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A  CHRONICLE  OF  ENGLAND 


DURING  THE  REIGNS  OF  THE  TUDORS, 


FROM  A.D.  1485  TO  1559. 


BY 

CHARLES  WRIOTHESLEY,  WINDSOR  HERALD. 


EDITED, 

FEOM  A  MS.  IN  THE  POSSESSION  OF 

LIEUT.-GENERAL  LORD  HENRY  H.  M.  PERCY  K.C.B.,  V.C.,  F.R.G.S. 

BY 

WILLIAM  DOUGLAS  HAMILTON,  F.S.A. 


VOLUME  II. 


PRINTED  FOR  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY. 


M.DCCC.LXXVII. 


WESTMINSTER: 

PRINTED  BY  J.  B.  NICHOLS  AND  SONS, 
25,  PARLIAMENT  STREET. 


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[NEW  SERIES  xx.] 


COUNCIL  OF  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY 

FOR  THE  YEAR  1877-78. 


President^ 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  THE  EARL  OF  VERULAM,  F.R.G.S. 

REV.  J.  S.  BREWER,  M.A. 

WILLIAM  CHAPPELL,  ESQ.,  F  S.A.,  Treasurer. 

HENRY  CHARLES  COOTE,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 

JAMES  GAIRDNER,  ESQ. 

SAMUEL  RAWSON  GARDINER,  ESQ.,  Director. 

WILLIAM  GILBERT,  ESQ. 

JOHN  W.  HALES,  ESQ.,  M.A. 

WILLIAM  OXENHAM  HEWLETT,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 

ALFRED  KINGSTON,  ESQ.,  Secretary. 

FREDERIC  OUVRY,  ESQ.  Pres.  S.A. 

THE  EARL  OF  POWIS,  LL.D. 

REV.  W.  SPARROW  SIMPSON,  D.D.  F.S.A. 

JAMES  SPEDDING,  ESQ. 

WILLIAM  JOHN  THOMS,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 

J.  R.  DANIEL-TYSSEN,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 


The  COUNCIL  of  the  CAMDEN  SOCIETY  desire  it  to  be  under- 
stood that  they  are  not  answerable  for  any  opinions  or  observa- 
tions that  may  appear  in  the  Society's  publications ;  the  Editors 
of  the  several  works  being  alone  responsible  for  the  same. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


ANNO  EDWARDI  SEXTI  PRIMO. 

The  sixtenth  dale  of  Nouember  the  Kinges  Maiesties  visitors a        [A.D.  1547.] 

beganne  that  night  to  take  downe  the  roode  with  all  the  images  in  Images  pulled  downe 
T»      i       /-MI         i         i  •  i  ,  ,  .  -,    ,  ,.  and  broken  throwe 

Poules  Church,  which  were  clene  taken  awaie,  and  by  negligence  England. 

of  the  laborers  certaine  persons  were  hurt  and  one  slaine  in  the 
falling  downe  of  the  great  crosse  in  the  rode  loft,  which  the  papish 
priestes  said  was  the  will  of  God  for  the  pulling  downe  of  the  said 
idolls.  Likwise  all  images  in  euerie  parish  church  in  London 
were  pulled  downe  and  broken  by  the  commandment  of  the  said 
visitors. 

The  xxviith  daie  of  November,  being  the  first  Soundaie  of  Ad-  An  idoll  made  of 
uent,  preched  at  Poules  Crosse  Doctor  Barlowe,  Bishopp  of  Sainct  a^Poules  crosse. 
Davides,  where  he  shewed  a  picture  of  the  resurrection  of  our  Lord 
made  with  vices,b  which  putt  out  his  legges  of  sepulchree  and 
blessed  with  his  hand,  and  turned  his  heade;  and  their  stoode  afore 
the  pilpitt  the  imag  of  our  Ladie  which  they  of  Poules  had  lapped  in 
seerecloth,  which  was  hid  in  a  corner  of  Poules  Church,  and  found 
by  the  visitors  in  their  visitation.  And  in  his  sermon  he  declared 
the  great  abhomination  of  idolatrie  in  images,  with  other  fayned 
ceremonies  contrarie  to  scripture,  to  the  extolling  of  Godes  glorie, 
and  to  the  great  compfort  of  the  awdience.  After  the  sermon  the 
boyes  brooke  the  idolls  in  peaces. 

a  The  kingdom  was  divided  into  six  circuits,  to  each  of  which  were  appointed 
three  or  four  visitors,  in  most  cases  partly  clergymen,  partly  laymen.  They  began 
their  visitation  in  August. — Burnet,  ii.  pp.  26,  31. 

b  Moveable  joints. 

CAMD.  SOC.  B 


2  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1547.  The  xxiiiith  dale  of  December  the  Perliament  was  proroged,  in 

The  sacrament  of  the  the   wnich  Parliament  was   granted   to   the    Kinges    Maiestie   all 

aulter  receaued  under 

booth  kindes.  chauntres,  free  chapelles,  and  brotherhoodes,  and  another  act  for 

receavinge  the  sacrament  of  the  aulter  under  booth  kindes  of  breade 
[Anno  Keg.  2.]         and  wyne. 

[A.D.  1548.]  Memorandum :  in  the  beginning  of  March  the  Kinge  sent  his 

he8          Commissioners  into  euerie  shire  in  England,  to  survey  all  colleges, 

Kinges  commission,     free  chappells,  and  chantres. 

A  proclamation  for         The  said  moneth  of  March  the   Kinges  Maiestie  sent  his  pro- 

iuent  ^Easter!0"3  clamation  with  a  booke  for  the  [  order  of]  a  receaving  of  the  holie 
communion  of  the  bodie  and  bloude  of  Christ  under  booth  kindes 
of  bread  and  wyne,  which  shal  be  ministred  by  the  priest  to  all 
persons  at  Easter,  and  at  all  tymes  after  when  the  people  will  require 
the  same. 

The  seruise  song  in  Memorandum :  in  Maye  Poules  quire  with  diuers  other  parishes 
in  London  song  all  the  service  in  English,  both  mattens,  masse, 
and  even-songe;  and  kept  no  masse,  without  some  receaued  the 
communion  with  the  priest. 

King  Henrie  the  The    xiith    daie    of    Maie,    1548,    King    Henrie    the    seauenth 

Seauenthe  aniversary.  -,  -rTr          .  n  ,,  .      ^,      ,.  , 

*  aniversane  was  kept  at  Westminster,  the  masse  song  all  in  English, 

with  the  consecration  of  the  sacrament  also  spoken  in  English,  the 
priest  leaning  out  all  the  canon  after  the  creede  saue  the  "  Pater 
noster,"  and  then  ministering  the  communion  after  the  Kinges 
booke ;b  at  which  masse  was  a  sermon  made  by  Mr.  Tong,  the 
Kinges  chaplaine. 

Sermons  for  the  This  yeare  in  the  Whitson  holidaies  my  Lord  Maior  c  caused 

three  notable  sermons  to  be  made  at  Sainct  Marie  Spittell, 
according  as  they  are  kept  at  Easter.  The  Moundaie  preached 

•  Supplied  from  Stow. 

b  The  Reformed  Communion  Service  was  printed  in  1547  before  the  rest  of  the 
Liturgy  had  been  drawn  up  by  the  Committee  of  selected  bishops  and  divines.  It 
was  first  published  8  March,  1547-8,  and  may  be  seen  in  its  original  form  in 
Sparrow's  Collection  of  Canons,  &c.,  and  Collier's  Eccles.  Hist.,  Appen.  of  Records 
No.  59. 

c  Sir  John  Gresham. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICXE.  3 

Doctor  Tonge,  the  Kinges  chaplaine.      Twesdaie  Doctor  Taylor,          A.D.  1548. 
parson    of   Hadley,    the    Archbishopp    of  Canterberies    chaplaine. 
Wednesdaie    Mr.   Cardmaker,a  vicar   of  Sainct    Brides   in    Fleete 
Streete,  and  reader  of  Poules  in  the  lecture.     And  the  sensing  in 
Poules  cleene  putt  downe. 

This  month  of  Maie  also  the  Kinges  Maiestie  sent  letters  under  London  to  finde 


his  priuie  signett  to  the   Maior   and  Aldermen  with  diuers  other  K  6 


head  Comyners,  to  find  men  of  armes  with  demilances  and  horses 
and  light  horsemen,  some  to  finde  sixe,  some  foure,  some  three,  and 
some  tow,  after  their  sessing  in  the  Kinges  bookes,  to  the  subsedie 
which  should  be  readie  the  xiith  daie  of  June  next  for  the  defence 
of  this  realme. 

This  yeare  their  was  a  great  watch  kept  on  Midsorner  eaven  b  A  watche  at  Mid- 
and  Sainct  Peeters  eaven,c  by  the  Kinges  counsells  commandement, 
which  had  in  it  all  the  horsemen  that  should  goe  into  Scotland  d 
which  were  three  hundred  and  more,  and  seaven  hundreth  gonners 
and  Morris  pikes  all  in  one  lyuerie  with  drummes  and  standerds, 
and  thirtene  hundreth  armed  men  of  the  Lorde  Maiors  watch, 
the  Kinges  trumpeters  blowing  afore  him  booth  nightes,  and  he 
had  sixtene  gentlemen  of  the  mercers  riding  in  veluett  cotes  and 
chaines  of  gold  afore  him,  euerie  man  having  three  in  a  lyverie  to 
wayte  on  them,  which  was  at  their  owne  charges,  the  sherifFes 
watch  following  after  my  Lord  Maior;  it  was  the  goodliest  sight. 

On  Sainct  Peters  e  daie  in  the  afternonne  the  Bishopp  of  Wyn-  The  Bishopp  of 
Chester  f  preached  at  Westminster  in  the  Court  g  afore  the  Kinge,  to  the  n 

and  the  morrow  after  he  was  sent  to  the  Towre  of  London. 

*  John  Cardmaker,  afterwards  burnt  in  1555. 

b  Midsummer  or  St.  John's  Eve,  June  23. 

c  St.  Peter's  Eve,  June  28. 

d  "  Which  watch  was  greatly  beautified  by  the  number  of  more  than  300  demi- 
lances and  light  horsemen  that  were  prepared  by  the  citizens,  to  be  sent  into 
Scotland  for  the  rescue  of  the  town  of  Haddington."  Stow,  p.  595. 

6  June  29. 

f  As  Stephen  Gardiner  was  not  in  the  Tower  when  the  Parliament  ended,  he 
enjoyed  the  benefit  of  the  general  pardon  then  proclaimed.  —  Strype. 
'  «  In  the  palace  of  Whitehall.—  Stow. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1548. 

A  single  woman  sett 
on  the  pillorie. 


A  priest  hanged  and 
quartered  in  Smith- 
field. 


Doctor  Coxe  rehersing 
the  Bishopp  of  Wyn- 
chester's  sermon  and 
articles  at  Paules 


cross. 


The  sixth  dale  of  Julie,  1548,  their  was  a  single  woman  called 
Founsing  Besse,  which  was  a  whore  of  the  stewes,  and,  after  the 
putting  downe  of  them,  was  taken  and  banished  out  of  diuers  wardes 
of  this  cittie.  And  now  taken  in  a  garden  by  Fynesburie  Court 
with  one  of  the  Kinges  trumpeters,  which  for  her  vicious  livinge 
not  yet  amended  was  had  to  the  counter  in  Bread  Streete,  and 
from  thence  was  lead  with  bassons  tynged  afore  her  into  Cheepe 
afore  the  standard,  and  their  sett  on  the  pillorie,  her  heare  cutt  of 
by  the  eares  and  a  paper  sett  on  her  breast  declaring  her  vicious 
livinge,  and  so  stoode  from  tenne  of  the  clocke  till  eleuen,  which 
punishment  hath  bene  an  old  auncient  lawe  in  this  citie  of  longe 
tyme  and  now  putt  in  vse  againe. 

Also  the  seuenth  daie  of  Julie  a  priest  was  drawen  from  the 
Towre  of  London  into  Srnythfield  and  their  hanged,  headed,  and 
quartered,  and  his  membres  and  bowells  brent,  which  was  one  of 
the  causes  of  a  commotion  in  Cornewall,  where  one  Bodie,a  a 
gentleman  and  one  of  the  Kinges  commissioners,  was  slaine,  and 
other  of  the  said  traytors  were  putt  to  death  in  diners  other  partes 
of  this  realme.  His  head  was  sett  one  London  Bridge  and  his 
quarters  on  fower  gates  of  this  cittie. 

The  eight  daie  of  Julie,  being  Reliques  Sondaie,  Doctor  Coxe, 
the  Kinges  almoner  and  schoolemaster,b  preached  at  Paules  Crosse, 
where  he  rehersed  the  Bishopp  of  Wynchesters  sermon  made 
before  the  Kinge  one  Sainct  Peters  daie  last.  And  declared  and 
read  the  articles  that  he  promised  to  the  Kinges  counsell  to  haue 
shewed  his  conscience  in  according  to  the  truth  of  scripture,  which 
he  contemptuouslie  and  obstinatlie  did  contrarie  to  his  promise, 
wherfore  he  was  committed  to  ward  as  is  afore-wrytten.  Exhorting 
all  the  audience  to  pray  for  his  conuersion  to  the  truth,  and  not 
to  reioyce  of  this  his  troble,  which  was  godlie  donne. 


William  Body. 

Dr.  Cox  was  preceptor  to  King  Edward  VI. 


453. 


See  Burnet's  account  of  him,  ii. 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


This  yeare  in  Julie  the  Citizens  of  London  sett  out  to  Scotland  a          A>r>-  1548- 


one   hundred  light  -horses  and  one  hundred  demilances  well  ap-  Of  Condon  into  °U 


parayled    and   horsed   in   blewe  cottes  garded  yellow,  Mr.   Jakes  Scotland. 
Granado  captaine  of  them  under  my  Lord  John  Gray,b  brother  to 
my  Lord  Marques  Dorsett. 

This  yeare  the  first  daie  of  August,  being  the  daie  of  election  of  The  ellection  of  a 

.  D  n       -i      •  a*  in/r  sherif  and  a  chamber- 

the  sherive,  which  my  Lord  Maior  chose  for  shenrie  at  the  Mercers  iaine. 

supper,  the  comens  chose  to  him  Mr.  John  AylifFe,  Barbor  surgeon, 
and  Mr  of  Black  well.  c  And  the  same  daie  was  chosen  for  chamber- 
leine  of  the  Cittie  of  London  Mr.  Thomas  Haies  gouldsmith,  which 
was  done  of  evill  will  they  ought  to  Mr.  Georg  Medley,  now  cham- 
berline. 

This  sommer  was  a  great  drought  for  lacke  of  raine,  and  in  Julie 
the  plage  raigned  sore  in  London  with  great  death  of  people,  wher- 
fore  tearme  and  Perliament  were  adiorned  from  Octavis  MichaelisA 
to  the  third  daie  of  Nouember. 

This  yeare  in  September  e  died  Queene  Katherin/  dowager,  late  Death  of  the 
wief  to  King  Henrie  the  eight,  and  after  maried  to   Sir  Thomas 
Seymor,  Lord  Admirall  and  brother  to  the  Lord  Protectors  grace, 
which  queene  died  in    childbed,  8   the   child   living,   which   is   a 
daughter.11 

•  A  journal  of  this  invasion  of  Scotland  is  extant,  written  by  W.  Patten,  a 
Londoner,  who  served  in  the  Protector's  army.     This  narrative,  which  was  first 
published  at  London  in  1548,  and  reprinted  in  1798  in  Daly-ell's  Fragments  of 
Scottish  History,  is  not  only  one  of  the  most  minutely  curious  records  of  that  age, 
but  one  of  the  most  vivid  pictures  of  the  realities  of  war  ever  drawn.     Patten's 
Diary  is  still  a  tract  of  great  rarity. 

b  Severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Pinkie. 
c  Master  of  Bakewell  Hall. 

d  7th  of  October.  e  30  September. 

f  Catherine  Parr,  widow  of  Lord  Latimer,  became  the  sixth  queen  of  Henry  VIII. 
in  1543. 

*  It  is  noteworthy  that  the  text  gives  no  countenance  to  the  suspicion  of  poison 
administered  by  her  husband,  that  he  might  be  at  liberty  to  renew  his  addresses  to 
the  Princess  Elizabeth.  —  See  Strype,  notes  on  Hay  ward,  p.  301. 

h  In  March,  1549,  the  infant  was  committed  to  the  charge  of  the  Duchess  of 
Suffolk,  but  survived  her  parents  only  a  few  months. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1548. 


A  mervale. 


A  maruaile. 


Preachers  inhibited 
generallie. 


Memorandum,  on  Michaelmas  dale  was  chosen  for  Lord  Maior  of 
the  Citie  of  London  Mr.  Henrie  Amcottes,  alderman  and  fishmonger 
of  London. 

This  yeare  in  Octobre  was  a  cow  about  Highgate  that  had  a 
calfe  with  tow  neckes  and  heades  with  white  faces,  and  eight  feete, 
fower  on  euery  side,  and  two  tailes,  which  cowe  died,  and  the  calf 
taken  out  of  her  bellie  and  bought  of  a  butcher,  which  had  taken 
out  all  her  inwardes  and  tooke  much  money  with  the  sight  of  the 
dead  calf  in  the  Bell  in  Newgate  markett,  till  my  Lord  Maior  com- 
manded the  calf  to  be  cutt  in  peeces  and  buried  in  the  fieldes  with- 
out the  gates. 

Also  this  yeare  in  Julie,  in  Amstredame,  their  was  a  woman  had 
a  chield  with  two  bodies  ioyned  togeether  at  the  bellie,  with  hedes, 
armes,  and  leggs,  and  the  shape  of  tow  weomen,  which  were 
christened  in  the  mothers  wombe,  and  the  print  brought  into 
Englande. 

This  yeare,  the  xxviiith  daie  of  September,  proclamation  was 
made  to  inhibite  all  preachers  generallie  till  the  kinges  further 
pleasure.  After  which  daie  all  sermons  seasede  at  Poules  Crosse, 
and  in  all  other  places. 


The  Maior  tooke 
his  othe  at  the 
Tower. 


The  Maiors  feast. 


Sainct  Annes 
church  brent. 


ANNO  EDWARDI  SEXTI  SECUNDO. 

This  yeare,  the  morrowe  after  Simon  and  Judes  daie,a  the  Lord 
Maior  tooke  his  oth  at  the  Towre  bacause  the  terme  was  proroged 
till  Crastino  Animarum.b 

This  yeare  the  Maiors  feast  at  the  Guilde  hall  was  serued  with 
one  course.  The  higher  tables  for  the  Lord  Maior  and  Ladies  with 
nyne  dishes,  and  seaven  dishes  throughe  the  hall. 

This  yeare,  the  sixtenth  daie  of  Nouember,  at  eleuen  of  the 
clocke  at  night,  was  Sainct  Annes c  church  without  Aldersgate 
Streete  brent  by  casualtie  of  fire,  being  Fridaie. 


*  29th  October. 

0  St.  Ann's-in-the-Willows. 


b  The  2nd  of  November. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  7 

The  xxi  dale  of  Nouember,  one  of  the  great  towres  next  the          A.D.  1548. 

draw  bridge  within  the  Towre  of  London  was  thorowen  downe  by  -^  in  tne  Tower 

of  London, 
fire  that  fell  in  a  vessell  of  gone  pouder.a     A  French  man  being 

prisoner  in  the  same  chamber  for  quoyning  of  testornes b   lying 

sicke  in  his  bed  was  slaine  with  the  fall  of  the  stones  in  his  bed, 

and  tow  or  three  persons  more  hurt,  which  thing  happened  about 

seuen  of  the  clocke  at  night,  the  which  ward  or  towre  Haukins  the 

under  porter  had  in  his  custodie,  and  great  fauld  laid  to  him  by 

reason  he  kept  powdre  their,  and  having  a  prisonner  in  that  warde ;         tA-D- 1549-] 

the  said  Hawkins  was  comitted  for  the  same. 

Memorandum:  the  seavententh  daie  of  Januarie,  1548 [-9],  Sir  Lord  Admirall  sent 
Thomas  Seymor,  Lord  Sidley,c  and  High  Admirall  of  Englande, 
and  brother  to  my  Lord  Protector,  was  sent  to  ward  to  the  Towre      [Anno  Keg.  3.] 
of  London  for  treason. 

Memorandum:   the  xiiiith  daie   of  Februarie  their  was   an   Oir  s^wTlHa 
Determyner  kept  in  the  Guildhall  by  the  kynges  commission  for  ton,  knight,  at  the 
the  enditement  and  arraignement  of  Sir  William  Sherington,  knight, 
and  treasorer  of  the  kinges   mynte  of  Bristowe,  for  suspition  of 
treason  a  against  the  king.     Wherupon  this  daie  he  was  endited  for 
counterfetting  the  kinges  coyne  to  his  owne  proper  use  at  the  said 
cittie  of  Bristow,  the  sixtenth  daie  of  Julie  last  past,  to  the  some  of. 
two  thousand  poundes  e  in  siluer  in  testornes,  upon  which  endite- 
ment he  was  arraigned,  and  without  any  further  triall  he  confessed 
his  treason,  wherupon  he  had  judgement  to  be  had  to  the  Towre 
of  London  from  whence  he  came,  and  from  thence  to  be  drawen  on 
an  hirdell  to  the  place  of  execution   at  the  kinges  pleasure,   and 

*  "By  the  menes  of  a  Frenchman  that  sette  a  barrelle  of  gounepoder  a  fyere." 
— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  57. 

b  Testoon  or  teston,  an  old  coin  made  of  brass  covered  with  silver,  which  from 
1.9.  6d.  the  original  value,  came  down  to  6^. — a  tester. 

0  Baron  of  Sudley. 

d  He  was  accused  of  conspiring  against  the  government,  with  the  Lord  Admiral, 
whom  he  was  to  have  supplied  with  10,000?.  a  month. 

e  Other  authorities  state  that  he  had  already  coined  about  12,0002.  of  false  money 
and  had  clipped  a  great  deal  more,  to  the  value  of  40,OOOZ.  in  all. — See  Strype,  ii. 
p.  122;  and  Buraet,  Hist.  ii.  p.  97. 


8  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1549.  their  to  be  hanged  till  he  died.  The  Commissioners  that  sate  on  him 
[were]  my  Lord  Maior  cheiffe,  Mr  of  the  Rolls,  my  Lord  Montague 
Cheiffe  Justice  of  the  Common  Place,  my  Lord  Cheiffe  Baron, 
Justice  Hynde,  Sir  Thomas  Pope,a  Sir  Raffe  Warreyne,  Sir  Richard 
Gressam,  Sir  John  Gressam,  Mr.  Recorder. 

A  butcher  punished  Memorandum:  the  first  daie  of  March,  1548 [-9],  being  Fridaie, 
coLap^ngamnadns  John  Abram,  botcher  in  Sainct  Nicholas  Shambles,  was  had  from 
death.  the  Counter  in  Bread  Streete,  and  sett  on  a  horse  with  his  face  to 

the  horsetaile  and  so  leed  up  Cheepe  to  the  Newgate  on  one  side 
of  the  streete  and  coming  downe  Sainct  Nicholas  Shambles  on  the 
other  side  of  the  streete,  and  so  through  Cheepe,  the  Pultrie,  Stockes, 
Cornehill,  Gracious  Streat,  Fishe  Streat,  and  along  Thames  Streete 
to  Queenehith,  and  their  turned  up  to  Bread  Streete,  and  so  to  the 
Standard  in  Cheepeside,  where  he  was  sett  on  the  pillorie  with  a 
paper  pynned  over  his  heade  and  another  pynned  on  his  backe, 
upon  which  papers  was  wrytten  in  great  lettres  as  followeth  "  for 
the  keepinge  of  an  other  mans  wiefe  and  hiringe  a  man  to  kill  her 
husband."  And  thus  he  stoode  on  the  pillorie  from  eight  of  the 
clocke  in  the  forenonne  till  half  an  hower  after  aleuen,  and  then  he 
was  taken  downe  and  sent  to  warde  againe.  This  Abram  kept  one 
Woodshawes  wief,  a  botcher  against  his  owne  dore,  in  Sainct 
Nicholas  Shambles,  and  should  haue  killed  him  by  her  procuremente. 
And  he  hired  one  Head,  of  the  Kinges  garde,  to  doe  the  deede 
because  his  hert  serued  him  not,  and  gaue  him  at  tymes  fortie 
poundes  in  money  to  kill  him,  which  Heade  opened  this  conspiracie 
in  Sir  John  Gresshames  tyme,  and  by  fauor  and  sute  to  the  Kinges 
counsell  and  rewardes  geuen  punishment  was  differred  till  now  that 
my  Lord  Maior  had  commandment  to  punish  him  as  he  and  his 
brethren  should  thincke  best.  And  so  he  was  sodenlie  taken  on 
the  Thursdaie  afore  selling  fleshe  at  his  shopp  and  sent  to  ward  not 
knowing  the  cause,  and  commandment  geauen  to  the  keeper  that 
no  person  should  speake  with  him,  so  that  when  he  came  to  doe  his 
pennance  no  person  knewe  it  till  he  rode  aboute. 

*  The  founder  of  Trinity  College,  Oxford. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  9 

The  third  dale  of  March,  being  Shroue    Sondaie,   Mr.  Henry          A-D-  1549- 
Amcottes,  Lord  Maior  of  London,  was  presented  to  the  Kinges  fc^  the  steriffes 
Maiestie  at  his  pallace  at  Westminster.     And  after  the  oration  made  made  knightes. 
by  Mr.  Recorder  to  his  Maiestie  and  aunswere  againe  by  my  Lord 
Chauncelor  unto  the  maior  and  aldermen,  the  Kinges  Maiestie  made 
my  Lord   Maior,   knight,  and   Mr.  William  Locke,  alderman,  and 
Mr.  John  AylifFe,  barbar  surgeon,  sherifFes  of  London  for  this  yeare, 
weare  made  knightes  also  in  the  Chambre  of  Presens,  the   Kinges 
Maiestie  standing  under  his  cloath  of  estate. 

Memorandum:   the  xiiiith  daie   of  March   the    Parliament   was 
proroged  which  had  be  [en]  kept  at  Westminster  since  the  [twenty  a]  ment. 
fourth  daie  of  Nouember  last  past,  in  which  session  diuers  godlie 
actes  were  made.b     And  the  Kinges  Majestic  gaue  a  generall  free 
pardon,  certaine  persons  in  the  Towre  of  London  excepted.c 


Memorandum  :  at  this  session  of  Perliamente  one  uniforme  booke      e  new  110i 

oegonne  ana  pnuat 

was  sett  fourth  of  one  sort  of  seruice  with  the  ministration  of  the  masses  put  downe. 

holie  communion  and  other  sacramentes  to  be  used  in  this  realme 

of  Englande  and  other  the  Kinges  dominions  whatsoeauer.     To  be 

obserued  after  the  feast  of  Pentecost  next  coming,  as  by  an  Act  of 

Perliament  against  the  transgressors  of  the  same  doeth   appeare. 

Howbeit  Poules  quire,  with  divers  parishes  in  London  and  other 

places   in   England,   begane  the  use  after  the  said   booke  in  the 

beginning  of  Lent,  and  putt  downe  the  priuate  masses  as  by  the 

acte  is  ordayned. 

Also  at  this  Perliament  the  cleargie  granted  to  the  Kinges  Maiestie  A  subsedie  granted 
a  subsedie  of  vi  s.  in  the  pounde,  to  be  paid  in  three  yeares  next   y 
ensuing,  that  is  to  say,  of  all  benefices  and  spirituall  promotions 
from  aboue  fortie  shillinges  upwardes  yearelie  during  the  said  three 
yeares  ii  s.  of  the  pounde,  as  by  the  said  Act  more  at  larg  appeareth. 

a  The  Parliament  reassembled  at  Westminster  on  the  24th  of  November,  1548, 
having  been  prorogued  to  that  day  from  the  25th  October  in  consequence  of  the 
plague  then  being  in  London. 

b  A  very  accurate  and  full  account  of  the  Acts  passed  in  this  Parliament  will  be 
found  in  Burnet's  History  of  the  Reformation. 

c  As  also  all  those  who  had  absented  themselves  out  of  the  kingdom. 
CAMD.  SOC.  C 


10 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1549. 

A  reliefs  of  moue- 
ables,  goodes,  sheepe, 
and  cloth  granted  to 
the  kinges  majestic. 


The  Lord  Admirall 
beheaded. 


Fire  at  Broken 
wharfe. 


One  bearing  a  fagott 
at  Poules  Cross. 


All  the  Lordes  and  Commons  of  the  temporalltie  granted  to  the 
Kinges  Maiestie  at  this  Perliament  a  relief  of  xiid.  of  the  pounde  of 
all  moueable  goodes  from  x  1.  upwardes,  to  be  paid  euerie  yeare  for 
three  yeares  next  ensuing,  and  of  strangers  every  of  the  three  yeares 
tow  shillinges  of  the  pounde,  and  of  euerie  stranger  under  tenne 
poundes  in  goodes  xii  d.  yearelie  during  the  said  three  yeares,  and  of 
euerie  other  stranger  of  the  age  of  xii  yeares  and  upwardes  not 
payable  by  this  Act  of  their  goodes  viii  d.  yearelie,  weomen  couert 
excepted>  and  an  other  relief  granted  to  be  paide  of  sheepe,  and 
another  of  cloth,  as  by  the  Act  more  at  large  [appeareth.a  ] 

Memorandum :  the  xxth  daie  of  March,  1548-[9],  Sir  Thomas  Sey- 
mor,  Lord  of  Sidley  b  and  High  Admirall  of  England,  and  brother  to 
my  Lord  Protector,  was  beheaded  at  the  Towrehill,  which  said  Lord 
Admirall  was  condemned  of  high  treason  by  the  hole  Perliament,0 
as  by  an  Act  made  by  the  same  more  plainelie  appeareth.d 

The  twentie  third  daie  of  Aprill,  being  Saint  Georges  daie,  and 
the  Twesdaie  in  Easter  weeke,  was  a  fire  at  Broken  wharfe  among 
the  hayhowses,  which  appeared  at  fower  of  the  clocke  in  the  morn- 
inge,  and  brent  and  perished  aboue  six  howses. 

The  xxviiith  daie  of  Aprill,  being  the  first  Soundaie  after  Easter, 
one  Champnes,  of  Stratford,  bare  a  fagott  at  Poules  Crosse,  which 
was  an  Anabaptist,  whose  opinion  was,  that  after  man  was  regenerate 
by  baptisme  and  the  Holie  Ghost  that  he  could  not  sine,  which 


«  Omitted  in  MS. 

b  Baron  of  Sudley. 

c  On  the  4th  of  March  a  message  came  from  the  King  to  the  Commons  stating 
that  "  he  thought  it  was  not  necessary  to  send  for  the  Admiral,  but  that  the  Lords 
should  come  down  and  renew  before  them  the  evidence  they  had  given  in  their  own 
House;"  and  thereupon  the  Bill  of  Attainder  was  agreed  to  in  a  House  of  about 
four  hundred  members,  not  more  than  ten  or  twelve  voting  in  the  negative. — See 
Burnet,  ii.  p.  99. 

d  Strype,  in  his  notes  to  Hayward,  pp.  301-3,  has  given  a  full  account  of  these 
proceedings  from  the  Journals  of  the  two  Houses,  to  prove  "how  fairly  the  admiral 
was  judged  and  dealt  with  in  the  Parliament."  The  journals  notice  that  the  Lord 
Protector  was  present  at  each  reading  of  the  Bill. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  11 

damnable  opinion  he  abiured  the  daie  before  at  Poules  before  my          A.D.  1549. 
Lord  of  Canterburie,  and  was  sorie  for  his  error. 

Memorandum:  on  Maie  daie  at  night  1549,  a  certaine  armie  of 
Frenchmen  to  the  number  of  vii  thousand  came  priuelie  to  assault  An  assalt  geauen  to 
Bulleine  Barke,a  which  was  the  Mr  b  of  the  Horse  camp  at  the  Frenchmen!  with  ° 
wynninge  of  Bulleyne,  in  the  which  fort  was  not  fower  hundred  tneir  onerthrowe. 
soldiors  that  kept  it,  which  persons  hauing  knowledge  not  tow 
howres  afore  the  assalt  by  one  Carter  ane  Inglish  man,  a  soldier  in 
the  French  campe,  and  fleed  out  of  Bulleyne  for  a  felonie  committed 
by  him  their,  which  said  Carter  pricked  forward  from  the  French 
campe  to  the  fort  and  called  for  Mr.  Arnolde  the  captaine,  and  their 
shewed  to  him  how  they  were  betrayed.  By  his  aduise  the  captaine 
sett  and  made  all  thinges  readie  to  defende  the  assalt.  The  French 
men  to  the  number  of  three  thousand  marching  to  assalt  him,  and 
shooting  of  vii  hundred  shott  att  ones  with  hakes  c  and  hagebuttes,d 
some  men  keeping  them  close  and  not  scene  and  a  great  number 
scaling  the  forte,  some  of  them,  shooting  haileshott  out  of  the  fort 
and  casting  out  stones  and  other  artillerie  on  the  Frenchmen,  ouer- 
threw  and  bete  them  of.  So  that  by  the  purveyance e  of  Almightie 
God,  after  long  fight  and  seaven  assaltes  geauen  by  the  Frenchmen 
with  gonne  shott  and  otherwise,  a  great  number  of  Frenchmen 
were  slainef  and  hurt,  and  fiftene  waggons  of  their  dead  bodies 
caried  awaie  by  the  Frenchmen  and  so  fleed,  and  not  an  hundred 
Englishmen  slaine  and  hurt.  The  captaine  of  the  fort  sore  hurt 

a  By  an  article  of  the  treaty  of  peace,  concluded  at  London  in  March  1547,  the 
English  were  allowed  to  continue  the  fortifications  of  Bullenberg,  but  Henry  II.  sent 
so  rough  a  message  by  his  ambassador,  when  these  were  resumed,  that  the  Protector, 
rather  than  hazard  a  quarrel  with  France,  ordered  the  works  to  be  discontinued 
before  the  fort  was  finished. 

b  Probably  "  the  camp  of  the  Master  of  the  Horse." 

e  Hake  or  haque,  a  hand-gun  (three-quarters  of  a  yard  long). — See  "Egerton 
Papers,"  p.  17. 

d  Haguebut  is  only  another  form  of  arquebuse,  which  ancient  species  of  fire-arm 
was  cocked  with  a  wheel  and  supported  on  a  rest.  One  of  those  used  at  the  siege  of 
Boulogne  may  still  be  seen  in  the  Museum  there. 

e  The  French  word  pourvoyance,  providence. 

1  In  King  Edward's  Journal,  p.  6,  it  is  said,  that  the  French  lost  1,000  men. 


12  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1549.  and  Carter  that  gaue  them  knowledge  first.  But  the  said  Carter 
slewe  the  said  French  captaine  himself  and  fought  very  valiantlie 
against  the  Frenchmen  till  he  was  so  sore  hurt  that  he  could  no 
more. 

A  Anabaptist  Memorandum :  the  fifth  daie  of  Maie,  being  the  second  Soundaie 

bearinge  a  fagott  at  ~  .      ^  , 

Poules  Crosse.  after  Easter,  one  Puttoe,  a  tanner  in  Collchester  in  Jissex,   bare  a 

faggott  at  Poules  Crosse,  which  was  an  Anabaptist  and  was  abiured 
the  xxxth  daie  of  Aprill  at  Poules,  before  my  Lorde  of  Canterburie ; 
his  opynion  was,  he  denied  that  Christ  descended  not a  into  hell, 
which  damnable  opinion  he  now  lamentith. 

An  oir  determiner  Memorandum :  the  sixth  daie  of  Maie  their  was  an  Oyer  Deter- 

kept  by  my  Lord  ,.  ...  01  i       r      ^  ^• 

Maior  in  Southwark.   myner  b  kept  at  the  justice  court  at   bouthwarke  for  the  enditement 

and  arraignment  of  William  Pate,  of  Islington,  in  the  countie  of 
Middlesex,  monyer,  which  said  Pate  had  coyned  in  the  Kinges 
mynte  in  Sothwarke,  in  the  countie  of  Surrey,  tow  hundred  plates 
of  siluer,  being  the  grote  plate  of  iiii  d.  and  had  sett  the  stampe  and 
coyne  of  the  new  shyling  of  xiid.  the  peece  on  them.  And  this 
daie  was  endited  of  the  same  by  a  quest  of  enquirie  of  certaine 
persons  of  the  county  of  Surrey,  and  upon  his  enditement  was 
arraigned,  and  confessed  his  fact  himself  without  further  triall,  and 
had  judgment  to  be  drawen  and  hanged,  and  so  was  committed  to 
the  Kinges  Bench;  Sir  Henry  Amcottes,  knight,  Lord  Maior  of 
London,  being  the  Cheifie  Commissioner,  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley, 
Lord  Cheiffe  Baron,  Sir  Humphrey  Browne,  Lord  Cheiffe  Justice 
of  the  Comen  Place,  Sir  William  Curson,  one  of  the  Barons  of  the 
Exchequer,  Serieant  Morgan,  Mr.  Recorder,  Mr.  Chidley,  Sir 
Martin  Bowes,  Sir  John  Gressame,  with  other  aldermen  knightes  in 
the  commission,  and  they  all  dined  at  the  Bridghouse  at  the  costes 
of  the  Chambre  of  London. 

A  Anabaptist  beringe      Memorandum :  the  xiith  daie  of  Maie,  the  third  Soundaie  after 

Crosl?  Easter,  their  was  a  bucher  dwelling  by  Ould  Fish   Streete  which 

bare  a  faggott  at  Poules  Crosse,  which  was  an  Anabaptist,  denying 

tt  Sic  MS. 

b  A  clerical  error  for  "  Oyer  et  termyner  ; "  the  writer  would  appear  to  have  mis- 
taken the  contracted  "  et "  employed  in  the  original  for  "  de,"  here  and  throughout. 


13 

that  Christ  tooke  no  nature  of  the  Virgin  Marie,  which  damnable          A-D- 1549. 
opinion  he  did  abiure  the  daie  before,  before  my  Lord  of  Canter- 
burie,  at  Lambeth,  and  now  lamenteth  the  same. 

Memorandum :  the  xiiith  daie  of  Maie  at  tow  of  the  clocke  in  the  Pate,  monier,  put  to 
afternoune  William  Pate,  monyer,  which  was  condemned  the  sixth  Of  Vattringes.  ° 
daie  of  Maie  afore,  was  drawen  from  the  Kinges  Bench  on  a  hirdell 
in  Southwarke  to  the  bridge  foote,  and  so  by  Sainct  Olaue's  Church 
through  Barnesey  a  Streete  to  Sainct  Thomas  Wattringes,  where  he 
was  hanged  for  treason. 

Memorandum :  the  nynetenth  daie   of  Maie,  being  the  fourth  Putto  an  Anabaptist 
Soundaie   after   Easter,   Puttoe,  which  bare   a   fagott   the   second  ^nd  tpye™nce  the 
Soundaie  after  Easter  at  Poules  Crosse  because  he  stoode  that  tyme 
with  his  capp  on  his  head  all  sermon  tyme,  to  the  peoples  esty- 
mation  unpenitent  for  his  offence,  was  sent  for  to  my  Lorde  of 
Canterburie,  who  had  further  ioyned  him  in  pennance  to  stand  this 
daie  againe  at  Poules   Crosse   with  a  faggott  on  his  sholdre  bare- 
headed, which  he  did.     And  after  confessed  his   error  and  shewing 
himself  to  be  penitent  for  his  offence,  which  the  awdience  well 
accepted,  praying  for  his  reconciliation. 

Memorandum :  in  the  moneth  of  Maie  their  was  a  commotion  of  Commotion  of 
the  commens    in    Somersetshire  and   Lyncolneshire  concerning   a Rel)ells> 
proclymation  for  enclosures,  and  they  broke  downe  certaine  parkes 
of  Sir  William   Harbertes   and    Lord  Stourtons,   which   said    Sir 
William  Harberd  was  sent  into  Wales  for  reskewe,  and  slewe  and 
putt  to  death  diuers  of  the  rebells.     Also  at  Bristoweb  and  diuers 
other  shires  likewise  the  commons  arose  and  pulled  downe  parkes, 
but  by  good  pollicie  of  the  Counsell  and  other  noblemen  of  the 
countrey  they  were  pacified. 

Memorandum :  the  xxiiiith  daie  of  Maie  their  was  two  oyrs  and  Coyners  arraigned, 
determyners  keept  at  the  guildhall  in  the  afternoune  for  the  French- 
men coyners  at  Dirham  c  mynt,  which  had  made  the  counterfeite 
new  money  named  shillinges.  And  this  daie  after  their  enditementes 
confessed  their  treason  and  had  judgment  to  be  drawen  and  hanged, 
a  Bermondsey  Street.  b  Bristol.  c  Durham. 


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WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1549. 


For  Whit  Sondaie. 


Sermons  kept  at 
Poules  Cross  in 
Whitson  week. 


my  Lord  Maior  cheiffe  in  commission ;  they  had  after  the  Kinges 
pardon. 

Memorandum :  on  Whit  Soundaie,  being  the  nynth  of  June,  my 
Lord  Maior  and  his  brethren  the  Aldermen  assembled  at  Poules  for 
a  sermon  which  was  apoynted  by  my  Lord  of  Canterburie.  Mr. 
Lydall  should  haue  preached,  who  came  not,  so  that  they  were  dis- 
apoynted  of  the  sermon.  On  Whitsoundaie  the  cannons  and  petie 
cannons  in  Ponies  left  of  their  gray  and  calabre  amises,a  and  the 
cannons  wore  hoodes  on  their  surpleses  after  the  degrees  of  the 
universities,  and  the  petie  cannons  tipittes  like  other  priestes ;  and  all 
the  chauntre  priestes  were  putt  to  their  pencions  and  to  be  at  libertie. 

Also  on  Mundaie  and  Tuesdaie  my  lord  maior  had  apoynted 
tow  sermons  to  be  made  at  Poules  Crosse,  the  Aldermen  coming  in 
their  scarlettes  on  foote  thither,  as  they  doe  everie  other  soundaie. 
Mr.  Miles  Couerdale  b  preached  on  Mundaie,  and  Mr.  Bill  of  Cam- 
bridge c  preached  on  Tuesdaie.  And  on  Wednesdaie  should  haue 
bene  another  sermon,  but  because  they  stoode  in  doubt  that  it  shold 
be  holidaie  because  their  was  no  proper  service  for  that  daie  in  the 
Kinges  booke  their  was  no  sermon.  And  such  gestes  of  the  alder- 
men and  their  wifes  as  was  of  old  custome  to  dine  with  my  lord 
maior  and  the  sheriffes  was  putt  of  for  that  daie  to  Trinitie  Soundaie, 

a  Mr.  Way,  in  the  Promptorium  (p.  11),  remarks  that  the  amice  for  a  canon,  which 
was  made  of  fur  or  calaber,  was  a  vestment  perfectly  distinct  from  the  more  ancient 
ecclesiastical  vestment  of  the  same  name,  which  was  of  linen.  In  the  inventory  of 
church  ornaments  in  Westminster  Abbey  at  the  Dissolution  is  the  item,  "  Oon  good 
graye  Amyes  not  moche  worne."  And  in  the  "  Traditions  and  Customs  of  Cathedrals, 
p.  120,"  the  amice  is  described  as  an  ornament  of  grey  fur,  worn  by  dignitaries,  as 
in  the  well  known  portraits  of  Warham  and  Cranmer;  and  the  inventories  of  St. 
Alban's  have  the  entry,  "  iii  Almicia  quorum  duo  de  griseo  et  tercium  de  serico." — 
Brit.  Mus.  Claud.  E.  iv.  fol.  351.  See  also  "  Stow's  Survey,"  ed.  1633,  p.  660,  and 
Brit.  B.  ii.  401. 

b  Miles  Coverdale,  who  completed  the  first  English  version  of  the  Bible.  He  was 
appointed  Bishop  of  Exeter,  August  14,  1551,  but  was  deprived  and  imprisoned  by 
Queen  Mary,  1553,  and  afterwards  banished.  On  Mary's  death  he  refused  to  return 
to  his  bishopric,  and  lived  privately  until  he  attained  his  81st  year. 

c  William  Bill,  S.T.P.,  was  Master  of  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  and  in  1551 
was  translated  to  the  mastership  of  Trinity  College. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  15 

which  was  done  by  the  consent  of  a  court  of  aldermen  the  Twes-          A.D.  1549. 
dale  afore  Whitsoundaie. 

Also  on  Whitson  Moundaie  my  lord  maior  did  elect  and  chuse  at  The  sheriffe  chosen. 
his  table  after  dynner  Mr.  Kichard  Turke,  alderman  and  fishmonger, 
for  one  of  the  sheriffes  for  the  next  yeare,  according  to  the  prero- 
gative of  the  Maior  of  London. 

This  yeare  in  the  moneth  of  Julie  the  commons  of  Essex  and  • 
Kent,  Sufforke  and  Norfolke  made  ensurrections  against  enclosures, 
and  pulled  downe  diuers  parkes  and  howses  in  diuers  places,  and 
did  much  hurte. 

Also  in  Devonshire  about  Exceter  the  Devonshire  men  and  Cornish  Commotions  of  the 

-.     .  .  ,        ^T.  ,.  Commons. 

men  made  insurrections  against  the  Kinges  proceedmges  to  mayn- 

tayne  the  masse  and  other  ceremonies  of  the  Popes  law,  which  were 
a  great  number,  and  camped  about  the  citie  of  Exceter. 

Memorandum  :    the  third  daie    of   Julie,   L549,  my  lord  maior  The  Lord  Maior  and 
beganne  to  watch  at  night,  riding  about  the  citie  to  peruse  the 


constables  with  their  watches,  and  to  see  that  they  keepe  the  howres  weeklie- 
apoynted  at  the  last  court  of  aldermen  holden  at  the  guildhall,  for 
the  preseruation  and  savegard  of  the  citie  because  of  the  rebellion 
in  diuers  places  of  this  realme. 

And  so  after  him  euerie  alderman  in  their  courses  to  keepe  like 
order  till  Michaelmas  next,  without  their  be  other  commandement 
to  the  contrarie.  The  xith  daie  of  Julie  a  commen  counsell  was 
keept  in  the  guildhall;  Mr.  Goody  ere,  alderman  of  the  warde  of 
Portsokin,  gaue  up  his  cloake,  and  his  fine  to  be  sett  by  my  lord 
maior  and  aldermen,  which  was  five  hundreth  poundes,  to  buy 
wheate  for  the  use  of  the  cittie,  which  he  paid  out  of  hande. 

And  the  same  daie  Mr.  Kirton,  alderman,  had  licence  for  iiii 
yeares  to  be  spared  from  the  office  of  shivaltie. 

The  eightenth  daie  of  Julie  was  a  proclamation  made  in  the  cittie  Proclamation  for 
of  London  for  mershall  lawe,  booth  the  sheriffes  riding  and   the 
knight  mershall  with  them  in  the  middle  with  the  trumpett  and 
the  common  cryer  afore  them  with  one  of  the  clarkes  of  the  papers 
with  him,  which  proclamation  was  made  within  the  citie  in  diuers 


16  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1549.  places  in  the  forenonne,  and  at  afternonne  without  the  gates  of  the 
cittie,  which  proclamation  was  for  rebells  and  upsterrers  without 
any  enditement  or  arraignment  [to  be  apprehended.]  a 

The  twentith  daie  of  Julie  Mr.  Thomas  Offley,  marchant  taylor, 
was  sworne  alderman  for  Mr.  Goody er  for  the  warde  of  Portesokin, 
which  daie  was  Satterdaie,  and  a  court  keept  in  the  Guildhall  for 
diuers  affaires  for  the  King  and  preserving  of  his  chambre  and 
cittie  of  London. 

Watching  the  gates         Also  the  same  daie  euerie  jrate  of  the  cittie  beganne  to  be  watched 

of  London  on  the  .  c'  D       .     . 

day  tyme.  with  certame  commyners b  of  the  craftes  of  the  cittie  of  London, 

and  so  to  be  contynued  dailie  from  fiue  of  the  clocke  in  the  morning 
till  eight  of  the  clocke  in  the  night  till  contrarie  commandement  be 
prouided  in  that  behalf. 

Ordynance  and  other       Also  the  same  daie  preceptes  were  sent  to  euerie  alderman  and 

wepons  for  the  .  .    r 

defence  of  the  cittie.    all  the  companies  of  the  citie  to  be  in  a  redines  with  harms,  gonns, 

bowes,  and  other  wepons  for  the  defence  of  the  same,  and  also  diuers 
great  peeces  of  ordinance  of  brasse  of  the  Kinges  was  had  from  the 
Towre  and  sett  at  euerie  gate  of  the  cittie,  and  all  the  walls  of  the 
citie  from  Criplegate  to  Bevis  Markes,  by  Christ  Church,0  were 
sett  with  ordenance  on  the  walls,  which  was  the  cities  ordenance,  and 
gonners  apoynted  to  euerie  gate  and  for  the  walls,  having  wages  at 
the  cities  charges. d 

The  one  and  twentith  daie  of  Julie,  the  sixth  daie  after  Trinitie 
Soundaie,  the  Archbishopp  of  Canterburie6  came  to  Poules,  and 
their  in  the  quire  after  mattens  in  a  cope  with  an  aulble  under  it, 
and  his  crosse  borne  afore  him  with  two  priestes  of  Poules  for  deakin 

•  Omitted  in  MS. 

b  Commoners  or  liverymen. 

c  Christ  Church  or  Creechurch  within  Aldgate;  it  formerly  belonged  to  the 
Augustinian  Canons  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  and  a  neighbouring  church  in  Leadenhall 
Street  is  still  named  St.  Katharine  Creechurch. 

fl  "  Every  daye  from  the  xx  day  of  July  satte  at  every  gatte  viii  of  the  comyneres 
and  ii  gonners  every  day  from  vi  in  the  mornynge  unto  it  was  [late]  atte  nyght  unto 
the  x  day  of  September." — Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  61. 

e  Thomas  Cranmer. 


17 

and  sub-decon  with  aulbles  and  tuniceles,a  the  deane  of  Poules  A  D.  1549, 
folio winge  him  in  his  surples,  came  into  the  quire ,b  my  lord  Maior  The  Archbishop  of 
with  most  part  of  the  aldermen  sitting  their  with  him.  And  after  ^^the  ^m-"" 
certaine  assembly  of  people  gathered  into  the  quire  the  said  munion  in  Paules. 
Bishopp  made  a  certaine  exhortation  to  the  people  to  pray  to  al- 
mightie  God  for  his  grace  and  mercy  to  be  shewed  unto  us.  In 
the  which  exhortation  he  admonished  the  people  of  the  great  plague 
of  God  reigning  ouer  us  now  in  this  realme  of  Englande  for  our 
great  sins  and  neglecting  his  worde  and  commandments,  which 
plage  is  the  commotion  of  the  people  in  most  parts  of  this  realme 
now  raigning  among  us  speciallie  against  Godes  commandmente 
and  the  true  obedience  to  our  most  Christen  king  Edwarde  the  sixt, 
naturall,  Christian,0  and  supream  head  of  this  realme  of  Englande 
and  other  his  domynions,  which  plage  of  sedition  and  divicion 
amonge  ourselues  is  the  greatest  plage,  and  not  like  heard  of  since 
the  passion  of  Christ,  which  is  come  on  us  by  the  instigation  of  the 
Devill  for  our  miserable  sinnes  and  trespasses  in  that  we  have  shewed 
us  to  be  the  professors  and  diligent  hearers  of  his  worde  by  his  true 
preachers  and  our  lives  not  amended,  which  godlie  exhortation  was 
so  godlie  sett  fourth  to  the  hearers  with  the  true  obedience  also  to 
our  kinge  and  superiors  and  also  to  the  confutation  of  the  rebellors, 
with  also  monition  geauen  to  the  people  to  fast  and  pray,  putting  all 
pride  aside  with  other  sinns  and  vices  raigning  amonge  us,  as  deli- 
cious and  superfluous  feedinge  and  sumptuous  apparell,  that  it  would 
haue  moued  and  stirred  any  Christian  hart  to  lament  their  offences 
and  call  to  Almightie  God  for  mercy  and  grace. 

This  daie  procession  was  song  according  to  the  Kinges  booke,a 
my  lord  [archbishop]  e  and  the  quire  kneling,  my  lord  singing  the 

a  Albs  and  tunicles. 

b  "  And  soo  the  Byshoppe  of  Caunterbery  was  there  at  procession,  and  dyd  the 
offes  hymselfe  in  a  cope  and  no  vestment,  nor  mytter,  nor  crosse,  but  a  crose  staff  e; 
and  soo  dyd  alle  the  offes,  and  hys  sattene  cappe  on  hys  hede  alle  the  tyme  of  the 
offes  ;  and  soo  gave  the  communione  hymselfe  unto  viii  persons  of  the  sayd  church." 
— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  60.  c  By  the  law  of  nature  and  Christianity. 

d  This  is  the  same  the  Church  of  England  makes  use  of  at  this  day,  excepting  a 
few  alterations.  e  Archbishop  Cranmer. 

CAMD.  SOC.  D 


18  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1549.  collectes  and  praying  and  adding  one  other  prayer  which  he  had 
written  for  this  plage.  This  donne  he  went  to  the  highe  aulter  with 
deacon  and  subdeacon,  and  their  to  celebrate  the  holie  communion 
of  the  bodie  and  bloud  of  Christ,  according  to  the  Kinges  booke 
last  sett  fourth  by  Act  of  Perliament a  for  the  service  and  sacrafice 
of  the  church,  he  ministring  the  sacrament  of  the  bodie  of  Christ 
himself  to  the  deane  and  vii  other,  the  deacons  following  with  the 
chalice  of  the  bloud  of  Christ.5 

The  communion  donne,  Mr.  Joseph,6  his  chaplaine,  went  to  Poules 
Crosse  and  made  a  sermon  of  the  gospell  of  this  Soundaie,  breiflie 
and  shortlie  declaring  in  the  same  sermon  parte  of  my  lordes  ex- 
hortation to  the  people,  because  all  herde  him  not  before,  and  so 
committed  the  people  to  God. 

Towiha1^edby  Mondaie,  the  twentie-second  daie  of  Julie  and  Marie  Magdalens 

marsnall  law.  ,.,.  .,  .  r        -,  11-1 

daie,  their  was  tow  jebettes  sett  up  in  London,  [onej  at  the  bridg 

foote  in  Southwarke,  and  another  within  Algate  by  the  well,  upon 
which  jebetts  their  was  hanged  tow  of  the  rebells  of  Kent  and  Essex, 
the  knight  marshall  with  booth  the  sherifFes  seing  the  execution, 

a  This  Act  confirming  the  new  Liturgy  sanctioned  the  preface  concerning  cere- 
monies, and  gave  the  whole  a  turn  favourable  to  the  Reformation.  •  It  is  said  in  the 
preamble  of  the  Act,  "  That  there  might  be  an  uniform  way  of  worship  all  over  the 
Kingdom;  the  King,  by  the  advice  of  the  Protector  and  his  council,  had  appointed 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  other  Bishops  and  Divines  named  to  draw  an 
Order  of  divine  worship,  &c.  which  they,  by  the  aid  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  had  with  one 
uniform  agreement  concluded  on.  Wherefore  the  Parliament,  having  considered  the 
Book,  did  enact,  &c."  This  Act  was  variously  criticised  at  the  time.  Some  thought 
it  too  much  that  it  was  said  the  book  was  drawn  by  "  the  aid  of  the  Holy  Ghost." 
Others  censured  it  because  it  was  said  to  be  done  "  by  uniform  agreement,"  though 
eight  of  the  bishops  employed  in  drawing  it  up  protested  against  its  being  published 
in  its  present  form,  viz.  the  bishops  of  London,  Durham,  Carlisle,  Worcester,  Norwich, 
Hereford,  Chichester,  and  Westminster,  as  also  the  Earl  of  Derby  and  the  Lords 
Dacres  and  Windsor. — See  Journals  of  Parl. ;  Burnet,  Hist.  Ref .  ii.  p.  61-95 ;  and  Collier 
Ecclesiastical  Hist.  ii.  p.  255-9. 

b  The  sacrament  of  the  Eucharist  was  to  be  made  of  bread  and  of  wine  mixed  with 
water.  In  the  Consecration  Prayer  were  these  words,  since  left  out,  "  With  thy  Holy 
Spirit  vouchsafe  to  ble+ss  and  sanc+tify  these  thy  Gifts  of  Bread  and  Wine,  that 
they  may  be  unto  us  the  Body  and  Blood  of  thy  most  dearly  beloved  Son,  &c." 

c  John  Joseph,  S.T.P.  rector  of  St.  Mary-le-Bow. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  19 

which  was  by  marshall  lawe;  he  that  honge  at  Algate  was  a  taylor          A.Di  1549. 
at  Raynesford,a'in  Essex,  and  the  other  a  Bullenor.b 

The  xxiiird  dale  of  Julie  in  the  afternoune  the  Kinges  Majestie  The  kinge  ridinge 
came  from  Greenewych  and  rode  from  his  place  in  Southwarke  London.6 
throwe  the  cittie  of  London  to  his  palace  at  Westminster,  accom- 
panied with  his  lordes,  knightes,  and  gentlemen  richlie  appayrayled, 
the  lord  maior  riding  in  a  gowne  of  crymoysin  veluett  with  his  mace 
afore  the  Kinges  Majestie,  with  my  Lord  of  Oxford  which  bare  the 
Kinges  sworde,  my  Lord  Protectors  grace  following  the  Kinge,  the 
aldermen  folio winge  the  knightes,  riding  in  Scarlett,  and  before  the 
lordes;  the  maior  and  the  aldermen  receauing  the  King  at  Sainct 
Margaretts  Church  that  was  in  Southwarke ;  and  so  riding  before 
his  maiestie  in  their  places  till  they  came  to  Charing  Crosse,  where 
the  aldermen  stoode  in  aray  till  the  Kinges  Majestie  passed  by  them, 
which  saluted  them,  putting  of  his  capp  to  euerie  of  them;  my 
lord  maior  riding  still  before  his  majestie  to  his  palace  of  West- 
minster, where  the  Kinges  Majestie  with  hartie  thankesgeuing  to 
him  tooke  his  leaue,  my  Lord  Protectors  grace  likewise,  thanking 
him  after  the  Kinge. 

The  last  daie  of  Julie  the  Lord  Marques  of  Northampton  entred  Norwiche  taken  by 
the  Citie  of  Norwych,c  and  that  night  the   enimies   entred   the the  rebells< 
towne  and  tooke  it  and  burned  part  of  it  and  putt  the  Lord  Marques 
to  flight  and  slew  the  Lord  Sheiffeld  d  with  other.6 

a  Romford — See  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  60.  b  A  man  of  Boulogne. 

c  With  only  1,060  horsemen,  (King  Edward's  Journal,  p.  7,)  or  according  to  Hol- 
ingshead  (p.  1033)  and  Hayward  (p.  297)  with  1,500  horse  and  a  small  band  of 
Italian  mercenaries. 

d  Edmund,  first  Lord  Sheffield  (created  baron  1  Edward  VI.)  His  horse  falling 
into  a  ditch  he  was  slain  by  a  butcher  with  a  club.  See  Dugdale,  Baronage,  ii.  p.  336. 

e  Neither  Blackstone  nor  Hallam  give  the  exact  date  of  the  first  commissions  of 
lieutenancy,  but  both  refer  to  the  statufe  4  and  5  Phil,  and  Mary,  c.  3,  in  which 
lords-lieutenant  are  mentioned  as  known  officers.  It  would  appear,  however,  that 
these  officers  were  first  instituted  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.  the  more  readily  to 
repress  these  insurrections.  Their  commissions  are  dated  24th  July,  and  run,  "  that 
they  should  enquire  of  all  treasons,  misprisions  of  treason,  insurrections,  riots,  and 
all  other  breaches  of  the  King's  peace,  with  authority  to  levy  men  and  fight  against 
the  King's  enemies."  See  Strype's  Memorials,  ii.  p.  178. 


20 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1549. 

The  towne  diche  was 
taken  and  new  made. 


A  defiaunce  from  the 
Frenche  Kinge. 


The  victory  of  the 
Lord  Privie  Scale 
against  the  rebelles 
in  Devonshire. 


Rebelles  put  to  death. 


The  third  dale  of  August  the  Towne  dych  betwene  Aldersgate 
and  Newgate  that  had  bene  long  closed  upp  in  gardens  was  begone 
to  be  made  dych  new  againe,  and  seauen  score  workemen  sett  a 
worke  at  the  cost  of  the  chambre  with  certaine  of  the  Companie[s]  of 
the  Gittie. 

The  8  of  August  in  the  afternoone  the  embassadour  of  the 
French  Kinge  gaue  my  Lord  Protector  defyance  from  the  French 
Kinge  at  the  Kinges  pallace  of  Whitehall  at  Westminster.  And 
at  midnight  lettres  were  sent  to  the  Mayor  of  London  to  make  a 
privie  watch  ymmediately  and  to  apprehende  all  Frenchmen  and 
theyr  goodes  which  were  not  denizens,  which  thinge  was  done,  for 
the  Lord  Mayor  sent  for  all  the  Aldermen  to  his  house,  and  they 
ymmediately  made  search  in  theyr  wardes,  and  all  shippes  and 
passyges  were  restrayned  likewise. 

The  tenth  of  August,  beinge  Saterday,  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury made  a  eolation  in  Pawles  quire  for  the  victory  that  the  Lord 
Russell, a  Lord  Privie  Scale,  had  on  Monday  last  past  against  the 
rebells  in  Devonshire,  which  had  beseeged  Exeter,  and  lyen  in 
campe  afore  y t  by  the  space  of  3  weeks  b  and  like  to  have  famished 
them  in  the  towne,c  but  the  sayd  monday  the  Lord  Privye  Scale 
entred  the  city  and  slewe,  hurte,  and  tooke  prisoners  of  the  sayd 
rebells  aboue  iiii  M.d  and  after  hanged  divers  of  them  in  the  towne 
and  about  the  country e. 

The  16  of  August  there  were  two  rebelles  put  to  execution  by 
marshall  lawe,  one  called  Church,  which  was  hanged  without 
Bishopsgate,  and  another  called  Payne,  which  was  sent  to  Waltham 
and  there  hanged. 


a  John,  Lord  Russell. 

b  The  rebels,  finding  they  could  not  take  the  city  of  Exeter  by  force,  as  they  had 
no  artillery,  at  length  turned  the  siege  into  a  blockade,  in  hopes  that  the  want  of 
provisions  would  compel  the  besieged  to  surrender. 

c  The  citizens,  who  were  the  sole  defenders,  endured  extreme  famine  for  twelve 
days,  eating  their  horses  and  the  horses'  bran.  See  Hayward,  p.  294. 

rt  The  rebels  lost  600  men.— Hayward,  p.  294. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  21 

The  sayd  day  in  the  afternoone  was  araigned  at  the  Guildhall          AjD>  1549. 
one  John  Allen,  of  Southwarke,  pedler,  William  Gates,  of  Hampton,  Kebelles  araigned. 
in  the  county  of  Willshire,  shepeard,  Eoger  Baker,  of  Southfeld,  in 
the  county  of  Suffolke,  fawconer,  and  James  Webbe,  of  Barford,  in 
the  county  of  Oxford,  clark  and  vicar  of  the  same  towne;  which 
foure  persons  were  this  afternoone   indyted  and   condempned   of 
high  treason^  for  rebelles  and  captaines  of  Norfolke,  Suffolke,  and 
Oxfordshire,  and  had  judgment  for  the  same. 

The  22  of  August,  James  Webbe,  vicar  of  Barford,  was  sent  to  Kebelles  put  to  death. 
AHsbury,  there  to  be  drawne,  hanged,  and  quartered,  and  the  same 
day  John  Allen  was  drawne  to  Tyburneand  there  hanged,  headed, 
and  quartered,  and  his  bowelles  and  members  burnt;  and  Roger 
Baker  was  drawne  to  Tower  Hill,  where  he  had  lyke  execution ; 
and  William  Gates,  sheepheard,  was  drawne  to  Totnam,  and  there 
put  to  lyke  execution ;  the  sheriffes  of  London  rydinge  and  seinge 
the  execution  of  all  iii  persons  one  after  another,  their  heades  and 
quarters  were  set  at  divers  gates  of  London. 

Memorandum :  yt  was  ordeyned  at  a  Court  of  Aldermen  that  Wrestlinge  left, 
the  wrestlinge  should  he  put  downe  and  left  for  this  yeare,  because 
of  the  commotions  of  Norfolke  and  other  partes  of  this  realme. 

The  24  of  August,  beinge  Bartholomewe  daye,  my  Lord  Mayor  For  Bartholomewe 
and  aldermen  rode  after  dinner  in  theyr  scarlet  to   Bartholomewe     y  ' 
fayre  and  brought  my  lord  [Mayor] a  home  againe  to  his  house, 
where  they  had  frutes,  wafers,  and  ipocras,  which  order  was  taken 
at  theyr  assembly  the  even  afore  at  the   Guildhall  before  they  rode 
to  the  fayre,  because  there  was  noe  wrestlinge  kept. 

The  28  of  August  tydinges  was  brought  to  the  Kinges  Majestic  Tne  victory  of  the 
and  the  Lord  Protectors  grace  that  the  rebelles  in  Norfolke  were  against  the  rebelles 
subdued,  and  that  the  Earle  of  Warwicke  had  entred  the  citie  of in  Norfolke- 
Norwiche  the  27  of  August,  and  had  slayne  v  M.  of  the  rebelles,b 
and  had  taken  theyr  cheife  captaine,  which  was  called  Eobert  Kett 
of  Windam,0  tanner,  which  might  dispend  in  landes  1  i  and  aboue, 

a  Omitted  in  MS.  b  Other  authorities  say  2,000,  but  Stow  follows  our  text. 

c  Wymondham  or  Windham,  in  Norfolk,  about  eight  miles  from  Norwich. 


22 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1549. 


Certeine  houldes  lost 
by  Bulleine. 


A  pollicye. 


Frenchmen  slayne. 


and  worth  in  moveables  before  his  rebellion  above  a  M.  markes;* 
and  the  sayd  Earle  put  to  execution  divers  of  the  rebelles  after  in 
divers  places  about  Norwich. 

Allso  the  same  daye  tydinges  came  to  the  Kinge  that  the  French- 
men had  taken  Blacknesse,  Hamylkewe,  and  Newe  Haven,  by 
Bulleyne,b  and  had  slayne  all  the  Englishmen,  and  taken  the  Kinges 
ordinaunce  and  victualls ;  which  was  reported  beganne  by  one 
Sturton,  a  bastard  sonne  of  the  Lord  Sturtons,  which  had  betrayed 
Newehaven  and  went  to  the  French  Kinges  servis. 

Allso  in  the  beginninge  of  the  moneth  of  September  the  captaine 
of  Bulleine  Barke,c  by  Bulleine,  for  feare  of  the  French  army, 
which  was  great,  conveyed  all  the  ordinance,  victualles,  goods,  and 
men  of  that  forte  to  the  high  towne  of  Bulleine,  and  after  theyr 
departinge  with  gunpowder  destroyed  the  forte.d 

Allso  the  French  army  assaulted  the  Ould-man;e  but  they  within 
shot  soe  sore  with  ordinaunce  at  them  that  they  slewe  aboue  3  M. 
Frenchmen,  and  made  them  recule  backe  againe.f 

a  Ket,  though  a  tanner,  was  wealthy,  and  the  owner  of  several  manors  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk.  See  Strype,  Eccles.  Mem.  ii.  281. 

b  The  forts  of  Blackness,  Ambleteuse,  and  Newcastle,  situated  in  the  Boulonnais. 

c  Boulognebourg  or  Bullenberg,  a  fort  in  the  Boulonnais  constructed  by  the  English. 

d  The  remains  of  the  ancient  fortifications  of  Boulogne  are  easily  discovered  in 
many  places  along  the  ramparts  and  in  the  gardens  of  the  Petits  Arbres.  All  these 
fortifications  were  pulled  down  in  1687,  under  the  ministry  of  Louvois,  except  the 
chateau  or  citadel,  for  many  ages  the  residence  of  the  captains  or  governors  of 
Boulogne. 

e  "  The  Old  Man  of  Boulogne "  was  the  English  name  for  the  Tour  d'Ordre, 
originally  built  by  Caius  Caligula,  the  Roman  Emperor,  as  a  triumphal  monument 
and  on  the  top  of  which  was  placed  a  light,  to  serve  as  a  beacon  during  the  night  to 
vessels  navigating  the  Channel.  When  the  English  gained  possession  of  Boulogne 
in  1544,  they  constructed  considerable  works  round  this  ancient  tower,  the  curtains 
of  which  were  600  feet  in  length,  and  the  flank  of  each  bastion  200.  At  the  time  of 
its  construction  the  tower  was  more  than  a  bow-shot  from  the  sea,  and  in  1544  stood 
about  400  yards  from  the  edge  of  the  cliff.  The  encroachment  of  the  sea  in  later 
times  however  gradually  gained  so  much  on  the  land  that  the  hill  on  which  the  Tour 
d'Ordre  was  built  became  undermined,  and  slipped  down  on  the  29th  of  July, 
1744. 

f  This  defence  was  conducted  by  the  valiant  Sir  Nicholas  Arnold. 


23 

Memorandum:  the  10  of  September  the  wardinge  of  the  gates  of          AtD 
London  by  the  commoners  was  discharged,  and  the  Kinges  ordinaunce  Watchinge  the  gates 
allso  that  stoode  at  the  gates  of  the  Citye,  and  sent  to  the  Tower  againe.  dlscliarged- 

Allso  the  same  day,  at  a  court  of  aldermen  yt  was  ordeyned  that  Citizens  keeping  the 
certeyne  of  the  commoners  should  be  appointed  to  peruse  the  fleshe 
shambles  and  fishe  markets  weekly;  the  fishmongers  to  beginne  to 
morrowe ;  viii  persons  to  devide  them  in  foure  partes,  and  to  see  and 
peruse  the  shambles  on  the  fleshe  daye,  that  the  people  may  haue 
reasonable  peniworthes  for  their  mony,  and  not  to  pay  above  theise 
prices  folio  winge,  that  is  to  saye : 

The  best  beefe  to  be  sould  not  above  iii.  qd.  et  di.  le  Ib. 

The  best  mutton  not  above  i  d.  qd.  le  Ib.   ' 

All  other  mutton  not  above  id.  di.  qd.  le  Ib. 

The  best  veale  to  be  sould  not  above,  the  carkasse  ready  dressed, 
vis.  viiid. 

And  so  euery  quarter  and  other  peces  after  the  same  rate,  or 
better  cheape  as  the  parties  can  agree;  this  order  to  continewe  till 
the  feast  of  All  Sainctes  a  next  comminge. 

The  11  of  September  my  Lord  Mayor  and  the  Aldermen  satt  in  Sittinge  for  the 
theyr  wardes  for  the  two  last  paymentes  of  the  release  graunted  to  re 
the  kinge,  and  called  afore  them  the  people  of  theyr  wardes  which 
were  seassed  at  xxl.  and  upward,  and  by  theyr  good  informations 
to  desyre  them  to  pay  the  sayd  payments  out  of  hand  towardes  the 
kinges  affayres,  which  at  this  present  had  great  need  thereof. 

The  xvi  of  September  the  Aldermen  were  discharged  of  theyr 
watchinge  at  nightes  for  perusinge  of  constables  watches  for  the 
safFegard  of  the  citie. 

Memorandum;  on  Michaellmas  day  this  yeare,  beinge  the  day  for  The  Mayor  received 
the  election  of  the  Lord  Mayor,  Sir  Henry  Amcottes,  knight,  Lord  of^hTetection  of  the 

Mayor,  Sir  William   Laxton,  knight,  Sir  Martin   Bowes,  knight.  May°r  in  ^ 
/      '    _.   .        .  „       .  .....  .  fo     '  hall  Chappell. 

and  Mr.  Richard  Turck,  Aldermen,  received  the  holy  comunion  at 

the  Guildhall  chappell,  the  service  songe  in  Englishe,  accordinge  to 
the  Kinges  booke;  my  Lord  Mayors  chapleine  executinge  at  the 
aulter  and  ministringe  the  communion  in  a  cope,  with  certeine  of 

a  November  1. 


24  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1549.  the  parishes  clarkes,  which  songe  the  service  in  the  quire,  which  was 
a  goodly  ensample  for  all  the  citizens  to  followe.  And  this  daye 
was  chosen  for  Lord  Mayor  for  the  next  yeare  Sir  Rowland  Hill, 
knight  and  alderman. 

The  Bishop  of  London  Memorandum:  the  first  of  October  Doctor  Edmunde  Bonner, 
*  Bish°P  of  London,  was  depriued  from  his  Bishoppricke  and  dignity 
at  Lambheth  by  the  sentence  of  th' Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
which  with  other  persons  appointed  in  commission  by  the  Kinge 
and  the  Lord  Protector  to  haue  the  examination  of  him  for  a 
sermon  that  he  had  made  at  Pawles  Crosse  the  8  of  September  last,a 
and  should  in  his  sermon  haue  set  forth  the  prerogatiue  of  the 
Kinge  in  his  nonage,  and  did  not,  whereupon  he  after  was  diuers 
times  examined,  and  would  make  noe  directe  aunswere,  and  for 
his  contumacye  allso  he  after  was  comitted  to  warde  to  the  Marshall- 
sea,  and  there  remayned  a  x  dayes  before  this  day,  and  after  sentence 
giuen  this  daye  he  was  committed  to  warde  againe  as  the  Kinges 
prisoner,  there  to  remaine  at  the  Kinges  Maiesties  pleasure. 

The  Mayor  and  Sonday,  the  6  of  October,  in  the  morninge,  the  Earle  of  Warwicke 

Alderinen  sent  for          -fa  otj       Lordes  of  the  Counsaill b  sent  for  my  Lord   Mayor  and 
to  the  Counsaill.  •*  J 

th' Aldermen  to  his  place c  in  Holborne,  where  was  declared  to  them, 

by  the  Lord  Chauncellor  and  other  of  the  Kinges  Maiesties  counsaill, 
diuers  abuses  of  the  Lord  Protector  concerninge  the  Kinges  Maiesties 
person  and  other  his  affayres,  both  in  England,  and  allso  in  Scotland, 
and  other  his  perts  beyonde  the  seas.  And  that  afternoone  was  kept 
a  court  of  th' Aldermen  in  the  Guyldhall,  where  was  shewed  a  lettre 
from  the  Kinge  and  my  Lord  Protector,  for  to  haue  a  M  men  of 
the  city  well  harnissed  with  weapons  for  the  defence  and  surety  of 

*  Stow  adds:  "For  the  which  he  was  accused  unto  the  Councell  by  William 
Latimer,  parson  of  Saint  Laurence  Pountney,  and  John  Hooper,  sometime  a  white 
monke,  and  so  convented  before  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  other  Com- 
missioners at  Lambheath." — Chronicle,  ed.  Howes,  1631,  p.  597. 

b  Viz.  Lord  St.  John,  President  of  the  Council  and  Lord  Great  Master  of  the 
Household,  the  Earls  of  Southampton  and  Arundel,  Sir  Edward  North,  Sir  Richard 
Southwell,  Sir  Edmund  Peckham,  Sir  Edward  Wotton,  and  Dr.  Wotton,  Dean  of 
Canterbury.  They  met  there  privately,  armed. — Hollinshead,  p.  1057. 

c  Ely  House,  then  the  residence  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick. 


WRIOTHESLEY  &  CHRONICLE.  25 

the  Kinges  Maiesties  person.  And  another  lettre  allso  from  the  A.D.  1549. 
Lordes  to  haue  ij  M  men  to  ayde  them  for  the  defence  and  surety 
of  the  Kinges  person  allso.  And  allso  that  the  citye  should  be 
well  kept  with  watches  both  day  and  night;  whereupon  the  sayd 
Aldermen  agreed  that  precepts  should  be  sent  forth  to  euery  Alder- 
man in  his  warde,  and  allso  other  precepts  to  certeine  of  the  cheife 
companies  of  the  citye,  to  haue  xvi  persons  to  watch  at  euery  gate 
of  the  city  of  euery  of  theyr  companies,  and  euery  person  one 
seruaunt  with  him  in  harnis  all  the  daye,  and  a  double  watch  of 
the  constables  euery  night  from  ix  of  the  clocke  till  v  in  the 
morning e,  which  was  begunne  the  morrowe  after.  And  allso  that 
2  of  the  Aldermen  should  ryde  euery  night  about  the  city  to  peruse 
the  sayd  watches. 

This  daye  allso,  the  Kinges  Maiestie  lyinge  a[t]  Hampton  Court,  Lord  Protector  caused 
the  Lord  Protector  caused  proclamations  to  be  made  in  diuers  townes  ]£eCco^ionS  ^^ 
nere  the  court  for  men  to  ayde  the  Kinge  against  the  Lordes,  and 
sent  lettres  likewise   to  divers  townes,  whereupon  great  assembly 
of  people  gathered  to  Hampton  Courte;  and  in  the  night  he  con- 
veighed  the  Kinges  Maiestie  to  Windsore,  with  a  great  nomber 
of  horsmen  and  footemen. 

Monday,  the  7  of  October,  was  kept  a  common  counsell  in  the  common  Counsaill, 
Guyldhall,  where  was  read  both  the  lettres  of  the   Kinge  and  the  and  wardinge  of  the 
Lordes  afore  mentioned.      And  this   daye    all   the    Lordes  of  the g£ 
Counsayll  sat  in  the  forenoone  at  the  Mercers  Hall,  and  dyned  at 
my  Lord  Mayors,  and  sat  there  in  counsail  till  night.      And  this 
day  the  wardinge  of  the  gates  beganne  their  watch  in  harnis,  and 
all  the  Lordes  lodged  within  the  citye,  and  set  Mr.  Chamberlaine, 
Mr.  Domer,  and  another,  to  be  aydinge  with  the  leyftenaunte  of 
the  Tower  a  for  the  safegard  of  the  same  to  the  use  of  the  Kinge. 

Tuesday  the  8  of  October  was  kept  another  common  counsell  in  A  Common  Counsaill. 
the  Guyldhall,  whether  all  the  lordes  came,  and  there  by  the  mouth 
of  the  Lord  Chauncellor  b  and  other  of  the  lords  was  declared  the 

a  Sir  Leonard  Chamberlaine. 
b  Baron  Rich  of  Leeze,  co.  Essex. 
CAMD.  SOC.  E 


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A  D.  1549.  great  abuses  of  the  sayd  Lord  Protector,  desyringe  all  the  citizens 

to  be  aydinge  and  assistinge  with  the  lordes  for  the  preseruation  of 
the  Kinges  maiesties  person,  which  they  greatly  feared  beinge  in  his 
aduersaries  handes,  and  this  day  they  dined  at  Mr.  Yorkes,  sheriffe. 

The  Lord  Protector  This  daye  in  the  afternoone  about  iiii  a  clocke  a  proclamation 
was  made  in  the  citye  of  London  in  diuers  places  with  two  trumpets, 
iiii  haroulds,  and  2  kinges  of  armes,  Norey  and  Clarentius,  with 
theyr  coates  of  armes,  the  sergeaunt  of  the  trumpetters  and  the 
commen  cryer  rydinge  with  their  maces  afore  them. 

Mr.  Turcke,  sheriffe,  and  Mr.  Chaliner,  one  of  the  clarkes  of  the 
counsaillj  which  read  the  proclamation,  which  proclamation  con- 
teyned  the  very  truth  of  the  Duke  of  Somersettes  evill  gouern- 
ment,  false  and  detestable  proceedinges. 

A  Common  Counsaill  ^e  ^  of  October  was  kept  another  commen  counsell,  where  was 
graunted  v  c  men  of  the  city  to  be  sett  forth  to  ayde  the  lordes  for 
the  safegard  of  the  Kinges  maiesties  person. 

A  Common  Counsaill.  The  10  of  October  was  kept  another  commen  counsell  in  the 
forenoone,  where  was  read  a  letter  to  haue  of  the  v  c.  men  ii  c.  to 
be  horsemen,  but  they  graunted  to  i  C.  which  should  be  ready  on  the 
morrowe  by  two  of  the  clocke  in  the  afternoone  in  Morefeilde. 

A  generall  assembly        Allso  this  daye  in  the  afternoone  was  an  assembly   of  all  the 

the  Guilde  hall.  commons  of  the  citie  havinge  ly  veries,  where  was  read  in  the  Guilde 

hall  a  letter  sent  from  the  lordes  concerninge  the  castinge  abroad 
of  divers  libelles  touchinge  the  lordes,  my  Lord  Mayor,  and  the 
aldermen,  and  all  the  citye  of  London,  exhor tinge  all  the  citizens 
to  be  circumspect  to  search  and  finde  out  such  persons  as  wrote  and 
endyted  them.  And  this  daye  all  the  lordes  dyned  at  Mr.  Turkes, 
sheriffe,  and  satt  in  his  house  in  counsaill  from  vii  of  the  clocke  in 
the  morninge  till  iiii  in  the  afternoone,  and  then  went  to  supper  to 
my  lord  Great  Masters  a  house  by  London  Wall. 

Fiue  hundred  men  The  11  of  October  in  the  afternoone  the  sayd  v  C.  persons  well 

^  &         armed  all  in  white  coates  mustered  in  Morefeildes,  whereof  diuers 
were  bowemen,  gunners,  and  ic.  horsemen,   which  after  they  had 
•  Lord  Saint  John. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  27 

mustered  went  in  at  Moregate,  iii  in  a  ranke,  euery  sort  of  weapons  A-D- 
by  themselves,  and  so  through  Coleman  Streat,  through  Cheape, 
and  out  at  Newegate  and  so  into  Smithfeilde,  the  sword  bearer 
rydinge  afore  them  as  captaine,  with  a  trumpett  and  a  drume  in 
the  middest  of  them,  and  there  they  brake  of  and  were  discharged 
by  the  commaundment  of  the  counsaill  for  this  tyme. 

This  day  the  lordes  of  the  counsaill  satt  in  my  Lord  Great  Masters  The  Lord  Protector 
house.     And  Sir  Anthony  Wingfeild,  captaine  of  the  Guarde,a  was  ^^^  &i 
sent  to  Windsore  to  the  Kinge,  and  seuered  my  Lord  Protector  from 
his  grace,  and  caused  the  Guard  to  watch  him  till  the  lordes  cominge. 

The  12  of  October  my   Lord   Chauncellor,   with  the  rest  of  the  The  Lords  of  the 
lordes  of  the  counsaill,  rode  to  Windsore  to  the  Kinge,b  and  this 
night  the  Lord  Protector  was  put  in  warde   within  the  castle  of 
Windesore  in  Bewechampes  tower,  and  there  was  watched  by  the 
Garde  and  other.0 

The  14  of  October,  in  the  afternoone,  the  Duke  of  Somersett  The  Duke  of 
was  brought  from  Windsore  to  the  Tower  of  London,  rydinge  the  Tower, 
through  Holborne  and  in  at  Newegate,  and  so  through  all  the  high 
streates  to  the  Tower,  accompanied  with  diuers  Lordes,  knightes. 
and  gentlemen  with  iii  c  horsemen,  euery  bande  in  their  Masters3 
livery,  my  Lord  Mayor,  Sir  Raufe  Warreine,  Sir  John  Gresham, 
Mr.  Recorder,  Sir  William  Lock,  and  both  the  sheriffs,  Sir  John 
Baker,  Chauncellor  of  the  Tenthes,d  Sir  [Richard]  Southwell,  Sir 
Edmunde  Candishe,6  and  Sir  Thomas  Pope,  knightes,  sittinge  all 
on  their  horses  against  Sooper-lane,  with  all  the  officers  of  the 
sheriffes  standinge  by  them  with  billes  and  holberdes  in  theyr 
handes ;  and  from  Holborne-bridge  to  the  Tower  certaine  Aldermen 
or  theyr  deputies  sittinge  on  horsebacke  in  euery  streat,  with  a 

a  Accompanied  by  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leiger  and  Sir  John  Williams. — Burnet,  ii. 
p.  137. 

b  Who  received  them  graciously  and  assured  them  he  took  all  they  had  done  in 
good  part. 

c  Next  day  they  proceeded  to  the  examination  of  the  duke's  friends,  who  were  all 
sent  to  the  Tower,  except  Cecill,  who  had  his  liberty. 

d  Chancellor  of  the  First  Fruits  and  Tenths,  •  Cavendish. 


28 

A.D.  1549.  nomber  of  househoulders  standinge  by  them  with  billes  in   their 

handes,  in  euery  quarter,  as  he  passed  through  the  streates  to  the 
Tower  hill,  where  he  was  deliuered  to  the  Constable  of  the  Tower  a 
with  theise  persons  followinge. 

Names  of  the  prisoners. 
The  Duke  of  Somersett. 

[Sir  Michael5]  Stanope,  knight  of  the  Privie  Chamber. 
[Sir  Thomas b]  Smyth,  Secretarye. 
Sir  John  Thynne,  knight. 
[Edward]  c  Wolfe  of  the  Privye  Chamber. 
[William]  d  Grey  of  Reedinge. 

Watches  at  the  gates       The  17  of  October  at  a  court  of  aldermen  the  watches  at  the 
arge  '  gates  of  the  citizens  in  harneis  were  discharged  and  also  the  watches 

of  the  aldermen  at  nights. 

Mr.  Yorke,  one  of  And  this  daye  the  Kinges  Maiestie  came  from  Hampton  Court 

knight"  to  his  place  in  South  warke6  and  there  dyned,  and  -after  dinner  he 

made  Mr.  John  Yorke,  sherifFe,  knight  in  the  garden  there:  And 
then  his  Maiestie  set  forewarde  to  ryde  through  the  City  of  London, 
with  all  his  nobles,  Lordes,  knightes,  and  gentlemen  richly  appar- 
relled  and  their  horses  allso,  the  Lord  Mayor  bearinge  the  Scepter 
before  his  Maiestie  and  rydinge  with  Garter  Kinge  of  Armes,  the 
Earle  of  Warwicke  as  High  Chamberlaine  of  England  followinge 
them,  then  the  Lord  Grey  bearinge  the  sworde  before  ye  Kinges 
The  Kinges  Maiestie  Maiestie,  his  Maiestie  richly  apparrelled  in  a  coate  of  cloth  of 
Tyshewe,  and  his  horse  trapped  of  the  same,  and  then  his  Privie 
Chamber f  followinge  with  the  Master  of  his  Horse,  the  guard  fol- 

a  Sir  John  Gage.  b  Supplied  from  Stow. 

c  See  Burnet,  ii.  p.  138.  d  See  Burnet,  ii.  p.  149. 

e  Southwark  Place,  situated  almost  directly  over  against  St.  George's  church.  It 
is  described  by  Stow  as  a  large  and  most  sumptuous  house,  built  by  Charles  Brandon, 
late  Duke  of  Suffolk,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.,  which  was  called  Suffolk  House, 
but  coming  afterwards  into  the  King's  hands,  the  same  was  called  Southwarke 
Place,  and  a  mint  of  coinage  was  there  kept  for  the  king.  To  this  place  came  King 
Edward  VI.  in  the  second  year  of  his  reign,  from  Hampton  Court,  and  dined  in  it. — 
Stow's  Survey  of  London,  ed.  1842,  p.  153. 

f  A  clerical  error  for  "  his  Privy  Council." 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  29 

lowihge  after  and  about  a  M.  horse  of  the  Lordes  and  knightes          A-v- 1549- 

yeomen,  euery  one  in  their  Masters'  liveries^  all  the  streates  of  the 

City  of  London  beinge  gravelled,  and  the  houses  from  the  bridge 

foote  to  Temple  Barre  richlye  hanged  with  clothes  of  Arras,  silkes, 

vellvets  and  clothes  of  gould,  with  diuers  melodies  of  instruments 

and  singinge  men  standinge  in  diuers  places  of  the  citye;  which  was 

to  the  great  rejoycinge  of  his  Maiestie;  and  so  he  was  brought  to  his 

pallace  of  Whitehall  at  Westminster,  where  they  tooke  leave  of  his 

Maiestie  and  so  departed. 

This  yeare  the  24  of  October  beinge  the  Mayors  feast,  there  dyned 
at  the  Guildhall  divers  of  the  Lordes  of  the  Counsell,  where  they 
had  great  chere,  and  were  served  but  with  one  course,  which  was 

great.     And  in  the  afternoone  the  Lord  Mayor  a  rydinge  to  Pawles  ^newe  order  f°r  the 
0  j  j        o  Mayor  to  passe  in 

after  the  ould  custome,  when  he  came  into  Pawles  church,  entrmge  Pawles  on  highe 

at  the  north  dore  next  Pawles  Churchyarde,  he  tooke  his  waye  up   eastes- 

the  steppes  of  the  quire  of  the  same  syde,  and  so  rounde  about  the 

quire  and  downe  the  stepps  on  the  south  syde,  and  soe  alonge  that 

yle  of  the  church  to  the  West  dore,  and  then  turned  up  the  middle 

yle  to  the  Bishops  stone  accustomed,  and  sayd  the  Psalme  of  "  de 

profundis  "  as  he  passed  by,  which  they  of  ould  tyme  used  to  say 

about  the  stone.     All  the  craftes  of  the  Citye  standinge  in  there 

order  all  the  sayd  compasse  of  the  church.     And  this  order  was 

taken  because  the  clostre  called  Pardon  churchyard  was  dissolved 

and  broken  downe  the  last  yere,b  so  that  they  had  noe  passage  more 

that  way. 

* 

EDWARDI  VI.     Anno  3. 

The  fourth  day  of  November  the  Session  of  the  Parliament  beganne 
againe  at  Westminster,  which  afore  was  proroged  to  that  daye.c 

*  Sir  Andrew  Judde,  skinner. 

b  "Item  the  x  day  of  April  [1549]  was  pullyd  downe  the  clqwster  in  Powlles 
that  was  callyd  the  Pardon  churcheyerd  wyth  the  chappelle  that  stode  in  the  myddes, 
to  bylde  the  Protectores  place  withalle." — Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  58. 

c  It  was  still  the  same  Parliament  the  Duke  of  Somerset  had  called,  and  the 
Council  had  still  the  same  maxims  with  respect  to  the  Reformation. 


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WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1549. 
Come  waxed  deare. 


Rebelles  arraigned. 


Sir  William  Shiring- 
ton  pardoned. 


Captaine  Kette  sent 
to  execution. 


In  the  begininge  of  this  mayors  a  tyme  corne  beganne  to  waxe 
very  dere  in  England,  so  that  wheat  was  sold  for  xvi.  xvii.  xviii  s. 
the  quarter,  and  meale  at  ii  s.  viii  d.  the  bushell,  which  caused  the 
syse  of  bread  to  be  smale,  so  that  the  bakers  of  the  City  did  bake 
after  xxvi  ounces  the  penny  wheaten  loafe;  wherefor  the  mayor  and 
his  brethren  called  diuers  merchantes  of  the  Stillyard  and  other 
Englishe  merchauntes  before  them,  and  bargayned  with  them  for  x 
or  xii  quarters  of  wheate  to  be  had  out  of  Bremberland  and  Danske,b 
to  give  xvi  s.  for  the  quarter,  to  be  deliuered  here  before  mid- 
sommer  next  comminge,  beinge  good  and  sweete. 

The  prices  of  fleshe  waxed  better  cheape  then  yt  had  bene  theise 
two  yeares. 

The  25  of  November,  1549,  Robert  Kett,  of  Windame6  in  the 
countye  of  Norfolke,  tanner,  and  William  Kett,  his  brother,  which 
were  captaines  of  the  rebelles  in  Norfolke,  and  Humphrey  Arun- 
dell,  Bery,  Wyneslowe,  and  Holmes,  Captaines  of  the  Rebelles  in 
Devonshire,  were  all  araigned  in  the  Kinges  Bench  in  Westminster- 
hall,  and  there  sonfessed  theyr  treasons,  and  so  had  judgement  to 
be  drawne,  hanged,  and  quartered  in  such  places  where  the  Kinge 
should  appointe,  which  persons  had  lyen  in  the  Tower  of  London 
since  September  last  past  that  they  were  taken. 

Allso  this  moneth  Sir  William  Shirington,  knight,  which  was 
condempned  the  last  yeare  for  high  treason,  had  his  pardon,  and 
was  released  out  of  prison  in  the  Tower,  and  admitted  to  be  one  of 
the  Comon  House  of  the  Parliament  againe, 

The  29  of  November,  Robert  Kett,  and  William  Kett  his  brother, 
were  deliuered  out  of  the  Tower  to  Sir  Edmund  Windham,  knight 
and  sheriffe  of  Norfolke,  to  be  conveyed  to  Mount  Surrey  by 
Norwich,  where  the  rebelles  kept  their  campe,d  and  there  to  have 

a  Sir  Andrew  Judde,  skinner. 
b  Bremen  and  Danzig. 
c  Wymondham. 

d  The  Rebels'  camp  was  at  Monshold,  near  Mount-Surrey. — Baker's  Chronicle, 
p.  325. 


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execution  of  death  on  Monday  next,  which  shall  be  the  2d  day  of         A.D.  1549. 
December,  to  be  hanged  in  chaynes.a 

This  moneth  of  November   and    December  the    Scottes  tooke  Poldes  lost  in  Scot- 
-P,,  K-oii          iiiin  11  l&na.  and  Fraunce. 

JDurthecragge0  in  bcotland,  and  other  homes,  and  slewe  man,  woman, 

and  childe,  except  Sir  John  Luttrell  the  Captaine,  whom  they  tooke 
prisoner.  Allso  the  Frenchmen  gate  Newehaven  by  Bulleine,  and 
had  all  the  Kinges  ordinaunce  there,  which  was  much.  And  the 
Scots  allso  had  great  store  of  ordinaunce  that  they  wanne  at  the 
houldes  in  Scotland,  so  that  fortune  fell  from  the  Englishmen  this 
yere. 

Sonday,  the  19  of  January,  1549  [-50],  Sir  John  Russell,  Lord        O-D- 
Privie  Scale,  was  created  Earle  of  Bedford  at  the  court  at  White-  Earles  created 
hall  in  Westminster.     And  Lord   St.  John,  Lord  Great  Master  of 
the  Kinges  householde,  was  created  Earle  of  Willshire.     And  Sir 
William  Paget,  Comptroller  of  the  Kinges  house,  was  made  Lord 
Pagett.     And  2  dayes  after  the  Earle  of  Bedford,  Lord  Pagett,  Sir 
[William]0  Peter,  one  of  the    Kinges   secretaries,    Mr.    Masson,d 
knight,  cheife  cleark  of  the  Counsaill,  were  sent  into  Fraunce  for 
Embassadours  to  the  French  Kinge.6 

Allso  the  sayd  19  of  Januarye  at  night  was  a  foule  murther  done 
by  St.  Pulchers  church  by  the  Kinges  Head  without  Newgate, 
where  were  slayne  two  straungers,  one  called  Sir  Peter  Gambo/ 

a  Robert  Ket  was  hanged  in  chaines  on  the  top  of  Norwich  Castle,  and  William 
Ket  likewise  hanged  on  the  top  of  Windham  steeple. — Stow. 

b  Brochty-Crag,  called  by  the  English  Broughty  Castle,  was  situated  on  the  Frith 
of  Tay,  near  Broughty  Ferry,  in  Monifieth  parish,  four  miles  east  of  Dundee.  It  was 
taken  by  the  English  after  the  battle  of  Pinkie,  and  garrisoned  by  the  Protector 
with  200  men,  but  was  afterwards  recaptured  by  De  Thermes,  who  had  succeeded 
Desse  d'Espanvilliers  in  command  of  the  French  contingent. 

c  Supplied  from  Stow.  d  Sir  John  Mason. 

e  Notwithstanding  all  his  greatness,  the  Earl  of  Warwick  was  not  a  little  em- 
barrassed concerning  the  affair  of  Boulogne.  He  had  himself  most  exclaimed  against 
the  Duke  of  Somerset  for  proposing  to  resign  that  place  to  the  French,  and  ridiculed 
all  his  reasons,  and  yet  for  these  same  reasons  he  resolved  at  length  to  do  what  he 
so  much  blamed  in  another. — Rapin,  Hist.  Engl.  vol.  ii.  p.  19. 

f  Captain  Gambolde,  a  valyant  man,  a  Spanyerd. — Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  65. 


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WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1550. 


Execution  of  4 
straungers  for 
murther. 


Captaines  of  Devon- 
shire put  to  deathe. 


[Anno  Reg.  4.] 


Newe  officers  made  by 
the  Kinges  counsaill. 


knight,  Captaine,  and  another  Captaine,  an  Italian a  allso,  which 
murther  was  done  by  straungers,b  and  on  the  morrowe  after  4  of 
them  were  taken  in  Smithfeild  by  the  Lord  Pagett  and  sent  to 
Newgate.  And  the  23  of  January  there  was  an  oyer  determiner 
kept  in  the  Guildhall  for  the  sayd  murthers,  where  they  were  first 
endyted  by  the  coroners  enquest.  And  after  endyted  by  another 
enquest  allso,  and  then  araigned  on  the  same,  and  so  wear  con- 
demned to  death.  And  on  the  morrowe,  beinge  Fryday  and  the 
24  of  January,  the  sayd  4  persons,  called  Charles  Degavaro,  Balthazar 
Degavaro,  Michaell  Desaluaron,  and  Frauncis  Desalvasto,c  were  had 
in  a  carre  from  Newegate  into  Smythfeild,  and  by  the  way,  as  they 
went  at  the  place  where  the  murther  was  done,  Charles  Degavaro, 
which  was  the  cheife  Captaine  and  did  the  murther,  had  his  right 
hand  stryken  of  on  the  cart  whele  with  an  axe  by  the  executioner, 
and  then  all  foure  were  had  to  the  place  of  execution  in  the  middest 
of  Smythfeild,  and  there  hanged  to  death. 

The  27  of  January  Humphrey  Arundell,  esquire,  Thomas  Holmes, 
Wynslowe,  and  Bery,  4  of  the  captains  of  the  rebelles  in  Devon- 
shire and  Cornewall,  which  were  brought  up  by  the  Lord  Grey  the 
8  of  September  last,  and  had  lyen  prisoners  in  the  Tower  of  London 
ever  since,  were  this  day  drawne  from  the  Tower  of  London  to 
Tyburne  and  there  hanged  and  quartered  lyke  traytors,  and  theyr 
heades  and  quarters  set  on  the  gates  about  the  City  of  London. 

The  first  day  of  February  the  Parliament  brake  up  and  was 
proroged  to  the  xxi  of  Aprill  next  cominge. 

This  yeare,  on  Candlemas  day,d  Lord  St.  John,  Earle  of  Willshire, 
Lord  Great  Master  and  President  of  the  Counsell,  was  made  Lord 
High  Treasurer  of  England,  and  Sir  John  Dudley,  Earle  of  War- 
wicke  and  Lord  Great  Chamberleyne,  was  made  Lord  Great  Master 
of  the  Kinges  Househould,  and  the  Lord  William  Parre,  Marques  of 

a  Filicirga.— Stow,  Annales,  ed.  1631,  p.  603. 
b  By  hys  own  country-men.— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  65. 

c  These  names  are  spelt  in  Stow,  Charles  Ganaro,  Balthasar  Ganaro,  Nicholas 
Disalueton,  and  Francis  Deualesco.  d  February  2. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  33 

Northampton ,a  was  made  Lord  Great  Chamberlaine  of  England,  and          A.D.  1550. 
the  Lord  Wentworth  was  made  Lord  Chamberlaine  of  the  House- 
hold, and  Sir  Anthony  Wingfeild,  Captaine  of  the  Guard,  was  made 
Comptroller  of  the  Kinges  House,  and  Sir  Thomas  Darcye,  knight, 
was  made  Vice- Chamberlaine  and  Captaine  of  the  Guard. 

The  Earle  of  Arundell,  late  Lord  Chamberlaine,  and  the  Earle  of 
Southampton,  banished  from  the  Counsell  and  commaunded  to  keep 
their  houses  in  London  and  not  departe  thence. 

The  6  of  February,  in  the  afternoone,  about  3  of  the  clock,  the  The  Duke  of  Somer 
Duke  of  Somerset!  was  brought  out  of  the  Tower  of  London  by  the  gj 
Leiftenant  and  the  Knight-Marshall  and  tooke  his  barge  at  the 
Tower  wharfe,  and  from  thence  went  by  water  to  the  Crane  in  the 
Vintre,  where  he  landed,  and  there  tooke  his  horse  and  so  rode  to 
the  Kinges  Counsell  to  Mr.  Yorkes  house b  in  Walbroke,  one  of 
the  Sheriffes  of  London,  where  the  Earle  of  Warwyck  laye,  and 
after  a  litle  taryinge  there  with  the  Counsell  the  sayd  Duke  of 
Somerset!  was  discharged  of  his  ymprisonment,c  and  then  was 
brought  by  the  Lord  Wentworth  and  Sir  William  Harbert  to  his 
barge  againe  at  the  Crane,  where  they  left  him,  and  from  thence  he 
went  to  his  place  by  Savoye,  where  he  lay  that  night,  and  on  the 
morrowe  he  went  to  his  place  at  Shene.d 

The  7  of  February  Doctor  Bonner,  Bishop  of  London,  was  sent 
for  by  the  Knight  Marshall  from  the  prison  of  the  Marshallsea  e  to  the 
Kinges  Counsell,  which  satt  in  the  Starr  Chamber  at  Westminster, 
where  he  had  all  his  demeanour  and  proceedinges  declared  unto 

a  William  Parr  was  created  Earl  of  Essex  1543,  and  Marquis  of  Northampton     ' 
1546. 

b  "  And  that  night  he  supped  at  Sir  John  York's."— Stow,  p.  603. 

c  On  the  16th  of  the  same  month  he  received  the  King's  pardon. 

d  Thus  his  fall  was  not  so  great  as  his  enemies  expected,  and  on  the  10th  April 
following  he  was  restored  into  favour  and  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council.  He,  however, 
forfeited  much  of  the  esteem  he  had  acquired  among  the  people,  who,  not  diving  into 
the  reasons  of  his  conduct,  could  not  help  thinking  him  guilty,  since  he  had  confessed 
all.— Kapin,  Hist.  Engl.  ii.  p.  19. 

e  He  had  been  deprived  and  committed  to  prison  in  September  1549. 
CAMD.  SOC.  F 


34 

A.D.  1550.        9  him  that  he  had  used  in  his  sermon a  and  examination  at  Lambheth 

afore  my  Lord  of  Canterbury,  which   he  coulde  not  deny,b  and 

Doctor  Bonncr,  late    for  his  contempt  deprived  by  the  Bishop  of  Canterbury  from  his 

committed  to  per-'       bishopricke,  which  sentence  this  day  all  the  Counsaill  by  the  mouth 

petuall  prison.  of  t]ie  Lor(j  Chauncellor  of  England  confirmed,  and  so  my  Lord 

Chauncellor  commanded  him  to  be  had  from  thence  to  the  place  he 

came  from,  there  to  remaine  in  perpetuall  prison  at  the  Kinges 

pleasure,  and  to  loose  all  his  spirituall  promotions  and  dignities  for 

ever. 

Bonvise  House  and          This  daye  allso  the  houses  of  Anthony  Bonvise,  Doctor  Clement, 
others  seased  to  the        •,  •  •  •          T>  i  i  j-o^n         1-1  J-TV 

King.  phisition,  Balthasar,  surgeon,   and   Rastall,  which  maryed  Doctor 

Clementes  daughter,  were  seassed  by  the  sherifFes  of  London  to  the 
Kinges  use  because  they  had  fled  the  realme  and  conveyed  theyr 
cheife  substance  and  goodes  out  of  the  realme,  which  persons  were 
ranke  Papistes. 

Prisoners  released  out      Allso  this  moneth  the  rest  of  the  prisoners  that  were  sent  to  the 

of  the  Tower.  Tower  with  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  as  Mr.  Stanope,  Thomas  Smyth, 

secretary,  Wollfe,0  and  Grey,  were  discharged  out  of  the  Tower  and 

lost  all  their  offices  and  fees,  and  allso  were  set  at  diners  fynes  to  the 

Kinge. 

A  proclamation  for         This  yeare,  the  xxix  day  of  Marche,  1550,  there  was  a  pro- 

and  Frauncel"  clamation  made  in  London  with  4  harroldes  of  armesa  a  trumpetter, 

and  the  common  cryer,  for  a  perpetuall  peace  d  betwene  the  Kinges 

•  He  was  summoned  before  the  council,  and  after  a  declaration  of  the  causes  of 
complaint  against  him  he  was  ordered  to  preach  on  a  Sunday  at  St.  Paul's  Cross, 
and  to  prove  in  his  sermon  certain  points,  whereof  this  was  one  of  the  principal, 
"  That  the  authority  of  a  king  was  the  same  when  he  was  in  minority  as  when  of 
full  age."  He  preached  on  the  1st  of  September  before  a  numerous  audience,  and 
touched  upon  all  the  points  that  were  enjoined  him,  except  the  last.  Besides,  he 
brought  in  some  things  which  gave  offence  to  the  Court. 

b  Dr.  Burnet  says,  he  behaved  before  the  judges  more  like  a  madman  than  a 
bishop. 

c  In  MS.  the  names  "  Smyth"  and  "Wollfe "  have  been  accidentally  transposed. 

d  The  principal  condition  of  this  peace  was  the  surrender  to  France  of  Boulogne 
upon  a  money  payment  of  400,000  crowns. 


WRIOTHESLEY  8  CHRONICLE.  35 

Maiestie  and  the  French  Kinge,  theyr  heires  and  successors  for  ever.          A.D.  1550. 
In  the  which  peace  is  allso  comprehended  Charles  the  Emperor; 
and  moreover  is  comprehended  in  the  said  peace  the  Quene  and 
realme  of  Scotland  and  the  subiectes  of  the  same. 

Allso  this  night  were  bonfires  made  in  every  parishe  within  the 
City  of  London,  and  drinkinges  by  my  Lord  Mayors  and  the  Counsells 
commaundement,  for  ioy  of  the  sayd  peace.* 

The  30  of  March,  beinge  Palme  Sonday,  was  a  sermon  made  at  Prayses  to  God  for 
Pawles  Crosse  to  giue  laude  to  God  for  the  peace,  and,  the  sermon  *  e  peace< 
ended,  the  canons  and  clarkes  of  Pawles  quire  songe  Te  Deum  in 
Englishe  in   partes,   standinge  before  my  Lord  Mayor  where  he 
sitteth  the  sermon  tymes  in  Pawles  Churchyard,  my  Lord  Mayor 
and  all  the  aldermen  wearinge  Scarlett  this  day  to  the  sermon.b 

And  in  the  afternoone  of  this  daye  the  sayd  proclamation  was  The  peace  prod  ay  med 
proclaymed  in  the  Court  at  Whitehall  in  the  great  court  with  in  the  Court 
harouldes  of  armes   and  trumpettes   before   the   sermon   beganne 
afore  the  Kinges  Maiestie,  and  there  was  a  great  bonfire  made  in 
the  same  court;  and  that  night  were  bonfires  made  in  the  Citie  of 
Westminster  and  alonge  to  Temple  Barre. 

Allso  about  the  latter  end  of  this  moneth  the  cityzens  of  London 
of  diners  mysteries  and  corporations  which  had  chauntry  landes  sup- 
pressed into  the  Kinges  handes  for   [priests']  c  wages,  obites,  and 
lightes  by  Acte  of  Parliament  which  amounted  to  the  yerely  valewe 
of  Ml.  purchased  all  the   sayd  yerely  quitrentes   of  the    Kinges 
Maiestie   after  xx.tie  yeres  purchase,   which  amounted  to    xx   M  1.  The  Citi/ens  of 
which  was  payd  within  viii  dayes  after  the    counsells  commaunde-  quit-rents^ the^ 
ment  came  for  makinge  of  the  sayd  payment.    The  sayde  corporations  KmSs  Maiestie. 
were  fayne  to  sell  much  of  theyr  landes  that  belonged  to   the  sayd 

a  The  same  members  of  the  council  who  now  assented  to  the  peace  had,  when  it 
was  before  proposed  by  the  late  Lord  Protector,  exclaimed  against  it  as  the  con- 
summation of  national  disgrace. 

b  "  At  these  sermons  the  mayor  and  aldermen  were  wont  to  be  present  in  their  violets 
at  Pauls  on  Good  Friday,  and  in  their  scarlets  at  the  Spittle  in  the  holidays,  except 
Wednesday,  in  their  violets." — Stow's  London. 

c  Supplied  from  Stow,  p.  604. 


36  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1550.          corporations.*1    Which  mony  was  gathered  toward  the  ayde  of  the 

Kinges  Maiestie  toward  the  payment  of  his  debtes  in  his  neede. 

Southwark  purchased  Allso  this  moneth  my  Lord  Mayor  and  the  aldermen  purchased 
all  the  liberties  of  Southwarke  which  was  in  the  Kinges  handes, 
which  cost  the  City  a  M.  markes,  so  that  nowe  they  shall  have  all 
the  whole  towne  of  Southwarke  by  Letters  Patent  as  free  as  they 
haue  the  City  of  London;  the  Kinges  place  b  and  the  two  prison 
houses  of  the  Kinges  Bench  and  the  Marshallsea  excepted. 

The  8  of  APri11'  1550> and  beinse  the  Tuesday  :n  Easter.  w?eke> 

Connsell  to  the  Kinge.  the  Duke  of  Somersett  came  to  the  Court  to  the  Kinges  Maiestie  at 
Grenewiche,  where  he  was  honorably  receyved  of  the  Kinges  Maiestie 
and  his  counsell,  and  dyned  with  the  Kinge,  and  ;was  sworne  of  the 
Pryvie  Counsell,  and  then  departed  to  his  house  at  Savoye. 

This  moneth  of  Aprill  the  Lord  Mayor  of  London  caused  all  the 
aldermen  of  London  to  cause  there  warde-mote  inquestes  in  every 
warde,  within  the  City  of  London,  to  sitt  and  enquire  of  all  misrule 
done  in  their  wardes  since  Candlemas  last  past,  and  presented  newe 
inditements  againe,  upon  which  inditementes  the  Lord  Mayor  sate 
many  tymes,  and  caused  such  persons  to  be  arraigned  by  newe 

Execution  for  whore-  questes  for  the  Kinge.   for  bawdry,   whoredome,  and  scouldinge. 

dome  and  scouldinge.   *  .   £  ; f  .  °  j 

and  upon  the  araignment   of  such    offenders   which    were  found 

culpable  he  caused  execution  to  be  done  ymediately  by  rydinge  in 
cartes  with  ray c  hoodes  after  the  lawes  of  the  Citie,  so  that  he 
spared  none  ;  for  wher  there  was  one  Ferdinando  Lopus  a  phisition 
which  was  a  straunger  dwellinge  within  St.  Helines,  which  was 
cast  for  whoredome  and  condempned  for  the  same,  and  at  the  sute 
of  themperors  embassador  and  other  of  the  Kinges  privie  counsel! 
spared  for  a  tyme,  yet  within  vi  dayes  after  that  he  had  declared 
to  the  counsell  his  abominable  livinge,  the  counsell  sent  a  letter  to 

a  "  Which  caused  the  said  corporations  to  sell  much  of  their  best  lands,  farre  better 
cheape  than  they  had  bought  their  quit  rents,  as  after  sixteen  or  fourteen  years 
purchase." — Stow,  p.  604. 

b  Southwark  Place,  formerly  called  Suffolk  House. 

c  Striped. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  37 

my  Lord  Mayor,  with  xiii  of  their  handes  at  yt,  to  proceede  to  the          A-D-  155°- 
execution  accordinge  to  the  lawes  of  the  City,  which  was  done,  and 
further  that  he  should  be  banished  the  realme  of  England  for  ever, 
never  to  returne  upon  payne  of  death  ;  this  straunger  was  a  Jewe 
borne,  by  reporte,  and  should  once  have  bene  burnt  in  Portingale. 

This  yeare  the  25   of  Aprill,    1550,  beinge   Fryday  and   Saint  Bulleine  deliuered 
Markes  daye,  the  tower  of  Bulleine  was  deliuered  to  the  possession 


of  the  French  Kinge  and  all  the  marches  of  the  same,  and  all 
Englishmen  clerely  avoyded,  which  was  done  by  composition  for 
great  somes  of  mony  a  to  be  payd  to  the  Kinges  Majestic  at  the  last 
peace  making.  And  certeine  lordes  of  Fraunce  sent  ouer  into 
England  for  pledges  till  the  payment  were  all  payd,b  which  delivery 
was  sore  lamented  of  all  Englishemen,  but  referringe  that  to  the 
will  of  God  and  the  Kinges  Maiestie.c 

Allso  this  moneth  of  Aprill  came  great  store  of  rye  out  of  Great  plentie  of  rye. 
Holland  and  Zeland  to  the  nomber  of  two  M.  quarters  and  more, 
and  was  sould  at  Belingesgate  at  xviii  d.  the  bushell,  which  the 
people  of  the  country  in  divers  shires  fetched  some  Ix  myles  from 
London,  so  that  yt  was  better  cheap  here  then  for  the  most  part  of 
all  the  shyres  in  England. 

Memorandum  :  the   2  day  of  May,    Joane    Barne,  alias   Joane  joane  of  Kent  burnt, 
Bocher,d  alias  Joane  of  Kent,  was  burnt  in  Smythfeild,  which  sayd 
woman  was  condempned  the  29  of  Aprill,  1549,  befor  the  Arch- 

a  Upon  the  payment  of  200,000  crowns  of  gold  at  the  time  of  the  delivery  of  the 
town,  and  of  as  much  more  in  five  months  after,  under  the  name  of  a  compensation 
to  the  English  for  the  cost  of  keeping  up  the  fortifications  while  it  had  been  in 
their  possession. 

b  It  was  stipulated  that  Trance  should  give  six  hostages  for  payment  of  the 
200,000  crowns  in  August,  and  England  the  like  number  of  hostages  for  the  security 
of  the  restitution  of  Boulogne  to  the  French  King. 

c  By  this  treaty  all  the  pains  taken  by  Henry  VIII.  to  secure  a  pension  or  rather 
a  yearly  tribute  in  lieu  of  the  title  he  pretended  to  have  to  the  Crown  of  France 
were  rendered  fruitless,  while  in  favour  of  England  the  treaty  contained  only  an 
indeterminate  reservation  of  the  claim  which  had  occasioned  the  effusion  of  so 
much  blood  since  the  reign  of  Edward  III. 

d  Joane  Knell  alias  Butcher,  in  Stow. 


38 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1550. 


A  ncwe  Bishop  of 


Possession  taken  of 


bishop  of  Canterbury  for  heresy,  denying  that  Christ  tooke  noe 
nature  of  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary,a  and  she  had  lyen  in  Newegate 
euer  since,  and  could  neuer  be  converted  by  noe  godly  man.b  Mr. 
Storye,  a  learned  man,  declared  her  opinion,  standing  in  a  pulpitt 
in  Smythfeild  at  her  death,  to  haue  converted  hir,  but  she  dyed  in 
her  evill  opinion  like  a  wretch.0 

Allso  this  moneth  Doctor  Nicholas  Kidley,  late  Bishop  of 
Kochester,  and  no  we  admitted  to  the  Bishoppricke  of  London  ,d 
satt  in  visitation  in  Pawles  Church,  and  in  divers  parishes  within 
his  diocese  of  the  citye  of  London,  having  a  sermon  in  every  e  place 
where  he  sat,  some  tyme  preaching  himselfe,  and  called  all  the 
parsons  and  curats  of  his  dioces  with  vi.  persons  of  euery  parishe 
afore  him,  and  gave  them  divers  godly  injunctions  and  instructions 
to  be  enquired  of,  and  allso  examininge  euery  parson  and  curate 
himselfe  in  his  owne  house  privately  of  theyr  learninge,  and  gave 
them  4  dayes  to  make  theyr  aunswere  in  Whitsonweeke  next. 

Memorandum  :  the  9  of  May  my  Lord  Mayor  tooke  possession  of 
all  the  borough  of  Southwarke,  and  rode  all  the  precinckt,  and  after 
the  common  cryer  made  a  proclamation  with  a  trumpett  under  the 
Kinges  great  seale  in  v.  places,  for  the  avoydinge  of  vagabondes  out 
of  the  city  of  London  and  the  borough  of  Southwarke,  and  the 
suburbes  and  liberties  of  the  same. 

a  It  would  appear  from  the  expressions  attributed  to  her  that  she  affirmed  Christ's 
body  was  not  really  but  only  apparently  of  human  flesh. 

b  It  is  supposed  that,  struck  with  some  uncomfortable  feelings  consequent  on  the 
young  King's  solemn  admonition,  Cranmer  would  gladly  have  escaped  from  the 
execution  of  the  sentence  which  he  and  his  fellow  commissioners  had  passed  on  her, 
and  both  he  and  Eidley  took  great  pains  to  prevail  upon  Joan  to  save  her  life  by 
the  same  abjuration  which  had  already  enabled  them  to  dispense  with  the  actual 
lighting  of  the  fagots  in  several  other  cases.  But  the  enthusiast,  courting  martyr- 
dom, treated  all  their  exhortations  with  contempt,  and  she  was  at  last  consigned  to 
the  flames. 

c  i.e.  wretchedly  or  miserably.  The  passage  in  Stow  runs  thus,  "  but  she,  not 
regarding  his  (Dr.  Story's)  doctrine,  said  to  him,  he  lied  like,  &c." 

d  The  see  of  Westminster,  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Thirleby,  was  united  to 
that  of  London  and  given  to  Dr.  Ridley,  who  was  translated  from  Rochester  1  April, 
and  installed  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  on  the  12th  April. 


WRIQTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  39 

Allso  this  moneth  of  May  Mr.  John  Wyllford,  alderman ,a  gaue          A.D.  1550. 
over  his  cloke  without  payinge  any  fyne  to  the  use  of  the  citye,  and 
so  was  clearly  discharged  for  his  aldermanship. 

Allso  in  the  beginninge  of  this  moneth  of  May  watches  were  Watches  in  London 
appointed  in  every  warde  of  tXe  citye  of  London,  to  beginne  at  ix 
of  the  clock  at  night  and  to  continewe  till  iiii  of  the  clocke  in  the 
morninge,  for  the  preseruation  of  the  citye;  and,  that  the  constables 
should  keep  theyr  houres,  yt  was  appointed  by  court  of  aldermen 
that  every  night  two  of  the  aldermen  or  their  deputies  should  ryde 
every  night  the  circuite  of  the  city  within  and  without,  one  the  east 
parte  and  the  other  the  west  parte ;  and  they  to  beginne  theyr  watches 
at  ii  of  the  clocke  in  the  morninge,  and  to  continue  till  iiii,  to  see 
that  the  watches  might  duely  be  obserued,  and  this  order  to  continue 
till  Michaellmas  next  cominge. 

Memorandum :  the  23  of  May,  beinge  Fryday,  in  the  afternoone 
at  the  tyde,  one  Monsieur  Satilian  b  came  to  Katcliffe  with  vi  gallyes 
and  ii  pinnaces  out  of  Fraunce,  and  he  and  his  companie  shott 
London  bridge  in  the  Kinges  barge  and  was  brought  to  Durham 
Place,  which  was  richly  hanged  and  prepared  for  him  to  lodge,  and 
had  at  his  comminge  ready  sett  in  the  court  of  the  same,  for  a  Mounsier  Satilians 
present  from  the  Kinges  Maiestie,  certeine  fatt  oxen,  calues,  sheepe,  SjyftjJ  5? 
lambes,  and  all  manner  of  wyld  foule  of  every  sort,  a  certein  Kinge. 
[number]  all  alive,  and  allso  of  all  manner  of  freshe  fyshe  of  the 
best  that  might  be  gotten,  with  wyne  allso  in  his  cellar.  And  the 
24  of  May  he  came  to  the  Kinges  presence  in  the  afternoone  to 
Whitehall,  which  was  richly  hanged;  and  after  a  bankett  made  to 
him  he  departed;  and  the  morrowe,  beinge  Whitsonday,  he  came 
to  the  court  againe,  and  there,  at  the  com  union  tyme,  he  received 
the  Kinges  Maiesties  oath  for  the  French  Kinge,  the  Kinges  Maiestie 
receivinge  the  holy  sacrament  upon  the  same,  for  the  confirmation 
of  certeine  articles  of  the  peace  concerninge  the  deliuery  of  Bulleine, 

a  He  served,  with  Andrew  Judde,  the  office  of  sheriff  in  1544. 
b  Gaspard  de  Coligny,  Seigneur  de  Chatillon,  Admiral  of  France  and  Ambassador 
to  England,  died  1572. 


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WRIOTIIESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1550. 


An  order  at  Whit- 
sontyde. 


First  Alderman  in 
Southwarke. 


with  other  thinges  contcyncd  in  the  sayd  articles  of  the  perpetuall 
peace  betwixte  the  Kinges  Majestic  and  the  French  Kinge.  And 
that  daje  dyned  at  the  Kinges  measse,  and  had  bankettinge  and 
feastinge,  with  divers  pastimes,  all  the  holy  dayes  with  the  Kinge, 
and  hunted  in  Hyde  Parke.  And  on  Thursday  he  went  to  Hampton 
Court  and  there  hunted,  and  after  [went  to]  a  see  the  Kinges  place, 
where  he  had  a  bankett,  and  that  night  he  came  to  the  court,  where 
he  had  a  great  banket  and  pastime  on  the  water  of  Thames,  and 
maskinge  after,  and  that  night  tooke  his  leave  of  the  Kinges  Maiestie, 
havinge  a  rich  cupbord  of  plate  given  him,  with  allso  great  giftes 
to  the  other  noblemen  and  gentlemen  of  Fraunce  that  came  with 
him;-  and  the  morrowe,  beinge  Fryday,  he  departed  and  had  a  ban- 
quett  at  Grenewich,  and  so  tooke  his  galleis  and  departed,  havinge  to 
accompany  him  for  his  safe-conduite  vi.  of  the  Kinges  shippes  with  the 
Kinges  galley  to  see  him  passe  the  seas  in  safety  into  Fraunce  againe. 

Allso  this  yeare  the  sermons  at  Whitsontyde  was  kept  at  Pawles 
Crosse,  the  Bishop  of  London  preachinge  Whitsonday,  Mr.  Houper 
Monday,  and  Mr.  Cottesfurth b  Tuesday,  my  Lord  Mayor  and 
Sheriffes  keepinge  there  dinners  all  iii  dayes,  having  the  aldermen 
and  theyr  wyues,  and  so  Wednesday  was  broken  this  yeare. 

Memorandum:  Wednesday  in  the  Whitsonweeke,  at  a  court  of 
the  aldermen  kept  in  the  Guyldhall,  Sir  John  Aliffe,  knight,  and 
master  of  Blackwell  Hall,  was  sworne  an  alderman  of  the  Bridg 
ward  without,  and  to  haue  the  jurisdiction  of  the  borough  of  South- 
wark,  and  2  deputies  to  be  appointed  there  to  assist  him,  which  was 
the  first  alderman  that  ever  was  there,  which  was  done  by  the 
advise  of  my  Lord  Mayor  and  th3  Aldermen,  for  the  better  order 
to  be  kept  there,  and  for  the  more  quietnes  of  the  Mayors  hereafter 
to  come,  and  the  good  order  of  the  Kinges  subjectes  there,  accordinge 
to  the  lawes  of  the  city;  and  the  Fryday  after  he  rode  with  my 
Lord  Mayor  all  the  precinct  of  Southwarke,  my  Lord  Mayor  havinge 
a  certeine  nomber  of  the  honest  persons  of  the  borough  at  the  bridg- 
house,  to  whom  he  shewed  theyr  alderman,  and  appointed  deputies 

a  Omitted  in  MS.  b  John  Cottisford,  S.T.P. 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  41 

under  him,  and  so  hereafter  to  see  a  good  order  to  be  kept  in  the          A>r>- 
Borough,  as  in  other  wardes  of  the  citye  of  London. 

Tuesday,   the  3   day   of  June,   was  a  great  mariadg  at   Sheine  A  marriadge. 
betwene  the  Lord  Lysle,  sonne  and  heyre  to  the  Earle  of  Warwicke, 
and  the  Duke  of  Somersettes  eldest  daughter,  the  Kinges  Maiestie 
beinge  there  present,  where  was  made  a  great  feast,  with  maskinge 
and  diuers  other  pastimes.* 

This  moneth  of  June,  in  Whitson  weeke,  the  parsons  and'  other  of  All  aulters  put  down 
the  parishe  that  were  sworne  in  the  last  moneth  of  May  afore  the  in 
Bishop  of  London  in  his  dioces,b  at  his  visitation,  gaue  up  theyr 
verdyte.     And  all   the   aulters  in  euery  parishe  through  London 
were  taken  away,  and  a  table  made  in  the  quire  for  the  receivinge 
of  the  communion.     And  the  xiii  of  June  the  high  aulter  in  Pawles 
Church   was  taken  away,  and  a  table  sett  in  the  quire  where  the 
aulter  stode  for  the  ministration  of  the  holy  communion. 

This  yeare  was  noe  watch  kept  at  Midsommer  nor  St.  Peters  N<>e  watche  at  Mid- 
-,  .-•  .  i  n1  i  •    i  i  i  -I          sominer. 

tyde,  neither  with  constables  nor  lightes,  but  a  watche  as  is  kept 

euery  night,  my  Lord  Mayor  and  the  Sheriffs  ryding  privilye  at 
midnight  with  theyr  officers  to  peruse  the  city  and  the  constables  in 
theyr  wardes. 

Memorandum :  the  30  of  July  c  Sir  Thomas  Wryothesly,  Lord  Death  of  the  Lorde 
Wryothesly,  Earle  of  Southampton,  and  knight  of  the  garter,  and 
one  of  the  executors  of  Kinge  Henry  the  VIII.  departed  out  of  this 
transitorye  lyfe  at  his  place  in  Holborne,  called  Lincolnes  place,d 
about  midnight;  he  had  bene  longe  sicke,6  and  the  3  of  August  in 
the  forenone  he  was  buryed  in  St.  Andrewes  Church  in  Holborne, 
at  the  right  hand  of  the  high  aulter/ Mr.  Hooper,  Bishopp  of  Glocester, 
preachinge  there  at  the  buryall. 

11  On  the  3rd  June,  John,  the  Earl  of  Warwick's  eldest  son,  married  Ann, 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  and  on  the  next  day  Robert,  his  third  son, 
married  Sir  John  Robsart's  daughter.  — Edw.  Journal,  pp.  14  and  15. 

b  London  and  Westminster. 

c  Stow  gives  the  30th,  as  in  our  text,  but  Strype  says  the  Earl  died  on  the  31st. 

d  Afterwards  Southampton  House. 

e  Dr.  Burnet  says  he  died  with  grief  and  vexation,  but  some  asserted  he  poisoned 
himself.  f  Where  a  fair  monument  was  erected  to  his  memory.  —Stow. 

CAM IX  SOC.  G 


42 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1550- 
Pillorye. 


Wrestlinge. 


Grygge  the  false 
prophett. 


The  Keeper  of  the 
Counter. 


This  yeare,  the  vi  of  August,  was  one  set  on  the  pillory  in 
Cheape,  which  was  the  millers  seruaunt  at  Battlebridge,  which 
had  spoken  sediciou?  wordes  of  the  Duke  of  Somers-ett,  sayinge  that 
he  had  proclaymed  himselfe  Kinge  of  England  in  his  country, 
wherefore  by  the  Connselles  commaundement  he  was  set  on  the 
pillory  and  had  both  his  eares  cut  of. 

This  yeare  was  a  wrestlinge  kept  on  Sonday  after  Bartlemewe 
daye  and  noe  more;  there  should  haue  bene  kept  on  Bartlemewe 
day  wrestlinge,  but  when  my  Lord  Mayor  was  rydinge  thither  yt 
rayned,  and  so  he  went  into  Christes  Church  at  Newegate  to  here 
evensonge,  and  so  departed  home  againe. 

The  8  of  September,  beinge  the  day  of  the  Natiuity  of  Our  Lady, 
there  was  one  Gryg,  a  pulter  in  Surrey,  which  was  taken  amonge 
the  people  in  London  for  a  prophett  in  curinge  diuers  people  but 
with  speaking  prayers  on  them,  sayinge  he  tooke  noe  mony,  so  that 
people  would  followe  him  as  yf  he  had  bene  a  God.  But,  after  he 
had  bene  examined  by  th'  Earle  of  Warwycke  and  other  of  the 
Counsell,  he  was  commaunded  to  be  set  first  at  Crowden  in  Surrey 
on  a  scaffold  with  a  paper  on  his  brest  on  Saterday  last,  which  was 
the  vi  day  of  this  moneth,  and  this  day  he  was  sett  on  a  scaffold  in 
Southwarke,  on  a  scaffold  before  the  pillorye  in  the  afternoone, 
against  my  Lord  Mayor  and  his  brethren  rode  thorowe  the  fayre,  and 
there  desyred  my  Lord  Mayor  and  all  the  people  whom  he  had 
deceyved  to  forgiue  him,  which  penaunce  was  enioyned  him  by 
the  Counsell,  for  he  was  a  very  dissemblinge  person,  and  toke  mony 
of  many,  and  coates,  and  other  thinges,  and  had  bene  a  very  great 
deceiver  of  the  people,  in  a  sellinge  of  his  ware  as  conies  and  other 
in  the  markett  in  Cheape. 

This  moneth  my  Lord  Mayor,  by  th'  assent  of  a  court  of  Alder- 
men, sent  one  Kichard  Husband,  keeper  of  the  counter  in  Bread 
Streat,  to  the  gayole  of  Newegate  for  cruelly  handlinge  of  his 
prisoners,  and  commaunded  the  keeper  to  set  a  payre  of  yrons  on 
his  legges,  which  was  called  the  wydowes  almes,  which  he  ware 

"'"and "in  MS. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  43 

from  Thursday  to  Sonday  till  3  of  the  clock  in  the  afternone,  and  A<D 

then  at  great  sute  by  th'  assent  of  the  Aldermen  that  day  at  Pawles 
he  was  released  of  his  yrons,  but  he  remayned  there  prisoner  till 
Tuesday  after,  till  he  was  sent  for  to  the  Court  of  Aldermen,  and 
there  bound  in  recognizance  in  c  markes  to  obserue  an  Acte  made 
by  Common  Counsell  the  first  day  of  August  last  past,  for  the 
orderinge  of  prisoners  in  both  the  counters,  and  then  he  was  released 
out  of  prison. 

Allso  in  this  moneth  of  September  my  Lord  Mayor,  with  both 
the  sheriffes,  rode  to  the  bowlinge  allyes  and  play-houses  at  Pawles 
wharfe  and  by  Aldgate,  and  there  findinge  diuers  simple  persons 
and  vagabondes  playinge  at  tables  and  bowles,  sent  a  Ix.  or  more 
of  them  to  warde  to  the  Counters,  and  brake  theyr  playinge  tables 
in  peeces,  and  bound  diuers  of  them  by  recognisance  that  they 
should  neuer  more  haunt  such  places,  ere  he  would  release  them. 

The  18  of  September,  Mr.  Christopher  Aleyn,  Alderman  of  the 
warde  of  Faringdon  Extra,  gaue  up  his  cloake  and  was  set  to  fyne 
at  2  c.  markes,  and  payd  1  c.  markes  in  hand,  and  should  pay  the 
other  C.  markes  at  midsommer  next,  and  had  2  suretys  bound  with 
him  for  the  payment  thereof. 

Memorandum :  This  year  on  Michaellmas  day,  Mr.  Andre  we  Judde, 
Alderman,  was  chosen  Mayor  of  London  for  the  yeare  ensueynge, 
and  afore  the  election  there  was  a  communion  kept  in  the  Guild 
hall  chappell,  Sir  Eowland  Hill  knight,  Lord  Mayor,  Sir  William 
Laxton,  Sir  Martin  Bowes,  Sir  Kaufe  Warreine,  and  Sir  John 
Gresham,  knightes  and  aldermen,  receivinge  the  communion.  The 
service  songe  lyke  parishe  clarkes  accordinge  to  the  Kinges  pro- 
ceedinges. 

EDWARDI  VI.     Anno  4. 

Memorandum:  The  v.  of  November  there  were  two  persons 
punished  for  breakinge  of  lanthornes  in  South wark,  which  persons 
rode  from  the  Counter  in  Bredstreat,  and  so  all  the  high  streates 
into  Southwarke,  havinge  2  lanthornes  hanginge  about  euery-  of 
theyr  neckes  one  afore  and  another  at  theyr  back,  with  papers  set 


44  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A,D.  1550.  on  tlieyr  brestes,  written,  for  breakinge  of  lanthornes,  and  allso  they 
rode  to  St.  Georges  Church-  in  Southwarke,  and  there  sent  them 
awaye. 

Deathe  of  my  Lady  Memorandum:  The  14  of  November  my  Lady  Mayres  departed 
out  of  this  worlde,  at  ix.  of  the  clock  at  night,  and  she  was  buryed 
the  xx.  day  of  November; a  my  Lord  Mayor  givinge  for  hir  to  euery 
[parish]  b  of  London,  2  gownes  for  2  poore  men  and  women,  and 
xl.  gownes  for  poore  men  and  women  of  St.  Bartlemew  hospital!, 
which  gownes  were  of  Bristowe  freese,  so  that  the  nomber  he  gaue 
was  aboue  xiixx  gownes,  which  was  a  godly  act,  for  he  gaue  noe 
blacke  to  none  of  th'  aldermen,  but  onely  to  his  officers  and  the 
cheife  mourners. 

Allso  the  xv'  of  November,  at  noone,  Thomas  Hayes,  goldsmith, 
Chamberlaine  of  the  City  of  London,  departed  out  of  this  world; 
and  the  27  of  November  the  Commons  were  assembled  at  the  Guyld 
hall  for  the  election  of  a  Chamberlaine,   and  there   were  diuers 
persons  that  laboured  to  my  Lord  Mayor  for  the  office  and  to  the 
The  election  of  a  newe  aldermen  and  the  whole  Commens;  but,  accordinge  to  an  ould  Act 
Chamberlaine.  of  Common  Counsell  made  the  vith  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  VIIth, 

which  was  that  my  Lord  Mayor  and  his  brethren  should  nominate 
2  persons  sad  and  wisemen,  of  which  the  Commons  had  free  election 
to  chose  one  of  the  2  persons  to  be  theyr  Chamberlaine,  which  lawe 
was  read  to  the  whole  Commens,  and  there  was  appointed  by  my 
Lord  Mayor  and  th'  aldermen  John  Sturgeon,  haberdasher,  and 
Henry  Fisher,  grocer,  for  the  sayd  election,  but  Henry  Fisher  had 
the  Kinges  Maiesties  letter  written  to  my  Lord  Mayor,  Aldermen, 
and  Commens,  in  his  favour,  which  letter  was  read  to  the  Commens 
declaringe  in  the  seyd  letter  that  it  was  the  first  suyte  that  the 
Kinges  Maiestie  had  required  of  them;  but  when  they  came  to 
tryinge  of  handes  quietly,  without  noyse  or  disturbance,  th'  ellec- 
tion  rested  on  John  Sturgeon,  haberdasher,  to  be  theyr  Chamber- 

*  "  The  xix  day  of  November  was  bured  my  lade  Jude,  mayress  of  London,  and 
wyff  of  Sir  Andrew  Jude,  mayr  of  London,  and  bured  in  the  parryche  of  Saynt 
Ellen,  in  Bysshope-gatt  stret." — Diary  of  Henry  Machyn,  p.  2. 

b  Alderman  in  MS. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  45 

laine,    which    sayd    Sturgeon    was   that    tyme    in    Flanders;    and  A.D.  1550, 

gouernour  of  the  Merchaunt  Adventurers,  and  so  at  this  tyme  the 

Commons  departed;  and  the  23rd  of  December,   1550,  the  sayd 

John  Sturgeon  was  sworne  Chamberlaine  of  London,  in  the  Coun- 

sell  Chamber,  my  Lord  Mayor  causinge  a  court  of  aldermen  to  be 

kept  that  day  for  the  same  purpose,  and  gaue  him  respyte  to  bringe 

vi.  suertyes  to  be  bound   for  him  to  make  a  true  accompt  yerely  of 

the  profittes  of  the  City,  which  he  did  after  Christmas,  himselfe  to 

be  bound  in  2  c1.  and  euery  one  of  his  suerties  in  lA  a  peece. 

This  moneth  corne  waxed  very  dere,  for  wheate  was  at  xx  s.  and 
aboue,  and  malt  at  xv  s.  and  xvi  s.  and  all  other  corne  rysinge  after 
that  rate;  allso  fleshe  rose  to  excessiue  prices,  so  that  the  counsell 
sent  out  commissioners  through  all  England  to  knowe  what  plenty 
of  grayne  was  within  the  realme;  allso  my  Lord  Mayor  and  his 
brethren  made  bargaine  with  divers  merchauntes,  both  Englishe 
and  straungers,  for  grayne  for  the  city  of  London,  to  be  had  out  of 
Danske  and  Hambrough. 

The  15  of  December  Doctor  Stephen  Gardener,  Bishopp  of  Wyn- 
chester,  which  had  bene  prisonner  long  in  the  Tower  of  London,  * 
was  had  from  thence  to  Lambethe,  to  the  Archbishopp  of  Canter-  Thexamynation  of 
buries  place,   where  sate  divers   Commissioners,  apoynted    by   the  chester^mfh/s  d^" 
Kinges  Maiesties  commission  under  his  great  seale,  for  the  examyna-  priuation  of  his  title 
tion  of  the  said  Bishopp  of  Wynchester  upon  certeyne  articles  and  ai 
interrogatories  to  them  committed,  for  a  contempt  he  made  in  his 
last  sermon  before  the   Kinges  Maiestie,  on   Sainct  Peeters  daie, 
after  Midsommer  1548,  at  his  pallace  at  Westminster,  against  the 
Kinges  Maiesties  lawes,  which  articles  were  deliuered  to  him  this 
daie,  and  he  sworne  to  make  a  true  answere  to  them  the  eightenth 
daie  of  December  next,  at  which  daie  he  appeared  their  againe;  and 
then  he  desired  that  he  might  haue  learned  counsell,  which  was 
granted  him.     And  the  twentie-thirde  daie  of  December  he  was 
commanded  to  appeare  againe,  on  which  daie  he  appeared,  and  then 
had  daie  to  the  eight  of  Januarie  next,  and  so  after  he  had  diuers        [A.D.  1651.] 
daies  geuen  him  to  the  third  of  Februarie  next.     At  which  daie 


46  WUIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

he  was  brought  from  the  Tower  to  Lambeth,  going  by  land  through 
Southwarke,  with  fortie  of  the  Kinges  garde  with  their  halberdes 
going  afore  him,  and  threescore  of  the  warders  of  the  Tower  with 
halberdes  after  him.  And  so  came  home  againe  after  the  same 
manner,  and  had  divers  other  daies  after  to  appeare  thear  till  the 
fowertenth  daie  of  Februarie ; a  and  that  daie,  after  longe  pleadinge 
on  his  behalf,  my  Lord  of  Canterburie  proceeded  to  judgement, 
which  was  that  he  should  loose  the  name  and  dignitie  of  a  bishopp, 
with  all  his  spirituall  promotions  therunto  belonginge;  after  which 
judgement  he  appealed  to  the  Kings  Maiestie,  saying  that  the  com- 
missioners were  not  indifferent  judges.  And  so  he  was  committed 
to  the  Tower  againe  at  the  Kinges  pleasure. 

Mariadge  of  Mr.  Tne  seauenth  daie  of  Februarie,  being  Saturdaie  before  Shroue 

Judde,  maior.  s 

oundaie,  my  Lord  Maior  maried  one  Thomas  Langton's  widowe,  a 

skinner,  which  died  three  daies  before  Tweluetide  last  past,  which 
was  a  rich  mariadge,  the  inventorie  amounting  to  sixe  thousand 
poundes  and  more,  having  five  children  by  the  said  Langton,  all 
orphans. 

My  Lorde  Maior  made  The  fiftenth  daie  of  Februarie,  being  the  first  Soundaie  of  Lent, 
my  Lord  Maior  was  presented  to  the  Kinges  Maiestie  at  his  pallace 
of  Westminster;  and,  after  the  proposition  made  by  the  Kecorder, 
the  Kinges  Maiestie  made  him  knight. 

New  Bishoppes.  Memorandum  :  in  the  raoneth  of  March  Doctor  Ponett,b  Bishopp 

of  Rochester,  was  made  Bishopp  of  Wynchester,  and  Mr.  Storie  c 
was  made  Bishop  of  Rochester,  which  tow  parsons  preached  before 
the  Kinges  Maiestie  this  Lent  the  Wednesdaies  and  Fridaies. 

Vittailes  deare  and  This  yeare  at  Easter  flesh  was  at  excessiue  prices,  for  beeffe  was 

sold  at  three  pence  the  pounde,  a  quarter  of  veale  at  fower  shillinges, 

*  According  to  King  Edward's  Journal  it  was  on  February  13. 

b  John  Poynet,  who  had  succeeded  Ridley  at  Rochester,  was  translated  to  Win- 
chester the  23rd  March,  1551,  and  resigned  1553. 

c  John  Scory  was  appointed  by  the  King  26th  April,  pursuant  to  statute  1 
Edward  VI.,  and  the  royal  significavit  to  the  Archbishop  issued  the  next  day;  he 
was  consecrated  at  Croydon  30th  August  following,  and  on  the  23rd  of  May  in  the 
next  year  was  translated  to  Chichester. 


corne. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  47 

mutton,  a  quarter  of  the  best  at  iii  s.  iiii  d.  so  that  my  Lord  Maior          A-D-  I551- 
[and  Aldermen]  were  greatlie  exclamed  of  the  people;  but  they  cold 
notremedieit,  for  the  grasiers  sold  their  cattell  at  so  high  prices  that 
the  butcher  could  not  sell  it  at  meane  prices.     Also  wheat  was  sold 
at  xxvi  s.  viii  d.  the  quarter,  and  other  graine  after  the  same  rate. 

Also  in  Easter  weeke  their  came  tenne  or  twelue  shippes  with  rie  Come  from  beyond 
and  wheate  out  of  Hollande,  which  marchantes  of  the  Styliard  and  seas" 
Englishmen  brought  thence,  and  some  out  of  Brittanie,  my  Lord 
Maior  setting  the  rie  at  ii  s.  and  i  d.  the  bushell,  and  wheate  at 
xxii  s.  the  quarter,  to  be  sold  at  Billinsgate,  which  refreshed  well 
the  Cittie  and  the  countrey  neere  London. 

This  yeare,  against  Easter,  the  Bishopp  of  London  altered  the  Alteration  in  Poules. 
Lordes  table  that  stoode  where  the  high  aulter  was,  and  he  remoued 
the  table  beneth  the  steepps  into  the  middes  of  the  upper  quire  in 
Poules,  and  sett  the  endes  east  and  west,  the  priest  standing  in  the 
middest  at  the  communion  on  the  south  side  of  the  bord,  and  after 
the  creed  song  he  caused  the  vaile  to  be  drawen,  that  no  person 
shoulde  see  but  those  that  receaued,  and  he  closed  the  iron  grates  of 
the  quire  on  the  north  and  sowth  side  with  bricke  and  plaister,  that 
non  might  remaine  in  at  the  quire. 

Memorandum:  in  this  moneth  of  Aprill,  1551,  Mr.  Kobert  Alderman  gaue  upp 
Chersey,  mercer,  and  alderman  of  the  warde  of  Farringdon  Within, 
gaue  ouer  his  cloke,  and  gave  a  howse  to  the  poore  of  the  hospitall 
of  St.  Bartholomewes  for  the  mayntenance  of  the  poore,  of  the  value 
of  tenne  poundes  the  yeare,  and  so  was  discharged.  And  Mr. 
Thomas  Curteise,  pewterer,  was  chosen  in  loco  eiusdem,  and  sworne 
the  twentie-eight  daie  of  Aprill. 

The  twentie-fowerth  daie  of  Aprill,  1551,  their  was  a  Dutchman  a  A  Duchman  burnt, 
hanged  b  in  Smithfield  for  heresie,  denying  the  Godhead  in  Christ, 
the  second  person  in  the  Trinitie,  who  was  condemned  before  my 
Lorde  of  Canterburie  at  Lambeth  in  March  last  past. 

n  George  Von  Paris,  a  Dutchman,  who  resided  in  London  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  of  a  surgeon,  was  burned  in  Smithfield  for  Arianism. 
b  A  clerical  error  for  "  burnt."     See  margin,  also  Stow. 


48  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1651.  This  yeare,  the  viiith  dale  of  Male,  was  a  proclamation  made  and 

sett  fourth  by  the  Kinges  Maiestie  and  his  Privie  Councell  for  the 
deminishing  of  the  coyne  of  shillinges  and  grotes,  to  go  after  the 
last  daie  of  August  next  commyng,  the  shilling  to  go  for  ix  d.  and 
no  more,  and  the  grote  at  iii  d.  and  no  more. 

After  which  proclamation  made  the  people  within  the  cittie  of 
London  murmured  sore  and  sett  upp  booth  their  wares  and  victuales 
at  higher  prices,  wherupon  the  Counsell  sent  for  the  Lord  Maior  to 
the  Court  at  Greenewych  the  Soundaie,  being  the  tenth  daie  of 
Maie,  and  gaue  him  sore  words  for  the  disobedience  of  the  people, 
wheruppon  the  said  Maior  called  a  common  Counsell,  and  also  the 
wardens  of  euerie  craft  within  the  cittie  of  London  to  the  Guildhall 
the  xiith  daie  of  Maie,  and  their,  by  the  mouth  of  Mr.  Kecorder, 
was  declared  to  the  Commens  that  the  Kinges  Councell  were  so  dis- 
contented with  the  citizens  for  the  disobedience  of  the  people  by 
murmuringe  at  the  proclamation,  and  for  enhauncing  of  their  wares 
and  victuales,  geving  them  straight  charg  and  commandment  on  the 
King  our  soueraigne  lordes  behalf  to  call  all  their  company  afore 
them  ymediatlie,  and  to  admonish  them  that  they  keepe  and  sell 
their  victuales  and  wares  at  no  higher  prices  then  they  did  before 
the  proclamation  was  made,  and  declaring  further  unto  them  that 
they  should  also  admonish  all  their  companys  that  if  they  heard  any 
person  raile  on  any  of  the  Kinges  Counsell,  that  they  should  utter 
them  to  the  Maior  or  some  of  the  Councell.  For  the  Erie  of 
Warwicke  declared  to  my  Lord  Maior  at  the  Court,  that,  as  he  rode 
by  Eastcheepe  to  the  Court,  he  chepned  a  carcasse  of  mutton,  and 
the  butcher  held  it  at  xiii  s.  and  he  said  that  was  to  much ;  and 
another  said  xvi  s.  and  then  he  answered  that  it  were  better  he  were 
hanged;  wherupon  their  arose  tales  that  the  said  Erie  should  saie 
that  the  daie  should  comme  that  a  mutton  should  be  worth  xx  s. ; 
which  slaunderous  wordes,  and  also  reporting  by  him  that  where  we 
had  one  stranger  wee  should  haue  an  hundred,  with  other  slaun- 
derous wordes,  caused  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Councell  to  take  high 
displeasure  with  the  citizens  of  London,  which  by  their  good 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  49 

obedience  should  geue  ensample  to  all  Englande;  and  now   not  so          A.D.  1551. 

stubborne  as  they  were,  wherefore  Mr.  Kecorder  exhorted  them  to 

take  heede  from  hensforth  that  such  enormities  and  reportes  might 

be  amended,  as  they  tendered  the  Kinges  Majesties  high  displeasure 

and  indignation,  and,  if  they  herd  any  such  ill  reportes,  to  bring 

fourth  the  parties,  or  els  it  should  be  to  the  utter  destruction  of  the 

Cittie  and  people  for  eauer,  and  cause  all  the  whole  realme  to  be 

against  them. 

This  moneth  also  diuers  seditious  bills  were  cast  abroad  in  the  For  ringinge  of  bells, 
streates  in  the  night  tyme  against  the  high  magistrates  of  the  cittie, 
and  for  diuers  causes  mouing  the  head  of  the  cittie  commandment 
was  geauen  by  the  Lord  Maior  to  the  Wardens  of  the  Clarkes  that 
no  daie  bells  should  be  ronge  in  the  morninges  nor  no  curfors  &  in 
the  night  from  the  feast  of  Pentecost  next,  untill  they  had  further 
warning  from  the  Lord  Maior,  but  onelie  to  ring  to  mattins  and 
eeavensong  and  burialls. 

This  yeare  the  xxvth  daie  of  Maie  was  an  earthquake  in  Surrey,  An  earthquake, 
at  Godston,  Brenchingley, b  Titsey,  Rigate,  Bedington,  and  Croy- 
don,  and  a  sixtene  miles  in  length,  about  twelue  of  the  clocke  in 
the  forenoune,  which  lasted  a  quarter  of  an  hower,  so  that  the 
howses,  hills,  and  all  the  earth  shaked  that  the  people  were  in 
great  feare  of  God,  but  no  hurt  donne,  praysed  be  God  their- 
fore.c 

This  yeare  in  the  moneth  of  June  was  great  tempest  of  weather  Sore  weather, 
and  signes  in  the  element  sene  in  many  places  in  England,  and  in 
Kent  was  haile  stones  of  sixe,  seaven,  or  nyne  inches,  and  diuers 
when  they  melted  in  ones  hand  were  fashioned  like  a  rose. 

Also  this  month  the  sweating  sicknes  beganne  to  raigne  in  Eng-  Sweatinge  sicknes. 
land,  in   Shropshire  first,  and  so  came  from  shire  to  shire,  wherof 

a  Curfews. 

b  Stow  reads,  Bletchingly,  which  is  in  Surrey,  and,  therefore,  most  probably  cor- 
rect ;  but  our  text  looks  more  like  Brenchley  in  Kent. 

c  The  writer  of  the  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  adds  "  and  also  at  Westmyster  and 
dyvers  other  places  in  London,  and  abowte  there." 
CAMD.  SOC.  H 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1551. 


The  shilling  at  ix  d. 
the  grote  at  iii  d. 


Brother  and  sister 
fornicators. 


died  verie  many  of  yong  men  and  weomen,*  and  it  beganne  in 
London,  about  the  seaventh  daie  of  Julie  and  contynued  till  the 
last  daie  therof,  b  wherof  died  many  in  the  said  cittie,  booth  of  rich 
yong  men  and  other.0  Also  the  Duke  of  Suffolke.  And  Lord 
Charles  his  brother  died  in  Cambridg  of  the  sweete  also.d 

The  nynth  daie  of  Julie  proclamation  was  made  in  London  for 
the  abatement  of  the  coyne  of  the  shilling  to  ixd  and  the  grote  to  iiid, 
which  tooke  effect  ymediatlie  after  the  proclamation  was  made, 
which  said  proclamation  was  so  sodenlie  sett  fourth  that  my  Lord 
Maior  saw  yt  not  till  hit  was  proclaymed,  which  was  the  Counsells 
commandment,  and  it  was  likewise  the  same  daie  proclaymed  in 
all  places  of  Englande.6 

The  thirtith  daie  of  Julie  at  a  court  of  Aldermen  was  presented 
to  the  said  court  one  Richard  Huise,  tailor,  and  a  batchlor,  dwelling 
in  Fleete  streete,  in  Le  Warde  Farringdon,  for  committing  fornica- 
tion with  his  owne  sister  and  having  a  chield  by  her,  which  she 
confessed;  and  they  booth  before  the  said  court  for  their  pennance 
were  committed  to  ward,  and  that  the  morrowe  after,  being  Fridaie, 

*  "  It  is  to  be  noted,  that  this  mortality  fell  chiefly  or  rather  on  men  and  those  also 
of  the  hest  age,  as  between  30  and  40  yeeres,  fewe  women,  nor  children,  nor  olde 
men  died  thereof." — Stow,  p.  605.  In  King  Edward's  journal  it  is  noticed  that  it 
raged  chiefly  among  young  men  of  a  strong  constitution,  p.  30. 

b  "  It  began  in  London  the  9th  of  July  and  the  12th  of  July  it  was  most  vehe- 
ment."—Stow,  p.  605. 

c  Some  curious  particulars  of  this  epidemic  are  given  by  the  late  John  Gough 
Nichols,  in  a  note  to  Machyn's  Diary,  p.  319,  and  also  in  the  Chronicle  of  the  Grey 
Friars,  p.  70.  Stow's  account  is  very  circumstantial,  p.  605. 

d  Henry  Brandon,  fifth  Duke  of  Suffolk,  son  of  Charles  Brandon  by  his  second 
wife,  died  of  the  sweating  sickness,  as  did  also  two  days  after  his  brother,  who  had 
succeeded  him,  so  that,  the  title  having  become  extinct  in  the  family  of  Brandon,  the 
Earl  of  Warwick  resolved  to  procure  that  honour  for  the  Marquis  of  Dorset,  father 
of  Jane  Grey,  whom  he  designed  for  one  of  his  sons. 

e  This  abatement  of  the  nominal  value  of  the  coinage  would  appear  to  have  been 
made  with  the  object  of  cheapening  the  high  price  of  provisions,  but  completely 
failed  in  its  object,  as  we  read  in  the  Chronicle  of  the  Grey  Friars  of  London  that 
"  the  vitelles  was  as  dere  after  as  it  was  before  and  worser,  [so]  that  the  pepull  cryde 
owte  of  it  in  every  place  thorrow  alle  the  realme,"  p.  70. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  51 

they  should  be  sett  in  a  carr,  the  hear  of  their  heades  shaven  over-          A.D.  1551. 

thwart  for  a  deformitie  and  a  paper  sett  on  his  backe  of  the  offence, 

and  so  to  ride  three  markett  daies  about  the  Cittie,  and  proclama- 

tion to  be  made  in  euerie  markett  place  of  their  offence,  and  then 

to  sett  them  without  the  gate  at  Temple  Barre,  but  not  be  banished 

the  Cittie.a 

The  first  daie  of  August,  being  the  daie  of  election  of  the  sheriffes  The  elextion  of  the 


by  the  Comens,  one  Mr.  Thomas  Wilkes,  habardasher,  was  elect 
sheriffe  by  the  said   Commens,  which  that  daie  was  not  in  Towne, 
but  the  third  daie  of  August  he  came  to  my  Lord  Maior,  laying  his 
excuse  that  he  was  not  of  abilitie  nor  substance  for  the  said  office, 
and  shewed  a  bill  to  my  Lord  Maior  that  he  was  in  debt  for  a 
purchase  of  landes  aboue  sixe  thousand  poundes,  so  that  my  Lord 
Maior  could  not  perswade  him  by  no  meanes  to  take  the  office  on 
him,  wherupon  my  Lord  Maior  called  a  court  of  Aldermen  the 
morrow  after,  being  the  fourth  daie  of  August,  and  their  before 
them  he  laid  diuers  causes  for  himself  not  of  substance  for  the  rome; 
they  causing  diuers  lawes  to  be  read  unto  him  and  other  his  freindes 
that  came  with  him   conserning  the  refusing   of  the  said  rowme. 
But  all  prevayled  not;   wherfore  the  court  brooke  upp  and  caused 
the  Commens  to  be  assembled  againe  at  the  Guildhall  the  tenth  of 
August,  at  which  daie  he  was  called  before  the  Commens,  but  first 
before  the  aldermen,   they  reading  an  old  lawe  to  him  that  he 
should  swere  that  he  was  not  in  substance  of  his  moueable  goodes, 
as  plate,  Jewells,  money,  ware,  merchandies,  booth  in  England  and 
elswhere  beyonde  the  seas,  with  leases,  one  thousand  markes  his 
debts  paid,  which  he  must  swere  preciselie,  with  six  persons  with 
him,   such   as  my  Lord   Maior   and  his  brethren   should   apoynt. 
After  he  declaring  his  mynde  to  the  Commens,  they  would  haue 
licensed  him,  so  that  he  would  be  bound  in  recognisance  not  to  go 
from  the  cittie,  he  laying  diuers  obiections  for  himself  refusing  it. 
Then  they  would  putt  him  to  his  oth.     His  oth  being  first  read 

*  "  And  the  3rd  day  was  bannyshyd  the  citte  bothe  ;  but  he  would  have  gevyne 
moch  to  be  ascowsyd,  but  it  wold  not  be  tane."  —  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  70. 


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A.D.  1551. 


JBawderye. 


Yet  for  the  sheriffe. 


before  the  Cornells,  he  offred  to  swere,  and  presented  to  swere  with 
him  Mr.  John  Sadler,  sometyme  alderman,  RafFe  Davenett,  mar- 
chant,  Richard  Owyn,  George  Tadlow,  and  Richard  Grafton, 
grocer,  with  other,  which  said  persons  would  not  swere  precisely. 
Then  another  act  was  reade  that  he  and  they  refusinge  the  oth 
should  pay  for  a  fine  iic l  for  refusing  and  to  be  elegible  againe,  he 
at  last'  taking  his  oth,  but  then  excepting  his  landes ;  wherupon  he 
was  putt  of,  and  daie  geuen  him  to  bring  in  two  hundred  poundes 
on  Twesdaie  next,  which  is  the  eleventh,  daie  of  August,  or  els  to 
take  the  office  on  him.  And  so  the  Commons  departed. 

The  said  viiith  daie  of  August  was  one  Middleton,  haberdasher, 
in  Newe  Fish  Streete,  and  his  wife,  arraigned  at  the  Guildhall,  she 
for  a  common  adoultrix  with  one  Nicholas  Ballard,  gentleman, 
booth  with  her  owne  bodie  and  also  bawde  to  him  for  her  owne 
daughter  also,  and  a  maide  of  tenne  or  eleven  yeares  of  age,  her 
seruant,  which  the  said  Ballard  occupied  all  three  carnallie,  proued 
by  six  substantiall  and  honest  persons  of  the  said  warde,  putting  in 
a  booke  in  wryting  to  my  Lord  Maior  of  five  sheetes  of  paper  of 
their  said  factes  that  daie  and  tyme,  which  said  persons  were  endited 
the  daie  before  by  the  wardens  enquest,  and  this  dale  arraigned  of 
the  said  cryme,  which  was  most  detestable  to  be  hearde  for  the 
enormitie  therof;  wherfore  they  had  judgement  to  be  carted 
ymediatlie  with  raye  hoodes  and  white  roodes  in  their  handes, 
according  to  the  ould  lawes  of  the  cittie.  The  said  Ballard  after 
his  pennance  to  remaine  in  Newgate  for  the  rape  of  the  maide  till 
the  next  sessions  at  Newgate,  the  man  and  wife  to  be  banished  the 
citie. 

The  xith  daie  of  August,  at  a  Court  of  Aldermen,  the  said  Thomas 
Wilkes  appeared  againe  at  the  said  Courte,  where  was  demanded  of 
him  whether  he  would  take  the  office  or  els  to  pay  tow  hundreth 
poundes,  which  he  yet  stood  stiffe  in  and  refused.  Butt  yet  would 
haue  the  Commens  assembled  againe,  trusting  that  they  would  be 
good  unto  him;  wherupon  the  Aldermen  consulted  among  them- 
selues,  that  they  could  not  dispence  against  the  lawes  before 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  53 

ministered  unto  him.     But  that  either  he  must  take  the  office  on          A-D- 1551- 

him,  or  els  pay  his  tow  hundreth  poundes,  which  he  refusing  was 

committed  to  warde  to  Mr.  Augustine  Hinde,  one  of  the  sheriffes, 

their  to  remaine  in  his  howse  till  Satterdaie  next,  being  the  xvth 

daie  of  August.     At  which   daie  the  Commens  shal  be  assembled 

againe   for  a  new   election.      Hee  then  to   declare   further  of  his 

mynde.     And  so  the  Court  departed  for  this  tyme. 

The  xviii01  daie  of  August,  the  Commons  were  assembled  for  a  Yett  for  the  sheriffe. 
new  election,  my  Lord  Maior  calling  the  said  Wilkes  afore  him  and 
his  bretheren  in  the  counsell  chamber,  first  opening  unto  him  whether 
he  would  take  the  office  on  him,  or  els  whether  he  had  brought  his 
tow  hundreth  poundes;  he  still  standing  stifFe  as  he  did  before, 
refusing  booth  the  office  and  fine,  was  putt  apart  twise  or  thrise  and 
yett  called  againe  ;  but  he  standing  still  in  his  old  opinion  disembling 
himself,  and  seing  that  he  was  sworne  himself,  thought  it  sufficient 
to  be  discharged  without  fine.  My  Lord  Maior  declaring  unto  him, 
that  if  he  would  not  take  the  office  nor  paie  his  fine,  that  he  must 
committ  him  to  warde  till  he  had  paid  his  fine,  further  offring  him 
that  it  was  the  Courtes  minde  he  should  pay  an  hundreth  poundes 
on  Michaelmas  daie  next,  which  the  new  sheriffe  his  fellow  the 
successor  must  haue  by  the  Act,  and  the  other  hundred  poundes  due 
to  the  Chamber  he  should  paie  at  Easter  next  ensuing,  finding 
suertie  for  the  same.  He  yet  refusing  was  comitted  to  warde  to 
the  counter  in  the  Pultrey,  the  Commens  seing  when  he  went. 
After  his  departinge,  my  Lord  Maior  called  upp  a  Common  Counsell 
before  the  election,  declaring  to  them  how  he  had  used  the  said 
Wilkes,  axing  them  whether  he  should  pay  three  hundred  poundes 
and  be  discharged  of  all  offices  for  eauer,  or  els  pay  two  hundreth 
poundes  and  haue  respite  for  certaine  yeares.  They  concluding 
that  he  should  pay  tow  hundreth  poundes  for  his  fine  according  to 
lawe  and  haue  respite  for  seaven  yeares  next  after  er'  he  should  be 
called  to  the  office  of  shrivaltie.  And  so  my  Lorde  and  his  brethren 
departed  to  the  election  for  a  new  sheriffe.  After  a  proposition 
made  by  Mr.  Recorder  to  the  Commens,  my  Lord  Maior  and  his 


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A.D.  1551.  bretheren  being  departed  up  to  the  Maires  Court  againe,  after  their 
ould  auncient  custome  the  Commens  nominated  five  persons  ;  that 
is  to  say,  John  Cowper,  fishmonger,  who  was  present  at  the  ellection, 
Richard  Grymes,  chaundler,  John  Hobson,  habardasher,  Thomas 
Lee,  mercer,  and  Barnard  Jeninges,  skinner.  After  triall  by  handes, 
the  election  rested  on  John  Cowper,  the  said  Cowper  declaring  his 
mind  to  the  Commens  that  he  was  not  of  abilitie  for  the  rome,  the 
people  crying  God  geue  his  ioy,  and  so  accepted  their  election; 
and  so  the  Commens  departed. 

Mr.  Wilkes  sett  to  his  In  the  afternoune  the  Commons  departed,  and  then  my  Lord 
Maior  commond  with  Mr.  Wilkes,  who  was  sent  for  to  dynner  from 
the  Counter,  to  know  whether  he  would  paie  his  tow  hundreth 
poundes  at  the  daies  afore  lymitted  or  not;  he  yet  standinge  still 
obstinate,  would  haue  rather  gonne  to  ward  againe  then  paie  it.  But 
at  last  by  the  mediation  of  Mr.  Knotting,  one  of  his  neighboures, 
he  was  content,  and  so  the  said  Mr  Wilkes  and  Knotting  were 
bounde  in  recognisance  in  an  hundreth  poundes  [to  pay  one  hundred 
pounds] a  on  Michaelmas  eaven  next,  and  the  other  hundreth  poundes 
at  Easter  next  ensuing,  or  any  tyme  before,  and  so  he  was  discharged. 

Memorandum  :  the  seavententh  daie  of  August,  at  seaven  of  the 
clocke  in  the  morning,  proclamation  was  made  in  Cheepe  by  the 
co  mm  en  cryer  for  the  abatement  of  the  coyne,  he  first  shewing  the 
proclamation  to  the  awdience  vnder  the  Kinges  scale  that  it  was 
hole  and  not  opened  to  witnes  the  same,  which  proclamation  was 
that  the  peece  of  the  Tester  or  shillinge  should  be  currant  from  the 
said  xviith  daie  of  August  for  vi  d.  sterlinge  and  no  more,  the  grote 
for  iid.,  the  half  grote  for  a  peny,  the  peny  for  a  half-penny,  the 
ob.  for  a  farthing,  and  no  more,  as  by  the  said  proclamation  doeth 
appeared 

This  yeare,  on  Bartholomew  daie,  was  kept  a  wrestling,  and  the 
Sundaie  after  a  showting  in  Finsburie  Fieldes  by  Mr.  SherifFes,  booth 

*  Omitted  in  MS. 

b  "  This  was  a  terrible  time  in  London,  for  many  one  lost,  sodainly,  his  friends  by 
the  sweat,  and  their  money  by  the  proclamation." — Stow,  p.  605. 


The  alteration  of 
siluer. 


Wrestlinge  and 
showtinge.) 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  55 

in  one  dale,  the  best  game  of  the  standarde  xiii  s.  iiii  d.  in  money,          -A-D- 1661. 

the  second  game  xs.,  the  iiid  game  vis.  viiid.,  the  iiiith  game  vs. 

And  the  best  game  of  the  flight  xiii  s.  iiii  d.,  the  second  game  x  s.,  the 

third  game  vis.  viiid.,  the  fourth  game  vis.,  summe  51.  which  was 

paid  in  money  to  the  wynners  at  the  costes  of  booth  the  sheriffes, 

and  no  more  daies  after  for  this  yeare. 

The  iiiith  daie  of  September,  being  Fridaie,  was  one  Thomas,  a  A  baker  on  the 
baker  in  Sothwarke   dwelling  beyond   Battell-bridge,  sett,   on   the  Plllone- 
pillorie  in  Sothwarke  for  lacking  xiiien  ounces  wyght  in  a  tow  penie 
wheten  loffe,  which  hath  had  diuers  tymes  this  yeare  warninge  and 
yett  neauer  kept  his  weight,  wherfore  this  sentence  was  judged  as 
yesterdaie  at  a  Court  of  Aldermen,  which  said  baker  stoode  on  the 
pillorie  from  nyne  of  the  clocke  in  the  morninge  till  eleven,  and  had 
his  bread  hanginge  on  nailes  by  him,  and  lay  in  ward  the  daie  before 
his  pennance. 

The  tenth  daie  of  September,  1551,  was  burned  in  Finsburie  Field  Search  for  hopps. 
xxxi  sacke  and  pokettes  of  hopps  in  the  afternoune,  being  nought 
and  not  holsome  for  man's  bodie,  and  condemned  by  an  Act  made 
by  my  Lord  Maior  and  his  brethren  th'  aldermen  the  tenth  daie  of 
September,  at  -which  court  six  comeners  of  the  Cittie  of  London 
were  apoynted  to  be  serchers  for  a  hole  yeare  for  the  said  hopps; 
and  they  were  sworne  the  fifth  daie  of  this  moneth  and  made  search 
ymediatlie  for  the  same. 

This  yeare,  on  Michaelmas  daie,  before  the  election  of  the  Lord  Election  of  the  Maior. 
Maior  at  the  comunyon  in  the  Guildhall  chappell,  my  Lord  Maior, 
Sir  KafTe  Warrein,  Sir  William  Laxston,  Sir  Martin  Bowes,  Sir 
Henry  Hobulthorne,  Sir  John  Gressam,  Sir  Rowland  Hill,  receaued 
the  comunion;  and  all  the  Aldermen  offred  to  the  poore  and  receipt 
of  Mr.  Chamberlaine  for  Sainct  Bartholomewes  hospitall;  and  after 
the  Commens  went  to  the  election  of  the  Lord  Maior,  which  was 
Mr.  Richard  Dobbs,  alderman. 

Memorandum :   the  tenth  of  October  Doctor  Daie,a  Bishopp  of  Bishopps  deposed. 

*  George  Day,  S.T.P.  Provost  of  King's  College  1538,  and  Bishop  of  Chichester 
1543. 


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A.D.  1551. 


Dukes  and  Erles 
created. 


Duke  of  Somersett 
with  other  sent  to 
the  Tower. 


Chichester,  which  had  bene  long  prisonner  in  the  Fleete,  and  Doctor 
Heath,a  Bishopp  of  Worcestre,  were  deposed  by  the  Bishopp  of 
London  in  Poules  the  said  daie  in  the  afternoune.b 

Memorandum:  the  xith  daie  of  October  was  a  great  solemnitie 
kept  at  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Court  at  Hampton  Court,0  where  that 
daie  Lord  Gray,d  Marques  Dorsett,  was  created  Duke  of  Suffolke; 
Lord  Dudley,  Earle  of  Warwicke,  was  created  Duke  of  Northum- 
berlaunde;  Lord  Sainct  John,  Earl  of  Wilshire,  and  Lord  High 
Treasorer  of  England,  was  created  Marquis  of  Wynchester ;  and  Sir 
William  Harbard,  Master  of  the  Kinges  Horse,  was  first  made  Lord 
of  Karmarden,6  and  after  was  created  Earl  of  Pembroke ;  also  the 
King  made  the  same  daie  iiii  knightes  also  f 

The  sixtenth  daie  of  October,  1551,  the  Duke  of  Somersett  was 
sent  to  the  Tower  of  London  by  the  Duke  of  Suffolke  and  the  Lord 
Marques  of  Wynchester.  And  the  sevententh  daie  the  Lord  Gray,g 


a  Nicholas  Heath,  S.T.P.  Bishop  of  Kochester  1539,  of  Worcester  1544,  and  Arch- 
bishop of  York  1555. 

b  Stow  adds,  "  and  sent  again  to  the  Fleet,"  p.  605. 

c  The  Court  had  retired  to  Hampton  Court  on  the  sweating-sickness  finding  its 
way  into  the  palace  at  Westminster,  where  it  carried  off  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the 
bedchamber,  and  afterwards  one  of  the  King's  grooms. 

d  Henry  Lord  Gray  succeeded  his  father  as  6th  Marquis  of  Dorset  in  1530,  and 
was  created  Duke  of  Suffolk  11  Oct.  1551.  He  married  Frances,  daughter  and 
coheir  of  Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk,  by  Mary,  Queen  Dowager  of  France 
and  sister  of  King  Henry  VIII.  K.G.  attainted  and  beheaded  1554,  when  his  honours 
became  forfeited. 

e  Sir  William  Herbert  was  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Richard  Herbert,  natural  son  of 
William  Herbert,  first  Baron  Herbert,  of  Chepstow,  who  was  created  Earl  of 
Pembroke  27  May,  1468;  he  was  knighted  and  made  Chief  Gentleman  of  the  Privy 
Chamber  by  King  Henry  VIII.  in  1546,  and  created  Baron  Herbert  of  Cardiff  10 
October,  1551,  and  the  day  following  made  Earl  of  Pembroke. 

f  "  The  King  also  made  William  Cecil,  his  secretary,  M.  John  Cheeke,  one  of 
his  schoolmasters,  M.  Henry  Dudley,  and  M.  Henry  Nevill,  knights."— Stow, 
p.  605. 

£  William  Lord  Grey  de  Wilton  was  apprehended  on  a  charge  of  participation  in 
the  Duke  of  Somerset's  rebellion,  but  was  afterwards  released,  and  in  1560  assisted 
in  blockading  Leith. — Burnet,  ii.  p.  138. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  57 

Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  Sir  Thomas  Arondell,  latelie  discharged  thence,          A  D  1551 
with  other  also,*  were  sent  thither. 

The  xviith  daie  of  October  my  Lord  Maior  and  Aldermen  were  The  Maior  and 
sent  for  to  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Counsell  at  Westminster  to 
Kinges  place  at  Whitehall,  and  twelue  of  the  head  Comyners  with 
them,  which  were  of  the  Common  Counsell.  And  this  night  watch 
begune  with  howseholders  to  be  keept  in  euerie  ward  from  nyne 
of  the  clocke  at  night  till  fiue  in  the  morninge.  .  . 

The  eightenth  daie  of  October  the   Duches  of  Somersett b  was  Dutches  of  Somersett 
sent  to  the  Tower,  and  brought  from  Sion  by  water,  and  Mr.  Crane  sent  to  the  Tower, 
and  his  wife,  Sir  Baffe  Yarne,c  and  one  Handsome,  one  of  the  Duke 
of  Somersettes  men. 

The  xixth  daie  of  October  all  the  common  councell  and  the  A  Common  Councell. 
wardens  of  euerie  Company  in  the  cittie  of  London  were  assembled 
in  the  Guildhall  before  my  Lord   Maior  and  Aldermen,  where  was 
read  a  letter  directed  to  the  Maior  and  Aldermen,  which  was  sent 
them  from  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Councell,  how   they   should   be 
greatlie  circumspect  to  see  good  and  substantiall  watches  and  ward- 
ing for  the  savegard  and  custodie  of  the  Kinges  Maiesties  citie  and 
chamber  of  London,  and  further  Mr.  Kecorder  declared  by  mouth 
to  the  said  Commons  assembled  of  the  misdemeanor  of  the  Duke  of 
Somersett  and  his  adherentes.     How  they  had  entended  to  haue 
taken  the  Tower  of  London,  the  Isle  of  Wyght,  and  haue  destroyed 
the  cittie  of  London,  and  the  substantiall  men  of  the  same,d  wherfore 
the  counsells  pleasure  was  that  euerie  cittizen  in  his  owne  howse 

a  Viz.  Sir  Kalph  Vane,  Sir  Myles  Partridge,  Sir  Michael  Stanhope,  and  divers 
other  gentlemen. — Stow,  p.  605. 

b  Anne  Stanhope,  "  a  woman  of  a  haughty  stomack."-  Baker's  Chronicle,  p.  326. 

c  Sir  Ralph  Vane  or  Fane. 

d  Upon  these  extravagant  accusations,  which  were  everywhere  published  with 
circumstances  calculated  to  impose  on  the  people,  most  ancient  historians  have, 
Dr.  Burnet  excepted,  founded  their  accounts  of  this  event.  What  is  most  probable 
is,  that  the  Duke  had  projected  to  get  himself  declared  Protector  in  the  next 
Parliament,  since  the  Earl  of  Rutland  affirmed  it  upon  oath.  See  Rapin's  Hist.  ii. 
p.  22. 

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58 

A. D.  1551.  should  looke  to  his  famelie  and  to  see  that  vagabondes  and  idle 
persons  might  be  auoyded  out  of  the  Cittie,  and  so  the  Comens 
departed, 

Wardinge  at  the  gates      Also  the  same  daie  the  Maior  and  Aldermen  directed  preceiptes 
by  daye>  to  certaine  of  the  head  companies  for  the  warding  of  the  gates  of 

the  cittie  by  daie,  that  is  to  say,  that  tow  persons  should  waite  at 
euerie  gate  of  the  Cittie  from  six  of  the  clocke  in  the  morning  till 
seaven  of  the  clocke  at  night  to  see  that  no  suspect  persons  in 
maskes  nor  maisterles  men  should  enter  into  the  Cittie.  But  examyn 
them  and  send  them  to  warde  till  the  Kinges  Councell  should  dis- 
charg  them.  And  that  euerie  night  the  constable  that  watched 
should  haue  the  keies  of  euerie  gate  deliuered  him  and  not  open  the 
gates  till  six  of  the  clocke  in  the  morning.  And  further  that  euerie 
alderman  should  apoynt  tow  of  the  councell  to  ride  about  the  Cittie 
euerie  night  as  their  turnes  came  about,  to  see  that  the  watches  of 
the  Cittie  keepe  their  howres  apoynted  and  that  they  should  not 
beginne  to  ride  about  till  tow  of  the  clocke  in  the  morninge,  and 
euerie  of  them  to  haue  one  serieant  and  his  yeoman  to  waite  on 
them  to  lead  the  waie. 

The  said  nynetenth  daie  Sir  Michaell  Stannopp,  Mr.  Banester, 
and  Mr.  Whalley  were  had  to  the  Tower.  And  the  twentie  sixth 
daie  of  October  Sir  Nicholas  Poynes,a  Sir  Miles  Partridge,  and  Sir 
Thomas  Holcroft  were  had  to  the  Tower. 

The  xiiith  [xxx]  b  ?  daie  of  October  the  Kinges'  Maiestie  sett  fourth 
a  proclamation  for  certaine  newe  coynes  of  siluer  and  gold  to  be 
made  newe  and  currant  within  the  realme,  that  is  to  saie,  a  peece 
of  siluer  of  fiue  shillings  sterlinge,  the  second  peece  at  iis.  vid. 
sterling,  the  third  peece  of  xiid.  sterling,  the  fourth  peece  of  vid. 
sterling,  another  peece  called  a  peni  of  the  doble  rose,c  the  second 
an  halfe  penny  of  the  single  rose,  the  third  peece  a  farthing  with 
a  port  cullis. 

a  Sir  Nicolas  Poyntz. 

b  30th  October  in  Stow,  which  from  the  order  in  the  text  would  appear  to  be 
correct.  c  "not  sterling  but  base." — Stow,  p.  606. 


WIUOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  59 

The  coines  of  gould,  that  is  to  saie,  a  whole  soueraigne  of  fine          A.D.  1551. 
gould  of  thirtie  shillinges,  another  peece  of  fine  goulde  called  a  New  coynes  of  fine 
angell  of  tenne  shillinges,  the  third  peece  called  an  angelett  of  fine 
gould   of  fiue  shillinges,  the  half  soueraigne  of  crowne  gould  of 
tenne  shillinges,  another  peece  of  crowne  gould  called  a  soueraigne  of 
twentie  shillinges,  the  third  peece  of  crowne  goulde  of  fiue  shillinges, 
the  fourth  peece  of  crowne  goulde  of  tow  shillinges  six  pence,  and 
all  other  base  moneies  to  go  after  the  rate  of  the  last  proclamations. 
The  31  of  October  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Counsell  sent  a  letter  to 
my  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  with  a  bill  of  provision  for  certeine 
kindes  of  victualles,  as  beefes,  muttons,  veales,  swannes,  and  other 
kindes  of  poultry  [and]  meates,  with  allso  for  bread,  fuell,  wyne, 
and  beere,  waxe,  and  torches,  for  the  provision  of*  the  Quene  Dow- 
ager of  Scotland,  to  be  given  by  them  as  a  present  from  a  the  citye 
of  London  to  the  sayd  Quene ;  which  Quene  was  lately  aryued  at 
Portesmouth,  comminge  out  of  Fraunce,  and  desyringe  ly cense  of  A  precision  for  the 
the  Kinge  to  passe  thorough   England  into   Scotland;  upon  ^t^SSSS't^ 
readinge  of  which  byll  my  Lord  Mayor  called  a  court  of  Aldermen  for  a  present  by  the 
in  the  afternone,  and  sent  the  commen  sergeant   and   the  towne  Clty  °] 
clarke  to  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Counsell  to  knowe  theyr  pleasures 
therein.     And  the  first  day  of  November,  in  the  morninge,  the 
aldermen   assembled   at  my   Lord   Mayors  house,   and  there  was 
declared  to  them  by  the  commen   sergeant  and  towne  clarke  the 
aunswere  of  the  Counsell,  that  the  sayd  provision  should  be  pro- 
vided by  them  to  present  her  on  the  morrowe,  at  the  Bishop  of 
Londons  place   by  Pawles.     And  in   the  afternone,   as  my  Lord 
Mayor  and  his  brethren  the  Aldermen  were  hearinge  evensonge  in 
the    Guildhall  chappell   afore   his   goeinge  to  Pawles,   a  common 
counsell  was  called  up  into  the  Mayors  Court,  where  after  even- 
songe my  Lord  Mayor  and  his  brethren  declared  the  Counselles 
pleasure,    and    to    knowe   theyr   mindes   therein,    which    sayd   yt 
should  stand  the  City  in  iiiixx  1.  or  more,  the  sayd  commen  counsell 
afurminge  the  Counselles  sute. 

*  «  for  "  in  MS. 


60 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1551.  This  yeare,  in  Mr.  Juddes  tyme,  in  October,  the  liberties  of  the 

Stiliard  were  seazed  into  the  Kinges  handes  for  diuers  causes  for- 
feited contrarie  to  the  entercourse.a 


EDWARDI  VI.     Anno  5.     1551. 

The  comminge  of  her  The  2  of  November,  beinge  Monday,  the  sayd  Quene  came  by 
totheCitie  of  London.  water  from  the  Kinges  pallace  of  Hampton  Court,  and  landed  at 
Pawles  Wharfe  in  the  afternone,  and  so  rode  from  thence  to  the 
Bishopes  place,  accompanied  with  divers  noblemen  and  ladyes  of 
England  [sent]  b  to  receive  her,  where  at  her  entry  the  Cities  pro- 
vision was  ready  with  a  bill  of  the  same,  and  presented  by  the 
Chamberlaine  of  London. 

The  4  of  November  the  sayd  Quene  rode  from  the  sayd  place  to 
the  Kinges  pallace  at  Whitehall  by  Westminster  in  hir  charyot, 
accompany ed  with  diuers  knightes  and  gentlemen,  earles  and  lordes, 
the  Lady  Margaret  Dowglas,  the  Duches  of  Kichmond,  the  Duches 
of  Suffolke,  the  Duches  of  Northumberland,  with  diuers  other 
noble  women  of  England  and  ladyes  of  Scotland  followinge  after 
them ;  the  Dukes  of  Northumberland  and  Suffolke  and  the  Lord 
Treasurer  receivinge  her  within  the  Court  gate,  all  the  guard  stand- 
inge  on  euery  syde  of  the  Court;  and  at  her  entringe  in  at  the  hall 
the  Kinges  Maiestie  stode  in  the  upper  ende  of  the  hall,  the  Earle 
of  Warwicke  houldinge  the  sworde  afore  the  Kinge ;  she  kneelinge 
downe,  the  Kinges  Maiestie  tooke  her  up  and,  kissinge  her,  he  tooke 
her  by  the  hand,  she  comminge  with  him,  he  led  her  up  into  the 
chamber  of  presence,  and  so  from  thence  to  the  Quenes  chamber  of 
presence,  where  he  kissed  all  the  ladyes  of  Scotland,  and  so  departed 
for  a  while ;  and  that  daye  she  dyned  on  the  Quenes  syde  with  the 
Kinges  Maiestie,  the  Kinges  service  and  hers  comminge  both  to- 
geather,  richely  serued  in  gylt  plate ;  the  Kinges  seruice  on  the 
right  hand  of  the  table,  and  the  Quenes  on  the  left  hand,  she  sit- 

•  This  passage  has  been  accidentally  transposed  in  MS. 
>>  Omitted  in  MS. 


The  comminge  of 
her  to  the  Kinges 
Majesties  presence 
at  the  Courte. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  61 

tinge  by  the  Kinge  apart  by  his  cloth  of  estate ;  the  goodly  cupbord  A.D. 
of  plate  of  gould  and  gylte  that  day  there  occupyed,  with  the  rich 
hanginges  and  costly  meates,  was  wondrous  to  see.  All  the  ladyes 
of  England  and  Scotland  dyned  in  the  Quenes  great  chamber,  and 
were  serued  in  siluer  all  theyr  meates;  dinner  ended,  the  Kinges 
Maiestie  shewed  her  his  galleries  and  gardens,  with  other  com- 
modityes  of  that  place;  and  about  foure  of  the  clocke  he  brought 
her  downe  againe  by  the  hand  into  the  hall,  where  he  received  her 
and  there  kissed  hir,  and  so  she  departed  to  the  Bishops  house 
againe  to  Pawles  in  lyke  manner  as  she  went  thither. 

The  6  of  November  the  sayd   Scottishe  Quene  departed  toward  Tlie  g°inge  away  of 
0,11          i        ^      r  T-.I          i  ini-i'T  ^the  Scottishe  Quene 

Scotland,  and  rode  from  rawles  through  all  the  high  streates  of  and  her  passage  into 

London  and  out  at  Bishops-gate,  accompanyed  with  diuers  noble  Scotland- 
men  and  women,  to  bringe  her  through  the  Citye  to  Shordich 
Church ;  the  Duke  of  Northumberlande  havinge  standinge  of 
horsemen a  in  Cheapsyde  with  jauelinges,  i  c.  persons,  wherof  xl. 
gentlemen  were  apparayled  in  black  velvet  and  white  feathers,  and 
chaines  of  gold  about  their  neckes ;  next  them  stoode  vixx  horsmen 
of  the  Earle  of  Pembrookes,  with  blacke  jauelinges  and  hattes  with 
feathers;  next  them  stoode  ic.  of  the  Lord  Treasurers  gentlemen 
and  yeomen  with  jauelinges  allso,  which  3  rankes  of  horsemen  com- 
passed from  the  Crosse  in  Cheape  to  Birchin  Lane  ende.  And 
when  the  sayd  nobles  had  brought  hir  to  Shordich  Church,  there 
they  tooke  their  leaue,  and  departed  home  againe.  The  SherifFes  of 
London  had  the  conduction  of  her  to  Waltham  townes  ende,  where 
the  shires  of  Middlesex  and  Essex  parteth ;  and  harbingers  [were]  b 
sent  afore  into  euery  shy  re  to  the  borders  to  Scotland,  that  every 
sheriffe  in  euery  shyre,  accompanyed  with  the  gentlemen  of  the 
country,  [should]  b  receaue  her,  and  make  provision  in  euery  shyre 
for  hir  meates,  both  for  hirselfe,  familie,  and  horses,  till  she  come 
to  the  borders  of  Scotland,  at  the  charges  of  the  Kinges  Maiestie 

a  "  His  horsemen  standing." — Stow,  Annales,  p.  606. 
b  Supplied  from  Stow. 


62  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A  D.  1551.  and  the  shyres  a  that  she  should  passe  thorough  till  she  be  in  Scot- 
land, euery  shire  for  theyr  owne  precinct;  this  first  night  she  lodged 
in  Waltham  towne. 

The  Earle  of  Arundell  and  the  Lord  Pagett  sent  to  the  Tower. 

The  24  Nouember,  at  a  Court  of  Aldermen,  the  warding  b  of  the 
gates  of  the  Citye  of  London  was  discharged  for  the  day  tyme. 

The  30  of  November,  beinge  St.  Andrewes  day  the  Apostle,  at 
night  my  Lord  Mayor  received  a  letter  from  the  Kinges  Maiesties 
-  Counsell,  Mr.  Recorder  then  being  present  with  the  mayor  in  his 
house;  wherupon  my  Lord  Mayor  sent  ymmediately  to  warne  the 
Aldermen  and  theyr  deputyes  to  be  afore  him  at  the  Guylde  hall 
the  morowe  after,  beinge  the  first  daye  of  December,  at  vii  of  the 
For  the  safegard  of  clocke  in  the  morninge ;  at  which  court,  on  theyr  appearance,  the 
sayd  letter  was  read,  which  was  that  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen 
should  see  to  the  safegard  of  the  city  for  that  clay  and  night  for 
feare  of  suspected  and  lewde  persons;  that  done  by  the  assent  of 
the  Court,  euery  alderman  in  his  ward  should  ymmediately  by  him- 
selfe  or  his  deputy  cause  euery  constable  in  his  warde  to  warne 
euery  householder  within  his  precinct  to  see  to  his  familie  and  to 
keepe  his  house,  and  to  haue  in  a  readines  a  man  in  harnes  in  his 
owne  house,  and  not  goo  abroade  till  they  should  be  called,  if  need 
were.  And  further  that  that  night  they  should  cause  a  good  and 
substantiall  double  watche  to  be  kept  with  householders  in  euery 
warde,  which  ymmedyately  was  done. 

The  first  daye  of  December,  beinge  Tuesday,  the  Duke  of  Somer- 
sett  was  had  from  the  Tower  of  London  by  water  and  shott  London 
bridge  at  v  of  the  clocke  in  the  morninge,0  and  so  went  to  West- 
minster, where  was  made  ready  a  great  scaffold  in  Westminster 
hall,d  and  there  the  sayd  Duke  appeared,  afore  the  Lordes  and 

a  "  At  the  charges  of  the  shires."— Stow,  p.  606. 
b  "Warders,"  in  MS.. 

0  The  Chronicle  of  the  Grey  Friars  here  adds,  "  and  1  or  2  drownyd  by  the  waye 
in  the  Terns  betweene  the  tower  and  Westmester." — p.  72. 

d  "  Where  was  made  in  the  middle  of  the  Hall  a  new  scaffold." — Holinshed. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  63 

Peeres  of  the  Eealme,  the  Lord  William  Pawlet,  Marques  of  Win-          A.D.  1551. 

Chester,  and  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England,  that  daye  sittinge  The  Duke  of  Somer 

under  the  cloath  of  estate  as  High  Stuard  of  England;  the  indyte-  WestaiS^  at 

ment  of  the  sayd  duke  beinge  read,  he  was  imedyately  arraigned  on 

the  same  for  felony  and  treason,  and  after  tryed  by  his  peeres  the 

nobles  there  present/  which  did  quitt  him  of  the  treason  but  found 

him  guilty  of  the  felony ,b  whereupon  after  their  verdite  giuen  he  had 

iudgment  giuen  to  be  had  [thence   to]  c  the  place  [he  came  from]  c 

and  from  thence  to  the  place  of  execution,  there  to  be  hanged  till 

he  were  dead;  but  the  people  in  the  hall,  supposinge  that  he  had 

bene  clerely  quitt,  when  they  see  the  axe  of  the  Tower  put  downe, 

made  such  a  shryke   and  castinge  up  of  caps,  that  it  was  hard  into 

the  Longe  Acre  beyonde  Charinge  Crosse,d  and  allso  made  the  Lordes 

astonyed,  and  word  likewise  sent  to  London,  which  the  people  reioysed 

at;    and  about  v  of  the  clocke  at  night  the  sayd  Duke  landed  at 

the  Crane  in  the  Vintre,  and  so  [was]  had  thorough  Can[dle]wyke 

Streete  e  to  the  Tower,  the  people  cryinge  God  saue  him  all  the  way 

as  he  went,  thinkinge  that  he  had  clerely  bene  quitt,  but  they  were 

deceyued,  but  hoopinge  he  should  haue  the  Kinges  pardon. f 

The  7  of  December  there  was  a  mustre  before  the  Kinges  Maiestie  A  muster  before  the 
in  St.  James  [field] c  beyonde  Charinge  Crosse,g  the  Kinges  Maiestie  Kin£e- 

a  His  judges  were  Northumberland,  Northampton,  Pembroke,  and  the  other  leading 
members  of  the  government, — the  very  parties  against  whom  he  was  said  to  have 
conspired, — and  the  witnesses  against  him  were  not  produced,  but  only  their  written 
depositions  read,  as  was  frequently  the  custom  in  those  days. 

b  For  having  designed  the  killing  of  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  and  the  others, 
although  on  consideration  he  had  determined  to  abandon  it;  " yet,"  adds  Edward 
VI.  in  his  Journal,  "  he  seemed  to  confess  he  went  about  their  death." 

e  Supplied  from  Stow,  "from"  in  MS. 

d  "  The  people,  knowing  not  the  matter,  shouted  half  a  dozen  of  times  so  loud 
that  from  the  Hall  door  it  was  heard  at  Charing  Cross  plainly,  and  rumours  went 
that  he  was  quit  of  all." — Edward  VI.'s  Journal. 

e  Candleweeke-Street.— Stow. 

f  Holinshed  says,  as  he  passed  through  London,  "  there  were  both  exclamations  ; 
the  one  [party]  cried  for  joy  that  he  was  acquitted,  and  the  other  cried  out  that  he 
was  condemned." 

*  The  Chronicle  of  the  Grey  Friars  (p.  72)  reads, « in  Tothill  fields  by  Westminster." 


64  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1551.  sittinge  on  horse-backe  on  a  hill  by  St.  James  with  his  Maiesties  Privie 
Counsell  with  him ;  first  came  all  the  Kinges  Maiesties  pencioners 
rydinge  all  in  compleate  harnes,  4  trumpetters  rydinge  afore  them  and 
then  the  Kinges  standerd  borne  amonge  them,  and  euery  pencioner 
had  two  men  followinge  after  them  with  theire  speares;  then  followed 
i  c  of  my  Lord  Treasurers  men  with  a  trumpett  and  a  standerd  afore 
them ;  next  them  i  C  of  the  Duke  of  Northumberlandes  men  with  a 
trumpet  and  a  standerd  afore  them,  xl  of  them  with  veluet  coates 
on  their  harnes;  next  them  the  Lord  Privie  Scales  men/ic  with  a 
trumpet  and  a  standerd;  next  after  them  Lord  Marques  of  North  - 
amptons  men,  i  c  with  a  trumpett  and  a  standerd  before  them ;  then 
the  Earle  of  Rutlandes  men,  1  with  a  trumpet  and  a  standerd  afore 
them,  xx  of  them  in  blewe  veluet  cassockes  ouer  theyr  harnes;  then 
1  of  the  Earle  of  Huntingtons  men  with  a  trompet  and  a  standerd ; 
next  them  i  c  of  the  Earle  of  Pembrokes  men  with  a  trumpet  and 
a  standerd  afore  them;  next  them  1  of  the  Lord  Darsies,  Lord 
Chamberlaines,  men  with  their  trumpet  and  standerd;  next  them  1 
of  the  Lord  Cobhams  men  with  theyr  trumpet  and  standerd  afore 
them ;  last  of  all  i  C  of  the  Lord  Wardens  men  of  the  Cinck  Portes 
with  a  trumpet  and  a  standerd  afore  them,  which  were  all  goodly 
horsed.  The  sayd  Lordes  seruantes  were  set  in  aray  in  Hide  Parke, 
and  in  the  afternone  at  2  of  the  clock  they  came  thence  and  so  rode 
about  twise  afore  the  Kinge  v  in  a  ranke,  all  in  complete  harnes  and 
well  horsed  and  euery  man  his  speare  in  his  hand,  and  then  brake 
of  euery  lordes  company  to  theyr  places,  which  was  a  goodly 
sight. 

Ballard  araigned  The  12  of  December  at  the  sessions  of  the  gayle  delivery  holden 

upon  a  rape.  at  ]^ewgate3  Nicholas  Ballard,  gentleman,  which  in  August  last  past 

was  punished  for  an  adulterer  with  one  Middletons  wyfe,  and  after 
sent  to  Newegate  for  a  rape,  and  after  was  bay  led  with  sureties  from 
tyme  to  tyme  till  no  we,  was  this  day  araigned  for  the  sayd  rape, 
which  was  indyted  for  the  same,  and  by  a  jury  this  day  found  guilty 
of  the  rape,  havinge  great  witnes  for  the  proofe  of  the  same  rape ; 
and  after  verdyte  giuen  against  him  he  asked  the  benefyte  of  his 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  65 

booke,a  and  read,  and  so  was  burnt  this  daye  in  the  hand  and  had          A.D.  1651. 
to  the  bishops  convicte  prison. 

The  20  of  December,  beinge  Sonday,  in  the  afternone  Doctor  Bishop  of  Durham 
_  n  H  -r>-  i  »•¥%     i  i  •  i    i     11  i  •      i         i      sent  to  the  Tower. 

Dunstall,    Bishop  of  Durham,  which  had  lyen  longe  at  his  place  by 

Coldharber,  in  Thames  Streete,  was  had  to  the  Tower  of  London. 

The  21  of  December,  beinge  St.  Thomas  th'  Apostles^day^Lord  Lord  Chauncellor  put 
_Riche  beinge  Lord  Channcellor  of  England^  the  Kinges  Maiesties 
great  scale  was  taken  from  him  by  the  Duke  of  Northumberland 
and  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  in  the  afternoone.  And  the  morrowe 
after  Doctor  Goodricke,  Bishop  of  Elye,  had  the  keepinge  of  the 
great  seale,  as  custos,  by  the  counselles  commandement,  which  bishop 
was  one  of  the  Privie  Counsell  to  the  Kinges  Maiestie. 

This  year  before  Christmas,  the  Lord  Clinton,  Lord  High  Trench  Kinges 
Admirall  of  England,  went  into  Fraunce  to  be  the  Kinges  Maiesties 
deputye  to  christen  the  French  Kinges c  sonne,  which  bare  the 
Kinges  name,  where  he  was  highly  received  and  feasted  of  the 
French  Kinge,  and  had  great  gyftes  giuen  him,  and  was  pro- 
claymed  by  the  French  harrouldes  after  the  christninge,  Edwardus 
Alexander  Dux  Anguilonice.^ 

Fryday,  the  22  of  January,  1551-[2],  Edward  Seimer,  Duke  of        [A.D.  1552.] 
Somersett,  was  beheaded  at  the  Tower  Hill,  afore  ix  of  the  clocke 
in  the  forenone,  which  tooke  his  death  very  patiently,  but  there  was  g0e^Sett.the  Duke  °f 
such  a  feare  and  disturbance  amonge  the  people  sodainely  before 
he  suffred,  that  some  tombled  downe  the  ditch,  and  some  ranne 
toward  the  houses  thereby  and  fell,  that  it  was  marveile  to  see  and 
hear;6  but  howe  the  cause  was,  God  knoweth.f 

Saterday,  the  23   of  January,   beinge  the  first   day   of  Hilary  A  lord  Chauncellor. 

a  Benefit  of  clergy. 

b  Cuthbert  Tunstall,  made  Dean  of  Salisbury  1516,  Master  of  the  Rolls  and  Vice- 
Chancellor  1516-22,  Bishop  of  London  1521-30,  Lord  Privy  Seal  1523-30,  Bishop  of 
Durham  1530,  deprived  1552,  restored  in  1553,  deprived  again  1559,  and  died  the 
same  year. 

c  Henry  II.  d  Angolismas,  of  Angouleme. 

e  Stow  gives  some  particulars  of  the  cause  of  this  panic,  p.  607. 

f  Edward  VI.  appears  to  have  been  perfectly  convinced  of  his  uncle's  guilt,  and 
in  that  conviction  to  have  given  himself  no  further  concern  about  the  duke,  only 
noting  in  his  diary  that "  the  Duke  of  Somerset  had  his  head  cut  off  upon  Tower  hill, 
CAMD.  SOC.  K 


66  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.L».  1552.  Tearme,  and  allso  the  first  day  of  the  Session  of  the  Parliament a  at 
Westminster,  Doctor  Goodricke,  Bishopp  of  Ely  and  custos  of  the 
Kinges  great  seale  of  England,  was  sworne  in  the  Chauncery  Lord 
Chauncellor  of  England,  the  Lord  Treasurer  of  England  giuinge 
him  his  oath. 

Sir  Eaphe  Vane.  The  27   of  January  Sir  Kaphe   Vane,  knight,  was  arraigned  at 

Westminster,  and  condempned  for  felony ,  and  had  judgment  to  be 
hanged. 

Sir  Thomas  Arundell.  The  28  of  January  Sir  Thomas  Arundell,  knight,  was  arraigned 
at  Westminster,  and  condempned  for  fellonie,  and  had  judgment  to 
be  hanged. 

Sir  Myles  Patriche.  The  5  of  February,  Sir  Myles  Patriche,b  knight,  was  arraigned 
at  Westminster  and  condempned  for  fellonie,  and  had  judgment  to 
be  hanged. 

Sir  Michaell  Stanope.  The  9  of  February  Sir  Michaell  Stanope,  knight,  was  arraigned 
at  Westminster  and  condempned  for  felonie,  and  had  judgment  to 
be  hanged. 

The  17  of  February,  the  daye  of  receivinge  the  books  of  the 
releife  of  all  the  wardes  of  London  [towardes  the  new  hospitals]  c  by 
the  Kinges  Maiesties  Commissioners,  the  Counsell  dyned  at  Mr. 
Coopers,  sheriffe,  and  after  dinner  Mr.  Thomas  Curteis,  alderman, 
came  thither  to  speak  to  my  Lord  Chauncellor  for  a  matter  he  had 
dependinge  before  him  in  the  Chauncery,  but  for  his  misdeamour  in 
wordes  and  signes  to  the  Lord  Chauncellor  at  that  tyme  the  sayd 
Mr.  Curteis  was  committed  to  warde  in  the  Flete  by  the  Kinges 
Counselles  commaundement. 

This  yere  all  manner  of  victualles  was  exceedinge  dere  and  at 
excessiue  prices,  both  of  fleshe  and  fishe,  that  the  lyke  hath  not 
bene  hard  of,  for  white  herringe  was  sold  for  xxx  s.  and  xxxii  s.  the 
barrell  of  the  best,  and  redd  herring  at  xiiii  and  xv  s.  the  cade ; 
sprots  at  iis.  iiii  d.  the  cade,  and  meale  of  the  best  at  xxx  s.  the  quarter, 
between  eight  and  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning."  Grafton  indeed  says  that  "  the 
King  seemed  to  take  the  trouble  of  his  uncle  somewhat  heavily ;"  but  the  King's  public 
demeanour  and  the  Christmas  rejoicings  at  Court  certainly  do  not  seem  to  countenance 
this  assertion.  a  This  session  lasted  till  the  15th  of  April  following. 

b  Sir  Miles  Partridge.  c  Supplied  from  Stow. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  67 

The  19  of  February  was  sene  in  the  element  ouer  the  City  of         A-D<  1552> 
Antwarpe,  in  the  Dukedome  of  Brabant,  iiii  sonnes  with  ii  raine- 
bowes,  backe  to  backe  in  the  forme  as  is  here  set  downe,  which  was 
sene  in  the  afternone  the  same  daye  betwixt  iii  and  iiii  of  the  clocke. 

This  moneth,  on  St.  Mathies  day,  the  25  of  February,  in  Bar- 
wicke  Parke,  in  Essex,  was  a  shepe  that  had  a  lambe  with  ii  nether- 
bodies,  with  iiii  hinder  feet  and  ii  tayles,  and  betwene  both  the 
netherbodye  the  vth  legge  with  ii  feete  together,  and  had  but  one 
fore  part  with  ii  feete  and  i  head,  which  lambe  was  brought  to 
Quenhith  and  shewed  to  my  Lord  Mayor  after  yt  was  dead,  and 
commaunded  to  cut  it  in  peeces  and  bury  yt  in  the  feild. 

Fryday,  the  26  of  February,  at  ix  of  the  clocke  in  the  forenone,  Death  of  foure  knighta 
Sir  Kaphe  Yane  and   Sir  Miles   Partridge a  were  hanged  at  the  at  the  Tower  HilL 
Tower  hill,  and   Sir  Michaell  Stanope  and  Sir  Thomas  Arundell 
were  beheaded  on  the  Tower  hill;  all  which  iiii  persons  tooke  on 
theyr  death  that  they  neuer  offended  against  the  Kinges  Maiestie 
nor  against  any  of  his  Counsell.b 

Memorandum:  the  18  day  of  March,  1551,  beinge  Fryday,  was 
sene  in  the  element  at  a  towne  called  Brykerbery,c  by  Newbery,  in 
Barkshire,  iiii  sonnes  after  this  manner  under  written,  presented  to 
the  Kinges  Maiestie  by  Mr.  Weldon,d  one  of  the  Masters  of  his  Hous- 
hould,  Mr.  Winstome,  of  Newebery,  Mr.  Randall,  of  the  Temple, 


a  The  Chronicle  of  the  Grey  Friars  adds:  "the  wych  playd  wyth  Kynge  Henry 
VHIte  at  dysse  for  the  grett  belfery  that  stode  in  Powlles  church-yerde." 

b  They  were  apprehended  and  executed  as  the  accomplices  of  the  Duke  of 
Somerset.  c  Bucklebury. 

(1  Master  of  Queen  Catherine  Howard's  household  in  1541 


68  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1552.  and  Hinde,  the  Kinges  plomer,  which  persons  did  see  the  sayd  token 
betwene  ix  and  x  of  the  clocke  in  the  forenone  of  the  same  daye. 

The  18  day  of  March  a  wyfe  of  Hamersmith  brought  two  pigges  to 
London  to  a  carpenter  dwellinge  in  Srnythfeild,  which  was  taken 
contrary  to  a  proclamation  for  eatinge  of  fleshe  in  Lent,  and  by 
iudgment  of  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  they  did  ryde  on  2  horses 
with  panelles  of  strawe  about  the  markettes  of  the  Citie,  havinge 
eche  of  them  a  garland  on  thcyr  heades  of  the  pyges  pettie  toes,  and 
a  pygge  hanginge  on  ech  of  their  brestes  afore  them,  and  lay  2  dayes 
in  the  Counter  allso,  and  so  discharged  after  their  penance  done. 

The  19  of  March  a  clothiers  sonne  of  Devonshire  brought  a  duck 
to  the  Kose  taverne  by  Flete-bridge  in  Flete-strete  to  be  rosted,  and 
was  taken  withall,  which  boy  and  one  of  the  boyes  of  the  taverne 
rode  on  horse  backe,  havinge  the  ducke  on  the  spitt  rosted,  caryinge 
yt  betwene  them  thorough  all  the  marketts  of  the  Citye,  which  was 
their  penance  iudged  by  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  and  laye 
in  prison  one  daye  and  night,  and  so  discharged. 

The  15  of  Aprill,  1552,  the  Session  of  this  Parliament  brake  up 
and  was  clerely  dissolued  at  iiii  of  the  clocke  in  the  afternone,  which 
day  was  Good  Frydaye. 

The  16  of  Aprill,  being  Easter  even,  one  good  wyfe  Ryse,  an 
Irishe  woman,  which  was  a  seller  of  aqua  composita,»  and  dwelled 
by  St.  Buttolphes  Church  without  Aldersgate.  for  a  devillishe 
correction  which  she  had  promised  a  mayde  childe  of  xiiii  yeres  of 
age,  which  she  had  strypped  naked  the  Wednesday  before  about  iii 
of  the  clocke  in  the  morninge  and  carded  all  hir  body  both  before 
and  behinde  with  a  pay  re  of  wollen  cardes,b  which  was  too  pitifull 
a  sight  to  be  sene,  for  which  she  was  iudged  by  my  Lord  Mayor 
and  Aldermen  to  ryde  in  a  carre  with  a  picture  of  a  childe  and  a 
woman  cardinge  yt,  after  the  manner  that  she  had  punished  her, 
and  havinge  the  cardes  hanginge  about  her  necke,  which  she  did 
this  daye,  and  a  proclamation  made  in  diuers  places  of  the  Citye  of 

a  "a  woman  that  dwelte  in  Aldersgate  strete,  that  made  aqwavyte"  faqua  vitas]. 
— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  74. 

b  "  with  a  payer  of  carddes,  soche  as  doth  carde  wolle  with-alle," — Ibidem. 


69 

hir  evill  demeanor,  which  sayd  woman  was  counted  in  substance  A-D- 
i  C 1.  and  better,  which  she  had  goeinge  by  usury  e,  and  allso  havinge 
an  evill  name  of  hir  livinge,  which  sayd  punishment  the  people 
thought  was  too  litle  for  her  offence. a 

Allso  this  yeare  at  Easter  were  but   two  sermons  kept  at  the  Two  sermons  at  Easter 
Spittle,  that  is  to  say,  Monday  and  Tuesday,  for  the  Wednesday  more. 
should  noe  more  be   kept  holyday,  as  by  Acte  of  this  Parliament 
should  after  appere,  and  the  guestes  of  the  Aldermen  that  should 
haue  dyned  at  my  Lord  Mayors  and  the  Sheriffes  that  day  was  put 
of  till  Lowe  Sonday  after  Easter  daye. 

Memorandum:  That  in  Aprill  afore  St.  Georges  day,  Garter  the  Lord  Paget  deprived 
Kinge  of  Armes  was  sent  by  the  Kinges  Maiestie  to  the  Lord  ^SerTn  tL^wer 
Pagett,  prisoner  in  the  Tower  of  London,  to  fetch  and  take  from  of  London, 
the  sayd   Lord  Pagett  the  Garter  and  George  of  the  noble  order 
of  the  garter  which  he  was  knight  of,  which  Garter  and  George  the 
sayd  Kinge  of  Armes  tooke  from  him  there,  being  prisoner,  in  such 
degree  as  he   was  made  knight  of  the  same  order ,b  which  the  sayd 
Lord  Pagett  was  content  with  seinge  yt  was  the  Kinges  Maiesties 
pleasure,  and  the  Kinge  sent  yt  to  the   Earl  of  Warwick,  sonne 
and  heire  of  the  Duke  of  Northumberland,  who  was  made  knight 
of  the  sayd  order  in  his  rome. 

Saterday,  the  30  of  Aprill,  1552,  a  gunpowder  house  in  Hogg-  A  misfortune  by  gun- 
lane,  beyonde  the  Tower-hill,  toward  Stepney,  about  the  houre  of  Powder- 
vi  of  the  clock  in  the  afternone,  by  mischaunce  of  the  beatinge  of 
gunpowder,  ix  persons  c  were  cast  away  and  burnt,  whereof  vi  of 
them  dyed  out  of  hand,  and  three  other  sore  burnt  and  in  daunger 
of  death. 

Memorandum:  The  8  of  May  my  Lord  Mayor  was  presented  to  Lord  Mayor  made 
the  Kinges  Maiestie  at  Grenewich,  and  there  made  knight  of  the  kmsnt- 
Kinges  Maiestie. 

a  Other  accounts  of  this  outrage  will  be  found  in  Machyn,  p.  17,  and  Grey  Friars' 
Chronicle,  p.  74. 

b  "  upon  this  pretence,  that  he  was  said  to  be  no  gentleman,  either  by  father  or 
mother." — Baker's  Chronicle,  p.  330.  c  "  15  in  number."— Stow,  p.  607. 


70  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1652.  Saterday,  the  21   of  May,  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley,  knight,  Lord 

Cheife  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  was  sworne  Lord  Cheife  Justice  of 
England  in  the  Kinges  Bench,  and  Mr.  Bradshawe,  the  Kinges 
Atturney,  was  sworne  Lord  Cheife  Baron  of  the  Kinges  Exchequer; 
the  ould  Cheife  Justice  gaue  it  ouer  because  of  his  greate  age. 

A  great  hayle  in  Hoi-  Memorandum:  The  17  of  May,  1552,  beinge  Tuesday,  betwixt 
iiii  and  v  of  the  clocke  afternone,  fell  a  terrible  and  dreadfull  hayle 
in  Holland  in  the  towne  of  Dordrike,  so  that  the  inhabitors  of  the 
sayd  towne  for  great  feare  shutt  their  houses,  for  by  the  space  of 
halfe  an  houre  there  fell  so  terrible  a  hayle  that  the  garden  hearbes 
and  fruites  of  the  trees  were  therewith  destroyed,  and  the  sayd 
haylestones  were  great,  some  did  way  halfe  a  pounde,  some  3  quarters 
or  xii  ounces,  some  stones  hauinge  the  naturall  shape  of  the  sonne, 
and  some  resembled  lyke  crownes  of  thornes,  and  the  water  that  did 
melt  of  the  sayd  hayle  and  did  runne  in  great  aboundaunce  through 
the  canelles  in  the  streates  did  cast  forth  a  smoke  as  yf  it  had  bene 
seethinge  water;  and  after  this  hayle  did  ryse  a  myst  or  smoke 
so  troublous  and  filthy  and  with  so  great  a  stenche  that  yt  was 
maruell. 

Wednesday,  the  8th  day  of  June,  and  in  the  Whitson  week,  the 
Lordes  of  the  Kinges  Maiesties  Counsel!  sat  in  the  Guildhall,  afore 
whom  were  present  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  with  the  wardens 
of  all  the  Companies  of  the  Citye  of  London ;  to  whom  was  declared 
by  the  mouth  of  the  Lord  Chauncellor  that  the  Kinges  Maiestie  had 
sent  them  thither  to  declare  that  his  Maiestie  marvayled  greately 
why  euery  thinge,  both  of  wares  and  marchandises,  and  specially 
victualles,  were  so  dere,  and  at  so  excessiue  prises  with  in  the  Citye, 
seinge  that  thoroughout  all  England  it  was  falne  halfe  in  halfe,  and 
in  the  Citye  noethinge  falne;  wherefore  he  layd  great  fault  in  my 
Lord  Mayor  and  the  Aldermen  for  lacke  of  executinge  justice  on 
the  offenders,  shewinge  them  that  they  had  diuers  tymes  warninges 
both  private  and  allso  by  letters  from  the  Kinges  Counsell,  for  to 
see  a  redresse  for  the  same,  and  not  amended ;  wherefore  he  declared 
to  them,  and  allso  other  of  the  Lordes  of  the  Counsell,  there  present, 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  71 

that  if  they  see  not  a  speedy  redresse  and  reformation  shortly,  that          A.D.  1552. 
they  should  put  all  their  liberties  in  daunger,  to  the  great  undoeinge 
of  the  Citie  of  London. 

The  Lordes  names  there  present: 


The  Lord  Chauncellor. 

The  Lord  Treasurer. 

The  Duke  of  Northumber- 
lande. 

The  Duke  of  Suffolke. 

The  Lord  Privie  Seale. 

The  Lord  Marques  North- 
ampton. 

The  Earle  of  Huntington. 


The  Earle  of  Pembroke. 
Lord  Chamberlaine. 
Lord  Warden  of  Sinck 

Portes. 

Sir  Edward  North. 
Sir  Phillip  Hobbie. 
Mr.  Mason,  Secretarie. 
Sir  Robert  Bowes. 
Sir  Richard  Cotton. 


Saterday,  the  11  of  June,  at  a  Court  of  Aldermen  kept  in  the 
Guildehall,  one  Thomas  Chapell,  merchant,  occupyinge  uphoulstry 
dwellinge  in  Cornehill,  was  iudged  by  the  sayd  Court  for  that  he 
had  a  yarde  of  false  measure  which  lacked  a  good  ynche  of  the  For  false  measure, 
length,  and  presented  to  my  Lord  Mayor  by  one  Mr.  Holmes, 
secretary  to  the  Duke  of  Northumberland;  which  sayd  Chappell 
was  had  from  the  Guyldhall  to  Leadenhall,  and  there  sett  in  the 
stockes,  and  the  yardes  hanged  ouer  his  head,  with  a  paper  written 
for  false  measure,  and  so  satt  from  a  quarter  of  an  hour  before  xii  of 
the  clocke  till  ii  of  the  clocke  in  the  sayd  stockes,  and  then  dis- 
charged and  sent  home  to  his  house. 

Monday,  the  27  of  June,  1552,  one  Thomas  Harvie,  a  baker  in  Pillorye. 
Southwarke,  was  set  on  the  pillory  in  Southwarke  for  lackinge  six 
ounces  waight  in  a  penny  loafe,  and  judged  by  a  whole  Court  of 
Aldermen,  the  21  of  this  moneth,  and  lay  euer  since  in  the  Counter, 
trustinge  that  he  should  haue  scaped  from  that  punishment,  but  yt 
prevayled  not. 

Monday  the  1  of  August,  beinge  the  day  of  the  election  of  the  ]?lec.tlon  of  the 
Sheriues  of  London,   Mr.  John   Grymes,  clothworker,  was  by  the 
Commons  elected  Sheriff  for  the  year  followinge,  which  sayd  Grymes  worker.rym 


72 

A.D.  1552.  was  lame  and  chosen  more  for  displeasure  then  for  loue,  because  he 

intended  to  goe  out  of  the  City  into  the  country,  and  allso  for 
because  he  would  giue  nothinge  to  the  settinge  up  of  the  godly 
acte  and  provision  [which]  was  beginninge  for  releife  of  the  poore 
of  the  sayd  City;  wheruppon  a  court  of  aldermen  was  kept  in  the 
guyldhall  the  Fryday  followinge,  beinge  the  v  of  August;  the  sayd 
Grymes  after  longe  examination  and  sute,  declaringe  his  unhability 
and  im potency e,  was  set  to  his  fyne  of  ii  c  t.  accordinge  to  an  acte  of 
commen  counsell  provyded  in  that  behalfe ;  and  was  bound  to  the 
Chamberlayne  with  Southwoode,  goldsmyth,  and  Kikethorne,  haber- 
dasher, his  sonne-in-lawe,  to  pay  i  c  on  Michaelmas  even  next 
comminge,  which  should  be  payd  to  him  that  should  succede  [in] 
his  rome  of  the  shryvealty,  and  L  t  at  Christmas  next  comminge, 
and  the  other  L  i  at  the  Annuntiation  of  Our  Lady  next  ensueinge, 
which  two  payments  of  c  i  is  due  by  Act  of  Commen  Counsell  to 
the  Chamber  of  London  to  the  use  of  the  Citie;  whereupon  the 
morrowe  after,  beinge  the  vi  of  August,  the  Commons  were  newe 
assembled  in  theyr  liueries  againe  for  a  newe  election  of  another 
sheriffe  in  his  rome;  fyrst  a  Common  Counsell  called  up  before  my 
Lord  Mayor  and  th'  Aldermen  the  same  daye  was  declared  to  them 
by  Mr.  Recorder  of  his  dispensation  for  a  fyne  of  ii  C  i  accordinge  to 
the  acte,  but  then  elegible  againe;  whereupon  the  sayd  Grymes 
request  was  to  be  clerely  discharged  of  that  office,  and  all  other  for 
euer,  which  at  length  was  granted  him,  but  the  ct.  which  the 
Chamber  of  London  should  haue  was  by  this  Common  Counsell 
given  from  the  use  of  the  Chamber  to  the  use  of  the  poore  newe 
elected,  as  a  benevolence  from  the  Chamber.  Allso  that  day  by 
this  Common  Counsell  newe  enacted,  that  yf  any  more  hereafter 
should  be  set  to  their  fyne  after  another  election  that  the  fyne  of 
2  c  1.  should  halfe  go  to  the  use  of  the  poore  and  the  other  halfe  to 
the  use  of  the  Chamber.  This  done  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Alder- 
2nd  election.  men  departed  downe  into  the  great  hall  to  a  newe  election  of  a 

bak°eTS  Clayt°n         sheriife  in  his  rome;  which  sayd  newe   election   fell   to    Thomas 
Clayton,  baker,  dwellinge  on  St.  Mary  Hill  by  Bellinesgate,  which 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  73 

A.D.  1552 

that  daye  was  chosen  for  one  of  the  sheriffes  for  the  City  of  London 
and  Middlesex  for  the  yere  ensuynge.  After  this  the  sayd  Clayton 
repayred  to  my  Lord  Mayor  divers  tymes,  declaringe  his  impos- 
sibility and  great  age,  whereby  he  was  not  able  to  perfourme  the 
sayd  office ;  whereupon  after  diuers  consultations  my  Lord  Mayor 
caused  a  court  of  Aldermen  with  a  newe  assembly  of  the  Commons 
to  be  called  the  xv  of  August.  First  the  sayd  Mr.  Clayton  called 
afore  the  Court  of  Aldermen  declared  his  great  age  and  impossibility 
of  goodes,  beinge  willinge  to  take  the  office  if  his  substance  and 
power  were  accordinglye,  whereupon  they  agreed  to  sett  him  to  his 
fyne  of  ii  c  i  accordinge  to  the  lawe,  which  at  length  he  agreed  unto, 
which  should  be  to  pay  i  C  i  in  hand  within  3  dayes,  which  should 
goe  to  the  poore,  and  1  i  at  Christmas  next  comminge,  and  H  at 
the  Annuntiation  of  Our  Lady  next  ensuynge  to  the  behoofe  of 
the  Chamber,  upon  which  he  ymedyately  should  bringe  suretyes 
to  be  bound  with  him  for  the  perfourmaunce  of  the  same  to  the 
Chamberlaine  of  London,  which  he  did,  and  Messrs.  Collins,  Jack- 
son, Alleine,  and  Davie,  wardens  of  the  bakers,  were  bound  to 
the  Chamberlaine  with  him  for  the  perfourmaunce  of  the  sayd 
fyne,  which  done  my  Lord  Mayor  caused  a  Commen  Counsell 
to  be  called  up,  declaringe  to  them  that  they  had  done.  And 
the  said  Mr.  Clayton  declaringe  his  minde  afore  the  sayd  Comen 
Counsell  as  afore  to  my  Lord  Mayor  and  aldermen,  desyred  their 
favour  and  good  willes  allso  therein,  to  be  clerely  discharged  j^n  Browne,  mercer, 
of  all  manner  of  offices  for  the  sayd  fyne  for  euer,  he  being  put 
apart;  at  length  it  was  graunted  him.  This  done,  my  Lord 
Mayor  and  aldermen  departed  downe  to  the  great  hall  for  a  newe 
election,  Mr.  Recorder  first  declaringe  to  the  Commons  of  the  im- 
possibility and  age  of  the  sayd  Clayton,  and  allso  of  his  fyne;  they 
then  nominatinge  vii  persons  in  the  election,  whereof  they  draue  yt 
to  two,  which  were  Mr.  Harper,  merchant  taylor,  and  Mr.  John 
Browne,  mercier;  the  sayd  Mr.  Harper  beinge  then  present  in  the 
hall  came  up  into  the  Hastinges  Court  y mediately  and  desired  the 
Commons  to  be  good  to  him,  sayinge  that  his  substance  and  goodes 

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74  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1552.  were  out  of  his  handes,  desiringe  them  to  favour  him  for  that  tyme, 

and  hereafter  he  would  be  glad  to  take  the  office  if  it  shall  so 
chaunce  on  him,  which  they  agreed  unto,  and  so  tryed  againe  with 
handes  betweene  him  and  Mr.  Browne.  The  election  fell  whole  to 
Mr.  Browne,  and  so  the  sheriffes  with  the  heades  and  wardens  of  the 
Company  presented  the  election  to  my  Lord  Mayor  according  to 
the  custome,  which  done  the  Commons  departed.  After  yt  was 
declared  to  my  Lord  Mayor  that  the  said  Mr.  Browne  should  be 
in  towne  or  ells  newly  gone  forth,  whereupon  my  Lord  Mayor 
sent  the  common  sergeant  at  armes  to  his  house  ymediately  to  bid 
him  to  dine  with  my  Lord  Mayor,  who  had  answere  that  he  was 
rydden  into  Darbishire  with  the  gentlewoman  his  wyfe,  and  had 
taken  theyr  horses  at  x  of  the  clocke,  supposinge  they  would  lye 
that  night  at  St.  Albones  or  at  Dunstable  at  the  farthest.  Upon  this 
aunswer  my  Lord  Mayor  caused  the  common  hunt  to  ryde  that 
afternone  after  him  ;  he  meetinge  with  him  early  on  the  morrowe, 
being  the  xvi  day,  havinge  a  letter  with  him  from  my  Lord  Mayor. 
And  so  he  returned  backe  to  London  againe  and  came  to  supper 
to  my  Lord  Mayors.  After  diuers  communications  had  with  him 
by  the  sayd  Lord  Mayor,  a  court  of  aldermen  was  warned  againe 
the  morrowe,  beinge  the  xvii  of  August,  before  whom  the  sayd  Mr. 
Browne  was  called,  he  declaringe  before  them  that  he  was  not  a 
man  of  substance  nor  able  to  perfourme  therome,  but  declaringe  his 
obedience,  and  that  he  neuer  had  occupyed  no  trade  of  merchaun- 
dise,  but  livinge  as  a  gentleman  on  his  landes  and  his  office  as  the 
Kinges  seruant,  as  paymaster  in  one  of  the  Kinges  mintes  of  the 
Tower.  This  done  the  sayd  court  desyred  him  to  take  respite  till  the 
xixth  day,  and  then  to  make  his  answere;  in  the  meane  tyme  the 
aldermen  of  the  mercers  with  the  wardens  of  the  Company  caused 
the  liuery  of  the  Mercers  to  be  assembled  at  their  hall,  havinge  the 
sayd  Mr.  Browne  afore  them,  declaringe  to  him  what  worshipp 
yt  should  be  to  him  to  take  the  sayd  office  on  him  yf  he  knewe 
himselfe  able  for  yt,  he  beinge  a  citizen  borne,  his  grandfather  and 
father  allso  both  bearinge  the  offices  of  the  Lord  Mayor  and  sheriffes 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  75 

of  London,  and  further  offringe  him  diuers  thinges  to  ayde  and         A.D.  1552. 

help  him  with ;  but  all  would  not  prevayle ;  wherupon  aunswere  was 

sent  from  him  to   my  Lord  Mayor.      A  newe  assemblye  o'f  the 

aldermen  and  commens  was  warned  to  be  at  the  Guildhall  the  sayd 

xixth  of  August,  the  which  day  my   Lord  Mayor  and  aldermen 

called  the  sayd  Mr.  Browne  before  them  to  knowe  his  minde,  which 

soberly  and  discretely  he  declared  to  them,  not  beinge  of  substance 

for  the  sayd  rome;  wheruppon  they  desyred  him  to  depart   out 

of  the  counsell  chamber   for   a   while;    they,    after   debatinge   of 

the  matter  accordinge  to  the  lawes  of  the  citye,  what  might  be 

done  therein;  after  callinge  him  afore  them  againe,   shewed  him 

that   they   could   not  dispence  with  him,  but  to  paye  his   fyne, 

wherupon  a  Common    Counsell   was  called   upp,   and   there    Mr. 

Brown  declared  his  minde  afore  them  so  soberly  and  discreetly, 

shewinge  his  unhability  and  lack  of  substance,  that  they  had  great 

marvaile  to  hear  his  wisdome.     They  most  hartely  desyringe  him 

to  take  the  rome  on  him.      After  my   Lord   Mayor  and  aldermen 

departed  to  the  counsell  chamber  againe,  shewinge  him  that  eyther 

he  must  take  the  office  on  him,  or  elles  he  must  pay  ii  ci  accordinge 

to  the  lawe  or  euer  they  could  goe  to  a  newe  election,  who  at 

length  graunted  to  their  requestes  ;  then  they  further  declared  to 

him  that  he  must  fynde  suerties  with  him  for  the  payment  of  the 

sayd  fyne  afore  they  must  proceede  to  the  election ;  then  he  desyringe 

their  favour  for  dayes  of  payment,  and  on  his  owne  bonde  allso,  at 

last  his  request  was  graunted,  he  to  be  bound  to  the  Chamberlaine 

by  recognisance  to  pay  i  c  i.  at  the  feast  of  All  Sainctes  next  com- 

minge,  1. 1  at  the  feast  of  the  Purification  of  Our  Lady  next  ensuinge, 

and  1. 1  at  the  feast  of  Pentecost  then  next  folio winge,  which  bond 

he  acknowledged,  and  so  they  declared  yt  to  the  Common  Counsell. 

And  then  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  went  downe  to  the  great 

hall  to  proceede  to  a  newe  election.     Mr.  Recorder  first  shewinge  4th  election, 

to  the   Commons  howe  they  should  put  all  malice  and  partiallity 

aparte,  and  frely  accordinge  to  theyr  charter  to  elect  such  a  sad  and 

substantiall  person  to  the  sayd  rome  that  they  noe  more  proceede 


76  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1552.  to  any  more  election  ;  shewinge  them  further,  that  he  neuer  hard  or 
knewe  of  so  many  elections  as  they  lately  had  made,  which  might 
be  taken  for  great  slander  of  the  citizens,  and  allso  against  theire 
charter. 

This  done,  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  departed  accordinge 
to  ould  custome;  then  the  Commons  nominatinge  John  Maynarde, 
mercer,  William  Chester,  draper,  Kobert  Mellis,  merchaunt  taylor, 
and  John  Richmond,  armorer,  to  be  for  the  election  ;  they  tryinge 
yt  by  handes,  the  election  fell  to  Mr.  Maynard,  mercer,  and  so 
presented  to  my  Lord  Mayor;  and  so  the  Commons  departed.  This 
sayd  Mr.  Maynard  nowe  elected  had  bene  at  Venice  this  yere,  and 
came  from  thence  to  his  house  at  Popler  from  thence  about  the  23 
of  July  last  past,  whereby  as  the  report  goeth  he  should  gayne 
great  substance  upon  bargaines  that  he  had  made  afore  tyme,  to  be 
payd  when  he  had  bene  at  Venice,  and  returned  thence  againe. 
Likewise  he  hath  made  diuers  bargaines  aforetyme  to  be  payd  when 
he  should  be  sheriffe  of  London,  so  that  men  thinke  this  election 
was  procured,  which  should  be  for  his  great  advantage  and  profitt. 

Memorandum :  The  20  of  July  the  house  of  the  Grey  Fryers 
beganne  to  be  builded  a  for  the  fatherles  children.  Allso  the  latter 
end  of  that  moneth  the  church  of  St.  Thomas  hospitall  in  South- 
warke  was  begunne  to  be  builded  for  poore  and  impotent  persons, 
lame  and  sicke. 

Allso  about  the  7  or  12  of  August,  diuers  strange  fishes,  as 
dolphins,  were  taken  in  the  Thames  at  diuers  tymes  betwene  Woll- 
wiche  and  Grenewiche. 

The  28  of  September,  Mr.  John  Maynard,  mercer,  was  sworne 
sheriffe  with  Mr.  William  Garret,b  alderman,  elected  by  my  Lord 
Mayor,  and  received  i  c  i  by  the  handes  of  Mr.  Chamberlaine  for 
John  Grymes,  clothworker,  which  refused  the  sayd  office  the  first 
of  August,  beinge  the  day  of  the  election  of  the  sheriffe. 

a  "  The  26  of  July,  began  the  preparing  of  the  Gray  Friers  house  in  London." — 
Stow,  p.  608. 

h  Variously  spelled  Gerard,  Garrard,  or  Garrett. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  77 

The  29  of  September,  beinge  Michaelmas  day  and  the  day  of  the  A-r>- 1552- 
election  of  the  Lord  Mayor,  there  was  a  sermon  made  in  the  Guild- 
hall Chappell  by  Mr.  Sampson,  parson  of  All  Hallowes  in  Bread 
Strele,  in  the  stead  of  the  Communion  of  late  yeares  accustomed, 
and  after  that  they  proceeded  to  the  election  of  the  Lord  Mayor,  and 
then  was  chosen  Mr.  George  Barnes,  alderman  and  haberdasher, 
Lord  Mayor  for  the  yeare  ensueinge. 

About  the  7  and  8  of  October,  two  great  fishes  called  whirle- 
poolesa  were  taken  and  slayne  about  Wollwich,  which  were  chased 
2  dayes  and  2  nightes  ere  they  were  slaine,  and  they  were  drawne 
at  2  barges  through  London  bridge  the  ix  of  October,  and  so 
brought  to  the  Kinges  bridge  at  his  place  of  Whitehall  to  shewe 
the  Kinge,  who  came  thither  after  his  progresse  the  10  October  at 
night. 

Memorandum  :  That  in  this  moneth  of  October,  at  the  shippinge  A  prest  to  the  Kinge 
to  Bawmesb  marte  for  the  Merchaunt  Adventurers,  the  Kinge  and 
his  Counsell  demaunded  of  the  sayd  merchauntes  by  way  of  prest, 
of  euery  brode  cloth  shipped  to  the  sayd  marte  xx  s.  sterling,  to  be 
payd  at  Antwarpe  for  [a]  certaine  debt  of  the  Kinges,  and  they  to 
have  the  Kinges  bonde  for  the  repayment  of  y t  againe,  which  did 
amount  to  xlviii  M I  and  above. 

The  17  of  October,  beinge  the  even  of  St.  Luke,  the  Sergeantes 
feast  was  kept  at  Grayes  Inne,  in  Holborne,  Mr.  Robert  Brooke, 
Recorder  of  London,  beinge  the  principall  of  the  newe  sergeantes 
and  six  more  besyde  him ;    my   Lord  Mayor  with  the  aldermen  The  Sergeantes  feast 
bidden  to  the  sayd  feast ;  the  aldermen  assemblinge  at  my  Lord  at  Greys  Inne' 
Mayor's  house,  and  soe  rode  from  thence  up  Fryday  Streat,  through 
Cheapsyde  and  out  at  Newegate,  all  in  their  skarlett  gownes,  to  the 
sayd  Greyes  Inne ;  where  sat  at  the  high  bord  in  the  hall  my  Lord 
Chauncellor,  with  other  Lordes.     At  the  seconde  borde  my  Lord 

a  This  word  is  used  in  Stow. 

b  Boom,  a  town  in  the  province  of  Antwerp,  Belgium,  at  the  junction  of  the 
Brussels  Canal  with  the  Rupel,  12  miles  south  of  Antwerp  city.  Boom,  being  ad- 
mirably situated  for  trade,  is  a  busy  inland  port. 


78 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1552. 


Mayor  and  the  Aldermen  and  Sheriffes,  which  were  xx  in  nomber  ; 
at  the  3rd  borde,  beinge  in  the  middest  of  the  hall,  the  judges  with 
the  ould  sergeauntes  at  the  lawe;  at  the  4th  borde,  which  was  next 
the  cupbord,  the  newe  sergeantes  all  on  one  syde,  two  of  them  to  a 
measse;  and  there  was  another  table  next  to  the  judges  which  was 
voyde ;  this  feast  was  but  one  dinner,  x  dishes  to  the  first  course 
and  viii  to  the  last  course,  and  after  wafers  and  ipocras. 


Newe  service  in 
churches. 


Copes  and  vestments 
put  downe. 


EDWARDI  VI.     Anno  6°. 

The  first  day  of  November,  beinge  All  Hallowes  daye,  the  newe 
seruice  of  the  booke  called  the  Common  Prayer a  beganne  in 
Pawles,  the  Bishop  of  London  executinge  himselfe.b  And  in  the 
afternoone  the  sayd  Bishop  preached  at  Pawles  Crosse,c  my  Lord 
Mayor  and  the  Aldermen  beinge  present  at  the  sermon. 

This  day  all  copes  and  vestments  were  put  downe  through 
all  England,  and  the  prebendaries  of  Pawles  left  of  their  hoodes, 
and  the  Bishops  their  crosses/  so  that  all  prestes  and  clarkes  should 
use  none  other  vestmentes,  at  service  nor  communion,  but  surplisses 

a  The  new  Common  Prayer  Book,  according  to  the  alterations  agreed  upon  in  the 
former  year,  with  the  form  of  making  bishops,  priests,  and  deacons,  was  appointed 
to  be  received  everywhere  after  the  feast  of  All  Saints.  It  was,  by  the  King's  order, 
translated  into  French  by  Francis  Philip,  for  the  use  of  Guernsey,  Jersey,  and 
Calais,  which  translation  was  printed  in  the  following  year,  1553. — See  Collier's 
Ecclesiastical  History,  ii.  p.  321,  and  Strype,  p.  377. 

b  "  The  bishop  of  London,  Dr.  Ridley,  executing  the  service  in  Paules  Church  in 
the  forenoone  in  his  rochet  onely,  without  coape  or  vestment,  preached  in  the  quier." 
—Stow,  p.  608. 

c  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  (p.  76)  adds,  "  and  stode  there  tyll  it  was  nere 
honde  v  a  cloke,  and  the  Mayer  nor  aldermen  came  not  within  Powlles  church,  nor 
the  craftes,  as  they  were  wonte  to  doo,  for  be-cause  they  were  so  wary  of  hys  longe 
stondynge." 

d  Several  Acts  were  passed  by  the  Parliament  this  year,  advancing  the  Reforma- 
tion in  a  Protestant  sense.  Among  other  things,  the  marriage  of  the  clergy  was 
declared  good  and  valid,  which  had  been  for  some  time  considered  by  the  people  as 
only  tolerated. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  79 

oncly :  as  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  in  the  booke  of  Common  Prayer          A.D.  1552. 
more  at  large  is  sett  out.a 

After  the  feast  of  All  Saintes,  the  upper  quire  in  St.  Pawles 
Church,  in  London,  where  the  high  aulter  stoode,  was  broken 
downeb  and  all  the  quire  thereabout,  and  the  table  of  the  communion 
was  set  in  the  lower  quire  where  the  preistes  singe.c 

Memorandum :  The  23  of  November,  the  poore  children  of  the  The  entringe  of  the 
City  of  London  were  taken  into  Christes  Hospitall,  late  the  house 
of  the  Grey  Fryers  in  London :  And  allso  that  daye  they  tooke 
other  sicke  and  poore  people  into  the  hospitall d  in  South warke : 
In  which  two  places  the  children  and  poore  people  should  haue 
meate,  drinke,  lodginge,  and  cloths,  of  the  almes  of  the  citye. 

The  3  of  December,  1552,  the  Earle  of  Arundell  was  discharged 
out  of  the  Tower  of  London,  and  went  from  thence  to  his  place  by 
Strand. 

The  9  of  December,  there  was  one  Anthony  Fowlkes,  a  gentle-  One  sett  on  tne 
man,  set  on  the  pillory  in  Cheape,  and  had  his  eare  hard  nayled  to 
the  pillory,  for  deceivinge  certeine  citizens  for  mercery  wares,  hosen, 
and  other,  in  offringe  them  a  bagge  with  newe  counters  sealed  for 
a  pawne,  sayinge  yt  was  gould,  till  he  would  bringe  mony,  with 
which  he  was  taken  well,  and  for  his  deceipt  was  judged  by  my 
Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  at  a  court  in  the  guyld  hall,  the  viiith 

a  This  relates  to  the  preface  prefixed  to  the  First  Service  Book  of  Edward  VI. 
concerning  ceremonies,  the  same  that  is  still  before  the  Common  Prayer  Book,  and 
the  Act  of  Parliament  passed  in  1549  for  its  authorisation. 

b  "  Item,  the  xxv  day  of  October  was  the  pluckynge  downe  of  alle  the  alteres  and 
chappelles  in  alle  Powlles  churche,  with  alle  the  toumes,  at  the  commandment  of  the 
byshoppe,  then  beynge  Nicolas  Rydley,  and  alle  the  goodly  stoneworke  that  stode 
behynde  the  hye  alter,  and  the  place  for  the  prest,  dekyne,  and  subdekyne,  and  wolde 
a  pullyd  downe  John  a  Gauntes  tome,  but  there  was  a  commandment  [to]  the  con- 
trary from  the  counsell,  and  soo  yt  was  made  alle  playne,  as  it  aperes." — Grey  Friars' 
Chronicle,  p.  75. 

c  About  this  time  David's  Psalms  began  to  be  turned  into  English  rhyme  by 
Thomas  Sternhold,  one  of  the  grooms  of  the  King's  Privy  Chamber;  he  versified 
thirty-seven,  and  the  remainder  were  completed  by  John  Hopkins  and  others. — See 
Heylin,  p.  127. 

d  "  Of  Saint  Thomas  in  South  warke.  "—Stow. 


80  WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1552.  of  December,  to  haue  this  penaunce.  And  when  he  had  stand  on 
the  pillory  till  the  clocke  was  past  xii.  he  would  not  rent  his  eare, 
but  one  of  the  bedles  slitted  yt  upwards  with  a  penkniffe  to  loose  yt, 
and  so  he  was  had  to  prison  againe  for  2  dayes  after. 

Memorandum:  On  Christmas  day  in  the  afternone,  when  my 
Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  rode  to  Pawles,  all  the  children  of 
Christes  Hospitall  stoode  in  aray,  from  St.  Lawrence  Lane,  in 
Cheape,  toward  Pawles,  all  in  one  liuery  of  gownes  of  russet  cotton 
and  red  caps,  both  men  children  and  the  maydens,  [the  latter  with] 
kircheifes  on  theyr  heades,a  all  the  masters  of  the  hospitall  begin- 
ninge  first,  next  them  the  phisicion  and  iiii  surgeons,  with  bandes 
about  theyr  neckes  of  white  and  grene  satten,  and  betwene  euery 
xx  children,  one  woman  keeper,  which  children  were  in  number 
xviixx. 

[A.D.  1553].  This  yeare  b  was  Mr.  George  Ferrers  c  Lord  of  merry  disportes  at 

the  Court  at  Grenewich;d  Mr.  Maynard,  shiriue  of  London,  had 
allso  a  lord  of  misrule,6  which  received  the  kinges  lord  into  the 
City. 

A  good  mayor.  This  mayor f  after  Christmas  punished  diuers  colyers  by  settinge 

them  on  the  pillory  and  rydinge  about  the  city  for  yll  fillinge  of 
their  sackes,  and  caused  quarters  and  demi-quarters  to  be  had  in 
diuers  places  of  the  city  to  measure  coles,  and  had  halfe  a  quarter 

a  This  passage  is  more  clearly  expressed  in  Stow  (p .  608) :  "  all  in  one  livory  of 
russet  cotton,  the  men  children  with  red  caps,  the  women  children  [with]  kerchiffes 
on  their  heads." 

b  "  the  4th  day  of  January."— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  76. 

c  George  Ferrars. — See  Machyn's  Diary,  p  28. 

d  "After  the  Duke  [of  Somerset's]  condemnation,  it  was  thought  fit  to  have 
something  done  for  averting  the  Kings  minde  from  taking  thought;  and,  to  that  end, 
one  George  Ferrers,  a  gentleman  of  Lincoln's  Inne,  was  appointed  in  the  Christmas 
time  to  be  Lord  of  Misrule;  who  so  carried  himself  that  he  gave  great  delight  to 
many,  and  some  to  the  King,  but  not  in  proportion  to  his  heavinesse." — Baker's 
Chronicle,  p.  330. 

e  Sergeant  Vawce,  in  Stow,  p.  608,  where  a  full  account  of  George  Ferrars'  visit 
to  the  City  will  be  found. 

f  Sir  George  Barne. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  81 

measure  caryed  after  him  diuers  dayes  as  he  rode  to  way  bread,  and          AtD-  1553. 

sold  euery  halfe  quarter  of  coles  for  vi  d.  charginge  the  constables 

to  see  the  people  serued  after  that  rate;  allso,  he  punished  bawdes 

and  whores  by  rydinge  in  cartes,  and  whipped  vagabondes  out  of 

the  city;  so  that  all  malefactours  feared  him  for  his  good  executinge 

of  justice. 

This  yere,  after  Candlemas,  the  prises  of  corne  begann  to  fall,  so 
that  wheat  was  sould  for  xii  s.  a  quarter,  and  my  Lord  Mayor  set 
downe  the  syse  of  bread,  which  syse  in  the  beginninge  of  his  tyme 
was  but  xx  ounces  the  peny  wheaten  loafe,  and  nowe  he  raysed 
yt  to  xxxiv.  ounces,  and  lyke  to  be  lower. 

Memorandum:  The  first  day  of  March,  1552,  beganne  the  first  The  first  beginninge  of 


Session  of  the  seconde  Parliament  of  our   Souereigna   Lord  Kinge  Of  ^Kinge  Ed\varde  the 


Edward  the  Vlth,  all   the   Lordes  spirituall  and  temporall  assem-  6>  Anno  re£-  7 

blinge  that  daye  in  the  Kinges   Maiesties  Court  of  Whitehall,  at 

Westminster,  in  their  robes;  first  a  sermon  made  by  Doctor  Kidley, 

Bishop  of  London,  in  the  Kinges  chappell,  and  after  the  communion 

was  kept;  the  Kinges  Maiestie  with  diuers  other  lordes  received  the 

communion  that  daye.     Then  the   Kinges  Maiestie,  with  all  the 

Lords  in  their  degrees,  went  in  order  into  the  Kinges  great  chamber, 

on  the  Kinges  syde,  which  that  daye   was  prepared  for  the  Lords 

House.     The  Kinges  Maiestie  sittinge   there  under  his   cloth    of 

estate,  and  all  the  Lordes  after  their  degrees.      Then  the  Bishop  of 

Ely,  Doctor  Goodrick,  Lord  Chauncellor  of  England,  made  a  pro- 

position for  the  Kinge,  for  the  assemblinge  of  the  sayd  Parliament. 

The  knightes  and  burgesses  in  London,  in  scarlet,  with  diuers  other 

knightes  and  burgesses  of  other  shyres,  beinge  there   present  at  the 

sayd  proposition,  which  ended,  the  Kinge  and  the  Lordes  departed. 

The  cause  of  the  assembly  in  the  court  this  daye  was  because  the 

Kinges  Maiestie  was  a  litle  diseased  by  could  takinge  ;  a  therefore, 

a  The  young  King  had  been  seized  ever  since  January  with  a  distemper,  which  at 
length  brought  him  to  his  grave.    In  fact,  ever  since  April  2,  1552,  when  he  fell 
sick  of  the  small  pox  and  measles,  his  lungs  had  been  slightly  affected,  "  which 
probably  might  turn  to  a  consumption."  —  See  Edward's  Journal  p.  49. 
CAMD.  SOC.  M 


82  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.  y  t  was  not  meete  for  his  Grace  to  ryde  to  Westminstr  in  the  ayre ; 
the  morrowe  after,  all  the  burgesses  sat  in  the  Common  House  at 
Westminster,  and  there  chose  for  their  Speaker  Mr.  Dyer,  of  the 
Temple,  which  was  one  of  the  newe  sergeantes  at  the  lawe  that  was 
last  made,  and  so  went  from  thence  to  the  court  and  presented 
him  to  the  Counsell. 

The  2  day  of  March  all  the  Bishops  and  Deanes  of  the  Spiritu- 
alty assembled  at  Pawles  for  their  convocation  in  their  robes,  the 
Bishop  of  Rochester,  Mr.  Scorye,  makinge  the  sermon  before  them 
in  Latten,  in  Our  Lady  Chappell  behinde  the  quire. 

The  parliament  ended.  The  31  of  March,  beinge  Goodfryday,  the  Parliament  brake  up 
and  was  clerely  dissolued  a  at  the  Kinges  place  at  Whitehall  at  vii 
of  the  clock  at  night;  the  Kinges  Maiestie  sittinge  in  his  robes  in 
the  great  chamber  on  the  Kynges  syde,  where  the  first  Session 
beganne  with  all  the  Lordes  spirituall  and  temporal!,  in  their  robes 
likewise. 

The  children  of  Christs  Memorandum :  The  3d  of  Aprill,  beinge  the  Monday  after  Easter 
day,  the  children  of  Christes  Hospitall  in  London  came  from  thence 
thorough  the  City  to  the  sermon  kept  at  St.  Maries  Spittle,  all 
clothed  in  plunket  coates,  with  redd  cappes,  and  certeine  of  the 
may  den  children  likewise  in  the  same  liuery,  with  kerchers  on  their 
heades,  all  the  aldermen  and  masters  of  the  house  goeing  after  them 
with  grene  staues  in  their  handes,  the  surgeons  and  officers  with  the 
bedles  goeinge  before  them,  and  the  matron  and  other  women tendinge 
on  them,  where  was  made  a  great  skaffolde  with  viii  seates,b  one 
aboue  another,  and  the  skaffold  couered  with  canvas  and  rayled 
before  yt,  where  all  the  children  sat,  all  the  masters  commoners, 
with  the  matron  sittinge  highest,  and  the  children  in  rowe  under 
them,  and  all  the  surgeons  and  officers  before  the  children,  next  the 
rayles,  which  was  a  godly  sight  to  behold. 

~^^ 

a  The  Parliament  sat  but  one  month,  the  Court  having  no  further  need  of  its 

assistance  after  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  had  procured  a  subsidy  for  the  King 
and  had  succeeded  in  tarnishing  the  memory  of  the  late  Duke  of  Somerset. 
b  Stages  or  forms. 


83 

The  10  of  Aprill,  beinge  the  Monday  after  Lowe  Sonday,  my          A  D  1553 
Lord  Mayor  was  sent  for  to  the  Court  to  the  Kinges  Counsell,  and  Brydewell  giuen  to 
there  the  Kinges  Maiestie  gaue  to  them  for  the  workehouse  for  the  i 
poore  and  ydle  persons  of  the  City  of  London  his  place  of  Bryde- 
well in  Flete  Streat,  and  vii  c  marks  landes  of  the  Savoy  rentes,  with 
all  the  beddes  and  beddinge  of  the   Savoy,a  towardes  the  mainete- 
naunce  of  the  sayd  workehouse. 

Tuesday,  the  1 1  of  Aprill,  my  Lord  Mayor  was  presented  to  the  Lord  Mayor  made 
Kinges  Maiestie  at  his  pallace  of  Whitehall  in  Westminster,  and   nig  *' 
was  made  knight  of  his  Maiestie,  which  day  the  Kinge  removed  in 
the  afternoone  to  Grenewich. 

Memorandum :  In  the  monethes  of  Aprill  and  May  this  yeare  The  Jewells  and  plate 
Commissions  were  directed  through  England  for  all  the  Church  pressed, 
goodes  remaininge  in  Cathedrall  and  parishe  Churches ,b  that  is  to 
say,  juelles,  plate,  ready  mony,  copes,  vestmentes,  with  other 
mettalles  of  brasse  and  copper,  the  Churchwardens  to  make  a  true  in- 
ventory of  all  such  goodes,  and  to  bringe  [it]  to  the  Commissioners ; c 
and,  after  the  inventories  were  brought  in,  all  such  goodes  were 
taken  away  to  the  Kinges  use,  that  is  to  say,  all  the  jewelles  of 
gould  and  siluer,  as  crosses,  candlestickes,  censers,  chalyces,  and  all 
other  jewelles  of  gold  and  siluer,  and  ready  mony,  which  should  be 
delivered  to  the  master  of  the  Kinges  juelles  in  the  Tower  of 
London,  and  all  copes  and  vestmentes  of  cloth  of  gould,  cloth  of 
tyssue,  and  cloth  of  siluer,  to  be  deliuered  to  the  master  of  the 

a  "  of  the  hospitall  of  the  Savoy."— Stow. 

b  Heylin  and  other  favourers  of  ecclesiasticism  urge  from  hence  that  the  King 
must  have  been  ill-principled  as  to  the  interests  of  the  Church,  because  he  was  now 
in  the  sixteenth  year  of  his  age,  and  yet  made  no  scruple  to  sign  an  order  for  visiting 
the  churches  and  taking  thence  all  the  plate  and  ornaments  under  the  flimsy  pretext 
of  their  being  superfluous.  All  this  was  done,  say  they,  under  colour  of  selling  the 
superfluities  and  giving  the  money  to  the  poor,  who  had,  however,  the  least  share. 
Burnet,  on  the  other  hand,  observes,  that,  when  all  is  done,  it  was  only  calling  in  the 
superfluous  plate  that  lay  in  churches,  more  for  pomp  than  use. 

c  The  Commissioners  or  Visitors  had  instructions  to  compare  the  churchwardens' 
returns  with  the  inventories  made  in  former  visitations,  and  to  see  what  was  em- 
bezzled, and  how. 


84  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.  Kinges  wardrobe  in  London,  and  all  other  vestmentes  and  copes 
to  be  sould,  and  the  mony  to  be  deliuered  to  the  Kinges  treasurer 
Sir  Edmunde  Peckham,  knight.  Reserued  to  euery  cathedrall 
and  parishe  church  a  chales  or  cup,  or  more,  with  tableclothes 
for  the  communion  borde,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Commissioners.3 
Pawles  Church  suppressed  the  latter  ende  of  Maye;b  my  Lord 
Mayor,  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  my  Lord  Cheife  Justice,  with 
other,  beinge  Commissioners  for  all  the  churches  of  London;  all 
the  belles  remayninge  still  in  euery  parishe  church  by  inventorye, 
with  such  other  chalisses  or  communion  cups  at  the  Kinges 
pleasure. 

This  yeare  in  Whitson  hollidayes  were  noe  sermons  kept  by  my 
Lord  Mayor  but  one  sermon  on  Whit  Sonday  at  Pawles,  made  by 
the  Bishop  of  London,  beinge  the  21  of  May,  1553. 

Attaint  passed  in  the       The  3  of  June,  beinge  Fryday,  Lord  Montague,  Cheife  Justice 
Guildehall.  of  tlie  Commen   Place,   with  Justice  Browne,  Justice  Hale,  and 

Justice  Brooke,  all  Justices  of  the  Commen  Place,  sat  on  attaint 
in  the  Guildhall  in  the  afternone,  in  my  Lord  Mayor's  Court, 
which  was  shewed  by  Sir  John  Ayliffe,  Alderman  of  London, 
and  Holte  keeper  of  Ludgate,  against  a  jury  that  passed  at  the 
suyte  of  Througher,  xxiii  substantial  Commoners  of  the  Citye, 
charged  upon  the  ishewe  of  the  pety  jury;  Mr.  Browne,  which 
was  elder  sheriffe  last  yere,  beinge  foreman  of  the  xxiiii.  Mr.  Pary 
and  Grafton  allso  of  the  sayd  jurye,  which  sayd  persons  remayned 
all  that  night  till  Saterday  in  the  morninge  at  viii  of  the  clocke  in 
the  Counsell  chamber  without  meat  or  drinke,  and  then  gaue  theyr 
verdyte,  Justice  Hales  and  Justice  Browne  takinge  their  verdyte, 

a  They  were  to  leave  in  every  church  one  or  two  chalices  of  silver,  with  linen  for 
the  communion  table  and  for  surplices;  and  to  bring  in  all  other  things  of  value  to 
the  Treasurer  of  the  King's  Household,  and  to  sell  the  rest  of  the  linen,  copes,  altar- 
cloths,  &c.  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor. 

b  "  The  25  day  of  May  satte  in  Powlles  the  comyssioners  with  the  lord  cheffe 
justes,  with  the  lorde  mayer,  and  soo  had  away  alle  the  platte,  coppys,  vestmenttes, 
wyche  drewe  unto  a  gret  gooddes  for  the  behoffe  of  the  Kynges  grace." — Grey  Friars' 
Chronicle,  p.  77. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  85 

and  gaue  their  verdite  against  the  petty  jury,  sayinge  they  gaue  an          A.D.  1553. 
untrue  and  false  verdyte,  which   was   the  first  attainte  that  had 
passed  in  many  years  in  London. 

Saterday,  beinge  the  8  of  July,  1553,  my  Lord  Mayor  was  sent  Death  of  Kinge 
for  to  the  Court  at  Grenewich  by  a  letter,  and  to  bringe  with  him  6  Edward  the  6- 
or  8  Aldermen,  6  Merchaunt  Staplers,  and  6  Merchant  Adventurers; 
which  he  did  the  same  day  in  the  afternone ;  and  when  they  were 
before  the  Counsell,  there  was  declared  secretly  the  death  of  the 
Kinges  Maiestie,  which  dyed  the  6  day  of  July,  beinge  Thursday; 
and  allso  howe  he  had  by  his  letters  patents  ordayned  for  the 
succession  of  the  imperiall  crowne  of  England  and  Ireland;  which, 
opened  unto  them  by  the  mouth  of  the  Counsell,  they  were  sworne 
to  yt  and  to  keepe  yt  secret.  The  sayd  Kinge  Edward  had 
rayned  6  yeares  full  the  28  of  January  last  past,a  and  so  much 
more,  since  which  was  in  the  7th  year  of  his  raigne. 

Monday  the  10  of  July,  at  3  of  the  clock  in  the  afternone,  Lady  The  cominge  of  the 
Jane,  wyfe  to  the  Lord  Gilford  Dudley,  one  of  the  sonnes  b  of  the  Te07e^uene  to  the 
Duke  of  Northumberland,  was  brought  by  water  from  Grenewich 
to  the  Tower  of  London  and  there  received  as  Quene  of  England, 
appointed  by  the  Kinges  letters  patentes  under  the  great  seale  of 
England,0  which  sayd  Quene  was  eldest  daughter   to   the   Lady 
Frances,  wyfe  to  the  Duke  of  Suffolke,  and  the  daughter  of  the 
late   Lady  Mary,  the  French    Quene,    [one]   of  the  daughters  of 
Kinge  Henry  the  Vllth  and  sister  of  Kinge  Henry  the  VHIth. 

Sequitur  initium  Regni  Reginse  Jahannse: 

a  The  sixth  year  of  King  Edward  VI.'s  reign  terminated  on  the  27th  January, 
1553. 

b  The  fourth  son. 

c  Her  pretensions  to  the  throne,  and  the  history  of  the  succession  to  the  Crown 
under  the  Acts  and  will  of  Henry  VIII.  and  the  letters  patent  of  Edward  VI.  are 
fully  stated  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  in  his  notes  to  the  "  Literary  Remains  of  Lady 
Jane  Grey,"  8vo.  1825. 


86 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHKONICLE. 


A.D.  1553. 


Queen  Jane. 


Execution. 


Misfortune. 


JAHANN^E  REGIN^.     Anno  1°. 

The  10  of  July  at  v  of  the  clock  a  in  the  afternone  was  proclama- 
tion made,b  with  a  trompetter,  and  2  of  the  harouldes  Kingesat  Armes, 
and  Mr.  Garret,  the  sheriffe,  rydinge  with  them,  of  the  death  of  our 
late  souereigne  Kinge  Edward  the  Vlth,  and  howe  he  had  ordeyned 
by  his  letters  patents,  bearinge  date  the  21  of  June  last,  the  sayd 
Quene  Jane  to  be  heyre  to  the  crowne  of  England  and  the  heyres 
males  of  hir  bodyc  lawfully  begotten;  which  proclamation  was 
made  in  4  partes  of  the  City  of  London,  under  the  great  scale  of 
England,  bearinge  date  the  10  daye  of  July,  in  the  Tower  of 
London,  and  the  first  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  Quene  Jane,  Quene 
of  England,  Fraunce,  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Fayth,  and  of 
the  Church  of  England  and  Ireland  the  supreme  head. 

Tuesday  the  11  day  of  July  was  one  Gilbert  Pott,  drawer  to 
Ninion  Saunders,  vintner,  dwellinge  at  the  St.  John's  Head  within 
Ludgate,  set  on  the  pillory  in  Cheapsyde,  and  had  both  his  eares 
nayled  to  the  pillory  and  cleane  cut  of  for  seditious  and  trayterous 
wordes  d  speakinge  at  the  tyme  of  the  proclamation  of  the  Quene  e 
yesternight,  a  trumpetter  blowinge,  and  a  harould  with  his  coate 
readinge  his  offence  at  the  cuttinge  of  his  eares,  and  Mr.  Garrett/ 
the  sherifFe,  seinge  the  execution ;  and  after  he  was  had  to  warde 
againe  to  the  Counter  in  the  Poultry,  where  he  had  lyne  all 
night,  which  punishment  was  done  by  the  Counselles  commaunde- 
ment. 

And  about  v  of  the  clock  at  night  the  same  afternone  the  master 
of  the  sayd  Gilbert  Pott,  which  was  Ninion  Saunders,  vintner,  and 

a  "  after  7  a  clocke  at  nyght."— Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  78. 

b  This  proclamation  is  printed  by  Grafton,  and  has  been  reprinted  by  most  of  the 
biographers  of  Lady  Jane  Grey. 

c  Stow,  after  quoting  the  first  part  of  this  paragraph,  ends  here  abruptly  with 
"&c." 

d  Full  particulars  of  the  story  of  Gilbert  Potter  or  Pott  will  be  found  in  the 
Chronicle  of  Queen  Jane  and  Queen  Mary,  pp.  115-121. 

•  Lady  Jane.  f  William  Garrard  or  Garrett. 


87 

one  John   Owen,  a  gunner,  [happening]  by  misfortune  ato  shote          A.D.  1563. 
through  London  Bridge  toward  the  Blacke  Fryers,  were  drowned 
about  St.   Mary  locke  at  London  Bridge;  the  wherry  men  were 
saved  by  their  oares. 

Memorandum:  This  Tuesday,  beinge  the  11  of  July,  at  v  of  the  Death  of  Mr.  Warreine 
clocke  at  night,  Sir  Raphe  Warreine,  knight,  alderman,  departed 
out  of  this  lyfe  at  Bednalne  Grene  at  his  house,  which  sayd 
Warreine  had  borne  the  office  of  the  mayraulty  two  tymes  b  in  the 
City  of  London,  and  was  the  auntient  alderman  of  the  Bench,  and 
euer  a  trewe  and  good  citizene  and  a  specyall  benefactor  to  the 
same,  and  that  night,  about  x  of  the  clocke,  his  bodye  was  brought 
in  a  horse  litter  to  his  house  in  London,  and  when  he  was  rypped 
there  were  three  great  stones  in  his  bladder,  and  another  litle  one 
in  one  of  his  kidneis. 

This  11  day  c  allso  tydinges  came  to  the  Counsell  that  the  Lady  Lady  Mary. 
Mary  had  proclaymed  herselfe  as  Quene  and  heyre  to  the  Crowne 
of  England  in  Norfolk  and  in  a  part  of  Suffolke,  and  had  certeine 
noblemen,  knightes,  and  gentlemen  come  to  her  to  mainetaine 
her  tytle,  and  allso  with  inumerable  companies  of  the  comon 
people. 

Thursday  the  13  of  Julye  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  with 
other  lordes  and  knightes  with  a  great  power  of  horsmen  with 
artillery  and  munitions  of  warre  departed  from  London  toward 
Norfolke  to  suppresse  the  rebelles,  as  he  tooke  them  which  had 
taken  the  Lady  Maries  parte. 

Saturday  the   15  of  July  the  gates  of  the   City  beganne  to  be  Wardinge  gates  in 

.,.,,..  1-11  -i  IT  i     •    Londoun. 

warded  with  the  citizens  by  day,  and  at  night  2  aldermen  or  their 
deputies  with  8  of  the   Common  Counsell  to  ryde  about  the  Citye 

a  Some  words  have  evidently  been  omitted  here  by  the  transcriber.  Stow  reads: 
"  Gilbert  Pot  and  John  Owen,  a  gunmaker,  both  gunners  of  the  Tower,  comming 
from  the  Tower  of  London  in  a  whirry,  and  shooting  London  bridge  towards  the 
Black  Friers,  were  drowned  at  St.  Mary  lock,  and  the  whirry  men  saued  by  their 
ores." 

b  Viz.  in  1536  and  1543.  c  Stow  apparently  refers  this  to  the  12th. 


88 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1553. 


A  sermon  at  Pawles 
Crosse. 


Joyfull  newes. 


both  within  and  without  to  peruse  and  see  the  constables  watches 
that  were  substantially  kept  from  8  of  the  clock  at  night  till  5  of 
the  clocke  in  the  morninge. 

Sonday  the  16  of  July  Doctor  Kydley,  Bishop  of  London, 
preached  at  Pawles  Crosse,  where  he  declared  in  his  sermon  of  the 
death  of  Kinge  Edward.  And  also  declared  further,  the  Lady 
Mary  and  the  Lady  Elizabeth,  sisters  to  the  Kinges  Maiestie 
departed,  to  be  illegitimate  and  not  lawfully  begotten  in  the  estate 
of  true  matrimony  accordinge  to  Gods  lawe.  And  so  found  both 
by  the  clargie  and  actes  of  Parliament  made  in  this  realme  in  Kinge 
Henry  the  Vlllts  dayes  their  father,  which  the  people  murmured 
sore  at. 

Wednesday  the  19  of  July  my  Lord  Mayor,  rydinge  in  the 
afternone  about  the  wood  wharfe  westward,  as  he  came  at  Pawles 
Wharfe  mett  with  the  Earle  of  Shrewesbery  and  Sir  John  Mason, 
clarke  of  the  Counsell,  which  spake  to  the  Lord  Mayor  secretly, 
that  he  with  both  the  sheriffes  should  mete  with  him  and  the 
Counsell  at  the  Earle  of  Pembrokes  place  at  Baynardes  Castle 
within  lesse  then  an  houre  and  such  other  of  the  aldermen  as  he 
should  thinke  best;  the  Lord  Mayor  departinge  incontinently  home, 
sent  for  certeine  aldermen  with  the  Recorder  to  meet  him  in- 
continent at  Paules  Church,  which  they  did,  and  so  went  to 
Baynardes  Castle  to  the  Counsell,  and  there  spake  with  them. 

Then  they  declaringe  to  the  Lord  Mayor  and  his  brethren  that 
he  must  ryde  with  them  into  Cheape  to  proclaim e  a  new  Quene, 
which  was  the  Lady  Maries  Grace,  daughter  to  Kinge  Henry  the  8, 
which  was  so  ioyfull  newes  that  for  ioy  all  the  people  present  that 
hard  yt  wept,  and  ere  the  Counsell  had  rydden  up  the  hill  to  Pawles 
Churchyard  the  people  were  so  great  assembled  runninge  into 
Cheap  that  the  Lordes  could  scarse  passe  by ;  the  Lord  Mayor  and 
the  counsell  comminge  to  the  Crosse  in  Cheap,  where  the  proclama- 
tion should  be  made,  Mr.  Garter,  the  Kinge  of  Armes,  in  his  riche 
coate  of  armes,  with  a  trumpetter  being  ready,  and,  [when]  the  trum- 
pett  blewe,  there  was  such  shoute  of  the  people  with  castinge  up  of 


AVRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  89 

cappes  and  cryinge,  God  saue  Quene  Mary,  that  the  style  of  the 

proclamation  could  not  be  hard,  the  people  were  so  ioyfull,  both 

man,    woman,    and    childe.     The   proclamation    there    ended,    the 

Lord  Mayor  and  all  the  Counsell  rode  strayght  to   Pawles  Church 

and  went  up  into  the  quire,  where  the  Canticle  of  Te  Deum  lauda- 

mus  was  solemply  songe  with  the  organs  goinge,  and  that  done  the  Queue  Mary. 

Counsell  departed  and  commaunded   Mr.  Garret  the  sheriffe  with 

the  Kinge  of  Armes  and  trumpetter  to  see  the  proclamation  made 

immedyately  in  other  accustomed  places  within  the  City.     All  the 

people  and  citizens  of  the  City  of  London  for  so  joy  full  newes  made 

great  and  many  fires  through  all  the  streates  and  lanes  within  the 

sayd  City,  with  settinge  tables  in  the  streates  and  banketting  allso, 

with  all  the  belles  ringinge  in  euery  parishe  church  in  London  till 

x  of  the  clock  at  night,a  that  the  inestimable  joyes  and  reioysinge 

of  the  people  cannot  be  reported. 

Lords  present  at  the  proclamation : 


The  Lord  Mayor  of  London. 
The  Earle  of  Bedforde. 
The  Earle  of  Arundell. 
The  Earle  of  Shrewesbery. 
The  Earle  of  Pembroke. 
Lord  Pagett. 
Lord  of  Worcester. 


Lord  Darcy. 

Lord  Chamberlaine. 

Lord  Cobham. 

Lord  Warden. 

Sir  Richard  Cotton,  comptroler. 

John  Baker. 

Sir  John  Masson. 


This  night,  about  ix  of  the  clock,  the  Earle  of  Arundell  and  the 
Lord  Paget  rode  in  post  to  the  Quene  with  xxx  horse  with  them, 
and  cheeringe  the  people  that  sat  banketting  about  the  bonfyres, 
askinge  them  yf  they  reioysed  not  at  their  good  newes,  which  all 
thanked  God,  and  sayd  God  saue  Quene  Mary. 

Thursday  the  20th  of  July  all  the  Lordes  of  the  Counsell  dyned 
at  my  Lord  Mayors,  and  the  Duke  of  Suffolke  and  the  Bishopp  of 
Canterberry,  and  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  Lord  Chauncellor,  with  them, 

a  "  and  for  the  most  parte  alle  nyght  tyll  the  nexte  daye  to  none."— Grey  Friars' 
Chronicle,  p.  80. 

CAMD.  SOC.  N 


90  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.  and  satt  there  in  counsell  after  dinner  till  yt  was  past  iiii  of  the 
clocke,  and  so  departed.  And  this  day  was  Te  Deum  songe  in  all 
the  parishe  churches  in  London,  and  all  the  belles  ringinge  all  the 
day  longe. 

Fry  day  the  21  of  July  tydinges  came  to  London  that  the  [day]  a 
past  about  v  of  the  clocke  at  night  the  proclamation  came  to 
Cambridge,  where  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  lay  with  his  army, 
and  that  he  hearinge  of  yt,  callinge  for  foure  trumpetters  and  a 
harrould,  which  could  not  be  founde,  rode  into  the  market  place 
with  the  Mayor  and  the  Marques  of  Northampton,  and  there  made 
proclamation  himselfe,  and  castinge  up  his  capp  after  as  if  he  had 
bene  ioyfull  of  yt;  but  the  Quene  caused  him  and  his  sonnes  to  be 
arested  that  night  as  traytours  in  the  Kinges  Colledge,  and  to  see 
them  safely  kept  ;  and  this  daye  the  campe  scattered  away  and 
departed  from  him  euery  one  towarde  his  countrye,  but  all  his 
goodes  there  and  all  the  ordinaucce  and  horses  were  stayed  for  the 
Quene. 

Saterday  the  22  of  July  the  gates  of  London  were  warded  with 
citizens  in  harness  at  euery  gate,  and  to  stay  all  suspected  persons 
that  came  from  the  campe. 

Sonday  the  23  of  July  my  Lord  Mayor  chose  in  his  house  at 
dinner  Mr.  Thomas  Offley,  alderman,  sheriffe  of  London  for  the 
yeare  ensueinge. 

Monday  the  24  of  July  the  Duke  of  Northumberlande  with  his 
sonnes  and  other  were  caryed  by  the  Earle  of  Arundell  and  the 
Lord  Pagett  from  Cambridge  towarde  London,  and  lay  at  Ware 
this  night. 

The  Duke  and  other        Tuesday  the  25  of  July,  beinge  St.  James  day,  at  iii  of  the 
Tower?"  clocke  in  the  afternone,  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  came  to  the 

Towre  of  London  by  the  conduction  of  the  Earle  of  Arundell,  with 
a  great  nomber  of  light  horsemen,  bowes,  and  spearmen,  and  came 
in  at  Bishopsgate,  all  the  streates  as  he  passed  by  standinge  with 
men  in  harnes  afore  euery  mans  dore  till  he  came  to  Tower  Wharfe, 

*  Omitted  in  MS. 


WRIOTHESLET'S  CHRONICLE.  91 

all  the  streetes  full  of  people,  which  cursed  him  and  callinge  him          A  D  1553 
traytor  without  measure. 

The  prisoners  names  that  came  with  him. 


The  Duke  of  Northumber- 

lande. 

The  Earle  of  Warwicke. 
Lord  Ambrose  Dudley. 
Lord  Henry  Dudley. 
Sir  Andrewe  Dudley. 


The  Earle  of  Huntington. 

Lord  Hastinges. 

Sir  John  Gates. 

[Sir]a  Henry  Gates,  his  brother. 

Sir  [Thomas]  b  Palmer. 

Doctor  Sanders.0 


But  when  they  came  within  the  Tower  the  Earle  of  Arundell 
discharged  the  Lord  Hastinges,  and  had  him  out  of  the  Tower  with 
him. 

The  26  of  July  the  Lord  Marques  of  Northampton,  the  Bishop  More  prisoners, 
of  London,d  Lord  Kobert  Dudley/  and  Robert  Corbet,  were  brought 
from  the  Quenes  campe  to  the  Tower. 

The  27  of  July  Sir  Eoger  Chomley,  Lord  Cheife  Justice  of  the  Kinges 
Benche,  Sir  Edmunde  Montague,  Lord  Cheife  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Place,  were  sent  to  the  Tower,  [where  were  also  confined] f 
the  Lord  Gilford,  Lady  Janes  husband,  and  Lady  Jane  late  pro- 
claymed  Quene,  and  Rowland  Dee,  mercer. 

The  28  of  July  the  Duke  of  SuiFolke  and  Sir  John  Cheeke  were 
had  to  the  Tower. 

The  29  of  July  Sir  Martin  Bowes,  Sir  Henry  Hobathorne,  Mr.  A  benevolence  sent  to 
Recorder,  Mr.  Whight,  and  Mr.  Garret,  sheriffe.  rode  to  the  Quene  the  Quene' 

*  Omitted  in  MS.  b  John,  MS. 

c  Dr.  Edwin  Sandys,  Vice-Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  who  had 
impugned  Queen  Mary's  rights  from  the  pulpit. 

d  Nicholas  Ridley,  "  the  byshoppe  of  London,  that  was  goynge  unto  the  queene  to 
begge  his  pardon,  but  he  was  tane  at  Ipsege,  and  there  was  put  in  warde." — Grey 
Friars'  Chronicle,  p.  81. 

e  The  Duke's  second  son,  afterwards  Earl  of  Leicester. 

f  The  words  in  brackets  would  appear  to  have  been  omitted  in  MS.  or  else  the 
passage  is  misplaced;  for  the  Lady  Jane  was  already  within  the  dismal  walls  of  the 
Tower  when  Queen  Mary  was  proclaimed.  Stow  omits  the  latter  portion  of  this 
paragraph  altogether. 


92  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.  to  Newehall,  in  Essex,  and  there  presented  to  hir  Highnes  in  a 
purse  of  crimson  velvet  v  c  i:  in  halfe  souereignes  of  gould  in  the 
name  of  my  Lord  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  the  Commons  of  the  City 
of  London,  giuen  to  hir  Highnes  of  a  benevolence,  which  gift  she 
highly  and  thankfully  accepted,  and  caused  the  presenters  to  haue 
great  chere  in  hir  house. 

This  mony  was  levyed  amonge  the  Commons  of  the  City  of 
London,  euery  Company  after  their  degrees,  to  be  payd  to  the 
Chamberlaine  by  the  first  day  of  August  next  comminge,  but  euery 
alderman  lent  xx  1  in  gould  the  28  of  July  aforehand,  to  haue  yt 
speedily  sent  to  hir  Highnes. 

Allso  Mr.  Richard  Grymes,  clothworker,  did  this  moneth  make 
great  suyte  by  himselfe  and  his  frindes  to  my  Lord  Mayor  and 
Aldermen  to  be  dispensed  from  the  office  of  sherifFe  and  alderman, 
and  after  longe  suyte,  because  of  his  lamnes  in  his  lims,  by  the 
assent  of  a  Court  of  Aldermen,  he  was  judged  to  pay  out  of  hand  to 
the  Chamber  of  the  City  of  London,  to  the  use  of  the  City,  2o 
markes,  and  so  he  was  discharged  for  euer. 

The  30  of  July  Lady  Elizabethes  grace,  sister  to  the  Quenes 
Highnes,  rode  from  hir  place  at  Strand,  where  she  had  lyen  the 
night  afore,  through  the  Citie  of  London  at  xii  of  the  clocke  in  the 
forenone,  beinge  Sonday,  and  rode  out  at  Algate  toward  the  Quenes 
Highnes,  accompanyed  with  a  M  horses  of  gentlemen,  knightes, 
ladyes,  and  their  seruanntes. 

The  31  of  July  the  Duke  of  SufFolke  was  discharged  out  of  the 
Tower  by  the  Earle  of  Arundell  and  had  the  Quenes  pardon. 

And  the  same  day  was  Sir  John  Yorke  had  from  his  house  to 
the  Tower  by  Sir  Eichard  Cotton,  Comptroller  of  the  Kinges  house, 
and  all  his  goodes  seased  to  the  Quenes  use;  howbeyt  he  was  kept 
in  his  house  viii  dayes  before  by  my  Lord  Mayors  officers,  and  Mr. 
Garret,  sheriffe,  and  had  all  the  cheife  places  in  his  house  sealed  and 
sequestred  with  my  Lord  Mayors  seale,  Mr.  Recorder  and  Mr.  Garret, 
sheriff,  with  an  inventory  made  by  them. 

The  1  of  August,  which  is  the  day  of  the  election  of  the  sherifFe, 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  93 

was  chosen  by  the  Commons  in  the  Guildhall  Mr.  Thomas  Offley,  A.D.  1553. 

alderman,  chosen  before  by  my  Lord  Mayor,  and  nowe  to  associate 
[with]  him  the  Commons  chose  Mr.  Thomas  Lodge,  grocer,  which 
was  then  in  Flaunders. 

The  3  of  August  1553  the  Quenes  Majestie  came  from  Wanstead, 
and  about  vi  of  the  clocke  at  night  she  lighted  at  Mr.  Bramstons 
house  at  Whight  Chappell,  and  there  chaunged  her  apparell,  and 
then,  accompanyed  with  gentlemen,  squires,  knights,  and  lords,  with 
a  great  number  of  straungers  all  in  velvet  coates  rydinge  before  her, 
which  were  aboue  v  c.  horse,  a  with  all  the  Kinges  trumpetters, 
harrouldes,  and  sergeantes  at  armes,  she  proceeded  to  passe  thorough 
the  citye,  and,  when  she  came  to  the  barres  without  Aldgate,  there 
were  rayles  made  where  my  Lord  Mayor b  and  his  brethren  the 
aldermen  stoode,  and  at  her  highnes  comminge,  which  was  in  rich 
apparell,  her  gowne  of  purple  velvet  French  fashion,  with  sleues  of 
the  same,  hir  kirtle  purple  satten  all  thicke  sett  with  gouldsmithes 
worke  and  great  pearle,  with  her  foresleues  of  the  same  set  with  rich 
stones,  with  a  rich  bowdricke  of  gould,  pearle,  and  stones  about  her 
necke,  and  a  riche  billement  of  stones  and  great  pearle  on  her  hoode, 
her  pallfray  that  she  rode  on  richly  trapped  with  gould  embrodred 
to  the  horse  feete,  and  another  rich  trapped  pallfray  led  after  her 
highnes  by  Sir  [Edward]  Hastinges,  master  of  the  horse,  my  Lord 
Mayor  and  Mr.  Recorder,  kneelinge  afore  her  highnes  at  the  entringe 
of  the  barres,  saluted  her  highnes  with  a  proposition  after  this  manner, 
Mr.  Eecorder  sayinge,  "  Pleaseth  your  highnes,  my  Lord  Mayor, 
here  present,  in  the  name  of  his  brethren  and  all  the  commons  of 
this  your  highness  city  and  chamber  of  London,  most  humbly  be- 
seecheth  your  highnes  to  be  good  and  gracious  Sovereign  to  theise 
commens  of  this  your  city  lyke  as  your  highnes  noble  progenitors 
aforetyme  haue  bene,  and,  accordinge  to  theyr  bounden  duety  at 
your  highnes  cominge,  my  Lord  Mayor  presenteth  here  your  high- 

a  "  the  number  of  velvet  coates  that  did  ride  before  her,  as  well  strangers  as  others, 
were  740,  and  the  number  of  ladies  and  gentlewomen  that  followed  was  180." — Stow, 
p.  613.  b  Sir  George  Barnes. 


94 

A.D.  1553.          nes  with  the  scepter  perteyninge  to  the  office,  in  token  of  loyalty 
and   homage,  most  humbly   wellcome  your  highnes  to  this  your 
highnes  city  and  chamber  of  London."      Then  my   Lord  Mayor 
kissinge  the  scepter  deliuered  it  to  her  highnes,  she  holdinge  yt, 
answering,  "  My  Lord  Mayor,  I  hartely  thanke  you  and  all  your 
brethren  the  aldermen  of  your  gentlenes  shewed  unto  me,  which 
shall  not  be  forgotten,  for  I  haue  knowne  you  euer  to  haue  bene 
good  toward  me."     And  then  she  deliuered  the  scepter  to  my  Lord 
Mayor  againe,  which  words  were  so  gently  spoken  and  with  so 
smylinge  a  countenance  that  the  hearers  wept  for  joye.     Sir  An- 
thony Browne  leaninge  on  her  horse,   haveinge  the  trayne  of  hir 
highnes  gowne  hanginge  over  his  shoulder,  and  all  her  footemen 
goeinge  afore  her  and  the  guarde  on  euery  syde ;  next  her  highnes 
followed  the  Lady  Elizabethes  Grace,  hir  sister,  then  the  Duches  of 
Norfolke,  the  Lady  Marques  of  Exeter,  and  so  great  number  of 
ladyes  after  them,  euery  one  in  their  degrees.      And  when  her 
highnes  came  against   St.   Buttolphes  church,  there  was  a  great 
stage  couered  with  canvas  where  all  the  children  of  Christes  Hos- 
pitall  sat,  with  all  the  gouernours  and  officers  belonginge  to  the 
same :  one  of  the  children,  salutinge  her  highnes  kneelinge  on  his 
knees,  made  an  oration  to  her  highnes,  in  Latin.     After  she  entred 
in  at  Algate,  which  was  richly  hanged  with  arras  and  set  with 
streamers,  the  wayghtes  of  the  city  playinge  in  the  battlements  of 
the  gate,  her  highnes  then,  passinge  to  Leadenhall  downe  Grace- 
church  Streat,1  up  Fanchurch  Streat,  downe  Marke  Lane,  and  so  to 
the  Tower;  where,  at  hir  Graces  entringe  at  the  stone,  my  Lord 
Mayor  tooke  his  leave  of  her  highnes,  who  rode  allwayes  before  her 
highnes  bearinge  the  scepter  before  the  sworde  with  Garter  Kinge 
of  Armes  rydinge  with  him  ;  the  Earle  of  Arundell  bearinge  the 
sworde  before  her  highnes.      And  at   the  gate  entringe  into  the 
Tower,   Sir  John  Gage,  Constable  of  the  Tower,   and   Sir  John 
Bruges,a  Leiftenant  of  the   Tower,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Bruges,  his 
brother,  with  him  receaved  her  highnes,   and  so  passed  into  the 

a  Sir  John  Bryggys. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  95 

Tower.  The  Duke  of  Norfolk,  Doctor  Gardner,  late  bishop  of  A>D.  1553 
Winchester,  and  Mr.  Henry  [Edward]  Courtney,  prisoners  in  the 
Tower,  kneeld  on  the  hill  within  the  Tower  askinge  pardon,  whom 
she  gently  saluted,  biddinge  them  ryse  up,a  and  so  she  lighted  and 
passed  to  her  highnes  chamber.  All  the  streates  in  London,  from 
Algate  up  to  Leadenhall  and  so  to  the  Tower,  were  richly  hanged 
with  clothes  of  arras  and  silke,  the  streates  gravelled  all  the  way,  and 
the  citizens  standinge  at  rayles  with  theyr  streamers  and  banners  of 
euery  Company  or  occupation  standinge  at  theyr  rayles,  euery 
Company  in  their  best  liueryes  with  theyr  hoodes.  Allso  there 
were  iiii  great  stages  betwene  Algate  and  the  Tower  where  clarkes 
and  musicians  stoode  playinge  and  singinge  goodly  ballets,  which 
reioysed  the  Quenes  highnes  greatly.  Allso  there  was  such  a 
terrible  and  great  shott  of  guns  shot  within  the  Tower  and  all  about 
the  Tower  wharfe  that  the  lyke  hath  not  bene  hard,  for  they  neuer 
ceased  shootinge  from  the  tyme  her  highnes  entred  in  at  Algate  till 
she  came  to  Marke  Lane  ende,  which  was  like  great  thunder,  so 
that  yt  had  bene  lyke  to  an  earthquake.  And  all  the  streets  by  the 
way  as  her  highnes  rode  standing  so  full  of  people  shou tinge  and 
cryinge  Jesus  saue  her  Grace,  with  weepinge  teares  for  ioy,  that  the 
lyke  was  neuer  seene  before.  After  her  highnes  ladyes  and  gentle- 
women came  rydinge,  which  mett  her  Grace  at  Wansted  Heath, 
aboue  vm  horse  of  noble  mens  seruantes,  knightes,  and  gentlemen, 
euery  one  in  his  masters  liuery,  with  speares  and  jauelinges,  which 
rode  three  in  a  ranke,  which  was  a  goodly  sight  to  behoulde.  But 
when  they  came  at  Algate  the  Earle  of  Worcester,  Lord  Fitz water, 
Sir  William  Croft,  knight  marshall,  with  typstaves,  stayed  them, 
and  would  not  suffer  neuer  a  Company  to  enter  into  the  citye,  but 
turned  them  back  to  other  gates  of  the  city  to  returne  such  as  lay 
within  the  city  to  their  lodginges,  and  the  rest  to  such  places  with- 
out the  city  wher  they  laye,  and  thus  this  night  fynished,  which 
was  on  a  Thursday. 

*  "  and  she  came  to  them  and  kissed  them,  and  said,  these  be  my  prisoners." — 
Stow,  p.  613. 


96 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1553. 

Mr.  Henry  Courtney 
and  Dr.  Gardiner. 


Dr.  Boner  and  Dr. 
Dunstall  pardoned. 


Dr.  Cox  brought  to 
prison. 


Warders  at  the  gates 
discharged. 


An  obsequy  kept  by 
the  Quene. 


The  buriall  of  Kinge 
Edwarde  the  Sixt. 


The  4  of  August  the  Duke  of  Norfolke,  Mr.  Henry  [Edward] 
Courtney,51  and  Doctor  Gardener,  late  Bishop  of  Winchester, 
prisoners  in  the  Tower,  had  the  Queues  pardon  ;  and  that  night 
the  Duke  of  Norfolke  and  Doctor  Gardner  were  sworne  of  the 
Counsell. 

The  5  of  August,  beinge  Saterday,  Doctor  Bonner,  the  ould  Bishop 
of  London,  prisoner  in  the  Marshalsea,  and  Doctor  Dunstall,b  the 
ould  Bishop  of  Durham,  prisoner  in  the  Kinges  Bench,  had  their 
pardon  sent  them  by  the  Quene,  under  the  great  scale  of  England, 
and  were  discharged  out  of  prison  ;  the  Bishop  of  London  went  to 
his  house  at  Pawles  ymmediately. 

And  at  his  departinge  out  of  the  Marshallsea  Doctor  Cockes,  the 
Kinges  almoner  and  Deane  of  Westminster,  was  brought  thither  to 
prison. 

Sonday  the  6  of  August  the  warders  at  the  gates  in  London 
were  discharged. 

And  this  day  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  was  twise  examined 
by  the  Quenes  Counsell  in  the  Tower,  -with  other  prisoners. 

The  7  of  August  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  was  examined 
againe,  with  other  prisoners. 

The  9  of  August,  in  the  afternone,  the  Quene  helde  an  obsequy 
for  the  Kinge c  within  the  church  in  the  Tower,  her  Grace  beinge 
present,  and  had  a  solemne  dirige  songe  in  Latine. 

The  morrowe,  beinge  Thursday  the  10  of  August,  the  Quenes 
highnes  had  a  solemne  masse  of  Requiem  songe  within  the  chappell 
in  the  Tower  for  the  Kinge;  hir  Highnes  offringe  at  the  masse 
with  all  her  ladyes  and  gentlewomen. 

Allso  this  day  the  corps  of  the  Kinges  Maiestie  was  solemnely 
caryed  from  Whitehall,  at  Westminster,  to  the  minster  of  St. 
Peters  Church, d  where  was  a  rich  hearse  made  like  an  imperiall 
crowne  without  lightes  afore  the  steps  where  the  high  aulter  stoode; 

a  Stow  (p.  613)  reads:  "Edward  Courtney,  sonne  and  heire  to  Henry,  Marquesse 
of  Excester."  b  Cuthbert  Tunstall, 

c  The  late  King  Edward  VI.  d  Westminster  Abbey. 


97 

where  his  Highnes  body  remayned,  till  the  Communion  seruice  and          A  D-  1553« 

a  sermon  made  by   Doctor   Day,  Bishop  of  Chichester,  was  done  ; 

and  then  the  corps  was  honourably  conveyed  from   thence   up  into 

the  chappell,  where  Kinge  Henry  the  VIIth  lyeth,  where  the  Kinges 

Majesties  body   was  buryed.      The  solemnity   of  the  offringe  by 

the  estates,  mourners,  and  other  was  lyke  the   enterment  of  Kinge 

Henry  the  VIII.  his  father,  savinge  the  seruice  of  the  Communion 

and  buryall,  which  was  all  in  Englishe,  without  any  copes  or  vest- 

mentes,  but  onely  surples,  accordinge  to  the   Booke  of  Common 

Prayer  last  sett  forth  by  Act  of  Parliament. 

And  this  day  was  a  great  dole  of  mony  geven  within  euery  warde  A  dole  for  the  kinge. 
within  the  City  of  London,  euery  poore  house-hould  havinge  viii  d. 
the  peece. 

The  Duke  of  Norfolke  and  my  Lord  Courtney  were  deliuered  out 
of  the  Tower  this  10th  of  August. 

The  11  of  August,  Doctor  Gardner,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  was 
deliuered  out  of  the  Tower,  and  went  to  his  place  at  St.  Mary 
Queries,  which  the  Marques  of  Northampton  had. 

Allso  this  daye  the  Duchesse  of  Somersett  was  deliuered  out  of 
the  Tower. 

Saterday  the  12  of  August  the  Quenes  Highnes  removed  from 
the  Tower  of  London,  and  went  by  water  to  Richmond. 

Sonday  the  13  of  August  Doctor  Borne,6  one  of  the  Preben- 
daries of  Pawles,  preached  at  Pawles  Crosse  by  the  Quenes  appoint- 
ment. And  in  the  sermon  tyme,  because  he  prayed  for  the  soules 
departed,  and  allso  in  declaringe  the  wrongfull  imprisonment  of 
Doctor  Bonner,  late  Bishop  of  London,  certeine  leude  and  ill  dis- 
posed persons  made  a  hallowinge  and  suche.  a  cryinge  thou  lyest, 
that  the  audyence  was  so  disturbed,  that  the  preacher  was  so  affrayd 
by  the  commotion  of  the  people,  that  one  Bradford,  a  preacher, 
pulled  him  backe,  and  spake  to  the  people,  desyring  them  in  Christes 
name  and  for  the  bloude  of  Christ  to  pacific  themselues,  which 
people  were  so  rude  that  they  would  not,  but  one  lewde  person 

a  Gilbert  Bourne. 

CAMD.  SOC.  O 


98  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.  drewe  a  dagger  and  cast  yt  at  the  preacher,  which,  has  God  would, 
hett  against  one  of  the  postes  of  the  pulpit.  My  Lord  Mayor  then 
and  Aldermen  rysinge  from  their  places,  went  about  the  church- 
yard to  cause  the  people  to  departe  away,  which  were  so  rude  that 
in  a  great  space  they  would  not  departe, but  cryed  kill  him;  and  so, 
with  great  payne  and  feare  the  sayd  Borne  was  conveyed  from  the 
pulpit  to  the  scholehouse  in  Pawles  Churchyard.  The  Lord  Courtney 
and  the  Lady  Marques  of  Execeter  stoode  aboue  my  Lord  Mayor, 
with  Doctor  Bonner,  Bishop  of  London,  which  were  sore  astonyed 
to  se  the  rumour a  of  the  people,  and  had  as  much  adoe  by  their 
meanes  to  see  the  sayd  Bishop  conveyed  in  safetye  through  the 
church,  the  people  were  so  rude. 

The  liberties  of  the          This   busines  was  so  heynously  declared  to  the  Quene  and  her 
IQ^  l  e  Counsell,  that  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  were  sent  for  to  the 

Quenes  Counsell  to  the  Tower  the  14  and  15  of  August,  and  yt  was 
sore  layd  to  theyr  charge,  that  the  liberties  of  the  city  had  lyke  to 
[haue]  bene  taken  away  from  them,  and  to  depose  the  Lord  Mayor, 
straightly  charginge  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  to  make  a  direct 
answere  to  them  on  Wednesday  the  16  of  August  whether  they 
would  rule  the  city  in  peace  and  good  order,  or  ells  they  would  sett 
other  rulers  ouer  them,  whereupon  my  Lord  Mayor  caused  all  the 
Commons  of  the  liuerye  to  be  warned  to  appeare  at  the  Guildhall 
on  Tuesdaye  the  15  of  August.  And,  they  beinge  assembled,  Mr. 
Kecorder  declared  to  the  Commons  the  sore  wordes  and  threat- 
ninges  of  the  Quenes  Counsell,  prayinge  them  to  shewe  theyr 
myndes  whether  they  would  sticke  to  my  Lord  Mayor  and  his 
brethren,  to  se  such  malefactors  and  rude  people  refourmed,  or  elles 
theyr  liberty es  should  be  taken  away  from  them ;  the  Commons 
answeringe,  that  by  the  good  healp  and  meanes  of  my  Lord  Mayor 
and  his  brethren  they  would  be  so  aydinge  and  assistinge  to  them, 
that  they  trusted  the  Quenes  Highnes  nor  the  Counsell  should  haue 
noe  more  such  cause  against  the  citye,  but  that  such  malefactours 
•  and  offenders  should  be  punished  ;  which  aunswere  was  made  by 
a  Probably  a  clerical  error  for  "humour." 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  99 

my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  to  the  Quenes  Counsell,  at  the  Tower,          A.D.  1553. 
on  Wednesday  the  16  of  August,  and  was  well  accepted  and  taken. 

Allso,  my  Lord  Mayor  caused  a  proclamation  to  be  made  in  the 
city,  that  if  any  person  could  bringe  knowledge  who  threwe  the 
dagger  at  the  preacher  on  Sonday,  at  Pawles  Crosse,  should  haue  v  t 
for  his  labour.* 

Fryday  the   18  of   August  1553   Sir  John    Dudley,  Duke  of  The  arraingnement  of 
Northumberland,  and  his  eldest  sonne   [John]  Earle  of  Warwick,  Umberlandb  with 
[with]  Sir  William  Parre,  Marques  of  Northampton,  were  arraigned  otlier- 
at  Westminster  hall,  which  after  there  enditements  read  confessed 
their  endytements  of  treason,0  without  passinge  of  any  jurye  of  their 
Peeres,  and  so  had  iudgment  to  be  drawne,  hanged,  and  quartered : 
The  Lord  Thomas  Haward,  Duke  of  Norfolke,  sittinge  under  the 
cloth  of  estate,  and  gaue  judgment. 

The  19  of  August   Sir  Andrewe  Dudley,  Sir  John  Gates,  Henry  More  traytors 
Gates,  his  brother,  and  Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  knights,  were  arraigned  ai 
at  Westminster,  and  confessed  their  treasons  without  passinge  of 
any  jurye  on  them,  and  had  judgment   to  be  drawne,  hanged,  and 
quartered,  Sir  William  Pawlet,  Marques  of  Winchester,  and  High 
Treasurer  of  England,  sittinge  that   daye   as  chiefe,  without  any 
cloth  of  estate,  and  gaue  judgment. 

Sonday  the  20  of  August  Mr.  Watson,  a  Bachelor  of  Divinitye  A  sermon  at  Pawles 
and  Chaplaine  to  the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  preached  at  Pawles 
Crosse  by  the  Quenes  appointment,  and,  because  of  the  sedicion  that 
was  on  the  Sonday  before  at  the  sermon  tyme,  the  Quenes  Highnes 
had  appointed  certeine  Lordes  of  the  Counsell  to  be  at  the  sermon, 
and  to  see  the  order  of  hir  people :  First,  satt  next  my  Lord  Mayor 
the  Lord  Treasurer,  Marques  of  Winchester,  then  Lord  Privie 
Scale,  Earle  of  Bedford,  the  Earle  of  Pembroke,  the  Lord  Went- 
worth,d  thej^rd  Eich,  and  Sir  John  Jarningham/  captaine  of  the 
guard,  who  had  2  c.  of  the  guard  with  him,  which  stoode  about  the 

a  neighbour  in  MS,  b  Norfolk  in  MS. 

c  Stow's  account  is  fuller,  and  gives  a  more  correct  notion  of  this  trial  (p.  614). 

d  Wenford  in  MS.  e  Sir  Henry  Gerningham.— Stow. 


100 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHKONICLE. 


A.D.  1553. 


At  a  masse  in  the 
Tower  which  the 
Bishop  of  Worcester 
sayd. 


A  preist  set  on  the 
pillory. 


The  Duke  and  other 
beheaded. 


pulpit,  with  their  halberdes,  Allso  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen 
had  warned  all  the  Companies  of  the  city  to  be  there  present  at  the 
sermon,  which  stoode  in  their  liueries  and  hoodes  all  the  sermon 
tyme,  to  herken  yf  any  leude  or  sedicious  persons  made  any  rumors 
or  misorder,  which  was  well  accepted  of  the  Quenes  Counsell.  The 
preacher  preachinge  Godes  worde  on  the  Epistle  of  that  present 
day,  and  declaringe  the  obedience  of  subiectes,  and  what  erronious 
sectes  are  raigninge  in  this  realme,  by  false  preachers  and  teachers; 
to  the  godly  edyfyinge  of  the  audience  there  present  at  the  sayd 
sermon,  and  so  was  quietly  ended  without  any  tumult. 

The  21  of  August  50  persons  of  the  head  Commoners  and  Corn- 
men  Counsell  of  the  Citye  of  London  were  apointed  by  a  letter 
sent  to  my  Lord  Mayor  from  the  Quene  to  be  that  daye  in  the 
Tower,  to  hear  the  confession  of  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  and 
other,  at  the  receivinge  of  the  Holy  Communion  there,  in  the 
chappell  of  the  Tower,  at  a  masse  there  sayd  before  them ;  which 
sayd  duke  with  other  there  acknowledged  afore  the  audience  that 
they  had  erred  from  the  true  Catholicke  fayth  xv  yeares  and  had 
bene  a  great  setter  forth  of  the  yll  doctrine  nowe  raigneinge,  which 
he  sore  lamented,  and  there  desyringe  the  people  to  beware  of  such 
yll  doctrine ;  and  so  he  with^  other  received  the  sacrament  after 
masse,  after  the  ould  use  afore  tyme  used. 

Allso  this  21  of  August  John  Daye,  parson  of  St.  Alborowa 
within  Bishopsgate,  was  set  on  the  pillory  in  Cheape,  and  had  one 
of  his  eares  nayled,  for  seditious  wordes  speakinge  of  the .  Quenes 
Highnes.  And  allso  a  surgeon  by  Pawles  was  likewise  set  on  the 
pillory  with  him,  and  had  one  of  his  eares  nayled  allso  for  seditious 
wordes  speakinge  of  the  preacher  at  the  sermon  at  Pawles  Crosse  on 
Sonday  the  13  of  August.  And  when  they  had  stoode  on  the  pillory 
3  houres  the  nayles  were  pulled  out  with  a  payre  of  pinsers,  and  they 
were  had  to  prison  againe. 

Tuesday  the  22  of  August  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  and 
Sir  John  Gates,  late  Captaine  of  the  Guarde,  and  Sir  Thomas 
a  St.  Ethelberga,  Bishopsgate  Street  within. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  101 

Palmer,   knightes,    were   all   three   beheaded  on  the   Tower  hill,          A<r>- 
betwene  8  and  9  of  the  clocke  in   the   forenone,  and  after  their 
bodies  and  heades  wear  caryed  into  the  Tower  againe. 

Allso  this  daye  was  a  vagabond   set  on  the  pillory  in   Cheap  for  One  whipped  on  the 
sedicious  wordes  speakinge  of  the  Lord   Gray,  deputy  of  Guynes,apl 
howe  that  he  should  haue  betrayed  the  towne;  and  after  he  had 
stoode  an  houre  on  the   pillory  he  was  well  whipped  at  the  post  of 
the  sayd  pillory,  and  after  had  to   warde  againe,  and  was  whipped 
againe  at  a  cart  the  25  of  August,  and  so  banished. 

The  23  of  August  John   Day,  parson  of  St.  Alborowes  b  within  A  preist  set  on  the 
.„..  ,  ,          .,,  -  .  i    i      i    i  •         i  pillory  againe. 

Bishopsgate,  was  set  on  the  pillory  againe,  and   had  his  other  eare 

nayled,  and  after  xii  of  the  clock  at  none  it  was  pulled  out  with  a 
payre  of  pinsers,  and  then  he  went  to  ward  againe ;  but  that  night  he 
was  discharged  of  his  imprisonment  upon  suretes  to  abyde  further 
order  at  the  Quenes  pleasure. 

Allso  this  daye,  beinge  the  even  of  St.  Bartholomewe,  the  Quenes  A  newe  Lord  Chan- 
Highnes  deliuered  the  great  Scale   of  England  to  Doctor  Stephen  officers*"11 
Gardner,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  and  made  him  Lord   Chauncellor 
of  England,  and  Mr.   Sargeaunt  Brambe c  was  made   Lord   Gheife 
Justice  of  the  Kinges  Bench,  and    Sargeaunt    Morgan6  was  made 
Lord   Gheife  Justice  of  the    Common   Place,    and  Mr.   Brooke/ 
Sargeant,  was  made  Lord  Cheife  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  and  Sir 
Nicholas  Hare  made  Master  of  the  Rolles.e 

Thursdaye,  the  24  of  August  and    St.  Bartholomews  daye,  the  The  olde  service  in 
olde  service  in  the  Lattin  tongue  with  the  masse  was  begun  and          with  the  masse 
sunge  in  Powles  in  the   Shrowdes,  now  St.  Faythes  parishe.     And 
lykewise  it  was  begun  in  4  or  5  other  parishes  within  the  Cittie  of 
London,  not  by  commaundement  but  of  the  peoples  devotion. 

Allso  this  day  was  no   wrestlinge  nor  shootinge.     Neyther  was 

a  Guisnes,  a  town  of  Picardy. 
b  St.  Ethelburga,  Bishopsgate  Street  within. 

c  Sir  Thomas  Bromley,  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  and  Sir  Richard 
Morgan,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  d  Sir  David  Brooke,  knt. 

c  From  this  point  the  MS.  is  continued  in  a  different  handwriting. 


102  WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1553.          any  kept  at  all   this  yeare,  because  of  the  troblesome  tyme  in  this 
realme. 

Olde  service.  Sonday  the   27  of  August  the  service  begone  in  the  Cathedrall 

Churche  of  St.  Paule  in  London,  in  the  Latin  after  the  use  of 
Sarum.  And  the  worke  that  was  broken  downe  of  stone,  where 
the  highe  altare  stoode,  was  begun  to  be  made  up  agayne  with 
breke. 

ApresttotheQueene.  The  first  day  of  September  the  Queene  demaunded  a  presse  of 
the  Cittie  of  London  of  xxtie  thowsand  powndes  and  to  be  payed 
agayne  within  14  dayes  after  the  feast  of  St.  Michaell  next  com- 
minge.  To  the  levyinge  of  the  which  summe  the  aldermen  and 
vixx  of  the  heade  Commoners  of  the  Cittie  made  the  performance  of 
the  sayde  somrne.  So  that  he  that  lent  least  lent  one  hundreth 
powndes,  which  must  bepayde  to  Mr.  Weldon,  the  Queenes  coferer, 
and  Sir  Martin  Bowes,  alderman,  on  this  syde  the  viii  day  of 
September,  which  the  moste  parte  of  the  Commons  were  verie  glad 
to  accomplishe  and  to  make  shift,  that  had  not  readye  money, 
allthoughe  it  were  to  their  losses. 

Sonday  the  3  of  September  Mr.  Edward  Corteney  was  created 
Earle  of  Devonshire  at  Kichmonde. 

Newe  coynes  of  golde      Mundaye  the  4th  of  September  the  Queene  by  a  proclamation 

and  sylver.  get  Q^  certeyn  newe  coynes  of  golde  and  sylver :  viz.  a  sovereigne 

of  fyne  golde  of  xxx  s. ;  the  halfe  sovereigne  of  fyne  golde  called  a 
ryall  of  fyne  golde,  xv  s. ;  an  angell  of  fyne  gold  x  s.  ;  the  halfe 
.angell  vs.  ;  a  peece  of  fyne  sylver  called  a  grote  of  iiiid. ;  another 
peece  of  sylver  ii  d. ;  and  another  peece  of  sylver  of  a  i  d. :  and  all 
other  base  coynes  of  this  realme  to  be  currant  and  goe  as  they  be  at 
this  daye. 

A  subsidye  pardoned.  The  same  day  another  proclamation  made  by  the  Queene  for  par- 
don of  the  last  subsidie  of  iiii  s.  the  pound  [lands]  ,a  and  of  ii  s.  viii  d. 
the  pound  moveable  goods  by  Act  of  Parlement  in  the  last  Session 
of  King  Edward  the  Sixt. 

a  Supplied  from  Stow. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  103 

The  6  of  Septembre  Lorde  Ferys,  and  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley,  and          A.D. 1553- 
Montague  were  discharged  out  of  the  Tower  of  London  and  sett  to  Prisoners  discharged. 
paye  great  fynes.a 

The   14  and   15   of  September  Mr.   Latimer  and  Dr.  Cranmer,  Bishops  sent  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterburie,  were  sent  to  the  Tower  of  London. 

The  27  of  September  the  Queene  removed  from  St.  James  and  The  Queen  removinge 
tooke  her  barge  at  Whitehall  in  the  afternoone  aboute  iii  of  the 
clock,  so  to  passe  to  the  Tower  of  London,b  shootinge  the  bridge 
at  a  full  sea. 

The  xxxth  of  September  in  the  forenoone  there  was  made  in  the  Knightes  of  the  Bathe. 
Tower  of  London  15  knightes  of  the  Bathe  by  the  Queene.     And 
the  same  daye  Sir  William   Pawlett,  Marques  of  Winchester,  was 
sworne  Lord  Treasurer  of  Englande,  and  Mr.  Brooke,  sergeant  at 
the  lawe,  was  sworne  Lord  Cheife  Baron  of  the  Exchequer. 

Allso  the   30   of  September,  in   the  afternoone,  at  two  of  the  The  Queen  rydinge 

-      .  i        in  n  T        -i  i  through  London  to 

clocke,  the  Queene  rode  from  the  Tower  of  London  thronghe  the  her  coronation. 

Cittie  to  her  coronation  in  a  riche  chariott  of  clothe  of  golde.     The 

Ladie  Elizabeth  and  the  Ladye  Anne  of  Cleve  ridinge  after  her  in 

another  riche  chariott  covered  with  cloth  of  sylver,  and  iii  other 

riche  chariotts  followinge  with  ladies.     All  the  streetes  from  the 

Tower  to  Temple  barre  were  richelye  hanged  with  divers  costlye 

pageantes,  &c. 

Sunday e  the  1  of  October  the  Queene  was  crowned  at  St.  Peters  The  coronation  of 
Churche  in  Westminster  by  the  Bishop  of  Winchestre.  Queene  Marye' 

Thursdaye  the  5  of  October  the  parlement  began  at  Westminster,  A  Parlement. 
the  Queene  ridinge  from  White  Hall  in  her  parlement  robes  with 
all  the  lordes  spirituall  and  temporall  in  their  parlement  robes ;    and 
had  a  solemne  masse  of  the  Holie  Ghoste  sunge  in  Westminster 
Churche,  with  a  sermon  made  by  Dr.  Heath,  Bishop  of  Chichester. 

a  Stow  (p.  616)  reads:  "  The  Lord  Ferrers  of  Chartley,  the  Lord  Chiefe  Justice, 
Sir  Roger  Cholmley,  the  Lord  Montague,  Sir  John  Cheeke,  and  other,  were  delivered 
out  of  the  Tower." 

b  Stow  adds,  "  accompanied  with  the  Lady  Elizabeth  her  sister  and  other 
ladies." 


104 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1553. 


Sacrament  at  Paules. 


The  weather-cock  of 
Paules  new  mendid 
and  set  up. 


Arraynment  of  Arch- 
bishop Cranmer  and 
others  at  the  Guylde- 
Hall. 


A  priest  punished. 


The  light  in  Paules 
steeple  on  St.  Kathe- 
rin's  night. 


General  processions. 


ANNO  PRIMO. 


Againste  the  feaste  of  All  Sayntes  the  sacrament  of  the  bodie  and 
bloud  of  Christe  was  hanged  up  agayne  in  Paules  Churche  over  th  e 
highe  alter  under  a  riche  canopie  of  cloth  of  golde,  after  the  olde 
custome  of  the  Churche. 

The  3  of  November  1553,  at  x  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoone,  the 
weather  cock  of  Paules  steeple,  which  was  taken  downe  and  new 
mended,  was  sett  up  agayne  by  Peter,  a  Dutchman,  that  stoode  on 
it  when  the  Queene  rode  to  her  coronation.  The  cocke  with  the 
winges  wayed  40  lb.,  his  length  from  the  bill  to  his  tayle  was  4  foote, 
and  his  bredth  over  the  wings  3  foote  and  an  halfe,  and  was  gilded 
under  the  wings  with  the  bodye,  which  weather  cock  is  of  copper, 
and  the  bolle  under  the  crosse  also. 

The  13  of  November  Thomas  Cranmer,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
burie,  Gilford  Dudley,  esquier,  and  Ladie  Jane  his  wife,  Ambrose 
Dudley  and  Henry  Dudley,  esquiers,  were  arrayned  at  the  Guilde 
Hall  in  London  of  highe  treason  againste  the  Queene,  and  were 
there  condemned  and  had  iudgment  to  dye. 

Fridaye  the  24  of  November  one  Sir  Tho.  Sothwood,  priest,  alias 
parson  Chekin,  parson  of  St.  Nicholas  olde  abbaye  in  Old  Fishe 
Street,  rode  aboute  the  Cittie  in  a  carte  with  a  ray  hood  for  sellinge 
his  wife,  which  he  said  he  had  maried. 

Saterdaye  the  25  of  November,  and  St.  Katherins  daye,  the  light 
in  Paules  steeple  went  about  the  steeple  that  night  ;  and  the  sing- 
inge  men  of  Paules  Queer  with  the  children  singinge  anthemes,  as 
of  old  had  bene  accustomed. 

The  xxxth  of  November,  beinge  Thursdaye  and  St.  Andrewes 
eeve,  a  generall  procession  in  Paules,  with  a  sermon  made  by  Mr. 
Borne,a  one  of  the  Residentiaries  of  Paules,  the  Litaine  sunge  in  Latin, 
the  bishopp  and  the  priests  of  everie  parishe  folio  winge  after  the 


Gilbert  Bourne,  prebendary  of  London. 


WEIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  105 

crosse  round  about  the  churche.     The  Lord  Maior  and  Aldermen          A.D.  1553. 
followinge  after  the  Queere. 

The  first  of  December  was  lyke wise  another  generall  procession, 
with  a  sermon  made  by  Harpesfylde. 

The  vi  of  December  the  Parlament  brake  up,  and  was  clean  dis-  Parlament  dissolved, 
solved  in  the  afternoone. 

Sunday  the  xth  of  December  the  Lord  Maior,  Mr.  Thomas  White,  Lord  Maior  made 
was  presented  to  the  Queene  at  Whitehall,  and  there  made  knight   mg 
by  the  Earle  of  Arundell,  the  Queenes  deputie. 

Thursdaye  14  of  December,  in  the  afternoone,  the  Lord  Maior  Bowlinge  allyes 
and  the  sherifTes  went  to  these  three  common  bowlinge  allies,  that 
is  to  say,  Northumberland  alley  by  Algate,  St.  Nicolas  shambles 
alley,  and  an  alley  in  the  Old  Baylie ;  and  with  mattockes  did  breake 
and  digge  up  all  the  said  alleys. 

The  xxith  of  December,  beinge  St.  Thomas  day  afore  Christenmas,  The  service  of  the 
all  the  service  began  agayne  in  Latin  in  all  the  churches  throughe  Cnurcn  in  Latin, 
the  Queenes  dominions  by  Act  of  Parlement,  as  it  remayned  the  last 
yeare  of  King  Henry  8. 

This  yeare,  about  Christenmas  and  after,  wodd  and  coles  was  at  Berth  of  wood  and 
excessive  and  highe  prices  in  London  by  scarcitie  thereof.  For 
billetts  at  xx  s.  a  .  .  . a  and  above.  And  coles  of  the  cart  were  sold 
at  x  d.  the  sack,  and  horse  coles  at  xiiii  and  xv  d.  a  sacke.  The 
faggotts  at  v  s.  and  vi  s.  the  c  and  above.  Wherefore  the  Lord 
Maior  caused  lighters  of  sea  coles  to  be  sold  at  Billingsgate  and 
Quenehith  for  iiii  d.  the  busshell,  which  greatlie  helped  tyll  better 
provision  might  be  fownde. 

The  2  of  January  there  came  certavne  ambassadours  from  the  A 

t/"  .  Ambassadours  from 

Emperoure  out  of  Dutchland,  and  had  great  presentes  given  them  of  the  Emperoure. 

victualls  by  the  Maior  and  Cittie  of  the  cost  of  the  chamber.  The 
principall  ambassadour  lodged  at  Durham  Place,  and  he  was  called 
Countie  de  Augmonte.c  Another  lodged  at  SufFolke  Place  by  Charinge 
Crosse,  called  Countie  de  Shulinge.  Two  other  lodged  at  Salisburie 

»  Blank  in  MS.  b  Charles  V.  of  Germany. 

c  This  was  the  brave  Count  Egmont. 
CAMD.  SOC.  P 


106 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1554. 


One  drawne  for  trea- 
son. 


Lord  Maior  going 
Procession  in  Paul 
on  Sundayes. 


A  monition  to  the 
Maior  from  the 
Queene. 


Sir  Robert  Dudley 
arreigned. 


m 


Place  by  Bridewell,  called  Monsieur  Gorier  and  Monsieur  Chaun- 
cellour  Negri ;  which  saide  embassadors  had  great  feastinge  of  the 
Queene  and  Lordes.  They  came  to  intreat  of  a  marriage  from  the 
Emperour  for  the  Queene  and  the  Prince  of  Spayne. 

The  xiiith  of  Januarie,  one  called  Harvy  was  drawne  from  the 
Tower  of  London  to  Tyburne,  and  there  hanged  and  quartered  for 
counterfeytinge  the  Q  [ueen's]  hande  in  a  patent,  and  allso  brake 
out  of  prison  in  the  Tower  afore  Christmas,  and  was  taken  in  a 
shipp  and  arreigned  at  Westminster  on  Twelft  Eeven  of  the  same 
treason. 

Sunday e  the  14  of  January  Procession  began  in  Paules  Churche 
after  the  olde  fashion  before  highe  masse  :  The  Lord  Maior  and 
Aldermen  goeinge  in  Procession  in  their  violett  gownes  and  clokes 
furred,  as  they  used  everie  Sundaye  in  King  Henry  the  VIII. 
tyme,  afore  the  sermon  began. 

Munday  the  15  of  January  the  Lord  Maior  and  Alldermen  were 
sent  for  to  come  to  the  Cowrt  and  to  bringe  with  them  xl.  persons  of 
the  heade  commoners  of  the  Cittie.  And  when  they  came  afore  the 
Councell  the  Lord  Chauncellour  declared  to  them  the  Queenes 
pleasure,  which  was  that  she  intended  to  marrie  with  the  King  of 
Spayne,  which  should  be  for  the  great  preferment  of  this  realme. 
And  that  they  like  obedient  subiects  to  accept  her  Graces  pleasure, 
and  to  be  content  and  quiett  themselves:  And,  further,  that  Godes 
religion,  which  she  used  and  had  sett  for  the  new  of  late  might  be 
so  observed  and  kept  within  the  cittie  that  they  might  be  a  spec- 
tacle to  all  the  realme,  which  they  had  yett  verie  slacklye  sett  forthe, 
or  els,  if  they  will  not  be  diligent  to  doe  and  observe  her  lawes  and 
commaundements,  that  they  should  run  in  her  highe  indignation 
and  displeasure,  and  to  be  further  punished  accordinge  to  their  deserts. 

Munday  the  22  of  January  Sir  Robart  Dudley,  knight,  one  of 
the  Duke  of  Northumberlands  sonnes,  was  arreigned  at  the  Guyld 
hall  of  treason,  the  Lord  Maior  sittinge  as  highe  commissioner,  the 
Earle  of  Darbye,  the  Earle  of  Devonshire,  the  Earle  of  Sussex., 
with  other  lykewise  commissioners,  and  after  his  arreignment  he 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  107 

confessed  his  treason,  and  had  iudgment  given  by  the  Earle  of  Sus-          A.D.  1554, 
sex,  to  be  drawne,  hanged,  and  quartered. 

The  25  of  Januarie  tidinges  were  brought  to  the  Lord  Maior,  by  A  risinge  in  Kent  by 
Sir  John  Gage,  Lorde  Chamberleyn  to  the  Queene,  that  [Sir  Thomas     ya 
Wyat,  with]  a  certayne  rebells,  were  up  in  Kent,  about  Maydstone. 
Whereupon  a  courte  of  Alldermen  was  called  immediatlie  in  the 
afternoone ;  and  that  night  the  Lord  Maior  rode  to  peruse  the  watch 
of  the  citie,  and  so  everie  night  after  two  aldermen  to  ride  to  peruse 
the  sayd  watches. 

Allso,  that  night,  by  the  Councells  commaundment,  the  Lord  Lorde  Marquesse  sent 
-»T  •  T        -111-0-  i       i    i    i      T       i  n/r  .to the  Tower. 

Maior  secretlie  with  the  shenffes  apprehended  the  Lord  Marques  of 

Northampton,  lying  in  Mr.  Warners  howse,  by  Carter  Lane,  and 
brought  him  to  his  owne  howse,  where  he  lay  that  night  ;  and 
Mr.  Warner  b  lay  with  Mr.  Huett,  sherifie. 

The  26  of  January  the  Lord  Marques  was  sent  from  the  Lord 
Maiors  howse  to  the  Tower  of  London  by  the  Sword-bearer,  and 
Mr.  Warner  was  sent  thither  lykewise  by  Mr.  Huetts  officers,  by 
the  councells  commaundment. 

Allso,  this  day  the  gates  of  the  cittie  began  to  be  warded  by  the  The  gates  warded, 
citizens. 

The  27  of  January  the  Lord  Treasurer  came  to  the  Guildhall  600  men  sent  out  of 

*  the  cittie  agamste  the 

from  the  Councell  to  declare  that  the  cittie  should  make  owt  v  c.  Eebells. 

footemen,  well  harnised,  to  goe  against  the  rebells,  whereupon  a 
Common  Councell  was  called  in  the  afternoone  to  haue  their  assents 
thereunto,  which  they  grawnted,  and  had  them  readie  that  night 
among  the  Companies  of  the  cittie;  which  was  putt  of  till  the  mor- 
rowe.  And  the  28  of  January,  beinge  Sundaye,  the  saide  v  C.  men 
were  assembled  at  Leadenhall,  and  there  delivered  to  the  Capteyns, 
and  sent  by  water  to  Gravesend.  The  Lo.  Vraion,c  beinge  Capteyne 
of  one  hundreth,  with  other  capteynes  for  everie  c.  men,  appoynted 
by  the  Councell. 

The  29  of  January  the  Duke  of  Norfolke,  with  the  Capteyne  of  The  Londoners  flyinge 

to  the  Rebells. 

•  Supplied  from  Stow.  b  Sir  Edward  Warner. — Stow,  p.  618. 

c  Sic. 


108 

A.D.  1554.  the  guard a  that  were  sent  from  the  Queene,  with  certeyn  other 
souldiers  and  yeomen  of  the  guard,  with  the  capteyns  and  souldiers 
that  went  out  of  the  cittie,  offred  to  assault  Kochester  Castle,  where 
the  tray  tor  Wyatt  and  his  rebells  laye,  and  the  capteyns  of  the  cittie 
with  their  souldiers  fledd  to  the  rebells  over  Kochester  Bridge  and 
drue  up  the  bridge,  so  that  the  Duke  was  fayne  to  flie,  and  then  the 
rebells  tooke  the  Queenes  ordinance  and  treasure.5 

The   30th  of    January  Wyatt  removed  with  his  rebells  from 
Kochester  and  came  to  Blackheath,   and  there  camped  with  the 
Queenes  ordinance  and  lay  in  the  towne  of  Greenwich  and  there  about. 
This  day  allso  ordinance  was  layde  at  everie  gate  of  the  cittie. 
The  31  of  January  Wyett  removed  to  Greenwich  and  Detforde 
with  his  campe. 

The  first  day  of  February  a  proclamation  was  made  in  the  cittie 
of  London  with  an  harrold,  a  trumpett,  and  the  Comon  Crier,  the 
knight  Marshall  ridinge  with  them ;  which  was  that  the  traytor  the 
The  flyinge  of  the  Duke  of  Suffolke,  which  was  fled  westward,  was  discomfited,  and 
his  horsemen  and  bagage  taken,  and  he  and  his  two  bretheren  fledd 
in  servinge  mens  cotes.  And  allso  that  Peter  Carowe  and  his 
uncle  Gawyn  Carowe  and  Gibbes  were  fledd  into  France,  and  that 
certeyn  of  their  adherents  were  taken  and  kept  in  Exeter.  And, 
further,  that  whosoever  should  take  the  traytor  Wyatt  should  haue 
a  c  I  landes  to  him  and  his  heires  for  ever. 

The  same  day  in  the  afternoone,  beinge  Candlemas  Even,  all  the 

The  Queenes  com        Commons  of  the  Cittie  were  assembled  in  their  liveries  at  the  Guild- 

minge  to  the  Guilde-   hall.      The  Queens  Majestic,  with  her  Lords  and  Ladies  ridinge 

hall  in  London.  from  Westminsfcer  to  the  sayde  Guildhall,  came  thither  by  iii  of  the 

clocke  the  same  afternoone.     First  she  went  up  to  the   Councell 

Chambre,  where  the  Alldermen  use  to  sytt,  and  there  pawsyd  a 

litle,  the  Lord  Maior  and  Alldermen  receavinge  her  Majestie  at  the 

stepps,  goeinge  up  to  the  Mayres  Cowrt.     Then  her  Majestie  came 

downe  into  the  great  hall  up  into  the  place  of  the  hustinges,  where 

a  Sir  Henry  Jerningham. 

b  This  is  given  at  much  fuller  length  in  Stow,  p.  618. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  109 

was  hanged  a  riche  cloth  of  estate,  she,  standinge  under  it,  with  her          A.D.  1554. 

owne  mowth  declared  to  the  audience  there  assembled  the  wicked 

pretence  of  the  tray  tor  Wyett,  which  was  utterlie  to  deprive  her  of 

her  crowne,  and  to  spoyle  the  Cittie;  which  was  so  noblie  and  with 

so  good  spiritt  declared,  and  with  so  lowde  a  voyce,  that  all  the 

people  might  heare  her  Maiestie,  and  comfortinge  their  hartes  with 

so  sweet  wordes  a  that  made  them  weepe  for  joye  to  heare  her  Ma- 

jesty speake.     This  done  she  came  downe  and  went  up  agayne  into 

the   Councell   Chamber  and   dranck,  and  then   departed  and  rode 

through  Bucklersburie  to  the  Crane  in  the  Vintree,  and  there  tooke 

her  barge,  and  so  to  Westminster  by  water. 

The  2  of  February,  beinge  Candlemas  day,  the.  citizens  made 
preparation  for  a  M.  men  of  the  howsholders  of  the  said  Cittie,  well 
har["n]ised,  to  defend  the  Cittie,  the  Lord  Mayre  and  Alldermen 
everie  one  in  his  warde  takinge  the  mustre  of  them.  Wherefore, 
this  day  e  the  goeinge  to  Paules  in  the  afternoone  was  left;  and  allso 
that  day  the  Lord  Mayres  officers  served  him  at  dynner  in  harnis. 

The  3  of  February,  beinge  Saterday,  in  the  afternoone,  the  tray- 
tor  Wyatt  with  his  rebells  came  into  Southwarke,  and  there  trenched 
at  the  bridge  foote,  and  sett  2  peeces  of  ordinance  againste  the  gate 
at  London  Bridge.15  And  then  came  the  Lord  William  Howard, 
Lord  Admirall,  to  the  Lord  Mayre,  with  a  commission  from  the 
Queene,  and  made  a  proclamation  against  the  said  Wyatt,  and  that  Lord  Wm.  Howarde 


the  Queen  had   sent  him  to  be  Capteyne  Generall,  with  the  Lord  ^i 
Mayre,  for  the  defence  of  the  Cittie,  declaringe  to  the  citizens  that 
he  would  die  in  the  defence  of  it.     And  that  night  the  said  Lord 
Admirall  watched  the  bridge  with  iii  c.  men,  and  brake  the  drawe- 
bridge,  and  sett  rampeers  with  great  ordinance  there. 

Sundaye  the  4  of   February  the  Lord  Admirall  made  stronge 
defence  on  the  bridge  and  warded  with  iii  c.  of  the  citizens  with  him 

*  The  Queen's  harangue  may  be  read  in  Eoxe.     4("*-s 

b  Wyatt  placed  two  pieces  of  artillery  in  battery  at  the  Southwark  end  of  the 
bridge,  and  caused  a  deep  trench  to  be  dug  between  the  bridge  and  the  place  where 
he  was  encamped. 


110 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1554. 


Wyatt  removed  out  of 

Sowthwerke  and 

marched  towards 
Kingston. 


The  victorye  of  the 


all  the  daye  till  viii  of  the  clock  at  night;  and  then  releeved  them 
with  other  iii  c.  fresh  men  to  warde  all  the  night,  and  by  5  in  the 
morninge  other  iii  c.  freshe  men  came  to  releeve  them,  and  everie 
morninge  and  eveninge  fresh  releefe  was  sett. 

The  6  of  February,  beinge  Srove-Twesdaye.  afore  six  of  the  clock 

.  .  -„,-  .,..         ,,.  _    ~        ,  . 

m  the  morninge,  Wyatt  with  his  rebells  went  out  of  Southwarke, 
anc[  went  to  Kingeston,  over  the  bridge,  and  came  towarde  Brayn- 
forde;  and  that  afternoone  were  2  men  hanged  on  a  gibbett,  in 
Paules  Churche  yearde,  by  marshall  lawe,  one  beinge  the  Duke  of 
Suffolkes  servante,  a  richeman  and  under-  sheriffe  of  Lecester,  and 
the  other  a  baker,  one  of  the  rebells. 

Allso,  the  same  day  tydinges  came  that  the  Duke  of  Suffolke  and 
his  brother  were  taken  by  the  Earle  of  Huntingdon.  And  that  day 
allso  the  Lord  Cobham  a  and  Harper  b  were  committed  to  the  Tower. 

The  viith  of  February,  beinge  Ash-Weddensday,  earlye  in  the 
morninge,  the  Earle  of  Pembroke,  Lieuetenant  of  the  Queens  armie, 
with  the  horssemen  and  footemen  of  the  noblemen,  gathered  their 
armies  together  with  the  Queens  ordinance,  and  pitched  their  field 
by  St.  James  beyond  Charinge  Crosse,0  to  abide  the  said  traytor 
Wyatt  and  his  rebells.  The  Lord  Mayre  and  the  Lord  Admirall 
sett  the  citizens  in  good  arraye  at  Ludgate,  Newgate,  and  from 
Creeplegate  to  Bushopsgate,  lest  the  rebells  would  drawe  to  Finnes- 
burie  field,  they  to  defend  that  syde.  Then  Wyatt  with  his  rebells 
came  to  the  park  pale  by  St.  James  about  2  of  the  clocke  in  the 
afternoone,  and  Knevett,  one  of  his  capteynes,  with  his  rebells  went 
b7  Towtehill,  through  Westminster,  and  shott  at  the  Cowrt  gates. 
Butt  Wyatt,  perceavinge  the  great  armie  of  the  Queens  campe,  and 

a  Upon  suspicion  of  favouring  Wyatt's  rebellion.  —  Chronicle  of  Queens  Jane  and 
Mary,  p.  36. 

b  Sir  George  Harper,  who  had  been  excepted  in  the  Queen's  proclamation  of  pardon 
to  the  Kentish  men. 

c  "  By  ten  of  the  clocke  the  Earle  of  Pembroke  had  set  his  troupe  of  horsemen  on 
the  hill  in  the  high  way  aboue  the  new  bridge,  ouer  against  St.  James:  his  footmen 
were  set  in  two  battels,  somewhat  lower,  and  neerer  Charing-  Crosse,  at  the  lane  turn- 
ing downe  by  the  bricke  wall  from  Islington  ward,  where  hee  had  set  also  certaine 
other  horsemen,  and  he  had  planted  his  ordinance  upon  the  hill  side.''  —  Stow,  p.  620. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  Ill 

ordinance  bent  againste  him,  sodenlie  returned  by  the  wall  of  the  A-D- 1554- 
parke  at  St.  James,  toward  Charinge  Crosse,  with  the  lightiest  of 
his  souldiers,  where  the  Earle  of  Pembrokes  men  cutt  of  his  trayne 
and  slue  divers  of  the  rebells ;  but  Wyatt  himselfe  with  divers  other 
came  in  at  Temple  barre,  and  so  thorowe  Fleet  street  to  the  Bell 
Savage,  cryinge  "  a  Wyatt !  a  Wyatt !  God  saue  Queen  Marie !  "  a 
Butt  when  he  sawe  that  Ludgate  was  shutt  against  him,  and  the 
ordinance  bent,  he  fledd  back  agayne  sayinge,  "  I  haue  kept 
touche ;  "  and  by  Temple  barre  was  taken,b  with  the  Lord  Cob- 
hams  sonne,  and  other  of  his  capteyns  and  rebells,  and  brought  to 
the  cowrte  gate,  and  from  thence  sent  by  water  to  the  Tower  of 
London.  And  then  all  the  Queens  hoste  came  throughe  London 
in  goodlye  araye,  and  Te  Deurn  was  sunge  in  the  Queens  Chappell 
for  ioye  of  the  sayde  victorie,  and  so  fewe  slayne. 

The  xth  of  February  the  Lord  May  re  with  other  justices  satt  on  the 
rebells  by  commission  of  Oyer  and  determiner  at  the  justice  hall  in  the 
olde  Baylie,  where  that  day  were  condemned  of  treason  iiiixx  ii  persons 
of  Kent  and  other  places;  and  xxxii  were  condemned  at  Westminster, 
and  had  iudgment  to  be  drawne,  hanged,  and  quartered. 

Allso  the  same  daye  in  the  afternoone  the  Duke  of  Suffolke,  The  Duke  of  Suffolke 
which  was  taken  in  Lecestreshire,  was  brought  thorowe  the  Cittie  Se 
of  London  by  the  -Earle  of  Huntington,  and  one  of  his  bretheren 
with  ii  c.  light  horsemen,  and  so  had  to  the  Tower. 

The  1 2  of  Februarie  Guilforde  Dudley  was  beheaded  at  the  Guilforde  Dudley  and 
Tower  hill.  And  Ladie  Jane  his  wife  was  immediate  after  his  Lady  Jane  beheaded- 
death  beheaded  within  the  Tower  upon  the  greene. 

The   14   of  February  divers  of  the  rebells  were  putt  to  death,  Rebells  hanged  and 
that  is  to  saye,  Bothe,  one  of  the   Queenes  footemen,  one  Vicars,  a 
Yeoman  of  the   Garde,  great  John  Norton,  and  one  Kinge,  were 
hanged  at  Charinge  Crosse.     And  three  of  the  rebells,  one  called 

&  Or,  according  to  other  authorities,  "  Queen  Mary!  God  save  Queen  Mary,  who 
has  granted  our  petition,  and  will  have  no  Spanish  husband." 

b  After  a  brave  resistance  Wyatt  threw  away  his  broken  sword,  and  quietly  sur- 
rendered to  Sir  Maurice  Berkley,  who,  mounting  him  behind  him,  carried  him  off 
instantly  to  the  Court. 


112 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1554. 


Rebells  hanged. 


Signes  in  the  firma- 
ment. 


Duke  of  Suffolk  . 
array  ned. 

Proclamation. 


Rebells  executed  in 
Kent. 


Rebells  pardoned. 


Pollarde,  were  hanged  at  the  parke  pale  by  Hide  Parke ;  three  allso 
in  Fleet  street,  one  at  Ludgate,  one  at  Bishopsgate,  one  at  New- 
gate, one  at  Aldgate,  three  at  the  Crosse  in  Cheape,  three  at  Soper 
Lane  ende  in  Chepe,  and  three  in  Smythfield,  which  persons  hanged 
still  all  that  daye  and  night  tyll  the  next  morninge,  and  then  cutt 
downe.a  And  the  bodies  of  them  that  were  hanged  at  the  gates 
were  quartered  at  Newgate,  and  the  heades  and  bodies  hanged  over 
the  gates  where  they  suffred. 

The  15  of  February  were  hanged  of  the  rebells  iii  against  St. 
Magnus  Churche,  iii  at  Billingsgate,  iii  at  Ledenhall,  one  at  More- 
gate,  one  at  Creplegate,  one  at  Aldrigegate,  two  at  Paules,  iii  in 
Holborne,  iii  at  Tower  hill,  ii  at .  Tyburne,  and  at  4  places  in 
Sowthwerke  14.  And  divers  others  were  executed  at  Kingston 
and  other  places. 

Allso  this  daye  about  ix  of  the  clock  in  the  foorenoone  was  seene 
in  London  in  the  middest  of  the  Element  a  raynebowe  lyke  fyre,  the 
endes  upward,  and  two  sunnes,  by  the  space  of  an  hower  and  an  halfe. 

The  17  of  February  the  Duke  of  Suffolke  was  arreigned  at  West- 
minster and  there  condemned  of  Treason. 

The  same  day  a  proclamation  was  made  in  London  for  strangers, 
not  being  denizens  and  merchants  knowne,  using  the  trade  of 
merchandize,  should  departe  and  avoyde  the  realme  within  xxiiii 
dayes  after  this  proclamation,  upon  payne  to  forfeyt  all  their  goods 
movable,  and  allso  upon  payne  of  imprisonment. 

The  18  of  February  Bright,b  one  of  the  capteyns  of  the  Londoners 
that  fledd  to  Wyatt,  and  xxii  persons  more  of  the  Kentish  men, 
were  delivered  to  the  sheriffe  of  Kent,  to  be  executed  in  divers 
places  in  Kent  appoynted  by  the  Queens  Councell. 

The  22  of  February  certeyne  of  the  rebells  which  lay  in  New- 
gate, both  the  Counters,  the  Kings  Benche,  the  Marshallsie,  and 
Westminster,  to  the  number  of  iiiic.  and  more,  were  ledd  to  West- 

a  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  (p.  88)  adds:  "  the  whych  ware  of  London  that  fled 
from  the  Duke  of  Norfoke." 

b  In  most  chronicles  spelt  Brett,  but  in  the  Diary  of  a  Resident  in  London  Bart. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  113 

minster   to  the  Cowrte,  coupled  together  with  collers  and  halters          A.D.  1554. 
abowte  their  neckes,  and  there  in  the  Tylt-yeard  kneeled  afore  the 
Queen  lookinge  owt  at   the  gallerie   by  the  gate,  and   cried  for 
mercy e,  who  most  gratiouslye  gave  to  them  their  pardon. 

Frydaye  the  23  of  February  Lorde  Gray,  Duke  of  Suffolke,  was  Duke  of  Suffolk  be- 
beheaded  at  the  Towerhill. 

The  first  daye  of  Marche,  the  parsons  and  curates  of  the  Cittie  Wedded  priests  pat 
of  London  that  were  wedded  were  cited  to  appeare  in  the  Con- 
sistorie  in  Paules  afore  the  Bishop  of  Londons  Commissioners,  and 
there  deprived  from  their  benefices.  And  those  that  were  and  had 
bene  religiouse  men  were  deprived  both  from  their  wives  and 
benefices  allso. 

The  9  of  Marche  one  Fermer  a  woodmonger  was  sett  on  the  A  woddmonger  sett  on 
pillorie  in  Chepe  with  4  billetts  hanginge  at  his  shoulders,  2  before    e  pl 
him  and  2  behinde  him ,  for  buyinge  wodd  at  viii  s.  iiii  d.  the  M1 
and  sellinge  it  agayne  for  xviiis.  the   M1,    which    pennance   was 
enioyned  him  by  a  Cowrt  of  Alldermen  the  8  of  Marche. 

The  xv  of  Marche  Wyatt,  capteyn  of  the  rebells,  was  arregnedat  Wyett  array gned. 
Westminster  and  there  condemned  of  highe  treason. 

And  the  same  daye  the   Earle  of  Devonshire   was   committed  Earle  of  Devon  sent 

.  i      m  to  the  Tower, 

agayne  to  the  Tower. 

The  xviii  of  Marche,  beinge  Palme  Sunday,  the  Ladie  Elizabeth  Ladle  Elizabeth  sent 
was  had  to  the   Tower  from   Westminster  by  water  privelie,  after 
the  Queene  had  gone  a  procession,  which  was  about  x  of  the  clock 
in  the  forenoone. 

The  same  Palme  Sunday  the  old  service  after  the  use  of  Sarum  in  Creepinge  to  the 
_  ,  ,,  •       T-»      i  -11  •  i        Crosse  with  sepulcher 

Latyn  was  begone  agayne  and  kept  in   Paules  and   other  parishes  lights. 

within  the  Cittie  of  London,  with  allso  bearinge  of  Palmes,  and 
creepinge  to  the  Crosse  on  Good  Fridaye,  with  the  Sepulcher  lights 
and  the  Resurrection  on  Easter  daye. 

Allso  the  Scriptures  written  on  Rood-lofts  and  about  the  churches  Scriptures  in  churches 
in  London,  with  the  armes  of  England,  was  washed  out  againste  was  e 
the  feast  of  Easter  in  moste  parte  of  all  the  parishe  churches  of  the 

CAMD.  SOC.  Q 


114 


WRIGTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1554. 


New  Bishopps. 


A  Parlement. 


A  catt  hanged  in 
Cheape. 


A  proclamation  for 
the  catt. 


diocesse  of  London.  And  Dr.  Feknam  a  was  made  Deane  of  Paules, 
and  Dr.  May  putt  owt,  and  the  sacrament  of  the  aulter  hanged  or 
sett  on  the  aulter  in  everie  parishe  churche. 

The  first  day  of  Aprill  was  consecrated  at  St.  Marye  Overies 
churche  in  Southwerke  vi  new  Bishopps  after  the  olde  sorte,  the 
Lord  Chauncellor  and  Bishop  of  Winchester  singinge  the  masse, 
the  Bishop  of  London  and  the  Bishop  of  Durham  assistinge  him. 

Munday  the  2  of  Aprill,  1554,  the  Parlement  began  at  West- 
minster, which  should  haue  bene  kept  at  Oxforde,  the  Queens 
Majestic  ridinge  in  her  Parlement  robes  from  her  pallace  of  White- 
hall to  St.  Peters  churche  with  all  her  Lordes  spirituall  and  tem- 
porall  in  their  robes,  and  there  heard  masse  of  the  Holie  Ghoste 
and  a  sermon.  And  that  afternoone  the  Common  Howse  did  chuse 
Mr.  Eobert  Brooke,  esquier,  and  sergiant  at  lawe  and  Kecorder  of 
London,  for  their  speaker  in  this  Parlement. 

Sunday  the  8  of  Aprill  was  a  villanouse  fact  done  in  Cheape  b  u 
earlie  or  daye.  A  dead  catt  havinge  a  clothe  lyke  a  vestment  of  tf 
the  priest  at  masse  with  a  crosse  on  it  afore,  and  another  behinde  put 
on  it;  the  crowne  of  the  catt  shorne,  a  peece  of  paper  lyke  a  singinge 
cake  putt  betwene  the  forefeete  of  the  said  catt  bownd  together, 
which  catt  was  hanged  on  the  post  of  the  gallowes  in  Cheape 
beyond  the  Crosse  in  the  parishe  of  St.  Mathewe,  and  a  bottle 
hanged  by  it ;  which  catt  was  taken  downe  at  vi  of  the  clock  in  the 
morninge  and  caried  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  he  caussed  it  to 
be  shewed  openlye  in  the  sermon  tyme  at  Paules  Crosse  in  the 
sight  of  all  the  audience  there  present. 

The  Lord  Mayre,  with  his  bretheren  the  alldermen  of  the 
Cittie  of  London,  caused  a  proclamation  to  be  made  that  afternoone 
that  whosoever  could  utter  or  shewe  the  auctor  of  the  sayde  fact 
should  haue  vi  1.  xiii  s.  iv  d.  for  his  paynes,  and  a  better  rewarde, 
with  hartie  thancks.  But  at  that  tyme,  after  much  enquirie  and 


a  John  Feckenhaui. 

b  This  is  mentioned  by  Stow  and  several  other  chroniclers. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  115 

searche  made,  it  could  not  be  knowne,  but  diverse  persons  were          A.D.  1554. 
had  to  prison  for  suspicions  of  it. 

The  xi  of  Aprill  Sir  Tho.  Wyatt,  cheefe  capteyne  of  the  late  Wyatt  putt  to  death, 
rebellion  in  Kent,  was  beheaded  at  Towrehill,  at  ix  of  the  clock  in 
the  foorenoone,  and  his  bodie  after  quartered  on  the  scaffolde.  His 
head  was  sett  on  the  gallowes  at  the  parke  pale  beyond  St.  James,a 
where  Pollard  and  two  other  were  hanged  in  chaynes.  And  his  4 
quarters  were  hanged  on  gibbetts  in  chaynes  at  4  severall  places 
without  the  Liberties  of  the  Cittie. 

The  xvii  of  Aprill  Sir  Nicolas  Trockmorton  was  arreigned  at  the  Sir  Nic.  Throckmor- 
Guildhall  of  treason,  and  was  quitt  by  a  jurie  of  the  citizens  of  ° 
London,  which  jurie  after  their  verditt  given  were  bownd  in  vc  1. 
a  peece,  to  appeare  in  the  Starre  Chamber  afore  the  Queens  Coun- 
cell  at  all  tymes  when  they  shal  be  commanded. 

The  25  of  Aprill  the  jurie  that  quitt  Sir  Nicholas  Throckmorton  The  jurie  of  London 
appeared  before  the  Lord  Chauncellor  and  the  Queens  Councell  in  se 
the  Starre  Chamber  at  Westminster  and  were  committed  to  warde. 
Thomas  Whetstone,  haberdasher,  which  was  the  foreman  of  the 
jurie,  and  Emanuell  Lucare,  marchant  taylor,  were  sent  to   the 
Tower  of  London,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  jurie  were  sent  to  the  Fleete. 

Frydaye  the  27  of  Aprill   Lord  Thomas   Grey,   brother  to  the  Duke  of  Suffolkes 
Duke  of  Suffolke,  was  beheaded  at  the  Tower  hill. 

The  29  of  Aprill  Sir  James  Croft,  knight,  was  arrayned  in  the  Sir  James  Croft 
Guildhall  of  treason,  and  there  by  a  jurie  of  the  citizens  of  London  arra^ne 
condemned  and  had  iudgment  of  death. 

Saterdaye  5  Maii  the  Parliment  brake  up  and  was  quite  dissolved. 

Monday   7   Maii  the  parishe  clerkes  of  London  kept  the  proces-  Clerks  procession, 
sion   agayne    after  the   olde    use,     goeinge   from    the    Guyldhall 
chappell  in  riche  copes  of  clothe  of  goulde  with  longe  streamers 
and  banners  and   three  riche  crosses  borne  afore  them,  and   the 
sacrament  of  the  aulter  borne  under  a  riche  canopie  after  them. 

a  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  (p.  89)  adds:  "and  the  hed  with  the  qwarter  was 
stolne  awaye." 


116  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1554.  The  ixth  of  May  William  Thomas,  esquier,a  was  arraigned  at  the 

Guyldehall  of  highe  treason  for  cons[p]iracie  of  the  Queenes  death, 
and  there  by  a  iurie  of  the  citizens  of  London  condemned  and 
had  his  iudgment  to  dye. 

King  Henrye  the  The  xith  of  May  King  Henry  the  VIIth  anniversarie  was  kept  at 

VIIth  aniversarie.          TTT          .  -,.  i  •      i  -n          i 

Westminster  agayne,  accordmge  to   his   last    will    and  testament. 

The  Lord  Mayre  and  the  sheriffs  with  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell 
beinge  then  present  at  the  masse  and  offered,  which  anniversarie  had 
bene  putt  downe  longe,  and  now  renued  by  the  Queene. 

William  Thomas  Fridaye  the  xviiith  of  May  William  Thomas  was  drawne  from 

the  Tower  of  London  to  Tiburne,  and  there  hanged,  headed,  and 
quartered,  and  after  his  head  sett  on  London  Bridge,  and  his 
quarters  sett  in  4  severall  places,  one  myle  out  of  the  Cittie  of 
London. 

Ladye  Elizabeth  sent  The  xixth  of  May,  beinge  Saterday  and  the  eeven  of  the  feast  of 
the  Holie  Trinitie,  Ladye  Elizabeth  was  had  out  of  the  Tower  and 
went  thorowe  London  Bridge  in  her  barge  at  3  of  the  clock  in  the 
afternoone,  lyeinge  at  Richmond  that  night;  and  from  thence  con- 
veyed to  Woodstock,  Mr.  Benyfield,b  Lorde  Williams  of  Tame,  and 
Sir  Leonard  Chamberlayne,  way  tinge  on  her,  with  ii  c  horsemen, 
there  to  remayne  at  the  Queenes  pleasure. 

Earle  of  Devonshire         Frydaye  25  Maii  Sir  Edward  Courtney,   Earle  of  Devonshire, 
sent  to  Fodringay.        wag    had  Qut  of  the   Tower  ^  3  of  ^  dock  ^  ^  mominge?  Mr 

Chamberlayne  of  Suffolke  and  Sir  Tho.  Tresham,  knights,  ridinge 
with  him,  with  certeyne  of  the  Queens  garde  and  others,  to 
Fodringay c  Castle  in  Northamptonshire,  and  he  there  to  remayne 
under  theyr  custodie  at  the  Queens  pleasure. 

a  "  late  Clerk  of  the  Council." — Machyn,  p.  63.  His  works,  consisting  of  a  very 
curious  and  circumstantial  account  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  and  the  origin  of 
the  Reformation,  together  with  six  essays  on  questions  of  state,  written  at  the  com- 
mand and  for  the  information  of  Edward  VI.  have  been  edited  by  D'Aubant  from 
the  Cotton.  MS. 

b  Sir  Henry  Bedingfield,  the  recently  appointed  Constable  of  the  Tower. 

c  Fotheringay. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  117 

This  moneth  allso  divers  persons  both  men  and  weomen  were  sett          A.D.  1554. 
on  the  pillorie  in  Cheape  for  slaimderouse  and  seditiouse  wordes  fivers  sett  on  the 
speakinge  against  the  Queene  and  her  Councell,  and  had  their  eares 
nayled  to  the  pillorie. 

The  xth  of  June,  beinge  Sundaye,  an  handgun  was  shott  of  neare  A  gun  shott  in  the 
to  Paules  Churchyeard  in  the  sermon  tyme,  the  pellett  hittinge  the  sermon tyme  at  Paules. 
churche  wall  next  where  the  Lord  Mayre  satt,  and  after  fell  on  a 
mans  shoulder,  and  taken  up  and  delyvered  to  the  Lord  Mayre; 
and  after  the  sermon  was  done.,a  searche  was  made  all  about  the 
precinct  of  Paules  in  everie  howse,  but  no  knowledge  could  be 
fownd  but  that  a  gonne  was  shott  in  Foster  .Lane  neare  St.  Fausters 
Churche.  But  the  partie  that  shott  it  (by  reporte)  fleed,  and  within 
vi  dayes  after  was  taken  and  examined  afore  the  Lord  Mayre  and 
sent  to  prison,  and  divers  witnesse  allso  examined  for  the  same, 
which  agreed  not  one  with  another,  and  the  partie  allso  himselfe 
denieinge  that  he  shott  anye,  nor  no  gun  could  be  founde  in  the 
howsse  that  the  reporte  was  spoken  where  it  should  be  shott.  So 
that  after  x  or  xii  dayes  imprisonment  he  was  bayled  upon  suerties, 
and  bound  to  be  forthcomminge  at  all  tymes  when  he  should  be 
sent  for ;  and  so  was  discharged  out  of  warde. 

The  xith  of  June  Lord  John  [Thomas]  Grey,b  one  of  the  bretheren  Duke  of  Suffolkes 
of  the  Duke  of  Suffolke  late  putt  to  death,  was  arreigned  at  West-  brother  arrayned. 
minster  in   the   Kings  Benche  of  treason,   and  there  condemned 
to  dye. 

The  15  of  Julie,  beinge  Sundaye,  one  Elizabeth  Crofte,  a  yonge  The  birde  in  the  wall, 
mayden,  stood  at  Paules  Crosse  on  a  litle  scaffolde  neare  the  preacher, 
which  was  taken  in  Aldersgate  Streete  in  Aprill  last  past,  called  the 
whyte  byrde,  or  the  byrde  that  spake  in  the  wall.c  Her  confession 
was  readd  by  the  precher  openly e,  which  declared  that  one  Drakes, 
a  servant  of  Sir  Anthony  Nevills,d  which  gaue  her  a  whistle,  and 

a  The  sermon  was  preached  by  Dr.  Pendleton. — Strype. 

b  Lord  Thomas  Grey. —  See  Chronicle  of  Queen  Jane  and  Queen  Mary,  p.  75. 
«  "  called  the  Spirit  in  the  Wall."— Stow. 

d  "  John  Drake,  Sir  Antony  Knevett's  servant." — Diary  of  a  Resident  in  London, 
p,  66;  but  Stow  agrees  with  the  text. 


118  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1554.  by  theyr  develish  pretence  feyned  a  her  to  speake  divers  thinges  of 
the  Queen  and  Prince  of  Spayne,  of  the  masse  and  confession;  as 
that  one  Myles,  clerk  of  St.  Butolphes  in  Aldersgate  Street,  and  a 
player,  and  one  Hyll,  a  weaver  b  in  Reddcrosse  Streete,  declared  to 
the  people,6  which  caused  great  assemblie  of  people  to  drawe  thither, 
which  there  openlye  lamented  in  the  presence  of  all  the  people. 
After  her  confession  read  she  kneeled  downe,  and  asked  God 
forgivenes,  and  the  Queens  Maiestie,  desyringe  the  people  to  praye 
for  her,  and  to  beware  of  heresies.  The  sermon  done  she  went  to 
prison  agayne  in  Bred  Street,  where  she  had  bene  a  litle  tyme,  but 
afore  that  she  was  in  Newgate.  And  after  Dr.  Scorye  resorted  to  her 
divers  tymes  to  examin  her;  and  after  this  she  was  released. 

Landings  of  the  prince  Fry  day  the  xxth  of  Julie  tydinges  came  to  the  Lord  Mayre 
that  the  Prince  of  Spayne  was  come  into  Englande,  and  landed  at 
Southampton  this  daye,  and  came  with  viiixx  sayle  of  Spanish  shippes 
well  appoynted,  beside  the  navie  of  Flaunders  and  the  Queens 
navie,  which  were  to  the  number  of  Ix  shippes  and  more,  Lord 
Wm.  Howarde,  Lord  Admirall  of  England,  conductinge  them,  after 
they  came  into  the  costes  of  Englande. 

Proclamation  for  the  The  xxith  of  Julie  proclamation  was  made  in  London  that  all 
marriage  with  bone-  nobiemeilj  gentlemen,  ladies,  and  other  should  repayre  to  the  Cittie 
of  Winchester,  there  to  doe  their  attendance  at  her  graces  marriage 
accordinge  as  they  are  appoynted.  And  that  night  were  bone- 
fycrs  made  in  everie  parishe  within  the  Cittie  of  London,  with  all 
the  bells  ringinge  in  everye  parishe  churche  for  the  ioyfull  tydinges 
of  the  Princes  landinge  in  safe  tie. 

King  Phillip  receaved  The  23  of  Julie  the  Prince  of  Spayne  came  to  Winchester d  about  vi 
into  Winchester. 

a  feigned. 

b  Stow  reads:  "a  player,  a  weaver,  Hill,  clerk  of  St.  Leonard's  in  Foster  Lane, 
and  others  confederate  with  her." 

c  These  confederates,  putting  themselves  among  the  press,  took  upon  them  to  inter- 
pret what  the  spirit  [in  the  wall]  said  [when  she  whistled],  expressing  certain 
seditious  words  against  the  Queen,  &c. — See  Stow. 

d  Philip  lingered  a  few  days  at  Southampton,  where  he  disembarked,  as  if  in  order 
to  ascertain  the  humour  of  the  nation,  as  one  of  his  ambassadors,  the  Count  of 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  119 

of  the  clock  at  night,  accompanied  with  noblemen  as  well  of  England         A-r>- 

as  of  his  owne  countrie,a  with  trumpetts  blowinge  and  bells  ringinge, 

and  came  to  the  Cathedrall  churche,  where  he  alighted.     And  there 

the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  Lord  Chauncellor,  with  4  bishops  more, 

with  the  priests,  singinge-men,  and  children,  receaved  him  with 

procession  in  riche  copes  and  with  iii  crosses  up  into  the  quiere, 

where  was  a  riche  traves  richlye  hanged  for  him;   and  there  he 

kneeled  downe  before  the  sacrament ;  and  then  the  Lord  Chauncellor 

began  Te  Deum,  the  organs  playinge  and  the  quier  singinge  the 

rest.     This  done  he  was  brought  out  with  torche  light  to  his  lodg- 

inge  throughe  the  cloyster  to  the  Deanes  howsse,  all  the  Queens 

garde  standinge  in  their  riche  cotes  all  the  waye.     He  was  apparelled  His  first  meetinge 

in  a  riche  cote  richlie  imbroydered  with  goulde,  and  an  hatt  much  Wlth  the  Queene- 

like  the  same  with  a  feather  in  it.     The  same  night  after  he  had 

supped,  which  was  about  x  of  the  clock,  certeyne  of  the  Councell 

brought  him  to  the  Queen  by  a  secrett  waye,  where  she  receaved 

him  right  lovinglye  and  kissed  him,  and  after  halfe  an  howre  they 

tooke  their  leave,  eche  kissinge  the  other,  and  so   departed  that 

night  to  his  lodgirjge. 

The  24  of  Julie,  aboute  3  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoone,  he  came 
from  his  lodginge  on  foote,  the  Lord  Steward,  the  Earle  of  Darbie, 
the  Earle  of  Pembrooke,  and  divers  other  lordes  and  gentlemen, 
both  Englishe  and  Spanishe,  goeinge  afore  him  to  the  Courte,  where 

everie  bodye  might  see  him,  and  so  was  brought  up  into  the  hall  The  meetinge  of  the 

1,1       r\  j-  i     u?  i  j     •  i     i        i  T    Prince  and  the  Queen 

where  the  Queene  was  standinge  upon  a  skanold  nchelye  hanged,  Openlye 

she  meetinge  him  halfe  waye,  receivinge  him,  and  kissinge  him  in 
the  presence  of  all  the  people.b  And  then  she  tooke  him  by  the 
hand,  she  goeinge  on  his  right  hand  out  of  the  hall  in  her  great 

Egmont,  had  been  recently  violently  assaulted  by  the  populace,  who  mistook  him  for 
his  master. 

a  He  came  well  attended  with  a  bodyguard  and  troops. 

b  Mary  took  no  pains  to  conceal  her  impatience,  being  enabled  in  her  conscience 
to  plead  her  anxiety  for  a  legitimate  Roman  Catholic  succession,  as  the  only  means 
of  securing  the  faith  in  England. 


120  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

chamber  of  presence.  And  there  in  the  presence  of  all  the  lordes 
and  ladies  they  stoode  a  quarter  of  an  hower  under  the  clothe  of 
estate  talkinge  together;  and  then  after  a  while  he  toke  his  leave  of 
her  Grace  and  came  forthe  into  the  open  cowrte,  where  all  the  pen- 
tioners  stood  in  araye  and  the  garde  all  alonge  on  both  sides  the 
waye  in  theyr  riche  cotes  to  the  Court  gates;  and  from  thence  the 
lords  brought  him  to  the  Cathedrall  churche  to  evensonge,  and  after 
to  his  loginge  agayne. 

The  prince  made  The  same  night,  about   12   of  the  clock,  the  Emperor  sent  a 

marriage.  message   to   the   Queen,   declaringe  to  her  that  his  sonne  which 

should  marrie  with  her  was  not  then  a  Prince  onelye  but  a  Kinge  ; 
and  that  he  was  Kinge  of  Naples  and  Jerusalem  before  the  mar- 
riage, and  so  did  send  his  writings  of  the  same  under  his  great 
seale. 

The  25  of  Julie,  beinge  Weddensdaye  and  St.  James  daye,a  about 
xi  of  the  clocke  the  Kinge  and  Queene  came  from  their  lodgings 
towardes  the  churche  all  the  way  on  foote,  verie  richelye  apparelled 
The  marriage  of  King  in  gownes  of  cloth  of  golde  sett  with  riche  stones,  he  with  his  gentle- 
Marye.  *   ni en  and  garde  and  she  with  hers,  eche  of  them  havinge  a  sworde 

borne  before  them,  the  Earle  of  Darbye  bearinge  the  sworde  before 
her  Maiestie,  and  the  Earle  of  Pembroke  before  the  Kinge;  and 
when  they  were  come  into  the  churche  he  went  into  one  traveys 
and  the  Queen  to  another  richly e  hunge,  where  they  were  shriven. 
This  done  they  came  forth  of  their  traveys  to  the  place  appoynted 
for  the  marriage,  where  the  Lord  Chauncellor,  beinge  before  with  5 
other  bishops  assistinge  him,  used  all  thinges,  both  in  the  banes- 
byddinge  and  otherwise,  as  hath  bene  in  all  marriages  of  olde  tyme, 
and  spake  it  both  in  Latin  and  in  Englishe,  her  Grace  on  the  right 
syde  standinge  and  the  King  on  the  left  syde.  Her  marriage  ringe 
was  a  rownd  hoope  of  gould  without  anye  stone,  which  was  her 
desire,  for  she  sayde  she  would  be  married  as  maydens  were  in  the 
olde  tyme,  and  so  she  was. 

a  The  feast  of  St.  James,  the  titular  saint  of  Spain. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  121 

After  the  marriage  knott  thus  knitt  the  King  and  Queen  came  A.D.  1554. 
hand  in  hand  under  a  riche  canopie,  beinge  borne  over  them  with 
6  knightes  and  2  swordes  before  them,  all  the  lordes  both  Englishe 
and  strangers  richelye  apparelled  goeinge  afore  them,  the  trumpetts 
then  blowinge  tyll  they  came  into  the  quier,  where  all  the  priestes 
and  singinge  men  all  in  riche  copes  began  to  singe  a  psalme  used 
in  marriages,  the  King  and  Queen  kneelinge  awhile  before  the 
aulter,  eche  of  them  havinge  a  taper  afore  them ;  then  after  her 
Majestic  went  into  her  traveys  on  the  right  syde,  and  the  King  into 
another  on  the  left  syde;  after  the  gospell  they  came  owt  and 
kneeled  before  the  alter  openlye  all  the  masse  tyme,  and  the  care- 
cloth  was  holden  ouer  them;  and  he  kissed  the  bishopp  at  the  Agnus 
and  then  her  Majestie.  The  masse  done  the  Kinge  of  Herroldes 
openlye  in  the  churche,  and  in  presence  of  the  King,  the  Queen,  the 
lordes  and  ladies,  and  all  the  people,  solemnlye  proclaymed  their 
Maiesties  Kinge  and  Queene,  with  their  title  and  style,  in  manner  as 
followeth : 

Philippe  and  Marie,  by  the  grace   of  God  Kinge  and  Queene  of  The  Kinge  and 
Englande,  France,   Naples,  Jerusalem,  and  Irelande,  Defenders  of^ue< 
the  Faythe,  Princes  of  Spayne  and  Sicilie,  Archdukes  of  Austriche, 
Dukes  of  Mylane,  Burgundye,  and  Brabant,  Countes  of  Aspurge,a 
Flaunders,  and  Tyrrole.     Which  proclamation  ended,  the  trumpetts 
blue  and  other  noyses  playde.     And  then  the  Kinge  and   Queene 
came  furthe  hand  in  hand,  with  their  lordes,  ladies,  and  gentlemen 
way  tinge  on  them,  and  2  swordes  borne  afore  them  in  manner  afore- 
sayde;  and  so  went  on  foote  to  the  courte,  and  there  dined  openlye 
in  the  hall,  both  together  at  one  table. 

Sundaye   5  August  the  King  was  stalled  in   Wmdsore  of  the  The  King  stalled  in 
noble  order  of  the  Garter,  and  there  kept  St.  George's  feast  in  his  Wyndsore. 
royall  estate  himselfe ;    where  was  kept  a  great  feast.     And  the 
Earle  of  Sussex  was  made  knight  of  the  Garter  at  that  tyme  allso. 

The  7  of  August  was  a  general  huntinge  at  Wyndsore  forest,  A  generall  huntinge. 
where  was  made  a  great  toyle  of  4  or  5  myles  longe. 
a  Haspurgi,  Hapsburg. 

CAMD.  SOC.  R 


122 


WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1554. 


The  comminge  of  the 
Kinge  and  Queen 
through  London. 


Duke  of  Norfolk 


Church e  holydayes. 


Lord  Chauncellor 
preached. 


The  1 1  of  August  the  King  and  Queen  removed  to  Richmond. 

The  17  of  Augusta  the  King  and  Queen  came  by  water  from 
Richmond  in  the  after  noone,  and  landed  at  my  Lord  Chancellors 
stayers  in  St.  Marye  Overies,  and  there  had  a  banquett  in  the  Lord 
Chauncellors  howsse,  and  then  passed  throughe  the  parke  to  the 
howse  at  St.  Georges,  of  which  Sir  John  Gage,  Lord  Chamberlayne 
to  the  Queene,  had  the  keepinge,  and  there  lay  that  night  and  dyned 
there  the  next  daye. 

Saterdaye  the  18  of  August,  in  the  after-noone,  the  King  and 
Queenes  Majesties  rode  throughe  Sowthwerke,  over  the  bridge,  and 
so  throughe  London;  where  they  were  with  great  provision  receaved 
of  the  citizens,  pageants  in  places  accustomed,  the  crosse  in  Cheape 
new  gilte,  &c. 

Memorandum :  In  the  moneth  of  September  the  Duke  of  Norfolke 
died  at  Framlingham  in  Norfolke,  and  there  was  honorablye  buried 
amongst  his  auncestors. 

Allso  this  moneth  the  Bishop  of  London  visited  all  his  dioces, 
and  had  sermons  in  everie  parishe  and  place  where  he  satt,  and  sett 
owt  divers  goodlye  articles  in  print  for  the  true  religion. 

Allso  he  commaunded  that  the  feast  of  everie  saynte  that  was 
patrone  of  the  churche,  called  Festum  loci,  in  everie  parishe,  should 
be  kept  holiedaye  in  everie  parishe  throughe  his  diocesse  as  a  prin- 
cipall  feast  used  in  olde  tyme,  after  the  custome  of  the  churche. 

Sunday  the  xxxth  of  Septembre  1554  Dr.  Steven  Gardiner, 
Bishop  of  Winton  and  Lord  Chauncellor  of  England,  preached  at 
Paules  Crosse,  divers  Lordes  of  the  Queens  Councell  beinge  present 

R  The  authorities  differ  widely  as  to  this  date.  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  (p.  91 ) 
says:  "  They  came  not  unto  London  tyll  it  was  the  18th  day  of  August,  and  then 
came  bothe  unto  the  place  in  Sothwarke,  and  lay  there  that  nyght,  and  the  19th  day 
came  into  London."  And  Stow  (p.  625):  "  The  11  of  August,  the  King  and  Queene 
remooued  to  Richmond,  from  thence  by  water  to  Southwarke,  &c.  And  the  next 
day,  being  the  12  oE  August,  they  rode  through  Southwarke  ouer  the  bridge,  and  so 
through  London,  &c."  While  Baker's  Chronicle  reads:  "The  eleventh  of  August 
they  remoued  to  Richmond,  the  seven-and-twentieth  to  Suffolk  Place  in  Southwark, 
and  the  next  day  to  London,"  &c.  (p.  342). 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  123 

at  his  sermon,  and  goeinge  afterward  to  dynner  to  the  Lord  Mayres          A.D.  1554. 
howsse. 

The  first  Sundaye  after  Michaellmas  daye  was  kept  the  dedica-  Dedication  of  the 
tion  of  the  churche  throughe  all  England,  accordinge  to  the  olde  churcl1- 
costome. 

The  18  of  Octobre,  beinge  the  day  of  St.   Luke,  the  Kinge  rode  The  Kinge  cominge  to 
from  his  pallace  of  Whitehall  to  Paules  Church  in  the  forenoone,  Paules  to  masse- 
and  there  heard  masse,  which  was  sunge  by  the   Spaniards  of  his 
owne  quier. 

Frydaye  the  26   of  October  there  was  a   Spaniarde  hanged  at  A  Spaniard  hanged. 
Charinge  Crosse,  which  had  shamefullie  slayne  an  Englishe  man, 
servant  to  Sir  George  Gifforde.     There  would  have  bene  given  v  c. 
crownes  of  the  straungers  to  have  saved  his  life. 


PHILIPPI  ET  MARINE.     Annis  1°  et  2°. 

Sundaye  the  4  of  November  5  persons  did  open  pennance   in  Open  pennance. 
Paules,  whereof  3  were  priestes  that  were  wedded  ;    and  the  other 
2  were  seculare  men,  that  had  2  wives  apeece  lyvinge. 

Munday  the   12   of  Novembre  the  Parliament  began  at  West-  A  Parlement. 
minster.a 

Saterdaye  the  24  of  November  Doctor  Eeynold  Poole,b  Cardinall,  Cardinall  sent  from 
came  to  the  Cowrte  to  Westminster,  and  was  receaved  of  the  King 
and  Queens  Majesties,  which  had  longe  bene  a  banished  man  out  of 
this  realme,  and  now  restored  to  his  bloud  agayne  by  Acte  of 
Parlement. 

Weddensdaye  the  28  of  November  the  Lord  Mayre  and  Allder- 
men  assembled  in  Paules  in  their  Scarlett  gownes  and  clokes,  with 
all  the  Commons  in  their  liveries,  at  ix  of  the  clock  in  the  foor- 

a  In  the  new  parliament  the  Commons  consisted  wholly  of  Roman  Catholics  or  of 
men  indifferent  to  the  great  question  of  religion,  and  the  Lords  were  as  subservient 
to  the  Crown  as  ever. 

b  Cardinal  Reginald  Pole  was  son  of  Sir  Richard  Pole  by  Margaret,  Countess  of 
Salisbury,  the  daughter  of  George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  brother  of  Edward  IV. 


124  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

AD.  1554.  noone.  The  highe  masse  done.  Dr.  Chadsey,  one  of  the  Preben- 
daries in  Paules,  went  into  the  pullpitt  in  the  quiere,  the  Bishop  of 
London  present  in  his  stall,  and  ix  other  bishopps  sittinge  on  the 
north  syde  of  the  highe  alter,  against  the  Lord  Mayre  and  the 
Aldermen.  First  the  preacher  redd  a  letter  sent  to  the  Bishop  of 
London  from  the  Queens  Councell ;  the  tenure  whereof  was,  that 
The  Queene  bruted  to  the  Bishop  of  London  shoulde  causse  Te  Deum  to  be  sunge  in  all 
the  parishe  churches  of  his  dioces,  with  continuall  prayers a  of  the 
priestes  in  their  masses,  for  the  Queens  Majestie,  who  was  conceyved 
and  quick  with  childe.b  The  letter  redd,  he  began  a  collation  with 
this  antheme  :  Ne  timeas,  Maria ;  invenisti  enim  gratiam  apud 
Deum.c  His  sermon  ended,  Te  Deum  was  sunge,  and  solemne  pro- 
cession was  made  of  Salve^  festa  dies,  goeinge  the  circuite  of  the 
churche.d 

Saterdaye  the  first  of  December  the  Lord  Mayre  and  Aldermen 
went  to  Lambeth  by  water  in  the  afternoone,  to  salute  the  Lord 
Cardinall  Poole  and  Legatt  de  Latere,  which  he  thankfullie  tooke. 

Sunday  the  2  of  December  Cardinall   Poole  came  from  Lambeth 

Cardinal  Poole  goinge  by  water,  and  landed  at  Paules  wharfe,  and  went  from  thence  to 

to  Paules.  Paules  Churche,  with  a  crosse,  2  pillers,  and  2  polleaxes  of  sylver 

borne  before  him.     He  was  there  receaved  by  the  Lord  Chauncellor 

with  procession ;  where  he  taried  tyll  the  King  came  from  West- 

minstre  by  land,  at  xi  of  the  clock.     And  then  the  Lord  Chauncellor 

entred  Paules  crosse  and  preached  a  sermon,  takinge  for  his  theame 

these  wordes:  Fratres,  scientes  quia  hora  est  jam  nos  de  somno 

surgere,  &c.,  which  was  a  parte  of  the  Epistle  for  this  Sundaye.     In 

which  sermon  he  declared  that  the  King  and  Queen  had  restored 

a  Several  of  the  prayers  used  on  this  occasion  have  been  preserved.  They  were 
composed  by  different  priests,  but  nearly  all  contain  a  clause  praying  that  the  child 
might  be  a  male,  "  well  favoured  and  witty,"  with  strength  to  repress  his  enemies. 

b  In  her  exceeding  anxiety  for  issue,  Mary  mistook  the  commencement  of  a  dropsy 
for  the  sure  sign  of  pregnancy,  and,  when  Cardinal  Pole  was  first  introduced  to  her 
on  his  return  to  England,  she  fancied  that  the  child  was  quickened,  even  as  John 
the  Baptist  leaped  in  his  mother's  womb  at  the  salutation  of  the  Virgin. 

c  Luke  i.  v.  30.  d  In  thanksgiving  for  the  Queen's  quickening. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  125 

the  Pope  to  his  supremacie  ;  and  that  the  3  estates  assembled  in  the  A-D- 1554- 
Parliment  (representinge  the  whole  bodie  of  the  realme)  had  sub- 
mitted themselves  to  the  same.  The  sermon  beinge  ended,  the 
King  departed  towardes  Westminster,  and  with  him  the  Lord 
Cardinal!.  But  the  Lorde  Chauncellor  went  with  the  Lord  Mayre 
to  dynner. 

This  moneth  allso,  in  Christenmas  weeke,  the  daye  of  St.  Thomas 
of  Canterburie  was  kept  holydaye,  by  the  Bishop  of  Londons  com- 
maundement. 

Allso  in  the  Christenmas  holydayes  came  over  the  seas  to  see  the  Prince  of  Piamont. 
King  and  Queens  Majestic  a  nobleman  of  the    Emperors  linage 
called   Prince  of  Piament,  or  Duke  of  Savoy  ;a  and  was  lodged  at 
Somersett  Place  by  the  Strande  without  Temple  barre,  and   had 
great  chear  in  the  cowrfc.b 

The  xi  of  Januarie  was  a  Spaniarde  hanged  at  Charinge  Crosse,         [A-D-  15550 
for  slayinge  an  Englishe  man  at  the  cowrt  gate  at  Westminster  in  A  sPaniarde  hanged- 
Christenmas  holydayes,  cowardlie  runninge  him   thorowe  with  a 
rapere  whilst  2  Spaniardes  held  him  by  the  armes  ;  who  allso  were 
arrayned  and  cast,  but  after  pardoned  by  the  Queene. 

The  16  of  January  the  Parlement  brake  up,  and  was  clene 
dissolved.0 

The    18   of   January    all  suche   persons  as  remayned  in  prison  Prisoners  discharged, 
within  the  Tower  of  London  condemned  of  treason  were  dely  vered 
out  of  prison  by  the  Queens  Councell,  which  satt  there  at  their 
delyverie,  and  had  the  Queens  pardon.d 

a  Emanuel  Philibert,  Prince  of  Piedmont  and  Duke  of  Savoy,  was  cousin-german 
to  King  Philip  by  their  mothers. 

b  The  Queen  caused  him  to  be  elected  into  the  order  of  the  Garter,  and  shewed 
him  much  hospitality,  expecting  that  he  should  marry  the  Princess  Elizabeth. — See 
Tytler's  Edward  VI.  and  Mary,  ii.  p.  448. 

c  Mary  dissolved  the  parliament  in  ill  humour. 

0  Philip  recommended  the  instant  release  of  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
prisoners  in  the  Tower;  and  it  is  generally  stated  to  have  been  at  his  instigation 
that  Mary  consented  to  release  Elizabeth  and  the  Earl  of  Devon  from  the  Tower, 
and  to  restore  to  their  entire  liberty  the  Lord  Henry  Dudley,  Sir  George  Harper, 
Sir  Nicholas  Throgmorton,  Sir  William  Sentlow  or  St.  Low,  and  four  others. 


126  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1555.  Frydaye  the  25  of  January,  beinge  the  Conversion  of  St.  Paule, 

A  generall  procession,  there  was  kept  a  solemne  generall  procession  in  London.  To  the 
which  about  xi  of  the  clocke  the  Kinge  and  the  Lord  Cardinall 
Poole  came  ridinge  from  Whitehall  to  Paules  Churche.  This  night 
allso  were  great  bonefires  made  in  everie  parishe  within  London. 
The  which  sayd  procession  and  fyers  were  done  to  give  God  laude 
and  prayse  for  the  conversion  of  this  realme  to  the  catholique  faythe 
and  churche,  &c. 

Heretykes  condemned.  The  28,  29,  30  of  January,  the  Lord  Chauncellor,  with  other 
bishopps,  satt  in  the  churche  of  St.  Marye  Overies  in  Sowthwerke 
for  heresies,3  where  was  condemned  for  heresie  Mr.  Hooper,  quon- 
dam Bishop  of  Glocester  and  Worcester;  and  Kogers,  quondam 
vicar  of  St.  Sepulchers  in  London,  and  one  of  the  Prebendaries  of 
Paules;  and  Cardemaker,b  quondam  Deane  of  Wells,  reconciled  him- 
[self]  to  the  order  of  the  churche;  Bradforde,  Dr.  Taylor  of  Hadley, 
and  one  Saunders,  quondam  parson  of  Allhallowes  in  Bred  Street, 
were  lykewise  condemned  of  heresie,  and  committed  to  the  sheriffs 
of  London,  who  sent  Kogers c  and  Hooper  to  Newgate  ;  Bradford,*1 
Taylor,6  and  Saunders f  to  the  two  Counters,  in  the  Poultrie  and 
Bred  Street. 

a  Without  the  least  hesitation  the  late  parliament  revived  the  old  barbarous  laws 
against  heretics,  enacted  statutes  against  seditious  words,  and  made  it  treason  to 
imagine  or  attempt  the  death  of  Philip  during  his  marriage  with  the  Queen. 

b  John  Cardmaker,  alias  Taylor,  late  Vicar  of  St.  Bride's,  was  Chancellor  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Wells.— See  Foxe,  and  Le  Neve's  Fasti. 

e  John  Eogers  was  instituted  to  the  prebend  of  St.  Pancras,  in  St.  Paul's  Cathe- 
dral, 24th  August,  1551,  and  was  also  reader  of  the  lecture  in  St.  Paul's.  He  is 
fully  commemorated  by  Foxe  as  the  proto-martyr  of  the  Marian  persecution.  He 
was  burned  at  Smithfield  for  "  being  a  Lutheran,"  writes  Noailles,  the  French  am- 
bassador, and  "  he  met  his  death,  persisting  in  his  opinion,  so  bravely  that  the  greater 
part  of  the  people  here  took  such  pleasure  that  they  did  not  fear  to  give  him  many 
acclamations  to  comfort  his  courage." 

d  John  Bradford. 

e  Dr.  Rowland  Taylor  had  lived  for  some  time  in  the  family  of  Archbishop 
Cranmer,  who  preferred  him  to  the  rectory  of  Hadleigh,  in  Suffolk,  to  which  town 
he  was  sent  to  be  burnt.  From  him  was  descended  the  learned  and  amiable  Jeremy 
Taylor.  f  Laurence  Saunders  was  sent  to  Coventry  to  be  burnt. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  127 

The  14  of  Marche,  about  ix  of  the  clock  at  night,  an  image  of  A.D.  1555. 
St.  Thomas  of  Canterburie,  which  was  new  made  in  stone  (by  the 
commaundement  of  the  King  and  Queenes  Councell)  by  the  wardens 
of  the  Mercers,  and  sett  over  the  Chappell  doore  of  the  Mercers 
hall  and  Churche  in  Cheape,  was  broken  and  defaced,  but  the 
auctor  of  that  fact  could  not  be  heard  of  or  fownd  out,  notwith- 
standinge  a  Proclamation  made  in  that  behalfe. 

The   16   of  Marche  Thomas   Tompkins,  of    Shorditch,  weaver,  Tomkins  burned, 
afore  viii   of  the   clock  in  the  foorenoone,  was  brent  in  Smyth- 
fielde. 

Sunday  e  the  24  of  .Marche,  before  5  of  the  clock  in  the  morn-  Parsons  brent, 
inge.  Sir  John  Lawrence,  priest,  Thomas  Cawston,  Thomas  Hik- 
bye,a  Stephen  Knight,  William   Hunt,  and  William   Pigott,  were 
had  out  of  Newgate  and  dely vered  by  the  sheriffes  of  London  to  the 
sheriffes  of  Essex  to  be  brent. 

The  4  of  Aprill,  beinge  Easter  daye,  was  a  lewde  fact  done  in  A lewd  parte. 
the  parishe  Churche  of  St.  Margarett,  in  Westminster:  Sir  John 
Shetheur,  priest,  ministringe  the  sacrament  to  the  parishioners,  and 
holdinge  the  challis  in  his  left  hand,  one  William  Branch  alias 
called  Flower,  in  a  servinge  mans  cote,b  suddenlye  drue  a  wodd- 
knife  and  strooke  the  priest  on  the  heade,  that  the  bloud  ran  downe 
and  fell  both  on  the  challes  and  on  the  consecrated  bread.  The 
sayde  person  was  apprehended  and  committed  to  the  Gatehowse  in 
Westminster. 

The  17  of  Aprill,  beinge  Weddensday  in  Easter  weeke,  in  the  Obsequye  for  the 
afternoone,  was  a    solemne    obsequie  and  dergie,   kept  in   Paules Pope> 
Churche^  and  in    all   the    parishe  churches  in   London,  for  Pope 
Julius  the  thirde,  who  died  about  the  xth  day  of  March  c  last  past. 

•  Apparently  a  clerical  error  for  Thomas  Hawkes,  an  Essex  gentleman,  who  was 
burned  at  Coggeshall. 

b  He  had  been  a  monk  of  Ely,  and  is  called  by  other  authorities  Fowler. — See 
Machyn's  Diary,  p.  85. 

c  Pope  Julius  III.  was  elected,  8th  February,  1550,  by  only  two  votes  over  Cardinal 
Pole.  He  was  crowned  on  the  22nd  of  the  same  month,  and  died  5th  March,  1555. 


128 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE, 


A.D.  1555. 

Lord  Courtney  and 
Ladye  Elyzabeth. 


Fryers  observants. 


William  Flower  con- 
demned and  disgraded 
in  Paules. 


V 


William  Flower  burnt 
at  Westminster. 


iii  persons  hanged, 
buryed,  and  burnt  at 
Charinge  Crosse. 


Two  weomen  at  Paules 
Crosse. 


Allso,  againste  this  tyme  of  Easter,  Lord  Courtney,  Earle  of 
Devonshire,  came  to  the  cowrte  agayne:  And  allso,  a  x  dayes  after, 
the  Lady  Elizabeth  came  lykewise  to  the  Queene,  both  at  Hampton 
Cowrte,  where  the  Queen  had  taken  her  chamber  to  be  delyvered  of 
childe.a 

The  7  of  Aprill,  beinge  Palme  Sunday,  the  Queene  set  up  the 
Howsse  of  Friers  Observants  in  Greenewich,  which  friers,  both 
Englishe  and  strangers,  [were  dressed]  b  in  gray  habittes  barefooted. 

The  xxth  of  Aprill  in  the  foorenoone,  in  the  consistory  of  Paules, 
was  arreyned  the  sayde  William  Branch  alias  Flower,  who  struke 
the  priest  on  Easter-day  in  the  parishe  churche  of  St.  Margaretts, 
in  Westminster.  And,  beinge  condemned  of  heresie,  he  was  dely- 
vered to  the  sheriffes  of  London  and  Middlesex.  This  Flower  was 
once  a  muncke  in  Ely  Abbey,  professed  at  his  age  of  xvii  yeares, 
and  after  made  priest,  and  then  married  and  had  3  or  4  children; 
and  then  ran  about  the  countrie  usinge  the  arte  of  surgery e. 

The  24  of  Aprill  the  sayde  William  Flower  for  his  sayde  fact 
had  his  right  hand  smitten  of,  and  for  opinions  in  matters  of  religion 
was  burned  in  the  sanctuarye  nigh  to  St.  Margaretts  churchyarde. 

The  viith  of  May  was  the  bodie  of  one  John  Towley,  a  poalter, 
taken  up  by  the  gallowes  at  Charinge  Crosse,  where  he  and  2  per- 
sons moe  were  hanged  the  26  of  Aprill  last  past.  These  three  dyd 
a  great  robberye  in  Westminster  of  a  Spaniarde  to  a  great  summe 
of  golde  and  Jewells  afore  Shrovetyde  last  past. 

Sunday  the  19  of  May  two  weomen  did  recant,  at  Paules  Crosse, 
certeyne  slaunderouse  wordes  by  them  spoken,  that  a  childe  should 
speake  when  it  was  new  borne,  saying  "  fast  and  praye,"  upon 
which  sayinge  the  sayd  woman  was  examined  by  the  Bishop  of 
London,  and  after  afore  the  Queens  Councell  in  the  Starre  Cham- 

n  It  appears  from  Mary's  will,  which  was  dated  the  30th  April  1558,  or  about 
seven  months  before  her  death,  that  down  to  that  time  she  was  confident  of  being 
enceinte,  for  she  made  a  provision  for  settling  the  crown  on  her  issue. — See  Sir  F. 
Madden's  Privy  Purse  Expenses  of  the  Princess  Mary;  with  Introductory  Memoir 
and  copy  of  Will  in  Appendix. 

b  Omitted  in  MS. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  129 

ber,  and  there  confessed  the  truthe :     That  the  childe  never  spake,  A.D.  1555. 

but  groned  and  rattled  in  the  throate  after  it  was  borne,  and  died. 
For  which  fact  they  were  enioyned  to  recant  at  Paules  Crosse. 

Weddensdaye,  the  22  of  May  and  Assencion  Eeven,  was  one  a  One  whipped,  sayinge 
that  named  himself  King  Edward  had  from  the  Marshallsie  in  South- he  was  King  Edward 
werke,  rydinge  in  a  carre  in  a  fooles  cote  with  papers  written  on  his 
head  and  brest,  rydinge  throughe  London  into  Westminster  Hall,  and 
carried  rownd  aboute  the  sayde  hall,  first  to  the  Kings  Benche, 
then  to  the  Chauncerie  and  the  Common.  Place,  and  then  to  the 
Hall  doore,  and  then  st[r]ipped  naked,  and  bownd  to  the  cart,  and 
whipped  rownd  about  the  pallace  there :  And  after  was  had  throughe 
Westminster  and  [so]  into  London,  whippinge  him  still,  till  he  came 
to  the  middest  of  Smythfield,  and  there  putt  on  his  clothes,  and 
banished  into  the  north  countrie,  where  he  was  borne.  He  was  a 
lackey  upon  viii  yeres  past  to  Sir  Peter  Mewtas. 

Saterdaye  the  25  of  May,  in  the  afternoone,  the  Lord  Maior  satt 
in  Paules  Churche,  in  the  consistorie,  with  the  Bishop  of  London, 
where  afore  them  divers  were  condemned  for  heresie  against  the 
Sacrament  of  the  Aulter. 

Thursday   the   xxxth   of  May    John    Taylor   alias  Cardemaker,  John  Taylor,  priest, 
priest,   and  John  Warne,b  were  burnt  in    Smithfield   for   heresie 
against  the  Sacrament  of  the  Aulter. 

Munday  the  17  of  June  1555  was  a  solemne  obsequie  in  Obsequie  for  the 
Paules  c  for  the  Kinges  grandmother,  Ladye  Jane,  Queen  of  Spayne,  Queen  of  Spayne' 
Ar[a]gon,  &c.d 

Mundaye  the  first  of  Julie   John  Bradford   and  a  boye  were  Bradfovde  brent. 
brent  in  Smythfielde  for  heresie. 

This  yeare,  on  St.  Bartlemew  Eeven,  after  the  Lord  Mayre  and  The  disputation  of 

schollers  in  the  hos- 

a  William  Featherstone  was  the  real  name  of  this  youth,  who  was  the  son  of  an  pitall  of  Christes 
honest  miller;  he  was  seized  at  Eltham,  in  Kent,  but  not  till  the  month  of  May,  Churche. 

b  An  upholsterer  of  London.— See  a  full  relation  of  his  execution  in  Foxe. 
c  A  full  account  of  the  hearse  and  ceremonial  will  be  found  in  Machyn's  Diary, 
pp.  90,  344. 

d  Jane,  Queen  of  Spain,  here  mentioned,  was  heiress  of   Castile  and  Aragon; 
besides  being  King  Philip's  grandmother  she  was  Queen  Mary's  maternal  aunt. 
CAMD.  SOC.  S 


130  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1555.  Alldermen  had  ridden  aboute  the  fayre,  they  came  to  Christes 
Churche  by  Newgate  Markett,  where  disputation  of  the  children  of 
Paules  Schole,  St.  Anthonies,  and  the  children  of  the  Hospitall 
was  heard,  and  three  severall  games  made  for  them. 

The  King  and  Queen       The  26  of  August  1555,  beinge  Mundaye,  the  King  and  Queene 

ridinge  throughe  ,  Jr  *  c 

London.  came  by  water  from   Hampton  Gowrte  to  theyr  pallace   of  W  hy te- 

hall  to  dynner;  and  about  4  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoone  they 
rode  from  thence  throughe  the  Cittie  of  London  to  Tower  wharfe, 
where  they  tooke  bote  to  Grenewich.a 

The  Queen  gave  all  spirituall  promotions  that  were  in  her  posses- 
sion to  the  clergie  agayne,  and  allso  pardoned  them  of  the  First 
Fruites  and  Tenths  from  thenceforward. b 

Kinge  passinge  over         The  4  of  September  the  Kinge  tooke  shippinge  at  Dover  and  so 
e<s  a  '  passed  over  to  Calys,  and  about  xi  of  the  clocke  that  daye  was 

highlye  receaved  of  the  Lord  Deputie,  and  the  Mayre  of  the  Staple 
of  Calies.  He  was  there  presented  with  a  purse  and  a  thowsand 
markes  of  golde  in  it.  On  the  morrowe  he  departed  from  Callies 
towards  Brussells,  in  Brabant,  to  visitt  the  Emperoure  his  father. 
At  his  departinge  he  gave  amonge  the  souldiers  of  Calies  for  a 
reward  a  thowsand  crownes. 

The  Popes  bulls  of  The  15  of  September  was  declared  at   Paules  Crosse  the  Popes 

plenarie  remission.        *»«<••!          •  •     •  i    T-*      i         /-\  n  -, 

BULL  or  plenarie  remission,   named,  raulus  (^uartus,c  to  all  people 

beinge  penitent,  full  remission  of  all  their  synns,  &c. 

A  great  fludd.  The  last  daye  of  September  by  occasion   of  great  wynde   and 

rayne  that  had  fallen  were  suche  great  fluddes  that  that  morninge 
the  Kings  pallace  in  Westminster  and  Westminster  Hall  was  over- 
flowen  with  water  up  to  the  stayrefoote  goinge  to  the  Chauncerie 
and  Kings  Bench.  And  by  reporte  there  that  morninge  a  whirie- 

*  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  adds:  "towarde  hys  jurne  unto  hys  fader  the  Em- 
perar,  and  there  toke  hys  leffe,"  p.  96. 

b  It  was  with  much  difficulty  Parliament  was  brought  to  legalise  these  restora- 
tions. 

c  Giampietro  Caraffa,  Archbishop  of  Chieti  and  a  Cardinal,  was  elected  by  the 
title  of  Paul  IV.  23rd  May,  and  crowned  26th  of  the  same  month,  1555. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  131 

man  rowed  with   his  boate  over  Westminster    Bridge3  into  the          A.D.  1555. 
pallace  cowrt  there,  and  so  thorowe  the  gate  into  the  Kings  Street. 

This  yeare  on   Michaelmas  even  the  prisoners  that  lave  in   the  A  new  counter  in 
„  .     „        ,  c  .    •  J  Wood  street. 

Counter  in  Bread  Street  were  removed  to  a  new  Counter  made  in 

Wood  Street  of  the  Citties  purchace  and  buyldinge. 

<    The  16   of  October  Dr.    Ridley,  quondam   Bishop  of  London,  Ridley  and  Latimer 

and  Hugh  Latimer,  quondam  Bishop  of  Rochester,13  were  brent  at   r 

Oxforde. 

Munday   the    21   of  October   1555   the    Parliament    began    at  A  parliament. 
Westminster,  the   Queen  ridinge  from  her  pallace  at  St.  James, 
throughe  the  parke,  to  the  Tilt  yeard  gate  by  Whitehall,  and  so  to 
St.  Peters  Churche  in  Westminster.6 

Allso  this  moneth  Dr.  Storye  and  other  were  appoynted  by  the  For  settinge  up  roode 
Cardinall d  to  visitt  everye  parishe  churche  in  London  and  Middle- 
sex,  to  see  their   roode-loftes   repay  red,   and   the   images   of  the 
Crucifixe  with  Marye  and  John  thereon  to  be  fixed. 

Allso  about  the  5  of  November  the   Lord  Cardinall  begane  a  A  synode. 
synode  e  in  the  Queens  pallace  of  Whitehall  in  Westminster,  where 

a  This  was  not  a  bridge  across  the  Thames,  but  one  of  those  landing  stages  or 
staiths  which  ran  out  into  the  stream  on  the  Westminster  side,  near  Whitehall. 

b  We  should  here  read  "  Worcester."  The  confusion  has  evidently  arisen  from 
Ridley,  who  was  just  before  mentioned,  having  held  the  see  of  Rochester  before  he 
was  translated  to  London,  whereas  Latimer  never  held  any  other  see  than  Worcester, 
of  which  he  was  consecrated  bishop  in  September,  1535,  and  resigned  1  July,  1539. 
These  two  prelates  were  burnt  at  the  same  stake,  the  Vice-Chancellor  of  Oxford 
University,  with  the  other  commissioners  appointed  by  the  Court,  and  a  multitude 
of  Oxford  scholars  and  gentlemen,  standing  by. 

c  After  a  short  session,  the  Queen  dissolved  this  parliament  on  the  9th  of  Decem- 
ber.— See  Journals. 

d  Cardinal  Pole,  now  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  This  enlightened  Roman 
Catholic  prelate  was  averse  to  these  frantic  attempts  to  maintain  one  standard  of 
faith  by  means  of  fire  and  sword,  and  endeavoured,  though  in  vain,  to  prove  to  Mary 
and  her  government  that  the  practice  of  persecution  was  not  only  dangerous  to  them- 
selves, but  the  scandal  of  all  religion. 

e  "  The  llth  day  after  the  meeting  of  parlament  began  the  Cardinalles  senod  at 
Lambyth,  and  contynewyd  tylle  the  12th  day  of  February  after."— Grey  Friars' 
Chronicle,  p.  96. 


132 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1555. 


all  the  Bishopps  with  the  rest  of  the  clergie  satt  twice  everie  weeke 
for  a  reformation  of  the  clergie  accordinge  to  the  olde  antiquitie  of 
the  Churche,  which  latelje  had  bene  putt  downe. 


PHILIPPI  ET  MARINE,  Ann  is  2°  et  3°. 

Dr.  Gardiner  deceased.  The  12  of  November  Steven  Gardiner,  Bishop  of  Winchester  and 
Lord  Chauncellor  of  England,  died  at  Yorke  Place  in  Westminster, 
and  his  bodie  after  was  caried  by  water  to  his  place  at  St.  Marie 
Overies,  where  it  was  closed  in  leade,  and  x  dayes  after  layde  in  a 
vaute  of  brick  made  for  it,  tyll  the  springe  of  the  yeare.  For  his 
will  was  to  be  buried  in  Winchestre.  But  because  of  the  great 
waters  that  haue  fallen  this  winter  it  could  not  convenientlie  be 
carried.  Some  suppose  that  he  had  beene  poysoned a  when  he 
went  over  the  seas  to  intreat  a  peace  betwene  the  Emperor  and  the 
French  Kinge. 

The  16  of  Decembre  the  Lord  Mayre  satt  in  Paules  with  the 
Bishop  of  London  in  the  afternoone,  afore  whom  one  Phillpott,  late 
Deane  of  Winchestre,b  a  gent  and  learned  in  the  lawe,  was  con- 
demned. And  the  18  of  December  he  was  brent  in  Smythfeild. 

This  yeare  on  newe  yeares  daye  the  Queen  gave  the  Great  Seale 
of  Englande  to  Dr.  Heath,  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  and  made  him 
Lord  Chauncellor  of  Englande,0  and  gave  the  Privie  Seale  to  the 
Lord  Pagett,  and  made  him  Lord  Privie  Seale.  These  were  both 
Londoners  borne. 

The  27  of  Januarie  vii  persons  were  brent  in  Smythfielde  for 
denieinge  the  presence  of  Christe  in  the  Sacrament,  &c. 

a  He  attended  at  the  opening  of  the  Parliament,  and  displayed  his  usual  ability 
and  energy;  but  on  the  third  day  his  bodily  sufferings  obliged  him  to  quit  his  post, 
and  he  expired  of  a  painful  disease  on  the  12th  of  November. 

b  John  Philpot,  Archdeacon  of  Winchester. 

c  The  new  Chancellor,  though  keen  in  the  persecution  of  Protestants,  had  not  the 
talent  and  address  of  the  old  one. 


Philpott  brent. 


[A.D.  1556.] 

A  new  Lord  Chan- 
cellor. 


Persons  brent. 


133 

This  yeare  letters  came  from  beyond  the  seas  that  in  Netherlande          A.D.  1556. 
(with  tempest  of  weather  and  fire  that  fell  out  of  the  element)   were 
burned  20  churches,  a  my  11,   and  a  bridge,  and  much   grownde 
where  flaxe  grewe. 

The  14  of  February  Thomas  Cranmer,  late  Archbishop  of  Can-  ^' 
terburie,  was  disgraded  of  all  his  orders  and  dignities  of  bishopp 
and  priesthoode  at  Oxforde,a  by  Dr.  Bonner,  Bishop  of  London, 
the  Bishop  of  Ely,  and  others,  being  with  him  in  commission  sent 
from  the  Pope,  and  after  was  committed  to  the  laitie  as  a  layeman 
to  suffer  at  the  King  and  Queenes  pleasure. 

The  24  of  February  the  corps  of  Dr.   Gardiner,  Bishop  of  Win-  The  cariage  of  the 


ton,   were  translated  and  caried  from   the  parish  e  churche  of  St.  ' 


Marye  Overye  throughe  Southwerke  toward  Winchester,  there  to 
be  buried.  His  corps  were  sett  in  a  chariott  covered  with  blacke, 
and  a  picture  made  lyke  unto  him  lyeing  on  his  coffin,  with  a  miter 
on  the  heade,  and  a  cope  of  golde  on  the  bodye  of  the  picture,  with 
gloves  and  ringes  on  his  fingers,  &c.  The  Lord  Vicount  Montacute, 
the  Bishop  of  Ely,  and  other  his  executors,  ridinge  to  the  buriall, 
and  above  200  horse  of  gentlemen  and  yeomen  all  in  black.b 

The  26  of  February,  one  William  Constable,  alias  Federstone,  £ 
was  arreigned  at  the  Guildehall  of  London,  who  had  caused  letters  ward. 
to  be  cast  abrode  that  King  Edwarde  VI.  was  alyve.     And  to 
some  he  shewed  himselfe  to  be  King  Edward,  so  that  manye  per- 
sons, both  men  and  weomen,  were  troubled  by  him.     For  the  which 
sedition  the  said  William  had  bene  once  whipped  and  delyvered. 
But  now  he  was  condemned  and  iudged  to  be  drawen,  hanged,  and 
quartered. 

n  In  the  Magliabechiana,  which  is  on  the  same  -staircase  as  the  Florentine 
archives,  a  document  of  some  interest  to  students  of  English  History  has  recently 
been  turned  up.  Its  date  is  March  8,  1554,  and  it  is  an  application  to  Pope  Julius 
III.  for  the  deprivation  of  Thomas  Cranmer  from  the  see  of  Canterbury  on  account 
of  his  evil  life.  It  is  signed  Roger  Ascham,  and  is  apparently  written  by  him;  and 
is  countersigned  by  Mary  and  her  husband  Philip.  It  is  in  perfect  order  and 
beautifully  written.  Mary  signs  "  Maria  "  in  a  small,  round,  and  clear  hand. 

b  A  fuller  account  of  the  obsequies  will  be  found  in  Machyn's  Diary,  p.  100. 


134 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1556. 
Images  sett  up  agayne 


A  peace. 


A  traytor  executed. 


Dr.  Cranmer  brent. 


of  Canterbury. 


Newgate  on  fyer. 
Black  Fryers. 


Persons  brent  for  reli- 

* 


This  yeare  in  the  beginninge  of  Lent  was  sent  by  commission  of 
.tneBisllopps  [ordei.-|  a   that    in    euerie    parislie    churche   in  London 

and  throughe  England  an  image  of  the  Saynte  that  everie  churche 
bare  the  name  of  should  be  made  and  sett  on  the  end  of  the  highe 
aulter. 

This  yeare  in  February  a  peace  was  concluded  betwene  the 
Emperor  Charles  the  V.  and  Philipp  his  sonne  King  of  England 
and  Henrie  the  Second,  French  King,  for  5  yeares  to  endure. 

The  4  of  Marche  William  Constable,  afore  condemned  for  nam- 
inge  himself  King  Edwarde  the  VI.  was  drawne  from  the  Tower  of 
London  to  Tyborne  and  there  hanged,  headed,  and  quartered,  and 
after  his  head  sett  on  London  bridge. 

The  2  1  of  Marche  Dr.  Cranmer,  late  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
afore  disgraded,  was  brent  at  Oxforde. 

The  SamG  d^Q  tlie  L°rd  Cardina11  Poole  was  made  Priest  afc 
Lambeth,  and  the  morrowe,  being  Sunday,  he  was  consecrated 

Archbishop  of  Canterburie  at  Grenewich  in  the  Friers  churche. 
And  the  Weddensdaye  after,  beinge  the  feast  of  the  Annunciation, 
he  receaved  the  pall  in  his  churche  of  St.  Marye  the  Arches,  alias 
Bowe  Churche  in  Cheape. 

Saterday  the  28  of  Marche,  at  x  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoone,  a 
parte  of  Newgate  was  on  fyre  called  Mannings-hall  and  was  brent 
to  the  grownd,b  and  no  prisoners  lost. 

rrnis  yeare  at  Easter  the  churche  of  Great  St.  Bartlemewes,  in 
Smythfeilde,  was  sett  up  with  black  friers;  Fryer  Perwyn  beinge 
head  thereof. 

Frydaye  24  of  Aprill  1556  were  six  Essex  men  brent  in  Smyth- 

£>    '1  J 

feild. 

Monday  27  Aprill  were  vi  Essex  men  sent  out  of  Newgate  to 
be  brent  in  divers  places  in  Essex. 

Allso  iii  weomen  brent  in  Smythfeilde. 

•  Omitted  in  MS. 

b  The  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle  reads:  "  but  thangkes  be  to  God  that  there  was  but 
lyttyll  harme  done,  for  it  was  sone  qweuched."     P.  97. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  135 

The  28  of  Aprill  John  Throckmorton  and  Richard  Udall  a  were          A.D.  1556. 
drawen  to  Tyborne  and  there  hanged  and  quartered  for  treason.         Traytors  executed. 

The  19  of  May  William  Stanton  was  likewise  executed  for 
treason. 

The  8  of  June,  Rossey,  Bedyll,  and  Derike,b  were  lykewise 
executed  at  Tiburne  for  treason. 

The  18  of  June,  Frances  Vernam,c  esq.,  and  Edw.  Turner,  gent., 
arreigned  at  the  Guildehall  for  treason  and  condemned.  Vernam 
confessed  his  treason. 

Memorandum:  the  same  daye,  one  Sandes,  gent.,  a  yonger  sonne          ghan  ed 
of  the  Lord  Sandes,  was  hanged  at  St.  Thomas  Watrings  for  a  great 
robberie  that  he  and  other  had  committed  on  Whit  Sonday  last 
of  iii  M  t. 

Saterday   27    Junii   were    13   persons  caried  from  Newgate  in  Persons  brent  at  Strat- 
three  carrs  to  the  end  of  the  towne  of  Stratford  the  Bowe,  and 
there  brent. 

Tewsday  the  xxxth  of  June  Wm.  West,  esquier,  callinge  himselfe  William  West,  esquier, 
De  la  Ware,  was  arreigned  at  the  Guylde  Hall  in  London  for  treason.  LoM^e  1^ Wa!-? con- 
But  in  the  beginninge  of  his  arreignment  he  would  not  aunswere  to  demned  of  treason, 
his  name  of  Wm.  West,  esquier,  but  as  Lord  De  la  Ware,  and  to 
be  tried  by  his  pieres,  which  the  judges  there  with  the  heraldes 
proved  he  was  no  lorde,  because  he  was  never  created  nor  made  a 
lorde  by  anye  writt  to  the  Parlement,  nor  had  anye  patent  to  shewe 
for  his  creation;  wherefore  that  plee  would  not  serve,  and  so  had 
like  to  haue  had  judgment  without  triall;  but  at  last  he  aunswered 
to  the  name  of  Wm.  West,  esq.,  and  so  was  tried  by  12  men,  and 
condemned  of  treason,  as  consentinge   to   Henry  Dudley  and  his 
adherents;  and  so  had  iudgment  as  a  tray  tor. 

a  "  Mr.  Waddall,  captayn  of  the  yle  of  Wyth."— Machyn's  Diary,  p.  104  ;  but 
Stow  agrees  with  the  text. 

b  These  names  are  spelled  Eosey,  Bedyll,  and  Dethick  in  Machyn's  Diary,  and 
Rosselle,  Bedelle,  and  Darrelle  in  the  Grey  Friars'  Chronicle,  while  Stow  names 
them  William  Rossey,  John  Bedell,  and  John  Dedike. 

c  Frances  Varney.  —Machyn's  Diary,  p.  108. 


136 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


A.D.  1556. 


A  new  order  for  a 


The  8  of  Julie  Henry  Peckham  a  and  John  Daniell  were  hanged 
and  beheaded  at  the  Tower  hill ;  and  theyr  bodyes  buried  in  Barking 
Churche.b 

This  moneth  the  Bishop  of  London  and  other  the  Queenes 
Commissioners  caused  a  new  order  to  be  made  for  processions, 
viz. :  That  everie  Munday,  Weddnesday,  and  Fridaye,  weekelye,  the 
children  schollers  in  everie  parishe  should  goe  in  procession  afore 
the  crosse,  with  the  schole-master  followinge  them;  and  mens 
apprentices  followinge  the  crosse,  then  the  priests  and  clerks,  and 
after  the  parishioners.  And  that  everie  of  the  sayde  dayes  one 
of  everie  howse  at  the  least  to  goe  in  procession  upon  payne 
of  xiid. 


PHILIPPI  ET 


.     Annis  3°  et  4°. 


An  abbott  in  West- 
minstre. 


One  brent  on  the 
cheekes. 


A  wicked  facte  done, 
and  a  sharpe  punish- 
ment for  it. 


Saterdaye  the  21  of  November  Mr.  Dr.  Feknam,  late  Deane  of 
Paules  in  London,  was  made  Abbott  of  Westminster,  and  stalled, 
and  tooke  possession  of  the  same;  and  14  muncks  moe  receaved  the 
habitt  the  same  daye  with  him  of  the  order  of  St.  Bennett.  And 
the  Queen  gave  to  the  sayde  abbott  all  suche  landes  as  remayned 
that  day  in  her  handes  suppressed  and  taken  by  King  Henry  the  8 
for  ever. 

The  same  day  was  one  brought  from  Westminster  Hall  ridinge 
with  his  face  to  the  horse  tayle  with  a  paper  on  his  heade  to  the 
Standerd  in  Cheape,  and  there  sett  on  the  pillorie,  and  then  burned 
with  an  hotte  iron  on  both  his  cheekes  with  two  letters,  F  and 
A,  for  false  accusinge  one  of  the  Cowrt  of  the  Common  Place  of 
treason. 

The  16  of  December  1550,  at  a  sessions  kept  in  the  justice  hall 
of  the  Olde  Baylie  without  Newgate,  one  Gregorie  Carpenter,  black- 
smith, beinge  there  prisoner,  suddenlye  with  a  knife  stroke  one 
William  Whitrents  his  fellowe  prisoner  into  the  right  side  of  his 

a  Henry  Peckham,  son  to  Sir  Edmond  Peckham.  —  Stow,  p.  628. 
b  All  Hallowes  church,  Barking. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  137 

shoulder  that  he  fell  downe  as  dead ;  for  which  fact  he  was  im-  A-D- 
mediatlye  taken  from  the  barr  into  the  street  before  the  justice 
hall,  where,  his  hand  beinge  first  taken  of,  he  was  hanged  on  a 
gibbett  sett  up  for  that  purpose;  his  hand  was  nayled  on  the  topp 
of  the  gibbett,  his  bodie  hanginge  iii  dayes  after  on  the  sayde  jebbett 
or  he  was  cutt  downe. 

Fridaye  the  26  of  February  the  Lord  Sturton  was  arreigned  [A>D- 
at  Westminster  for  a  felonie  and  murder  done  by  him  and  his 
servantes  in  murderinge  one  Mr.  Argile  and  his  sonne,  and  con- 
demned to  death  for  the  same;  and  after  conveyed  from  the  Tower 
of  London  throughe  the  Cittie  and  so  to  Salisburie,  and  there  hanged 
with  four  of  his  men  servantes  the  6  of  Marche.  He  caused  the 
sayde  Argile  and  his  sonne  first  to  [be]  stricken  downe  with  clubbes, 
then  their  throtes  to  be  cutt,  and  after  to  be  buried  in  his  howse  15 
foote  deepe. 

The  27  of  February  the  Lord  Mayre  and  Aldermen  receaved  a  Ambassadour  from 
Greate   Duke  which  came  from  the   Emperor   of  Russia,  and  by Russia- 
casualtie  of  sea  was  lyke  to  be  drowned  on  the  coste  of  Scotland,  &c.a 

Thursdaye  the  18  of  Marche   1556   the  Kinge  landed  at  Dover  King  Phillips  retorne 
about  x  of  the  clock  in  the  night.     And  the  23  of  Marche  passed  into  Englallde- 
throughe  London  with  the  Queen   and  nobles  of  the  realme  to  the 
pallace  of  Whitehall  by  Westminster. 

Saterdaye  the  3  of  Aprill  1557  diverse  persons  were  condemned  Heretikes  brent. 
in  Paules  for  heresie,  and  were  brent  in  Smythfield  12  Aprilis. 

Saterdaye  1°  Maiib  Mr.  Thomas  Percy,  Esquier,  was  made  knight  Percye,  Earle  of 
and  after  lorde.     And  the  morrowe  after  he  was  created  Earle  of Northumberland- 
Northumberland,  and  had  given  him  all  the  landes  which  had  been 
his  auncestors  remayninge  in  the  Queens  handes  that  daye. 

a  After  "  &c."  the  transcriber  has  added  the  following  note:  "  The  rest  is  at  large 
sett  downe  in  Mr.  Stowes  Annales  of  England,  pa.  1067." — This  reference  refers  to 
the  edition  of  1592,  a  copy  of  which  is  in  Lambeth  Library. 

b  "  The  last  of  April,"  according  to  Stow,  who  is  supported  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas. 
The  date  in  our  text  must  therefore  be  taken  as  that  on  which  Percy  was  created 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  although  that  event  is  here  stated  to  have  taken  place  on 
the  morrow  after. 

CAMD.  SOC.  T 


138  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1557.  This  yeare,  about  the  latter  end  of  Aprill,  one  Thomas  Stafforde, 

Staffovde  rebelles         second  sonne  to  the   Lord  Stafforde,  with  certeyn  other  traytors, 
tooke  Scarborough  ,        «       ,  -,       ^      ,      •        -,  n  -\r     ^  i  •  -i 

Castle.  tooke    bcarboroughe  Castle  in  the  countie  or    Yorke;  which  came 

out  of  France  and  made  proclamation  there,  naminge  himselfe  to  be 

Protector  of  this  realme,  and  the  Queen  to  be  unrightfull  Queene. 

But  by  the  good  pollicie  of  the  Earle  of  Westmorland  and  others 

the  saide   Stafforde  was  apprehended  with  the  other  his  complices 

without  effusion  of  bloude,  and  brought  up  to  London  and  sent  to 

the  Tower. 
Stafford  and  others          The  28  of  May,  beinge  Fridaye,  Thomas  Stafforde  was  beheaded 

on  the  Tower  Hill.     And  on  the  morrowe  iii  of  his  companie;  viz. 

Stetchley,a  Bradforde,  and  Proctor  were  drawne  to  Tiburne  and 

there  hanged  and  quartered. 

Proclamation  against       Mundaye  the  7  of  June  was  a  proclamation  made  in  the  Cittie  of 
the  French  Kinge.       London  againste  the  Frenche  Kinge  to  be  taken  as  the  Queenes 

ennemie. 

An  armye  sent  over  to      ^he  ^  of  Julie  the  King  passed  over  the  seas  to  Caleis,b  and  in 
the  Kinge.  the  same  moneth  the  Queen  sent  over  an  armie  of  men c  to  ayde  the 

King,  the  Earle  of  Pembroke  beinge  Lord  Generall  and  Livetenant 

of  the  armie. 

This  yeare  in  Julie  d  died  the  Ladie  Ann  of  Cleve,6  at  Chelsey, 
Death  of  the  Ladye  J  , 

Anne  of  Cleve.  and   the  5   or   August  her  corps *   were    solernnlye   brought   from 

thence  to  the  Abbey  of  Westminster,  and  there  buried  by  the  highe 
aulter. 

a  Stretchley.— Stow. 

b  Stow  (p.  631)  adds:  "and  so  into  Flanders,  where  he  made  great  prouision  for 
warre  against  the  French  King." 

c  "  viz.  a  thousand  horsemen,  foure  thousand  footemen,  and  two  thousand  pyoners." 
—Stow,  p.  631.  d  July  16. 

e  Sometime  wife  and  queen  of  King  Henry  VIII.  but,  as  she  was  never  crowned, 
she  is  generally  designated  the  Lady  Ann  of  Cleves. — See  Machyn's  Diary,  p.  144. 

f  The  body  of  the  late  Queen,  which  had  been  sered,  i.e.  inclosed  in  waxed  cloths, 
the  night  following  her  death,  was  interred  with  great  pomp  in  Westminster  Abbey 
on  the  3rd  August. — See  Machyn's  Diary,  p.  145;  and  was  buried,  as  Stow  says, "  at 
the  head  of  King  Sebert/'  where  "she  lyeth  in  a  tomb  not  yet  finished." — See 
Vetusta  Monumenta,  ii.  pi.  35. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  139 

The  18  of  August  was  a  solemne  obsequie  kept  in  Paules  for          A.D.  1557. 
John,  late  King  of  Portingale,a  who  died  in  Julye  last.  Death  of  the  King  of 

This  yeare  on  Bartlemew-daye  was  kept  a  wrestlinge  at  Clarkin-    ' 

J  J  ,         .  .      -r,  .A  wrestlmge  and 

well.     And  the  Sunday  after  was  a  shootinge  kept  in  Fynnesberie  shootinge. 

feild. 

This  yeare  allso  in   August  the  King  with  a  great  armie  royall  A  victorye  in  France 
passed  into  France,  of  Lm  men  or  more.     And  the  xth  daye  of  the   y 
same  moneth  was  slayne  by  the  Burgonians  and  Swartrottersb  the 
Prince  of  Piamount,  beinge  capteyne  above  iiii™  Frenche  men,  and 
divers   noblemen   taken    prisoners.      This  victorie   was   within    5 
myles  of  St.  Quintyns. 

This  moneth  the  King  layde  siege  to  the  towne  of  St.  Quintins  St.  Quintins  wonne. 
by  the  water  of  Some,  and  on  Fridaye  the  27  of  August c  the  towne 
was  wonne  by  the  King  with  the  helpe  of  Englishmen.3 

This  sommer  reigned  in  England  divers  straunge  and  new  syck-  Strange  syckness. 
nesses,  takinge  men  and  weomen  in  theyr  heades ;  as  strange  agues 
and  fevers,  whereof  manye  died. 

PHILIPPI  ET  MARLE  ANNIS  4  ET  5. 

This  yeare  the  6   of  November,  beinge  Saterdaye,  in  the  after-  Persons  brent, 
noone,    certeyne   persons   were    condemned    of  heresie   in    Paules 
Churche,  and   the    13    of  November  followinge  were  burned   in 
Smythfeilde. 

The  xxxth  of  November,  beinge  St.  Andrewes  daye,  in  the  fore-  A  new  Lorde  of  St. 
noone,  the  Queen  came  from   St.  James  to  Whitehall   to  masse,  Johns  in 
where  the  Lord  Cardinall  Poole  did  preach  before  her  Maiesty.     At 
the  masse  there  Sir  Thomas  Tresham,  knight,  receaved  the  order  of 
the  Crosse,  and  was  made  Lord  of  Saynt  Johnes  of  England. 

This  yeare  on   New-yeares  daye,  beinge   Saterday  1557[-8],  the  Caleis  lost. 

a  John  III.  King  of  Portugal,  who  succeeded  his  father  Emanuel  in  1521,  and  died 
in  July,  1557,  was  the  husband  of  Jane,  aunt  of  King  Philip,  and  hence  arose  the 
special  observance  of  his  obsequies  in  England. 

b  Switzers.  c  18  August.— Stow. 

d  At  the  siege  the  Lord  Henry  Dudley,  youngest  son  of  John,  late  Duke  of  North- 
umberland, was  slain  with  a  gun. 


140 


WKIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 


An  armye. 


A  parleinent. 


Guisnes  lost. 


A  meteor  in  the  ele- 
ment. 


[A.D.  1558.]  French  King  sent  a  great  power  and  armie  to  Caleis a  and  tooke 
Eisebancke  and  Newnam  Bridge,b  and  after  layde  siege  to  the 
towne,c  and  won  it  the  Frydaye  after,  beinge  the  7  of  Januarie. 
They  found  great  riches  both  of  ordinance  and  goodes  both  in  the 
Staple  hall  and  in  the  towne.  They  tooke  the  cheefest  of  the 
marchauntes  and  inhabitantes  of  the  towne  prisoners,  and  lett  the 
rest  of  men  and  weomen  goe  without  any  baggage.  It  is  sup- 
posed it  could  not  so  sone  be  wonne  without  treason.d 

The  6  of  Januarie,  beinge  Twelft-daye,  the  cittie  of  London  sent 
out  vc.  men  toward  Caleis,  but  they  came  too  short. 

Thursdaye  the  xxth  of  Januarie  began  the  Parlement  at  West- 
minster. 

This  moneth e  also,  the  castle  and  towne  of  Guisnes  was  wonn 
by  the  Frenchmen;  the  Lord  Gray  capteyn  thereof  defendinge  it, 
tyll  they  with  ordinaunce  had  beaten  downe  all  the  walls/ 

The  29  of  January,  being  Saterday,  at  8  of  the  clock  at  night, 
was  seene  in  the  element  a  rownde  circle  lyke  a  hoope,  coloured 
much  lyke  the  raynebowe ;  the  mone  standinge  right  in  the  middle 
of  the  compasse,  and  all  the  element  clere  within  the  said  compasse, 
which  was  seene  tyll  after  x  of  the  clock  that  night. 

A  prest  demaunded  of      This  moneth  the   Queen  demaunded  a   prest  of  the   Cittie   of 
London  of  Cm  marks.     But  by  great  labor  of  the   Lord  Mayre  and 

a  Under  the  command  of  the  Duke  of  Guise. 

b  Nieulay,  one  of  the  outworks  of  Calais,  situated  within  the  English  pale. 

0  of  Calais.  Of  which  the  English  Council  had  greatly  reduced  the  garrison, 
considering  it  as  impregnable  and  secure  from  assault  during  the  winter. 

d  In  the  preceding  November  two  skilled  Italian  engineers,  Strozzi  and  Delbene, 
had  reconnoitred  the  town  and  all  the  forts  adjacent,  haying  gained  admittance  in 
disguise. 

e  The  Duke  of  Guise,  having  so  unexpectedly  captured  Calais,  on  the  13th  of  the 
same  month,  marched  with  his  army  to  assault  the  town  and  fort  of  Guisnes,  situated 
five  miles  distant  from  thence. — Grafton. 

f  Though  miserably  fortified,  the  castle  of  Guisnes  was  most  gallantly  defended  by 
Lord  Grey  de  Wilton,  who  had  obtained  some  400  Spanish  and  Burgundian  soldiers 
from  the  army  of  King  Philip ;  but,  the  Spanish  auxiliaries  having  been  killed  almost 
to  a  man  and  the  walls  completely  shattered,  the  garrison  forced  their  officers  to 
capitulate. 


141 

Alldermen  to  the   Queenes  Councell,  declaringe  the  povertie  of  the  A-I)- 1558- 

Cittie,  they  brought  it  to  xxm  i  which  was  levied  of  the  Companies 

of  the  Cittie.     For  which  sum  to  be  repayed  the  Queen  bownd 

certeyn  landes.     And  allso  for  interest  of  the  money  xii  i  of  everie 

hundreth  for  a  year.     Allso  she  demanded  lyke  prest  in  everye 

shire  and  towne  throughe  all  England. 

About  the  15  of  Julie  the  Frenchmen  that  afore  had  gotten  Dun-  Dunkirke  lost  and  won 
kirke  in  Flaunders  went  to  assaulte  the  towne  of  Gravelinge.  But  agayn( 
the  Flemminges  prepared  an  armye  towarde  them,  the  counte  of 
Egmont  beinge  their  head  capteyn,  and  assaulted  the  Frenchmen 
betwene  Gravelinge  and  Dunkirk  (certeyne  of  the  Queenes  shipps 
beinge  that  tyme  in  the  seas  neare  to  the  place  where  the  French- 
men laye.  and  shott  out  of  their  shipps).  There  were  slayne  of  the 
Frenchmen  about  6  or  7  thowsand  and  the  rest  fledd,  and  the 
towne  of  Dunkirke  taken  agayne  by  the  Fleminges.  But  the 
Frenchemen  that  were  in  the  towne  sett  fyre  in  divers  places  thereof 
at  their  departinge,  and  allso  brent  the  shipps  that  lay  in  the  haven. 

This  yeare,  about  September,  dyed  in  Spayne  Charles  the  5th 
late  Emperor  of  Kome,  and  two  of  his  sisters,  wydowes;  one  [the] 
late  French  Queene  to  Fraunces  late  French  Kinge,  and  the  other 
Queene  of  Hungarie. 

PHILIPPI  ET  MARIJE  ANNIS  5  ET  6. 

Thursdaye  the  xviith  of  November,   1558,  aboute   sixe   of  the  Death  of  Queene 
clock  in  the  morninge,  Queene  Marie  died  at  her  manor  of  St.  James 
by  Charinge  Crosse. 

And  that  daye  at  xi.  of  the  clocke  in  the  forenoone  the  Ladie  Queene  Elizabeth  pro- 
Elizabeth,  her  sister  next  inheritor  to  the  Crowne,  was  proclaymed  C  aym 
Queene  of  Englande,  France,  and  Irelande,  Defender  of  the  Faythe, 
&c.  in  London,  with  herraldes  of  armes  and  trumpeters,  &c. 

ELIZABETHS.     Anno  1. 

Fridaye  the  xviiith  of  November  Dr.  Eeynolde  Poole,  Cardinall  Death  of  Cardinall 

Poole. 


142  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1558.         an(j  Archbishopp  of  Canterburie,  died  at  Lambeth,  in  the  morninge, 

and  was  afterward  buried  at  Canterburie,  in  Christes  Churche. 

The  Queene  cometh         Weddensdaye   the    23    of    November    Queene    Elizabeth    came 
from  Hatfielde.  from  Hatfielde  to  the  Lord  iforthes  howse,  in  the  late  Charter- 

howse  in  London,  the  sheriffes  of  London  meetinge  her  Grace  at 
the  further  ende  of  Barnett  towne,  within  the  shire  of  Middlesex, 
and  so  rood  afore  her  tyll  she  came  to  Charterhowse  gate,  where 
she  remayned  tyll  the  Munday  after. 

The  Queene  removeth      Mundaye,  the  28  of  November,  at  2  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoone, 
the  Queen  rode  from  the  Lord  Northes  howse,  alonge  the  Barbycane, 
and  in  at  Creple-gate,  and  alonge  London-wall  to  Bishopsgate,  which 
was  richlye  hanged,  and  where  the  waytes  of  the  Cittie  played,  &c. 
The  Queene  removeth      Mundaye  the  5   of    December  the   Queene  departed    from  the 
to  Somersett  Place.      TQwer  of  Lcmdc-n  by  water  to  her  place  by  the  Strande,  called 
Somersett  Place,  at  x  of  the  clock  in  the  fore-noone,  and  went 
throughe  London  bridge. 

Queene  Marye  buried.  Tewsdaye,  the  xiiith  of  December,  the  corps  of  Queen  Marie  was 
honorablie  caried  from  the  mannor  of  St.  James  in  the  after-noone 
to  the  Abbaye  in  Westminster.  Her  picture  lyeinge  on  the  coffin 
apparelled  in  her  royall  roabes,  and  a  crowne  of  gould  on  the  heade. 
And  in  the  Abbay  was  a  sumptuous  and  riche  hearse  made,  under 
which  the  corps  stood  all  night.  And  the  morrowe  beinge  Wed- 
densdaye, after  the  masse  of  Requiem,  the  corps  were  caried  from 
thence  to  the  new  chappell,  where  King  Henry  VII.  lieth,  and  there 
in  the  side  chappell,  on  the  left  hand,  her  corps  were  buried  for  a  tyme.a 
Obsequie  for  Charles  Saterday  24  Decembris  was  a  solemne  obsequie  kept  in  the 
the  Emperoure.  Abbay  of  Westminster  for  Charles  the  5,  late  Emperoure,  who  died 

in  Spayne  in  September  last. 
[A.D.  1559.]  Sunday  the   1  of  Januarie  the   Lord   Mayre  and  Aldermen  gave 

a  She  was  interred  on  the  north  side  of  Henry  VII. 's  chapel  with  all  the  solemn 
funeral  rites  used  by  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  but  no  monument  was  raised  to 
her  memory.  Even  at  the  present  day  no  other  memorial  remains  to  point  out  the 
spot,  except  two  small  black  tablets  at  the  west  base  of  the  sumptuous  tomb  erected 
by  order  of  James  I.  over  the  ashes  of  Elizabeth. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  143 

in  commaundement  to  everie  warde  within  the  Cittie  of  London,          A.D.  1559. 
that  the  parson   or  curate  in  everie    parishe  churche  in   London  Procession,  epistle, 
shoulde  reade  the  Epistle  and  Gospell  of  the  daye  in  the  Englishe  lishe. 
tongue  in  the  masse  tyme ;  and  the  English  procession  now  used  in 
the  Queen's   Chappell,  accordinge  to  a  proclamation  sent  from  her 
Maiesty  and  her  Privie  Councell,  proclaymed   in  the  Citte  of  Lon- 
don xxx  Decembris,  which  commaundement  was  that  day  observed 
in  moste  parishe  churches  of  the  Cittie. 

Munday  the  ixth  of  January,  in  the  morninge,  the  Image  of  image  of  Thomas 
Thomas  Beckett,  which  stood  over  the  dore  of  the  Mercers  Chap-  ^ett  throwne 
pell  in  London  toward  the  street,  was  fownd  broken  and  cast  downe, 
and   a  bill   sett   on   the   churche   dore   depravinge  the  setters  up 
thereof. 

Thursday  the   12    of    January  the  Queenes  Maiestie  removed  Tne  Queen  removeth 
from  her  place  of  Whitehall  to  the  Tower  by  water. 

Saterdaye  the   14  of  January  the  Queenes  Maiestie  at  2  of  the  Tne  Queen  rydeth  in 
clock  in  the  after-noone  roade  from  the  Tower  throughe  the  Cittie  Londonto  her  corona- 
of  London  to  her  pallace  at  Westminster,  the  Londoners  havinge  tion- 
then  made  sumptuouse  provision  of  pageantes  and  otherwise,  as  hath 
bene  accustomed. 

Sunday  the  15   of  January  the  Queenes  Maiestie  was  with  great  The  Queenes  coroua- 
solemnitie  crowned  a  in  Westminster  Abbay,  and  after  satt  at  dynner  lon' 
in  Westminster  hall,  which  was  richlye  hanged. 

Weddensdaye  the  25  of  January  the  Parlement  began  at  West-  Parliament, 
minster ;  the  Queenes  Maiestie  ridinge  in  her  parliament  robes  from 
Whitehall  to  the  Abbay,  &c. 

Fry  daye   17  Februarii  one  of  the  Honninges  servants  which  was  One  of  the  Queenes 
one  of  the  takers  of  freshe  fishe  for  the  Queene  was  sett  on  the  pil-  i0rye. 
lorie  in  Cheape,  in  the  Fish  markett,  for  buyinge  smelts  for  xii  d. 
the  C.  and  sellinge  them  agayne  for  x  d.  the  quarter,  which  punish- 
ment with  more  was  by  commaundment  of  the  Queen  by  her  owne 
mowthe  appoynted,  as  a  good  example  of  justice. 

a  By  Dr.  Oglethorpe,  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  the  ceremony  being  regulated  strictly  in 
the  ancient  manner,  and  as  in  the  Roman  Catholic  times. 


144  WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE. 

A.D.  1559.  This  yeare,  in  the   Easter  holidayes,  preached  at  the  Spittell, 

Preachers  at  the          ])r  Byll,  the  Queenes  Almoner,  Dr.  Cox,  and  Dr.  Home,  which 

Spittle  and  at  Paules  *  ' 

Crosse.  two  last  parsons  had  bene  in  Geneva  all  Queen  Maryes  tyme. 

Sunday  the  2nd  of  Aprill,  beinge  Lowe-Sunday,  Mr.  Sampson, 
one  of  the  new  preachers,  made  the  rehersall  sermon  at  Paules 
Crosse.  But  when  the  Lord  Mayre  and  Alldermen  came  to  their 
places  in  Paules  Church-yarde  the  pulpitt  dore  was  locked,  which 
was  at  viii  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoone,  and  could  not  gett  the 
key;  wherefore  the  Lord  Mayre  sent  for  a  smyth  to  open  the  pull- 
pett  dore,  which  was  verie  vile  arayde  within  with  ordure  and 
fylth. 

Conference  appoynted      Mundaye  the  3  of  Aprill   1559,  a  daye  prefixed  by  the  Queenes 

bishops  and  other        Maiesty  and  her  Councell,  the  Bishopps  sattin  Westminster  Abbaye 

preachers.  in  the  Queere,  where  the  monks  satt  at  a  table  on  the  one  syde,  and 

the  new  prechers  that  came  late  over  at  another  table  againste  the 

Bishopps;  and  the  Queenes  Councell  that  were  judges  appoynted 

satt  at  the  head   of  the  Queere  at  another  table.     But,  when  the 

Bishopps  should  haue  delivered  their  booke  of  certeyn  questions  to 

the  other  parte,  they  were  not  readie,  but  made  excuse,  wherefore 

the  Councell  was  sore  moved,  and  so  arose  and  departed.     And  that 

Bishops  committed  to  night a  Dr.  White,  Bishop  of  Winton,  and  Dr.  Watson,  Bishop  of 

the  Tower.  Lincoln,  were  sent  to  the  Tower  of  London. 

Peace  proclaymed.  Saterday  the  8   of  Aprill,  at  one  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoone, 

proclamation  was  made  in  the  Cittie  of  London  for  a  perpetuall 
peace  betwixt  the  Queenes  Maiestie,  the  Frenche  kinge,  and  Scot- 
land. 

Sundaye,  the  ixth  of  Aprill,  Mr.  Dr.  Bill  preached  at  Paules 
Crosse,  and  redd  a  Bill  in  his  sermon  tyme  concerninge  the  contro- 
versie  betwene  the  Bishopps  and  the  preachers  that  came  late  over 
out  of  Germanic  and  Geneva,  towchinge  their  disobedience  in  mat- 
ters of  religion,  as  afore  is  declared. 

Lord  Wentworth  ar-        Saterdaye  22  of  Aprill  Lord  Wentforth,b  late  Deputie  of  Caleis, 
reyned  and  qiutt.        wag  arreyne(j  {n  Westminster  hall  for  treason,  and  was  quitt  by  his 

a  The  5th  of  April.— Stow.  b  Thomas  Lord  Wentworth. 


WRIOTHESLEY'S  CHRONICLE.  145 

A.D.  1559. 

peeres,  the  Lord  Marques  of  Northampton  sittinge  under  the  clothe 
of  estate  that  daye. 

The  8  of  Maye  the  Parliament  brake  up,  where  was  a  subsidie  Parlement  dissolved 
grawnted  by  the  laitie  of  ii  s.  viii  d.  the  £  for  moveable  goods.a         A  subsedie- 

The  14  of  May,  beinge  Whitsonday,  the  service  began  in  English  English  service. 
in  divers  parishes  in  London,  after  the  last  booke  of  service  of  Com- 
mon Prayer  used  in  the  tyme  of  King  Edward  the  VI. 

Sundaye  the  2  of  Julie  the  citizens  of  London  had  a  muster 
afore  the  Queens  Maiestie  at  Greenewich,  in  the  Parke,  of  1,400  wich. 
men,  whereof  800  were  pikemen,  all  in  fyne  corseletts;  400  harque- 
butts,  in  shirts  of  mayle,  with  morins;b  and  200  halberters  in 
Alman  rivetts,  which  were  furnished  and  sett  furth  by  the  Com- 
panies of  the  Cittie  of  London. 

Allso  about  the  beginninge  of  this  moneth  of  Julye  all  the  olde  Bishops  deprived. 
Bishopps  of  England  then  beinge  alive  were  called  and  examined 
afore  the  Queens  Maiesties  Councell;  as  Yorke,  Ely,  London,  with 
other,  to  the  number  of  xiii  or  xiiii.  And  because  they  refused  to 
take  the  oathe  towchinge  the  Queens  Supremacie,  grawnted  by  Act 
of  Parlement,  and  other  articles,  they  were  deprived.  And  lyke- 
wise  were  divers  deanes,  archdeacons,  parsons,  and  vicars  deprived 
from  their  benefices,  and  some  committed  to  prison  in  the  Tower, 
Fleete,  Marshallsie,  and  Kings  Bench. 

Allso  this  moneth  the  Queens  Maiestie  appoynted  certen  com-  Commissioners, 
missioners  to  ride  aboute  the  realrne  for  th'  establishinge  of  true 
religion.  For  London,  were  appoynted  Sir  Richard  Sakvile, 
knight,  Dr.  Home,  a  devine,  Dr.  Huicke,  a  civilian,  and  Mr.  Sal- 
vage, for  the  temporall  lawe:  who  called  before  them  divers  persons 
of  everie  parishe  of  the  Cittie,  and  sware  them  upon  certen  Iniunc- 
tions  newlye  sett  owt  in  print. 

This  moneth  allso,  the  howses  of  Religion  erected  by  Queen  Marye,  Howses  suppressed, 
as  the  moonkes  of  Westminster,  nuns  and  bretheren  of  Sion,  the 

a  Stow  adds :  "  and  f oure  shillings  of  lands,  to  bee  payd  at  two  severall  payments 
of  euery  person,  spirituall  and  temporall." 

b  Morions  were  a  kind  of  open  helmet  without  visor  or  beaver,  copied  by  the 
Spaniards  from  the  Moors. 

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WRIOTHESLEY  S  CHRONICLE. 


A  D.  1559. 

Death  of  the  French 
Kiiige. 


Aulter  and  images 
put  downe  in  Paules. 


Churche  images 
burned. 


A  tempest. 


An  obsequie  for  the 
French  Kinge. 


Black  Friers  in  Smithfield,  and  the  friers  of  Greene wich,  were  all 
suppressed. 

This  moneth  allso  tydinges  were  brought  to  the  Queen  that 
Henry,  the  French  kinge,  was  dead  of  a  hurt  that  he  had  at  a 
triumphe  in  justinge  at  the  marriage  betwixt  his  sister,  the  Ladie 
Margarett  of  France,  and  Phillipp,  Duke  of  Savoy,  at  Midsomer 
last  in  Paris. 

Saterdaye  the  12  of  August  the  aulter  in  Paules,  with  the  roode, 
and  Marye  and  John  in  the  rood-loft,  were  taken  downe,  and  the 
Prebendaries  and  Pettie  Canons  commaunded  to  leave  of  the  grey 
amises  of  furre,  and  to  use  onelye  a  surplesse  in  the  service  tyme, 
by  the  commaundement  of  Dr.  Grindall,  Bishop  of  London  elect, 
and  Dr.  Mey,  the  new  deane  of  Paules,  and  other  of  the  commis- 
sioners. 

This  moneth  allso,  on  the  Eeven  of  St.  Bartlemewe,  the  daye  and 
the  morrowe  after,  were  burned  in  Paules  Church-yarde,  Cheape, 
and  divers  other  places  of  London,  all  the  roodes  and  images  that 
stoode  in  the  parishe  churches.  In  some  places  the  coapes,  vest- 
ments, aulter  clothes,  bookes,  banners,  sepulchers,  and  other  orna- 
ments of  the  churches  were  burned;  which  cost  above  2,OOOZ. 
renuinge  agayne  in  Queen  Maries  tyme. 

The  5  of  September  there  fell  a  3  howres  tempest  in  London  in 
the  forenoone,  and  ended  at  one  of  the  clock,  at  the  end  whereof 
was  a  terrible  thonder-clapp  with  lightninge,  which  by  violence 
strake  All  Hallowes  steeple,  in  Bred  street,  about  x  foote  beneath 
the  topp;  out  of  which  fell  a  stone  that  slue  a  dogge,  and  over- 
thrue  a  man  playinge  with  the  same  dogge.  But  the  steeple 
was  so  perished,  that  there  was  no  mendinge  of  it  but  to  take  it 
downe. 

Frydaye  the  8  of  September  was  kept  in  Powles  an  obsequie  for 
Henry  the  Second,  late  French  kinge,  departed,  where  was  a  riche 
hearse  made  lyke  an  imperiall  crowne,  with  8  pillers  covered  with 
black  velvett,  with  a  valence  fringed  with  golde,  and  richlye  hanged 
with  scutchions,  penons,  and  banners  of  the  French  kinges  armes, 
without  any  lightes,  &c. 


INDEX. 


Abbeville  (Abireld),  in  Picardy,  i.  9 
Abley  (Abell),  Thomas,  i.  121 
Abram,  John,  butcher,  ii.  8 
Alane,  John,  a  priest,  i.  77 
Aldermary,  i.  142 
Aldermen,  Court  of.     See  London 
Aldersgate,  ii.  6,  20,  68,  117,  118 
Aldgate,  London,  i.  82,  94,  96,  179,  183; 

ii.  18,  19,  43,  92,  94,  95,  105,  112 
Allen  or  Aleyn,  Christopher,  Alderman, 

ii.  43,  73 

Sir    John,    mercer,    twice    Lord 

Mayor,  i.  31,  32,  39,  161 

John,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  i.  26 

John,  ii.  21 

Mrs.  i.  76 

All  Hallows,  Bread  Street,  ii.  77,  126, 
146 

Barking,  i.  72;  ii.  136 

Ambleteuse  (Hamylkewe)  by  Boulogne, 
ii.  22 

Amcottes,  Sir  Henry,  Lord  Mayor,  ii.  6, 
9,  12,  13,  15,  20,  23 

Ampthill  in  Bedfordshire,  i.  18,  126 

Amsterdam,  ii.  6 

Anabaptists,  persecution  of,  i.  28,  89,  90 

Ancrum  Moor,  battle  of,  i.  153 

Angouleme  ( Anguilonise),  Edward  Alex- 
ander, Duke  of,  ii.  65 

Angus,  Earl  of.     See  Douglas 

Annebaut  (Denybowte),  Claude  d',  Ad- 
miral of  France,  i.  171-173 

Antwerp,  i.  136;  ii.  67,  77 

Apprentices  of  London,  insurrection  of, 
i.  11 

Arches,  Court  of,  i.  130 

Argile,  Mr.  ii.  137 

Arnold,  Captain  of  Bullenberg,  near 
Boulogne,  ii.  11 

Arras,  cloth  of,  ii.  28 


Arthur,  Prince,  i.  1,  5,  6,  18,  34 

Articles,  book  of,  i.  54,  65 

Arundel,  Earl  of.     See  Fitzalan,  Henry 

and  William 

Humphrey,  ii.  30,  32 

Sir  Thomas,  ii.  57,  66,  67 

Ashley,  William,  i.  132 

Aske,  Robert,  i.  57,  58,  63,  65 

Askew,  Anne,  alias  Key  me  Anne,  i.  155, 

167,  168, 169 
Audley,  Mr.  John,  i.  84 
Audley,  Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Audley,  Lord 

Chancellor,  i.  3,  33,  34,  36,  37,  41,  45, 

47,  48,  50,  62-64,  78, 90,  91,  94,  96,  98, 

99,  115,  123,  125,  126,  147 
Augmentation,  Court  of,  i.  112,  154 
Aylesbury,  ii.  21 
Ayliffe,  Sir  John,  Alderman  and  Master 

of  Bakewell  Hall,  ii.  5,  9,  40,  84 
Ay  ton  (Hemitton),  laird  of.     See  Home 


Baker,  Sir  John,  Attorney-General,  i. 

50,  136,187;  ii.  27,89 

Mr.,  Recorder  of  London,  i.  19 

Roger,  ii.  21 

Bakewell,  or  Black-well,  Hall,  ii.  5,  40 
Baldwin,   Sir  John,   Chief    Justice   of 

Common  Pleas,  i.  161,  168 
Ballard,  Nicholas,  ii.  52,  64 
Balthasar,  a  surgeon,  ii.  34 
Banester,  Mr.  ii.  58 
Bangor,  Bishop  of.     See  Salcot,  John; 

Bird,  John 
Barbican,  ii.  142 
Barford,  co.  Oxford,  ii.  21 
Barker,  Sir  Christopher,  Garter,  i.  178 
Nicholas,  i.  127 


148 


INDEX. 


Barking  in  Essex,  i.  72,  132;  ii.  136 

Barking  Abbey,  i.  108 

Barkley,  Dr.  i.  82 

Barlow,  Dr.  Bishop  of  St.  David's,  ii.  1 

Barnes,  George,  Alderman,  Sheriff,  and 

Lord  Mayor,  i.  155;  ii.  77,  93 
• Dr.  Robert,  i.  72,  81,  83,   114, 

120,  121 

his  works  to  be  burnt,  i.  169 

Barnet,  Middlesex,  ii.  142 

Bartholomew  Fair,  i.  85;  ii.  21 

Barton,  Elizabeth,  called  the  Holy  Maid 

of  Kent,  i.  23,  24,  85 
Basiley,  i.  169 

Basill,  Theodore.     See  Beacon,  Thomas 
Bath,  Bishop  of.     See  Clerk,  John 
Bath,  Earl  of.     See  Bourchier,  John 
Battle  Abbey  in  Sussex,  i.  82 
Battle  Bridge,  ii.  42,  55 
Bay  field,  burnt  for  heresy,  i.  17 
Baynam,  burnt  for  heresy,  i.  17 
Baynard  Castle,  i.  4,  99,151;  ii.  88 
Bavnton,  Lady,  wife  of  Sir  Edward,  i. 

131 

Beach  King,  the,  i.  44 
Beacon,  Thomas,  alias  Basill,  Theodore, 

i.  142 
Beauchamp's  Tower  at  Windsor  Castle, 

ii.  27 
Beauchamp,    Viscount.     See    Seymour, 

Sir  Edward 

Beaulieu,  sanctuary  at,  i.  3 
Beeket,  Thomas  a,  image  of,  ii.  127,  143 
Bedingfield  (Benyfield),  Sir  Henry,   ii. 

116 

Bedington,  Surrey,  ii.  49 
Bedyll  (John),  ii.  135 
Bell,  Dr.  John,  Bishop  of  Worcester,  i. 

103 
Bell,  sign  of  the,  in  Newgate  Market, 

ii.  6 

Belle  Savage,  ii.  Ill 
Bennet,  John,  i.  132 

Margaret,  i.  132 

Berkwaye.     See  Berkeley 
Bermondsey,  St.  Saviour's  Abbey,  i.  77 

monks  of,  i.  32 

Bermondsey  (Barnesey)  Street,  ii.  13 
Berwick  Park  in  Essex,  ii.  67 
Bery,  a  rebel,  ii.  30,  32 
Bethlehem  (Betchlem  Bridge),  i.  122 
Bethnal  Green,  ii.  87 
Bevis  Marks,  ii.  16 


Bible,  the,  i.   74;    act   restricting  the 

reading  of,  i.  145;  in  French,  i.  184 
Biez,  Oudart  du  (M.  le  Bees),  Governor 

of  Boulogne,  i.  152,  165 
Bigod,  Sir  Francis,  i.  60,  63,  64 
Bill,  William,  Master  of  St.  John's  Col- 
lege and  Almoner  to  Queen  Elizabeth, 
ii.  14,  144 

Billingsgate,  ii.  37,  47,  72,  105,  110,  112 
Bilney   or   Bylney,  Thomas,  burnt  for 

heresy,  i.  16 
Birchin  Lane,  ii.  61 
Bird,  John,  Bishop  of  Bangor,  i.  106 
Bishopsgate,  i.  134,  138;  ii.  20,  61,90, 

100,  101,  112,  142 
Blackfriars,  i.  169;  ii.  87,  146 
Blackheath,  i.  12,  111;  ii.  108;  battle  of 

i.  3 

Blackness  by  Boulogne,  ii.  22 
Blackwall,  i.  172 
Blage,  George,  i.  169,  170 
Blake,  Thomas,  Alderman,  i.  134 
Blanck  Chappeltone.     See  Whitechapel 
Bletchingly  (Branching!  ey),  Surrey,  ii. 

4«7 

Blount,  Gertrude,  Marchioness  of  Exe- 
ter, i.  88,  102 

Blount  or  Blunt,  Eliz.     See  Talboys 

Bockinge,  Dr.  i.  24 

Body,  William,  ii.  4 

Boleyn,  Anne,  Queen  of  Henry  VIII.  i. 
17-42,  101 ;  created  Marchioness  of 
Pembroke,!.  17, 18;  proclaimed  Queen, 
ib. ;  her  coronation,  i.  20-22;  brought  to 
bed  of  a  fair  daughter,  22;  her  mis- 
carriage, i.  33;  committed  to  the 
Tower,  i.  36;  her  household  at  Green- 
wich broken  up,  i.  37;  arraigned  for 
treason,  i.  37-39;  beheaded,  i.  41;  her 
dying  declaration,  i.  41,  42  ;  buried  in 
the  chapel  in  the  Tower,  i.  42  ;  re- 
ported to  have  poisoned  Henry  Fitz- 
Roy,  i.  53 

Sir  Thomas,  Earl  of  Wiltshire, 

i.  20,  49 

George,   Lord   Rochford,  i.  35, 


36,  39,  40,  53  ;  his  widow.  See  Roch- 
ford, Lady 

Lady,  i.  38 

Bonner,  Dr.  Edmund,  Bishop  of  London, 
i.  123,  132,  164,  168;  ii.  24,  33,  96,  97, 
98,  114,  122,  124,  125,  129,  132,  133, 
136,  145 


INDEX. 


149 


Bonvise,  Anthony,  ii.  34 

Boom  (Bawmes),  near  Antwerp,  ii.  77 

Boroughe,  Lord.  See  Burgh,  Thomas, 
Lord 

Borough,  the,  added  to  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, ii.  41 

Bothe,  footman  to  Queen  Mary,  hanged, 
ii.  Ill 

Boulogne  (Bulleine),  i.  149,  152,  156, 
157,  160,  161,  165,  166,  173,  174;  ii. 
11,  22,  31,37,  39;  base,  i.  156,  157; 
Old  Man  at,  i.  157;  ii.  22 

Bourbon,  Charles,  Duke  of,  Constable  of 
France,  i.  14 

Bourchier,  Henry,  Earl  of  Essex,  i.  21, 
68,  113 

John,  Lord  Fitz-Warine,  created 

Earl  of  Bath,  i.  51 

Bourne,  Dr.  Gilbert,  prebendary  of  St. 
Paul's,  ii.  97,  98,  104 

Bowdley,  St.  Marie.     See  Beaulieu 

Bowell,  Sir  William,  priest,  i.  176 

Bower,  Alderman,  i.  127 

Bowes,  Sir  Martin,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  123, 
163,  167;  ii.  12,  23,43,  55,  91, 102 

Sir  Robert,  ii.  71 

Bowling-alleys  and  playhouses  at  Paul's 
Wharf,  ii.  43 

Bowyer,  Sir  William,  Lord  Mayor,  i. 
146, 147 

Boxley,  abbey  of,  i.  74,  75 

Brabant,  i.  136,  174  ;  ii.  67,  130 

Bradford,  John,  a  preacher,  ii.  97,  126, 
129,  138 

Bradshaw,  Mr.  the  King's  attorney,  ii.  70 

Bramston,  Mr.  ii.  93 

Branch  alias  Flower,  William,  ii.  127, 
128 

Brandon,  Charles,  Viscount  Lisle,  1513, 
4th  Duke  of  Suffolk,  1514,  married  as 
his  third  wife,  Mary  Tudor,  sister  of 
Henry  VIII.  and  Dowager  of  Louis 
XII.  1515,  Great  Master  of  the  House- 
hold, 1540-45;  Lord  President,  1540- 
45;  died  22  August,  1545;  i.  14,  16, 
18,  21,  22,  34,  37,  38,  41,  46,  50,  56, 
67,  68,  80,  96,  98,  131-133,  151,  154, 
160;  ii.  85 

Charles,  brother  of  Henry,  Duke 

of  Suffolk,  ii.  50 

Henry,  5th  Duke  of  Suffolk,  ii.  50 

Bread  Street,  i.  128,  135;  ii.  4,  8,  42,  43, 
77,  118,  126,  131,  146 


Breme,  Mr.  i.  117 

Bremen  (Bremberland),  i.  147, 156;  ii  30 

Brentford  (Braynforde),  ii.  110 

Brereton,  William,  i.  36,  39,  40 

Brett  or  Bright,  Capt.  ii.  112 

Bridewell  in  Fleet  Street  (royal  palace), 

i.  13;  ii.  83,  106 
Bridgehouse,  the,  ii.  12, 18,  40 
Bridg  Ward  in  the  City,  ii.  40 
Bridlington,  Prior  of,  i.  63,  64 
Brighton  (Brighthelmston),  i.  157 
Bristol   (Bristowe),   i.    104;  ii.    13,  44; 

haven,  i.  7;  mint  at,  ii.  7 
Brittany  in  France,  i.  2,  157,  160;  ii.  47 
Brochty-Crag  (Burthecragge),  ii.  31 
Broken  Wharf,  ii.  10 
Bromley  (Brambe),  Sir  Thomas,  Chief 

Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  ii.  101 
Brooke,  Sir  David,  Chief  Baron  of  the 

Exchequer,  ii.  101,  103 

George,  Lord  Cobham,  ii.  64,  89, 

110,  111 

r-  Richard,  ii.  84 

Robert,  Recorder  of  London,  and 

Speaker  of    the   Commons  House,  i. 

162,  168;  ii.  77,  114 

Browne,    Sir   Anthony,   Viscount  Mon- 
•     tague,  i.  115,  177,  179;  ii.  94,  133 

Sir  Humphrey,  i.  155  ;  ii.  12,  84 

John,  sheriff,  ii.  73,  74,  75,  84 

sergeant  at  law,  i.  116 

Bruges,  i.  166 

Brussels,  ii.  130 

Brygges  (Bruges),  Sir  John,  Lieutenant 
of  the  Tower,  ii.  94 

Thomas,  ii.  94 

Bryndholme,  Edmond,  i.  121 
Buckden  (Bugden),  in  Hunts,  i.  33 
Buckingham,  Duchess  of,  i.  84 
Duke    of.      See  Stafford, 

Edward 

Bucklersbury  (Brykerbery),  ii.  67,  109 
Bugden.     See  Buckden 
Bulbeck  or  Bolebec,    Lord.     See  Vere, 

John  de,  Earl  of  Oxford 
Bullenberg  (Bulleine  Barke),  fortress  by 

Boulogne,  ii.  11,  22 
Bulmer  (Bolner),  Sir  John,  i.  63,  64 

Ralph,  his  son,  i.  63 

Lady.     See  Cheney,  Margaret 

Bures,  Mistris,  i.  83 

Burgart,    Francis,    Vice-Chancellor    of 
Saxony,  i.  81 


150 


INDEX 


Burgh  or  Borough,  Thos.  Lord,  i.  20 
Burgundian  (Burgonian)  fashion,  i.  117 
Burgundians  (Burgonions),  ii.  139 
Bury  St.  Edmund's,  Abbey,  i.  108 
Bush,  Richard,  goldsmith,  i.  176 
Butcher  (Bocher),    alias    Barne,   Joan 
alias  Joan  of  Kent,  ii.  37 


Calais  (Callis),  i.  2,  61,  115,  121,  126, 
142,148,160;  ii.  130,  138,144 

Staple  of,  i.  104 ;  ii.  130,  140 

taken  by  the  French,  ii.  140 

Calveley,  Sir  Hugh,  i.  169 

Cambridge,  ii.  14,  50,  90 

Campeggio,   Cardinal,  his  reception   in 
London,  i.  12 

Candlewick  Ward,  ii.  63 

Canterbury,  i.  86,  109 

Priory  of  St.  Sepulchre  at, 


2-t 


142 


86,  109 


Christ  Church,    i.    24  ;    ii. 
St.  Austen's  Abbey  at,   i. 


—  Archbishop  of.     See  Cran- 

mer 
Cap  of  maintenance,  presented  to  Henry 

VII.  i.  2 

Capon,  a  Florentine,  i.  122 
Cardmaker,  John,  alias  Taylor,  vicar  of 

St.  Bride's  and  Chancellor  of  Wells, 

ii.  3,  126,  129 
Carew,  Charles,  i.  121 

Gawen,  ii.  108 

Peter,  ii.  108 

Sir  George,  i.  117,  158 

Lady,  i.  121 

Sir  Nicholas,  i.  93 

Carlisle,  i.  137,  140 

Carmarthen  (Karmarden),  Lord  of.    See 

Herbert,  Sir  William 
Carmichaell  (Carmell),  John,  Captain  of 

Crawford  Castle,  i.  139 
Carpenter,  Gregory,  blacksmith,  ii.  136 
Carter,  an  Irishman,  ii.  11 
Carter  Lane,  ii.  107 
Cassilis  (Castell  and  Cassells),  Earl  of. 

Se.e  Kennedy,  Gilbert 
Castile,  King  of.     See  Philip,  Archduke 

Queen  of.     See  Juana 

Casymghurst,  John,  i.  150 


Catharine  of  Arragon,  fourth  daughter 
of  Ferdinand  II.  King  of  Spain,  mar- 
ried first,  1501,  to  Prince  Arthur;  and, 
secondly,  1509,  to  Henry  VIII.  i.  4-6, 
18,  43,  51,  67;  crowned,  i.  6;  divorced, 
17,18;  dies,  33 

Catharine  Parr,  widow  of  Lord  Latimer, 
and  Queen  of  Henry  VIII.  i.  143, 173, 
174 

Catharine,  infant  daughter  of  Henry 
VII.  i.  5 

Cavendish  (Candishe),  Sir  Edmund,  ii. 
27 

Cawston,  Thomas,  burnt,  ii.  127 

Chadsey,  Dr.  prebendary  of  St.  Paul's, 
ii.  124 

Chaliner,  Mr.  Clerk  of  the  Council,  ii. 
26 

Chamberlain,  Mr.  ii.  116 

Sir  Leonard,  Lieutenant  of 

the  Tower,  ii.  25,  33, 116 

Sir  Robert,  beheaded,  i.  2 


Champagne,  province  of  France,  i.  120 
Champnes,  an  Anabaptist,  ii.  10 
Chancery,  Court  of,  i.   179,  187;  ii.  129, 
130 

Lane,  i.  179 

Chapel,  Thomas,  ii.  71 

Chapman,  a  yeoman  of  the  Guard,  i.  125 

Charing  Cross,  i.   96,   135;    ii.   19,  63, 

105,  110,  111,  123,  125,  128,  141 
Charles  V.  Emperor  of  Germany,  i.  14, 

60,  97-99,  142,  143,  145;  ii.  35,  105, 

106,  120, 125,  130,  132, 134,  141,  142 

visits  England,  i.  13 

his  ambassadors,  i.  44,  98,99; 

ii.  36,  105,  184 

solemn  obit  at  St.  Paul's  for 

his  wife,  i.  97-99 

Charter  House  in  London,  i.  27,  29,  34, 
88,  95,  121,  184,  185  ;  ii.  142 

late  prior  of.  See  Hough- 
ton,  John 

the  Mount  beside,  i.  95 

of  Sheen.  See  Richmond, 

Surrey 

Cheapside,  i.  11,  12,  19,  59,  67,  95,  149, 
150,  153,  164,  165,  178;  ii.  4,  8,  27, 
42,  54,  61,  77,  79,  80,  86,  88,  106,112, 
113,  114, 127, 134,  136,  143,  146 

cross  in,  i.  1,  13;  ii.  61,  88, 

112,  114,  117,122 

Cheeke,  Sir  John,  ii.  91 


INDEX. 


151 


Chekin,  parson.  See  Sonthwood,  Thomas 
Chelsea,  Middlesex,  i.  43,  83 
Cheney,  Margaret,  Lady  Bulmer,  i.  63,  64 
Cheney,  Sir  Thos.  Lord  Warden  of  the 

Cinque  Ports,  i.  94,  167 
Chersey,  Robert,  Alderman,  ii.  47 
Cheshire,  i.  93,  156 
Chessher,  Thomas,  his    maid  murdered, 

i.  137 

Chester,  William,  draper,  ii.  76 
Chichester,  Bishop  of.     See  Day,  Heath, 

and  Sampson 
• Chancellor  of.     See  Crofte, 

Dr. 

Chidley,  Mr.  ii.  12 
Cholmeley,    Sir    Roger,     Recorder     of 

London,  and  Chief  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, i.   93,  128,  162,  165,  168;  ii. 

8,  12,  70,  91,  103 

Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  ii.  142 
Christ  Church  or  Creechurch  in  London, 

ii.  16,  42, 130, 147,  178 
Christ's  Church,  Norwich,  Abbey  of,  i. 

82 

Christ's  Hospital,  ii.  79,  80,  82,  94, 130 
Church,  hanged,  ii.  20 
Church  goods,  seized,  ii.  83 
Church,  Roman  Catholic,  i.  79 
Cinque  Ports,  Lord  Warden  of  the,  ii. 

64,  71,  89;  and  See  their  names 

Lords  of  the,  i.  19,  21 

Clarence,   Duke  of.     See  Plantagenet, 

George 
Clarencieux   King-at-arms,  i.   165,  178  ; 

ii.  26 

Clayton,  Thos.  baker,  ii.  72,  73 
Cleere,  Mr.  of  Norfolk,  i.  125 
Clement,  Dr.  ii.  34  ;  his  daughter,  ii.  34 
Clerk,  John,  Bishop  of  Bath,  i.  99,  103 
Clerkenwell,  i.  85  ;  ii.  139  ;  Benedictine 

Nunnery  at,  i.  105 
Clerks,  Wardens  of  the,  ii.  49 
Cleves,  Anne  of,  Queen  of  Henry  VIII. 

i.  109-112,  117-119  ;  ii.  103,  138 
Cleves,  John,  Duke  of,  i.  109,  119 

— : William,  Duke  of,  i.  145 

Clifford,  Edward,  i.  85 

Clink,  the,  i.  115 

Clinton,  Edward  de,  Earl  of   Lincoln, 

Lord  High  Admiral,  i.  117  ;  ii.  65 
Cobbler,  Captain,  i.  56 
Cobham,  Lord.     See  Brooke,  George 
Coffin,  Mr.  i.  69 


Coinage,  the,  i.  15;  ii.  48,  50,  54,  58,  59, 
102 

Cokerell,  Dr.  i.  63 

Colchester,  i.  90  ;  ii.  12  ;  Abbot  of,  108, 
109 

Coldharbour,  ii.  65 

Coleman  Street,  i.  135,  175  ;  ii.  27 

Coligny,  Gaspard  de,  Seigneur  de  Cha- 
tillon,  Admiral  of  France  and  Ambas- 
sador to  England,  ii.  39 

Collins  burnt,  i.  119    . 

Mr.  i.  137  ;  ii.  73 

Commissioners,  Ecclesiastical,  or  Visi- 
tors, seize  church  goods,  ii.  83,  84 

Common  Prayer,  Book  of,  ii.  9,  78,  79, 
97,  145  ;  called  the  King's  Book,  ii. 
17,  18,  23 

Commons'  House  of  Parliament,  ii.  82, 
114  ;  and  see  Parliament 

Connisbie  or  Conesby,  Edmond,  i,  84, 116 

Constable,  Sir  Robert,  i.  63,  65 

William.  See  Featherstone, 

William 

Convocation,  i.  47,  52,  55,  65,  94,  101, 
133,  187  ;  ii.  82,  Act  of,  52 

Cooper.     See  Cowper,  John 

Cootes,  John,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  137,  140 

Cor  bell,  near  Paris,  i.  174 

Corbett,  Robert,  ii.  91 

Gorier,  Monsr.  ii.  106 

Corn,  importation  of,  i.  147,  156  ;  ii.  37, 
45,47 

Cornhill,  i.  72,  95,  96,  164,  165,  181, 
187  ;  ii  1,  8,  71 

Cornwall,  co.  i.  3  ;  ii.  14,  15,  32 

Cottisford  (Cottesfurth),  S.  T.  P.  ii.  40 

Cotton,  Sir  Richard,  ii.  71,  89,  92 

Coulogne  (Columme),  near  Calais,  i.  61 

Council,  the  King's,  or  Lords,  i.  74, 
76,80,81,  134-137,  149,  151,  153,  159, 
167,  170,  178,  179,  185  ;  ii.  24,  25,  28, 
29,  31-36,  42,  48,  50,  57-59,  64-67,  70, 
77,  82-89,  96,  98-100,  106,  107,  112, 
115-119,  122,  124,  125,  128,  141,  144, 
145 

Clerk  of  the.  See  Mason,  Sir  John 

Councils,  General,  i.  52,  53 

Counter  Prisons,  i.  76,  109,  128  ;  ii.  8, 
42,  43,  53,  54,  68,  71,  86,  112,  126,  131 

Court,  the,  i.  3,  113,  135,  140,  145  ;  and 
see  names  of  places  where  resident 

Court-at-Street,  in  the  parish  of  Lympne, 
Kent,  i.  23 


152 


.INDEX. 


Courtenay,  Edward,  afterwards  Earl  of 
Devonshire,  ii.  95-98,  102,  106,  113, 
116,  128 

Courtenay,  Henry,  Earl  of  Devon  and 
Marquis  of  Exeter,  1.  62,  88,  91,  92, 
101,  102  ;  his  children,  102 

Coventry,  insurrection  in,  i.  14 

Coverdale,  Miles,  ii.  14  ;  his  works  to  be 
burnt,  i.  169 

Cowper  or  Cooper,  John,  sheriff,  ii.  54,  66 

Cox,  Dr.  Richardj.almoner  and  preceptor 
of  Edward  VI.  Dean  of  Westminster, 
ii.  4,  96,  144 

Crane,  Mr.  ii.  57  ;  his  wife,  ibid. 

Crane,  the,  in  the  Vintry,  ii.  33,  63,  109 

Cranmer,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury, i.  20,  21,  23,  24,  33,  34,  40, 
45,  48,  67,  71,  74,  78,  81,  95,  97,  99, 
109,  179,  184;  ii.  11-13,  14,  16,  17,20, 
24,  34,  37,  45,  46,  47,  89,  103  ;  his 
arraignment,  ii.  104;  degraded,  ii.  133; 
burnt,  ii.  134 

Cratwell,  the  hangman  of  London  hanged, 
i.  85 

Crawford  Castle,  Captain  of.  See  Car- 
michaell 

Cripplegate,  i.  2,  161  ;  ii.  16,  110,  112, 
142 

Crofte,  Dr.  chancellor  of  Chichester,  i. 
91,92 

Elizabeth,  ii.  117 

—  Sir  James,  ii.  115 

Sir  William,  ii.  95 

Crome  (Cromer)  Dr.  Edward,  i.  101,142, 
166,  167,  169 

Cromer,  Dr.  George,  archbishop  of  Ar- 

-  magh,  i.  72 
Crowe,  Giles,  i.  150 

Croydon  (Crowden),  in  Surrey,   ii.  42, 

49 
Crumwell,  Gregory,  son  of  Thos.  Lord 

Crumwell,  i.  96,  117 

Sir  Richard,  alias  Williams, 

nephew  of  Thos.  Lord  Crumwell,  i.  96, 
117,118,  119 

Sir  Thomas.  Lord  Crumwell, 

1536-40 ;   Earl   of   Essex,    1540 ;    at- 
tainted and   beheaded,  June   1540,  i. 
26,  31,  36,  49,  51,  52,  55,  65,  83,  85- 
87,  95,  96,  98,  115,  117,  119,  120 

Crutched  Friars,  or  Crossed  Eriars,  on 
Tower  Hill,  i.  59,  65,  69,  179;  and 
see  Tower  Hill 


Culpepper,  Thos.  i.  73,  118,  131,  132 
Cunningham,  Wm.  Earl  of  Glencairn,  i. 

138 

Curfew-bell  discontinued,  ii.  49 
Cur  son,  Sir  William,  a  baron  of  the  ex- 
chequer, ii.  12 

Curteis,  Thomas,  alderman,  i.  170  ;  ii. 
47,66 


Dacre,  William  Lord,  i.  25 

Dacre  of  the  South,  Lord.      See  Eienes, 

Thomas 

Damport,  Robert,  i.  133 
Daniell,  John,  executed,  ii.  136 
Danzig  (Danske),  i.  147,  156  ;  ii.  30,  45 
D'Arcy,  George,  Lord,  ii.  64,  89 

Thomas,  Lord,  i.  57,  62,  65 

Sir    Thomas,  Captain    of    the 

Guard,  ii.  33 

Darington  and  his  wife,  i.  135 
Dartford,  i.  110,  122 
Daunce,  Henry,  i.  82,  93 
Davenett,  Ralph,  merchant,  ii.  52 
Davenport,  a  Yeoman  of  the  Guard,  i. 

125 

David,  King.     See  Psalms  of 
Davie,  Margaret,  boiled  in  Smithfield,  i. 

134 

Mr.  ii.  73 

Day,  Dr.  George,  Bishop  of  Chichester, 
ii.  55,  97 

John,  parson  of   St.   Ethelberga, 

Bishopsgate  Street,  ii.  100,  101 

Thomas,  i.  156 

Deacon,  Richard,  i.  150 
Dean  of  the  Arches.     See  Quent,  Dr. 
Dee,  Rowland,  mercer,  ii.  91 
Degavaro,  Balthazar,  ii.  32 

Charles,  ii.  32 

Denham,  Sir  William,  i.  133,  137 
Denis,    Sir   Thomas,  i.  108  ;    his  wife, 

Lady  Murffen,  ibid. 
Denybowte,  Admiral  of  France.     See 

Annebaut 
Deptford,  ii.  108 

Strand,    near   Greenwich,    i. 

154,  172 

Derby,  Earl  of.     See  Stanley,  Edward 

Derbyshire,  i.  156  ;  ii.  74 

Derham  (Dorand),  Francis  i.  131,  132 


INDEX. 


153 


Derike,  alias,  Dedike,  or  Dethick  (John) 
executed,  ii.  135 

Desalvaron,  Michael,  ii.  32 

Desalrasto,  or  Devalesco,  Francis,  ii.  32 

Desmond,  Earl  of.  See  Fitzgerald,  James 

Devereux,  Lord  Ferrers,  ii.  103 

Devonshire,  co.  of,  ii.  15,  20,  30,  32,  68 

Earl  of.     See  Courtney,  Ed- 
ward 

Dieppe  (Deepe),  i.  157,  171 

Dingley,  Thos.  a  knight  of  Rhodes,  i. 
101 

Divelyn,  Bishop  of.     See  Dublin. 

Dobbs,  Richard,  Alderman,  ii.  55 

Domer,  Mr.  ii.  25 

Done-a-Brune.     See   O'Brien,   Sir  Do- 
nough 

Dordrecht  in  Holland,  ii.  70 

Dormer,  Sir  Michael,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  133 

Dorphin  (Dolphin)  of  France,!.  167,  174 

Dorset,  Marchioness  of,  i,  23 

Douglas,  Archibald,  Sixth  Earl  of  An- 
gus, i.  54 

Lady  Margaret  marries  Lord 

Thomas  Howard,  i.  48,  54,  70,  110; 
ii.  60 

Dover,  i.  109,  149,  159,  160;  ii.  130,  137 

Castle,  i.  109 

Downs,  the,  i.  3 

Drake,  John,  ii.  117 

Drought  and  Pestilence  in  England,  i. 
123 

Dublin,  Archbishop  of.    See  Allen,  John 

Dudley,  Lord  Ambrose,  ii.  91,  104 

Sir  Andrew,  ii.  91,  9.9 

Edmund,  beheaded  i.  7 

— Lord  Guildford,  fourth'  son  of 

the  Duke  of  Northumberland,  and  hus- 
band of  Lady  Jane  Grey,  ii.  85,  91, 
104, 111 
Lord  Henry,  ii.  91,  104,  135 

John,  Viscount   Lisle,   Earl    of 

Warwick,  Duke  of  Northumberland, 
Lord  High  Admiral,  and  Lord  Great 
Chamberlain,  i.  117,  118,  160,  174, 
177,  182;  ii.  21,  22,  24,  28,  32,  33,  41, 
42,  48,  56,  60,  61,  64,  65,  69,  71,  85, 
87,  90,  91,  96,  99,  100,  106 

Lord  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester, 


ii.  91,  106 
Dungannon     (Dunsane),     Lord.       See 

O'Neill,  Matthew 
Dunkirk,  ii.  141 

CAMD.  SOC. 


Dunne,  Angel,  i.  108 

Dunsane,  Lord.     See  Dungannon,  Lord 

Dunstable,  ii.  74 

Dunstall,  Dr.     See  Tunstall,  Cuthbert 

Durham,  mint  at,  ii.  13 

Bishop  of.  See  Ruthal,  Thomas, 

and  Tunstall,  Dr.  Cuthbert 

Durham  Place,  in  the  Strand,  i,  117;  ii. 
39,  105 

Dutchmen  burnt  for  heresy,  i.  28,  90 

Dyer,  Clement,  i.  135 

Dyer,  Sir  James,  Speaker  of  the  Com- 
mons' House,  ii.  82 

Dymmock,  Sir  Edward,  i.  183 


Easing  Spitel,  i.  133 

Eastcheap,  ii.  48 

Easterlings,  a  company  of  merchants, 
i.  153 

Edinburgh,  i.  186 

Edliug,  John,  i.  162 ;  his  wife,  Johan, 
ibid. 

Edward  VI.  born  12  Oct.  1537,  i.  66-69, 
17S,etseq.;  ii.  1-86;  his  establishment 
when  Prince  of  Wales  at  Enfield,  i. 
140  ;  receives  the  High  Admiral  of 
France,  i.  173;  proclaimed  King,  i.  178; 
his  coronation,  i.  180,  182;  grants  a 
general  pardon,  ii.  9;  establishes  uni- 
formity of  service  in  the  Church  of 
England,  ii.  9  ;  his  reception  of  Mary 
of  Guise,  queen  of  James  V.  ii.  60; 
his  death,  ii.  85,  86,  88;  obsequy  for, 
ii.  96,  97;  mentions  of,  ii.  102,  133, 
134,  145 

Edward  the  Confessor,  his  sceptre,  i.  46 ; 
called  St.  Edward,  i.  66 

Egerton,  Ralph,  of  London,  i.  123 

Egmont,  Count  (Countie  de  Augmonte), 
ii.  105,  141 

Egypt,  the  Mamaluke  Sultan  of  Egypt 
defeated  by  Selim  I.  i.  11 

Elizabeth,  Queen  of  England,  daughter 
of  Henry  VIII.  and  Queen  Anne  Bo- 
leyn,  born  7  Sept.  1533,  i.  22,  23,  68  ; 
ii.  88,  92,  94,  103,  113,  141-146  ;  com- 
mitted to  the  Tower,  ii.  116  ;  received 
at  Court,  ii.  128;  proclaimed  Queen,  ii. 
141,  142;  crowned  ii.  143 

Elizabeth  of  York,  Queen  of  Henry  VII. 
i.  1 ;  her  death,  i.  5 

Ellerkar  (Elderk*ar),  Sir  Ralph,  i.  60 
X 


154 


INDEX. 


Ely  Abbey,  ii.  128 

Ely,  Bishop  of.     See  Thirlby,  Thomas, 

West,  Nicholas 
Emperor,  the.     See  Maximilian  I.  1493- 

1519,  Charles  V.  1519-1558. 
Empson,  Sir  Richard,  beheaded,  i.  7 
Enfield,  Prince  Edward's  establishment 

at,  i.  140 
England,  Church  of,  i.  65,  185;  ii.  86; 

Henry  VIII.  takes  the  title  of  Supreme 

Head  of,  i.  26,  52,  55;  uniformity  of 

service  in,  ii.  9 
Erith  i.  122 
Erskine  (Herskin),  John,  twelfth   lord, 

i.  138 
Essex,  county  of,  ii.  15,  18,  19,  61,  92, 

127,  134 
Earl  of.     See  Bourchier,  Henry; 

Cromwell,  Sir  Thomas;  Parr,  Sir  Wil- 
liam 

Eton  College,  i.  181 
Eure  (Evers),  Sir  Ralph,  slain,  i.  153 
Sir   William,    Lord    Eure,    slain, 

i.  153 

Evangelists,  the,  i.  78 
Exchequer,  the,  i.   144,  154,  155,  162, 

171,  179 

Barons  of  the,  i.  109,  179 

Exeter,  ii.  15,  20,  108 

Bishop  of.     See  Voysey  John 

Marchioness  of,  i.  23,  68;  ii.  94, 

98;  and  see  Blount,  Gertrude 

Marquis    of.       See    Courtenay, 

Henry 

Exmew,  Mr.  or  Exmouth,  Thomas  de, 
i.  28 


Farmar,  Richard,  arraigned,  i.  119 

Farnham,  i.  158,  159 

Farringdon  Without,  Ward  of,  ii.  43 

Within,  Ward  of,  ii.  47,  50 

Fawlkes,  Anthony,  ii.  79 

Featherstone,  Richard,  i.  120,  121 

• William,  alias  Constable, 

simulates  Edward  VI.  ii.  129, 133,  134 
Feckenham,  Dr.  John, Dean  of  St.  Paul's, 

and  Abbot  of  Westminster,  ii.  114, 136 
Feiry  (Farye),  John,  mercer,  sheriff,  i.  104 
Fenchurch  Street,  ii.  94 
Ferdinand  II.  King  of  Spain,  father  of 

Queen  Catherine,  i.  4* 


Ferrars  (Ferris),  George,  lord  of  merry 
disports  at  the  court,  i.  135  ;  ii.  80 

Lord.     See  Devereux 

Filicirga,  Captain,  an  Italian,  ii.  31 
Fines,  Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre,  i.  125, 

126 
Finsbury  Court,  ii.  4 

Fields,  i.  159,  162,  175,  186; 

ii.  54,  55,  110,  139 

First  Fruits  and  Tenths,  ii.  130 
Fish  Market  in  Cheapside,  ii.  143 
Fish  Street,  i.  141,  164;  ii.  8,  52 
Fisher,  Henry,  ii.  44 

Dr.  John,  Bishop  of  Rochester 

and  Chancellor  of  Cambridge  Univer- 
sity, i.  24,  25;  his  trial  and  execution, 
i.  28,  29 

Fitzalan,  Henry,  Lord  Maltravers,  and 
Earl  of  Arundel,  i.  154, 177;  ii.  33, 62, 
79,  89,  90,  91,  92,  94,  105 

William,  Earl  of  Arundel,  i.  21 

Fitzgerald,  Gerald,  ninth  Earl  of  Kildare, 
dies  in  the  Tower,  i.  25,  26,  30,  61; 
his  son.     See  Fitzgerald,  Thomas 
James,  fifteenth  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, i.  136 

(Garratt),  Thos.  Earl  of  Kil- 
dare, i.  30,  61,  77;  made  prisoner  and 
committed  to  the  Tower,  i.  26 

Fitz-James,  Richard,  Bishop  of  London, 

i.  9,  12 
Fitz-Roy,  Henry,   Duke   of  Richmond, 

natural  son  of  Henry  VIII.  i.  41,  45, 

53,  54 

Fitz- Walter,  Lord.  *SteeRatcliffe,  Thomas 
Fitz-Warine  (Fitz-Waren),  the  Lord.  See 

Bourchier,  John 

Fitzwilliam,  Sir  William,  Earl  of  South- 
ampton, i.  37,  68,  98 
Fitzwilliams,  William,  merchant  taylor, 

i.  5 

Flanders,  i.  116,  174;  ii.  45,  93,  118,141 
Fleet-bridge,  in  Fleet  Street,  ii.  68 
Fleet  prison,  i.  152;  ii.  56,  66,  115,  145 
Fleet  Street,  London,  i.  59,  165,  178 

ii.  3,  50,  68,  83,  111,  112 

Fleetwood,  Mr.  i.  123 

Fleming,  Malcolm,  third  Lord,  i.  138, 

186 
Flodden  Field,  in  which  battle  James  IV. 

was  slain,  i.  8 
Forman,  Sir  William,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  98, 

99,  152 


INDEX. 


155 


Forrest,  Dr.  John,  i.  78,  79,  80 

Fortescue  (Foskewe),  Sir  Adrian,  i.  101 

Foster  Lane,  i.  184  ;  ii.  117 

Fotheringay  Castle,  ii.  116 

Founsing  Besse,  ii.  4 

Fountains,  abbot  of.  See  Thurst,  Wil- 
liam 

Fox,  Edward,  Archdeacon  of  Leicester 
and  Provost  of  King's  College,  made 
bishop  of  Hereford,  i.  30 

— ,  John,  parson  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen, 
i.  185 

France,  i.  1,  2,  8,  9,  10,  107,  116,  120, 
148,  151,  155,  157,  160,  163,  166,  167, 
173,  174,  182,  184,  185  ;  ii.  37,  39,  40, 

59,  65,  108,  138,  139 

,    Admiral    of.      See  Annebaut, 

Claude  d' 
,  ambassadors  from,  i.  51,  52,  98, 

184 
,  king  of.  See  Louis  XII.,  Francis 

I.,  and  Henry  II. 
Francis  I.  king  of  France,  i.  10,  14,  32, 

60,  66,  98,  99,  120,  142,  143,  156,   157, 
160,  165,  167,  171,  173,174,  183, 184 

,  his  widow,  ii.  141 

,  his  ambassadors,  i.  98,  99 

Framlingham  in  Norfolk,  ii.  122 
Francke,  Edward,  executed,  i.  2 
Frankleyn,  William,  Dean  of  Windsor,  i. 

181 
Friars  Observants,  the,  at  Greenwich,  ii. 

128,  134 

,  White,  Black,  and  Grey,  of  Lon- 
don, i.  129 
Friday  Street,  ii.  77 
Frith,  John,  burnt,  i.  22 
,  his  works  to  be  burnt,  i.  168 

Gadarn  Darvell,  or  Gatheren,  David,  i. 

80 
Gage,  Sir  John,  Constable  of  the  Tower, 

and  Chamberlain  to   Queen  Mary,  i. 

139,  179  ;  ii.  28,  94,  107,  122 
Gambolde  (Gambo)  Sir  Peter,  ii.  31 
Gardiner,  Stephen,  bishop  of  Winchester, 

i.  99,  113,  114,  115,  136,  155  ;  ii.  3,4, 

45,  95,  96,  97,  101,  103,  114,  115,  119, 

120,  122,  124-126,  132,  133 
Garrard    (Garrett    and  Jerrard)   Thos, 

parson  of  Honey  Lane,  i.  114,  121 
,  Lord  Thomas.     See  Fitzgerald 

Lord  Thomas 


Garrard,  William,  Alderman,  ii.  76,  86, 

89,  91,  92 

Garter  Knight-at-Arms,  ii.  28,  69,  88 
Garter,  Order  of  the,  ii.  121 
Gatehouse,  prison  in  Westminster,  ii.  127 
Gates,  Henry,  ii.  91,  99 

,  Sir  John,  ii.  91,  99,  100 

,  William,  ii.  21 

Gedy worth.     See  Jedworth 

Gelderland,  i.  136 

Geneva,  ii.  144 

Germany  (Dutchland)  i.  81, 109  ;  ii.  105, 

144,  145 
Gibbes,  ii.  108 
Gibson,  Mr.  a  surgeon,  i.  76 
Gifford,  Sir  George,  ii.  123 
Glastonbury,  abbots  of,  i.  108,  109 
Glencairn  (Glainekarne,  alias  Lord  Kil- 

mayre)   Earl  of.      See   Cunningham, 

William 

Godsalve,  John,  i.  129 
Godston,  Surrey,  ii.  49 
Goodrick,  Dr.  Thomas,  bishop  of  Ely, 

ii.  65,  66,  81  ;  Lord  Chancellor,  ii.  89 
Goodyere,  Alderman,  ii.  15,  16 
Gostife,  Mr.  the  king's  sergeant,  i.  31 
Gracechurch  in  London,  conduit  at,  i.  2 

,  or  (Gracious)  Street,  ii.  8, 94 

Graf  ton,  Kichard,  ii.  52,  84 

Graham,  John,  fourth  Earl  of  Monteith, 

i.  139 

Granado,  Jakes,  ii.  6 
Gravelines  in  France,  ii.  141 
Gravesend,  i.  110,  159,  172  ;  ii.  107 
Gray,  Alice,  i.  24 

,  Mr.  i.  116 

,  (Gragie)  Patrick,  fifth  Lord,  i.  138 

Gray  don  (Greaden),  laird  of.     See  Ker, 

Robert 

Gray's  Inn,  i.  57  ;  ii.  77 
Great  St.  Bartholomew's  in  Smithfield, 

ii.  134 
Great  Zacharie,  the,  of  Dieppe,  i.  171, 

172 
Greenwich,  i.  2,  4,  10,  13,  17,  18,  23,  25, 

35,  37,  44,  59,  110-112,  122,  124,  125, 
135.  140,  154,  167,  171,  172  ;  ii.  19, 

36,  40,  48,  69,  76,  80,  83,  85,  108,  128, 
130,  134,  145,  146 

Gresham,  Sir  John,  ii.  8,  27,  43,  55 
,  (Gressame),  Sir  Richard,  Lord 

Mayor,  i.  67,  71,  77,  80,  124,  130,  162, 

176  ;  ii,  8 


156 


INDEX. 


Grey  (Graie),  Lady  Elizabeth  i.  78 

Friars,  the,  i.  82,  177  ;  ii.  76,  79 

Henry,  Marquis  of  Dorset  and  Duke 

of  Suffolk,  i.  78,  98  ;  ii.  5,  56,  60,  71, 
89,  91,  92,  108,  110-113,  115,  117 
Thomas,  fifth  Marquis  of  Dorset,  i. 

78 
,  Lady  Jane,  proclaimed  Queen,  ii. 

85,86,  91,  104,  111 

,  Lord  John,  ii.  5,  28,  32,  110, 117 

,  Lord  Thomas,  ii.  115, 117 

,  Lord  Leonard,  son  of  the  Marquis 

of  Dorset,  takes  the  Earl  of  Kildare 

prisoner,  i.  30,  125 

,  Thomas,  Marquis  of  Dorset,  i.  125 

,  William,  Lord,  i.  21 ;  ii.  56,  101, 

140 

,  William,  of  Reading,  ii.  28,  34 

Grindall,  Edmond,  bishop  of  London,  ii. 

146 

Grocers'  Hall,  the,  i,  155 
Grove,  Roger,  sheriff,  i.  6 
Gryg,  the  false  prophet,  ii.  42 
Grymes,  John,  sheriff,  ii  71,  72,  76 

,  Richard,  ii.  54,  92 

Guard,  the,  ii.  27,  33 

Guildford  (Gilford)  i.  160 

Guildhall  in  the  City,  i.  2,  5,  11,  16,  31, 

62,  127,   128,  129,  131,  141,  146,  152, 

155,  162,   167,  169,  171,  175,  176,  177, 

178,  184  ;.ii.  6,  7,  15,  21,  24,  25,  26, 

29,  32,  40, 48,  51,  52,  57,  62,  70,  71,  75, 

79,  84,  93,  98,  104,  106,  107,  108,  115, 

116,  133,  135 

Chapel,  i.  23,  43,  55,  59,  77 

Guisnes  (Guynes),  i.  142  ;  ii.  101,  140 
Gunston,  Mr.  his  sons,  i.  126 
Gynning,  Darby,  i.  121 


Hackney,  Middlesex,  i.  51,  162 
Hadlam  or  Adlams,  John,  i.  167 
Hadleigh(Hadley),i.  83 
Hadley,  parson  of.     See  Taylor,  Dr. 
Haies,  Thomas,  Chamberlain  of  the  City, 

ii.  5,  44 

Hail,  terrible  storm  of,  ii.  70 
Haile,  John,  Vicar  of  Isleworth,  i.  27 
Hailes,  Abbey  of,  i.  75 

,  blood  of,  i.  90 

Halam,  his  rebellion,  i.  60 


Hale,  John,  Justice,  ii.  84 

Hales,  Christopher,  made  Master  of  the 
Rolls,  i.  49 

Haliwell.     See  Holywell 

Hamburgh  (Hambrough),  ii.  45 

Hamilton  (Hamerton),  Sir  Stephen,  i.  63 

Hamersmith,  ii,  68 

Hampton.     See  Southampton 

in  Wilts,  ii.  21 

Court,  i.  66,  67,  70,  122,  130, 

143,  186;  ii.  25,  28,  40,  56,  60,  128, 
130 

Hamylkewe.     See  Ambleteuse 

Handsome,  Mr.  ii.  57 

Hanthill.     See  Ampthill 

Harbard.     See  Herbert,  Sir  William 

Hare,  Sir  Nicholas,  Speaker  of  the  Par- 
liament, Lord  Chancellor,  and  Master 
of  the  Rolls,  i.  116  ;  ii.  66,  70,  71,  77, 
101 

Harford,  Thomas,  i.  77 

Harman  (Herman),  Thomas,  i.  123 

Harper,  Sir  George,  ii.  110 

Mr.  merchant  taylor,  ii.  73 

Harpesfielde,  Mr.  ii.  105 
Harpin,  William,  i.  176 

Harvie,  Thomas,  a  baker,  ii.  71,  106 
Harvye,  a  priest  of  Calais,  i.  126 
Hastings,   Sir  Edward,  Master  of  the 
Horse,  ii.  93 

Francis,  Earl  of  Huntingdon, 

ii.  64,71,  91,  110,  111 

Hatfield,  ii.  142 

Havre-de-Grace,  called  Newhaven,  in 
Brittany,  i.  157 

Hawkes  (Hikbye) ,  Thomas,  burnt,  ii.  127 

Hawkins,  under  porter  at  the  Tower, 
ii.7 

Hawley,  Thomas,  Clarencieux  King-at- 
Arms,  called  King  of  Heralds,  i.  68 

Hayward  or  Howard,  recantation  by,  i. 
148 

Head,  a  Yeoman  of  the  Guard,  ii.  8 

Heath,  Dr.  Nicholas,  Bishop  of  Worces- 
ter, Chichester,  and  Archbishop  of 
York,  Lord  Chancellor,  i.  168  ;  ii.  56, 
103,  132  ;  deprived,  ii.  145 

Hedgehogs,  the,  i.  157 

Hemley,  John,  priest,  i.  169 

Hening,  Mr.  his  son,  i.  130 

Hennage,  Sir  Thomas,  i.  69 

Henry  VII.  i.  1-6  ;  presented  with  a  cap 
of  maintenance,  i.  2  ;  died  at  Rich- 


INDEX. 


157 


mond,  i.  6  ;  mentions  of,  ii.  44,  85,  97; 
anniversary  of,  ii.  2,  116 

Henry  VIII.  succeeded  to  the  throne  on 
the  death  of  his  father,  Henry  VII. 
22  April,  1509,  i.  6-178  ;  born  at 
Greenwich,  i.  2  ;  created  Duke  of 
York,  ibid.;  proclaimed  King,  i.  6  ; 
married  to  Katherine  of  Aragon,  i.  6, 
35  ;  crowned,  ibid.;  death  of  his  first 
son,  Prince  Henry,  i.  7  ;  subsidy 
granted  to,  i.  8,  9  ;  his  daughter  Mary 
born,  i.  10  ;  his  divorce  from  Kath- 
erine, i.  17,  18  ;  makes  Anne  Bolleyn 
his  Queen,  i.  1 7  ;  his  daughter  Eliza- 
beth born,  i.  22  ;  Supreme  Head  of 
the  Church  of  England,  i.  26,  52,  55, 
60  ;  his  style  and  title,  i.  26  ;  miscar- 
riage of  his  Queen  Anne  Boleyn,  i. 
33 ;  called  our  Sovereign  and  Emperor, 
i.  35,  52;  divorced  from  Anne  Boleyn. 
i.  41 ;  Anne's  trial  and  execution,  37- 
40 ;  marries  Jane  Seymour,  i.  43,  44, 
55,  59,  105  ;  rejects  the  authority  of 
the  Pope,  i.  52  ;  rejoicings  at  the 
birth  of  Prince  Edward,  i.  66  ;  pre- 
sides at  the  trial  of  Nicholson  for 
heresy,  i.  89  ;  marries  Anne  of  Cleves, 
i.  109-112;  marries  Katherine  Howard, 
i.  121-124, 130-134;  proclaimed  King  of 
Ireland,  i.  133  ;  his  title  to  the  realm  of 
Scotland,  i.  140  ;  marries  Katherine 
Parr,  widow  of  Lord  Latimer,  i.  143  ; 
mortgages  the  Crown  lands  to  the  City, 
i.  148  ;  levies  a  benevolence  or  forced 
loan,  i.  166  ;  his  death,  i.  178  ;  his 
will,  i.  179  ;  his  burial,  i.  181  ;  his 
executors,  ii.  41  ;  mentions  of,  ii.  85, 
88,  97,  105,  106,  136 

Prince,  infant  son  of  Henry  VIII. 

i.  7 

natural  son  of  Henry  VIII.  See 

Fitz-Roy 

II.  King  of  France,  ii.  35,  37,  39, 

40,  65,  132,  134,  138,  144,  146  ;  am- 
bassadors from,  ii.  20,  39,  40  ;  ambas- 
sadors to,  ii.  31 

Hepburn  (Hayborne).  Patrick,  i.  139 

Heralds,  the,  ii.  34,  86 

Herbert  (Harbard),  Sir  William,  Lord 
Herbert  of  Caerdiff ,  and  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, ii.  56,  61, 65,  71,  88,  89,  99.  110, 
111,  119,  120,  138 

Hereford,  Bishop  of.     See  Fox,  Edward 


Herne,  Mrs.  i.  128 

Heron,  Giles,  i.  121 

Hertford  (Hareforde),  i.  179 

Earl  of.    See  Seymour,  Edward 

Hewit,  Andrew,  burnt,  i.  22 

Heytesbury  (Hatesburie),  i.  47 

Highgate,  ii.  6 

High  Street,  the,  of  London,  i.  139 

Hikbye.     See  Hawkes 

Hikeman,  Thurstan,  monk,  i.  184,^185 

Hill,  Sir  Rowland,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  127, 
135  ;  ii.  24-28,  43,  55 

Hilsey,  John,  Prior  of  the  Dominican 
Friars  in  London,  Bishop  of  Roches- 
ter, i.  30,  34,  74,  90,  104 

Hinde,  Augustine,  sheriff,  ii.  53 

the  King's  plumber,  ii.  67 

Hobbie,  Sir  Philip,  ii.  71 

Hobson,  John,  ii.  54 

Hodgkin,  Dr.  Suffragan  of  London,  i.  106 

Hodnill  in  Warwickshire,  i.  84 

Hog  Lane,  ii.  69 

Holbeach,  Henry,  Bishop  of  Rochester, 
and  afterwards  of  Lincoln,  i.  177,  184, 
186,  187 

Holborn,  i.  95,  154,  176  ;  ii.  24,  27,  41, 
77,  112 

Holcroft,  Sir  Thos.  ii.  58 

Holgate,  Robert,  Archbishop  of  York,  i. 
184 

Holland,  a  servant  of  Lord  Montacute,  i. 
91,92 

ii.  37,  47,  70 

Holies,  Sir  Wm.  Lord  Mayor,  i.  67,  111 

Holmes,  Mr.  secretary  to  the  Duke  of 
Northumberland,  ii.  71 

Thos.  a  rebel,  ii.  30,  32 

Holte,  Mr.  keeper  of  Ludgate,  ii.  84 

Holy  Maid  of  Kent.  See  Barton,  Eliza- 
beth 

Holywell  (Halywell),  Benedictine  nun- 
nery at,  i.  50,  107 

Home,  Dr.  ii.  144,  145 

(Hune),  George,  Laird  of  Ay  ton, 

i.  138 

Honey  Lane,  parson  of.  See  Garrard, 
Thos. 

Honninges,  the,  ii.  143 

Hooper,  John,  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and 
Worcester,  ii.  40,  41,  126 

Hops,  searchers  of,  ii.  55 

Horn,  William,  i.  121 

Horsey,  Dr.  i.  9 


158 


INDEX. 


Horsleydown,  Surrey,  i.  176 

Houghton,  John,  late  Prior  of  the  Char- 
terhouse in  London,  i.  27,  185 

Howard,  Catherine,  Queen  of  Henry 
VIII.  i.  121, 122,  124,  130-134 

Capt.  Charles,  i.  142 

Lord  Edmund,  i.  122 

Henry,  Earl  of  Surrey,  i.  37.  50, 

98,  118,  132  ;  his  wife,  Anne,  i.  132 

Lady  Mary,  wife  of  Henry  Fitz- 

Roy,  i.  53,  54 

Michael,  i.  150 

Thomas,  Earl  of  Surrey  and  third 

Duke  of  Norfolk,  i.  12,  14,  16,  18,  21, 
25,  27,  34,  36,  37,  38,  39,  48,  50,  53, 
54,  57,  58,  60,  67,68,  70,  80,  96,  98,  99, 
105,  109,  122,  131-32,  136,  167,  170, 
176,  177 

Thomas,  Lord,  brother  to  the  Duke 

of  Norfolk,  attainted  (1536),  i.  54  ;  his 
death,  i.  70 

Thomas,  Duke   of  Norfolk,  ii. 


95,  96,  97,  99,  107,  108,  122 

William,  Lord,  i.  21, 132, 133;  ii. 


109,   110,  117,   118  ;    his  wife,  Lady 
Margaret,  i.  132 

Hubarthorne  (Hobulthorne),  Sir  Henry, 
Lord  Mayor,  i.  175-178,  180,  181;  ii. 
55,91 

Huett,  Mr.  Sheriff,  ii.  107 
Huicke,  Dr.  ii.  145 
Huise,  Richard,  a  tailor,  ii.  50 
Hull,  or  Kingston-upon-Hull,  i.  60,  65 

Mayor  of,  i.  60 

Hungary,  Queen  of,  ii.  141 
Hungerford,  Sir  Walter,  Lord  Hunger- 
ford,  i.  47,  120 

Hunn,  Richard,  tailor,  hanged,  i.  9 
Hunsdon,  Herts,  i.  51 
Hunt,  William,  burnt,  ii.  127 
Huntingdon,    Earl    of.     See    Hastings, 

Francis 
Huntley,  Earl  of,  Chancellor  of  Scotland, 

i.  186 
Huntlow  or  Huntley,  Thomas,  sheriff,  i. 

104 
Husband,  Richard,  Keeper  of  the  Counter 

in  Bread  Street,  ii.  42 
Hussey,  Sir  John,  Lord  Hussey,  i.  62,  65 
Hyde,  Abbot  of.     See  Salcot,  John 
Hyde  Park,  ii.  64,  112 
Hyll,  a  weaver,  ii.  118 
Hynde,  Justice,  ii.  8 


Inner  Temple,  London,  i.  61 

Innes  of  Court,  the,  i.  180;  and  see  their 

several  names 
Ipswich,  i.  83 
Ireland,  i.  25,  26,  30,  136,  140,  160,  182 ; 

ii.  86  ;  Henry  VIII.  proclaimed  King 

of,  i.  133 

Isabella  or  Elizabeth,  Infanta  of  Portu- 
gal, wife  of  the  Emperor  Charles  V.  i. 

97  ;  obit,  for  at  St.  Paul's,  i.  97-99 
Isleworth  (Thistleworth),  Vicar  of.     See 

Haile,  John 

Islington,  Middlesex,  ii.  12 
Iwan  Wasilejevitch,  Emperor  of  Russia, 

ii.  137 


Jackson,  Mr.  ii.  73 

James  IV.  of  Scotland  slain,  i.  8 

James  V.  of  Scotland,  i.  139, 140  ;  his 

Queen  delivered  of  a  daughter,  i.  140 
Jane,  Queen  of  Spain,  grandmother  of 

Philip  II.  ii.  129 
Jarvis,  Richard,  i.  154,  166,  171 
Jedworth  [Gedy worth],  in  Scotland,  i. 

152 

Jennings,  Barnard,  ii.  54 
Jerningham,  Sir  Henry  (Sir  John),  Cap- 
tain of  the  Guard,  ii.  99,  108 
Jerome,  William,   Vicar  of  Stepney,  i. 

114,  120,  121 

Jerrard,  Thomas.     See  Garrard 
Jervaulx  (Gervase),  Abbot  of,  i.  63,  64 
John  III.  King  of  Portugal,  ii.  139 
Jones,  John,  i.  93 
Joseph,   John,  Rector  of   St.   Mary-le- 

Bow,  ii.  18 
Joye,  George,  his  works  to  be  burnt,  i. 

169 
Juana,   Queen  of  Castile,  wife  of  the 

Archduke  Philip,  i.  6 
Judd,  Sir  Andrew,  Lord  Mayor,  ii.  29, 

30,  35-43,  60  ;  his  wife,  ii.  44 
Julian,  an  Italian,  i.  1 73,  174 
Julius  III.  Pope,  ii.  127 


Keith  (Kythe),  David,  i.  139 

Kennedy,  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Cassilis,  i.  138, 

186 
Kent,  county  of ,  i.  125,  150;  ii.  15,  18, 

49,  107,  111,  112 


INDEX. 


159 


Kent,  Joan  of.     See  Butcher 
Ker,  Robert,  (Gary,  Dan),  Laird  of  Gray- 
don,  i.  138 
Kett,  Robert,  ii.  21,  30 

William,  ii.  30 

Keyme.     See  Askew,  Anne 

Thomas,  i.  155,  167 

Kildare,  Earl  of.     See  Fitzgerald,  Gerald 

Kinge  hanged,  ii.  Ill 

King's  Bench,  the,  i.  11,  119,  125,  126, 
132,  155,  162,  179,  181;  ii.  12,  13,  36, 
96, 112,  117,  129,  130,  145 

Chief  Justice  of .  See  Mon- 
tague, Sir  Edward 

Book,  the,  i.  145;  and  see  Com- 
mon Prayer,  Book  of 

Bridge,  the,  at  Westminster,  i. 

99 

College,  Cambridge,  ii.  90 

Head  without  Newgate,  ii.  31 

Street,  Westminster,  ii.  131 

Kingston  on  Thames,  i.  66,  176;  ii,  110, 
112 

Kingston,  Anthony,  i.  117 

Lady,  wife  of  Sir  William,  i. 

38 

Sir  William,  Constable  of  the 

Tower,  i.  36,  37,  94 

Kirton,  Alderman,  ii.  15 

Knight,  Stephen,  ii.  127 

Knotting,  Mr.  ii.  54 

Knyvett  (Nevill),  Sir  Anthony,  ii.  117 

Sir  Edmond,  i.  125 

Sir  Henry,  Ambassador  to  the 

Emperor,  i.  49,  69,  174 
Sir  Thomas,  Master  of  the  Horse, 

blown  up  in  the  Regent,  i.  7 


Lamberd.     See  Nicholson,  Sir  William 
Lambeth,  i.  11,  40,  78;  ii.  13,  24,  34,45, 

46,  47,  124,  134,  142 
Lancashire,  i.  156 

Lancaster  Herald.     See  Myller,  Thomas 
Langton,  Thomas,  ii.  46;  his  widow,  ii. 

46 

Lascelles  (Lasell),  John,  i.  169 
Latimer,  Dr.  Hugh,  Bishop  of  Worcester, 

i.  30,  35,  47,  64,  71,  72,  78, 79,  80,  101, 

103;  ii.  103,  131 

John  Nevill,  Lord,  i.  143 

Laurence,  Thomas,  Prior  of  Hexham,  i. 

27 


Lawrence,  Sir  John,  priest,  ii.  127 
Robarte.     See  Laurence,  Tho- 
mas 
Laxton,  Sir  William,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  151, 

161;  ii.  23,43,55 
Leadenhall,  i.  11,  12,  164,  165,  175,  178, 

181;  ii.  71,  94,  107,  112 
Lee,  Edward,  Archbishop  of  York,  i.  20, 
21,  45,  48,  57,  97,  99 

Thomas,  i.  31,  124;  ii.  54 

Leicester,  i.  16,  110,  111 

burial  of  Cardinal  Wolsey  in 

Our  Lady  Chapel  in  Leicester  Abbey, 
i.  16 

Lent,  eating  flesh  in,  ii.  68 
Leonard,  Lord.  See  Grey 
Leslie,  George,  Earl  of  Rothes,  i.  139 

John,  i.  139 

Lever,  Sir  Thomas.     See  Seymour,  Ed- 
ward, Earl  of  Herts 

Lewes  in  Sussex,  Cluniac  Priory  at,  i.  82 
Lewyn,  Thomas,  i.  163 
Lincoln  i.  61,  65 

Bishop  of.     See  Longland,  John ; 

Watson,  Thomas,  and  White,  John 

Earl  of.     See  Pole,  John  de  la 

Place,  or  Southampton  House  in 

Holborn,  ii.  41 
Lincolnshire,  i.  27,  56,  57,  61,  62,  155, 

167;  ii.  13 

Lincoln's  Inn,  i.  137,  179 
Lisle  (Lyeles),  Viscount.  See  Planta- 

genet,  Arthur,  and  Dudley,  Sir  John 
Listre.     See  Lyster,  Sir  Richard 
Litany  in  English,  i.  148 
Littleton,  Edward,  i.  169 
Liturgy.     See  Common  Prayer,  Book  of 
Locke,  Sir  William,  Sheriff,  ii.  9,  27 
Lodge,  Thomas,  Sheriff,  ii.  93 
Lollards'  Tower,  i.  9 
Lomeley,  George,  i.  63,  64 
London  (passim) ;   fire  in,  i.  6  ;  rising 
of  apprentices,  i.  11  ;  crafts  of,  i.  12, 
13,   18,   24,  66,  71,  111;    ii.  16;    re- 
ception of  Anne  Boleyn  in,  i.  18,  19; 
plague  or  death  in,  i.  56,  145;  ii.  5; 
election  of    Ralf  Warren  for    Lord 
Mayor,   i.    57,   59 ;   Lord   Mayor  and 
Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  (passim) ; 
Cratwell  the  hangman  hanged,  i.  85; 
rejoicings  at  the  birth  of  Edward  VI. 
i.  66;  great  muster  of  citizens,  i.  95, 
96;  chamber  of  London,  i.  59,  134, 


160 


INDEX. 


178;  ii.  12,  16,  53,  57,  72,  73;  watch 
dispensed  withj  i.  100;  alteration  in 
the  time  for  election  of  sheriffs,  i.  103; 
pageant  at  the  marriage  of  Anne  of 
Cleves,  i.  Ill,  112;  charter  of,  i.  129; 
water  bailiff  of,  i.  129;  recorder  of 
(passim),  but  see  Baker,  Mr.;  Cholme- 
ley,  Sir  Koger ;  and  Brooke,  Robert ; 
markets  and  prices  in,  i.  141,  147,  163, 
175,  185;  ii.  6,  23,  30,  37,  42,  45-47, 
66,68,  70,  80,  81,  105,  143;  limitation 
of  the  number  of  dishes  at  the  tables  of 
the  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  i.  14J ; 
hustings,  court  of,  i.  147;  ii.  73;  re- 
joicings for  victory  in  Scotland,  i.  147; 
trained  bands  of,  i.  148;  ii.  3,  5;  forced 
loans  or  benevolences,  i.  148,151;  ii. 
102,  140,  141 ;  Alderman  Kede  sent  to 
the  war  in  Scotland  for  refusing  his 
contribution  to  the  benevolence,  i.  151 ; 
Court  of  Aldermen,  i.  154,  183;  ii.  42, 
43,  50-53,  55,  59,  62,  71,  73,  92,  107, 
113;  companies  of  the  city,  i.  156;  ii. 
16,  20,  25,  35,  57,  58,  70,  74,  92,  95, 
100,  107,  141,145;  chamberlain  of,  i. 
156,  160,  175,  182,  183;  ii.  5,  25,  44, 
45,  55,  60,  72-76,  92;  citizen  army 
marches  to  Farnham  for  relief  of  the 
Isle  of  Wight,  i.  158 ;  reported  con- 
spiracy by  priests  and  strangers  to  fire 
the  city,  i.  159;  Common  Sergeant,  ii. 
59, 72,  and  see  Brooke,  Robert;  Atkins, 
Thomas;  Guildhall,  see  Guildhall; 
Christ  Church  or  St.  Bartholomew's 
Hospital  given  to  the  city,  i.  178; 
proclamation  of  martial  law  in,  ii. 
15  ;  commons  or  liverymen  of,  ii. 
16,  44,  45,  48,  51-54,  57,  73-76,  92, 
93,  98,  100,  102,  106,  108  ;  prepara- 
tions for  defence  of,  ii.  16 ;  Bartholo- 
mew Fair,  ii.  21;  liberties  of  South- 
wark  purchased  by  the  city,  ii.  36 ; 
Borough,  the,  added  to  the  city,  ii.  40; 
Common  Council  of  the,ii.  43,  44,  53, 
57,59,  72,  73,  75,  87, 100,  107;  council 
chamber,  the,  ii.  45,  84,  108, 109;  Lord 
Mayor's  Court,  the,  ii.  54,  59,  84,  108; 
common  crier,  ii.  54, 108;  sword  bearer, 
ii.  107;  town  clerk,  ii.  59;  knight  mar- 
shal, ii.  33,  108  ;  wards  of,  ii.  66  ;  the 
King's  place  of  Bridewell  in  Fleet 
Street  given  to  the  city  as  a  workhouse 
for  the  poor,  ii.  83;  Reception  of  Queen 


Mary,  ii.  93-95 ;   dole  money,  ii.  97 ; 

strangers  ejected,  ii.  112 
Bishop  of.     8ee   Bonner,  Grin- 

dall,  Ridley,  and  Stockesley 
Bridge,  i.  5, 14,  24,  29,  44,  59,  64, 

65,  74,  84,  85,  92,  112,  120,  124,  132; 

ii.  4,  27,  39,  62,  77,  87,  103,  109,  116, 

134,  142 

Stone,  i.  76 

Wall,  ii.  26,  142,  174 

Long,  Sir  Richard,  i.  69, 125,  129  . 
Long  Acre,  ii.  63 

Longland,  John,  Bishop  of  Lincoln  and 

Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford, 

i.  34,  99;  his  chaplain,  i.  56 
Lopez  (Lopers),  Ferdinando,  ii.  36 
Lords,  the.     See  Council 
Lords'  House,  ii.  81 
Lorraine,  Duke  of,  son  of,  supposed  to 

have  been  engaged  to  Anne  of  Cleves, 

i.  119 

Lothbury,  i.  175 
Louis    XII.   King  of    France,   marries 

Mary,  sister  of  Henry  VIII.  i.  9;  died 

ib. 

Louth  (Loothe),  vicar  of,  i.  62 
Louvain  (Loven),  i.  185 
Lovell,  Lord,  i.  2 

Lucare,Emanuel,  merchant  taylor,ii.  115 
Ludgate,  i.  165,  183;  ii.  84, 110-112 
Ludlow.  i.  5 
Lukine,  Robert,  i.  155 
Lutrell,  Sir  John,  ii.  31 
Lydall,  Mr.  ii.  14 
Lynsey,  John,  i.  127 
Lyster  (Listre),  Sir  Richard,  Lord  Chief 

Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  i.  69,  161 


Me  William  (Mat  Williams),  created  Earl 

of  Clanricarde,  i.  142 
Maidstone,  i.  16,  74;  ii.  107 
Maitland,  John,  of  Achin,  i.  139 
Makerell,  Dr.  the  Prior  of  Barlings,  i. 

56,62 

Malbie,  Thomas,  i.  170 
Malines  (Macline),  i.  174 
Mannering,  William,  i.  93 
Manners,  Henry,  Lord  Roos  and  Earl  of 

Rutland,  i.  50;  ii.  64;  his  wife.  i.  50 


INDEX. 


161 


Manners,*Thomas,  Earl  of  Rutland,  i.  50, 
56,  110;  his  daughter  Anne,  i.  50 

Mannings-hall  in  Newgate,  ii.  134 

Margaret,  Queen  Dowager  of  Scotland, 
i.  10,  54 

sister  of  Henry  II.  of  France, 

ii.  146 

Mark  Lane,  i.  172  ;  ii.  94,  95 

Markes.     See  Smeton,  Mark 

Marshalsea,  ii.  24,  33,  36,  96,  112,  129, 
138,  145 

Mary,  sister  of  Henry  VIII.  married  to 
Louis  XII.  King  of* France,  afterwards 
to  Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk, 
i.  10;  her  death,  i.  22;  her  daughter, 
ii.  85 

Mary,  Queen  of  England,  daughter  of 
of  Henry  VIII.  and  Catharine  of  Ar- 
ragon,  born  18th  February,  1516;  i. 

10,  70,  154;  ii.  85-141;  bastardized,  i. 
24 ;  interview  with  her  father,  i.  51 ; 
stands  godmother  to  Prince  Edward, 
i.  67;  her  accession  disputed,  ii.  85-88; 
entry  into  London,  ii.  93  ;  her  corona- 
tion, ii.  103;    marries  the  Prince  of 
Spain,   afterwards  Philip   II.   ii.  106, 
119-121;    restores  the  mass,  ii.   113; 
titles  of  their  majesties,  ii.  121 ;  sup- 
posed enc iente,  ii.  124,  128;  her  death, 

11.  141 

Mary  of  Guise,  Queen  of  James  V.  ii. 

59-61 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  daughter  of  James 

V.  i.  140;  ii.  35 

Mary  Rose,  the  (king's  ship),  i.  158 
Mason,  Sir  John,  Clerk  of  the  Council 

and  Secretary  of  State,  ii.  31, 71, 88, 89 
Maundevild,  a  Frenchman,  i.  118 
Maximilian   I.   Emperor   of    Germany, 

1493-1519,  i.  5 
Maxwell,  Henry,  i.  139 

-  Robert,  Lord,  i.  138,  139 
May,  William,  LL.D.  Master  of  Queen's 

College,  Cambridge,  and  Dean  of  St. 

Paul's,  ii.  17,  114,  146 
Maynarde,  John,  Sheriff,  ii.  76,  80 
Medley,   George,   Chamberlain    of    the 

City,  ii.  5 

Meekins,  Richard,  i.  126 
Mellis,  Robert,  merchant  taylor,  ii.  76 
Melun  (Millon)  in  France,  i.  174 
Merchant  Adventurers'  Company,  ii.  45, 

77,  85 
CAM.  SOO. 


Merchant  Staplers,  the,,  ii.  85 

Taylors'  Company,  i.  5,  77 

Mercers'  Company,  i.  Ill,  112,  129,  130; 

ii.  5,  25,  74, 127  ;  chapel,  ii.  143  ;  hall, 

ii.  127 

Merton  (Martin)  Abbey  in  Surrey,  i.  82 
Mewtas,  Sir  Peter,  ii.  129 
Middlesex,  county,  ii.  61,  142 
Middleton,  Mr.  haberdasher,  ii.  52,  64 ; 

his  wife,  ib. 
Mile  End,  i.  95 
Mineries,  the,  i.  83,  94 
Mint  in  the  Tower,  ii.  74 
Mirfin  (Murffen),  Thomas,  Lord  Mayor, 

i.  108 

Mommorth,  Humphry ,/i.  72 
Monasteries,  suppression  of,  i.  102,  108, 

109,  112,  129 
Monford,  Sir  Symon,  beheaded,  i.  3 ;  his 

son,  ib. 

Montacute,  Lord.     See  Pole,  Henry 
Montague,  Viscount.     See  Brown,    Sir 

Anthony 
Montague,  Sir  Edward,  Lord  Montague, 

Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  i. 
.   161,162,  168;  ii.  8,84,  91,  103 
Monteith    (Mounteith),    Earl    of.     See 

Graham 

(Mountayffe)  William,  Laird 

of  Kerse,  i.  139 

Montreuil  (Muttrell),  in  Picardy,  i.  173, 
174 

More,  Sir  Thomas,  called  young  Mr. 
More,  i.  12 ;  made  Lord  Chancellor,  i. 
16  ;  imprisoned  in  the  Tower,  i.  24,  25 ; 
beheaded,  i.  29 

Moorfields,  co.  Middlesex,  i.  122  ;  ii.  26 

Moorgate,  ii.  27,  112 

Morgan,  Sir  Richard,  Sergeant,  ii.  12 ; 
made  Chief  Justice  of  Common  Pleas, 
ii.  101 

Moundaie,  Thomas,  parson  of  St.  Leo- 
nard's, i.  184,  185 

Mount  Surrey  by  Norwich,  ii.  30 

Moyne,  Mr.  i.  61 

Murffen.     See  Mirfin,  Thomas 

Mycenae,  i.  53 

Myles,  clerk  of  St.  Botolph's,  ii.  118 

Myller,  Thomas,  Lancaster  Herald,  exe- 
cuted, i.  84 


Naples  and  Jerusalem,  king  of. 
Philip  II. 


See 


162 


INDEX. 


138 


Narrow  Seas,  the,  i.  160 
Negri,  M.  Chancelier,  ii.  106 
Netherlands,  the,  ii.  133 
Nevill,  Sir  Edward,  i.  91,  92 

Sir  John,  i.  124 

Lord  Henry,  i.  50  ;  his  wife,  i. 

50 

Henry,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  ii. 

Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  i. 

50  ;  his  daughter,    Lady    Dorothy,  i. 

50  ;  his  daughter,  Lady  Margaret,  50 
Newbury,  Berks,  ii.  67 
Newgate  prison,  i.  24,  62,  73,  77,  79,  84, 

85,  92,  95,  96,  126,  132,  156,  168,  169, 

176,  183  ;  ii.  20,  27,  31,  32,  38,  42,  52, 

64,  77,  110,  112,  118,  126,  127,  134, 

135,  136 

market,  ii.  6,  130 

Newcastle  or  Newhaven,  by  Boulogne, 

ii.  22,  31 

Newhall  iu  Essex,  ii.  92 
Newhaven.     See  Havre-de-Grace 
Newnam  Bridge.     See  Nieulay 
New  Testament,  translation  by  Tyndale 

or  Coverdale  to  be  burnt,  i.  168 

in  French,  i.  184 

Nice,  General  Council  of,  i.  53 
Nicholson,  Sir  William,  i.  88,  89 
Nieulay  (Newnam  Bridge),  near  Calais, 

ii.  140 
Nitigate,  Francis,  or  Nidigate,  Sebastian, 

i.  28 
Norfolk,  county,  i.  125,  177  ;  ii.  15,  21, 

30,  87,  122 

Duchess  of,  i,  20,  23  ;  ii.  94 

Duke  of.     See  Howard,  Thomas 

Norris,  Sir  Christopher,  i.  96 

Henry,  i.  35,  36  ;  beheaded,   39, 

40 

Norroy  King-at-arms,  i.  165  ;  ii.  26 
North,  Sir  -Edward,  Lord  North,  ii.  71  ; 

his  house,  ii.  142 
North,  the,  i.  2 
Northamptonshire,  i.  27,  149 
Northumberland   Alley,  by  Aldgate,  ii. 

105 

Duchess  of,  ii.  60 

—  Duke  of.     See  Dudley, 


John 


Earl  of.     See  Percy 


Norton,  John,  ii.  Ill 

Norwich,  i.  6,  16,  82  ;  ii.  19,  21,  22,  30 


O'Brien,    Sir    Donough,    created    Lord 

Ibracken,  i.  142 
(Obrune),  Murrough,  created 

Earl  of  Thomond,  i.  142 
Offley,  Thomas,  sheriff,  ii.  16,  90,  93 
Old  Bailey,  ii.  105,  111,  136 
Old  Fish  Street,  i.  141  ;  ii.  12, 104 
Old  Man,  the,  at  Boulogne,  i.  157  ;  ii.  22 
Oliphant  (Olivante),    Lawrence,    third 

Lord,  i.  138 
O'Neil,  Conan,  chief  captain  of  Tyrone, 

created  Earl  of  Tyrone,  i.  136  ;  called 

the  Great  O'Neil,  ib. 
Matthew,  or  Feardoragh,  Lord 

Dungannon,  i.  136 
Owen,  John,  a  gunner,  ii.  87 
Owyn,  Eichard,  ii.  52 
Oxford,  i.  75  ;  ii.  133,  134 

,  Lord  of.     See  Vere,  John  de 

Oxfordshire,  ii.  21 


Packington  (Paginton),  Robert,  i.  59 

Paget,  Sir  William,  Comptroller  of  the 
Household,  created  Lord  Paget,  Lord 
Privy  Seal,  ii.  31,  32,  62,  69, 89,  90, 132 

Pagett,  Alderman,  i.  134 

Sir  William,  Secretary  of  State, 

i.  177 

Paine,  Christopher,  i.  127 

Palmer,  Mr.  i.  118 

,  Sir  Thomas,  ii.  57,  91,  99,  101 

Pansgrove,  Dr.  i.  172 

Papers,  one  of  the  clerks  of  the,  i.  168 

Papists,  i.  83  ;  ii.  34 

Pardon  churchyard  pulled  down,  ii.  29 

Pargitor,  Lady,  wife  of  Sir  Thomas,  i.  73 

Paris,  City  of,  i.  157,  174  ;  ii.  146 

,  university  of,  i.  107 

Parliament,  i-  8,  9,  19,  26,  29,  42,  45,  46, 
48,  51,  52,  54,  62,  64,  94,  100-102,  105, 
120-122,  133-136,  143,  145,  146,  152, 
156,  162, 187  ;  ii.  2,  5.  9,  10,  18,  29, 30, 
32,  66,  68,  81,  82,  103,  105,  114,  115, 
123,  125,  131,  140,  143,  145 

Acts  of  ii,  35,  69,  79,  88, 


97,  102,  105,  123,  145 

Commons  House  of,  i.  187 

Speaker  of,  i.  116,  187 


187 


—  Sergeant-at-Arms,  i.  135 

—  Chamber,  i.  52,  94, 133, 178, 


INDEX. 


163 


Parliament  House,  i.  135 
Parr,  Catherine,  late  Queen,  death  of, 
ii.  5 

Sir  Wm.  Lord  Parr,  Earl  of  Essex 

and  Marquis  of  Northampton,  i.   94, 
143-155,  172,  177, 180, 182  ;  ii.  19,  32, 
33,  64,  71,  90,  91,  97,  99,  107,  145 

Parson  or  Person,  Sir  Thomas,  i.  154 

Sir  William,  i.  177 

Partridge,  Sir  Miles,  ii.  58,  66,  67 
Pary,  Mr.  ii.  84 

Pate,  William,  of  Islington,  ii.  12,  13 
Paul  IV.  Pope  (Giampietro  Caraffa)  ii. 

130 
Paulet,  William,  Lord  St.  John,  Earl  of 

Wiltshire  and  Marquis  of  Winchester, 

Lord  Treasurer,  ii.  26,  27,  31,  32,  56, 

63,  71,  99,  103,  107 
Pavia  in  Italy,  battle  of,  i.  14 
Payne,  hanged,  ii.  20 
Peckham,  Sir  Edmund,  i.  135  ;  ii.  84 

Henry,  executed,  ii.  136 

Peerson,  Mr.  i.  76 

Pembroke,  Earl  of.      See  Herbert    Sir 
William 

Marchioness  of.     See  Bulleyn, 

Anne 

Percy,  Henry  Algernon,  slain,  i.  2 

Henry  Algernon,  Earl  of  North- 
umberland, i.  41.  63,  64 

Sir  Thomas,  Earl  of  Northumber- 


land, i.  63,  64,  65  ;  ii.  137 
Persons,  Anthony,  a  priest,  i.  143 
Perwyn,  Friar,  ii.  134 
Peter,  a  Dutchman,  ii.  104 
—  Sir  William,  ii.  31 
Peterborough,  i,  33 
Pewterers'  Hall,  the,  i.  170 
Philibert,  Emanuel,  Prince  of  Piedmont, 

and  Duke  of  Savoy,  ii.  \  25,  139,  146 
Philip,  Archduke,  King  of  Castile,  driven 

by  tempest  into  England,  i.  6 

made  Knight  of  the  Garter,  %b. 

Philip  II.  King  of  Spain  and  England, 

ii.  106,  118-121,  et  seq. 
Philiper,  a  yeoman  of  the  guard,  i.  126 
Philpott,  Clement,  i.  121 

John,   Archdeacon    of    Win- 
chester, burnt,  ii.  132 

Picardy  in  France,  i.  9 
Pickering  (Pykeringe)  John,  i,  63 
Pigott,  William,  burnt,  ii.  127 
Plague  in  London,  ii.  5 


Plantagenet,  Arthur,  i.  21,  61,  121 

Edward,  Earl  of  Warwick, 

executed,  i.  4 

George,  Duke  of  Clarence, 


brother  of  King  Edward  IV.  i.  4 
Margaret,  Countess  of  Salis- 
bury, i.  102,  124. 
Playhouses.     See  Bowling-alleys 
Pole,  Edmund  de  la,  beheaded,  i.  8 

Sir  Geoffrey,  i.  91,  92 

Henry,  Lord  Montacute,  i.  88,  91, 

92,  102,  124 

John  de  la,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  i.  1 

Cardinal,  Reginald,  i.  92  ;  ii.  123- 

126,  131  ;  made  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, ii.  134,  139 ;  his  death,  ii.  141, 
142 

Pollard,  Mr.  the  king's  Remembrancer, 
i.  133 

hanged,  ii.  Ill,  115 

Pope,  the  (Bishop  of  Rome),  i.  12,  30, 
34,  35,  52,  53.  72,  73,  79,  80,  81,  89,  92, 
99,  100,  104,  148;  ii.  15,  125,  133; 
and  see  Julius  III.,  Paul  IV. 

Sir  Thomas,  founder  of  Trinity 

College  ;  Oxford,  ii.  8,  27 

Poplar,  ii.  76 

Portman,  William,  a  judge  of  the  King's 
Bench,  i.  181 

Portsmouth,  ii.  59  ;  haven,  i.  158 

Portsoken,  ward  of ,  ii.  15,  16 

Portugal  (Portingale),  ii.  37 

King  of,  i,  97 

Pott  or  Potter,  Gilbert,  ii.  86 
Potter,  a  serving  man,  i.  93 

Richard,  i.  150 

William,!.  150 

Poulet,  Thomas,  i.  61 

Sir  William,  Lord  St.  John,  Lord 

Great  Master,  and  afterwards  Earl  of 
Wiltshire,  i.  69,  94,  177,  180,  183,  186 

Poultry,  the,  ii.  8,  53,  86,  126 

Powell,  Dr.  Edward,  i.  121 

Poynings,  Sir  Edward,  comptroller  of  the 
Household,  i.  37 

Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Poynings, 

Governor  of  Boulogne,  i.  117,  160 

Poynet  (F*onett),  Dr.  bishop  of  Roches- 
ter and  afterwards  of  Winchester,  ii. 
46,  99 

Poyntz  (Poynes),  Sir  Nicolas,  ii.  58 

Presence,  Chamber  of,  i.  179,  180 

Prices  of  provisions.     See  London 


164 


INDEX. 


Primers,  the  new,  i.  156 
Proctor  executed,  ii.  138 
Psalms  of  David,  i.  106,  114 
Puttoe,  a  tanner,  ii.  12,  13 


Queenhithe,  i.  185  ;  ii.  8,  67,  105 
Quent,  Dr.  Dean  of  the  Arches,  i.  78 


Kandall,  Mr.  of  the  Temple,  ii.  67 

Eastall  (Restwold),  Alice,  i.  132 

Kastall,  Mr.  ii.  34 

Ratcliffe,  i.  44;  ii.  39 

Henry,  Earl  of  Sussex,  ii.  106, 

107,  121 
or  Radcliff    Robert,  Viscount 

Fitzwalter  and  Earl  of  Sussex,  i.  21, 

45,  48,  80,  98,  131 
'-  Thomas,  Lord  Fitz- Walter,  ii. 

95 
Reading,  ii.  28 

Abbot  of,  i.  108,  109 

Red  Bulwark  on  Tower  Hill,  i.  179 

Redcross  street,  ii.  118 

Red  Lion,  sign  of  the,  in  Lower  Thames 

street,  i.  115 
Reede,  Richard,  alderman,  sent   to  the 

war  in  Scotland,  i.  151,  153,  163 
Reformation,  progress  of,  i.  30,  34,  35, 

43,  54,  55,  72,  74-6,78-86,  104;  ii.  1,2, 

9,  17,  24,  47,  56,  78,  143 
Regent  of  England,  a  ship,  i.  7 
Reigate  (Rigate)  in  Surrey,  i.  150  ;  ii.  49 
Religion,  houses  of  suppressed,  ii'  145 
Reynold,  Richard,  monk  of  Sion,  i.  27 
Rhodes,  Isle  of,  i.  14 

knights  of,  i.  101,  126 

Rich,  Sir  Richard  Lord  Rich,  Baron  of 

Leeze,Lord  Chancellor,  i.  187;  ii.£47 

2S,  27;  34, 65,  99 
Richmond  or  West  Sheen,  Surrey,  i.  4, 

6,  186;  ii.  33,41,  97, 102,  116,  122 

Carthusian  Priory  at,  i.  25, 104 

Duchess  of,  i.  110;  ii.  60 

Duke  of.    See  Fitz-Roy,  Henry 

John,   Armourer,  i.  127,   128, 

129;  ii.  76 

Ridley,  Dr.  Nicholas,  Chaplain  to  Arch- 
bishop Cranmer,  Bishop  of  Rochester, 

i.  94,  187,  and  afterwards  of  London; 


ii.  38,  40,  41,  47,  56,  78,  81,  84,  88,  91, 

131 

Rikethorne,  Mr.  haberdasher,  ii.  72 
Rise  or  Risse,    Griffith,    beheaded  for 

treason,  i.  17 

Risebanck  near  Calais,  ii.  140 
Robinson,  George,  warden  of  the  Mer- 
cers, i.  130 
Roche,  Sir  William,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  126, 

151,  152 
Rochester,  i,  109;  ii.  108 

. Abbey  of,  i.  109 

Bridge,  ii.  108 

Castle,  ii.  108 

Bishop  of.    See  Poynet,  Scory, 

Holbeach,  Ridley,  Fisher,  and  Hilsey  , 
Rochford,     Lady,    widow     of     George 

Viscount,  i.  131,  133,  134 

Lord.     See  Boleyn 

Rogers,  John,  prebendary  of  St.  Pancras 

in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  ii.  126 
Rome,  i.  2,  52,  73,  80 

bishop  of.    See  Pope,  the 

Church  of,  i.  79,  132 

St.  Peter's  at,  i.  73 

Emperor  of.     See  Charles  V. 

Romford  (Raynesford),  Essex,  ii.  19 

Rooffe,  Th'os.  i.  83 

Roos,  Lord.     See  Manners,  Henry 

Rose  tavern,  ii.  68 

Rossey  (William),  executed,  ii.  135 

Rotchmeire,  William,  i.  123 

Rothes,  Earl  of.    See  Leslie,  George 

Rouen  (Rone'),  i.  171 

Rouge  (Rach)  Dragon,  i.  165 

Roy,  his  works  to  be  burnt,  i.  169 

Rudd,  Mr.  a  priest,  i.  132 

Rumpye,    La    Conte,    French    carac.  i. 

157 
Russell,  Sir  John,  Lord  Russell,  Earl  of 

Bedford,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  i.  69,  94, 

180;  ii.  20,  31,64,71,89,99 
Russia,  Emperor  of.  See  Iwan  Wasileje- 

vitch 
Ruthal,  Thomas,  bishop  of  Durham,  i. 

12 

Rutland,  Earl  of.     See  Manners 
Rynacyacy  or  Rinatian,  James,  i.  122 
Ryse,  an  Irishwoman,  ii.  68 


Sackville,  Sir  Richard,  ii.  145 
Sadler,  John,  alderman,  i.  163  ;  ii.  52 


INDEX. 


165 


Sadleyr,  Sir  Ralph,  i.  115 
St.  Alban's,  i.  146;  ii.  74 

Abbot  of,  i.  99 

St.    Andrew's    Castle,    taken     by    the 

French,  i.  185 

St.  Andrew's,  Holborn,  i.  .154;  ii.  41 
St.  Angelo,  Castle  of,  i.  73 
St.  Ann 's-in-the- Willows  burnt  ii.  6 
St.    Antholin's   (Antlins)    in    Watling 

Street,  i.  132 
St.  Anthony's,  ii.  130 
St.  Austen's  or  Augustine's  Abbey.    See 

Canterbury 
St.  Bartholomew's,  i.  81,  108,  177,  178; 

ii.  44,  47,  55 

St.  Bennet,  Order  of  Monks,  ii.  136 
St.  Botolph's  Church,  ii.  68,  94,  118 
St.  Bride's,  Fleet  Street,  yicar  of.  See 

Cardmaker 
St.   David's,  bishop    of.      See   Barlow, 

Dr. 

St.  Edmondsbury,  i.  17,  22 
St.  Elizabeth,  Queen  of  Portugal,  i.  97 
St.  Erconwald's  shrine  in  St.  Paul's,  i. 

98, 106 

St.  Ethelberga  [St.  Alborow],  Bishops- 
gate  Street,  ii.  100,  107 
St.  Ewin's  (Eton's),  i.  177 
St.  Faith's  or  the  Crowds,  ii.  101 
St.  Faustus'  Church,  in  Foster  Lane,  ii. 

117 
St.  George's  Southwark,  ii.  44 

Fields,  i.  158 

St.  Giles  without  Cripplegate,  i.  161 

St.  Gregory's  church,  i.  93 

St.  Helen's,  ii.  36 

St.  James'  Westminster,  i.  53,  59,  60,  95, 

154  ;  ii.  63,  64,  103,110,  111,131,139, 

141,  142 

Park,  i.  95 

St.  John,  Lord.  See  Poulet,  Sir  William 
St.  John,  Serjeant-of-Arms  to  the  Par- 
liament House,  i.  135 
St.  John's  in  Smithfield,  i.  119 
St.  John's,   Lord  of.    866  Weston,   Sir 

William 

St.  John's  Head,  sign  of,  ii.  86 
St.  Lawrence  Lane,  ii.  80 
St.  Leonard's  in  Foster  Lane,  i.  184 
St.  Magnus  the  Martyr,  i.  5,  116,  164, 

178;  ii.  112 

St.  Margaret  Pattins,  i.  81 
St.  Margaret's  Lothbury,  i.  175 


St.  Margaret's  Southwark,  i.  113;  ii.  19, 

127,  128 
St.  Martin's,  i.  132 

parson  of.     See  Wilson 

St.  Mary-at-Hill  by  Billingsgate,  ii.  72 
St.  Mary-le-Bow  or  at  Arches,  ii.  134 
St.  Mary  Magdalen,  i.  113,  185 
St.  Mary  Overy's,    Southwark,    i.     108, 

113;  ii.  114,  122,  126,  132,  133 
called  the  largest  and  fairest 

church  about  London,  ii.  113 
St.  Mary's  Lock,  ii.  87 
Spital,  i.  114;  ii.  2,  68,  82, 

144 

St.  Matthew's,  Cheapside,  ii.  114 
St.  Michael's  le  Querne,  i.  164,  172,  181 
St.  Nicholas  Shambles,  i.  177 ;  ii.  8 

Shambles  Alley,  ii.  105 

Old  Fish  Street,  ii.  104 

St.  Olave's,  ii.  13 

St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  London,  i.  3-5,  8, 

12,  14,  17,  22,  31,  32, 47,  52,  59,  64, 66, 

71,  82,  84,  94,   97-99,  106,  133,  147, 

149,  160,  163,  164,  169,  184,186,  187  ; 

11.  1,  3,  10,  12,  14, 16,  17,  29,  38,  41, 
43,  56,  59,  61,  78,  80,  82,  84,  88,  89, 
100,  101,  102,  104,  106,  109,  112,  113, 
117,123,124,  126,  127,  129,132,137, 
139  ;  bishops  palace  by,  i.  172;  ii.  60, 
61,  96;  altar  in,  ii.  146;  chain,  i.  93; 
consistory,  ii.   113,  128;  church-yard, 
i.  59,  164;  ii.  29,  35,  88,  98,  110,  117, 
144,  146;  communion  table,  ii.  47,  79; 
cross,  i.  17,  23,  33-35,  58,  74, 77-79,  90, 
92,  93,  104,  106,  115,  142,   152,  167, 
169,  170,  175,  177,184;  ii.  1,  4,  6,  10, 

12,  13,  14,  18,  24,  35,  40,  78,  88,  97, 
99,  100,  114,  117,  122,  124,  128,  129, 
130,144;  Dean  of.  See  Sampson,  Feck- 
enham,  and  May;  reader  of.  »Ste<9  Card- 
maker,  John;   Lollard's  Tower,  i.  9; 
Our    Lady   Chapel,    ii.    82;   choir  or 
quire,  i.  66,  69,  71,  72,  97,  123,  161, 
164;  ii.  2,  9,  17,  20,  35,  47,  79,  82, 104, 
124;  school,  i.  32,  164,  130;  steeple, 
light  in,  ii.  104;  wharf,  ii.  60,  88,  124; 
bowling  alleys  and  play-houses  at,  ii.  43 

St.  Peter's,  Cornhill,  i.  72,  187 

at  Rome;  i.  73 

Westminster.      See   West- 
minster Abbey 

St.  Quintin's,  in  France,  ii.  139 
St.  Saviour's  Abbey  at  Bermondsey,  i.  77 


166 


INDEX. 


St.  Sepulchre's  by  Newgate,  i.  126,  132; 

ii.  31,  126 

yicar  of.  See  Rogers,  John, 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  in  Coleman  Street, 

i.  175 

St.  Swithin's  parish,  i.  76 
St.  Thomas-a-Becket,  of  Canterbury,  i. 

.  86,  87,  89 

St.  Thomas  Acars,  i.  59,  87,  88,129 
St.  Thomas's  Hospital,  ii.  76,  79 
St.  Thomas  Waterings,  i.  101,  126  ;  ii. 

13,  135 

St.  Uncomber.     See  St.  Wylgefortis 
St.  Wylgefortis  (Uncomber),  i.  84 
Salcot,  John,  alias  Capon,  DD.  Abbot 

of  Hyde  and  Bishop  of  Bangor,  i.  35, 

103  ;  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  i.  103 
Salisbury,  ii.  137 

Bishop  of.     See  Shaxton,  Ni- 
cholas ;   Salcot,  John 

Countess  of.     See  Plantagenet, 

Margaret 

Place,  by  Bidewell,  ii.  105 

Salvage,  Mr.  ii.  145 

Sampson,  Mr.  Parson  of  All  Hallows,  ii. 

77,  144 
Richard,  Bishop  of  Chichester, 

i.  48,  66,  81,  84,  103 
Sandy  Sykes  or  Solway  Moss,  battle  of, 

i.  137 
Sandys  (Sanders),  Dr.  Edwin,  ii.  91 

Thomas,  Lord,  ii.  135  ;  his  son 

hanged,  ii.  135 

William,  Lord,  i.  45 

Sarum,  use  of,  ii.  102,  113 

Satilian  or  Chatillon.    See  Coligny,  Gas- 

pard  de 
Saunders,  Laurence,  ii.  126 

Ninion,  ii.  86 

Savoy,  Duke  of.    See  Philibert,  Emanuel 

the,  i.  24;  ii.  33,  36,  83 

Sawtery,  John,  i.  155  ;   his  wife  Joan, 

ibid. 
Saxony,  Vice-Chancellor  of.     See  Bur- 

gart,  Francis 

Scarborough  Castle,  co.  York,  ii.  138 
Scotland,  i.  8,   10,  116,  136,  140,  147, 

151,  153,  155,  156,  160,  161,  165,  185  ; 

ii.  3,  5,  24,  31,  35,  59-62,  137,  144 

King  of.    See  James  V. 

Scots,  the,  i.  139,  185,  186  ;  they  enter 

England,  i.  137  ;  defeated  at  Solway 


Moss,  i.  137-40  ;  Queens  of.    See  Mar- 
garet,   Mary   of     Guise,    and    Mary 
daughter  of  James  V. 
Seaton,  Alexander,  a  Scotchman,  i.  132 
Selim  I.  defeats  the  Mamaluke  Sultan  of 

Egypt  near  Aleppo,  i.  11 
Sergeants'  Feast,  the,  i.  119  ;  ii.  77 
Seymour,  Sir  Edward,  Viscount  Beau- 
champ  (1536),  Earl  of  Hertford  (1537), 
and  Duke  of  Somerset,  Lord  Protector, 
i.  47,  68,  77,  80,  105,  131,  152,  155, 
168,  177,  179,  180,  182,  183,  185,  186, 
187  ;  ii.  5,  10,  19,  20,  21,  24-28, 
33,  84,  36,  41,  42,  56,  57 ;  sent  to 
the  Tower,  ii.  56  ;  his  trial  and  sen- 
tence, ii.  62,  63  ;  beheaded  on  Tower 
Hill,  ii.  65  ;  his  eldest  daughter,  Anne, 
marries  John  Dudley,  Viscount  Lisle, 
ii.  41 

Jane,  third  wife  of  Henry  VIII. 

i.  43,  44,  55,  59,  64,  66,  68,  69,  70-72, 
105,  182 
Sir  John,  i.  43 

Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Seymour  of 

Sudley,  Lord  High   Admiral,   i.  69, 
117,  182  ;  ii.  5,  7,  10 

Shaxton,  Nicholas,  Bishop  of  Salisbury, 
i.  35,  101,  103,  167,  168,  170 

Sheen.    See  Richmond 

Sheffield,  Sir  Edmond,  Lord  Sheffield,  i. 
182  ;  ii.  19 

Shelton,  Sir  John,  i.  116 

Sherington,  Sir  William,  ii.  7,  30 

Shetheur,  Sir  John,  priest,  ii.  127, 128 

Shingleton,  a  priest,  i.  142 

Shooters  Hill,  i.  110 

Shoreditch,  London,  i.  107 

Church,  ii.  61,  127 

Shrewsbury,  Earl  of.  See  Talbot,  Francis 
and  George 

Shropshire,  ii.  49 

Shrouds,  or  Crowds,  the.    See  St.  Faith's 

Shulnige,  Count  de.  ii.  105 

Silvestre,  Robert,  i.  149 

Simnel,  Lambert,  made  prisoner,  i.  2 

Sinclair  (Sinkler),  James,  i.  138 

Oliver,  i.  138 

Sion,  i.  81   109,  131,  133  ;  ii.  57,  145 
Six  Articles,  law  of  the,  i.  102,  103,  155 
Smeton,  Mark  (Markes),  i.  36,  39,  40 
Smith,  Dr.  i.  184 
Smithfield,  or  East  Smithfield,  i.  7,  9,  17, 


INDEX. 


167 


28,  64,  89,  90,  108,  118,  119,  120,  121, 
124,  126,  134,  162,  169,  170;  ii.  4,  27, 
32,  37,  38,  47,  68,  112,  127,  129,  132, 
134,137,  139,  146 

St.  John's  in,  i.  119 

Smyth,  Sir  Thomas,  Secretary  of  State, 

ii.  28,  34 

Soam,  river,  ii.  139 
Solway    Moss,    battle    of.      See   Sandy 

Sykes 
Somerset  county,  i.  61  ;  ii.  13 

Duchess    of.      See   Stanhope, 

Anne 

Duke  of.     See  Tudor,  Edmund 

Place,  Strand,  ii.  125,  142 

* William,  Earl  of  Worcester. 

ii.  89,  95 
Somerville  (Semerwell),  Hugh,  5th  Lord 

i.  138 

Soper  Lane,  i.  59  ;  ii.  27,  112 
Soudan,  the.     See  Egypt 
Southampton,  ii.  118 
or  Hampton,  Earl  of    See 

Wriothesley,  Sir  Thomas  ;  andFitzwil- 

liam,  William 
House.    See  Lincoln  Place 


Southfield  in  Suffolk,  ii.  21 

Southwark,  i.  59, 108,  118, 119,  129,  176; 
ii.  12,  13,  18,  19,  21.  28,  36,  38,  40, 
42,  43,  44,  46,  55,  71,  76,  79,  109,  110, 
112,  114,  122,  126,  129,  133 

St.  George's  Bar  in,  i    12, 

118,  119 

Southwell,  Sir  Eichard,  ii.  27 

Robert,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  i. 

133 

South  wood,  Thomas,  priest  of  St.  Nicho- 
las, Old  Abbey,  in  Old  Fish  Street,  ii. 
104 

Mr.  goldsmith,  ii.  72 

Spain,  i.  13,99, 116  :  ii.  142  ;  merchants 
of,  i.  98,  99 

King  of.       See  Ferdinand    II. 

Charles  V.  and  Philip  II. 

Prince  of.     See  Philip  II. 

Spears,  pensioners  so  called,  i.  112 
Spencer,  Mr.  of  Warwickshire,  i.  84  ;  his 

wife,  i.  84 

Spital,  the.     See  St.  Mary's  Spital 
Stafford,  Edward,  Duke  of  Buckingham, 

i.  13,  54 

Stafford,  Henry,  Lord,  ii.  138 
Thomas,  beheaded,  ii.  138 


Standard,  the,  in  Cheapside,  i.  11,  178  ; 

ii.  8,  136 
Stanhope,  Anne,  Duchess  of   Somerset, 

ii.  57,  97 

Sir  Michael,  ii.  28,34,  58,  66,67 

Stanley,  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  i.  21, 

50  ;  ii.  106,  119,  120 

Sir  William,  beheaded,  i.  3 

Stanton,  William,  ii.  135 

Staplers,  merchants,  i.  149 

Star  Chamber,  the,  at  Westminster.    See 

Westminster 
Steelyard,  merchants  of  the,  i.  3,  67,  98, 

99,  111  ;  ii.  30,  47 

liberties  of  the,  ii.  60 

Stepney,  i.  95 ;   ii.  69  ;   vicar  of.    See 

Jerome,  William 
Stetchley  executed,  ii.  138 
Stitisborne,  Richard,  i.  150 
Stockesley,  John,  Bishop  of  London,  i. 

17,  46,  47,  59,  80,  81,  94,  97,  99,  105, 

106 
Stocks  market,  in  London,  i.  141,  164 ; 

ii.  8 

Stoke,  Battle  of,  i.  2 
Stookes,  Dr.    See  Stockesley,  John 
Story,  Dr.  Bishop  of  Rochester,  ii.  38, 

46,  82,  118,  132 
Stourton,  Charles,  Lord,  executed,  ii.  137 

Mr.  ii.  22 

William,  Lord,  ii.  13,  22 

Strand,  the,  ii.  79,  92,  125,  142 
Strangers  ejected,  ii.  112 
Stratford,  Essex,  i.  12,  83  :  ii.  10 
Langthorne,  Cistercian  abbey 

at,  i.  82 

Stratford-le-Bow,  town  of,  ii.  135 
Sturgeon,  John,  ii.  44,  45 
Subsidies,  i.  8,  9,  26,  56,  143,  144  ;  ii.  9, 

10 

Suckley,  Henry,  sheriff,  i.  129,  134,  135 
Sudley,  Lord  Seymour  of.    See  Seymour 
Suffolk,  co.  i.  83,  108  ;  ii.  15,  21,  87,  116 

Duchess  of,  i.  110  ;  ii.  60,  85 

Dukes  of.      See  Brandon,  and 

Grey,  Henry 

Suffolk  Place,  by  Charing  Cross,  ii.  105 
Supremacy,  the   Queen's,  confirmed  by 

Act  of  Parliament,  ii.  145 
Surbot,  Ralph,  i.  153 
Surrey  co.  i.  150  ;  ii.  12,  42,  49 

Earl  of.      See  Howard,  Henry 

and  Thomas 


168 


INDEX. 


Sussex  co.  i.  157 

Earl  of.     See  Ratcliffe,  Henry 

and  Kobert 
Swarte,  Martin,  i.  2 
Swartrotters  or  Switzers,  ii.  139 
Sweating  Sickness,  i.  1  ;  ii.  49 
Synods,  i.  65  ;  ii.  131 

Tadlow,  George,  ii.  52 

Talbot,  Francis,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  ii. 


56,  57 


George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  i. 


Lord,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, i.  20 

Talboys,  Elizabeth,  Lady,  i.  53 

Tartarean,  i.  124 

Taske  and  Disme,  i.  1 

Taylor,  Dr.  John,  Dean  of  Lincoln  and 
Parson  of  St.  Peter's,  Cornhill,  i.  72, 
187 

Dr.  parson  of  Hadley,  ii.  3,  126 

Serjeant,  i.  135 

Tempest,  Nicholas,  i.  63 
Temple,  the,  ii.  67,  82 

Bar,  i.  12,  59  ;  ii.  28,  35,  51, 

103,  111,  125 
Terouenne  (Turwyn)   taken  by  Henry 

VIII.  i.  9 
Testament,  the,  in  English,  i.  74,  and  see 

Bible 

Testwood,  Kobert,  i.  143 
Tewkesbury,  Abbot  of,  i.  99 
Thame,  ii.  116 
Thames,  Eiver,  i.  18,  24,  44,  49,  57,  99, 

100,  122,  129,  146,  157  ;  ii.  40,  76  ; 

frozen  over,  i.  10,  11,  60  ;  pageant  on, 

i.  Ill,  112 

Thames  Street,  i.  81 ;  ii.  8,  65 
Thetford,  co.  Norfolk,  i.  54,  70 
Thirlby,  Thomas,  Bishop  of  Norwich, 

and  Ely,  ii.  133,  145 
Thistleworth.     See  Isleworth 
Thomas,  Mr.  a  baker,  ii.  55 

William,  Clerk  of  the  Council, 

ii.  116 

Thome,  i.  124 

Three  Cranes  in  the  Vintry,  i.  146 

Throckmorton,  John,  ii.  135 

Sir  Nicholas,  ii.  115 

Througher,  suit  of,  ii.  84 
Thurst,  William,  Abbot  of  Fountains,  i. 
63 


Thynne,  Sir  John,  ii.  28 

Tinley's  wife,  i.  135 

Titsey,  Surrey,  ii.  49 

Tompkins,  Thomas,  burnt,  ii.  127 

Tong,  Dr.  the  King's  Chaplain,  ii.  2,  3 

Tothill  (Towtehill),  ii.  110 

Tottenham  (Totnam),  ii.  21 

Tournay  (Turney),  besieged  by  Henry 
VIII.  i.  9 

Tower  of  London,  i.  5,  11,  17-19,  23-30, 
36-42,  44,  54,  60,  62,  64,  67,  70,  88, 
92,  94,  101,  102,  108,  112,  114,  116, 
120-124.  126,  131-135,  138,  139,  146, 
162,  168,  169,  172,  173,  177,  179,  180, 
182  ;  ii.  3,  4,  6,  7,  9, 16,  23,  27, 30,  32, 
33,  34, 45,  46,  51,  56,  57,  58,  62,  63,  65, 
69,  74,  79,  83,  85,  86,  90,  91,  94-101, 
103,  106,107,110,  111,  113,  115,  116, 
125,  134,  137,  138,  142,  143,  144, 
145 

Constable  of.     See  Kingston,  Sir 

William ;  Gage,  Sir  John 

Lieutenant  of.    See  Walsingham, 


Sir  Edward ;  Chamberlaine,  Sir  Leo- 
nard 

Tower  Hill,  i.  4,  7,  8,  12,  13,  17,  28,  29, 
32,  39,  59,  65,  69,  73,  92,  93,  101,  125, 
126,  176,  177,  179;  ii.  10,  21,  28,  67, 
69,  101,  111-113,  115,  136,  138; 
Crutched  Friars  at,  i.  59 ;  Abbey  of 
White  Monks  at,  suppressed,  i.  94 

Tower  Wharf,  i.  159,  172  :  ii.  33,  90,  95, 
130 

Towley,  John,  hanged,  ii.  128 

Tracy e,  his  works  to  be  burnt,  i.  169 

Treport  (Trayport),  i.  160 

Tresham,  Sir  Thomas,  Lord  of  St.  John, 
ii.  116,  139 

Tudor,  Edmund,  Duke  of  Somerset,  third 
son  of  Henry  VII.  i.  4 

Tunstall(Dunstall),Dr.  Cuthbert,  Bishop 
of  Durham,  i.  34,  99,  179 ;  ii.  65,  96, 
114 

Turk,  the  Great,  i.  143  ;  and  see  Selim  I. 

Turke,  a  fishmonger,  i.  115 

Richard,  Alderman,  ii.  15,  23,  26 


Turner,  Edward,  ii.  135 

(Tourner),  William,  i.  169 

Turwyn.     See  Terouenne 

Tyburn,  i.  14,  17,  24,  27,  28,  29,  39,  60, 
62,  64,  65,  77,  84,  85,  92,  101,  121, 123, 
124, 126, 132,  135;  ii.  21,32,  106, 112, 
116,  134,  135,  138 


INDEX. 


169 


Tylney,  Catharine,  i.  132 

Malin,  i.  132 

Tyndale,  William,  his  works,  to  be  burnt, 

i.  168 
Tyrone,  Earl  of.    See  O'Neil,  Conan 


Udall  or  Waddall,  Richard,  Captain  of 

the  Isle  of  Wight,  executed,  ii.  135 
Underbill,  Thomas,  i.  142 
Universities,  the,  i.  83 
Uses,  Statute  of,  i.  116 


Vane  (Varne),  Sir  Ralph,  ii.  57,  66,  67 
Van  Paris,  George,  a  Dutchman,  burned 

in  Smithfield,  ii.  47 
Vame.     See  Vane,  Sir  Ralph 
Venice,  ii.  76  ;  secretary  of,  i.  184 
Vere,  John  de,  Earl  of  Oxford,  i.  18,  45, 

50,  98,  113 

sixteenth  Earl  of  Oxford, 

Lord  Great  Chamberlain,  ii.  19,  71 

Vernam  or  Varney,  Francis,  ii.  135 
Vicar-General.     See  Cromwell,  Sir  Tho- 
mas 
Vicars,  a  Yeoman  of  the  Guard,  hanged, 

ii.  Ill 

Vintry,  the,  i.  146;  ii.  33,  63,  109 
Voysey,  John,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  i.  105 
Vrmon,  Lord,  ii.  107 

Walbrook,  ii.  33 

Walden,  co.  Bedford,  i.  83,  91 

Wales,  i.  5,83,84;  ii.  13 

North,  i.  80 

Walgrave,  Edward,  i.  132 

Wallop,  Sir  John,  i.  142 

Walsingham,  Sir  Edmond,  Lieutenant  of 

the  Tower,  i.  37 
Walsingham,  Our  Lady  of,  i.  83 
Waltham,  ii.  20,  61,  62 

Abbot  of,  i.  59 

Wanstead  in  Essex,  ii.  93 

Heath,  ii.  95 

Wansworth,  Vicar  of,  executed,  i.  101 
Warbeck,  Perkin,  i.  3,  4 
Wardgate,  bridge  next  the,  i.  179 
Wardrobe,  the,  ii.  84 

Ware,  ii.  90 

Warne,  John,  burnt,  ii.  129 

Warner,  Sir  Edward,  ii.  107 

Robert,  i.  127 

CAMD.  SOC. 


Warreyn,  Sir  Ralph,  Lord  Mayor,  i.  57, 
59,  146,  147,  176;  ii.  8,  27,  43,  55,  87 

Warton,  Sir  Thomas,  i.  138 

Warwick,  Earl  of.  See  Plantagenet, 
Edward,  and  Dudley,  John 

Watson,  Thomas,  B.D.  Chaplain  to  the 
Bishop  of  Winchester,  Dean  of  Dur- 
ham, and  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  ii.  99, 
144 

Weaver,  Hugh,  i.  153 

William,  i.  160 

Webbe,  James,  ii.  21 

Webster,  Augustine,  Prior  of  Bevall,  i. 
27 

Weld,  Mr.  i.  119 

Weldon,  Mr.  Master  of  the  Household, 
ii.  67,  102 

Wentworth,  Thomas  Lord,  Lord  Cham- 
berlain, ii.  33,  99,  144 

West,  Dr.  Nicholas,  Bishop  of  Ely,  i.  10, 
12 

William,  alias  De  la  Warr,  ii.  135 

Westminster,  i.  4-11,  15,  19,  25,  26,  29, 

32,  36,  42-47,  51,  53,  59,  60,  62,  63, 
73,  74,  93,  95,  112,  115,  119,  123-25, 
132,  133,  135,  139,  143,  146,  147,  154, 
157,  162,  171,  178,  182,  187;  ii.  2,  9, 
29,  30,  33,  35,  57,  60,  62,  66,  81,  82, 
83,  106,  108-114,  116,  117,  123-125, 
127,  128,  131,  132,  137,  140 ;  Abbey, 
or  St.  Peter's,  Church,  i.  19-21,  31, 45, 
46,48,  94,  133,  182,  187;  ii.  96,  97, 
103,  114,  131,  138,142,  143,  144,145; 
Henry  VII.'s  Chapel  in,  ii.  97,  142; 
Abbot  of ,  i.  46,  66;  ii.  136;  Dean  of. 
See  Cox  Dr.  Richard;  bridge  or  staith 
at,  i.  99,  131 ;  Chamber  of  Presence 
at,  i.  59;  ii.  9;  Gatehouse  prison  in, 
ii.  127;  Hall,  i.  11,  16,  19-22,  25,36, 
91,  147,  162,  179,  182,  187;  ii.  62,  99, 
129,  130, 136, 143,  144;  King's  Bench, 
the,  at.  See  King's  Bench;  Palace, 
i.  73,  89,  94,  96,  99,  116,  133, 137,  183, 
]87;  ii.  3,  9,  19,  20,  29,  45,  46,  130, 
143;  Parliament  Chamber  at.  See 
Parliament;  Star  Chamber  at,  i.  74, 
116,  130,  139,  152,  153;  ii.  33,  115, 
128;  Tilt-yard  at,  ii.  113,131 

Westmorland,  Earl  of.  See  Nevill,  Henry 
and  Ralph 

Weston,  Sir  Francis,  i.  36;  beheaded,  39, 
40 

Michael,  i.  150 

Z 


170 


INDEX. 


Weston,  Sir  William,  Lord  Prior  of  St. 
John  of  Jerusalem,  i.  118 

Whalley,  Mrs.  ii.  58 

Whetstone.  Thomas,  haberdasher,  ii.  115 

Whight,  Mr.  ii.  91 

White,  John,  bishop  of  Lincoln,  and  of 
Winchester,  ii.  144 

Nicholas,  i.  167,  168,  170 

Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Mayor,  ii.  105 

Whitechapel,  called  Blanck  Chappeltone, 
i.  11,  82;  ii.  93 

Whitehall,  i.  43:  ii.  20,  29,  35,  39,  57, 
60,  77,  81,  82,  83,  96,  103,  105,  114, 
123,  126, 130,  131, 137,  139, 143 

Whitrents,  William,  ii.  136 

Whittington's  (Wydington)  College,  i. 
184 

Wight,  Isle  of ,  i.  158;  ii.  57 

Wilkes,  Thomas,  sheriff,  ii.  51-54 

Wilkinson,  Mr.  the  King's  sheriff,  i.  92 

Williams,  Sir  John,  Master  of  the 
Jewels,  i.  133 

John,  Lord,  ii.  116 

Richard.    See  Crumwell. 

Willoughby,  Sir  William,  Lord  Wil- 
loughby,  i.  182 

Wilson  (Wyllson),  Dr.  i.  81,  113,  114 

Wiltshire,  Earl  of.  See  Poulet,  William ; 
Boleyn,  Sir  Thomas 

Winchester,  ii.  118,  132,  133 

bishop  of.  See  Poynet,  Gar- 
diner, and  White 

Windham  or  Wymondham,  in  Norfolk, 
ii.  21,  30 

Sir  Edmund,  sheriff  of  Nor- 
folk, ii.  30 

Windsor,  i.  1,  6,  57,  58,  65,  70,  71; 
143,  160,  181;  ii.  25,  27,  121 

palace  at,  i.  181 

Andrews,  Lord  Windsor,  i.  98 

Dean  of.  See  Frankleyn,  Wil- 
liam 

Herald,  i.  165 

Wingfield,  Sir  Anthony,  Captain  of  the 
Guard,  ii.  27,  33 

Sir  Richard,  i.  10,  94 

Winstome,  Mr.  of  Newbury,  ii.  67 

Wishe,  John,  a  founder,  i.  183 

Wolf,  Edward,  ii.  28, 34 

Wolfe,  an  Easterling,  i.  24 

Wolsey,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  York, 
Cardinal  and  legate,  i.  14;  deposed 
15;  his  death  at  Leicester,  16 


Woodshaw's  wife,  ii.  8 

Woodstock,  ii.  116 

Wood  Street,  new  Counter  in,  ii.  131 

Woodville,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Edward 
IV.  i.  2 

Woolwich,  ii.  76,  77 

Worcester,  i.  5 

Bishop  of.    See  Latimer,  Dr. 

Hugh;  Bell,  Dr.  John;  Heath, Nicho- 
las; and  Hooper 

— Earl  of.  See  Somerset  Wil- 
liam. 

Wriothesley,  Charles,  Windsor  Herald, 
writer  of  this  Chronicle,  i.  108;  his 
wife,  Alice,  ib.;  his  cousin,  Sir  Tho- 
mas, i.  115 

Henry,  son  of  Lord  Wriothes- 
ley and  2nd  Earl  of  Southampton, 
i.  154 

Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Wriothes- 


ley, Lord  Chancellor  and  Earl  of  South- 
ampton, i.  130,  136,  147,  149,  151-155, 
167,  169,  170, 176,  177,  178,  180, 182, 
183,187;  ii.  33,  41 

called  my  cousin,  i.  115 


Wyatt,  Sir  Thomas,  ii.  107-113,  115 
Wyckliffe,  John,  his  works  to  be  bnrnt, 

i.  169 
Wyke    Castle,  laird  of.     See  Maitland, 

John 

Wyllford,  John,  Alderman,  ii.  39 
Wyneslowe,  a  rebel,  ii.  30,  32 
Wyngfield,  Sir  Anthony,  Captain  of  the 

Guard  and  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower, 

i.  176 
Wysedome,  Mr.  curate  of  St.  Mary  the 

Virgin,  Aldermanbury,.  i.  142 


Yewer,  Mr.  i.  77 

York,  i.  65,  84,  124,  125 

Archbishop  of.  See  Wolsey.Thomas ; 

Lee,    Edw..;   Holgate,     Robert;    and 

Heath,  Dr. 

Duke  of.     See  Henry  VIII. 

York  Place  in  Westminster,  i.  15,  22,44, 

45,  47.  48,  49,  51,  94,  123;  ii.  132 
Yorke,  Sir  John,  sheriff,  ii.  26,  28,  33, 

92 
Yorkshire,  i.  57,  58,60,  61,  84;  ii.  138 


Zeeland,  ii.  37 


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