from the register of the privy council, in his amplifica-

tion of Stowe's Survey, (edit. 1720,) vol. i. p. 177 ; and also in his Ecclesiastical

Memorials, vol. i. 425.

^ Trollope, p. Ki.'.

' Mr. TroUopc's print, opporite y. iMiJ, rcpresclll^ them icstored.

IM^.EFACE. XXXI

the cioi?ters was under the Great Hall, which was pulled down in

1827. as was Whittington's Library about the same time,''

The Register of the Grey Friars of London is now bound as the

latter part of the A-olume in the Cottoriian Library marked Yitellius

F. XII. It is of the size of a modern quarto book, and consists of

120 leaver of paper.^^

The first thirty- two pages are occupied with a descriptive cata-

logue of the sepulcha-al monuments which existed in the church and

cloisters., and the next eleven with an alphabetical index to the same.

Tliis catalogue, which was the authority for the summary and in

many cases incorrect account of these monuments given by Stowe

and TTeevfcr. was edited entire, by myselfj in the fifth volume of the

CoU^-ctanea To].ographica, 1838, pp. 274—290, 385—398.

At foL 316 of the present paging of the volume commences an

historical account, in Latin, of the origm of the rule of Saint Francis,

its introduction into England, and the foundation of the house of the

fraternity in London, followed by an enumeration of the benefactions

made to the house; at fol, 321 an account of the building of the

convent and church :^ at fol. 321 b. a description of the cistern and its

watercourse : at ful. 323 " the founders of the new church ;" at fol.

324 the contributors to the glazing of the windows; and at fob 325b

an account of the foundation of the library, in the year 1421, by the

worshipful (venerahilis vir) Richard Wyttyngton, mercer and mayor

of London.^ At fob 326 is a curious English document, being " Li-

dentures for the wAnidoes of the south syde of the churche, and soo

* T'ue shield of Whittington. wthin a qnatrefoil, was inserted in various parts of this

building. One of these carved stones is now in the museum of Mr. E. B. Price, F-S.-'V.

and i- represent€Ki in the etching at the end of this Preface.

'' In the New Monastieon, vol. vii. p. 1514, it is erroneously described a.' V>eing "on

vellum."'

'' As already ziven in t)ie notes, pfi. xi.-xiii. '' .See p. xiv.

to the farder gatte; " and at foL 327 another iiidentiire bet^veen the

city, during the maroralt}- of "Whittyngton, and freer John Bruylle

the warden, being the lease of an additional plot of ground. At fol.

329 is a catalogue of those Friai-s Minors who had suffered martyr-

dom,: at fol. 330 a list of such as were bishops or confessors : at

fol. 331b. cardials, member.-^ of the order; at fol. 332 a hst of the

Ministers General of the- order: at fbl. 334 a list of Ministers Pro-

vincial ; at fol. 335 a list of those Friars Minors who had been

kings and men of jX'wer in the world ; at fob 335 b. of those dis-

tinguished Englishmen who had entered the order : and at fjb 336 b.

a few names of the most distinguished members of the Second and

Third orders of Saiiit Francis. The whole of tliis very curious

matter was extracted, by Mr. John Stevens for his additions to Dug-

dale's Monasticon, and is printed in his first volume, pp. 112—125,

professedly "faithfully translated from the Laiin of idiat antieut

^Manuscript, and what is there in English exactly transcribed, without

varying from the Orthography.*' In the new edition of the IMonas-

ticon Anghcanum, vol. vi. pp. 1515— 1522. the same matter is

reprinted, so far- as it relates to the London liouse, that is, to the

close of the two indentures above described; but it is very much to

be regretted that the opj:»ortunity was lost—possibly because the

manuscript was then in a state of dilapidation from the Cottonian

fire—to collate Stevens's copy, as, notwithstanding his professions of

accuracy, his translation has frequent misconceptions of the sense of

the original, and in the numerous proper names which are intro-

duced it is continually incorrect. The first four names that occur

are given— '•' PugT\-orth "' /o?- Yngworth, " Senonef*' /or Deuonensis,

"Detrews"yor Detreuizo, and " i\Ionachetus'''/or Alonacatus." In

" These are the nar.T^ o: ti.e four rVi.ir- who first liriiuj.'"iit the n;ie of Saint Fmncis to

the next tliree pages there are more than thirty iianies more or less

misn-anscrihed. In p. 113, 1. 23, John hvyn, the first benellictor

of the house, is styled "citizen and physician"'" instead of mercer/

and the second benefactor is styled '•' John Fitzpiers " instead of

Joyce (Jociu-y).

At fol. 337 commences the Chronicle \vhich is prhited in the

present volume, and it extends to fol. 364 inclusive. The twenty-

eight last leaves of the book are occupied with geiiealogies, combined

with historical details, in the form of pedigrees. They connnence

with Adam, and proceed tlirough the whole of the Scri[>t are history :

a branch conducts from Japhet, through Brute, Lei}-, &c. to the

British kings : then follow the genealogies of the English liings of

the various races before the Norman Conquest, and, last of all, those

of more recent times to the death of Henry VIII. in 1546. and the

accession of Edward the Sixth.

At fol. 326, after the accomit of AVhittingtou's Library, is the

following memorandum, made, as I presume, by the friar who

compiled the Register, and who was probably then acting as librarian.

It will be perceived that he writes in the first person. The date here

given must be near the time of the original compilation of the book :

London (a5 before mentioned in p. x.) : Richard Yngwonli an English priest and

preacher, Richard of Devonshire an English clerk of the order of acolvtes and in age a

youth. Henry of Treviso a Lombard and a layman, and Monacatus also a layman.

The r»o former i^ect on to Oxford, and founded the house of Franciscans there and also

that at Northampton. See anecdotes of their adventtires on their journey in the Monasticon

under the Oxford house; only there the younger friar is ca.\]ed Senri/ of Devon.

' This and some others of Stevens's errors are followed in the introductorj- chapter of

The History of Christ's Hospital, by the Rev. William Trollope (4to. 1834), who quoted

the Cottonian Manuscript without inspecting it. The New Monasticon has changed the

name of Iv,-yD into Edwin, and Malcolm hns cor,\erted it into Swen.

CA3ID. >rOC. C

XXXIV PREFACE.

after which the register of interments, and the chronicle of events,

were probal^ly entered regularly, as the materials arose.

" Memorandum quod fratcr Audreas Bavard sacra? theologiffi professor,

anno Domini 1494°, videns chorum fratrum minorum Lond' minus bene

instauratum libris choralibus. Mente concepi non posse elemosinas ami-

corum meorum melius expedire quam in hbris scribendis cboralibus

ad laudem divinam et ad ejusdem dirinse laudis continuationem. Qua

propter conduxit-"^ , . . . unum scriptorem qui scripsit mihi unum legendarium

in duabus partibus. Et unum antiphonarium in duabus partibus et unum

psalterium et unum gradualem. Et alium irapressum et in multis aliis repa-

ravi. Et '"{dftei' this a considerable space i^ ^f^fi hlank^.—Register,

fol. 326.

I have before mentioned that the Register of the Grey Friars

beai-s marks of having passed through the hands of John Stowe : and

I ha\-e now to add that transcript.s in his hand of the greater part of

its Latin contents are preserved in the MS. Harl. 544.

Ui sciatvr pos'icio car.aiivni aqu tductuf jfrixtmrii iiiinorum Lond\ (See p. xiii, note.)

Primo a limine porta Johanuis Sporon spacio trium pedum sul> novo muro fratrum

yiorreccio canalis in vicum versus Newgate quarenti occurrit. Semper autem dum in via

jacet aquilonarem partem viii tenet aliquantum et minus domos approximans ted quod

rectitude posicionis permittiit. Sub porta de Newgate spacio .12. pedum profundatur. et

directe e.\tenditur sub muro cimeterii sancti .Sepulcbri exterius et ulterius, sed vici illius

obliquacionem obliquatur;juxta lelce'irdh protenditur. ibi bivium pertransiens buttnt se

contra fenestram domus Johannis Mucbchetbe, ibique curvatur versus pontem de Hole-

bume inter domum Willielmi Yrotbeges et pontem;ponitur sub aqua spacio .iij. pedum.

Ultra rivulum illius aqua- circ-a spacium .vjij. passuum juxta pontis niurum ultra frac-

turam di.' industria factam ubi aqua y>latea? descendit in loco semper lutoso. Primum

.;/. Ti.-i ,.rri i'-ord is j,a^il,: rmt on. SUrcns has (ranshUal d-\ ^mamge

Su.H-> did r.ut 1,"nsn-;h( '.-.

spurgellum latet sub terra spacio vero .iiij<". pedum lapide marmoreo coopertum. Inde

direct* usque ad liirroM laiu extenditur, ibique secundum rectitudinem venelle illius vel

vici regirat ad aquilonem juxta occidentaJem murum venellse posicionem habens spacio

distans iij. pedum. In fine autem illius Tenellre a leva Secundum spurgellum altitudine

fere .vij. pedum et inde directe protenditur, campum transvereando et sepa* ad molen-

dinum Thomfc de Basynges quod est proximum villa:'. Ubi spacio .xviij. pedum pro-

fundatur. Ibi ex parte orientali molendini a latere aquilonis infra foveam tercium patet

spurgellum. Inde spacium fero unius stadii ad occidentem parum vergendo ad aquilonem,

occurrit sulcus unus viridius ab oriente in occidentem protentus et epinosus ad occidentem

tortuosus latitudine fere .viij. pedum, terram diridens Johannis de Derlrs'nge qua? jace't ex

parte meridionali et terram Thomae de Basvnges quoe jacet ex parte aquilonari. In illo

autem solco a capite orientali incipiendo .x^. passus non saltus, et ibi a medio latitudinis

sulci ubi signnm ad hoc necessarium foret, verso vuliu ad aquilonem directe super terram

Thomae de Basynges spacio pedum xiiij. latet sub terra spacio .iiij. pedum Capdd aqute

quod propinquius est, unde pro majore parte aquam habemus, parum autem de capite

remociori. Ab illo autem loco directe extenditur ad capud quod remocius est versus

occidentem, cuius domuncula lapidia a remott) videtur. Aqua autem istius capitis addu-

citur ultra foveam Thomae de Basynges a pane occidentis a latere aquilonis aliquantulum

spacio a domo capitis circa .xv. passuum juxta viam quae dividit inter parochiam sancti

Egidii et sancti Andrese, Ista aqua in domo capitis illius descendendo ad canalem super

effluit et a caixali parum vel nil inde recipitur ; set domum totam inundat, et per rivulos

et rimas parietis negligenter amittitur. Apponat remedium, fratrom coQsiderane damp-

num et amissionem tot sumptuum.

Note.—Litcrtyne lane is called XitA^r Iom by Stowe, and Leather lane by Strype in

1720. There is or was a small street called Windmill street running into it, perhaps

marking the site of Thomas of Basynges' mill. At no great distance, in the low ground,

were several water-mills, which gave name to Tummill street, leading from Smithfield

towards Clerkenwell. The stream, as Stowe tells us, was called Tnmmill brook, or the

River of Wells, for there were many natural springs near at hand. It was the navigable

part only of this stream, from Holbom bridge to the Thames, that was properly " the

Fleet," and latterly called Fleet Ditch.

Z.B.rKICE r.s.^^:.

ARW S or SIR R3CHARD V/ W !TT1 W C T © N,

>^ . ID . i 4- 2 a

.

THE CHHOXICLE

a E E y F K I A R S F L N D X.

rjCAEDus rrjMus hex.

K-\-T\ge Rvchard the Furst surnamed Cure de Lyon was cro^Tnvd

the iij^* dare of September, the vere of our Lorde God ^M'clxxxix.

tLe furst vere of hys ra;\nie.

P'.", A"^\ Tbys yere begamie tbe order of our Lady in Pruce.''

And this yere tlie Jues ware commandyd owte of Ynglonde.

vij". A°. Li tliis yere the k}-uge went in to the holy londe, and

torie the citte of Akers, Porth . . . and Babilon. tlie yere of our

lorde God M^clxxxxvj.

viij-'. A^ In this yere was one Wilham witli the long bei'de

taken out of Bowe churche and put to dethe for herysey.

ix°. A°. In this yere beganne the order of the Tren}-te.

x". A^. In this yere this nobull kynge and great warryar

dy5>esyd in France comynge homward, by the hurte of a qwarrelle

tl-e iij*^^ daye of September : and liis liarte byrryd at the hye auter

at Rome [Rouen], and hys body at Fonte^•erard.

* Called '• Tbe order of seynt Tonve.' in Pruce," in tbe Chroiiiele of Londori, MS.

Harl. jeS. edited hv Sir Harris Nioo!a>. 4io. 1S27.

CA>rD. SOC. 15

CniiOXlCLE OF THE [119 9-

JOHAXXES HEX.

ICvnge Joljari; brothar uiito Rvchard, was crowjivd upon tlie

Apsencion daye. the yere of om- Lord God M'clxxxxix.

P'/'. lii till; fur^t yere he hjst Normandy and Angeoy.. and everv

plouglie lurid t;\5ked at iij' fbr to gete it a gayne,

ij". A". Thys yere was chosyn hj the wyse men of the citte of

London xxxa-. men. and sworne to maynta^me the assies in London.

iiij'^'. A". Thys yerefelle gi-etra^mes. and gret thmider. lytenyng.

and hayie-stor;es as grete as eggys. that dystroyd cornes [and]

fruttcs: and fowlles seying" flyeng in tlie oyer herynge burnynge

coles, and bi'er.t many hu-es C^ic). And that yere the londe was

enterdyte'l.

yi". A^ Tiiys yere began the order of Freer Prechars. Andth.en was a gi'ete wynter of frost and colde that lastyd fi'om new-

yeres daye trnto our lady day the Annunciacion.

y\f. A". This yere alle pleys longynge un to the crowne ware

pletyd at the tower of London,

ix". A". Tiiys yere the londe was interdytyd. And this same

yere was borne Henry the [eldest] soniie to k^mge John. Andthis yere begrime the names of mayeres and shi'eliys m the citte of

London.

y:'f. A". Thys yere the londe was reconciled, and the interdyction

relesyd.

xiij*^'. A". Thys yere was grete dyscencione bet^-ene the kynge and

hys lordes ; and Lewys the k3rnges sonne of France dyd mocbharme in Ynglond. Southewarke the bregge with moch of the citte

Avas brent.

XV". A". Thys yere at Candelmas the kpige sheppyd at Portlies-

mothe, and sayled to Pevtoe.*'

xyi*^. A"". Thys yere beganne the Freer I\Iinors in Ynglond.

" T/iis ',ro;-d ft-.,'-iJ h, seen. Compare a similar passage in Xioolas"? Chronicle of

London. ^ Poietou.

—1255.] r^r.EY FiiiAT;^ or loxdox. 3

xvij". A°. Thys vtre this kiiip; -Jolin \\a5 powsvnd at Wordier

:

lid whaiie he liade ra^iiyd xvij. yeres lie dyde. and is burryd tliere

n the monkes before the live atitcr.

HExr.icus TLr;Tirs i:i:x.

And licre beganne the royne of kyng Henry the third. Sonne

iiino kyn£-e Jolm.

P'.'"'. A". Tlivs yere ^vas Wahs inturdityd. And Lewys of'France

had one thousand mai-ke of sylver for his rewardc.

ij°. A°. Thys yere the kynge had of every plough land C^.

And the same yere Thomas Becket reuiovyd u])pe behynde the lj}e

auter in Chrisres church in Canteil'-.-ry.''

V-'. A". Tliys vere ihe kyn^' Hein'y the tliird was crownvd at GI'js-

sytor.^ And alle pleys k>ngyn_;e to the crowne was pletyd in the

tower of London. And the ca-telle oi' Bedford was destroyed.

And this yere. on sent Le^ys daye, was soch a stronge ^vynde

in the north-est that it overturnyd houses., toweres. trees, and in the

ayre. was sene fyere draggons and sprettes flyenge. And this

yere began the ordere of the Freeres Carmelyttes.

vii'', A°. Thys yere came the Freeres ]\Iinors into Ynglond.

And a man of Oxonfjrd feynyd hym to be Cryst, and was crucityed

at Addurbui-y.

xl°. A". Thys yere a Jew felle in to a drawte on a satorday, and

he wcilde not be dramie owte that day for the reverens of hA's sabbot

da}-, and sir Bichaixl Clare, that time tyme beynge erle of Glouc-

seter,'^ seynge that he wolde not be drawne owte that day, he wolde

" This refers to the removal of the hodv c.f Beoket from the unciercroft of the cliurch.

\vhero it wa* at first interred, to the shrine prepared for its reception in the new chapel of

tile Trinity. This event was aftemards aT^nually celebrated as tlie Translation of the

saint, upon the Tth .Tuly. See Pilgrimages cf Vralsinghani and Canterhury, 1S49, p. 224.

'' King HearA- was crcv.ned for the secotid time this year, hut it was at "Westminstei-.

His first coronation took place at Gloucester, shortly after the death of his father.

Other clironicles wLic-b contain this s:.-!y r-latc- that it tool; plare at Tf.\ke>bu!y.

v\ litre the carl of Glcuco~:c'r wa.- lord of tho f-wi,.

/ '-

4 (.UllOMrLE OF THE [1272—

not suffer byui to be drawne owte on the tonday.. for tlie reverejis of

the lioly soiiday. and soo thus the false Jue perislied and dyde therein,

hv^ A^. TIjvs yere this kyuL'e Heuiy the thirde dyde. and ys

^u^l•^•d at AVestuivuster on sent Edwardes dave the marter. -

And tlien beganne tlie rayne of liys sonne kynge Edward the

jui'st. that was cahyd kinge Edward with the longshangkes.

xxv*^'. A". Thys yere kynge Edward toke the castelle of Eddyn-

brow. the chetfe regahes in Scotiond, his crowne and hys cepter,

and browte it to Westmyster, and C'ti'erd it lui to sent Edwarde. the

iVKirrow after sejit Buthols day. tlie yei-e of ourlorde M'.cc.iiij'^'^.xvij".

xxxij"^. A", This yere the order of the Templers ware dystroyd

thorowte alle ci'istA-ndome in one daye.

xxxv°. A°. Thys yere dyde kynge Edward the furst. and is

1ai]-j-yd at Westmyster.

EDWARDUS SECUKDU^ HEX.

And liere beganne tlie rayi:ie of kynge Edwarde the second, that

Av as borne at Carnarvan, and is called Edward of Carnarvan.

ix". A"^. Thys yere a bushelle of wett was at five shillings.

xix°. A°. Thys yere dyde kyri^e Edward Carnaiwan, the wych

niarryd the eyer of France, by th^^ AA-ych qwene the flower de Ivce

caijje in to the armes of Yenglond. and the tyttyll of France: the

wych kynge lyeth burryd at Glosceter.

EDWAKDU? T£IiTIU< HEX.

And here begynnyth the ra}ne of kynge Edward the third, borne

at W}'nsore. tl)e yere of our Eorde 1327.

iii". A". Thys yere wa- Koger ^Nlorterner erle of ]\Iarch hannyd

and drawjie at TA-:M..rne for treson.

— 132().1 GKEY F]llAl;> or LONDON. 5

vii'\ A". TJivs vij'^ ycre of tlii^ kvjige -^vas the towiie and

castelle of Banvvke vclded up Tu tlie kynge. And in tliys tyme

was the order of the ki\\-ghttes of the garter niade furst.

xij". A". [This yere the kyiige chang]ed hys armes and made a

newe qAvyne. as the nolyhe. halfe nobylle. and ferdy [ng noble. This]

yere was tlie Lattelle of Sklyice. And thys yere was L'Tt-t dtth of

iVllTi and bcstes : and v:h[eat dear, for a qu'iarter of whett M-as solde

lor xl s.

xiv°. A". Thys yere was the battelle in the Slewse havyne with

sheppes. And this yere the k^iige ....xvij". A"". This yere was a gr-.-t yertli qwake.

XX". A'-', This yere was the battell of Grece.-'

xxj". A". Thys yere the kii]gf'v--an Cahvs. And tliis A"ere t!ie

xj. day of September was tlie batttlie of Durham, wlier kyng Da^id

of Scotland was tane.

xxiij". A". Thys yere was a gret pestelens in Yenglond.

xxv*^'. A^'. Thys yere was the Spanyche battelle abowte Roume\'

and V\'ynchelsey.

xxx°. A". Thys yere the prince Edward toke the kynge of

France, and the battell of Peyters.

xxxv". A". Thys yere was the second grete pestelens. Andthis yere the xiiij. day of AjiriU. the wyche -was the mouday after

Ester day, the k^iig beyng with hys peptille at Paris, seyug the daye

so colde and derke that ujoche of hys pepulle dyde, it was callyd the

blacke mrinday. And then dyde dame Blanche duches of Lan-

kester.

xxxvij". A^. Thys yere ^^ as a grete wMide on sent ]\Iaui-y"s daye

that dyd moche harrne in many places. And Henry that was duke

of Lankester dyde.

xl". A". This yere in Januarij Adam Bury was dyschargyd of hys

ma}-reliod by the commandment of the kyng. and John Lowken was

chosvn in his rome.

6 C]ii;oMCLE or thk [1328—

xlij''. A^ Tlivs yere was the kyuge of SpaAiie tane Ly tlie prii;ice,

anc the erle oi" Dene ^ and . . aytlm C]ayk-\me ^' ware taken.

Ai::l this yere was the iij. great pestelens.

xliij". A". Thys yere -was a grete warre in France by sir Roberte

Ivi^owlJes knyght.

xiiiij". A*"'. Thys yere was a grete dere yere.

xlvij^ A°. Thys yere was one John Xonvelde mercer of London

ska^'r^e at Blackehetlie at a wresthiige.

iy\ A". Thys y&re was John ]\Jysterworth drawne and liangyd.

And this yere dyde k-\-ng Edwarde. and is burryd at Westmyster.

r.lCAllDUS SECUNDUS HEX.

And here bcganue the ra^Tie of k-\-nge Ricliard the ij''^ sonne unto

kx-Tig Edxvard tlie iij*^*.

r:''. A". Tliys yere f^i^e Hall a sawere '' of the kynges was sla;\-ne

in Westmyster church, and Sakke hys fellow was arestyd and put

in to the towere of London by sir Alyne Buxhylle constabulle of

the tower and by sir Ilafie Ferres by fore the erle of Dene.^

iiij". A'"'. Thys yer>:- came iiij. galvs to Gra^wsende. and brent a

parte of the towne. And this same yere. on corpus Christi daye,

was the rysyiige of Kent and Essex, and they ware callyd Jake

Strav.-es men. and came to London, and brent the Savoy and a par-

sell of sent Jones at Ciarkenv.-ell. and went to tlie to^ver of London,

and there toke owte sir Simond Beuerle ^ archebyshoppe of Cant^.r-

biu-y and chaunsler of Yenglond. Robert Halys prior of sent Jones,

fi'eer AVilliam Aj'pultone a gray fi'eer. and dyvers other, and be-

heddyd them at tiie towere hyll, and slew raanny Flem;\-nges and

" The count de Detie, a noMe Spaniard, at the battle of Xaiara.

* .Sir Bertram de Claicoii, a Xormari. (Fabvau.)

"^ Sewer ? oi- Squire ?

^ This affair had to do vitL the count de Dene the .Spanish prisoner before nientioned:

see iLe facts related by Mr. Beitz in hi.- memoir of Sir Alan Buxhull, K.G., in Memorials

f.f t";;e Garter, p. l!:"'.

' An eri-oi- for Sudburv.

— ]8U1. i

(t];ey ri:iAT> or London. 7

otlier men. Tliys yt-re-also wa.^ ilie grete yerth-qwake. Andthis yore the qwene Anne, rlie ernperores dowter of Rome, came to

Dover, and -wa- crownyd at AVe?:r;iyster. and T\-eddyd unto tlie most

excellent prince k}nig'e Ricbar.I V]^"-' on Faliian and Sebastian

daye.. and the coronacion on sent Vinsenttes daye follow^^^ge.

viij". A". John ]More A^as aresryd Avhylc he ^vas shrofie.

ix'\ A". Tliys yere su' Eumoide Langle and sir Thomas Wod-stoke >vare made duckes. [and sir" ]\Iyhy]l at Pole [and] sir John

Ormonde Ts'are made erles at AA estmyster.

xj''. A". Tliys yere A^lexandc-r Kevell archbyshoppe of Yorke,,

Roberte Vere ducke of Ii-eland. ^-lyhell Poole erle of Suftbke, Ro-

berte Trevelyan justyce, and Xic.jlas Breme knyght and alderman

of Lond(.]i. vrare a peclied of trt-- jn by sir Tliomas ducke of Gloci-

ter. Piichard erle of Arnedeil. and sir Thomas erle of Vrarwyke;

and the foresayd Eobene of Ver-j chalyiiched tiiem in tlie felde and

was overcome, and the sayd Myghell. Robert Trevelyan, Nicolas

Breme. Thomas Blacke. John ITrke clerk, and John Saulsbury

knyght; ware drawne and bangyd, and Simond Burle. John Bew-

champ. and James Biernes, knyghtes, and others, be heddyd at

towre-hyll for treson,

xiij". A". Thys yere was another grete pestelens in Yenglande.

xiiij'\ A^ Thys yere the gv:K:>a:uan at the Cooke " in Cheppe, at the

new condite in Che]»pe, was morderd in hys bede by nyght, and

the v.-yfie of the ho^ se brentt- and three of hys servanttes drawne

and handed at Tyborue for the same dedc.

xv'^. A*"'. Thys yere at ^Mydsomer, John Hynde [mayor] was

dyscharged by the kinges cc>iii;celle, and [the] slu'efi'es. Edward

Deckengion knyghte was made mayor, Edwai'd ^ IMaghfelde [and]

Thomas Newton shreffes. Ajid hi July followyng the sayd mayer

^^•as dyschargyd, and for h}-m was sehosyn Baudw}-n Radyngton,

And at sent Edwardes day was sehosyn, as it aperys here followyng,

[William Staridon mayor and Gilbert Maghfelde and Thomas

•-• Cuek :- I' TJ.'s shv.iJd he (4)11, c-rt.

8 CHKONICLE OF THE [1392—

Newton slierifi's., Aiid tins a ere was the citte o1' Lt>nd<>n rnnn-

>'jine(l at a C.!M'. marke.

x^i'•. A". In tliys yere was the terine i"eniOA"yd from ^Vestmvster

unto Yorke from the test of sent John Baptyst un to Crystmas.

xvij°. A°. 'J'liys yere qwene Anne dessecyd,. and is l.urrvd at

Westmyster.

xviij". A"-'. Thys yc^re the Iryche men in August were commandydliome by the kynges commandment.

xx". A°. Thys yere dyde Mare the countes of Derhy. Andiji June dysscessid the mayer, and for hym was scho-yne Richard

Wyttyngton and occupied un tyll sent Edwardes daye. And this

vcre qwcne Isabel! the kynges dowier of France was weddyd un to

kvnge liichard at Callys. And thys }ere dyile sir Thouias

Woodstoke duke oi GLisceter at Callys.'' And the erle of xVrundelle

Avas be heddyd at tov.re hylle. And tliys yere Henry erle of

Derby enterd m to Yenglor.d a.t Ravynspore ii". Yorke.-liere. Andthis yere dyde John duke of Langkester [on] sent Blace day. and

lythe l-)urryd at Po wiles. And tliis yere was Busshe, Bagot,

ScroppCj Grene, with others, ware be heddyd at Brystowe.

And thys yere was the grete iiarlame[nt.]

xxj^'. A°. Thys yere was restyd the duke of Glosceter and sent

to Callys to prisone. And the morrowe after holy-rode daye the

kvn:re made a uret justynge be srde Kyngstone uj'pon Tenies.

In September w-as the erle of Arnedelle jugyd to deth, and sir

Thomas ]\Iortemer the same, but if he came iu within iij.

mcmvthes : and tlie erle of Warwyke was juggyd to the same

jugmei;il as the erle of Aniedelle had,, but he submyttyde hym selfe.

and the kynge gave hym hys lyfie, and send hym un to the toAAer

a^avne : and then the parlament was removyd un to Shrowesbery

:

and that daye was made five dukes and a markes and four erles :

" In this and the foliownng events crowded into this vear there is nothing but error.

They belong to the tv<-o followiDg years, in which they are entered again. And Bagot

\vaf not belieaded at all : on thl- misapprehension, which is ccmmfiii to many chroniclers,

sec- soiiK rei:i;.rk< i-.i ttic rTen;ieaiari's Mag..ziiK for >!arc-h, IS-if'.

— 14')!.] GKEY Fin \T;S or LOXDOV, 9

the names the erle of Dni-bv duke cf Hereforde. tlie erle of Rotlonde

duke of Aumarlde. erle of Kent duke of Sun-ey. erle of Hnntni-tone

duke of Excetor. erle Marchalle duke of Xorfoke, and the counte? of

Norfolke duches of Xorfoike, earle of Somerset niarkes Dorcet. lorde

Spencer erle of Gloceter, lorde !N'e\'elle erle of Westmerlond,

Thom;is Perce erle of "Welcliere.'"' William Scroppe erle of "West-

chester.^ And that same tyme dyde the lorde Mombray.. and is

byryd at the Whyt Fryers.

xxij^ A°. Thys yere dyde the duke of Lankester. And sir

"William Bagot was arestyd in IrolMud and browte to London to

Kewgate. And duke Henry of Langkester cntert-d into Ti-jgloiid

in Yorkechere at Ravyns-spurre bc-syde Weiyngtone.^ And sir

William Scroppe. sir Henry Grene. and sir Jolni Lusshe beheddyd

at Brystow. And thys yere the kynge ^\-as deposyd by the

conn-ns of his pepulle, and for h_\-ine came Heniy the iiij'^', that

was erle of Darbv.

HEXrJCUS QUAETUS EEX.

Y?. A". Thys yere Ewene Glendore sqwere of Wallys made

warre ayenst the kynge. The furst yere of his rnyne was be-

])eddyd at Cerceter'^ the erle of Saulsbery [and] the erle of Iventc,

and at Oxenforde sir Thomas Blont, sir Benet Elv,'' knvghttes.

Thomas Wynter ^ sqwere, and sir Jolm Holond erle of Huntyngton

was be-heddyd at Plasshe in Essex., and their heddes sett on

London brygge, and sir Barnarde Brokkas knyght was be-heddyd

at London in Cheppesyde, and sir Thomas Shelle knyglit, Maud-

13-ne and Feryby clarkes, ware hangyd at Tyborne. This same

vere the kynge rode towerd Scotlond.

ij°. A'\ Thys yere the qwene Isabelle that was wyffe to kynge

^ This i<houIJ he AVorcester. ^ And this Wiltshire.

^ Ai< error 'i]'2'U)\.' t !,.'/->.' Jir\'l\ington. '^ Cirencester.

' Sely ,n otho- chrao^KS. f Winterccll or Wiutci-.-iiail.

CAMD. SOC. C

10 CHRONICLE OF THK [1401—

Richard was sent hoine in to France owte of Yenglond. And

tlir.t vere was a qv.-arter of wliett at xvj'. the second dcre yci-e.

And that yere was a prest brent in Sniytbifclde that was callyd sir

William Sautre i'vv erysse.

iiij". A". Thys yere Avas tlie qwenc crownyd.

A-". A'-". Thys y-j]'c the liyslioppe of Yorke. Scrojipe. and

^^lowbray the earl nK-;rchall,'' beheddyd. And three men of the

kynges chamber hongyd. and the prior of Lau[nde]. sir Roliert

Claryndon knyght. and eight freer minures ware hongyd at

Ty[burne]. And thys yere was the battt-lle of Shrewysbery. in

the wvche was slaATie Henrv Percy and Thomas P^rcy taken, and

two dayes kepte. and after was honged and be-lieddyd and hys

hede with one (pvarter of Henry Percv set on London brygge.

Aiid in this battelie wa- slaAme the erle of Stafforde under the kynges

banner. And this battelie was on 3.1ary ]\Iawdlyne evyn. Andin the lent aiore was the blas^mge sterre that ckarkes callyd it

s'ell . . ctiuaie.' And "Wilham Serle that was cheffe yomane

with kynge Richard was drawne and honged and heddyd at Ty-

borne, and the qwarters saltede.

vij". A°. Thy? yere one Travers. a yoman of tlie crowne of the

kpiges. was liongyd at Tyijoi-ne for powsenyiige of hys w^-fte and

one Pylle in tlie counter in the Powltre. And this yere alle the

kj-delles ^ and trungkes tliorowghout tlie Temse from the towne of

Stanes in tlie west tinto the watter of ]\Iedevey in the est by the

mayer and commonalte of London were dystrowyd and brent, and

gret plee and dyscorde was for that matter betwene Tiiomas

Arundelle archebyshopjie of Canterbery and other loi'ddes and

knyghtes on that one party, and the mayor and comnxmalte of

London on that oth.er parry, but the citte of Loixlon recovered theii'

ryght V>y the ^'ertu of the k-\Tiges charter and hys statues.

Thys yere also was many justes in Smvtfelde by-twene Englyche

- Blt'.ndercd It. v ( :>!.<'. io Mctiibre Kerrdlc. " SuHo coinaia.

' For catching fish : tilled " \veare> "' in tlie parallel pnvsnge of Stn\ve"s Chron.

— UlU." GKEY }l;JAi;S OF LOXDO>\ 11

men and Scottes. and hy-twene L^rdes and knvglntes of Ynglonde

and other strangers. And this ^ere ^vas the eric of Arundelle

v.-eddvd at LamLyth.^ And thi« ycre was furst ordened a masse

of tiie Holy Gost. to be songe soleniply be note every yere at the

Yelde-halle chappelle-the same daye the naiyer is chosyn.

viij-'. A^ Thys yere the erle <'f Xortluimberlond and the lorde

Bar.lolre Avas be-l^e.ldyd in tlje X'vrth ; and the erles hede v.dth one

(.if by 5 qwarters of the J'jrdes (sicj ^vare sett on London Ijregge.

Ajid this yere sir Roberte Kno"-l]es knyghte dyde. that was the

p-ete vrarryar. Ar.d this yere sir Thomas Rampsone knyghte of

the garter ^ was drownevl in the Teinse by hys owne fulle, for he

wolde not be goveniyd by the bargemen, but to have hys owne

rewle. And tliis yere was the erle of Kent weddyd at sent

yiavy Overes.'-

xj''. A'-'. Thys yere was ordened the alay of golde. And the

kA"nges sonnes beten in Chepe.^^ And this yere was tiie grete frost

and ise and the most sharpest wenter that ever man sawe, and it

duryd lom'teen wekes. so that men myght ir. dyvers ]'ilaces both goo

and ryde over the Temse. Thys yere also was the good erle of

Kent slayiie [a:] the castelle of Brydoke in Bryttene with a qwarrelle

in hys hede. And thys yere was an erytyke brentte in Smyth-

f'elde ibr eryse. And a sqwere of [Walllys. one lieghe Rys de

9de/ draune and hongyd for tresone.

" Thooias earl of Arundel married Beatrix illegitimate daughter of John I. king of

Portugal : upon the morrow afier the feast of St. Katharine in 6 Hen IV. (viz. 2o Nov.

1404) as recorded bv "\^'aUingham. Ypodigma Neu.striie, p. 175. See also Tiernev's

Histnrr of Arundel, p. 285, and the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. i. pp. SCJ et seq.

'' Sh- Thomas Reapston. elected K.G. in 1400; he was constable of the tower <":£ Lon-

don at the time of his fatal accident, which occurred on the olst Oct. 1406.

' Edward Holand, fourth earl of Kerjt, married Lucia, daughter of the duke of Z^Iilan;

see Leland's Collectanea, i. Oi-b. He was killed at Briac in Btitanv on the lath Sept.

in the following vear.

^ ' In this yere was a fray made in Estcbepe, be the kynges sones Thomas and John,

with men of the to^-n."' Cbron. of London (Nicolas), p. 93. The prince of Wales, it

seems, was not engaged in thi"; memoral.ie fray : but Shakspere has made him bear the

sins of his younger brethren. <" Ryse ap Dee n; o(h(r rhrorrirhrs.

12 CUUfJNICLE OF THE [1411—xij-'. A". Tliys yere tlierc- carne a cardiiielle to London. And

mcnny justes and Latttlles Avare in Smytlifelde. ^^wd tliis yere

Leganne a gret pley from the beg^-nm-ug of the Avorlde at tlie

skynncrs" welle. diat la>tyd vlj. dayes cout\-nual]y :_^and there ^vnre

the most pariL- of tlje lordes anl gentvlles of Ynglond." - And this

xfve Avas a golJsni^-rh.e of Fk-te=tret shiyne be iiyght in the dukes

]ilacc of York v.-ith-C'vrte Tempuii barre. arid was trowne^ under the

'J'einpu'll bregge.

xiij"^'. A". Thys yere was a gret excesseve flode in the Temse.

And a gret batte [battle] rose betwene Roberte Glocitre and Arthur

Orniesby in Sm^thiclie. Arid this yere the lorde Thomas

Aveddyd the countes of Somers^^t/ And this yere came messen-

geres owte of France fr.jin the k;mge and the duke of Burgone for to

heipe them agaynst the duke <:-f Orlyans ; and then went over the

vv]q of Arnedelle and the erle of Kent tu helpe the duke of Bui'gone,

and had a jurne. and came home agapie: and tliut same tyme came

messengeres o^vte of France frcan the duke of Orhans for to have

lielpe agayne the duke of Burgayii.

xiv^. A"^'. Thys yere the s:^:^'' day of March, dyde tlie kynge,

and was bun*vd at Cantorberv.

HEXEICUS QUIXTUS EEX.

And kyng Henry the Fifih was crownyd. that was liys sonne, at

Westmyster the ix'^ day of April, the yere of our kirde God

M'CCCC xiij.

P'.': A"". Thys yere the lorde Cobhame made a rys^mge with many

luhars and heryttykes. as Roger Actone and many moo, to the

number of xx:>;yi. : and ware draune and hangyd on a galk")ws new

'^ Stowu places this jrrea: pliv u-j<itr iL-; vear 14 UCi. Ste also other curoiiiL-les quoted

ill Collier's Hist, of DRimitic Poc-u-v. L 1L-. ^ tbiown.

^- Thomas of Lir.Ci-=tt-r uuke of rian.iicc and Margaret (HMiaiid) widow .,t John

lti.'aufort ta: 1 of So-iersct.

— 1415.1 C.liEY FTJAIl- mF LUXDOX. 13

iii.iJe in sent Gylles fcldc. and five of tliem ware brent, the kynge

lyinge at sent Jones."

ly. A°. Thys yere the kynge wanne HarfleAV in Xormandy.

And this yere Ricliard Gurmon,^ French baker of Lumberstreth,

w:is brent in Smythfelde. And tiUS yere Avas the kpiges grete

Av.;.rkf begomie at Skene. And this yere the kynge toke his via^e

towarde Xorinandy, and rode thorow the citte of London unto

Sowthhamtone the xviij. day of Juiie.. and there he abode, his stofie,

and liys company. And the v. daye of August nexte ware put

to deth at Hamton sir Richard of Yorke erle of Chanibrych, the

lorde Scroppe, and sir Tliomas Grey knyglit. for treson, imagen-

ynge the k}aiges deth. And in this tyme was one Claydon'^^

skenner brente in Smythfel-de tlie x''\ day oi' September. And the

morrow after sent Lam-ens day the kyiige with hys pepulle shepjiyd

at Porchemowth. and he landyd a: Kedecause, three myle owte of

Hra-fiewj on our kady day the Assuinpcion. And tlie kynge layd

hys sege fro that daye unto the xxij. daye of September or the tov/ne

wai'e yelded up. And in that whyie there dyde manny of liys pepull,.

as the erle of Surye,'^ the byshope of Norwyche,^ sir John Phylpot,

and many otlier knyghttes and SQweeres, and a grete many of the

comyn pepulle. And then the towne and castelle was yeldyd up unto

tlie k}nige with the keyes, and the k\-uge made the lord Bewforde ^

that was erle of "Worseter captayne. And thene the kyng toke [his]

waye towerd Callys with viij.^r. fyghtynge men. And the xxv.

day of October on sent Crispians day the lordes and che\'a!tre

of France layd with xxvj. M'. men. and wolde have stoppyd the

k\-uges waye, that he shulde not passe to Callys. And the kynge

with liis host batellyd with them maiifully, and fowght witli theme

' The priory of St. Jobn's at ClerkenweU.

^' Turmyiie. a heretic. Chron. Lond. (Nicola.-). ' John CiayJon. (Ibid.)

"^ Thomas Arundel, more commonly called earl of Arundel; he returned home sick of

the dysentery, and died at his owti ca-:le of Arundel, on the loth of Oct. 141f>.

= Richard Coiirtenay bishoj. of Norwich di-r-i at the siege of Harfieur, 20 Sejit. 141:..

Richard Beauciiamji lord Aberg;i->.;!iir-. afu r <•- ardt carl of Wureester.

14 CHKOXICLE or THE [1415—

in a ifclJe called A_2^7iC'jrt. and slew and toke of tliem duke?, eries.

and knvglitte; and other to a grete number,, and a grete rnultytewde

of the coniyn pej.'ulle. And of Englyche men was slayne,. as the

duke of Yorke. the erle of Sur^ry ^\ and other, but a fe\ve. And the

morrow after Simond and Jude da^-e tydynges came to the new

liiayer of the sodyne barelle. And then Avas ni;ide grete solempnites

and [irocessions was done tlier for, with prelattes. prestes. freeres,

and other sage men of the cytte. And after that the kynge came

to Dover. Cantorbery. and soo to London: and tliere the mayer,

aldermen, comvns. rvdvr;2:e vrorsh.yppully ayenst hyrn in rede gowne?

and whyte hoddes. and Irowte hym to "Westinyster. Also this yere

canie tlie emiierar oi' Ahnen^' in to Ynglond with viij C. hors to sent

Georges fvlde. And thv xxix. day of !March tiie duke of Holonde ^

came to London, and Le laye at the byshoppe of Elys place in

Ilolborne.

iiij°. A'-'. Thys yere the xiiij. day of December sh- .John Olde-

castell knyghte was drawne fi'cjm the toA^er of London un to sent

Gvlles in the felde and there was hongyd and brent. Th.ys yere one

sent ]\Lartyn^ day was byshoppte ]\Iart\me the a-^^. chos^me l:»yshoppe

of Rome.

v'f. A^. John Briane was drowned in hvs shrefehode_. and in his

stede Avas chosAiie Join Perueys shreti'e lor the resydew of the

vere. Ajid this yere on sent Donstons day was the townc of

Rome veldene to the emperor: and the towne of Ponteys was taken,

with manv other castelles and towers.

vi)°. A^ Thys yere the qweiie Ivaterne was crownyd the xxij.

day of Marche.

» Not slain in the harJe, a5 ftated in the preceding passage.

^ The emperor Sigismond CLTne to England, and va? installed as a knight of the ganer

on the 7th May, 141G. He -w^- brother to Anne the queen of Richard the Second.

^ William of Bavaria count <.: Ostrevant. who had been formerly admitted into the order

of the garter by king Richard IL in l-iVV, came to meet the emperor; but, having been

detained by contrary -wicdj, d: I not arrive until the 2Sth of May (not March).— Beltz,

Memorials of the Gaiter, p. •':4 '. '• Th'^ counts of Holland of this family, being by binh

dukes of Bavaria, were usuc-.i:; -ryled 'd<s of Holland."— Il'id.

— 1432.] Gl^EY FKIAI;? OF LOXPON. 15

ix". A'^'. Thys yere t]ie tfAvne of ]\Ie\v_vs in Biy was veldvn.

And ihU yere Mortenier brake owte of tlie towc-r of London,

and was takyn apanie after ^^"ard in Walys, and brovrte agayiie un

to t'he tovrer of London. .-Vrid this yere Avas bi'owre to London

a by.-hoppe, a knyiilit. and a captayne of ]Mewys in Bi-y; with

xxviij. prisoners of France. And tiiis yere was t;ie furst pro-

vnncialle chapter of freeres mir:ors in London. And this yere

tlie kvnge dyssecyd,

HEXRICU.- SEXTUS EEX,

and ])ys sonne Henry the TJ*^ beganne his rayne.

P.': A". Thys yere Xewgate was new made by master Ricliard.

"Wyttyngtor.f,. and hir dyCiC- the -A,ine yere.

ij°. A". Thys yere the xxij. day of Febraarij was di-aune and

hongyd and behedyd and qwanerd x'lortj-mer for treson. Andtliis yere the jirince of Pc^i'trngale came in to Englonde.

iij". A''. Thys yere was a grete debate betweeiie the cardnalle of

TTenchester and the duke of Glosater and the citte of London. ''

And tliis yere came v. gallys to London with marchandes.

T°, A". Tliys yere was one hongyd, hedd}-d, and qwarterde at

Tyborne Segewyke.

\f. A". Thys yere was the concelle of Redynge. And this

yere dyde Thomas duke of Exceter. Tliis yere was "Wyile Wawehongyd at Tyborne.

viij". A". Thys yere the k\-nge was crownyd. And Jake Stawe

was hongyd and qwarterd.'^ And this yere was a grete stronge

fyer at Banyscastell ^ the xvij, day of October that brent a grete

parte, and dyd moche harme. And this yere dyde the good erle

[of] Salsburry sir Thomas ]\Iountagew at Orhans in France.

x°. A"". And this yere was ane herytyke brent at toAvre hylle .

" Thi? clause of tbe l^IS. is er^^ed l>y tiie hand of .Tolin Stowe, wj,o Las written the

words " at We5imystar ""instead.

'' Bavnard'5 rattle, in the citv cf Lorii'-.u.

l() cnrjONiCLE or the [1432

—

the xxiiij. day of Janivare. And in tlie morro-\v after tliore -was

n grete battelle in Smytlifelde betwene Upton and John Downe

;

a]-id whan tlicy had fbwth longc. the kynge toke up tlic matter and

gave them grace. Aiid Thomas Bagley viker of ^Mundcne^ in

Essex was dysgradyd and brent in Sniythfelde. And this vere ''

tlie k^nige was crownyd tlic xvj. day of December in Paries so-

]emp]y, and the ix. day of Februarij he came to Dover, and the xxj,

daye of the same monytlie lie came to London, and there was wor-

chippfully reseved of the cittesens in whytt gownes and redde

whoddes.

xj'-'. A*^. Thys yere was the gi-ete cowncell at Basehe,. and manylowlers dystroyd m Pnice.'^ And tliis yere John duke of Bed-

forde and the regent of France came to Callys be-fore Ester; and

the morrow after there ware sodiers arestyd and [»risond. and in tlie

Ester weke the duke rode toward Picardy in Tyrwyne. And thene

the byshoppe of Tyrw^^^e weddyd the duke and tlie erle cif sent

Powlys doMghter to-gether: and then tliey came to Callys, and on

sent Barnardes day iiij. sodiers ware be-heddyd and a C & x. of tlie

other sodiers ware exiled.'^ And on mydsomer evyn the duke witli

hys wyfi'e came to London.

xij'\ A". Thys yere was a grete pestclens, and a grete frost.

And tlie duke of Bedford dyde, and lyth at Piome."^^ And this

yere abo\\"te wytsontyde the lowlers of Prage ware dystroAwd, soo

that in two battelles there M-are sla^-ne xx,]\P. with their captavns,

and there was taue one master Pers clarke, and another Englvch

lierytyke, enimys to alle holy chm'che.

xiij"". A". Thys yere in hars-est was tlie cowncelle in Arays that

pesse shulde be reformyd be-twene Yngland and France, and tliere

ware lordes both spiritualle and temporalle. And thether came the

» Manuden : t^et NewcourtV iicpert. ii. 4<.'3. '' day i,. MS."^ Lollards in Pru&sia.

^ Compare- tliis wiih tlie account of t'.,c duke

don, (Nicolav) ].. liO. The nainet of thobC- 1m

dfiv. Thcaiai- Palmere. and Thoni:L« TaD'Ot.

; proc

— 14:-}0.] GREY FRlAIiS OF LONDON. 17

cardiialle of the Holy Crosse, and a5uyll3-d the duke of Biii'gone for

the othe tliat lie made un to the k^^lge of Ynglonde unwyttynge unto

the pope, for he had layd sege un to Callys and lie fay1yd of hys

j'urpose.

xiiij''. A". Thys yere the to-^-ne of Dope was tane by tlie Ai-rae-

no''jis * on Halhalon evyn. And the towne of Harflete lost for de-

faute of good kepynge. And the dul^e of Burgane a fore sayd laved

sege un to Callys the xxix. day of Jule.

xt"^'. A'^'. Th}s yere sanke a parte of London brygge with two

arches. And queue Jane ^ dyde.

xvj*^. A'-\ Thys yere brake owte of tlie kynges jayle of Newgatte

Owvn by the helpc of hys prest, and wondyd hvs keper, who had

pr-vyly weddyd qwene Katerne.'^ And also this vere felle downe

another parte of London brygge.

xvi'i". A". Thys yere the erle of Warwyke dyde at Roane, the

last day of Api'ill. And this yere the compi strouipettes that

ware takeue in London ware rave hoddes. .Ajid this yere a

l.-iushylle of whette was at forty j^ence.

xriij*'. A^. Thys yere the cardnaEe of Weuchester with other

lordes came homeward frome Callys to London, that had bene in

France to make a pes. And this yere ware dyvers inen of Kentdrawe and hongyd for tresone agayue the kynge and the church.

And sir John erle of Hunt^aigtone came thys yere from Guyen in

to Ynglond. And this yere the duke of Yorke was made regeiit

of France. And sir Richard "Wyche and hys clarke ware burnvd.

And this yere was a grete debate arose betwene Fletstrete and the

bowsys of corte.

xix". A". Thys yere was put to deth master Roger BoI^TiS-

broke.*^ Ajid a str^-ffe in the yelde halle for chesynge of the

mayer, by the crafte of the taylors.

* Armeniacs. tlie forces of the conite of Armarriac.

' Bead Katharine.

' See the verv curious passage on thi? incident in Chran. of London (Nicolas).

= '• A man expert in nvgromancy " (Fahyanj. and one of the oniincillor> of Aiianor

O-'hham, finches? of Gloucester, as mentioned in the next ye.tr.

]»

18 CHKOXICLE OF THE [1441—

XX". A". Thys yere Alionor Cobliame consjyryd the k^^"lges

dctli Ly tlie concell of master Roger clarke raid nigromancer, the

wyclie Alionore was put by the kynge and liys justys to perpetuall

prisone ; and on sent Ai-kyuwoldes evyne she vrent a fote to Powlles

in blacke. v^'nh a tajx-r in hare hande, lede bet^^'ene two kjiyghttes.

And in the sarrje v.-vse on tl.icmon'ow she went unto crystcherche.^

xxj-'. A^ Tiiys yere the lorde Talbot came in to Ynglond and

was made erle of Shr.jwsbery and arayralle of the see. And sir

Christofor Talbot was lalsely sla^Tie at Callys.

xxij". A-. Thys yere the byshoppe of Bathe ^ was rnade chan-

celer of Englond and archebychopp of Canterbery. And the lord

Fanoppe dyde this yere. and is burryd in hys chappell that he made

in the freeres prechere;.*^

xxiij''. A". Thys yere on Candelraas evyne was gret thunder

and tempes:. T;:at Pov.lles stepulle on the sowth-west syde mervel-

usly was sett a iy-er, and the stepull of K;\-ngstone up Temse brent,

and many men slayne. And qwene ^Margaret was crownyd.

And the parlament that yere at Byny.

xxA'". A'. Thvs yere was a fvahtvnge in Smytlifelde betwene

ane armerar of iietstret and liis servant for_ worddes ayenst tlie

kynge wherof hys servant apelyd hym : and the servant slew the

master in the lelde. And this yere the duke of Gloceter dyde at

Byrry in the parlament tyme there. And this yere John Chalons

sqwere,. sonne ^of Eoberte Xlhnlons knyght of Ynglond. fowth in

France with the lorde Boyles brother, and John Chalons slew hymin the ielde. And thys yere was juggyd to be drawne, hungyd,

but they ware but drawne. Chamberlyn, !Myddy]tone, Artoys. Her-

berd. and Xedeham : but whane they ware drawne they had ther

pardone all and their lyiies.

xxyy: A""'. Thys yere the kvnge made two dukes, of Xorfblke

and Suftbke. And this yere the watter of the Temse by excesse

' The priory a; AJdgaxe. '' John Stafford.

' Sir John Corr;\vali. K.G. ^vLo had married Eiizaueth ducbfe.-oi" Exeter, sister to king

Ilenrv IV. Ki- cl.anrrv cI—T'c"; wa^ tt tLe Blacl; I'riar^ in Lond-n.

— 1452.] GJtEY rillAKS OF LONDON. 19

of iloode the monday in Ester -sveke came and incresid on the londe

onto Populer, and drownyd many hoAvsys and feldes and medowes.

and moche of the paricli ol' Stejiney. and at Rayiihara and other

places in Essex.

xxvij'; A '. Tliys yere vras auotlier dere ycre. and ane erthqvrake,

xxviij"''. A^ Tliys vere Xormandy ^vas lost. And tliis yere

c<ime Jake Cade of Kent, and made hym selfe a captayne Avith a

gret multytnde of pepuUe unto Blackehethe. aiid there abode seven

dayes contynually unto that the kynge -n-ith his lordes that lay that

trme at sent Jolms in Smythfelde and in divers placis came r^-d-

ynge thurgh Lojidon toward Gi'enev^ich ; and thene Jake Cade

fledde and remo^yd fro thens toward Tunbrych; ^Maydstone. and

Seuoke. And there hys men beheddyd a sqwere callyd Stanlaw.

And in that contre there was sir Humfry Statiurd knyght and Wil-

ham -Staiibrd sqM-ere, with certa\nie me]i of armes. slayne. Andin that mene tyme came a captayne of Essex with hvs men and

enterd in to the felde.. and that same tyme was Home the alderman

arestyd. And the satterday the iij"^' day of July the captayne

rode thorrow London to PowUes and to Newgate, and soo forthe to

Myle ende. And there was be-heddyd one Cromer of Kent and one

Baylly of Colchester, and at the standerd in Cheppe was sir Roger

Feuch be-heddyd. and at the "Whyt harte in Southwarke one Haw^ay-

dyne of sent Martyns was be-heddyd: and ]\Ial])as of London drewe

the cheyiine of London brygge. and tliere was a gret battelle made

by nyght agaynst the towne, and m;jny men slayne and drownyd.

And sarteyn aldermen of Loudon was there slayne, and the prisoneres

of the kyuges bench and marchelsay delyveryd owte by Jake Cades

commandement And afterward he was slaine in Kent

xxix''. A". ThA-s 3^ere was Gwyene lost, and the erle of Shrowys-

bery slayne at Burdos.

xxs'-'. A''. Thys yere the duke of Yorke sette liys felde at Brent

hethe m Kent

xxxj". A^ Thys }-ere tlie lorddes servanttes made a fray at tlie

wrestlynge place.

20 CHKOXICLE OF THE [1453—

xxxij". A*^. Tbys yere the raayer lef'te rydpige to YTestmyster,

and T\ent be -watter.

xxxiij^ A". Thys yere was a felde at sent Albons benveue the

kynge and the duke of Yorke.

xxxyo. A^'. Tbys yere the lorde Egremond brake owte of New-gate,, and bad a bors redy and rode a way and one of tbe javlers

witli bym. And hi tbe ende of this same yere came tlie French-

men and other enmyes. and spoylyd and robbyd tbe good porte of

Sand^^ycb. and slewe moche pepulle : for they came sodenly to Sand-

^\•vcb in tbe mornyiige when men ware a bede, and serc.hed every

bouse, and alle tbe plate, riches, golde, sylver, and otbere mercbandys

and gooddes of valewe they sbeppyd it into tbeire sbeppes and went

sniotly a vray M-itbx alb

xxxvj'^'. A'\_ Tbys yere tlie xxvij. day of November, that tyme

>va:s sonday, Pecc>ke that was byshoppe of Checbester stode at

Powbes crosse, wych was apecbed of dyvers povnttes of eryses,. and

there be abjuryd and revokyd them in tbe precbenynge tyme in tbe

presens of tlie byshoppe of Camitorbury, tlie byshoppe of London,

and bysboppe of Durbame, and otlier prelattes. And also tbere in

the precbeuge tyme ware many bokes of er\'ses of bys mak^-nge,

that cost moche gooddes, damnyd and brent be fore bys face. Anddoctor WUliam Gooddard tbe elder,^ that was provinciall of tbe Grey-

fi'eeres, apechyd b^in of bys erysys. And tbis same yere was tbe

ryall syght and wacbe of men of armes iii London that ever was sene,

of a gret number of clene ownest men goATi^re owte of Newgate, and

soe up Holborne and downe Cbauncery lanne and thorow Fletstret

and in at Ludgate and thorow Temstret. and soo to the to^er of

London, and soe forthe liome aga^Tie?

xxxvij". A''. Tbys yere was a felde at Ludlow, and at Blore

bethe, and a fraye betwene men of tbe k^mges bowse and men of lawe.

* His tomb wai in tbe choir of tbe Grey Friars' church—'" venerabilis pater et frater

"Willelmus Goddard. doctor egregius, et ordinis fratrura minorum in Anglia minister bene-

nieriiuf; qui obiii <iV' die mensis Octobris A^ dni 1437." Collectanea Topographies et

Gfnealogica. vol. v. p. 277.

— 1469.] GKEY FKIAK? OF LONDON. 21

xxxviij^ A". Thvs yere was another felde at sent Albons, and

the felde at Northamtone, and at Wakefelde, and at ]\Iortymers

crosse. anno ^MVcccxvj.

xxxix°. A*^'. Thys yere was a felde be s3-de Yorke, and kynge

Hem-y put doM'ne,, and the ducke of Yorke eldest sonne toke up one

Imii the crowne, and was callyd Edwarde the iiij^'^ And at this

felde was slavne xxxii M'. men.

EDWATiDU^ QUARTUS KEX.

Pl° A". Thys yere was the erle of O.xenfurd be-heddyd and

other gentyhnen.

ij°. A". Thys yere the towne dech was new cast. AndPalmesonday felde. And the to'.me of Barwyke wamie.

iij°. A". Thys yere was the ^arganttes fest and the mayer dyned

not there, and for be cause that he satt not princypall bothe he and

tlie comyns went a wave at that tyme. And this yere was tlie

battelle of Hexhame felde.

iiij°. A*-'. Thys yere the qwene was crov.myd. And k^-nge

Henry put in to the Towere. And tlie rose nobyll at x*., the

aungell at yi^ viij*^.

T°. A^ Thys yere came grete lordes from the londe of Poole and

Beame to see thys loud,

vj^ A". Thys yere a battell in Smythfelde betwene the lorde

Scales and the basterd of Bm-gopie,. axid the lorde Scales had the

worcln-ppe of the felde.

\\]°. A°. Thys yere was the k}T3ges suster IMargaret marryd

unto Charles duke of Burgone.

viij°. A°. Thys yere was taken the lorde Harbord and hys

brother at Hedgcot felde and both be-heddyd, and the lorde Ryvers

and hys sone be-heddyd. and one Staflbrde of Soutwyke tluit was

made erle Dennsher be-heddyd also.

ix^. A". Thys yere at Ester the duke of Clarans and the erle of

Warwvke flede into France. And Poynes and Alford be-hedd\d.

22 CH1;0X1CLE OF THE [14G9—

Aiid at 2^iyhylmas the lorde? came agayiie into Englund and the

IcA-nge iiede into Hollonde, and k^nige Henry put agayne to tlie

croAvne, And the erle of Worceter be-heddyd. And tlij

prince borne. Aid a blacke sterre. And the battelle of

St^amford.

x''. A". TLys yerc the k^-nge came aga\nie h^i to Ynglond in

Lent, and dyd a battell at Barnet on E>ter day. and there was

slavne the erle of "Warwyke and liys brother markes ^lontagu, and

k%Tig Henry put aga^'ne into the tower. Aid a battelle at

Teukysbury there was slayne kynge Henrys sone and many other

lordes and kuyttes. Aid the basterd Fauconbryge came fi-om

the se^ with liys rutenew, [and] wolde have entered the citte. but he

was manly defendyd l)y the citte/.ens and ma]"!_Y of hys men sla\me.

x'f. A'. Tltys yere in July was borne Pachard the k^niges

ij^- sone. and he was made duke of Yorke.

xij". A". Thys yere was ordenyd in eyery warde a payer of

stockes : and that yere fifteen women ware ray hoddes.

xiij". A". Thys yere was a fray on sent Peteres evyn betwene

the k-\"nges servantes and the wache men of the citte of Lojidon.

xiiij'. A". ' Thys yere the kynge went in to France ward at

]Myds':>mer. and londyd at Callys with a grete armey. and liys host

went to Amias. and there spake with the Frenche kynge and th.ere

made f>ece with owte battelle, and the Frenche kynge heldynge^

verl'v' sj ^P. li. and soo came home agayne.

xyi'. A*^. Thys yere beganne the reparacions of the walles of the

citte of Loudon, and the deches abowte new cast.

x^-ij^. A". Thys yere the ducke of Clarans was jiut to dethe.

And the terme deferrd from Ester to ]\Iyhyhiias be cause of the

grete pastelens.

xix". A*^'. Thys yere the kynges syster duches of Burgone came

in to Ynglond to see hare brother. And tliis yere the k^^lge

taxid sore bvs lond.

rieldin^

—1484.~|

GKEY FKIAKS < 'F LO.VT)ON. 23

xxj". A". Thys yere the kvnge made a gi'cte nrmy into Scotland

bv hys brother tlie diike of Glocester; in the ^v^-che viage he Avane

Barwike. And a gret dertb of corne.

xxij". A". Thvs yere descecid the kyi^ge [xxij day] in Apcrllc

cntcr^-nrre in to tlie xxiii. vere of hvs ra^^le.

EICA];I)US TEilTIUS KEX.

And the two sonuyes of k}^lge Edward were put to cilence,

and the duke of Glocester toke upone hyin the crowne in July,

wych was the furst yere of hys ra^iie. And he and hys qwcne

c}-OMnyd or. one daye in the same monAth of July.

ij". A". Thys yere the duke of Buckyngham was lie-heddyd at

Salsbery, and is burryd at tlie Gray fivres.^ Ajid many lordes

[and] knygttes with dyvers otlier fledL- into France at that tyme.

" This is a passage of some interest in relation to a matter v^Lich has been enveloped in

considerable obscuritv. Even some doubt has been entertained with regard to the jjlace

of Buckingham's execution, ow-ing to the chronicler Grafton having stated that it -was at

Shrewsburv, and having been followed in that statement bv Holinshed, Echard, and

Rapin. This, however, has been entirelv set at rest bv Mr. Blakew;-.v the historian of that

town, and by Mr. Hatcher the historian of Salisburj, who apree that .Salisbury w.as the

jilace. Then, as to the duke's int-rment, Mr. Hatcher, perhaps encouraged by the

triumph of having vindicated this historical incident in favour of Lis own town, proceeds

so far as to say (History of Salisbury, folio, liiZ, p. 207) :" If the fact of Buckingham's

execution at Salisbury l^e considered as indisputably established, we shall not be guilty of

too great a stretcli of imagination, in supposing ti;at these -uere his mutilated remains

interred clandestinely, or at least without ceremony, near tlie spot vhere he sufiered "

—

referring to the discovery of a headless skeleton beneath the floor of an outhouse near the

stone on which Buckingham was traditionally said to have sufi'ered. From a quarter

less authoritative than an historian in folio, such a conjecture might, perhaps, be disre-

garded. It is obvious that du.rit:g the many generations which have passed since the

execution of Buckingham, there might have l>een many opportunities of concealing in the

out-buildings of an inn the remains of some vvay-laid traveller, or the victim of some ale-

house brawl. But. an undue importance having been given to the notion that the

skeleton was that of the princely Buckingham, the present pa.ssage comes in aid to correct

the facility with which Mr. Hatcher yielded to an hypothesis so fanciful. It shows

that the duke's body received that anention which the religious orders were always ready

to bestow on such occasions, and that it was interre-i in flu- cliurcii if the Grov Friars

24 CIIROXICLE or THE [1485—

iijo. A°. This yere in August tlie erle of riichmontl ^vitli

tlie erie of Pembroke that long hade bene Ijanyslied; came into

Ynglond, and the other gentylmen that flede into France,, [and] made

a felde besvde Levceter, arid the kAnio-e there slaviie.

IlEXliJCUS SEETniUS EEX.

And tlie erle of Riehmcmd Avas crownvd kynge, and was callyd

Henre the Seventh, the xxx. day of October : and abowte Candel-

mas marrvd kynge Edwardes eldest dougter. And this yere

in September dyde Thomas Hylle [the mayor], and for hyme

^vas chosyn "William Stocker. and he dyde the tliird day after and

tliane -was chosyn John Warde. and he occopyed tyll ]\Iyhy]mas.

P'5.' A^ Thvs vere was a gret dethe and hasty, callyd swettyng

sykenes. And the crosse in Chcpe new made. And a grete

taske and a disme grauntyd. And a bushylle of bay salte at

iii^ iiij'^.

ij°. A". Thys yere the qwene was crownyd. And the erle of

L;^-ncolne and the lord Lovell and one IMartyn Swarte a stranger all

ware slayne in a felde that they made agaynst the k^mge at

Kewarke.

iii°. A°. Thys yere prince Arture was borne at Wenchester.

And this yere the kynge went un to Bullen.''

iiij^ A^'. Thvs yere the kynge sent many knyghttes in to

Bretayne with the number of vij. M'. men to defende the

two ladvs that ware ayeres to the lond. And the erle of Nortum-

berlond slayne in the North. And the cajje of mayntenans browte

from Rome.

at Salisbun-. A MS. in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, Xo. VP, also st.ites

the same fact. Anotber misapprehension lias been entertained in connection with tliis

subject, namely, that a monument still existing in the church of Britford, near Salisbury,

and engraved in Sir Richard C. Hoare's Hundred of Cawden, vas that of the duke of

Buckingham. It is unnecessary to repeat here the considerations which decidedly

negative that appropriation : but tliey will be found in tiie Gentleman's Magazine for

.Time 1836. and in Sir R. C. Hoare's Hi^torv of Modern Wiltshire. Addenda, p. 61.

— 1498.] UHEY Fi;lAK< OF LoXDd.X. 25

v^. A". Thvs yere Crv}'}.y]le gate was new iiiade. And Ed-

niond Fi-anke and others put to detli.

A-j". A". Thys yere sir Rol>ert Chauilier]A"ne lorde be-beddyd.

And in Jun_e_ tbe_k_\Ti£:es ij'-'- sone was borne at Grynwyclie. ^

and naniyd^. Henry. Aii'l tlie r-ondyd at Gi'ascburcb begonne and

]iew made.

vVf. A". Thys yere in Se[':c-:i!!.'er the kynge went to Callys with

a grete arnie agaynst France, but tlie pece Avas made witii-owte

battelle. And the qwenys moder dicessyd. And tbe loA-ers ^

sett up on tbe yelde bnlle of London.

viij"^. A"". Thys yere was a rysynge of yonge men agaynst tbe

stelyai-d. And whett at yi'\ a busbebe.

x". A". Tliy? vere v.-as b--'ieddvd sir Wilbam Sianle lorde

ebamberlyne, sir Piobert Rarcletle, sir Simonde ]Momforde. and

Wilbam Daukus :^ and lorde Fev^alrer ]>e-heddyd at Callys. Andthis yere whyt berynge was soldo at iij'. iiij"^. tbe barrelle. Andlorde ^lonforde sone and many others that londyd in tbe downes to

tbe numl^er of viij. score tbiat came from one Perkyne "Warbyke

callAmge hymseb'e k^Tige Eduard sone.

xij^. A°. Thys yere tbe commons of Cornwall arose to tbe

iiumber of xxx. ^M"'.. and the lorde Audle clieffe captayi^e, and

one Flammoke and a smytbe that was callyd Mybyll JoseMe : and

they came to Blackhetb and made a felde agaynst tl)e kynge and

lost it. Tbe capta_A-ns taue and put to e.\cecuci(jne. TIia'S felde was

in June on sent Botbols day. And in August after one Perkyne

Warbyke, callyng "^ bym sclie tbe second sone of kynge Edwarde

tbe iiij'^'',, londyd in Cornewalle : and he was persewyd of sartayne

lordes. but be flede to Bewdley senttuaiy. and by apoyntraent came

to tbe kynge. and so rema\Tiyd ibllowyiige the corte.

xiij'^. A*^'. Thvs yere m December the wedercoke. crosse. ai:id the

bowle of PowUes stepulle was tane downe and all newe made, and

in ]\Iay after solemply hallowyd and sett up agayne. And this

same yere in August was the second provinciall cbajtter of the Freer

louvres. ' /^...'- lbvv!.fM.c>. - .1/,S'. r.-^Hyd.

C AMD. soc. i:

2n CHi:ONlCLE OF THE [1498—

minorcs in Lunclou. And tliei'e begamie the Observanttes.. and

came with tlie kynges letters and commandment for sertayne placis,

and so licganne vrith Newcastelle, Cauiitorberv. and So^Ythamtone.

And the kynges loggyjie at Sliene burnvd. Perkyn Warbykesett on a >kafi'old in Chepe.

xiiij''. A". Thy^ y^re tlie xxij. daye of February ^vas boriie at

Grenwyche the th;ird sone of kynge Henry the Seventh, namydEdmonde duke of Somerset.

XV". A''. Thys yere in November Perk^iie "Warbyke was con-

victe of tresone and draune from the tower of London to Tyborne.

and there hongyd and be-heddyd : and the sanK- tyme was juggyd to

dye for tresone the erle of WarAvyke sone to the duke of Clarans be

fore relitrsyd. wyclie erle had bene kejite in the t^Aver from the age

of xj. yere un tu the ende of xiiij. yere after, and the xxviij^^,

day of November was beheddvd at the towre hyih And the same

daye vras grcte flooddes. wynddes. thunder, lytn^mges, wyche dyd

moche harme and hurte in dyvers placys and countres in Ynglonde.

And the viij. daye of >May iiexte after the kynge and the

qwene went to Callys, and thether came tlie duke of Burgone and

spake with the k^mge •' in sent Peters church withowte the towne

the space of seven oweres with moche honor and solas, and so

departyd. And the xiiij. day of June after the kyiige and qwene

came home aga_Y-ne. Thys was in the yere of our Lord xv C.

And the same monyth in December descessid the k_Aniges thurde somie

Edmonde. and was burry-fl at Westminster. And the same yere

dyde tlie archbyshoppe of Yorke,^ the byshopi>e of Norwyche,^ and

the hyshoppe of Elye.*^ And in September followynge dyscessyd the

the byshoppe of Caitntorbery, Morton, cardnalle and chaunceler of

Ynglond. And this j-ere was brent a palmer. And a grete

pestelens thorrow all Ynglonde and a grete d[earth.1

xvj^ A°. Thys yere the kynge byldyd new hys mauer of Shene,

and changed the name and namyd it Richemonde, and he byldyd new

^ See a ful! narrative of thi< interview in the Appendix to the Ciironicle of Calais,

p. 4 P. ' Thomas Sec:"., alijis Rotlierham.

•^ Thonias.Tanc.rir.Tnun. "^ John A1f"''"k.

— 1502._;

GUEY rKlAK> OF LO.NUOX. 27

his place called BaAnivstcastell ^ in London, and repavryd iivs place

at Grene^v^-che. v.-jth mochc newe Ivldvn2:e there and in d\vers places.

xv\f. A". Tliys yere vras send in to Ynglonde the kynge of

Spa-\aiyes thurde daughter, namyd Kater^-ne. to be marryd to the

prince Ai'ture. and she londyd at Plmnmotlie the viij. day of October,

and res[eved] in to lond in the most ryall wyse the xij. day of

JS'ovember than frN'day. And the sonday follow_\mge maryd at sent

Powlles churche. And aivhalpas inade of r\-mber from the west dore

to the qwere dore of twelve fbote brode and four fotte of liyghte.

And in the myddes of the same rnarryd. And the fest holde]i in

the byshoppe of Londones paUes, And the day of hare rese^'ing

in to lond was made many reclie pagenties ; furst at the bregL^e, at tlie

condyd in Gmschestret, the conder in Cornelle. standarde in Chejijie,

the crosse new gylted. at the lyriyll coi^dyd, and at PowUes Avest

dore, ronnynge wyne, rede clare: and wytiie, and alle the da}- of the

marrage. And at the same inaryge the kynge made fifty-seven

knyghtt€5. And the iij'^'^ day after alle the corte removyd unto

Westmyster by Avatter. And the mayer wyth alle the crafttes wA-th

them in barges, Avith trom}>ettes, shalmes. and taberttes in the best

mauer; and there the kAiige heide ryall justes, turnayes, and ban-

kettes six dayes aftei\ And the.ne returnyd to Rychemonde. Andthe same daye ther tlie mayer helde hys fest at the yelde halle.

And the same yere in November came to the kynge a nobyll imbas-

sator oAAte of Scotland for to trete of maryage betwene the Scottyche

kynge aaid our kynges eldest doAvgter namyd jNIargarete, Avyche

Avas acordyd on sent PoAvlles e^-yn the conversion. And the

second sonday of lent ^ after was sir Edmonde de • la Poole was pro-

nuncyd acursed oppily AAyth boke, belle, and candell, at PoAvlles

crose at the sermonde before none. And in Ester Aveke nexte

after dyscecyd the prince Arture at Ludlow, and burryd at Wor-ceter. And the deche from the Temse to HoJ borne bryggc ncAA-

cast. And this yere the Gray freeres changed their abbyttes in to

Avhytte gray apone sent Georges dnA-. thene beA^nije sattordaA- the

' Baybard's Ca.<tle.

' Faiiyan mentions this '-upon thf-.n'/-,-' s^>nd;iy r.f Lcni " in tlic next yt-ar.

A.e

28 CHKONIC].E OF THE [1502—

]irime in tlie yere of our lorJo ]\I'cccccIj.'' And sir James Tynyll

and sir Jolm Wvndham be-hedyd.^ Thys yere the qwene Elizabeth

dyde" at tlie towre,. and burryd at Westravster. Item tins yere

a gret imLa^setor came trom the kA^^ge of Romans. And the

Gray freeres clumngyd their habhetts from London rossette unto

Avhytt gray.^

xviij"^. A". Tliys yere •^-as the gret jubele at PoAvllts.

xix'^'. A". Thys yere 2\Iargarete that was the k\-nge5 daugliter

Avas marrvd unto the k\i:ge of Scottes. And that same yere in

]\Iarch was a grete frost and snoAve, and many grete fyeres in London

in dyvers j'laces, as at the brigge.. Austyn ireeres. sent ALartyns

grante.'^' and Buttoll w'harf'r] And a gret fray in Cheppe,

[\\hL-rein~ lordes and knyrtes toke partes.

xxj". A". Thys yere the xv. day of January at t\Aelvf of cloke

at none rose socJie a tenipest of wv):ide tyll it was twelve at raydnyth,

that it blew dow]ie tres and tyles of howsys, and that same nyght it

blewe dovrne the weddercr-ke of Powlles stepulle the lengthe of the

ende of PowHes church tir.to the syne of the blacke egylle : at that

tyme was lowe bowses of bokebynderes wdier nowe is the scole

of Powdes. And that same nyght was the duke of Burgone that

Avas callyd Phyllype Avith hys lady and n:iany shepes of hys. the Avyche

intendyd to a gone into Spayne to a bene croAA-nyd kynge. but by

tempest ware drevyue to Porchemoih haA-yjie.. and soo the kynge

send many of the nobyll lordes and states of the reahue both speri-

tuall and temporall to reseA-e hyni and all hys pepuU,. and soo broAvte

them to London ; and there the kynge nobylly reseA-ed them and

made them grete chere and soo departyd them home agayne. Andthat same yere at tliat tyme Avas soch a sore snowe and a fi-ost that

men mvght goo Avith caittes OA-cr the Temse and horse, and it lastyd

' •' Also aiioute thy? tyme the Gray fryei-s wen.- compelled to take tbeyr old liabit nisset

a- the shej.e doth dye it."—Faby^^.

^' On the vj. day of Xv.-y on Tower hill, says Faby.-m : they were partisans of Sir Ed-

mund de la Pole.

' On the 11th Feb. iri02-o.

'• The four la.-t lines are an a'id/.ion to the original MS.; whence occurs tins repetition.

' '^t. Manin's Ir Grand. F.-Z'^w-r. cives the respective dates of these firo^.

— 1514.] GKKY Fi;]Al;^ OF LONDON. 29

TvUe after caudflmas. And tLen it was agreed betwene the

kyiiize and the duke of Burgone that Ednnmd de la Poole shulde Lc

send home agayne. and so he was.

xxij". A". This _yere Avas_ chosyn [sheriflT] by the citte_one

Jonsonji goldesmythe. aiid he made bys fest : but •within iij. dayes

he was dyschargyd at the commandment of the kynge, and "William

FitzAviHiam chosyn. and so kepte owte alle the hole yere, and the

other toke soche a thowthe that he dyde. Item tlie bakeres

howse in Warwyke lane burnyd. And. twelve hcrynges a 'y\

And a gaily burnyd at Hauuon.

xxlij°. A". Thys yere wasjnany aldermen put in to the tower, and

sir Wijliam Caj^ell put fo warde in the shreffes howse. And this

yere the mayer was reseved Avith |iroces-ion on sent Frances daye

with the aldenuen as founders.^ and soo contynewyd long after.

And the lady Mary the kynges dowter made sewre to the k}-nge

of Castelle.

xxiiij". A°. Thys yere the xxij. day of Aprill dyde kynge Henrythe vi)^^' at Richemonde. and browth to London over the brviio-e

ajid soo to Powlles the furst nyght. and the nexte day to Westmyster

nobvllv and there bur\*d.

HENi:iCUS OOTAVUS REX.

And the mydsomer day followvnge was his sonne crownyd Heiiry

the viij^'^ at WestTuyster, and hys qwene Kateryne that was hys

brothers wyffe prince Artore. Thys yere was Emsorie and Dodle

be-heddyd at Towre hyll. And four persons sett on the pyllory for

falls qwestmongeres.

iiij'^. A°. Thys yere the kpige went in to France, and the car-

reke and the Regent b}-rnte. And this yere was the Scottych

I'elde. and the k^^lge taiie and slayue, and browte to Skene,

yj°. A". Thys yere Avas a gret deth at the ]Menerys, that there

dvde xxvii. of the nonnes.

30 CHi:oxjCLE or the [1516

—

viij°. A". Tjits yere was yell 'Max day. that yoiiir men and

prentes of London rose in the nyght. and Avolde have l)ad James

Mottas ane owte-landych mane and wolde have sla^Tie hvm. but he

hyde hym iu hys getters in hys howse : and from thense the\- wente

un to sent I\Iart^-ns. and there spoyled the shomakers shoj.pes of

shone : and thane rose the mayer and slireftes and Avolde liave cessyd

theni; but they cowde Jiot. And then rose the erle of Surre. riiid he

wolde have spoyled them. And iiij. or v. dayes after the corte kepte

the citte m harnes with divers lordes. and at the last tliere ware

dyvers of them hongyd within the citte on gallos. as at sent_Martyns

gatte at Ludgate, at Algate. Bysshoppes gate. Doggate. sent ^^languns,

Ledpihalh in the Powltre. and at the stondert in Cheppe;^and there

was hongyd and qwarterd. one Lyncon ; and another gall_ovvs at Xew-gate. And within shorte space the kynge satte in Westmyster halle,

and there was commandyd the citte to corne in their clothvnge.. and

the rest of them that was pardent to come Avith halters abowte their

jieckes and to aske pardone,. and soo a generall pardone was gevyne

unto theme alle that came that tyme.

xij°. A". Thys yere was the duke of Buck}-nghame be-heddyd

at the towre hylle, and burryd at the Austynfreeres. And the

owpis ^ made at the bryge howse.

xiij°. A", Thys yere the emperor Charles came in to Ynglond

and soo to London^ and there was honorabullie resevyd with manypagenttes. as on the brygge,. m Graschestret, Ledynhalle,. the condet

in Cornell, at Stockes, at the gret condet in Chepe, at the standerd,

the crosse new gylte, at the lyttell condet, and PowUes church dore;

and soe to Bryddewell. wycli was new made and gylte agenst hys

com^mge.

And this yere was a man soddyne m a cautheme*^ in Smytlifelde,

and lett up and downe dyvers tvmes tyll be was dede. for because

he wold a poyssynd dj-^-ers jiersons.

xiiij". A". Thys yere the kynge of Denmarke and hvs qwene

was drevyn c>ute of theii- londe for cruelncs that he dyd unto hvs

' oveiij. '• Boiled in a caldron.

— 1.524.] OliEY rillAKS OF LONDON. 31

pervs and liys pepull in hys realme, and liarde masse in Powlles

church " with hrs qwene. And from thens went unto Westmyster.

And tills yere thys mayer^ beganne the furst fest that the mayer

shuld dyne on sent Frances day in ilie Gra^'freeres.

And tliis yere in feverelle the .xx^'. day was tlie lady Alys

HimgrCord vras lede from the tower i;n to Holborne and there put

ijito a carte at the church-yard with one of her servanttes, and so

cai-yed unto Tybome, and there both hongyd/' and she burryd at the

Greyfreeres in the nether end of the myddes of the church on the

north syde.

And the parlament beganiie at the Black freeres, where every

man was sworn ^vl]at he was worth and to paye to the k^nge.

xv°. Ao. Thys yere v/as moch adoo for the rnnyer. for master

Go!-ge Monop Avas cho=;;-:ie. but he A^-olde not take it aponne hym.

And then on Simojie and Judes evyne master Baldere toke it on hjTti.

And tliis yere was di-awne and bongyd and quarterd at Tyborne

for tresone Frances. Antony., and Peker-smge, for thei intendyd to a

made an insun-exsion with in the londe at Coventre.

And here the erle of Angwych "^ came in to Ynglond.

xyjo. A". Thys yere the kyiig and the cardnall Wolsey the ix^''.

day of IVIarclie inttudiid to a come and to see tiie Grayfreeres hut the

wa/L lett ti/Il . ..*= Andthexvj. day of January, before the byshoppe

of sent Asse doctor Standych and dc>ctor Ally and other offeceres

belong^mge mito the sayd legate dyd begynne their Visitacion at the

ObserA'anttes at Grenwych, and then was departyd many of them unto

other placys ; but aga^nie that day that the byshoppe of sent Asse with

" " Christienie king of Denmark came into Eng'.ande in June.'" Fabyan.

*" John Munden. gtild^mith.

' This ladyV crime vas that of having murdered her husliand, as Stowe seems to have

gathered from some other authoritv, though his passage on this subject is mainly from the

present chronicle. The parties have not hitherto been identified : but see a note in the

Addenda to the p^e^ent volume.

^ Archibald Douplas e;irl of An^s the hu>':iand of Margaret queen dowager of Scot-

land, sister to king Henry. He came into Englan-.i out of France.

" The words in Italic are struck tbrough.

32 cniiOXiCLE OF Tin: ^1524—

liis comjieny shulde come ag;nvnc, iiKiiiy of them were come lioiiie

agaviie.. or elles they had bene put. owte at that tyme : and one of that

owse John Forrest was comandyd to preclie at Pow]]ef crosse the son-

day after, and tliere pronnncid them all acursi that "wente o'.vte of the

])lace : and thiene sr^me of tlieme came liome.. and \yare put in the

portere? warde iri tlie eardnalles place. And amonge all v.-as one

lay brother AA'iiliani Ren^crofte \va5 send un to tiie Gray freeres in

London to pri-one and was there longe.. and at the last sulnnyttyd

hymselfe and was asoyled of the sayd ljysho})pe hy the auctoryte of

tlie carduall. and soe delyverd home agavne.

Also that day that the kynge came o^-te of liys chamber to come

to the Gray freeres tydynges was browte Ir.-m tliat the F^'enche

kynge was tane by the duke of Burgone. AUo there Avas gevyne

comuiandement unto the mayer that that nyght that there shuhle be

a gret bonfver at PoAAdles chtirche dore, and there to be sett a

hoggys hed of rede and another of claret for the pepulle to drvnke

that Avolde for the good tydynges. And the second day after AAas

satterday at nyght Avas a grete wache thorrow all the citte as it is

wonte to be at mydsomer. and in e\erv stret a bone fyer. And the

sonday after, wyche was the second of lent, the kynge, qwene, and

princes,'' with all other stattes both spiritual! and temporal!, came to

Powlles. and there was songe Te Deum. And after masse tlie

legate gave Ijvs benediccion to all that u'as in tlie churche, clene

lyffe clene remission.

Also tlie thursday at n^'glit. after that Bcivre Ijell was 'rono-e, a

pele was comajidyd to be rouge in every parish church in London

for sewer worde and tydynges that Eichard de la Pole was sla^oie,^

and many of the nobyl! stattes of France there to the number of

XXX Ml'

^Viid tliis same vere was dvvers of tlie Austyiie treeres put in the

tower of London for a freer tliat dyde in prisone amonge them.

And on sent ]\Iathie daye after was a grete general! procescion

" Princess (Mary). '' At the k.ttlt' of Pavin.

— 1527.] GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. 33

Avith every ])]aces of relenionc in tl.eir best coppis. clarkes and

prestes. and so went from Pa^^•lles uj>pe to Ledyne Lall. and downe

Graschercb and to sent Mangvllcs, and all Temstrete : and uppe at

Doggate. and nppe Watlyngstrf te, and soo to Pawlles west dore,, there

the cardnalle with dvvers byshoppes and abbottes in their mytteres ;

and soo came in to Pawlles to the hye autter, and there sange Te

Deum for the sewer tydynges that was come of this belbresayd.

And a bushylle of bare sake solde for iiij s. viij d.

xvi)". A°. Thys yere beganne the cardi:iidle Wolsey to enter

bys visitacione araonge the iiij. cl . . . and on Alsolne day doctor

Allyn beganne in the Gray frecres at afternone.

And in thys yere begane the golde to lyse. as the angell nobyll at

vij s. and in November after it was made vii s. yi d. : and here begane

a derth of corne.

xviijo. A". Thys yere was moch a doo in tlie yelde-halle for tlie

mayer. for the comyns wold not have had Semer. for be cause of yell

May day.'' And also whane the sherefife slmlde be cbosyn for the

com^-ns they chose (hhnl:), but he wuld not take it., and soo it stode

Toyed tyll it was Myhylmas dayc, and then master Lambert toke it.

Also this same yere doctor Barnes ^ the Austyne freer, two

Esterlynges., and two other men shulde a stonde at Powlles crosse at

the sermonde with faggottes and tapers, but for because of rayne

they stode on the hye scafiblde within the church, and the byshopj)e

of Piochestcr Fycber dyd preche; this was thexvj. day of February,

and then Barnes was delyverA'd home to prisone, but he brake

aways from them and went beyend see unto Luter.

And the vj. day of October was a gret rayne all the nyght and all

the daye unto vj. a cloke at nyghte. and then was p'ct lytn^-nge

and thunder and haylle.

And this yere was a gret derth in London for brede, that d^'vers

persons both men and women ware hurte at the carttes. And moch

• Thomas Semer had been sheriff when the .'•ioi occurred recorded in p. 30.

'' Robert Barnes, prior of .^t. Augfiistine';- at Cambridge, afterwa-ds burnt in 1540.

CAMD. see. F

34 CHIiONJCLE OF THE [1527—

u-ette avA rye was provyded for in London in dyvers liowses for the

citte."

And this yere the pope -was tane yirisoner by the eniperor. and

dyvers cardnalles. and aftervrard v.-as ransoniyd un to tlie emperor.

The xxiiij. day of Oclobc-r after was a gret generall procession

aiinyne in their coppis. and at Powlles west dore mett the cardjialle

M-irlj dyvers Lyshoppes. alibottes,. and priors, in tlieir mytters agayne.

And tliys yere the cardnalle went in to France for to make a lege

betwcne the kynge and us : and tins vere in Octoljer after the grand

master of France^ came to London.

xix". A-'. Thys yere vras noo wache on ]\Iydsomer nyglit. Aiid

also tins yere was gret derth for brede.

xx". A". This yere was a prisoner l>rake from tlie halle at Xew-

gate whan tlie cecio]:is was done, tiiat wasbrowte downe in a basket

and brake thorov,- the pepull and went unto the Gravfreeres, and

there was vij. dayes. And at the last tlie shrefies came and spoke with

hvm in the church, and, for because he wolde not abjure and aske a

crowner, wirii gret violens of them and their oft'ecers toke him owte

of the churche. and soo the churche Avas sliott in from monday unto

thursday. and the servys and masse sayd and ?onge in the j'ratter

:

and that day the bushoppe of sent Asse '^ browte the sacrament

solemply downe with procession, and soo the powre prisoner conti-

newvd in pri^one, lor th.ey sowte all the waves that they cowde but

the lawe vrolde ]iot serve tijem to honge hynn and at the last was

delyvered and put at lyberte.

Also this same yere John Scotte, that was one of the kynges

]ila\eres. was put in Newgate for rebukynge of the shrett'es, and was

there a sennet, and at the last was ledde betwene two of the ofiecers

from Newgate thorrow London and soe to Newgat aga^-ne, and then

was delyveryd home to hys howse : but he toke soch a thowte that

he dyde, for he went in hys shurte,

" The people appear to have been injured when crowding and pressing round the carts

laden with corn as they stood in ibe market. To prevent such accident? in I'uture the

cirts were unladen and the corn deposited for sale in shops.

'' The Marecbal de Mcntmnrencv. See Cavendish's vrdspy. Singer's Ed. p. ISS.

" Henrv Stan dish.

— 1532.] GREY FEIAKS OF LONDON'. 35

And this ^-ere in June two legattes satt at the Blacke freeres for

the kvn£i'es marryge .: and in October the cardnalle was depri\ed of

tlie chanslercheppe.

xxj". A°. Tliys yere at mydsomer was a goodiy wache and two

goodly pagenttes in Cheppe-syde at Soper kuie ende.

Aj;id tin's yere was tlie emperor crowned at Bonony.

xxij°. A". Thys yere was nioche a doo for chesynge of the shreffe;

tile com}-ns woldeniave~Tiia"d Aniadas, but he wolue notTake it ; and

at the last on Myhylmas evyn was chosyn Ilichard Chopp}-ne

chandler, and tliere by and by toke his hoihe in the yelde halle and

soo Avent to Westm}ster.

And this yere was gret wyndes and fiuddes that dj-de moch harnie

botJi a thys syde the see and beyende the see.

The :vj. day of May the challons of Esyng-jtettyile ^ was put owte.

Also this yere was a coke boylyd in a caudfrne in Smythfekl for

he wolde a powsynd the byslioppe of Rocliester Fyclier with dyvers

of hys servanttes,^ and he was lockyd in a chayne and pullyd up and

dox^Tie with a gybbj't at dyvers tymes tyll he was dede.

And this yere dyde the cardnalle Wolsey on sent Andrewys

ev>ni. and byrryd at Lecetter.

xxiijf'. A^ This yere was a chauntery yirest of sent Andrewys at

Baniyscastell the v^'' day of July was hongyd at Towre hylle, and

drawne from Kewgatt, for cleppyng of golde.

And also this yere was William Baynard a man of lawe and too

iDO with hym, buri:iyd in Smythfelde for errysee, in I\Iay.

And this yere was the challons of Crystes church put owte of

there place '^ unto dyvers other places, and the place gevjn un to the

lorde chauncelor Thomas Audle.

And this yere was a purser*^ at sent Mart^Tis gate bm-n}-d in Smyth-

felde for eryssye.

Also the sacrament at sent Buttelles at Aldersgate on Good fryday

in the mornynge was stolen oute at the est wvndow, and iij. osttes

* The Augustiuian canons of Elsyng ppiial. ^ See Additional Notes.

" The prion- of Christ's Church witliin Aldgate ; see note in p. CI. ^ A purse-maker.

36 CHRONICLE OF THE [1532—

wrappyd in a rede cloth, and a Avoman Ijrowte it unto tlie porter of

the Grayfreeres, and she tane and broAvte unto the shreffe Richard

Grasshanie. and she send unto the cov\-nter. and was there alle Ester

dare tyll none, and then delyvervd. And the monday after Lo^ve-

sonday the curet M-itli all tlie parich and solempnite sette the osttes

Lome with solcme procession, by tlie commandment of the bwshoppe

of London, thene lieynge doctor John Stokesley.

.\2-1d this yere the k\m:re with lady Anne Bullene went to Callys

the ix. day of October, and there spake with the Frenche kpige.

xxiiij°. A^'. Thys yere in Lent [1533] d^-de Xicolas P^msone

[sheriff"', and for hvm was chosyn John ]\Iartyne bocher: and the

xvj. day before ^Ivhylmas he dyde, and for hym was cliosyn Jc'hn

Preist grocer.

And this vere was burnvd in Smytlifelde. Freth and another with

hym. for gret errvsv.

And this yere was the coronacion of qwene Anne. The xxix". day

of May she was browte be watter from Grenwyche un to the tower

with barges, the mayer. aldermen., and the craffttes. as the mayer

dothe to Westmester whan he takys hys othe : and the satterday

alter, that was ^Vvtson evvn. came from the tower thorow Lon-

don : pagenttes as at Gracechurch, at Ledyneballe. the condet in

Comehylle. the gret condet in Cheppe. the standert new paMityd.

and the wayttes playnge there, the crosse new burnechyd. the lyttyll

condet, and at Powlles gatte, and soo to Whytt halle at ^Vest-

myster that some tvme was the brshoppe of "iorkes ]iiace, and soo

aga\nie that tyme was new made. And a tylte to just v>-ith grete

posttes and vanes of the kynges annes and hares.'' witli their cony-

santt^s payntyd and gylte, and with stone^^•orke up to the raylles, the

wych was "OTOtte ^ on Assencion day in the moruynge. And on VTyt-

sonsonday, which was the xxsj. of May, was the coronacion in West-

myster church : and soo came crownyd from theus to Westmyster

halle, and there dynyd, ana at that tyme was many knyghttes njade.

— 1535.1 , GKEY FHIAKS OF LONDON. 37

And this yere dytle the Crenelle cjwene,. ^vyti'e un to the duke of

Sutii'ke. !Mary tliat ^vas dowter to Henry tlie vij,

xxv". A". Thys yere the xxiij. day of November [1533] prechyd

at Powlles crosse the byshoppe of Bangure electe doctor Capun," and

there stode before hym on a skaffolde doctor Bockynge and another

iccnke ^ of the same howse of Crystes church of Cantorbery, the

pnrsone "^ of Aldermary gelde. and ij. Observanttes of Cantorbery,"^

and the holy uiayde of Kent ^\ and from tiiens they went unto the

tower of London agayne, and moche pepull both at the crosse and

thoiTOw alle tlie streetes of London, unto the tower. From rhens

t];ey went to Caunt<.>rbery, andtJiere dvd pennaiis also.

And this yere was hongyd at the \Vyl](\v by the Temse svde

"V\ ooife raid hys v.-yiie, ibr kyl]y]);:e of t^vo Lun-)berttes^ in a bote

on the Temse.

And this yere was the byshoppe of Piome('s) poAvre pu[t down, and]

a ]:.es ccncludyd with Scotlond that lastyd but a wy[le.J

Thys yere vras the mayde of Kent with the monkes, freercs,

and the parsone of Aldermary, draune to Tvl»orne, and there

Long^xl and heddyd the v. day of May [15341, and the monkes

burryt at the Blacke fi'eeres, the Observanttes, with tlje holy ma3*de

at the Gray freeres : and the parsone at hys church Aldermarv.

xxvi". A°. And this yere the xx^\ day of November the lorde

amrelle of France *=' came into Yngloj-id, and was reseved into

London with gret solempnyte of the mayer, aldermen, and crafftes

of the same, in Che[>es}de.

Also the same yere the iij. day of May [1535] was Holy-rode day,

and then was drarme from the tower unto Tybonie the iij. priors of

' Joul) Sialeot, alias Capon, iate abbot of Hvde by WindieMtr.

' Edward Booking and Richard Bering.

' Henrv Gold. M.A. Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, Dec. l(i, 3 526, and Vicar of

Hsyes, Middlesex, Dec. 23, 1529.

' Hugli Rich, warden of the friar* Observants, and Ricliaru Risby.

' Elizabeth Barton. ' " Twoo marohauiites straungers." Fabvan.

» Thilip de Ch,^b(,t comte dc Neublajiclie. K.G. ; see Chron. o' Calais, p. 4J.

38 CHRONICLE OF THE_

[1535

—

t])e CharterhowsGS,'' and there hongyd,. heddvd, ar.d qwarterd; and one

of tlie cpvnrters of tlie prior's harmes ^vas sett u}) at tlie _i:atte in to

Aldersgate stret. And M-itliin sliort wliylle aft:-r iiii. monkes mooof the sayd howse, a< Exmew, Xitygate. with ij. others.^ ware

drawnc from the tower to Ty borne, and there hougvd, heddvd, and

qwarterd. and their qwartcres sett upp.

Also this yere the xxij. day of July wa'; tlie by-ho}>i>e of Rochester

John Fycher Leheddyd at Towre liyll, ami hurryd in the churchverd

of BarkAnie by tlie jiorthe dore. And the xxy-. da}' of the same

month was heheddyd at Towre hyll sir Thomas ]\Iore some tyme

chalnl^ler of Ynglond, and then was tar.e up the byshoppe agayne

and buth of tliem burryd within tlie tovrer.

And that same yere begapjie the new testamer.t in Englych.

And this yere dyde tlie erle of K_\-ldare in the to\\er.

And this yere was grantyd unto the kynge the tenthes and furst

fruttes both spirituall and teu:iporall.

xxvij°. A°. Thys yere the furst day uf 'Mare [1536] Avas tane

and arestyd of tresone the qwene Amie, kirde Rochfbrd hare brother,

master Xorres, master West, master Breertone. and one Markes, at

GrenewA'che, and browte unto the tower. And the xiij. daye after

they went unto "Westmyster to have their jugment. alle save onlv

the qwene and lorde Rochefbrd, for they had their jugment within

the tower the xv. day of May with the lordes of the realme; and

the xvj. of their qwest with the lorde mayer, aldermen, and viij. of

every hede craft of London. And the xvij. day of jNIay lorde

Rocheforde vath alle the rest was beheddyd ^' at Towre hyll, and their

lieddes sett up one London brygge. and their bodys burryd within

the tower. And the xLx. day of the same was the qwene Anne "^ be-

heddyd within the tower, and there hurryd.

And in September after was a rysynge in L\-ngcolshere of the

comons for taske and talenge of ane ablje there. Ijy the menys of

' London. Beauvale. and Hexham.'' Holinsbed nnmef onlv three. Exme\s Middlemore. and Nudijate.

' See ihe Chronicle of Calais, p. 46. ** Vide ibid. p. 47.

— 1537.] GEEY rr.iAr.s of londox. 39

lorde Darcv, lorcle Husev, sir Robert ConstabuU, and Robcrte Aske.

Ana tlie vij. day of October tljc duke of Norffoke and tlie duke of

Suffukewent therher and pacified tliem: and tlien begaimo Yorkechere

to rvse. and they pacifyed tliem the xxix. day of October. And the

k\Tiges grace sent aje.tter to the luayer and citte of London and gave

them thanckes for the paynnes and costtes of sendAnige of two hundred

and tWty men the xxxj. day of Octu'ljer.

xxviij'^. A*^. Thys yere one Robert Pukenntone, mercer, ^vas

skiyne witli a gone the xnj. day of November in a mornyng by tlie

gret condet in Chepe. and tlien was made a proclemacione by the

maA'er if anny man caime tell tydpiges how he mA"ght b.e knowvne

he slmld have a gret rewarde for hys lalior."

Also the iij^- day of February [1537"; tlie lorde Oarrad v>ith hys

five unkelles of Ireland—these Avare tlieii- names. Thomas lorde Fytz-

garrard; sir James Fytzgarrard,. sir John Fytzgarrard, sir R'chard

Fytzgarrard lord ox sent Ines in Ireland.''^ sir Oliver'^ Fvtzgnrrai-d,

and sir Watrer Fytzgarrard—ware draune from the tower mi to

Tybome. and there alle hongyd and heddyd and qwarterd. save the

lorde Thomas, for he was but hongyd and heddyd and hys boddv

buryd at the Crost Freeres in the qwere. and the qwarteres with

their heddes set up abowte the citte.

Also this yere beganne the Cortc of Augementacion in "West-

myster above by sent Stephens,, the wych was now made for the

Auorraentacion corte. wher a>^ mr. Rich ^ was made chaunceler.

Also the xix. day of Februarij Avas hongyd at Tyborne x. womenand iij, men.

Also this yere in the beg^mnynge of Lent it was proclamvd and

decreed^ by the kynge and hiys^concelk that the ])epulle shuJde ette

whytte mettes. and soo dyvers dyde.

* The murderer was discovered s-onie jears after : see Stowe's Chronicle.

'' In the gene£log>- of the FiizGeralds, in Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, b\ Archdall,

1779, i. 8S, sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, and sir John, are both described as knights of

Rhodes, of the order of St. John of Jerusalem; but tlieir brother Richard is not so stvled.

' Holdner .'n 3fS.

^ Richard Rich, afi(?rw-£.rds lord high chancellor. ' degrees ?>. J/i'.

40 CHnOXICl.E OF THE [].';37—

Also the xiij. day of Marcli sir Frances Bygotte ^ vras lirovrte

owte of tlie Xortlie to the toAver tliorrow Smythfehile aiid in at

Ke-n-gat. rydyrjge soo thorrow Cheyie-syde and soo to the tower, and

sir Raffe Elderker ledynge hym by tlie hond ^vith that he ^vas

bounde with alle.

Also tlii- A-ere the xxv. dav of I\Iarch the Lyncoinechiere men that

wa? Avitli bi-hniipe ^Makcrell was browte owte of Xew::;ate iin to the

yelde-halle in ro])pys, and there had their jngment to be draune,

liongyd, and heddyd and qwarterd,. and soo was the xrtix. of ]\Iarch

after, the wych was on ]Maundy thm-sdaye. and all their qwarters

Avith their heddes was Ijurryd at Pardone church yerde in tlie frary.''

Also tlie xiiii, day of May was browte from the tower to "West-

mvster the lorde Darcy 'and I'^rde Hu^sy. and there ^vere con-

denmide to deth. Init tiiey ^ wai-e had in to the Xonh and there

sufierd with Aske.

Also the x\"j. day of tlie same monyth was l^rowte from the towre

itn to the yelde-halle sir Eoberte Constabull and lady Bo^Anner. but

they ware carryd from the yelde-lialle unto Westmyster with alJe

the rest, and there had their jugement. And the xxv. daye of the

same mo^ivth was draune from the tower of London un to Tyborne

sir John Bowmer knyght, sir Stephen Hamertone knyght, master

Kicolas Tempest sqwyere, "William Thurston abbot of ± owntens and

baclielar of devinite. doctor John PekerAmge prior C'f the Blacke

freeres in Yorke, sir James Pekerelle challon (canon ) and doctor of

devinite. And after sir Jolm Bowmer [and] sir Stephen Hamertone

ware but hongyd and heddyd, and alle the resydew ware bothe

hongyd, heddyd and qwarterd. And at that tyme v\as draune from

the tower after, the lady ]\Iargarete Bowmer wyfie unto sir John

» One of the Northeni rebels; who had headed an attack upon the to-wn of Hull.

*> There was a Pardon churchyard on the north side of St. Paul's cathedral; but this

was another near the Charter house, \vbieh was used for felons and suicides, and

" the prior}- cart " used for carrying them, belonging to the hospiti^! of St. John at

CJerkenwell, which had the privilege of sanctuary, is particularly described by Stowe.

' Lord Darcy was beheaded on Tower hill, as subsequently stated ; lord Hussey was

executed at Lincoln: sir Robert Constable at Hull; and P.ol.iert Aske a: York.

—1538.

J

GREY rniAHS OF LONDON. 41

Bowiiier, and lie made hare hys w^-ffe, but she vras the M-_\-fle of one

Clie^Tjv. for he solde hare un to sir Bo^^Tllcr : and she was drawne

whaji she came to ]S^e^vgate into Smvthfelde. and tliere Ijurnyd the

same fore-none. And tliat same dave at Tyhorne was a yonge

h-eere of the Bhicke frecres uryngynge up, and for be cause lie

des_\Tyd the Ijarte of h^ym that browte hym uji,. to IiaA'c it and to

Ijurn yt. the shreft'e send liym to Newgate and tho'e was a seneyt or

more.

Also the ij. daye of June was drawne froin tlie tower of London

to Tyboiiie sir Thomas Percy, sir Frances Byggot, George Lumley

eyer to the horde Lumley, William Woodde prior of Byrlyugtone,

Adame Sedbarre abbott of Jarvys, and there ware hongyd, heddyd,

and qwarterd, save sir Thomas Percy for he was but heddyd and

v>as burryd at the Crose Freeres. and the qAvarters of alle the

resydew was burryd at the Gray Freeres in the clowster on the

Korth syde in the pamet." And the xxviFj?] day of June was hade in

to the North to be hongyd and heddyd lorde Husey, sir Robert

CoustabuUe. and Aske, and there suflerde as they ^A•are wordy.

Also the XX. day of June the lorde Darcy was be- heddyd at

Towre-hyll, and burryd within tlie tower.

.\Isothis ycre thexij. day of October vras borne the prince Edwardat Hamtou corte, the xxix. yere of kAmue Henry the viij.

xxix^. A''. Thys yere the good qwene Jane dessecid the xxiij.

day of October at Rechemond. and all the corte had •them blacke

<iownes, and she vras burryd at "Wyusor the viij. day of November.

AJso this yere the xxv. day of February [1538] was drawne from

the towere to Tyborne, Henry Harford gentleman and Thomas

Hever merchand, and there hong3^d and qwarterd for tresone.

Also this yere was made an acte of parhament that no lorde,

knyght. sqwier, gentleman, nor yeoman servynge-man shulde dys-

obey ony ofl'ecer, constabull, bayle, or oiiy ofi'ecer within the citte of

Loudon as sargant or yemail, for to drawe any wepone to anny

man, oppou payne of deth, or castynge of anny foyne.

• j)averr.ent r

CAMD. >oc. c;

42 CHKONICLE OF THE [1.538—

Also this same yere tlie xxij. day of ]\Iay was bumyd in Smyth-

felde freer John Forrest of Grenewyche. arjcl a rode that came owte

of Wallys cailyd Delvcrgaddar.^'

Also tlie vii. dav of August vas put to deth Willyam ConysLy

gentleman.^'

And t!)e ij. day of September vas put to deth master Clefforde.''

And tlie furst sonday of September ^vas liongyd at Clarkenv.-ell at

tlie wrestlynge place the hongman that ^as before, and ij. -^vith

]]\-m, for stelynge in Bart\dme\v faj.£i'.

xxx'-'. A". Thys yere the xxij. day of Xovembc-r was one Lam-

bert, other wysse cailyd Xicolas,'' was burnyd in Smythfelde fur gret

eryse.

And the xxix. of November was burnyd in Smytlifelde Juhn

^Mattes^ey a Doeheman, Peter Franhe and hys v.-yfie, fur erryse.

And this Acre in December was beheddyd at the Towre-hyll lorde

Henry markes of Exceter, lorde Henry Montegew,e ..^^^j >,ii- £(!_

ward Xevelle.

Also this vere was alle the placys of relygione within the citte of

London suli[)rest in XoAcmber.

Also this yere the xxiij. day of December was burnyd in Smyth-

felde Piichard Turner wever, and Peter Florens bocher.

Also the iij. day of March [1539] wasbe-lieddyd at ToAvre-hyll sir

Nicolas Carrow.

And the viij. day of May was the gret muster in London, that all

London musterd in harnes, morys pykes, bowses,^ haiid gons, and

whvtt cottes, with the mayer, shreffes, and d\wers aldermen.

» The shrine of Danel Gadarn was at Llandervel, co. Merioneth. On the destruction

of the image see Wright's Letters on the Suppression of Monasteries, pp. ISf*, 20S : Ellis's

Letters, Third Series, letter 330 ; Ellis's Brand, vol. i. p. 202, edit. 1S41.

fa Stowe savs. Edmoiid Conesby one of the grooms of the king's chamber for counter-

feiting the king's seal manual.

•^ Edward Clifford gentleman for counterfeiting the king's privT signet —Stowe.

'' Nicliolson in Stowe. ' Henr.v Pole viscount Montacute.

' harquebus.

— 1.340.] GKEY FRIAItS OF LOXDON. 43

Also the ix. dnj of July was be-becldyd at Towre-hyll master

Foskew^and niastei- D vngle ^ knvghttes : and that same day was

dravMie to Tyborne ij. of their servanttes and ther bongyd and

q-warterd for tresone.

xxxj". A". Thys yere the xsvij. day of Dcceniber came in lady

Amie of_Clcfie in to Ynglond, and the third day of January came to

Grenwych. un to the kynges grace, and tliere was marryd unto the

kyiiges grace with grete solempnyte. with the mayer, aldermen, and

xlj. craftttes, every one vj.,*^ and theys rode, and all the rest of tEe

crafftes went in their barge5_with all. their, best araye asthe mayer

is wont to goo to AVestmvster. And thene benanne alle idie £[;entvl-

womeii of Yngland to were Frenche whooddes with bellementtes "^ of

golde.

Also this same yere the xyj. day of r^larcli "1540^ was o]ie Gomerand iij. vacabundes with him draune, hongyd, and qwartcrd Ibr

clepp}^lge of golde, at Tyborne.

Also this same yere at sent Mary spettell, the iij. dayes in Ester

weke, preched the vicar of Stepney one Jerome :* doctor Barnes

*'

tiie i']^^ daye : and the iij'^e Garrard p parsone of Honylane, and

there recantyd and askyd the pepulle foryefnes for that they had

preched before contrary to the lawe of God. And doctur Barnes,

that was the Austyn freer, askyd there the byshoppe of Wen-chester foryefiies opvnly, and prayd h\-m yf he ^ulde foryeffe hymthat he wolde make some tokpie and holde up hys honde.

And the x. day c»f June was arestyd and had unto the tower lorde

Thomas Cromewell erle of Essex for grete tresone: and the xxviij.

day of July was he and lorde Walter Hungerfbrthe be-heddyd at

» Sir Adrian Fortescue. '' Sir Thomas Dingley, knight of St. John's.

' Habiliment* or " biliments." as we find them constantly -uTitieu, -uere the jewelled

fronts cif the ladies" head-dresses, as we see them in the portraits of queta Aune Bo-

ieyne, <*>.c. These two lines are added in a contemporarj- hand.

•* Si.\ of each of the twelve principal cirr companies.

' William Hierome, or Jerome, instituted to the vicarage of Stepney in 1537.

' Robert Barnes, before mentioned in p. 33.

E Thomas Garrard, instituted to the reciurv of Aiihallov^i. Honc-iane. in loS7.

^

44 CHRONICLE OF THE [1540—

at towre liyllc. Cromwelle for tresone and lorcle Ilungc-rfortlie fur

bockerv.

And the xxx. day of tlie same monyth was doctor Barnes, Jerome

and Garrard draune frouie the tower in to Sinytliftrlde. and tliere

l-urnyd for tlieir heryses. And that same dav also v>-as draune

from tlie tower with tliem doctor Powell with two oth-r ])restes,''

and there was a gallowys set up at sent Bartylmewvs gate, and there

^vare hongyd, heddyd. and qwarterd that same day. and their qwar-

ters sett aboAvte the cj-tte.

And the iiij. day of August T\-as drawne ft'om the tower to Tj-borne, Gyllys Home gentleman, Clement Phylpot, Edmoude Brom-liame, Derliy Kenhame, "William Home, Robert B}Tde, Jarvys

G arrow, and there houg}-d. heddyd. and qwarterd, and their qwar-

teres with their heddes sett up abowte the citte.

xxxij". A-'. Tiiys yere was draune from the tower to Tyborne

the xxij. day of December [Balph] Egertone and Th.omas Harmanfor cleppynge of golde,^ and there hongA'd, hedd\d. and qwarterd,

and their qwarteres set up.

Also the xxviij. day of June [1541] wasbe-heddyd at Towre hyll

lorde Lenarde Graye markes,*^ and burrvd within the to\A-er.

And the xxix. of the same monyth was lorde Dakers ^ of the

Sowth ledde Mdth the shreffes of London vmto Tyborne at after-none,

and there hongyd for .the new acte that was made, and browte homeagayne in the carte mito sent Pulkeres and ther burryd.

And the xxviij. day o? June was hongyd at sent Thomas Watter-

rvn^re. Mantell. Frudus and another.

' AheU, Powell, and FeitherstODe. Their religious tenets were directly opposed to

tLose of the victims of the preceding: dav; but they were equally offensive to king Henrj'

in denying his supremacy.

' Their crime was counterfeiting the king's seal in lead : see Stowe.

" i. c. son of the inarquesi: of Dorset. He-Suffered, says Fabyan, "for divers treasons

done in Ireland wliiit he v.as the king's deputy there."

• Lord Dacre wai hung for a murder committed iu Sussex, as were Lis three compa-

Licns named in the next paragraj)h.

— 1.543.] GREY FEIARS OF LOXDOX. 45

Item tlie xxviij. day of ^lay was the counteys of Salsbciy be-

hedyd -witbiii the tower.

xxxiij". A^ Thys yere the x. daye of December was draune

from tlie tower to Tyborne [Thojjias] Colpeper. and there was

honp:yd and heddyd.

AikI the xiij. day of February [1542'i was the (pvciie Katermeand lady Eoclieford be-heddyd within tlie tower, and there burryd.

And the xxviij. dav of ]Marc]i there was a f'raye made at the couti-

ter in Bredstret of a sergant at harmes of the parlament bowse by

Robert Torasone the yeman and Thomas Craker of the same bowse

for arest of Robert Taylor sergant of maysse. the Avyche master

shreffes ware sent for to the cowncelle, and they ware send nnto the

tower of London, arjd were t'here a iij. or iiij. dayes.

And tlie x. day oi' March was a mayde boyllyd in Smytlifelde for

poysynyng of dyvers persons.

And this yere came in the erle of Desmonde and the gret aXele,

and was creat}-d erle of Terone and hys sonne barone of Doncannen.

xxxiiij". A^ Thys yere in October [1543] was a grete skermyche hi

the North abowte Carlelle, and many of the Scottys lordes tane and

browte to London unto tlie tower the xx^\ day, and the nexte day

ware browte unto the kynge and sworne to be tre\^e, and soo was

ransomed and send home agayne.

And this vere was a grete pestelens in London, and ]\Iyhylmas

terme reraevyd mi to sent Albons, and it beganne not tyll sent Mar-

tyns day the xv. da}^ of Xovember.

Also the iij'^^ day of August before was proclamyd op^m warre

betweene our k^mge and the French e kynge.

And this yere was a gret derth for wode and colles.

x-xxv". A°. Thys yere the xxiij. day of Decendj.er at none rysse

a gret tempest of wynde and rayne. and contynewyd all the nyght

tyll the nexte daye at viij. of the clocke. and in that tymewas moch

liarme on the see that lost manr.y she[)pes of merchantes and grete

men and women of Spanyarddes that ware goynge un to the empe-

ror aniav^nstl Chrystuias. a:id tht^v" with all their cioode? v/are

46 cnnoxiCLE of the !^1o44.

dro^Tiyd and ]o?t and gast up, as dyvcrs persons both men ani.l

v\-omen ; and tliat tyme came the kynge of Costelle in to Ynglond,''

and cauie by Avatter un to the AVln'tt halle un to the kynge. and soo

un to Rychemqnd. and was there tylle the furst day of JanuariJ ' 1 544]

,

and thene departyd home agayne and had grete geftes gevyne hym.

And on teweh'e day in the mornpig beganne a grette my.-t thiat a

man mvght not see a two yerddes beibre Iiym. and then was moche

harme done in the see tiiat dyvers sliei'pes ware lost and tar.e by

Frenche men, and some in to this lond.

And at this tyme was worde browte un to t]ie k^Tige that the erlo

of AngNvyche^' in Scotlonde. whome the kynge had kepte hym v«irh

liis brc>ther and dyvers other here iii Ynglond more thane a xj. or

vij. yereS; and liad hym with the otlier lordes of Scotlonde sworne '^

and reseA-yd the saci'arnent that thei shulde be trew, and soo went

home, and tlie c-rle of Angwyrhe was made captayne of Barwyke:

and at thys tyme he stale awaye and carryd with hym the prin.ci-

[lalle of the ordenans, with |date, niouny, harnes, lior^L-, and wettelles.

and went in to Scotland to a castelle of hys with the other lordes

wvth hvm un to the bysliopjje of sent AndreA^ys, agayne ^ our

master the kAnijie of Ynglond, whome had cherycyd and auade moche

of theme alle and gave theme many grete yetittes, and they lyke

travtors dvssevyd hym and the reme wyth their false cratftes.

Also the vij. day of ^Slarclie was draune from the tower olLmdon

un to Tvborne v. ])restes and [GermaineJ Gardner cecretore un tu

the bvshoppe of "Wynchester. and theis ware tlie prestes names

(kft llaiih) ; and there ware hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd, and

their o^warteres with their heddes byrryd there.

And the xix. day of ^larch was draune from the tower unto T}--

borae Asclieby, that was some tyme a prest and forsoke it,

and there was hong}d and qwarterd and there byrryd.

See a note on this event in the Chronicle of Calais, p. 5.

Archibald Douglas, the husbacil of the dowager Queen ]\Iargaret.

shorue in N8. ' .. t. apainn.

loi-i.'i GKEY FJ;]AUS OF LONDON. 47

Al>o the last day of Ajirille dyue the lord Thomas Aiidle chaun-

cheler of Ynglond, and for hym ^Ya^ made ha'de Thomas Wresley.

Ireiii. the xvj. day of ]\Iay Mas made a }.ruehimacioii in London for

rays\T.ige of golde and syh'er. as tlie r\"al]e xij. sliillings,. and tlie

angelle at A-iij. shilHngs,. and sylver at iiij. sliillings the unce : and

also that alje French men slmld voyde the realme Avithin xx. dayes

or elles to be made £ree..ileiiycehs. under jiayene of detli : and a new

qwyiie of sylver, of xij*^. apece. grottes,. and ij'^. with hole facis."

Item, the xxij. day of May was the Asseiicion day, and at nyght was

made greto hone-f\;^rs_thoiTOw all London, and grete chore in every

[-arych at everyJjcyie-fyei", and gTete nielody with dyvers in^tre^^•-

mentes;_and_the ma};er with the slireffe- rydyng;e thorrow every

warde of-Loudon to see how it v. a; d«jne, for the good tydynges that

came owie of Scotlund.

Item, this yere was no waclie at Mydsomer be cause of tlie

warres ; but tlie mayer wyth the slierefies rode thorrow alle Lon-

'

don, and e^ery aldeiTuan m hvs warde Avith the constabulles.

And this yere the kynges grace went un to Bollon, and lavd

sege there to the xix. day of July, and lay there tyll it Mas the

xiij. day of September, and as that day it Mas yeldyd up un to

the kynges grace, and the kynge gave tliem alle tlicro lyftes

and pai-dynd them to goo M'ith hagge and bagges, and lent them

a}K)n a vij. score Maggens or more to carre ther stoffe. arid soo

went awaye in to France. But tlie vij. day of October tliev came

agayne unto basse BuUene and there sIcm- all the Englyche men,

M-omen and chelderne, and sett it alle a fyer, and M-ent their Mayes

aga\T)e. And there M-as tane the captayne of grete Bullyne and

dwers of ours M'ith them.

^

xxx\')". A". Thys yere the ix*^^ day of December M-as vij, gentyl-

men of Kent sett on the pyllery at the sioudard in Cheppe, and stode

there thi*ee OM-ers. and there here cut by the erys, and one of eche of

' i. c. v.-ith froiit f:»ces, as db^tinjuislied from " l,a!f-f;ice.s," in vliich tlje king's head

was fisnire-i in profile.

- Tliese four la^t liiu-s are erased in the MS.

48 CHROXICLE OF THE [1.544-5-

ther erys cut of. nnd burnyd m tlie choke, and tlien tane do^vne

and had nil to pressone ; and after tliat carryd uii to Maydso!!."' and

there in the inarkyd ]dace set on the ryllory and the orh^r eyi'S cut

of, and hurnyd m the other cheke, and tlien had un to pre-r.n : and

there reniaynyd un to soch tyiiie as they had made borjddes un to

the ]^vnl:e of payment of soclie mony as Avas ta.xit un to them Ly the

kynge and liys cowncelL

And the xv. day of the same mo^itlie at nyght was caste d^-vers

l.iokys of eryses in dyvers [jiarts of~ London aa'a}"iie tlie sacrament

of tlie auter witli all uther sacramenttes and sacraiaeirLalles, and

iiamvnL'e d\"vers tvmes the bvshoppe of Wynche-ter,'^" "with dyvers

other Lysho]i]ies andlernede men, witii gret rehulvcs dyver; t\-mes in

it of them.

AUo tlii^ yere the xij. of .Tanuarij I'eganne the gatherynge of the

henyvolens at Baynysse castelle^ for tlie kyngcs warrys.

And also before Crystmas was inoche Avync tane of France with

ther shy]"»pes and laA-ed in the church sumtynie the Gray freeres. all

the church fuUe in every place of it, and at the Aust^ii freeres and

tlie Blacke freeres wyth herr\-nge and other fyche that vras tane on

the see goynge in to France that came from Anwarppe.

And this yere was an alderman of London made a captayne in

to Scotlond, Rede a scalter.'^ And this same yere the Scottes toke

a grete niultitudyue of the Yiiglych pepulle and slew th.em alle

sliamfully.

And thvs yere stode a prest of Ivente at Pulles crose for cuttynge

of hvs fMiger and made it to blede on the hoste at liis masse for a

fallse sacrafyce : and also another prest this yere was sett on the

='*I\Iaid?tone. ^ Stephen Gardiner.

" Barnard's Castle, in the city of London.

'' Holinshed relates of the battle at Pannyer haugh in March 1544-5. that air,ong other

prisoners taken hy the Scotishnien " Richard Read an alderman of London was one, who,

for that he refused to pay such a sum of money as the commissioners for the benevolence

demanded of him, was conmianded forthwith to serve the king in Lis wars against the

Scot', and su was taken now at this overthrovc." This unfortunato a!.:ernian seeuis

never to have arrived at the dignitx of lord mayor, or even slit-rif..

1545.] GKEY FETAK? OF LOXDON. 49

pvllere in Chepe for inakynge of false letters m the we>te centre un

to a bl^-nde Avoman.

And this vere was no wache at Mvdsonier for be cause of the '

warres bothe in France and also in Scotlonde.

And this vere was the church of the Whvtfreeres pullvd downe,

and^the stepulle of the Blacke freeres. and yt was stoppyd up [vrjth

lede aga^-iie,. and the waye"] goynge un to Baynysche castell from

the sayd fi'eeres.

And this yere was the Mary Rose lost beside Porcliniew. with

dvA-ers captaAms.. as sir George Carrow with many dyvers other.

^

Also the 22. day of June was a grete moster of the cy tte of London,

and that same day in the mornyiige was dyvers howsys a fver at Algate.

Also the xix. day of tlie same monythe before beganne at ix. of the

cloke at nyght a gret rayene with thonder and lyghtnynge. ar,d con-

tenevryd un to the next day at x. of the cloke.

Item the xij. day of September at iiij. of cloke in the mom^-nge

was sent Gylles chui'ch at Creppyll gatte bumyd, alle hole save the'"

walles, stepull; belles and alle. and how it came God knowetL<=

Item thys same yere in the same monyth was the Charterhowse

pulde downe, and the watter turned to dyvers places ther to gentvl-

mens placys. ''

Item the 23. daye of the same monyth was a gret generalle pro-

cessione of alle parsons, vekeres, cm-attes. with alle other prestes in ]>( ^X^\^every church, clarkes alle in copys and a crosse of ever}' churche,

' A second hand biis inserted these ^^Clrd£.

'' Of this accident the fullest account is that in the memoirs of sir Peter Carew in the

Archjeologia, vol. xxviii. p. 111. Several guns were recovered from the v\Teck so recently

as the year ISoP, (vide ibid. p. SS6,) and are now preserved at Woolwich.^ This church escaped the great fire of 1GC)6, and now contains many interesting memo-

rials of the previous century.

^ This refers to the conduit at the Charter-house, the water of which was derived from

the White Conduit fields. A very curious ancient plan of the pipes is still jire~erved at

the Charter-house, a fac-simile of \shich .by Vertue is in the portfolio of the Society of

Antiquaries, and a reduced engraving has been published in The Carihusi&n, ISS'.^,

p. 495-.

CAj^TT). SOC. H

50 CHr.OXlCLE OF THE [1546.

and soo Avent r.p un to Ledpie lialle one tlie oiisyde, Avitli alle PoAvles

in their copys and the bj^slioppe in his myttor. with alle the crafftes in

theire best lyvcrys._aud _sop downe one the other svde. and soo to

PoAvlles ngayne. And that same day stode one on the pyllery at the

stonderd in Chep|ie for niysse-usyng of tlie krnges cornyssion.

And th.e occasirrn of the jiroco'^sion was (urijinished].

xxyixiy'. A". Thys yere tlie xxyi. day of Fehnira-ij was hrowth

from the towre of London thorrow the cytte in t:. Smytlifelde. with

the shrelfes and ofPesars. and there brovrtli unto the stake wher as was

fH-er. for clyppynge of golde, and there had hare pardone. and soo was

hadde unto the tower agayne thorrow sent Bartelmewys spyttylle.*

Item the xiij. day of June after vras Wytsonsonday. and then was

a generalle jirocessione from Povrlles un to sent Peters in Corneliylle

with aile the chtlderne of Pov.lles scole, and a crosse of every piirislie

cl'.urclie, Avith a banner and one to ber it in a tenaclie. alle tjie clarkes.

alle tlie presttes. with parsons and vekeres of every clnu'chm coppys,

and the qwere ol'PowUes in the same njaner. and the byshoppe bere-

Tuge the sacrament under a canapy with the mayr m a go^nie of

cremsone velvet, the aldermen in scarlet, with alle the crafttes in

their best aparelle : and whau the maver came betwene the crosse

and the standert tliere was made a proclamacyon witli dyvers har-

hoddes of armes and pursevanttes in their cote armeres. with the

trompettes, and ther was proclamyd a unyversalle pes for ever be-

twene the emperar. the kynge of Ynglonde. the French kAmgc. and

alle crystyne kynges for ever.

Item the xj. day of Aprille before was Passion sonday, and then

preched doctor Crome^ in hvs pariche church, at the wyche ser-

mond he preched aga^me the sacrament of the auter : and that same

tA-me he was send for unto the corte. and there was exammvnd : and

the V. sarmondes at Ester spake alle agaj-ne the sard oppynyons. but

namvd not hvra. And tlie sondav after the Low sondav, the wycbe

The chronicler does not give the ^voInrln's name.

Edward Crome. S.T.P. rector of Saint Mar^- Al'ierinary.

1546.] G]:ey fkiai:s of loxdon. 51

was the ix. day of !May after, lie precheJ at Po-wlles crosse, and tliere

savd lie came not thether to recante nor to denye hys ^vorddes nor

woldenot. And then he vas send for that same day agayne, and was

examynd agayne: and the xx\-ij'^ day of June after, wyche was tlie

souday after Corpus Christ! day,, he was comandyd to preche at

PoAvlles crosse agayne_. and there recantyd and denyyd ])ys worddes. as

yow sliall have in liys artycle- with other moo attlie end of tiie hoke.^

And the xvj. day of July was bumyd in Smythfelde for grett

bcrrvsv .... HemmysJe^• a prest. A^yche was an Observand freere

of Hichemond : Anne. Askew, otherwyse callyd Anne Ivyme by hare

husband :'^ John Lassellys. a gentylman of Furnevalles inne : and a

taylor of Colchester. And Nicolas Schaxton some tyme byshop]) of

Salsbery was one of the same compauA". and wa« in Xewi^at and

luid iuggement witli them : Blacke, gentylman : and Christopher

Whytt, of the inner tempull : these iij. had their pardom Ai:id

Schaxtone preched at their burn\mge; and there satt on a scaifdld

tiiat was made for the nonse the lorde chaunsler ^ with the dewke

of Xorfoke and other of the cownsell. with the lorde mayer, dyvers

aldermen and shreffeS; and the jugges.

Item tlie furst day ofAugust after ]>reched at Powlles cross the sayd

Nicolas Schaxton, and there recantyd. and wepte sore and made

grete lamentacion for hys offens. and prayfed] the pepulle alle there

to for-geve hym hys mysse insamr'le that he had gevyn un to the

|»epulle.

Item the xx''. day of the same monytli after came in tlie lorde

amrelle of France^ un to Grenwych with xiiij. goodl}' gaily s, and

many other sheppes. and there was shotte many gonnys : and soo the

nexte day came be watter un to the tower wharfte. and so came

* These articles are not contained in the MS. from wliicli we are now priuting. Dv.

CroiDe survived thi'^ jiersecuiion. and died in Io'J2, t'lill liolding his rectory. Xeweourt.

*• Anne Askew, or Ascoujrh. »^~ tlie daughter of Sir William Ascough. of Kelsey in

Lineohisliire, and had been married to Mr. K^^ine of the s.-mie county, but had cea.sed to live

with him; whence the ambiguity of the designation. "^ Sir Thomas ^^"riothesley.

""• Claude de Honnebai i : compare ^vith an account of tins cmlias>y in Holinshed,

52 CHEONICLE OF THE [lo4G.

thorrcAv tlie cytte ; and in Cheppe-syde loGtwene the crosse and sent

]\Iy]i}-]l.^> stode tlie nir;_ver Avith alle the aMermen and the crafftes in

their Le?r lyverys. and the mayer gave liyra a present in the name of

alle the cytte: and scio carne un to the byshoppes pallv? oi' London,

and lay there sonday alle dav ; and the monda.y was Bartvluiew-

evyn. ard then he was had to Ilauiton corte where the k^iiges

grace lay. and tliere "was rvally resev^•d and had grete chere "with

many grete jeftttes;" and soo laye there tyll ytt was the fryday after;

and then departyd, and came agajm unto London : aiid the monday

after in tiie inornyiige departvd. and soo went home agavne with

grete joy e.

Item the xxvj. da}- of September was burnyd at PowlJes crosse a

gret nmltyiude of Ynalych bokes, as testamenttL-s and other bokes.

the wvch uare fdrbodyn by proclamacyon by the kynges commaud-ment before,. thorroAv alle hys domynyon.

Also at tliys tyme vras made an acte in the cytie tiiat ever more

after that they shulde chose the mayer of the sayd cytte on Myhyl-

mas day : and here it beoanne furst : and then was made an acte

that there shulde be Jio niore mayer"s fest but tlioys that wolde

kepe it.

xxxvijj". A". Tliys yei-o the xij^'^ day of Decendjer the dewke of

xVorffoke and the yerle of Sorre hys sonne ware comyttyd unto the

tower of London, and the dewke went be watter fi-om the lorde

chaunselers place in Holborne that was sometyme the byshoppe of

Ely's, aiid soo downe U3i to the watter syde, and so be watter un to

the tower ; and liys soune the yerle of Sorre went thorrow the cytte

of London, mak^mge gi'ete lamentacion.^

Item the xx^^ day of the same monyth was di'aune from ^N'ewgate

un to the tower hyll for qw\m}mge of the kynges mony, there was

hongvd and no more.^

» gifts.

'' This probablv menns that the si;rht of tlie earl in disgrace caused great coumii&eraiion

and lamentation.

^ Again, tlie pei-t^o:! or pcrMjii? are not described l>y the chionicler.

1547.'' GKEY FKIAi:? OF LOXDOX. 53

Item the 13. day of Januarij was the yerle of Son-ej browte from

the tower of London un to the yelde-halle of London, and tliere he

was from ix. unto yt was v. at nypht, and there had liys jugge-

nient to Le lieddyd : and soo tlie xix. day of the some month it was

dune at the Tov/re hylle.

Item the 3°. day of Januarij was sette opMi the clmrche agayen

that was sometvme the Gravfr'eereS; and masse sayd at the auteres

^^"^th dvvers presttes. and it was namyd Crystys clmrche of tlie

fundacion of kynge Henry the A-iij"'.

Eim-ARDUS SEXTUS IJEX.

Item tlie 3L day of the same monyth was proclamyd kynjjie

Ed^vard the vSixth. and came the same day m:ito the tower of Lon-

don. And kynge Henry the eightli dyde at the manor of__Whytte

halle at Westmyster. And the xiiij. day of Febi-uary was browte

from iliens on to Syone and there lave alle nyght. and the nexte day

browth un to Wynsore and there by)-ryd by qsAone Jane.

Item the xx. day of the same monyth the sayd kynge Edwarde

the sixth came from the tower of London thorrov.- London, and in

dy%-ers places pagenttes,, and alle the strettes hangyd reghely,^ wyth

alle the crafftes stoudynge in Chepe. present^mge them as lovynge

subjecttes unto their k\-nge5 and soo to Powlles ; and at the west

ende of Powlles stcpull was tayed a cabelle roppe. and the other

ende besyde the denes place at an hanker of a sheppe,^ and a manronnynge downe on the sayd roppe as swefte as an arrow owte of a

bowe downe wyth hys honddes and fette abrode not tochynge the

roppe : and whane the kynge had sene the sayd th^mge went forth

un to the pallys of Westmyster ; and the nexte day came from thens

unto "Westmyster churche, and there was crowned, and kepte hys

fest in Westmyster halle. God of hys mercv sende hvm good locke

and longe h'iie. with prosperite I And this was done in the ix. yere

of hys age and byrth. And at that ryallty was made sir Edwai'd

" ridilv. ^ A nhipV micIi.t.

54 CHKONICLE or THE [1j47.

Senier that ^vas yerle of Haribi'tli duke of Somerset, and protector

and defender of the realrne ; and sir Thomas Semer hvs brotlier

lorde governer un to the k}-ng: '^ and sir Thomas V^orthesle that

Avas at thai tyme lorde chaunscler of Ynglond was made yerle of

So'.vthhamiv.ne : and sir John Dudley that was amrelle of the see

A\ as made yerle of ^V:a"~ykd' And iiij. or v. dayes after v,as gret

justes at Westmyster.

Item the xix. day of June after was a sollome dyrege at Powles

for the French kynge.^ with a goodly lierse in the q^vere, and the

lorde of Arnedel }>rinci}:;dle morner,. M'ith dyvers b\-shoppes, the

maver of Lon.don witli tne aldermen, and alle the lied craff'tes of

London, and alle the qwc-er, v>ith the boddy of the church hangyd

Avitli Ijlacke clothe and hvs arniA'S. and ij C. powre men in blacke

gfjwnes holdynge stafr'e frches; and tije nexte day the sayd obbyt

kepte in eAory ])aryche cLurche in London wyth the l>elles r_\mg\mg.

y^ Item the v. day after in September beganne the kyuges vys^'ta-

cicm at Powlles, and alle imagys ptillyd downe; and the ix. day of

the same mojiyth the sayd -sisytacion was at sent Bryddes, and after

that in dvvei'S other paryche churches: and so alle imagys pullyd

downe thorrow alle Yriglonde att that tyme, and alle churches ]iew

whytte-lymed.Avitli the conimandmcnttes Avryttyne on the walles. Andat that tyme was the byshoppe of Lundori '^ put into the Flette, and

was there more than viij. 'layes: and after hym was tlie byshoppe of

Wenchester ^ put there also.

Item at this same tyme was pullyd up alle the tomes, grett stones,

alle the auteres, with the stalles and walles of the qweer and auteres

in the church that was some tyme the Gray freeres, and sclde, and

the qweer made smaller.*^

Thvs yere the iiij'" day of November bagan the jiarlement at

AVestmyster, and before this parlament the lord Richard Eyche was

» TLis^t vords ore ero^f'J ci(l amrelle tcriUen in i/u ii<arpxn.

*> An taiiy land has ulUixd t/ > to made erlle of "VVarwyke and governor to the kvnpc.

<: Fraiici!= I. ^ Eduiuiid Bonner.

• Stephen Gi;rt!iiier. ' See the Prefatory Note on thv (_iri.-y l-'riars.

made cliaunseler of Yngloiid. and tlie lurd Sent .Tone rliat xvns Lmle

grandmasrer gave it n]i. a

Item tlie xvij. day of the same monytLe at nyghte was pullyd

downe tlie Kode in PoAvlles with Mary and John, with all the images

in the churche, and too of the men that labord at yt was slapie and

dyvers other sore hnrtte. Item also at that same time was pnllycl

downe thi'orrow alle the kynges dumynyon in every churche ahe

Roddes with alle images, and every precher preched in tiieir sermons

ao'aA'ne alle imaiies. Also tl-e newyeresday after preched Joctor ^

Latemer that some tyme was lyshop of Wysseter preclied at Powlles

crosse. and too sondaves followA-n. &c. Also this same tyme ^\as moche

spekvng agavne the sacrament of the auter. that some callyd it

Jacke of the boxe, with divers other shamfnlle names ; and theii was

made a proclamacyon agayne shoche sayers, and it {sc. yet j bothe the

}>rechers .and other spake aga_\me it, and so contynewyd : and at Ester

foUowyng there began the commonion, and confession but of thoys

that wolde, as the boke dothe specifvthe. And at this tyme was

moche prechyng agayne the masse. And the sacrament of the

auter pullyd downe in dy^'-ers placys thorrow the realuie. Item after

Ester beganne the servis in Ynglyche [at Powles at the commandment

of the dene at the t%Tne, William May, ^] and also in dyAcrs other

pariclie churches. | Item also at "Wytsontyde beganiic the sermons at

sent Mary s])yttylle. Item also this yere was Barkyng chajipylle at

the Towre hylic pullyd downe, and sent IMartyns at the chambulles

end, sent Kicolas in the chambulles, and sent Ewyns, and within the

gatte of Xewgate thoys "^ were put un to the churche that some tyme

was the Gray Freres ; and also Strand chm'che ^ also pullyd downe

to make the protector duke of Somerset's jjlace larger.

" This ^vord is erased. '' These words are added in a sidenote.

"^ <'. I., the ii)hal)itants ul St. Sepulchre's parish residing eastward of Ne'ngate, as -well as

the parishioners of the two clmrches last named, were transferred tf> the new parish ff

Christ clrjrcli.

•' This was called the church of Saint Marv and the Holv Innocents. It wa> ;i parish

church, and the parishioners were at first joined to those of St. Clement's Danes, and

afterwards to the church of St. John the Baptist in the Savoy, until their own ciiurch

W.1S re-erected in the reign of queoii Anno.

OQ CHliOMCLE OF THE [1548.

Item tin's xere ^vas alle the chamitcrys put clowne.

Item also the •wacche at mydsomer was begoni:ie aga^^le. that was

left i'rom ]\I. Dodmer- u!i to tliis mnc.Item also the byshoppe of Wenchestei- at that tyme Stephyii

Gardner preched before the kyng at sent James in the felde cai sent

Fetter's day at afternone the v.-yche was then fryday. and on the

morrow after was Coinrnvrted unto the tower of London to warde.

Item the vij. day of July after there was a prest that came owte of

Coruewalle drawne from the towre of London unto Smythefelde. and

there was honged aiid heddyd and qwarterd for sieving of one Boddv ''

that was the kynges commyssyoner in that contry for chauntries.

Item, alle tboys prechers that prechyd at Powlles crosse at that

tyme spake moche agawne the .bysshoppe of Wynchester: and also

Cardmakcr,'^ that rede in Pov>-lles iij. tymes a weke, had more or lesse

of hym.

Item this same yere was pur downe alle goyng abrode of proces-

syons.. and the seus^nig at Powlles at "Wytsontydc. and the Skynners'

processyon on Corpus Christi day.. Avith alle others, and h;id none

other but the Ynglyche procession in their churches.

Item at tiiis tyme was moche prechyng thorro alle Ynglonde

agayne the sacrament of the auter, save only ]\I. Laygton, and he

preched in every j^lace that he prechyd agayne them alle : and so

was moche contraversy and moche besynes in Powlles every sonday,

and syttyng in the chm'che.. and of none that were lionest persons,

but bo^-es and persons of lyttylie reputacyon ; and wolde have made

m[oche] mor yf there had not a wa}^ a bene tane. And at the last

the xxviij. [day] of Deceniber ^ followyng there was a proclamacj-on

that none of bothe partyes shulde preche un to soche tjme as tlie

couiiselle had deterrapied soche thynges as they were in hond with

alle : for as that tnne dowers of the bj-sshoppes sat at Cherse abbe

for dj-vers matters of the kvnge and the counselle,

» Ralph Dodmer was sberi? in a 524, the loth Hen. VIII.

^ William Bodv : see Snyy-*. Memori^is. ii. '^-1.

"• John Cardmaker, vjcr^r of S:. Bride's, afterwards burnt in 1555.

•^ December is rrased, On: li < •.•iminrJ comctioii is liimt cvvj fror,: ii-- J/i,'.

154S.] (rKEY FKIAliS OF LO>"POX. 57

Item the iij^^ [day ofj the same inonytli -o'as bro^^te from Ilygale

unto Londoji unto the laurape in Xe[wgate] market a monsti-e. a

caiie -wyth ij. heddes, iiij. eres. iiij. e^me, viij. f[eete] and ij. taylles;

tl)ar there tlie mayer wyth dyvers aldermen came thether and sane it.

and command [ed] yt to be browte into tlie stret and there he sane

it. and t]ierecommand[ed] it to becarred into the feldes strayt wnyes

and to be cutte in peces, and put into the grownde. and soo it was.

Also at that tyme was many bullyttes made of d}-vers partys

agavne the blvssvd sacrament, one agayne another, and tlie too

pers'ons] that redde in Powlles, as Cardmaker and one that rede

tewsday and thursday in Latten, spake agajme the sacrameiit. and

sayd it was but brede and wymie.

Item this yere before Alhallontyd was sett up tlie howse fur the

mai-kyt folke in Xewgate market for to waye melle in.

Itc;m also tliis 3-ere was put downe the chappell vritli the charncll

howse in Powlles church yerde. witli tlie too tomes one tlie north

syde, and a iiij. or v. C. lode of bones carred in to the feldes and

burryd there.

ij-'. A". Thys yere on sent INIartyns da}" begane the sarmond r.t

the crosse agay}ie, and there was the l^yshoppe of sent Davys one

Farrai-," but he dyd not preche in liys abbet of a byshoppe, but lyke

a prest, and lie spake agayne all maner of thynges of tlie churche and

the sacrament of the auter, and vestmenttes, coppes, alterres, v.itli

alle other th.ynges, &c.

Item the xxij. day of November was in the nyghtc a gi'ete fver in

the tower of London, and a gret pesse burnyd, by the menes of a

Frencheman that sette a barrelle of gonnepoder a fyere, and soo was

bumyd hymselfe, and no more persons, but moch hurte besyde

;

a]id the xxiiij^^ da}- of the same monyth was sent Annes chui'ch at

Aldersgate bun\yd.

Item at Xewyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the

testornes.

" Rol.er Ferrar.

CAMD. see. 1

oS (.Hi;c)XirLE of the [].-'4 9.

Item tliL' X. day of December was drawrie from Xuvrn;ate mitu

Towre hylle (blonlj raul tliere ware lioiip'yd for qv.-^^me^m^e of tes-

toriies.

Item the xvij. day of January was commytted un to tlie tower

lorde Tliomas Semor that was lorde amrelle. vrith dyvers oilier, for

live tres'jne. as yt shalbe declaryd aftervrarde.

Item tlie viij, day of March a buclicr of sent Nicola? shambuljes

was put on the pyllery in Cheppesyde for kepynge of another buchers

WT,-ffe in the same strette. and there stode iiij. oweres and moj-e.

Item the xx. day of ^larche was sir- Thomas [Seynver that was

lorde amrelle was be-liedvd at the Towre hylle for hye [treason"^.

The ij'^^ sonday of Lent preched CoAerdalle. and whan hye masse

vras dor.e the dene of Pov.iles tliat was tliat tyme Vrilliam r\Iay com-

mandyd the sacrament at the hye autre to be puilyd downe.

Item the vj. day of Aprille was a proclamacion for the masse,

[and for] ettynae of fleshe agayne ^lay day, but for the fieshe was

nothynge ke]ite.

Item the vij. day after was a grete and marvelus wynde both in

the nyght and also in [the] day.

Item the x. day of Apriil was puilyd dowiie the clowster in

Powlles that was callyd the Pardon churcheyerd wyth the chappelle

that stode in the myddes. to bylde the protectores place with alle.

Item the xxij. of Aprille was the monday in E^ter weke. and that

nyght was bm-nyd fvve howsys at Brokenwharfe.

Item the xxvij. day of Apriil, the whych was the satorday in Ester

weke. the ante-ba}itystes wai'e in our Lady chappelle in Po^^ lies be-

fore iJic hijslioppe of Caunierhory u-'dh otJier comysmners,^ and there

one recantyd : and the nexte sonday, the wych was Lowe sonday,

stode at the crosse and bare a faggott. Item the nexte sattorday

after the byshoppe Avyth the resydew of the commyssyoners satt

agayne. And there was one Jone of Kente other wyse Jone Bucher

' These -nords are erased in tlie MS.

1549.": GRKY Fi:iAi;- or loxdon. 59

concler.iiiyd : and a tanner ol' Cul Chester recantyd. and nexte day bare

a faggotte at tlie crosse, and the nexte sonday at Colchester. Andthat day stode at the crosse a boccher of Mary ^Maudlyne puricli in

Fychstrer/ and the nexte sonday agayne for be c;iuse he made a

uiocke at the furst tyuie. ^Item the iij. day of Tune, tlie vyche v.-a- themonday after the As-

sencion day. alle the gray ammesse '^^ with the calober in Pov.dles

^"are put downe.

Item the xx'' dav of Jmie. the wythe was Corpus Christi day, and

as that day in dyvers pL'ices in London v/as kepte holy day. a]::d

maimy kepte none, but dyd -worke opyuly. and in some churclies

servys and some none, soche Ava> the devysyon.

Item in this yere moche pepulle of the comyns dyd ryse in dyvers

places in the realme, and pullyd downe parkes and groAvndes that

was inclosyd of dyvers lordes and gentyimen witliiii the realme from

the powre men.

Item the xxvij. day of June there was sent a commandement from

the couacelle unto Powlles that they shulde have no more the Apos-

tylles ma-se in the mom}mge.. nor our Lady masse, nor no comnm-

p.yone at no aultelle in the church but at the hye awlter.

Item the xviij. day of July, wher as tliere was a boke made and

send up to the commyns of Cornwalle and Dcvyiisiiere with alle

other pantes of all the realme for be cau^e ui their rys;aige and

pull;nige downe of incloseres, the wyche was some tyme comyns uu

to the powre men, and grette men toke theme in and inclosyd it to

them and made parkes in dyvers places, aiid as thys tyme the com-

m^Tis for the most parte within the realme ryssyd and pullyd up

heggys and pah's and sett yt opyn a g;'iyne ; and then the boke

was send unto them that they shuid be content gentyUy, and with-

in shortte space it shulde be mendyd, and so to submytte them selfes

* Old VUL Street.

t" The canons, so called from their tipj»eti (see iLe glo?iiarial note at tLe close of

MacbviiV Dii-rv, j. 4G1.) The calober wis apparentlv another ponion of their furred

vestment ; see the pussaj^e quoted in the sarno place rei;.tive f"- the alJi ruieti.

Co t]l!;ONlCLi: ()¥ THE [1:149.

and to airke uiercv ai,d p;a-done : aiid this day abovc:^a\ d it Mas

proclamvd tlsorrow alle Loiidon both with harhalde and ri'ompcters..

aiid so was send untu alle the partys of tlie reiJnie ^^l!e^ a? they

dyde ryse. and in-mediatlv after the sayd proclariiacion ii' they dyd

subuiytte thein strifes and aske mercy and pardon they slmld have

it. and if not they sluilde be tone as traytores a;:d to lie snbdcwyd

witli the [sword" . And as that same tyme all the gattes of the citte

of London was layed vrith grett goimes with-in the citte warte," and

within the saved gattes both above and beneth in dyvers parttes.

v,ith d^-vers art\-llerv rvgh.t good, and their percullys new made at

dyvers gattes, and both *' at Xcwgate ]i[ew] made sri'ongly. Andevery daye from the xx. day of Jidy satte at every gatie viij. of the

ec'inyneres ar;d ij. gonners every day from vj. in the mornynge unto

it was atte nyglit unto the x. day of Septen:ber.

Item the xxj. day of the same monyth, the wycrie v.as sonday.

the byshoppe of Camitorbery '^ can:ie sodenly to P.'V, lies, and there

shoj-d and made a uarracvon of thoys that dyd rysse in dyvers

places within the realme, and what rebellyous they were, and

wolde take aponnc them to reforme thynges befor the lawe. and to

take the kynges }>uwre in honde. And soo was there a: procession,

and dvd the ofii^s hvm selfe in a cope and no vestment, nor mytter,

nor crosse, but a crose stafte : and S()0 dyd alle the oiies, arid hys

sattene cappe on hys hede alle the tyme of the oties : and soo gave

the communione hvm selfe tuito viij. persons of the sayd church.

Also the xxii. dav of the same monyth, the wyche was ]\Iary

IMaudlyne day. there was hongyd one that came from Romford, ori

a o-^bbvtt at the welle Avithin Algate : and another that came owte

of Kent at the Ijrygge fotte in to Sothwarke on another gybb}tte,

that ware oi' the same persons and company.

Item the xxiij. day of the same monyth the kynges grace came

from the dewkeof Soiibkes }d:ice in Sothwarke thorrow London, and

soo to Wlivtte i);dl iiModly, with a goodly compar.y.

1619.] GEEY riUAU? OF LONDON. 61

Item the xxviij. day and the x.\ix. day was dyvers persons coii-

vent^•d before the counselle because ot' liere}'nge of masse at Crv-

cliercb " v.heras tiie French imbassetors lave, that the}' sludd come

no more there, and Avas gretly rebukviL

Item the iiij. day of August, the^-yche %vas sonday. was men sett a

Avorke from Xewgate alio idonge by the citte v.alles to ya'Ae downe

tlie gardyns tliat was made a longe by the walles of the citte Avith

lioAvses, and soo alle alonge unto (blat^lj.

Item the furst day of August was a gret battelle at Xorwych

betwene the lorde Uiarkes of Xortliarntone and tlic comyns tliat dyd

aryse there, and manuy was slayene of both partys, an.I tlie lorde

mnrkes put un to flyette. and the lorde Cheff'elde'^ slayne, witli manydyvers knyttes and many other good men. And mariy of tlie sayed

comyns slayne and lane prisuneres.

Item the (hlwil) day of the same monyth was a batteil h^ syde

Exceter be-tv\ ene the lorde Rosselle that was then lurde privisele,

lorde Graye. and the coin}iii of that cuntre ; and many slayne and

tane prisoueres of both }>arryes.

Item the ix, day of the same mo;iyth was proclam.yd in tlie curre

by ane imbassitor of fn'Oice wyth a hailialde and trompetter o}y-n

Avarre, and that same nyght was tane alle k'renche men that ware

uoe free denysens. and an inventory of alk- their goodes, and put in

prison thorrow alle the readme at tliat tyme.

Item the x. day of the same monyth the byshoppe of Cauntorbery

came and preched at Powlle:. the wych was sattorday, in the qwere

in the byshoppes stahe that he was v.-oiite to be stcillyd in, I'or them

that [rosej in the West contre of the comyns of Devynchere and

C';rnewalle, and there he shoyd that tlie occasyone cam of [lopjjych

prestes was the uiost pane of alle hys sermond.

^ The llOu^e of Augxistinian car.oas of tii^- H>;:v Triiiit\ within Alugate was (.'OBiujunly

called Christcburch or Creecburcu. and a neigLl-ouring cburclj in LfcadeD:i;i!l Street is

siiii named St. Katharine Creechiirth. After ti.e disiolulion this hou!-e was granted in

IC'iS to lord chancellor Audiey. aud in the reign t.f qiietn Eiizahutli wc- fayl it ociuiiied

by the duke of Norfolk, in Macbyn'- Diary, p,,. i^ii. -iVf-J.

^ Eduiund Tii-st luro .Shetf.-ld.

62 CHliOXJCLE OF THE [1549.

Item the xv. day of the same moiiyth. tlie Assunicvon of our

Lady, and that day Avas hongyd too persons, one withov."te Algate

and the otlier at Totnani hylle : and as that day some ke])te holydaye

and some none, as sent Ste^.yns in Walliroke and Colcherch, soch

\vas the devysion that day, as it was on Corpus Christi day.

item the xviij, day of the same monyth the bysshoppe of London''

dyd the ofies at Powlles both at the processyon and the comunione

dyscretly and sadly.

Item on Bartyhnew evyne vras shott dyvers goonues at the gattes

in Liindon.

Item this yere was no clieesys in Bartyhnew fayer but soch as

came owte of dyvers nitrjs howsys -within London that was not

gciod, and the cause v\-;;< fur them that rose in Essex as that tyme.

Item the xxA'ij. day of the same monytli was iij. persor.s da-awyn,

liongyd, aiid qwarterd at Tyborue, tliat came owte of the AVest contre.

Item the xxviij. day of the same monytlie was a woman delyveryd

of ij. clielderne at Bodyly a smyth at the Longhine ende in Sn'jyth-

felde, and whan the woman vras delyveryd she des^Ted to se hare

chelderue. and the w^-fie of the hovrse sayd tliey ware s::fie inowgh,

and she tuke one of them and brake the necke of yt, a!id caused tlie

niayd of the howse to take the other and to cast it over tlie walle,

and so dystroyd them bothe : and then was the woman that had the

chelderne, and the wyfie of the howse and the niayde. ware had to

the cownter in Bredstrete, and there the woman was delyveryd of an-

other chylde that same iiyghte.

Item the last day of the same monyth the byshop->e of Cauntor-

bery ^' shulde a come agayne to Powlles, and a preched agayne, but

he send Josephe'' hys chaplyne, and he i>reclied in the qwere of the

subdewwnge of them that dyd rysse in alle iij. place^. and how

mvserv tliev vrare browte unro, and there he rehersyd as hys master

dvd before that the occasyone came by popysse presttes,

' .Tolin .losqih. S.T.P. collated to l-e reL-tory uf St. Mary Ic Buw iy :.;v1i:.jm,uj, Oia-

nier. Oct. 2U, lf-46.

1549.] r;i;EY FKI ATi- oF LONDON. 03

Item tlie furst Jay ol' Se|iteml)'.-r the bysLo])[ie of Lcindon then

Edmund Boner precbed at Powlles crossc. and alter vras acnysyd un

to the cownsell by too persons, as A\'il]iam Latymer'' par>one of sent

La^vrens Powntney and Jolm Hopper^ that some tyme was a Avliytli

moiiuke, and soo v.as conventyd before the byshope of Cauntorber^-

wyth other comyssoiieres the xiij. day of tlie same monyth, and tlie

xyi. day and the xviij. ; and the xx^' day of tlie same monetli at nyght

he -was send unto the r\Iarchese,^ and he went the saine day unto

Larabvtiie in hys scarlet habliet and hys roehett aponne it.

Item tins same day Cardmaker sayd opynly in hys lector in

Powiles that if God ware a mail lie Avas a yj. or vij. foote of leniitlie,

with the brcdth. and if it be soo Ijow canne it be tliat lie shuld be

in n pesse of brede in a rownde cake on the av>-ter : a* hat an ij'uuyos

oppynyoue is this unto the leye pejiulle !

At this tyme doctor Smyth "^ reljukyd the liyshehoppe gretly. and

the byshoppe dyd nothynge gretly forbore hym, and gave hym manychockynge worddes opynly."-'

Item the xxij. of the same uionyth the byshoppe of Cauiitorbery

cansyd Hopper to preehe at Powlles crosse, and there he s]:)ake moch

agarne the byshope of Loudon. And the xxiij. day w;;s there ^ be-

fore the sayd commysyoners agayne.

And the xxv. day Cardmaker rede in Powlles, and sayd in hys

lector that he cowde not rede there the xxvij. day for because he

must ueddes be at the sessyons as that day at Lau^bythe for the

byshop}»e of Loudon ; but it was not soo, for the byshoppe came not

there. Item the xxix. of the same monyth preched hi the sln'ovrddes,

for because of ra^iie, one Goldc, and he spake moche agayust the sayd

byshoppe of London, and there stode be-fore hym one that dA\ellyd

in Charterus lane wyth a screpture on hys bi-est lor coungerynge.

^ Afterwards dean of Pttcrljorou'.'b.

** Afterwards bishop of AVorcester and Gloucester. "^ Marslialsca.

^ Richard Smith, reikis professor of divinity at Oxford.

' This is printed as in the IilS. The writer EViparei.tly wislies to repre.-vnt ilie gi-e.'.t

violence of doctor Smith, and the- great fi>rl>c;irance of iiisboi; lionner.

' /. e. apparently the lasliop.

G4 Ciii:r)XirLE of -jiik [1549.

Item tlje fu]-st Jay of Oetuber the byvhoppe of London v.-as send

for at afier-none umo Laml-A-tlie. and ther the byshoppe of Cauntor-

bery dyscbargyd'' the sayd bysliopp of London as mocbe as biye in

bys powre: but marke whn followetlj.

Item tbe vij. day of Octobe]' Avas pruclaymyd tbe protector a traytor,

Avitb all by? Jiolperes, and that day l)0;i}ane agayne tiie v,-ateb'^' at

every gatt hi London of tbe coinenert-T- in liarnes Aviih weppvns.

Item tbe viij. day it was i)rocdai.;yd opyjily v.itb tbe kynges

shrefie arjd tv.-o harrakles and t'AO pin-?evanttes and a trunijiet. wirh

theconmie sargant of tbe citte of London, thorrow alle London, and

as fast as it niygbt be thorrow alle Ynglond.

Item the nexte day Caixbnaker sayd in liys lector, tbow be "" bad a

falle be was not undone, and that men sbuld not have tlier pur-

pos: and abso be sayd that me]i wolde have np agavne ther p.:.]iveb

masse;

-^Aber for, good masteres, stycke unto vt bade*^ b.e savd.

Item tiie xiij. day of the same monyth Avas no sermond at tbe

crosse.

Item tbe xiiij. day at after-noiie vas browth tbe traytor ^ irom

Wyndsor with a gret company of lorddes and gentylmen, and manvborsys, with their men with Aveppyns, and came in at sent Gylles in

tlie felde at liys desyre, for be cause be Avolde not come bv tbe place

that he bad begonne and pullyd doAvne dyvers ciiurcbes and tbe

clowster in Powlles to bylde yt Avith all, [and soo unto the tower of

London with dyvers other prisoneres,*] but almyghty God wolde

not sutler yt for bys gret myscbeffe as it shalle evydently follow bvbys actes. And whane be came in Chepesyde he sayd opnilv, that

manny pepull barde bym, that he was as trewe a man to tbe kvnaeas anny vras there, evA-n vrowdlv.

Item the xvij. day the kynges irrace came from the place in

;. £. dei.oscd. t wa-lie r.i 3IS.

i. e. the duke of Somerset. ^ So <ii J/-S'.; 'j'! take unto it li

The person so indignantly detiiriiafed i? the lute Protector.

Tliese words aro an in'^crtinn after tiie first v.riiin".

1549.] GREY FKIAKS OF LOXDOX. 6.5

Suthewnrke thorrow London,, and soo T<.) Wlivtt liallo : and tliat

nyght -^vas the corn^iieres ol' London was dvscharged ol' iIjlt wacliini:

at alle tlie gattes of Lojidon in lianies. and to >YacliG no more Lut

tiie coniyne Avache as a nyttes in every warde as it hath bene acos-

ton~.}"d before.

iii^ A". Tins yerc the vj. day of December was Bodylys vryfi'e

the smythes w[ifie at Long lane] ende in Smythfelde hongyd at Ty-

bome for the dystrowjnige of [her chil]derne at Bartyhnewtydc as it

slioyth before.

Item the vij. [day of Ja]nuary [1550] was vj. men dystroyd at the

malsA-nge of the welle wythin tlie hov,-se that was some tyme trie

Peter college" uexte the denes place in Powlles chnrche yarde.

Item of the great gentylnes iliat was shoyd untri the by-hfipe of

Lundon Edmund Boner beynge prisoiier in the ^larclielse the \i\\.

day of January of the knyght marchalle takyjige away liys l.edde.

a]id soo that he had no more to lye in but straw and a coverlet for

the space of vilj. days, for because he wolde not geve tlie knyght

marchall x li. or a gowne of that price.

Item the xix. day of the same monythe at ix. a clocke at nyght was

kyllyd capt^me Gambolde a valyant mail a Spanyerd and another

with hym, and dy ver.- of their servanttes hurte. of another captyne ^

of hys oAvne contry-n;en : and was tane the nexte day and three mcae

%s-yth hyme, and the xxij. day of the same monvih ravnyd atte t;:e

yelde hallo, and the sxiij. day tljey ware condemnyd, and the x:j:ii!J.

day they Avare hongyd in the myddes of Smythfelde: and he that

kyllyd ca]>taA'ne Gambolde, ther as the dede was done or ever he

Avent in- to Smythfelde. ther hys bond was smyttyne of, and after

was hongyd wytli the resydew in Smythfelde.

Item the xxvij. day of the same monyth v. as draune from the tower

of Londoji uri-to Tyborne iiij. persons, and there hongyd and quar-

terd, and their quarteres sette abowte London on every gatte ; tl'ies

was of them tliat dyd ryse in the West cuntre.

Sc-e ilie Additionri] Xute^. ' Dogovarn.'' i.S'.;f noi---.

:

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66 CIIP.OXICLE OF Tl[£ [1550.

ItL-m t]]e vj. Jay oi' Februarij came the duke of Soinersc-: ov,-te of

the to"\A'ere_. anJ lav at tlie Savrive.

Item the xxx" day of March ^vas Pahne sondav. aiid on th.e evvne

Avas proclavnyd a generahe pes Ijetvrene the kynge of YngluJid and

the Frenclie kynge. and tlie rpvene of Scottes and the reahne of tlie

same alsu. vrith their sulyL^cttes ; and grett bonfyeres v/ith ::Tctt

chej-e at every cunstabulles dore in every parich thorrove alle Loji-

don : and son after tliorrow alle Ynglonde.

Item the xij^^' day of A[irill. he that a\ as hyshoppe of Rochester,

Xicolas riydley, Avas stallyd [bishop <>f London] by or.e of tht.- by-

shoppe of Ely(*s) cliov'lyrjes. And the xix. daye of tlie same monvth

he came in to the qwere at the comurjyon t}nne_. and at that tyme

he and the d^-'ne recevyd and nir.ster Larne. and tlie t'-'O toke the host

of the pre-t in their too hrmdes. And that same tynje the by^ljojipe

conunandyd the lytt of the aulter to be }iut owte or he came in to

the qwere.

Item the ij'^^ day of May vras Jone Bucher othervryse callyd Tone

of Iventte burnyd in Smythfelde for grett her^-sses. as yt hath bene

longe knowyne. and was coridemnyd n}-e a hole yere.. as it shewyth

before: and there jireched beiore hare or she dyede Scory," and

she sayd to hym that he lyed lyke a knave. &:c.

Item that Bullvne was gev^m np to the Frenchmen the ij. day of

Maij.

Item Xicolas Evdley that v\-as byshoppe of Rochester was made

byshoppe of London, and begaime his visitacione in Powlles the v.

day of May.

Item that there came a sheppe of egges and shurttes and smockes

owte of France to ByllATiges gatte.

Item the terme rejurnyd from the Assencion unto Myhylmas.

Item the proclamacion the xxiij. day of 3ilay, the wych was the

fryday before Whytsonday, was for the pes bet\^-ene France and us.

Item on "Whytsone sonday preched the byshoj>pe of London

Kiculas Rydlcy at Powlles crosse.

' John Scorv. afit'rwar.U li;^llup of Hereford in the reipn of Eliz^il'etli.

1550.] GREY Fi:iAi:S of LONDON. 67

Itfui tlie jn'glit Lefore came in tlie Frenclie lordes v.itli tlieir

tresor (Src.

Item on Treiiyte soj-iday preclicd ductor Kyrkame,'' and ?ayd that

:n t'ne sacrament w[as no] substance but bix-de and wynne.

Item on sente Brirnabes day -was kepte [no holijday ' througli)

alle Londone at tlie commandment of the mayer. and at ny^bt was

tbe aulter in Powlles pullyd dovi-ne, and as that day the vayellc ^vas

hongyd [up] benethe the steppes and the tabulle sett up there : and a

sennet after tljere tlie comunion Avas mynysterd.

Item the xiiij. day of June >vas sattorday, and before evy[nin2]

Mas a mane shiyne in Powiles church, and ij, fraves Avith-in the

chmxdi that [same] tyme after\\"ard.

Item also this yere Corpus Christi was not kepte holy day.

And the Assumpcion of our Lady v.-as soche devisicin tliorrow

alle London that some kepte holy day aud some none. Alm}-ghty

God helpe it whan hys wylle ys ! for this was the second yere. and

also the same devision was at the fest of the Xativitie of our Lady.

Item the last day of August preched at the crosse Stejihin Gas-

ton,^ and there spake agajnie the lady Mary asmoch as he rnyghte,

but be namyd not hare, but sayd there was a gret woman with-in

the realme that Avas a gret supporter and mayiitayrier of p:'i>ery and

sufMerstycione, and prayed that she myght forsake hare oj'pynyons,

and to follow the kynges prosedniges, as he sayed. And also he

sayed that k\mge Henry the viij^'i was a papyst, with many obpro-

bryiis \\ordes of hym as yt was harde.

Item this yere was proclamyd that the French croAAiiys shuld goo

for vij 5.

iiij". A". Tliys yere the xiiij. daye of November was proclamyd

» Tbomas Kyrldiam, S.T.P. presented hv tbe !*IercLant-ta_vlors" compaiiT to tlie rectory

c: St. M^nin Oteswich in London. S June. loii. His successor %\as institut-.-d ly bis'uop

Bonner. I'V lapse, in Feb. lo54—probably iu consequence of KjTkham Lining fled tbe

eo'.:atry. Ne\veourt, Repert. Lond. i. 4('C', 410.

' Stephen Gaston, clerk, was presented by Francis Wyatt esquire to the rector}' of

?^uttoE in Essex 'J Ma\ loiG, and died in 1575. Ne\\ court. R'-'per.. Lond. li. 507

68 cjiRoyiCLE o'F Tin: [1550.

tliorrow :iil London t)iat ne wytielleiX'S iior taljernes shulde kepe no

resorte of iiepulle in their iiov.-.-es for vyttelles vu zhe sondayes nore

holy daycs tyll alle server vrare done, and that shuJde be at a xj. tlic

cloke: and alv:' at aftor-iione tylle evynge-songc vrare done, in pavne

<jf gret prisoninent at the kyiiires conimandnient.

Item ::ji? yere wa- many fr;:yes in Powile? church, and nothynge

>ayd on-to tliti-m : and one man felle donne in Powlles cliurch and

lirake liys necke for kecheynge of pegyns in tlie nyght the iiij. dav of

DecemLer.

Item tije v. day of December v,-as proclamyd that t]ie Frei:ic]i

crownes ^huld goo but for yis. iiijd.

Item at Crystmas ^vas put downe in Powlles the Piti-tovcs cJiori,

wyth all their co]-.]y-s at proce-.-io]ie, and no more to be usyd.

Item the day of was t])e bysLop}>e of Vv'yssytor^

comyttyd to the Flett, and the xj. day (.f December ^vu5 cornyttyd

to tlic Flett the byshoppe of Chechester. '^

Item the XV. day of December vas browte from the tower of Lon-

don \in-to Lanjbeth the by-hoppe of ^Vynche-tcr thene beynge

doctor Stephen Gardner, beiore the byshoppe of Cauntorber}- then

beynge Thomas Cranmer, wyth dyvers other comysioneres. and ex-

animynd and coniyttyd un-to the tower agayi^e. And tlie xviij. day

follow^-ng ther aga;aic; and tiiat same day was t'-o tydes at London

brygge within tlie space of v. howcres, and grett sj)rv]jges that dvd

moch hanne by the watter syde and on the watter. Atxl the sayed

byshoppe of Wynchester at Lamljyth the A-iiJ. day of Januar}^

[1551]. and the xij. day, and so to the towere agSAme. The xxvj.

day there agayne, and that day browth from the tower unto Lam-liyth Hjv the"! garde and tlie ofFesers of the tower T\yth wei![!ens,

and suo home agayne; and on thexiij. day ofFebruary and xiiij. day

also, and that dav he was dyscliargyd [from] ys byschopryge and alle

Jivs londes, and comvttvd ur^tu the tower an-avne.

" Nicbolas Heath, afterwards ;-.r''h:'.-;ioii ol YoiK iii the- rc-!,:.'ii di' queen Mary.

^ Geor;;e Day. afterwards re=i'.r---: :. CliJcliC'!.ler Iv (luoeu Marv.

il.l G];EY FllIAliS OF LONDON. or*

Item tlie xxij. day of ^larche was Panic sonday, and as that daye

"were] put into the Fleete dp-crs gentyhiien.. as sir Antoni Browne,

'M. (ZIoJiKj sargant of the hnve, Avyth dyvers other, for herynge of

Hi as<e in mv hidy Mary's curte at sent Jones" and was there.

Item the xxiiij. day of the same inoiiyth after was the grattes be-

syde the hye aher in Powlles closyd up. that tlie pepuUe sh.ulde not

loke in at the tyme of the comunycaie tyme^ and tlie vayle hongyd

up. And the xxviij. day after was Ester ev^me, and then was the

tabulle remevyd. and sette benethe at the vayele northe and sowthe

:

and on Ester day the dene, then l)eynge Wyllyavn Maye, dyd mynys-

ter hym-seh"e.

Item this yere was sene in the Lent besydc ]\Iart}ni abbc^ many

men hi hiarnes svtt"\7ige in the eyere. and soo came downe agayne

lui-tu the grijwnde and vadyd awaye agayne. and also in dyvers

other places. Jum also abowte Ester was sene in Sussex three

sonnes shen^Tige at one tvnie in the ever, that thei cowde not dysserne

wych shulde bo the veiT sonne.

Item the sxt'-'' day of ]\Iay, wych was the monday after Trenyte

sonday. was gret ertheijwakes ^' in dyvers places, as abowte Crowy-

dyn and in that towne and dyvers other townes there l)y, as at

Rygate, and many other ])laces abovrte, and also at Vrestmyster and

dyvers other places in London, and abov.-te there.

Item in June after went inbassatores into France the erle*^ of

Xoithehamtoue and the byshoppe of Ely '^ wyth dyvers other, and

Avas goodly resevyd thej-e with processione, crossys, and sensynge,

with alle the hole orders of relygious persons that be there, with

the universites, scoUes. and solome masse songe before them or they

came unto the k^T)ges presens, and had there grett chore. Andatter that came into Ynglondc dyvers lorddes of France with a

cardnalle, and came to Rye the iiij. day of July, and soo unto Lon-

don, and was not resexyd. And before their comynge into Londoii

" Si. John"> at Clerkenwell.

" Mvrtoi) prioi^" in Surrev i> meant.

70 CHKON'ICLE OP THE [lool.

was dyvers lordes and gret me}i of tLe iiies.-' and lave at tlje kynges

place in Sothewai'ke.

Item the L\. day of the same monyth beganne the gret sykenes

callyd the swetth/' that there dydeagrett multitude of pepnll sodenly

thorroAv alle London and thorrow tlie most parte of aile YnnJonde.

And that same day vras the proclamacion for testornes at ixd. Andthe A"itelles as dero after as it ^vas before and worser, thiit the pepuUcryde owte of it hi every place thorro\N- alle the realme.

And the xxvij. day of the same monyth the byshoppe of "Wyn-chester that Avas than ( Jolm Ponet ''j Avas devorsyd from hys Avyffe

in Povvlles. the wliyche was a bucheres Avyft' of Nottynggam, and £[^\e

hare husbaude a sartyne mony a yere dureynge hvs Ivffe as it was

jucydde by the law e.

Item tlie last day of July (and) the furst of August rydde in a

cartte a tayler of FJetstrtt and h}-s syster rydde in a carte abowte

London, and bothe ther lieddes sliavyime,. for avouttre. that he had ij.

childerne by har]-e, and the iij'^*^ day was bannyshyd the citte bothe

:

but he wt'lde haA'c gevyiie moch to a be scowsyd-^i but it Avoid not be

tane.

Item the xvij. d;iy of August was a proclamacion at \). a cloke in

tlie mornynge for the qAvyne of testornes of ixd. unto vj d., and grottes

unto ijd., and ijd. unto jd., and jd. unto a ob., and ob. unto q.: andit the vitoUes [were dearer" than the v^are before.^

= Tlie inns of court. Apparentlv some eminent legal personages were ajipointed to wait

on tbe ambassador*.

' I have collected some particulars of this epidemic in a note to Mach\n's Diary, p.

SIC'. In addition to tbe two examples there given of its bearing the caut name of &i,i>-

gallard, the following entrv from the register of Loughborough in Leicestershire may be

added :" !1551, June. The swat called Xew acquaintance, alias Stoupc Knave ohd hhow

ihi' Mafia-, began on the 24th of this month.''

' The name is left blank in the manuscript. This passage is remarkable as a fuller

statement of tbe same matter of vhich a brief notice occurs in Machyn"s Diary, p. S. andvhich was only assigned by strong presumption to bishop Ponet. See the note, ibid,

p. 320. <i excused.

"I. <. and yet victual; were deurt-r than tbcv were before.

lool.] GREY VRIARS OF LOXDOX. 71

Item xxiij. clay of Auguste tlie i)anc]ie of seynt [Faitli entejrd furst

into Jesus cliajipelle as their parieb church and had servys there.''

Item tlic xxvj. of September v^-as the stojidynge at the taLulle in

PoM-Hes was removyd into the sowth ....Item tlie viij. day of October was tlie bydioppe of Chechester ^ and

tlie by?ho}»pe of Worseter ^ conA-entyd in tlje byshoppe of London"?

]_.allys before tlie comyssyoners ; and the ix. day thei-e . . . and dys-

chargyd. Theys ware the commyshoners.—the lorde cheiie barne,*^

doctor Olyver, d[octor] Rede. Lyell. Gosnalle, and (blank).

Item un ]Myhylmas day the kynges grace went in livs robe that

was sent hym from the Frenche kynge of the order of seiit My[]iyl]

at Hamtone cortte w^-th gi'et ryalty there at that tyuie.^

Itein tlie xj. day of October was made, at Hamtone cortte,. John

Dudley erie of Warwyke drike of Xortiiumrbtrland,. the] markes

Dorsett duke of Suiiolke. the lord trezerer markes i>f 'Wynchester.

William Harbart markes of Pembroke.

Item the xvj. day of October was the duke of Somerset, lorde

Gray, sir Rafie Vane, w^-tii mjanv moo (committed to the Tower), as

it shall apere after.

Item, the xxj. day of the same monyth begamie the craftes of Lon-

don to wacche at the gattes of London at yj. in the mornpige unto

yj. at nyghte. and continewyd tylle the xxiij. day of November.

yio. A". Thys yere at alternone on Alhallone day, whan the

rnayer came to Powlles, there was dyvers persons of the duke of

Xorthhumberlondes servanttes wolde have tane the chajiie from

tlie kynges sln-effes necke in Powlles goynge after the mayer, and

wolde have made a fraye within Powlles churcli, but whan they

came witli-owte the church at the north dore there thei made a fray

and fowte and ware departyd. and went in to the pettycannons and

' Jesus ebapel was in the crept of St. Paul's cathedm! church : see a note to Machyn"s

Diary, p. 3C5. Tlie parishioners of St. Faith were placed in this cburch in 1551 : see

Stowe's Survay and Neweourt's Repertorium Loudiuense, vol, L p. -349.

^ George Day. "^ Nicholas Heath. = Sir Roger Cholmley.

' See Machyn's Diary, p. 9. and notes, pp. ?.21. 397.

il CHEOXICLE OF THE [].>.!.

fowte there, that whan the niaver came furllie of Powlles church lie

Avas fayen to f'ett them forth and liad them to the covuiter.

Item on the morrow after the qwene of Scottes ^ came in to Lon-

don by watter. and soo unto the Lysliopp of London's palles_. and

lay there : and the morrow after she Avent unto the corte un-to tlie

kynges p-ace. and had there grct chore. And the fryday after sliee

went liare waves. AivJ dyvers lordes and h:dys bruwte hrire o)i

liare wav. and whan she came witli-owte Byshoppes gatte the fayr-

vst ladv tliat she liade wyth liare r,f hare euiitre was stolne away

fi'om hare.^ and soo went forth in liare jorne.

Item the viij. day after, the wyche was the tewsday. tliere was a

tayler that dwelte in Aldersgatstret was sett on the pyllery at after-

none, and the cause was 'that whan the mayor went to "Westinyster

he cal]}-d thein alle cokeoldes : and stode there tylle it wa.s iij. a

cloke at after-none.

Item at tlivs tyme was dyvers iiroclam;icions and pricys made for

vyttelles. Lut it scrvyt not : and the xxviij. cif November was made a

contrary ]>roclamacyon and sette alle at lyberty agayne, and every

riteler to sdle as they Molde and had done before.

Item tlje furst day of day of Decen-iber was browte the deuke of

Somersett owte of the towre by v.atter at v. a cl<:>cke in the morn-

ynge, and i. or ij. drownyd by the Maye in the Terns betweejie the

tower and AVestinester : and there he (was) araynyd before the

cowncell, and so pletyd for hym selfe that he Avas qwytt for the tre-

son. and comytted unto the tower of London agayne.

Item the nexte day was tr^e lorde Gray vith dyvers other tliat

ware in the tower was browte un-to "Westmester un-to the starre

chamber, and sent home agayne.

Item the viij. day of that rnonyth was a gret muster at Totehylle^

of men of nnnes befbr the kAmge. of dyA-ers lordes.

Item the xa-j. day v.as a proclamacion for the new qAvyue*^ that no

V

V" See Macliyir» Diarv, ji. 11, ar.d note p. 322.

' AVhetlicr thi? fair ladv"!; eJnjiement is elsewhere mentioned I ha^e rot aseerUiined.

' In Toiiiill fields l.v AVestniinster. ^ coiu.

1551.] GREY FRIAKS OF LOXDOX. 73

finan [should speak ill o]i'it^ for because tliat the pepulle sayd dyvers

Ithat ther was the rag^-d stafi'e ^ it.

^ Item the xx^^ day of Deceml>er was some ^ the hysho] ipe of Ely "

lorde [chancellor of Euglajnd.

Item that same day was the muster of the dewke of Somersettes

servanttes before [the king at] Totylle also.

Item the same day vras comytted unto the tower the bysho[ip [of

Dur]hame Cudberte Tunstalle.*^

Item the xxij. day of the same monyth was be[heddyd] at the

Towre hvll before viij. a clocke Edwarde deuke of Somersett [erle of

Hert.]forde and unkyll unto the kynges grace. And also tliere was

a commandment thoirow London that alle howsolders vrnh their

servantes shulde ke]^ their how-es unto it Avas

Item on Crystmas ev\7i was made a proclaraacion that no man

shulde make qwo^Tie. nore send beyond see. in payne of dethe.

Item the iiij^" day of January [1551-2] the lorde of Crystmas* of

the k}mges howse came thorrow London and thorrow Scheppesyde,

and soo to the lorde mayer s to demier. and dy^-ers of hys corte was

devydyd,. some to the sherftes and to dyvers aldermen : and agayne

after none was made a scaftolde at tlie crosse in Schepesyde, and

thether he came and made hys proclamacion.

Item the xiij. day of January was whyppyd xV]. women at the

carttes arse, iiij. at one and iij. at another, for vacobondes that wold

not labor, but play the unthr^-ftes.

Item the xbc. day of Februarij v,-as a man slayne within Powlles

churcheyerde.

Item the x:?:yi. day of the same monyth, the wyche was fryday,

was hongyd at Towre hylle sir ]\Iyllys Partryge knyght, the wych

playd wyth kynge Hemy the viii^e at dysse for tlie grert belfery

" One of the many intiraatioas of ibe unpopularity of tlic duke of Noiibumberland,

whose badge was tbe ragged siaff.

" sworn. ^ Thoma? Goodrif-b.

<i which had long lain at bis bouse by Colharbor in Thames 'treet. Stowe.

^ Probably George Ferrars : as in tiie following year.

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T4 CHRONICLE OF THE [1552,

that stode in Powlles churcli-yerde ; » and sir Raffe Vane, thejs too

ware hongyd. AJso sii- ^Mybyll Stonnappe and sir Thomas Arn-

delle, theys too ware heheddyd at that same tyme. And theis iiij.

knyghttes confessyd that they ware never gvhe for s.nche thynges as

was ]ayd mito then' charge, and dyde in that same o-'pinion.

The daye before endy.l tlio parlament.

Item tlie xyi. day of Aprill was Ester evyn, and tiiat day rydde a

woman in a carte abuv.-re London that dwclte in Aldersgate strete

that made acjwavjte/' f'T cardynge of hare inayde wyth a payer of

cai-ddes soche as doth carde woUe with-alle/ and vras sonde nnto

warde aga-\me.

Item wher as it hatn of an olde costome that there shulde be

three sermons m Ester 'weke.. this yere was a commandment that

tliere sliuhJe be but ij. and that the wedynsday shuld ]iot be kepte

Ijoly day.

Item also wher as it bathe bene of ane olde costome that sent

Gorge shulde be kepte huly day tliorrow alle Englond, the byshoppe

of London commandyd that it shulde not be kepte. and no more it

was not.

Item lyke-wyse at W^tsontyde was but iJ. serjnous ; they ware

lyke-wyse at the crosse,. aijd he that prechyd the sonday prechyd tlte

ij. other, and but ij. dayes kepte holy days.

Item on "NVytsone e\-yne it raAmyd in dyvers places in London

that it was sene lypige in dvA-ers places on the erbbes*^ as redde as

wyne.

» " Neere unto this scboole (St. Paul's) on the north side thereof, was (of old time) a

great and high Clocuier or Be!;-house, foure-square, builded of stone, and in the same a

most strong frame of timher. ^^ith foure bells, the greatest that I have heard ; these were

called Jesus" bells, and belongrd to .Tesus' Chappell. but I know not bv whose gifte. The

same had a great 5jpire of timWr covered with lead, with the image of Saint Paul on the

top, but was pulled down bv sir IMiles Partridge knight, in the reigne of Henry the

Eighth. The common speech was, that bee did set one hundred pounds upon a cast at

dice against it, and so wonne the said elochier and bells of the king, and then causing the

bells to be broken as they hun;_-, the rest was pulled downe."—St.^v,^"s Survay.

'' aqun vitre. "S>;'^; anotlier arconnt of this cn-.e! nii>rrc--'. in Machyn. p. 17.

'^ lierbs, or jrras-.

1 552.] GEEY FKIAES OF LOXDON. 75

Item the iij. day of August bct^-cnne x. and xj. at uyglit was a

woman in Oxfordshere at a place callyd Midrlton-stonc at tlie syne

of tlie Eggylle viij. mylefrom Oxforde, and tlie good man's name was

Jolm Kenner. and she was delyveryd of a cliyld with too heddes." iiij.

hanndes, iiij. fette, and but one body, and the mydwyffe kevseiide^

them at home and was alowyd by the churche : and (they) lyft'yd xv.

days : and ett, and [one slept"! wyDe the other dyd wake, and lokyd

with a mery chere whan anny persons locked at] them. Item also

in that same cuntry was a henne hacchyd of a chekyn that had ij.

heddes and iiij. fette.

Item in the same monythe was tane at Bl[ack] wall and ncre

abowTe London Avas tane dA'^'ers dolfyns.

Item the iiij. da}- of September was ap-ne a sonday, and then the

ipvee]' of Powlles had a commandment from the dene from Camliryge

at the byshoppe of Cantoberes visitation that he sluilde leve the

playnge of organs at the devyne servys, and soo lefte it.

Item the iij. day of Octobere was the byshoppe of DoiTam than

beyng Cudbert Tunstall browte to examinacion at the place that

some-tyme wFas] callyd the abbe of Tourehylle, the viij. and the

xiij. also that daye he was deposyd of hys see. and commyttyd unto

warde agayne.

Item also in this monthe was tane dyvers bother fyches gret in

the Temse.

Item the xxv. day of October was the pluckj-nge downe of alle

the alteres aiid chappelles in alle Powlles churche, with alle the

toumes, at the commandment of the byshoppe then be3mge Xicolas

Pivdley. and alle the goodly stoneworke that stode behjmde the

hye alter, and the place for the prest, dekvue, and subdek^me ; and

wolde a pullyd downe Jolm a Gauntes tome but there was a com-

mandment [to] the contrary from the counsell, and soo yt was madealle pla^Tie as it aperes.

" CiiLer de>eriptioiis of this {.rodigy ai-e j.'iven Iv Stowe, and by Machyn, p. 25 ; and

the de:.ihs oi'th? doulile children ibid. p. 2G.' clirisientd.

76 CHEOXICLE OF THE [1552.

Item this vere begaiine tLe IxAvse in London for the powre tlie

svj'liich] -vvas some tyme the Gray freeres in Xewgatte mar-

ket! e, &c."'"

Item on Alhallon day began the boke of the nevv- pervis of bred

and wvne in Powlle?. with alle London, and tlie byshoppe^ dyd the

servi? hvm-?ehe. and prechyd in the qwere at the mornynge servis.

and dvd it in a rochet and nothynge elles on h^-m. And the dene^

Avith alle the resvdew of the prebentes went but in their surples and

lefte of their abbet of the universyte : and the byshope prechyd at

after-none at Puwlles crosse, and stode there tyll it was nere houde

V. a cloke, and the mayer nor aldermen came not with-in Powlles

chui-eh nor the crafl-'tes as the}- were wonte to doo. for be-cause they

were sou wary " of Iia'S longe stondynge.

Item the da^- of thv? same monyth*^ the chylderne was put

in die bowse that was sonie tyme the Grayfreres.

Item after AUhollanday was no more commimyon in no place but

on the sondayes.

Item this yere ^-as nether sent Nicolas nor the Concepcion of oui"

Lady kepte holyday, nor it (sc. yet) the Assumpcion of our Lady

l;»efore, nor the Nativite of our Lady : but put downe, &c.

Item on Crystmas day at after-none alle the men chylderne wyth

tlie women chylderjie and alle the ofiesers that j.erteynyd mno the

bowse of the jtowre/ stode at the grett condett in Cheppe La a rowe

whan the mayer came to Powlles at after-none, and soo home agayne,

to be sene of the citte. Item the byshoppe prechyd alle the holy-

dayes in the qwere at evenynge prayer.

Item the iiij. day of January [1553] came the lorde of mysrewle

of the corte'" tliorrow London wyth the sheffesP lorde,. and soo mi-to

the crosse in Cheppe. and there made a proclamacyon, and so un-to

the mayers to denner, and alle hys corte was dew\-dyd untodyvers

- Nicholas Ridley. " William Mav. ' y.^t:iry.

-i The 2:M of Novcnibei. ' Christ's hoq.iUil.

' George Kerravf : *i-r- th- p.',>.sige in MaehvnV Dwry, p. 2b. anU the u^U: niL-reu].on,

I,.0-. = ^bcrin-s.

1553.] GKKY FKlAKt OF LONDON. i i

aldermen : aiod aniunge alio one ijurte Avas commyttyd to master

Cartes the aldermai:. but whan they came thether there Avas iiothynge

preparyd for them, for he Avolde not be at home, but he was send

for, but he wolde not be fownde. wherfbr v. of hys servantes AA'are

browte, eche of tliem had too mene ledde them, unto the mayer"s,

and soo alle that daye. and soo at nyght unto the cone: and the

nexte day they wai-e sent home. [Item] the mayer dyd gret cor-

reccione unto powre pepulle, as rydynge in cartes [and standy]nge

on the pyllere, botl^ men and women.

And this yere the furst day of [March was the] parLiment, and

kepte wythiu the kynges pallys at "Westmyster, Whythalle.^

Item this yere [the to\vn] declie from Newgate unto Aldersgat was

stoppyd up with brycke. and made plapie [witli the er]the.

Item in the begynnyng of May was time cnA'te of alle the clmrches

of London and abowte [all the] plate and qwyne^ that was in tlieir

boxys in every church for the kynges grace : and vestmenttes and

[copes], wycbe drew unto a grett substans besyde the copie, and also

this yere was very fewe cherches in London that had anny proces-

sion in the Rogaclou dayes in London this yere for lacke of devocion.

Item the xvij. day of May the market in Xewgate market was

removyd unto the new howsys and the shambylles where sent

Nicolas church sometyme was, alle save only the mele-men, at the

commandment of the mayer.

Item the xxv. day of !May satte in Powlles the comyssioners with

the lorde chefie justes, with the lorde mayer, and soo had aAvay alle

the platte, coppys, vestmenttes, wyche drev.e unto a gret gooddes for

the behoffe of the kynges grace.

Item the xxvj. day of May begarme the bishope of Cantorbe(ry

)

to sytte for the new boke that the byshope of Wenchester, Powny,

made, that he wolde have that alle parsons and curattes shulde sette

their hondes unto it, and so every byshope in hys dyesses. And in

•• and ilic ii)'ir.-u\xc removed to N\'e?t;uinsve

coiii.

78 CHUO-VICLE OF THE [1553.

London Avas dvvers that denyed many of the artycles, as doctor

Weston. M"ith dyvers other, as it shalle slioo alter.

Item the lurst day of June -^vas sett up at the standerde in Cheppe

a pvUer" new made of a good lengthe from the grownde. and too

yonr2-e servanddes tayed \m-tc, yt with a chayne that thee myght

iioo aLo\vte it, and to hettyn v.ith ruddes soore on tlieir baches for

bocause they had t(>o Avenches in-to tlieir master's howse : and on

the morrow after, wyche was the sonday, and tlien was tw otlier in

the same case bertyn at the same pyller, cmd so as many as plesyd

the mayer after-ward e, &c.

Item this yere the mayer dyd put in execucion the acte ior the

hvghth of pentoseese^ thorrov.; all London.

Item the ij°^ day of July prechyd doctor Hodskyne" thr.t was

some tvme suttecane of London., and dyd nether pray f r lady

IMary's grace nor it (sc. yet .; for lady Elizabetli : and the nexte

sondav after prechyd tlie byshoppe of London, Nicolas Reddesle,

and there callyd bothe the sayd ladys bastarddes, that ahe the pepull

was sore anovd with hys w>.irddes, soo uneherytabulle spok;^^le by

hvm in soo opinio ane awdiens.

f Item the vj. day of July dyde kyng Edward the yj. at Grene-

"^ wvche. as the%- sav, and some say he was powsynd. as it shahe apere

"^ ar-after.

.TANA T.EGJyx.

r J' Item tlie x. day of the same monythe after vij. a clocke at nyght

l_ ^^as made a proclamacyon at the crosse in Chepe by iij. harraldes

"^ and one trompet with the kynges shrefle of London master Garrard

" See constant instances of llie use of this pillar in Macbyn's Diarv ; and on one occa-

sion (p. 3 OP) it k called '• the post of reformaiion," From the obscure onhography both

of that and this chronicler it is liable sometimes to be confounded with the pillory—an

instrument of punisliment apparently of the same original etymology-.

'' Penthouses: noticed also by -^lachyn, p. 35.

^ John Hodgeskynne. suffragan bishop of Bedford : see Newcourt. RepcnoriLiii Londi-

ncnsc. i. 153.

]5o3.] GKEY FIHARS OF LONDOX. 79

witli Jvvers of the garde for Jane the duke of Sufiolkes doAvier to /be Tlie cpvene of yngloiid. (but fewe or uone sayd " Good save /hare,'"" '^ ) the Avhyche was browte that same afienioix' from Ikiche-~(^ -y^

mond uu-to W'estmyster. and soo unto tlie tower of Loiidon bv 3vvatter. And the nexte dav in the morninge was sett foi'tli in printe"} ~^.,

that the lady ^^Tary witli the lady Elzabelh ware botlie provyd ille- >

gittimatt and borne mdawfulle and clerely dyscdiargyd from the\

crowne and from alraaner of possessions of the kynge their fader '^

Hem-y the viij. And also provyd accordjmge by the lawys of the ,

cliurche, as tliei say, and by the tetnjiorall Lawys. And also bv a ;

parlament kejtte at AVestmyster in the xxviij*' yere of their fadei-^

kvnge Henry the viij. And soo ly that they be dyscliargyd and

dyssanullyd frc>m alle maner of inherrytans of the impei-ialle crowne V *"

of tlie hole reahne of Ynglond. and to have none maiKr of possessvons/

of the same. And they say also that the k^nige Edward the vj. ;'

made a wylle and a testament at hy; last dayes, and gave the inhe-/

rytans of the crowne unto the duches of Suffolke lady Kateryne, the /

wliiche was dowter uji-to lady IMary that was the Frenche qwene |

and one of the dowters of k}Tige Henry the vij. and yi' she had annyj

male issew or the saj'd kynge Edward the ^'j. dyde. then the impe- \

riall crowne shulde goo unto here issew, and if not un-to here dowter j

lady Jane the wych was maryd unto the iij. sone of the duke of /

Xonhhimiberlond Gylford Dudley. And from hare for lacke of issew /

unto hare cosyne ]\Iargaret late the dowter of lady Ehior wyfi'e unto /

[the earl of Cumberjlond one of the kynges blode, the M-hyche was -/

one of the French qwens dowters [and to the heirs] of hare body law-

fully begot tme.

a vono; man that was drauer at -, x.

sent Jones at Ludgate both In's erres cut ^ ^^Jl^—

'

of cruelly, and sent unto warde aga^nie and

had a rewarde of the chaniber:^' and within iij. dayes after hys

* These -words are a subsequent insertion aLove the line.

' Tiiis paragrrapli (%vliich i= very imperfect from l.einc: ^^T!ttGn in liie wp[iCT marjin of

t!if manuscript, where it i? ]iartly hiiriit and cut :.\vay,) relates to liie s'.or\ of Giii.ert

80 cnr;oxKLE of the [1553.

master r\Yent to tlie Tower, -where he Avas] gunner, and was drownyd

by the -way and ij. men with liym.

Item the xij. of the same monyth of July v,-as rprocrjamacvon

made to take up men. and to come to Totylle. and to have xd. a day.

and 'na[mcly toj feclie in lady ]\Iary : and that same day v^ente

furth to feche here in the duke of Xorrhhumherlond. and more was

se Lut he lay a iiij. or v. dayes besyde TTare. and then

went forwarde to Chambri[dge. and] thowte to worke masteres/ as

it aperes after.

MARIA EEGIXA.

Item the xix. day of the same monyth., [winch] was sent ]\Iarga-

rettes evAme. at iiij. of clocke at after-none v.as proclamyd lady

I^Ja^rv to] be qwene of Ynglond at the crose in Cheppe with the

erie of Shrewsbery, tlie erle [of Arundel], the erle of Pembroke;

with the mayer of London, and dyvers other lordes, and many of the

aid [dermen] and the kynges schrfife master Garrard, w-ith dp-ers ha-

roldes and trompettes. And from thens cam to Powlles alle, and there

the qwere sange Te Deam with the organs goyiige, with the belles

rragA-nge, the most parte alle [London], and that same nyght had the

[most] parte of London Te Deum, with bone-fvers in every strete

in London, with good chere at every bone[fyer], the belles ryjtg^nige

in every parAch cherch, and for the most parte alle nyght tyll the

nexte daye to none,^

Item thexxij. day of the same monyth Avas tane the duke ofXorth-

humberland at Cambryche by the mayer, and proclamyd a traytor,

and soo kepte in a prysone tyll they harde from hare grace and hare

cownselle. And on saynt James day at after-none at iiij. of cloke at

after-none was browte unto London worshA-i:)pfally as he had de-

serv\-d. and browte in at Byshoppes gatte by the erle of Ai-udelle,

Po'.ier. of which tlie p.irticulars have beoi collected in the Chronicle of Queen Jan6.and

Queen Mary, pp. 115—121. The present passage states, that on the change of affairs he

received an immediate " reward of the chamber '" of the city, and i: has been shov\Ti in the

former chronicle that he had afrprwards a more ample recompenee from the crown.

^ nia=Teries. '' nrion.

1553.] gi;et feiaks of London. SI

tlie wycbe browte hym unto the tower oi' London. And whan he

came in at Brshoppes gate he Avas comniandyd to put of hys atte,

and soo dyd tylle he came to the tower : and after he came onsse to

Shordych alle the ]>epul]e revyled hym and callj'd hym traytor and

herytycke. and "wo-olde not seyse for alle the(y ) ware sj)okyn unto for

it. Wyth hys sones, as the erle of "^Varwyke, Ambrose Dudley.

Henry Dudley, Androw Dudley,-'' tlie erle of Huntyngtone, lorde

Hast\-nges, sir John Gattes that was captayne of the garde, and sir

Henry Gattes hys brotlier, sir Thomas Palmer, doctor Saunder.

Item here went the byshoppe of London ^ that was gopige un-to tlie

qwene to begge hys pardon, but he was tane at Ipsege, and there was

put in Avarde.

Item the xxij. day of the same monytli began the waclie at every

garre in London in harnes, viij. be syue the viij. comeners.

Item sxTJ. day of the same monyth was browte to the tower f>f

London at ij. a clocke at after-none doctor Eedley that was the

byshope of London, lorde markes of Xorthhantone, Eoberte Dudley

that was the dukes brother,^ master Corbet that was slii-efte of

Essex, and after them that same nyght was browte in sii' Roger

Chamle'' cheffe justes of the kynges bcncdi, sir Edwarde Moutageu

cheffe justys of the comyn place : and the nest day came m sir John

Jorke^ .and Sir Thomas Wrathe,^ with dyvers other, as it shalle

apere afterwarde.

Item the iij. of August came in the qwenes grace p after vij. a

clocke at nyght fi-om Newhalle with the ladj- Elzabeth hare syster,

and a grette company of ladys wyth hare : and she goodly imparelde

vnxh alle the resydew of hare ladys, and so to Whytte-chappell : and

there the mayer with the aldermen reseved hare, and he delyveryd

bare the swerde, and she toke it to the erle of Arnedelle, and he bare

it before hare, and the mayer the masse.'' And whan she came at

' .Sir Andrew- Dudlev. K.G. was his brother. *" Nicholas Kidley.

•^ Lord Roben Dudley, afterwards earl of Leioe?ter. was the duke> seooi.d sun.

' C'boln:..ey. ' Yorke. ' Wroth.

? Compare wkh Msohyn, p. .38. '' rniice.

. eAMD. SOC. M

S2 CIIPONICLE OF THE [1553.

Algate there it v^-as goocUy hang^-d v^-hh clotlies. banners,, and

stremcrs. and srngc-r?, and goodiv apaix'lde alle t]:'.j v.-ay duvaie to

Led^Tdialle, and Laiigyd with clothes, Lanners. and stremers. and

syngers, as is above sayd : and also on the one syde tlie cran'tes of

London Avith-in ra} lies in their best aparelles and clothe hangyjigo

before theme; and so dvwne Graschesstret and in-to Fanehersse

sti-ete. and soo dov.-jje 3ilarke lane, and soo tu the tovrere ; and every

hows hangyd as is above sayd, wyth syiigers, organs, and shalmes:

and whan she came to the t'jwer, that she was m i:h-in the tower,

tJier was soche a pelle of gonnes what bothe smalle and grer and soo

longe and soo thecke that hath not be harde : soo gladde dyd the

pepulles harttes rejoyse in hare comyiige in, as God save hare grace,

and longe to contynew, and pi'osper hai'e in goodnes I .Vjnen.

[The v.] of August at vij. a cloche at nyght came home Edraond

Boner Ijyshoppe [from the ]\Ja]rchelse lyke a byshoppe,'' that alle

the jiejiulle by the Avay badde hym welcom home [botir; man and

•\\oman, and as many of the women as myghte kyssyd him, and soo

came to Powlles, anJ k[nelr on the] stej)pes and sayd hys prayeres

:

and then the pepuile range the belles for joye ; and whan he left the

I\Iareshelsey there came m doctor Cokkj,'s^ for hym. Aiid the nexte

day the duke of Xorfoke, the bj'shoppe of Wynchesier,^ the byshoppe

of Dui-rhara/ the byshoppe of Chechester/ and the byshoppe of Wys-siter*' had their pardone, and ware dyschargyd, and soo VN-ent abrode

and restoryd mi-to there [diglnytes agayne alle hole.

Iton the vj. day c^i' August was lefte the wache at the gattes in

London.

Item the vij. day oi' the same monyth was the k^mge Edwarde the

AT. removyd un-to Whythall un-to "Westmyster by the byshopiie of

Camitorbery wyth-cwte any cruse or lyght : and berryd tlie nexte

" Sfe Machyn, p. 39.

'' Ricliard Cox dtan of Westnjinster. afterwards Inshoj) of Ely in the reign of Elizabetli.

<^ Stephen Grardiner. "^ Cutliljert Tiin>tr.!l. " George Djv.

' Nifliola:^ Heatli.

1553.] GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. 83

day with a comvnyone and that ]'0wc4y/ and tlic liyshoppe of Che-

chc'Ster^ prechyd a good sermon.

Item the siij. day of August prechyd master Borne "^ at Powlles

crossc at the commandment of the queues grace, and there was

pullyd owte of the })ulpyt by vacahonddes, and one thirew hys dagger

at hym.

Item the xviij. day of August was the dul-.e of XorthumLerlond "^

was browte by watter un-to "Westmyster with tlie raarkes of Xorth-

hamtoue aiid the verlc of Warwyke hys sone, and there Avas con-

demnyd by them-sellfes and had no qwest went apone tliem but

them selfe. and submyttyd them selfe un-to the qwenes grace and

here lawys : and the nexte day botli the Gattes and Andrew Dudly

the duke"s brother and Palmer m ]yke wyse condemnyd.

Item the xx^' day of August prechyd at Powlles cr(_isse master

Watsone,e and there was dyvers oi' the queues covaisehe. and the

captayue of the garde with a CC. and more of the garde browte hymto tlie pulpytte, and stode tliere alle the sermone tynie with ther

halberttes.

Item the xxij^^ day of the same monytli sufferd at Tower-hyll the

duke of Northhumberlond, sir Jtjhn Gattes captajiie of the garde be-

fore, and sir Thomas Palmer, alle three beheddyd ; and the day

before hai'de masse in tJie tower and reseved the sacrament in forme

of brede.

Item the xxix. day of August satte the qvrenes commissioneres for

the neA^- byshoppes, that v^'as put hi for them that was put c^wte and

m to prisone at the connnandment of tlie byshoppc of Gamitorbery

as is above sayd, and as it shalle follow.

^ Poorly. A iiote referring to the aceouni-'i preserved of this ceremoiiia) will be fouud

appended to Macliyn's Diary, p. 331.

" John ScoiT.

^ Gilbert Bourne, soon after bishop of Bath and Wells ; see the present incident also in

Machyn, p. 41, and the note from the chronicles and privy council registrr. ibid. p. 332.

^ Seethe Ciironiele of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. I'j, 121.

« Thom;is Watson, soon after bishop i..f Lincoln : of tiiis Sfrraon sed a!=o Machyn's

Diary, p. 41. and William Da!by"s letter. iMd. p. 332.

'?-i CUliOXICLE OF THE [1553.

Item ill August was tlie aulter in rowlie.s ^et up agayue. and

fenvsycb' in Scptemljer.

Item the xiiij. da}- of Sej^tember vras tlie byshoppe of Cauntorbeiy

comyttyd unto the to^Yc^ fi'om the sterrechamber. Thomas Creme^by hys name ; and the xv. day was comytted also unto the tower the

bysliopp of Bath [Wilham] Barlowe by name.

Itom the same tyme Avas alle the new byshoj'pes dyschargyd andj.iur doAA'ne.

Item tlie xvij. day of September tlie bysho}ipe of London, Boner,

sange masse in Powlles,. and gave holy M'arter hym-selfe. and soe

continuyd.

Item the laste day of September vras the qwenes grace browth

from the tower of Londoii unto the Whyth-hall goodly, and mariv pa-

genttes in dy^-ers places as she came Ijy the wey in London, Avith

aUe tlie crafttes and aldermen, arid also a }iagent in Powlles churche-

yerde at the est ende of the church, and there she stode longe,

for yt was made of rosemarv with alle liere armes and a crowne in

the myddes. Item also there was a man made too tope-castelles

above the crosse of the stepulle, and there stode wjth a flagge in hys

hondc and viij. flagges hangynge besyde ; and a castelle made in the

myddes of the hye Avaye at the denes place. Aiid the furst day of

October she was crowiied at "Westmyster by the byshoppe of Wyn-chester Steph^ii Gardner, and she was broAvth fi-om Westmyster

halle with iij. crosses with a gret qweer and many bysboppes with

their rayteres on their heddes and crose-stavys in ther honddes, as

many as had none other lette, and they had other that bare them

before them ; for as that tyme she wolde not suS'er non to be in the

qweer nor to mynyster in hare presence, that in soomoch she had

alle that was in Puwlles save only them that ware maryd, that in

somocli that the day Avas no servvs in Powlles. noiher mattens nor

masse nor cvyr.songe [nor] sermone at the eros-e as that day.

Item the a*'^ day ol' the same nionyth beganne the })arlament ; and

1553.1 raiEY fi:iak? of londox. 85

Avlian tLey -^are in the parlaruent howse the byshoppe of L^Tigcolle

doctor [John Taylor^] be^Tige byshoppe of Lyngcolne hys parla-

inent robe Avas tane from hym and be was comy[tted] to the to\ver:

and iij. dayes in the ^veke the q\^X'ne satte in the parlanient ho^vse

and harde alle soche thinges as was there done.

Item thie vij. day of Octciber beganne the convocacion in PowlIeSj

and there had [mass of] the H"ly Gost. And tliere the byshoppe

of London sange the mass in hys pontijficalihus. and that [was the]

fiirst masse that was songe at the hye alter after that it was sett up

aga\-ne, and liad a good[ly] sermon ad clenan in the qwere.

Item the x^-j. day of that same monythe beganne the dyspu[ta-

cion] in tlie louge chappeU in PowlJes betwene the new sortte and

the olde, as monday_. wedy]is[da}-. and] fryday. and there came

moche pepidle : but they ware never tlie wyser, and vrith manyworddes of ..... that the qwenes graces co^^-ncell was faveu to

send worde that there shulde be no more dy[spu]tacions. but that

it shulde be dyscussyd by the hole parlanient. And as at that tyme

the wet[hercock] of PowUes stepuUe was tane do-mie, and new madeand gyltyd, and sett up agayne the iiij. day of November.

Thys yere the xiij. day of November the byshoppe of Cantorbery

Thomas Creme^ and lady Jane that wolde a bene qwene. and iii. of

the Dudleyes*' condemnyd at the yelde-halle for hve tresone.

Item this yere the qwere of Pov.lles went abowte the stepulle on

sent KaterAms day at nyght^

Item on sent Andrewys day begane the generalle procession in

Latten in PowUes churche/ with the parsons and curattes of Lon-don, with the prebenttes in their gray ammes, and the mayer with

dyvers of the aldermen : and the same wyse iij. dayes followyncie.

Item the a> day of Januarij [1554] came from the emperor im-

» He and JoLu Harley bishop of Hereford had withdrowu from the solemnization of the

queen "s coronation at the commencement of the mass. He died soon after at Anker-wiek. (Fo:^e). t Cranmcr.

^ Lord Anibros-f, lord H:.rrv.ai;d lurJ Gu'ifonl. See Ciiron. of Q. Jan.;, cVc. p. C2.

- See Maehvn. p. i'.>. ' Vide il-id.

S6 CIIKOXICLE OF THE|1554.

bassotors in the name of the hole howse of Bowrgone. as dyvers

erles, as the erle of DegmoiKle^ with dwers other.

Item tlie xiiij. tliiv of Januarij began the proces-ion on tlic son-

da}-es al/uwte tlie church^ with the mayer and the aldermen in their

clokes. and tlie preclier takynge hys benediceion in the body of the

church of the bysshop})e.

Item tlie xv. day ol the same monyth began tlie insurreccion at

^Moydstone by sir Thomas AVyett knyght. lorde Cobhame.'' Harper,

and Colpeper. with dyvers otljers.

Item the xvj. day of the same monvtli in tlie mornynge began

the wache at Qxevy gatte m Loudon in hiarnes. both men and their

servantts, etc.

• Item the furst day of Februai-ij the qwenes gi'ace came (in) hare

owne persone un-to tiie }elde-hal]e of Londone, and show^-d hare

mynde*^ un-to the mayor, aldermen, and the hole crafttes of London

(in) are owne persone, with hare cepter in hare houde in tok;\m of

love and pes, and weute home agayne by wetter at the Crane in tlie

ventre.

Item the xxiij. of Januarij was condemnyd at the yelde-halle of

London lorde Robert Dudley.

Item the xxx^' day of the same monyth the duke of Xorfoke came

to Strode, and bent hys artyllery agaynst TTyett; but the Lon-

doneres with their captayns, as Brian, Fyztwiilianis, and Bret,

whoo came with the duke agaAmst Wyet, made a shoute and fled

from the duke to Wyet, that the dulve hardly scapyd from them.

Item the furst day of Februarij came Wyett v.-itli hys host in to

Sothwarke at iiij. a clocke at aftcr-none, and or it was v. he had

made a bulwarke at the bryge fotte. and ke}')te Sothwarke tyll it was

" Eguioiit. st^e tht licit, tu Ma(li\ n't- Diary, ji. o37. Sec- also die Chronicle of Queen

Jane and Queen Mary. p. ?,i.

•> St. Paul's.

' Lord Cobliam \va.^ at fir?t susj-o-cted of taking pan in WyattV rebellion : see the

C'iironicle of Queen Jane and Qiieen Mary. p. 3'j.

•* Her address to tlie citizens is triven bv Foxt.

15o4.j Gll-EY FKIAKS OF LONDON. 87

the vj. of the same monythe, and dyd no hanne there: and this was

Shroft tewsday : for the bryfrge drawebrygge v.as drawne agayne

]l^-m. and the nygh.t before ujany of hvs men fied from h}-]n ; and

the same tewsday was ij. men hongyd on a iiybyt in Po\Alk'S cliurch-

yerd be-forc sent Gregory's. And that same day "Wyct vrith hys

lios: depai'tyd owte of Sothwarke at ix. a cloke in the mcirnvniie.

and went im-To Kyngstone. And also at tliat same tyme the duke

of Sofiblke with hys brother Avas tane by the erle of Hunt^rngtone

:

and tliat same day was Te Deum songe in the qwenes chapelle for

joye of it And that same day the lorde Cobhame^ and Harper

whai- put in-to the tower. [The vij.] day Wyet with hys host came

mi-to the parke besyde sent James and soo wolde [haye entered, and

tlieie] most traytorys shott at the cone gattes that the arres stoke

tliere longe alter. And he liymselfe came in at Te[mple bai% and]

soo downe alle FletsTrt'te,. and soo un-to the Belle savage. Andthen was hys ti'ayne [attacked at] the comandment of the erle of

Pembroke, and sartayue of hys men slayne. And whan [he savr]

that Ludgatte was shutt agayne hym he departyd, sapige " I have

kepte towche," and soo went [back] agayne; and by the Tempulle

barre he was tane, and soo browght by watter^' unto the ["tower] of

London. And then alle the qwens host came thorrow London goodly

in araye Ayith si>erys. And that same day w;is tane one ATilham

Albryght parsoue of K^Tigstone besyde Barrame downe, "^ precher

of the gosspelle, besyde Charpige crosse in this rebellyone. Also

it is to be supposed that Wyett hadde come in at Ludgat had not

one John Harres a merchant-taylor in Watlpige stret [hajd not

savd, " I know that theys be Wvettes ancienttes :" but some were

' Lord Cobham, thougb he had not ioiued the rebels, was eonaproraised bv the conduct

of Lis sous. He was rvleased with Lis son sir Ayilliani ou the 2itb of March 1553-4 : see

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p, 71, and r\Iaclvn's Diary, p. 5S. His son

Tbonsas was condemned, but afterwards pardoned. (Bayiey"s Towei' of London, p. 445.)

«- He was carried finft on horseback to AyiiitthalL See the Chronicle of Queen .T:.ne

and Queen Mary. p. 5'.

' Kinirston. co. Kent, five miles fruni Canter'ourv.

88 CHRONICLE or the [1554.

verv anggre wytli Inin because lie sayd soo, but at liys vv-orciJes

the gattes ware shutte.

Item the viij. day of FeliruariJ the ducke of Sun"blke wyth hys

brother Ti'as browte thon-ow LcaKlone wyth a goodly coinpauy of

spere-merj. and soo uuto the tower of Loiidon,

Item the xij. of Februarij wa? bchedd}'d vrytliiii tlie tower lady

Jane that wcilde a bene qvrene ; and hare husband v.hose name was

GyKord Dudley at the Tower-hyll.

Item the xiiij. day of the same monyth for the sanie rebellyon was

hon:zyd one Vicars a yeman of the garde. Bouthe one of the queues

fbtmeu. srret Jolm Xortone, and one Kynge ; and in severalle places

aljowte London at the gattes. in Cheppe syde. and other strettes. to

the number of xx^'. the vrych ware of London that fied from tlie

duke of Xorfoke : and that same day M'as iij. hongyd in chanys on

Hav hvlle for the same oflence in rebellyon.

Item the duke of Suffolke was condemnyd at Westmyster the

xvij. dav of Februarij : and beheddyd at Towre-hyll the xxiij. day of

the same monyth.

Item the xv. dav of ]\Iarch was commyttcd un-to the tower aganie

the erle of Devenchere.

And tlie xviij. dav of the same monyth was coiumvttyd also unto

the tower lady Elzabeth that Avas the queues syster. and that was

Palme sonday.

Item the epestylle masse begane agayne '^ the ij. day of Aprille.

'^tem the viij. day of Aprille was a katte liongyd on the gallos^ in

Cheppe clothed lyke a preste, and that same day hylde up before

the precher at PoUes crosse^^

And shortly after the qwenes gi-ace gave a generall pardon for

alle thovs that ware with Wyet. and som(mon)ed a parlament to l)e

helde at Oxforde, but it was sone rejurnid unto London agayne unto

Westmyster.

"^ In St. Piiul's cathedral.

^ Tliis L- .ilso noticed by Tr-sc. Stowe. and Machyn : s-ee Mac-liyri'> D;?.ry. j.p. 5S, 33S.

1554.' GREY FKIAKS OF LOXDOX. 89

Item the xj. day of tlie same monyth was Wvett behedyd at Towre

hvlle, and also qwarterd; and hys hedde with one of hys qwarteres

sett ap:>u the gallowys, and the lied -svirh the qwarter was stolne

awaA'e.

Item the ix. day of Aprillc be;jan the oppo.^ycions at Oxford by

ThoniL-.s Creme'' sometyme byshojipe of Cantorbery. Nicolas Rydley

sometvme byshoppe of London, and Hugh Latemer. agayne the

lerdemen^ of both the universytes : and there the sayd iij. persons

was condempnyd as erytj-kes. and soo remaynyd there in presone a

longe tyme.

Item the xxvij. of Aprille was beheddyd at Towre hylle the duke

of Sufi^olkes brother.'^

Item the xiiij. dav of May was the monday in Wytsone wekc and

thene t';e maver, aldermen, goldsmythes and fyshemongeres '^ came a

procession un-to Powlles as tliey v\ere wonte to doo. but there was

nosen5^"nge: and dyvers other pariches came alle the iij. dayes as

they ware wonte.

Item the xviij. day of ]\ray was draune fi-om the tower of London

Thomas a Yane ^ unto Tyborne,. and there put to execucion.'''''^

Item the XLxiiij. day of ]\Iay was Corpus Christi day that some

kepte holv day and some wolde not, and there was a joyner that

dwelte in Colmanstrett, hys name was .John Strett, he was ii7 Smyth-

felde whan tlie procession of sent Pulchers came by hym. and he

wold a tane the sacrament from the prest,*" but he was resysted and

tane and put in Newgatte. and then he fa}ni}-d him-selfe madde.^^

* Cranmer. '" learned rben.

' Lore Thomas Grey : see Machvn, p. CI, and Queen Jane and Queen Man-, p. 75.

** Thi- tras in revival of an ancient cu«lom liy which the companies of the Goldsmiths

and Fishmonjrers were associated on certain festivals. See a paper b\ the Editor of the

present vcilume in the Archa-ologia, vol. XXX. " On an amity formed between the Com-

panies of Fishmongers and Goldsmiths of London, and a consequent participation of their

Coat Anriour."

» This ii a mistake: the sufferer on that day was William Thomas, late clerk of the

eotincil : 5*e Machyn, p. CiZ, and the Chron. of Queen .Tane and Quef n Mary. p. 7G.

' See iiso Machyn, p. 64 ; and Foxe.

CAMD. ?0C. -X

90 CHROXICLE OF THF. [1o.j4.

Item tlie iiij. Jay of June was tone dcAviie iJle the gallos witliin

London.

Item the X. daye of June was sondav and thene v,-a> a croonne

sliotte nere Powhes cherch-yerd tliat the pellvt came nere the

precher's face that ]ireched at Powlles crosse.^

Item the xxij. day of June was a procLamacion made for shottynge

wyth hand-gonnes and beiwiige of we])pons.

Item the furst day of July was .... and whei-eas there

was in the parich of serit Gregory's one Jolni Hylle a cutle]' [that

was] ohstenatt that Avolde iiot beleve in the hlyssyd sacrament of the

alter, nor it (_sc. yet) tylle the[n ha'd not restvyd it : hut he was

convei'iryd he-fore hys ordenary the dene of Powlles Tthatl vras at

that tyme doctor Facname.'^ and soo revokyd hys op^niyojie o]iynly

before all the pariche, and askyd them mercy and fwrye:nes lor his

evylle insampui'e. and prayd them to pray for hym. and tlicn and

there he resevyd the sacrament opynly befor them alle.

Item the . . day of the same nionA'th; wher as ther was a maydthat spake in a walle ^ in a howse [in] Aldersgat stret stode at the

Powlles crosse before the precher doctor "Wynjbsle ^ archedekon of

[Middlesex], and there slioyd alle the hole matter and asked Godmercy and tlie queue, and alle the pepulle. for ar evy'ir, hisampulle.

And the XA-iij. day of the same monyth stode a man on the pyllery

for the same matter, with a paper and a scryptor on liys hed, that

was consentynge there-to.

Item the x[ix] da}- of the same monyth the prince of Spayne

came in at Hamtone. and there was croodlv rese^-rd.*^ Aiid the

" Compare with ^Iacll^^l, p. 65. ^ John Feckenham.

* Of tbi? imposture see Machvn's Dian-. pp. 66, 339; and Tvtler. ii. 3-!0.

"* John ^^-j-minesley. or "Wymunsley, one of the natural son? of George Savage, priest,

and consequently a natural Lrotlier of bishop Bonner. He was arclideaeon of London

from Oct. I"i43 to April li>;A. and then archdeacon of Middlesex until his death in Oct.

1650. .See Xewcourt, Report. Londinense, i. pp. 63, £1, 211.

* Full particulars of the reception and marriage of king Philip will be found in the

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

1554.] GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. 91

xxij^ day of the same monyth, the wych was Marj- Maudlyne day,

at nyght was commandment gevyn in London to have bonfvers and

belles ryngynge thorrow alle Londone. And the nexte day to have

Tc Beam in every church for joye of liym. Item the xxiij. day of

the same monyth he came to Wjnichester; be-twene vj. and vij. at

nyght, where he was honorably and goodly resevyd. And the

sxv. day of the same mon_^-th Avas honorably marryd with gret

solemnite with many honorabull lordys and ladys, and men of

worchypp as it doihe apere. both spiritualle and temj)oralle. Item

the furst day of Augnst was a proclamacion made in London for

the hole stylle ^ bothe for the k_Mige and the qwene and alle ther

domvnyons of both. They came not unto London tyli it was the

x-v-iij. day of Aulgust, and then came bothe unto the place in Soth-

warke. and lay there that nyght. And the xix. day came into

London, wher they Avare goodly resevyd with many pagenttes, as

farst at the brige fotte, and alle the hoAi'ses on the brigge newpavntyd whyt and yellow, and in Grachhed strett a goodly yiagent

and costly ; and another in Cornel le : and one at the Gret Condet,

and at the standerd the wayttes of London playnge ; and the crosse

in Cheppe new gyltyd and that costly, and the genologe of hym at

the Lyttyll Condet ; and alle the crafftes of LoiKlon stondA^lge be

the way m their best aparelle in alle the strettes as he came goodly

hangyd, and soo to Powlles : and there was goodly resevyd of the

byshopp wyth the prebenders and the hob ^- qweer of Powlles, and

soo into the qwere, and there was Te Deum songe. And there was

one came downe from the chapter-howse apon a roppe. And soo

departyd un-to Westmyster. And Ludgatte new payntyd. And a

pagent in Fletstret at the cundet And so un-to the pallys of

Whvtlialle. Item on sent Luke's day the k^^nge came un-to

Powlles. and ther harde masse, and went home agayne.

• Their -whole royal stvle. See Machyn's Diary, pp. 34, 67, and the Chronicle of

Queen Jane and Queen Mar}-, p. 142.

>» So t}.€ MS. hut no doiihf for whole.

92 CHRONICLE or THE [1554.

Thys \ev the iiij. day of XovemLer precbyd at Puwlles crosse

doctor (Harpsiield ) ^, and there \vas v, men, ai iij. prestes and

ij. tempuralle men, dyd opyn pennans. The iij. prestcs ^vare

maryd. One "^^"as a challon of Esynge spettvUe,^' and one a bhacke

ft-ere, and the iij. an Austyne freer. And this Avas their pennans :

furst to come o-»A-te of the vestre %Yith shettes a]>one ther hackes.. and

eche of them a rodde in their honddes -wyth a taper lych.*^' and furst

came and knelyd before the bye aulter. and there the suftrecane

ga\-e them their dyssipbne ; and than -went downe before the crosse :

and whan the precher had tane hys benediccion of the byshoppe in

the myddes of the churcli. they came downe m:ito the byshoppe. and

knelyd downe in the myddes of the church, and there had tlieir

cyssipHnes of hym. and iie' kyssyd them: aiid soo vrent nnto the

crosse, and stoue there abe the [sermon] tyme, and whan he came

unto the beddes ^ they turnyd unto the precher aiid knelyd downe

[and asked forgive]uess there of hym, and then he showyd their

opp'>Tiyons o]i}"nly in the pulpyt.

Item the xij. day [of November] began the parlament at West-

myster. wher as the k_Amge rode in hys parlament robe, and [the

quelne in an op^'ne charret by hym,^ on the ryght honde of hym,

goodly aparelcle and rvchely [in a robe of cri^msone velvyt and

cloth of golde: with alle the lorddes in their parlament robbys bothe

spiritualle [and temporjalle. And there Mas [a sermlon, in the

whych was the pope prayd for at the masse of the Holy Gost.

And the nexte day came the convocacion at Powlles, and the

masse of the Holy Gost there also, and a sermon in the qwere

od clerum, and there the pope was prayd for also by name.

Item the xix. day of November began the pluckynge downe of

the postys at tlie corte gatte at "Westmyster by the hyeway S}^de for

the play of the Spanyardes that was callyd the cane.^

' John Harpffield. arcljdeflcon of London : see Machyn, pf>. 73, 340.

'' A canon of Elsing spiral

.

= lighted.

'* The pre;. er>. ' Comp.ire with Machyn. p. 74.

• Thejuego de ciinna.s : !ree Macliyn's Diary, pp. 76, S2. &3: and no:c in i- 38^'.

1554.^ GKEY FKIAR^^ OF LONDON. 93

Item the xxiiij. of the same moiiyth came in the cardnalle Powle

bv watter.. and soo came unto the corte at Whythalle : and in the

mvddes of the bry^'lie the kynge metre hvin, and soo eche other

salute otlier goodly and reverently: and soo wente in unto the

qwene. and soo she mett them at hare gret chamber, and slie salutyd

liym : and there they talkyd a wliyhe, and he deparryd un-to tlie

place at Lambyth the wyche •5\-as ].)re[iaryd fur liym.

Item the xxv. day of the same monyth was sent Kater^-ns day,

and that day -u-as the play at the corte gatte of the cane : in the

\vych the k^mge with alle the lordes and soch as plcsyd hym came

from Dyrraham place ^ goodly aparelde unto the place, and there

playd, and havyng their targattes on their sholderes ; and thankys

be to God that there was no hanne done there.

Item tlie xxviij. day of the same rao^iyth was a sermon in the

qwere of Powlles, and Te Deam songe, with a generall procession ^

;

and the byshoppe in hys myter and dyrers other byshoppes in their

abbettes ; the mayer [andl aldermene in their scarleit Avith their

clokys, and alle the crafttes in their best aparelle; and the nexte

day was procession m ex^vx parich in Londone with Te Deam.

Item that same day at aftemone came the cardnalle un-to the

corte, and shoyd hys m^mde mito the kAmge and qwene and tlie

councelle, with dyvers of the parlament howse, and soo departyd to

Lambyth agayne.

Item the ij. day of December after was tlie furst sonday of Ad\"ent,

and that day the sayd cardnalle came unto Powlles, and there was

reseved of the byshoppe of London and the byslioppe of Wynchester.

then beynge chaunsler of Yngland, at the church dore. and alle the

parich churches of the dieses of London, parsons, vicars, and

cm-attes, in their coppys, with their chirkes holdynge their crosses

with their banneres.

Item the svij. of the same monyth came in the prijice of FPied-

mont *^] at aftcr-none by watter, and soo to the cortte.

^ Durham place iu the Strand.

*> In thanksgiving for " the queen's quickening: *" see noiei^ to Machvn. p. oil.

•- See >L-K-liyii. pp. TlS 341. Emanuel Pi.iliherf prin.-e of Piednicint, und duke of Savov.

94 ( in:o.\iCLE or the [].3o5.

Item the v"' day ut' Januarij [1555] was sent Edwardei day and

thene was sett iip the scn-ime " at Westmyster. and tlie aultcr, witli

dvvers juelles tliat tlie qwene sent thetlier.

Itei]i the XXA-. day of tlie same nionyth was the Conversione of

seiit Pauhes day. and tlien was a generall procession*^ with the

chelderne of alle tlie seolles in London. Avith ahe the clarkes. cu-

rattes. and parsons, and vikeres. in coppes, with their cro>si5 : and

the qwere of Powlles ir, lyke wysse ; and dyvers bysliopj^es in their

liabbetteS; and tlie byslioppe of Londone inhys pontincalles and coppe..

berAaige the sacrament under a canvppy, and iiij. prebenttes berynge

it in ther gray amos : and soo up iTuto Ledynhahe witli the mayer

[and] aldermen in scarlet, wiili their clokes, and alio the crafttes in

their best aray ; ar:d soo carne dovrne agayne on the other syde and

soo to Powllos ag:>yno ; and tiien the kvi:ige with uiv lorde cardnidle

came to Powlles and harde masse, and went home agavue : and at

nvght was commandment gewn to make bonfiers thorrow alle Lon-

do7ie for joy of the pepulle tljat ware convertyd lyke Avyse as sent

Powlle was convertyd.

Item the iiij. clay of Februarij was John Rogers, that was some-

t^"me viker of sent Sepulkeres and redei- in Powlles and prebendary

after doctor Pioystou,'^ burnyd in Smythfelde for gret herysy. AndHopper and []jJojiI'\ send un-to Glociter. and ther to (be) burnyd

Ivke Avvse : [and ui]vers more un-to other places.^

had been the first jierson elected into the order of tbe garter in tl)e reijn of queen Mar}-.

He was cousin german to king Pliilij. liv their mother--, and it ^vas eontemjiiated that he

should marry the princess ElizaJieth. See Tviler's Ed^\ard VI. and Marv, ii. 448

eX S(q.

* The shrine of saint Edward : but it had not been fully " set i;p ap-aiu'"

at tlie begin-

ning of the year 1557 : see tlie passage in Machyn's Diary, p. 131.

'' Compare with Mach^Ti. p. S(>.

"^ John Rogers was instituted to the prebend of Pancras. vacant Iiv the death of John

Royston, D.D. on the "2411 Aug. 1551. (Newcourt, Repert. Lond. i. 19G.) He was ap-

pointed reader »tf the lecture in St. PauTs by the dean and chapter; and i^ fully comme-

morated by Fo.\e as the protomariyr of the Marian persecution.

" At the same time that bishop Hooper was sent to Gloucester, Lawrence Saunder.- was

•-cnt to Coventry, and Rowland Taylor to Hadky ; see Machyn, p. 82.

1555'] GKET FEIARS OF LONDON. 9a

Item on Ester day was a prest at sent Margaryttes at [Westmin-

ster bro'lcTii on the Ledde and on the arme wytli a -wood knyffe in

minvstenTige of the Llyssyd [sacrament] un-to tlie pcjinlle in the

churcL An;] soo be ^ 'svas tane and sent imto the tov,-er of [Lon-

don", and the thursday after was hrcwte unto Xewgate: and the

fryday browte nn-to Powflles. and] saterday af^ter aUo. and there

was desgradyd of the hyshoppe of London in the con rsis]ter3', for lie

was and a prest before. And there in the presens of the

cheS'e iustvs of the comvne place, the lorde rn[ayer ;. and the f;hryiies,

and soo conrmvttyd unto Xewgatt aga_\"ne : and tlio xxiiij. day carryd

unto T\'[estunnster] and there burnyd ior that same dede.

Item the xxv. day of I\Iarch was another generalle process [ion],

and then was delyveryd a pc>ddynge unto c^ne of the prebendes goA-ng

in r-rocessiou. Item the same man the xxvij. day of that same

laonyth was betten with why])pes at the peller in Che[>e at the standert.

Item the vij. day of Aprelle the Obserranttes ware put in at Gren-

wych aga^me by the bysshopp of Rochester, ]\Ior\"s,'^ tliat was some

n-me a blacke freere. at the commandment of the quene.

Item the xxix. day of I\Iay another generalle jtrocession unto sent

?>iaggolles ^ and soo downe Tem.stret, and up at Dougat and soo to

PowUes.

Item the xxx*^ day Cardmaker ^ with another with hym burnyd

in Smythfelde for heryse.

Item the xxxj. day of the same monytli was a proclamacion for

tie blyssyd saci'ament and for bokes of scyiiter.''

» 1. (. the man who committed the assault. He Lad been a monk of Ely : see Maebyn's

acc-ocnt of the same occurrence, p. S4, and also Stryjic. Memorials, iii. 212.

^ Maurice Griffin, consecrated bishop of Rochester April 1, 1554.

' Saint Magnus, which was by popular corruption called Saint I^Iagnol's.

^ John Cardmaker, late vicar of .St. Bride's, before mentioned in p. 56. His feilow-

suiferer v.a* John Warne, upholster of London : see a full relation in Fo.\e.

* -Scripture. I have not been aMe to trace a prwlamation of that date ; but on the

i4th of the next month (see Machyn, p. 90) was issued a proclamation for the suppression

of heretical books, including the Book of Common Prayer, which is printed at length 1a

Foxe.

96 ciinoNiCLP: of the [1 000.

Item the xxvij, of June \va? kept the oliijt of the kyiiges graiid-

hanie.'' -with a goodly herse as ever ^^as sene, and stode a vj. or vij.

days after.

Item tlie xxvj. day of August tlie kyngH^ and the q\>-eDe came

thorrow tlie citte.. and soo to Grenwyclie to^^arde in hys jurne unto

l;ys fader tlie eni|.iei-ar: ar,d there to]^e liys lefi'e.

Item the xvj. day of October ^vas hurnyd at Oxforde doctor Rid-

ley that was sometyme byshoppe of London, and doctor Lattimer.

for gret herysy.

Item the xxviJ. day of September after was the counter in Bred-

stret removyd in-to Wood-strete.

Thys yere was dyvers bui'nyd in many places in Ynglond. Aitd

the xxvij. day oi' .Januarij [1556] was burnyd in Smytliefelde v. menand too women tor gret hervse.

Item the iiij. day of November began the parlament at "WfSt-

myster. And the xj. day after began tlie cardnalles senod at Lam-by th,. and contynewyd tylle the xij. day of February after.

Item the mayor with the citte enterde into Brvdwelle.^

Item the xxiij. of February was Shroft sonday, and then was leppe

yere, and. that day the byshoppe of London Edmonde Boner,, the

byshoppe of Lyncolne then beynge [John White], and the byshoppe

of Ely doctor Thyrlebe, satte at Oxforde in commyssoners for the

]X)pe aponne Thomas Creme "^ some tvme archebyshoppe of Caittor-

bery apone liys gret heryse that he was in, and there he was des-

gradyd of hys leggatsheppe and of hys archebyshoppecheppe, and

presthed. wyth alle other ecclesiastical! degres, and presthode, ai:d

soo comyttyd unto the teraperalle honddes and jurysdycion.

Item the xxj. day of ]\Iarche followvn^e was burnyd there and

* The king's grand-danie bere nitntioned was Jane queen of Spain, tlie heiress of Cas-

tile and Arrag'on : and wbo was alio queen ]\Iary's maternal aunt. See Machyn's account

of the hearse and the ceremonial, which took place in St. Paul's cathedral church, at p. 90

of his Diary, and the note thereon, p. 344.

'' They then took possession of that royal palace : whose name has subsequently become

the jieneric term for houses of penal disoipline throughout tho country.

^ Crannier.

1556.1 GKEY FRIAKS OF LONDON. 97

tbetlier was send by the cownselle tlie lord John "NVyllyaras witli

d^-Tors otliers to see the execucioii done.

Item the xxviij. day of the same monytli was Xewgatte a fver;

but. thangkes be to God, that there ^Yas but Ivttvll hanne done, for

it was sone qwenched.

[The . . . ] day of ]\Iay was (llanl:) ware hongyd, draune and

qwarterd ....Item the xviij. day of the same monyth was captayne Taunton

drawee from the tow[er to Tybojrne. and there hongyd and qwar-

teri

Item this tyme M-as dyvers burnyd in Smythfelde [for be]rysy.

Item the viij. day of .Tune was draune from the tower of London

unto Tyborne [Throglmortone, Wooddalle, Stantone, Bedelle. Ros-

selle, and Dai-relle. ware hongyd. hedyd, [and] qwarterd for robery

and tresone."

Item the viij. day of June was hongyd at Towre-hvlle master

[Pec~;karas sone and Danyell for gret robery.^

Item the x. day of the same monyth was a vonne man honnvd

within BrydeweUe for robery within the sayd howse.

Item in the same monyth [be]gane the procession in every church,

that tlie chylderne witli their pareutes shuld goo monday, -v^edys-

day, fryday. and sondayes with their bokes in their hondes or beddes*^

every person, and one of a howse, on payne of forfettynge of xij d.

at every tyme. And the churchwardens with other too that be

shsvne ^ by the hole paryche ; and yf tliat thej' doo not loke substan-

cially apon it that then they to Ibrfett ij. s. and the sayd mony to be

bestoyd on the church at the discrecion of the sayd commyssinores

:

but it was but lyttyll lokyd apone, and the more p}^te.

Item the xviij. day of August the mayer^ dynned at the rederes''

denner at the Tempulle, and at after-none whane he Mas goynge tlie

=> See .Machyn's- Diary, pp. Iij2. 10".. and notes, pp. 34S, 3^9.

' See Machyn, pp. 109, 351. ' beads.

' Sir Joht Lyons. ' The reader.

•CA.MD. SOC. O

98 f HROMCLE OF THE GREY FEIARS. [1556.

swerde was vs'illed to be Lome doune in the closter. [but the sword-

berer woold not"].

Item in tliis same monyth was many lierytykes browte owte of

Essexe, and owte of other places.

Item the v^^ day of September was browte thorrow Cheppesyde

teyd in ropes xxiiij^' tayd to-getheres as herrj-tykes,. and soo mito the

Lowlers tower.'^'

" These words were inserted above the line, and subsequentW scratched through with

the pen : at the same time the words " torne from hym " were altered to " willed to be

borne doune."

^' At St. Paul's: s'-e note to Marh_vn'.s Diary, p. 346.

ADDITIOXAL XOTES,

p. 1, 1. 7. The \\ord imperfect in the MS. is in Aniold's Chronicle, " PortcJiaf," i. e.

For: JaSa or Joppa,

P. lo, i. 4. For " Siawe "" rtad Strawe.

P. 22. A liaci-t iterre. So our MS., but in Arnold's Chronicle "a biasing starre,"

i. e. a comet.

P. 26,4th 1. from foot. "And thcf yere nas Irent a '^talnier."' This is a flagrant

clerical error of the MS. In Arnold's Chronicle we read " this vear was brent v^ towne

of Pabarii'm."' Qu. was thii Baburham or Babraham. co. Cambridge ?

P. SO. Eril Mau-da;i and John Meautys. In the fuller liccount which Stowe gives

of diese riots, he relates that the mob ran from Comhill *' to a house east from Leaden-

halL called the Green Gate, where dwelt one Mewtas, a Pickard or Frenchmati, within

wliose houi« dwelled divers Frenchmen, whom they likewise spoiled, and if they bad found

McTTU? they would have stricken off his head." The present chronicle tells us how he

escaj«ed.—

"t>y hiding in the gutters of his house. The histon- of that house, "a fair house

of oJd time called the Green Gate," will be found in Stowe's Survay, where be slates that

'• Jo'nn Matas, a Pickarde or Frenchman, dwelt there, and harboured in his house many

Fr«)chmeii that kalendred wolstedes, and did other things contrary to the franchises of

the cidzens." This John Meutas, or Meautys, (called James in the present chronicle,)

foTiiided a family in England, of which a y>edigree will be found in Clutterbuck's History

of Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 93, and some further account in the memoir accompanying the

porrrait of Sir Thomas Meautys, (sometime secretary to lord chancellor Bacon,) engraved

for the Granger Society.

P. 31. Alice lady Eungerford. The passage relating to this execution is extracted

by Stcwe from the present chronicle, which is cited in his margin as the " Register of the

Gr^y Fryars," but be has inserted after the lady's name the following words,—"a

kcishi's wife, for murtbering her husband.*" In order to recover some further particulars

100 >OTES.

of this domestic tragedv. I applied to the Rev. J. E. Jacksou. of Lt:gh Delamere, "Wilts,

^ho has made Isrge coiiections relative to tlie family of Hungerford. and he obligingly

favoured me with a reply. v\-hicb. with the view of exciting further inqinr>". w;i5 inserted

in the Gentlerr.ar/s Magazine for December 1S51. The question i? s*^:-d thu? :—

It appears that Sir Richard C Hoare, in his volume on the Hui.'gfri'ords (Hunger-

fordiaua, p. 2('} has introduced the name of Alice lady Hungerford and her cata-

strophe as belonging to the wife of a Robert Hungerford of •' Cadeaham." This api.ro-

priation is most improbable, for these reasons :

—

1. Xone of the Cadenham Hungerfords were of the rank of knigh: beiure a Sir George,

who died in 1712.

2. In the Hungerford pedigree printed by Gough, the name of Alice, as a wife, does

not appear at all in that branch of the family.

3. Supposing Sir R. C. Hoare to have had some authority which be has not produced

for assigning the wife Alice and the story of the murder to the Robert Hungerford of

Cadenham to whom he has assigned them, still his account is cont.'adicted by dates.

According to hirr. that part of the Cadenham pedigree would stand tlius :

—

R ben Hungerford (grandfather) .^Margaret Long.

I

'

Robert Hungerford (father}. =?^

r —— ^ _Robert Hungerioru (grandson,—Alice,

the presamed murdered man).

Now, Robert the grandfather died in lo;'S (see his will abstracted in Collectanea

Ti.pog. et Geneal. ^ii. 71); Robert the father was buried a: Bremhill in 1596; so that

Robert the grandson, if murdered in 1523, must have been E:itirdered o5 years before

the death of hLs grandfather, and 73 years before that of his father. In the absence,

therefore, of a':; referer<ce to authority. Sir R. C. Hoare's statement must be regarded as a

mere guess.

yiT. Jackson then proceeds to sute that he has, in his own mind, long lixed this storj-

upon other parties in the Hungeribrd family: but that, in his tttrn, he can produce no

authority for it. except that of a little ci.-cumstaniial evidence.

At the date of the execution, a.D. 1523. the existing knights of the Hungerford family

were these

—

1. Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Castle, the then head of the family, who was

created Baron Hungerford of Heyiesbuni- in 1536.

2. Sir John Hungerford of Down Ampney.

o. Sir Anthony Hungerford. also of Down Ampney, his son.

Now neither of the two latter piersons could be the knight alluded to; for Sir John died

between 24 Juiy and 27 August 1524 (see his will, Coll. Top. et. Gen. vu. 71), leaving

his \irde Murp'Td sun-iving him ; and Sir Anthony lived to 155S. was buried at Great

Bedwyn in that year, and his wives" names were Jane (Darell) and Jjorotlu (Danvers).

Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Castle (afterwards Lord Hungerford of He\-tesburj-)is

the only persrji in the entire Hungerford history upon whom the leas: probability of connexion

with the strry can be attached. To him there is this great objection i, /iwinc, that he was

NOTE<. 101

certainlv not murdered by bis wife in 1523, because he v-ai beheaded in 1541 . But it will

be obser\ed that our Chronicle merely reocrdsthe fact of the lady's execution, and that the

crime for which she is slated to have suffered! was inserted I y Stowe from some otherauthority.

Stowe relied, perhaps, on traditional information, which may easily have varied in some

degree from the truth It is jirohable thit the lady may have been tried and condemned

on a charge of otUmjit to ii,"rd*T, instead of having actually caused death. With this

variation of the fact a- stated by Sto^e bein:: granted, there are circumstances in the

domestic life of this Sir AValter Hucgert'ord which lead to the conclusion that the story

reiers to him.

In the first place, as we have seen, he was a knight at the time, and moreover the only

one in the family then existing to whom it can refer.

In the next place, he was married three time' : l?t, to .^'usanna Danvers; '2dly, to Alice.

daughter of the Lord Sandes: and 3rd!y. to Elizabeth (or Isabella), daugliter of Lord

Hus.sey. The date of the first wife's defcth has not l»een ascertained, but he was certainly

married to the third wife before the year I'/i''!. .^o far. circumstances favour }ilr.

Jackson's conclusion.

In a very curious letter, written al«out the year loSG. to Cromwell Lord PriN^y Seal,

Elizabeth Hussey, the third wife, applies for justice and protection against her husband,

on account of his cruelty. He had charged her. most falsely as she declares, with incon-

tinence ; had arbitrarily shut her up and kept her clos*: prisoner for four years in one of

the towers of his castle, without money, and with only such icK)d as was brought to her by

a chaplain, a creature of his, who, she says, " had underuken to get rid of her out of his

lord's way." That she was afraid to eat what this person brought her, and was secretly

supplied by the poor women of the village at the wiadow. She goes on to say " that she

could tell, if she dared, many detestable and urgent crimes on the part of her husband,

as he veil knew,"' and especially of his notorious cruel conduct "always to his wives."

With this letter to illustrate the cliaracter of Waiter lord Hui.'jrerford, considering also

that names and dates are all consistent, it may at all event' be admitted as a fair

suggestion that the lady e.xecuted at Tybourn may have been the second wife, Alice

.Sandys: that his cruelty to her may have driven her to attempt to get rid of him by

poison, or that he, wishing to get rid of her (as he did afterwards of his third wife), mayhave brought some accusation against her, and procured her condemnation. Such things

were done in those days. Above alL when the reader L= referred to p. 42, and is

apprised of the crime for which this wretched man at last sufiered the extreme penalty of

tlie laws there is so much reason to conclude he had long outraged, it will not be thought

unjust that the stigma should at length, in the pages of history, be removed from one of his

victims to liimself.

P. 31, I. 14. For "master George Monop," reud Mououx. A large !MS. volume of

vellum, filled with transcripts of deeds and other documents relating to the estates of Sir

George Monoux. was sold in the auction room of 31e^£rs. Puttick and Simpson, Dec. 4,

1S51, Lot 163. for 5?. 10.'^., and has s'lh-f, taken if place among the Addit. .MSS. of the

British Museum.

102 NOTES.

Ibid. 1. 22. EraS'e llie comma after '• Januan:" and in line 23 fur "Ally" rtcnJ

Allyii (see p. 33).

P. oo. PoisoH-iuy of tlii hov^thold of the hUhoji of RocItSfter. oi.d tia ^juhi-fhunit I;/

Lo-'h.'j. This crime c>ccasioDed great popular excitement at tlie lime, whicli was

proliably increased both Ijy the supposition that the life of the bishop (John Fisher) had

been attempted, and b_v the rumour that many of the poor which had partaken of his alms

had died, which is directly asserted sl' the fact by Stowe. Such, however, was not

actually the case : only one of the episcopal household, and one poor widow, lost their

lives. As the parliament was sitting, the matter was brought before it, and an act

(22 Hen. VIII. c. 9) was passed, reciting that " now in the tyme of this presente

parliament, that is to saye, in the xviij'*- daye of Februarye in the xxij. yere of his moste

\-ictorious reygn. one Richard Roose Ixite of Rouchester in the eountie of Kent, coke,

otherwTse called Richard Coke, of his moste wy ked and dampnable dysposicyon dyd caste

a certyne -venym or poyson into a vessell replenysshed with yeste or barme stondyng in the

kechyn of the Reverende Father in Gv>d John Bysshopp of Rochester at his place in

Lamebyth Marsshe, w^th whych yeste or barme and other thynges convenyent pori-age or

grue!! was forthwyth made for his fairyiye there beyng, wlierby nat only the nombre of

xrij. persons of his said famylie whych dyd eate of that porrage were mortally enfeeted and

poysoned, and one of them, that is to say, Benett Curwen gentylman tberof is deceassed,

but also eerleyne pore people which re«»rted to the Bayde Bysshops place and were there

charytably fedde wyth the remayne of the saide porrage and other vjtayles. were in lyke

wyse infected, and one pore woman of them, that is to saye, Alyce Tryppytt wydowe, is

also thereof now deceassed: our sayde S^'vereign Lorde the Kynge, of hys blessed disposi-

cion inwardly abliorryng all sucli abhoncynabie offences because that in maner no persone

can ly-ve in suertye out of daunger of death by that meane yf practyse therof should not be

exchued, hath ordeyned and enacted by auctorytie of thys presente parlyament that the

sayde poysonyng be adjudged and demed as high treason. And that the sayde Richard

for the sayd murder and poysonynge of the said two persones as is aforesayde by auctoritie

of this presente parlyament shall stande and be attaynted of highe treason : And by cause

that detestable offence nowe newly practised and comytted requyreth condygne punysshe-

mente for the same; It is ordeyned and enacted by auctoritie of this present parlyament

that the said Richard Roose shalbe therfore boyled to deathe withoute havynge any ad-

vauntage of his clargie. And that from hensforth every wylfull murder of any persone or

persones by any whatsoever per.-one or persones herafter to be comytted and done by

meane or wave of poy.tonyng shalbe reputed, demed, and juged in the lawe to be highe

treason; And that all and every persone or persones which hereafter shalbe lawfully in-

dvted. appeled and attaynted or condemned of such treson for any maner poysonyng shall

not be admytted to the benefrte of hys or tlieyre clargye, but shalbe immedyatly committed

to execucion of deth by boylynge for the same."

It has been supposed that thL- was an ex-post facto enactment, so far as Richard Roose

was concerned; and yet we find 'fy the present chronicle, p. 30, that, at an earlier period

of Ilcnr^'.-^ iTign. nine years before, a man was sodden in a cauldron at .Smithfield, *' be-

NOTES. 103

cause he would have poisoned divers persons.'" Therelore the same punishment apjiears

to have prfeNTOUsly attached to the ofieiice. It has not. however, been traced to still earlier

times. (Sec '-Notes and Queries,*' lb^i'2, vol. v. pp. 32, 112, ] 84.) A third instance of

iu execution has been found in the chronicle of King's Lynn, about the same time as

Roose'scase: "1531. This year here was a maid boiled to death in the Market-place

for poison in ir her mistress." (Ibid. p. .) A fourth occurs in 1542, which is briefly

mentioned in p. 45 of the present volume, and somewhat differently by Slowe, as follows:

'' Tlie 17 March [i.e. a week later] Margaret Davy, a maid, was boiled in Smithfield for

poisoning of the household that she had dwelled in." Sir Walter Scott, in his Border

Minstrelsy (notes to Leyden's ballad of Lord Soulis), gives this passage with the erro-

neous date of 1524, following a misprint in Stowe's margin. The punishment by boiling

Ls supposed to have been repealed by the statute 1 Edward VI. c. 12, by which all iifir

trea.«ons were abolished.

P. 6:j. Ptt-r colUpc, next the dtcn's ^'^acc in Paul's churcl-uard. Stowe, in his

Survay, does not tell us what Peter college was, but he thus mentions the accident re-

corded in the text, somewhat differently as to the particulars :" Then is the Stationers'

hall on the same side [south-west of the cathedra! cliurcb], lately built for them in the

place of Peter college, where, in the year 1549, the 4th of January, five men were slain by

the fall of earth upon thetu, digging for a well." I am inclined to think that " Peter

College" was a perverted name of the Petty-canons" college, of the foundation of which

in 17 Ric. II. .'>towe gives some acconnt in a previous passage.

P. 72. ThefaireM hidi/ tJoat ahr had of ler couritry vuf stolen awa ti fron^ her (Mary (if

Guiff dotrciper qusen of Scot"). It has been kindly suggested to me, (Notes and Queries,

V. 305.) in answer to an inquiry on this passage, that the lady in question was probably

the same lady who is mentioned in the following passage of a letter of sir John Mason, the

English ambassador in France, to the privy council, dated the ISth April, 1551 : "The

Scotish queen's shipping is hasted verv- much. It is thought she shall embark a month

sooner than she intended. The lady Fleming departed hence, with child by this king

[Henri II.] and it w tJi-ought that, immediately vpon the arrival cf th^ dowager in Scotland,

the vill comi anoin to fetch aroother. If she m do, here is like to be a combat, the heart-

burning being already ven,- great; the old worn pelf [Diana of Poictiers, then aged fifty-

three,] fearing thereby to lose some part of her credit, who presently reigneth alone, and

without empea-sche." And again, from Amboise, April 29, "The said post hath brought

word, that the lady Fleming is brought to bed of a man-child, whereat our women do not

much rejoyee." Mr. Tytler (History of Scotland, 1842. 8vo. vol. vi. pp. 374, 375; states

his suspicion that this lady was Jean, widow of Malcolm third lord Fleming, herself a

natural daughter of James the Fourth of Scotland, by Agnes Stewart, countess of Both-

well, or by her sister lady Isabel Stewart, who were the natural children of James earl of

Buchan, natural brother of king James II. (Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, by Wood,

i. 52, 227, 268). Were this the frail lady Fleming of the year 1551. it might have been

said that she was but following the bad examples of her forebears: but as she was

104 NOTEf^.

married in 1524-5. and had two sons aiid four daughters, and two of the latter became

vidriws in 1547, their husbands being then killed together with lord Fleming himself

(in his 53d year), at the battle of Pinkie, it is pretty clear that Mr. Tyiler was mis-

t.':ken. It is to he feared that the lady Fleming was not a widow, but the 'irU'i:, of James

fourth lord Fleming, who was employed as one of the representatives of the Scotish nation

to negociate the marriage of their queen, and who died at Paris on the 15th Dec. 155S.

»t. 24. She was the lady Barbara H&milton. eldest daughter of James duke of Chatel-

herault (at this time regent of Scotland;; vho^e only child named in the family pedigree

is Jane (afterwards the wife successively of lord chancellor Thirlestane and of John fifth

earl of Cassilis,) who, as she died in 1609, set. 55. was born in or about 1554. (Wood's

Douglas, 1. 332: ii. 634.)

V.'^i. The flirl'nc oj Edvcnd il( Co-fiffSfor. This and the other royal monuments in

Westminster abbey have recently en.^aged an unusual degree of attention in consequence

of the proposals made for their restoration. It has been remarked that a memento of the

re-erection of the shrine in the reign of ^larj'—a work which, as shown in the note

already given in p. C'4, occupied some time.— still exists in a monogram of the initials of

abbat Feckenham (I F A i. c Johanne- Feckenham Abbas) at the end of the inscription

on the cornice. Originally there was a difi'erent inscription (see Dart, ii. 23, Xe.ile and

Brayley, vol. ii. p. 69); part of which has been recently seen, from the plaster having

fallen away. It may be presumed that the wooden superstructure of the shrine, the clas-

sical architecture of which has puzzled many critics, was a portion of the work renewed by

abbat Feckenham.

i.XDEX.

The reader is apprised that thL- Index is partial, and confined principally

to such matters as might not be readily found by means of the chronological

arrangement of the text. To e\e::.is of familiar notoriety, and the actors in

them, particularly those in the e&rlier and more summary portions of the

Chronicle, it will be ea-sy to refer without the intervention of an Index.

Albryght, William, 87

Aldersgate street, voice in the v^'all, t'O

Allyn, doctor, 31, 33

Angus, Archibald earl of, passes through

England, 31 ; conduct in Scotland, 46

St. Anne's Aldersgate, burnt, 57

Ascough, Anne, 51

Audley, lord chancellor, 35, 47, 61 note

Augmentations, Court of, 39

Babraham, 99

Barlow, bishop William, 84

Barnes, Robert, 33, 43, 44

Barton, Elizabeth, 37

Billements, 43

Bishops, Protestant, commission on, 8?:

discharged, 84

Blackfriars, parliament at, 31 ; legates si:

at, 35; steeple pulled down, 49

Booking, doctor Edward, 37

Boiling, punishment of, 101

Boleyne, queen Anne, her coronation, 3C;

her execution, 38

Bonner, bishop, 54, 63; his imprisonment

in the Marshalsea, C5; re-instatemen:

of, 82; sings mass, 84

Bourne, bishop Gilbert, 8u

CAMD. SOC.

Bridewell hof^pital, foundation of, xxiii.

XXV. 96; man hung in, 97

Broken wharf, fire at, 58

Bucher, Joan, 58, 66

Calf, monstrous, 57

Capon, bishop John, 37

Cardmaker, John, 56, 57, 63, 64

Caston, Stephen, C7

Cat hung oa the gallows, 88

Charterhouse pulled down, 49

Chertsey abbey, 5^

Children, double, 75

Christ Church priory suppressed, 35;

French ambassadors lodged at, 61

Christ's hospital, foundation of, xxiv.

Christmas, lord of. 73, 76

Church plate, seizure of. 77

City gates and walls repaired, 60, Gl

Cobham. lord. 86

Coin, clipping of, 35, 43, 50; enhance-

ment of, 33. 47; proclamations regard-

ing, 70, 72, 73; half-faced and whole-

faced, 47

Coining, 52. 58

Conversion of St. Paul, observed, 94

Convocation. 85, 92

106

Corn, scarcity of, 33, 34

Corpus Cliriiii day. 56, 59, 07

Counter. removeJ from Bread street to

Wood street , 9G

Cranmer, archbisbop, 60, Gl, C2, 03, 6S;

committed to the Tower, S4; trid, S5.

&;i; condemned, 06

Crome, doctor Edward, 50

Curtis, alderman, 77

Darval Gadam, 42

Day, bishop Georcre, 68, 71

Bering. Richard. 37

DisputatioE at Paul's, S5; at Oxford, SO

Ditch, the city, stopped u\<, 77

Dolphins taken at Blackball. 75

Dudley, lord Robert, imprisoned, SI;

condemned, 86

Durham place, 93

Earthquakes, 5, 10, 60

Ea-ster, obserrance of, 74

Elsing spital suppressed, 35

Evil May-day 30, 99; remembered by the

citizens in 1527, 33

Ferrar, bishop Robert, 57

Ferrars, George, 73, 76

Fisher, bishop, 33, 35, 38

Forrest, friar John, 32, 42

Franciscans, fee Grey Friars

, French crowns, 67, 68

French hoods, 43

Golde, a preacher, 63

Goldsmiths and Fishmongers, 89

Goodrich, bishop Thomas, CO ;sworn

chancellor, 73

Greenwich, visitation of the friars Ob-

servants, 31; restored. 05

Grey amices of St. Patil's, 50

Grey Friars, origin and histor} of, ix.:

building of theirconventand church, x.;

subsequent history, xiv.; their sur-

render.xv. ; interments irithechurch,xx.

;

account of their Register, xxx.

Grey, lord Thomas, beheaded, 89

Guildhall, lou\Te5 set up, 25

Karpsfield, archdeacon John, 02

Harris, John, mercha:;t-t£ylor, 87

Heath, bishop Nicholas, CS, 71

Heresy, persons burnt for, 35. 30, 42, 07

Heretical books burnt, 48, 52

Hodgeskynne, bishop, 76

I Holy days, division on the keeping of,

' 61, 62, 67; put dowTi, 74; partially

observed, 89

Hooper, John, 63

;Host, stolen at St. Botolph's, 35; stained

i-w-ith blood by a priest, 48

I

Hungerford, lady, executed, 31; note 09

jlord, beheaded, 43; note 100

Hylle, John, recantation of, 00

Images pulled down, 54, 55

Inclosures, insurrection against, 59

Gardiner, bishop, 54, 56; deprived, 68

Garrard, Thomas, 43, 44

St, George's day, 74

St. Giles, Cripplegate, burnt, 40

Gold, Henry, parson of Aldermary, 37

St. James in the field, sermon at, 56

Jerome, "William, 43. 44

Jesus chapel, 71

Joseph, doctor John. 62

Juego de cannas, 02, 03

io:

Keni, gentlemen of, pilloried for refusing

tastes. 47

Kyrkbam, doctor Thomas, 67

Latimer, bishop. 55

William, 63

Laygton. a preacher, 56

Lem, whitt meats allowed in, 39

Lollards' tower, 9S

London ChronJcles, vii.

St. Margaret's, "Westminster, sacrilege in,

Mass, abolished in St. Paul's, 59; per-

sons rebuked for bearing, 61

Mav, William, dean of St. Paul's, 55,

5S, 69

Meautas, James, or John, bis life threat-

ened, SO; note 99

Misrule, lord of, 73, 76

MoDoux, sir Greorge, refused the mayor-

lAry, 31; note 101

Musters in London, 42, 49; at Totbill

fields, 72, 73

Newgate, fire at, 97

Newgate market, house for meal -men

built, 57; removal of, 77

Korthumberland, John duke of, 71 ; bis

tinpopularity, 73; arrested, 80; trial

and execution, 83

Observant Friars, 26, 31, 37, 95

Oxford, parliament at, 88; disputations

at, 89; bishops burnt at, 96

Pakington, Robert, his murder, 39

Pardon church-yard near the Charter-

house, 40

at St. Paul's, 58

Parliament, ended, 74; in 1553, 77, 84;

in 1554, 92; in 1555, 96

Partridge, sir Miles, hung at Tower hill, 73

St. PmuI's. processions to, 33, 50; fune-

ral dirges, 54; visitation of , and images

pulled down, 54; rood pulled down,

and English service commenced, 55;

processions forbidden, 56"; charnel-

house removed, 57; sacrament at the

high altar pulled down. 58 ; the cloister

pulled down, 58; masses abolished, 59;

archbishop Cranmer oflBciates at, 60,

61 ; bishop Bonner officiates, 62 ; Card-

maker's lectures, 56, 57, 63, 64; altar

pulled down, 67; frays in, 65; the

red<ira chori put down, 68; grates

at high altar closed up, and veil hung

up, 69 ; table removed, 71 ; the great

belfrey, 74; organs left playing, 75;

altars, chapels, and tombs, plucked

down, lb. ; new communion service, 76

;

altars restored, 84 ; first high mass at,

S5; weathercock new gilt, t&.;proces-

sions on Sundays, 86; epistle mass, 88;

penance at, 92; obsequies of queen of

Spain, 96

Paul's churchyard, man slain in, 73

Paul's cross, sermons at, 33. 51, 52, 55,

56, 57, 63, 66

Penance at St. Paul's, 92

Penthouses, regulation of, 78

Peter college, 65, 103

Philip, king, landing of, 90; entry into

London, 91 ; attends the parliament, 92

;

leaves England, 96

Piedmont, the prince of, 93

Pillar for punishment in Cheap, 78

Poisoning punished by boiling, SO, 35,

45 ; note 101

Pole, cardinal, arrival of, 93 ; at St.

Paul's, if/.

108 I^-DEX.

de la Pole, Edmund, 27, 29

Richard, slain. 32

Ponet, bishop Jehu, his divorce, 70; his

book, 77

Pope, his power put dowTi, 37; praved

for, 92

Potter, Gilbert, ston. of. 79

Processions, religious, 32, 34, 49, 50;

prohibited, 56; discontinued, 77; re-

newed, 85, 86, 89, 93, 94, 95; reviyed

in every parish, 97

Eead, alderman Richard, 4S

Religious houses suppressed in London, 42

Renscroft, '^^'illiam, 32

Rich, Hugh, 37

Ridley, Nicholas, installed bishop of

London, 67 ; his sermon stigmatising

the daughter of Henry Till. 78; ar-

rested, 81; condemned, 89; burnt 96

Risby, Richard, 37

Rogers, John, burnt, 94

Salt, price of, 33

Sanctuary at the Grey Friars, 34

Scory, bishop John, 83

Scot, John, the king's player, 34

Seal, the kings, counterfeited, 44

Semer, alderman Thomas, his unpopu-

larity, 33

SeJJeants' feast, 21

Shaxton, bishop Nicholas, 51

Shoemakers of St. Martin's, 30

Skinners' procession on Ck)rpus Christi

day, 66

Smith, doctor Richard, 63

Somerset, Edward duke of, made pro-

tector, 54 ; committed to the Tower, 71 :

tried, 72: executed, 73

!Spital sermons, 56

I

Standish, bishop of St. Asapb, 31, 34

Siokesley, bishop John, 36

[

Suffolk, duke of, beheaded, 88

i Surrey, earl of, 30

! Sweating sickness, 70

Sj-nod at Lambeth, 96

Taunton, captain, 97

j

Taxes, punishment for refusing to pay,

j

47, 48 note

I

Taylor, bishop John, degraded, 85

< Temple, reader's dinner at, 97

I

Testems put down, 57, 58

I

Tothill, musters at, 72, 73

I Tower of London, fire at, 57

' Tower-bill, abbey of, 75

! Tunstall, bishop, 73, 75

IVictuals, attempts to regulate the price

of, 70, 72

Tictuallers, regulation of, 68

Visitation, cardinal Wolsey's, 33; the

king's, in 1547, 54 ; bishop Ridley's, 66

Watch, the City, 35, 47, 49, 56

Watch at the gates of London, 71, 82

Watson, bishop Thomas, 83

Westminster abbey, shrine at, 94 ; note 104

Whitehall, parliament meets at, 77

Whitsuntide, obsenance of, 76

Whittinglon's library, xiii.

Williams, John lord, 97

Willow by the Thames side, a place of

execution, 37

Wolsey, his visitation, 33; his death, 35

Women, seven, whipped, 73

Wriothesley, lord chancellor. 51, 54

Wyatt's instirrection, i^O; beheaded, 89

Wymmesley, archdeacon, 90

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