The Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London

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^{page 1 note a} Called “The order of seynt Tonyes in Pruce,” in the Chronicle of London, MS. Harl. 565, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, 4to. 1827.

^{page 2 note a} This word should be seen. Compare a similar passage in Nicolas's Chronicle of London.

^{page 2 note b} Poictou.

^{page 3 note a} This refers to the removal of the body of Becket from the undercroft of the church, where it was at first interred, to the shrine prepared for its reception in the new chapel of the Trinity. This event was afterwards annually celebrated as the Translation of the saint, upon the 7th July. See Pilgrimages of Walsingham and Canterbury, 1849, p. 224.

^{page 3 note b} King Henry was crowned for the second time this year, but it was at Westminster. His first coronation took place at Gloucester, shortly after the death of his father.

^{page 3 note c} Other chronicles which contain this story relate that it took place at Tewkesbury, where the earl of Gloucester was lord of the town.

^{page 5 note a} Cressy.

^{page 6 note a} The count de Dene, a noble Spaniard, at the battle of Najara.

^{page 6 note b} Sir Bertram de Claicon, a Norman.. (Fabyan.)

^{page 6 note c} Sewer ? or Squire ?

^{page 6 note d} This affair had to do with the count de Dene the Spanish prisoner before mentioned: see the facts related by Mr. Beltz in his memoir of Sir Alan Buxhull, K.Gr., in Memorials of the Garter, p. 190.

^{page 6 note e} An error for Sudburv.

^{page 7 note a} Cock ?

^{page 7 note b} This should be Gilbert.

^{page 8 note b} In this and the following events crowded into this year there is nothing but error. They belong to the two following years, in which they are entered again. And Bagot was not beheaded at all : on this misapprehension, which is common to many chroniclers, see some remarks in the Gentleman's Magazine for March, 1849.

^{page 9 note a} This should be Worcester

^{page 9 note b} And this Wiltshire.

^{page 9 note c} An error apparently for Bridlington.

^{page 9 note d} Cirenoester.

^{page 9 note e} Sely in other chronicles,

^{page 9 note f} Winteroell or Wintershall.

^{page 10 note a} Blundered in the MS. to Mombre Kerrelle

^{page 10 note b} Stella comata.

^{page 10 note c} For catching fish : called “weares ” in the parallel passage of Stowe's Chron.

^{page 11 note a} Thomas earl of Arundel married Beatrix illegitimate daughter of John I. king of Portugal: upon the morrow after the feast of St. Katharine in 6 Hen. IV. (viz. 26 Nov. 1404) as recorded by Walsingham. Ypodigma Neustrise, p. 175. See also Tierney's History of Arundel, p. 283, and the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. i. pp. 80 et seq.

^{page 11 note b} Sir Thomas Rempston, elected K.G. in 1400; he was constable of the tower of London at the time of his fatal accident, which occurred on the 31st Oct. 1406.

^{page 11 note c} Edward Holand, fourth earl of Kent, married Lucia, daughter of the duke of Milan; see Leland's Collectanea, i. 698. He was killed at Briac in Britany on the 15th Sept. in the following year.

^{page 11 note d} “In this yere was a fray made in Estchepe, be the kynges sones Thomas and John, with men of the town.” Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 93. The prince of Wales, it seems, was not engaged in this memorable fray : but Shakspere has made him bear the sins of his younger brethren.

^{page 11 note e} Ryse ap Dee in other chroniclers.

^{page 12 note a} Stowe places this great play under the year 1409. See also other chronicles quoted in Collier's Hist, of Dramatic Poetry, i. 19.

^{page 12 note b} thrown.

^{page 12 note c} Thomas of Lancaster duke of Clarence and Margaret (Holand) widow of John Beaufort earl of Somerset.

^{page 13 note a} The priory of St. John's at Clerkenwell.

^{page 13 note b} Turmyne, a heretic. Chron. Lond. (Nicolas).

^{page 13 note c} John Claydon. (Ibid.)

^{page 13 note d} Thomas Arundel, more commonly called earl of Arundel; he returned home sick of the dysentery, and died at his own castle of Arundel, on the 13th of Oct. 1415.

^{page 13 note e} Richard Courtenay bishop of Norwich died at the siege of Harfleur, 20 Sept. 1415.

^{page 13 note f} Richard Beauchamp lord Abergavenny, afterwards earl of Worcester.

^{page 14 note a} Not slain in the battle, as stated in the preceding passage.

^{page 14 note b} The emperor Sigismond came to England, and was installed as a knight of the garter on the 7th May, 1416. He was brother to Anne the queen of Richard the Second.

^{page 14 note c} William of Bavaria count of Ostrevant, who had been formerly admitted into the order of the garter by king Richard II. in 1390, came to meet the emperor; but, having been detained by contrary winds, did not arrive until the 28th of May (not March).—Beltz, Memorials of the Garter, p. 340. “The counts of Holland of this family, being by birth dukes of Bavaria, were usually styled dukes of Holland.”—Ibid.

^{page 15 note a} This clause of the MS. is erased by the hand of John Stowe, who has written the words “at Westmystar” instead.

^{page 15 note b} Baynard's castle, in the city of London.

^{page 16 note a} Manuden : see Neweourt's Repert. ii. 403.

^{page 16 note b} day in MS.

^{page 16 note c} Lollards in Prussia.

^{page 16 note d} Compare this with the account of the duke's proceedings at Calais in Chron. of London, (Nicolas,) p. 120. The names of those beheaded were John Maddeleye, John Lunday, Thomas Palmere, and Thomas Talbot.

^{page 16 note e} Read Rouen.

^{page 17 note a} Armeniacs, the forces of the eomte of Armagnac.

^{page 17 note b} Read Katharine.

^{page 17 note c} See the very curious passage on this incident in Chron. of London (Nicolas).

^{page 17 note d} “A man expert in nygromancy” (Fabyan), and one of the councillors of Alianor Cobham, duchess of Gloucester, as mentioned in the next year.

^{page 18 note a} The priory at Aldgate.

^{page 18 note b} John Stafford.

^{page 18 note c} Sir John Cornwall, K.G. who had married Elizabeth duchess of Exeter, sister to king Henry IV. His chantry chapel was at the Black friars in London.

^{page 20 note a} His tomb was in the choir of the Grey Friars' church'— “venerabilis pater et frater Willelmus Goddard, doctor egregius, et ordinis fratrum minorum in Anglia minister benemeritus; qui obiit 30° die mensis Octobris A° dni 1437.”’ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. v. p. 277.

^{page 22 note a} yielding.

^{page 23 note a} This is a passage of some interest in relation to a matter which has been enveloped in considerable obscurity. Even some doubt has been entertained with regard to the place of Buckingham's execution, owing to the chronicler Grafton having stated that it was at Shrewsbury, and having been followed in that statement by Holinshed, Eehard, and Rapin. This, however, has been entirely set at rest by Mr. Blakeway the historian of that town, and by Mr. Hatcher the historian of Salisbury, who agree that Salisbury was the place. Then, as to the duke's interment, Mr. Hatcher, perhaps encouraged by the triumph of having vindicated this historical incident in favour of his own town, proceeds so far as to say (History of Salisbury, folio, 1843, p. 207) : “If the fact of Buckingham's execution at Salisbury be considered as indisputably established, we shall not be guilty of too great a stretch of imagination, in supposing that these were his mutilated remains interred clandestinely, or at least without ceremony, near the spot where he suffered” — referring to the discovery of a headless skeleton beneath the floor of an outhouse near the stone on which Buckingham was traditionally said to have suffered. From a quarter less authoritative than an historian in folio, such a conjecture might, perhaps, be disregarded. It is ebvious that during the many generations which have passed since the execution of Buckingham, there might have been many opportunities of concealing in the out-buildings of an inn the remains of some way-laid traveller, or the victim of some alehouse brawl. But, an undue importance having been given to the notion that the skeleton was that of the princely Buckingham, the present passage comes in aid to correct the facility with which Mr. Hatcher yielded to an hypothesis so fanciful. It shows that the duke's body received that attention which the religious orders were always ready to bestow on such occasions, and that it was interred in the church of the Grey Friars at Salisbury. A MS. in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, No. 99, also states the same fact. Another misapprehension has been entertained in connection with this subject, namely, that a monument still existing in the church of Britford, near Salisbury, and engraved in Sir Richard C. Hoare's Hundred of Cawden, was that of the duke of Buckingham. It is unnecessary to repeat here the considerations which decidedly negative that appropriation; but they will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1836, and in Sir R. C. Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire, Addenda, p. 61.

^{page 25 note a} louvres.

^{page 25 note b} Read Dawbeney.

^{page 25 note c} MS. callyd.

^{page 26 note a} See a full narrative of this interview in the Appendix to the Chronicle of Calais, p. 49.

^{page 26 note b} Thomas Scott, alias Rotherham.

^{page 26 note c} Thomas Jane, or Jaun.

^{page 26 note d} John Alcook.

^{page 27 note a} Baynard's Castle.

^{page 27 note b} Fabyan mentions this “upon the first sonday of Lent” in the next year.

^{page 28 note a} “Also aboute thys tyme the Gray fryers were compelled to take theyr old habit russet as the shepe doth dye it.”—Fabyan.

^{page 28 note b} On the vj. day of May on Tower hill, says Fabyan : they were partisans of Sir Edmund de la Pole.

^{page 28 note c} On the 11th Feb. 1502–3.

^{page 28 note d} The four last lines are an addition to the original MS.; whence occurs this repetition.

^{page 28 note e} St. Martin's Ie Grand. Fabyan gives the respective dates of these fires.

^{page 29 note a} At the Grey Friars.

^{page 30 note a} ovens.

^{page 30 note b} Boiled in a caldron.

^{page 31 note a} “Christierne king of Denmark came into Englande in June.” Fabyan.

^{page 31 note b} John Munden, goldsmith.

^{page 31 note c} This lady's crime was that of having murdered her husband, as Stowe seems to have gathered from some other authority, though his passage on this subject is mainly from the present chronicle. The parties have not hitherto been identified ; but see a note in the Addenda to the present volume.

^{page 31 note d} Archibald Douglas earl of Angus the husband of Margaret queen dowager of Scotland, sister to king Henry. He came into England out of France.

^{page 31 note e} The words in Italic are struck through.

^{page 32 note a} Princess (Mary).

^{page 32 note b} At the battle of Pavia.

^{page 33 note a} Thomas Semer had been sheriff when the riot occurred recorded in p. 30.

^{page 33 note b} Robert Barnes, prior of St. Augustine's at Cambridge, afterwards burnt in 1540.

^{page 34 note a} The people appear to have been injured when crowding and pressing round the carts laden with corn as they stood in the market. To prevent such accidents in future the carts were unladen and the corn deposited for sale in shops.

^{page 34 note b} The Maréchal de Montmoreney. See Cavendish's Wolsey, Singer's Ed. p. 188.

^{page 34 note c} Henry Standish.

^{page 35 note a} The Augustinian canons of Elsyng spital.

^{page 35 note b} See Additional Notes.

^{page 35 note c} The priory of Christ's Church within Aldgate ; see note in p. 61.

^{page 35 note d} A purse-maker.

^{page 36 note a} her's.

^{page 36 note b} wrought.

^{page 37 note a} John Salcot, alias Capon, late abbot of Hyde by Winchester.

^{page 37 note b} Edward Booking and Richard Dering.

^{page 37 note c} Henry Gold, M.A. Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, Dec. 10, 1526, and Vicar of Hayes, Middlesex, Dec. 23, 1529.

^{page 37 note d} Hugh Rich, warden of the friars Observants, and Richard Risby.

^{page 37 note e} Elizabeth Barton.

^{page 37 note f} “Twoo marchauntes straungers.” Fabyan.

^{page 37 note g} Philip de Chabot comte de Neublanche, K.G. ; see Chron. of Calais, p. 45.

^{page 38 note a} London, Beauvale, and Hexham.

^{page 38 note b} Holinshed names only three, Exmew, Middlemore, and Nudigate.

^{page 38 note c} See the Chronicle of Calais, p. 46.

^{page 38 note d} Vide ibid. pt 47.

^{page 39 note a} The murderer was discovered some years after: see Stowe's Chronicle.

^{page 39 note b} In the genealogy of the FitzGeralds, in Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, by Archdall, 1779, i. 88, sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, and sir John, are both described as knights of Rhodes, of the order of St. John of Jerusalem; but their brother Richard is not so styled.

^{page 39 note c} Holdner in MS.

^{page 39 note d} Richard Rich, afterwards lord high chancellor.

^{page 39 note e} degrees in MS.

^{page 40 note a} One of the Northern rebels; who had headed an attack upon the town of Hull.

^{page 40 note b} There was a Pardon churchyard on the north side of St. Paul's cathedral; but this was another near the Charter house, which was used for felons and suicides, and “the priory cart” used for carrying them, belonging to the hospital of St. John at Clerkenwell, which had the privilege of sanctuary, is particularly described by Stowe.

^{page 40 note c} Lord Darcy was beheaded on Tower hill, as subsequently stated; lord Hussey was executed at Lincoln; sir Robert Constable at Hull; and Robert Aske at York.

^{page 41 note a} pavement ?

^{page 42 note a} The shrine of Darvel Gadarn was at Llandervel, oo. Merioneth. On the destruction of the image see Wright's Letters on the Suppression of Monasteries, pp. 189, 208 ; Ellis's Letters, Third Series, letter 330 ; Ellis's Brand, vol. i. p. 202, edit. 1841.

^{page 42 note b} Stowe says, Edmond Conesby one of the grooms of the king's chamber for counter, feiting the king's seal manual.

^{page 42 note c} Edward Clifford gentleman for counterfeiting the king's privy signet.—Stowe.

^{page 42 note d} Nicholson in Stowe.

^{page 42 note e} Henry Pole viscount Montacute.

^{page 42 note f} harquebus.

^{page 43 note a} Sir Adrian Fortescue.

^{page 43 note b} Sir Thomas Dingley, knight of St. John's.

^{page 43 note c} Habiliments or “biliments,” as we find them constantly written, were the jewelled fronts of the ladies’ head-dresses, as we see them in the portraits of queen Anne Boleyne, &c. These two lines are added in a contemporary hand.

^{page 43 note d} Six of each of the twelve principal city companies.

^{page 43 note e} William Hierome, or Jerome, instituted to the vicarage of Stepney in 1537.

^{page 43 note f} Robert Barnes, before mentioned in p. 33.

^{page 43 note g} Thomas Garrard, instituted to the rectory of Allhallows,. Honey-lane, in 1537.

^{page 44 note a} Abell, Powell, and Featherstone. Their religious tenets were directly opposed to those of the victims of the preceding day; but they were equally offensive to king Henry in denying his supremacy.

^{page 44 note b} Their crime was counterfeiting the king's seal in lead: see Stowe.

^{page 44 note c} i. e. son of the marquess of Dorset. He suffered, says Fabyan, “for divers treasons done in Ireland while he was the king's deputy there.”

^{page 44 note d} Lord Dacre was hung for a murder committed in Sussex, as were his three companions named in the next paragraph.

^{page 46 note a} See a note on this event in the Chronicle of Calais, p. 5.

^{page 46 note b} Archibald Douglas, the husband of the dowager Queen Margaret.

^{page 46 note c} shorne in. MS.

^{page 46 note d} i. e. against.

^{page 47 note a} i. e. with front faces, as distinguished from “half-faces,” in which the king's head was figured in profile.

^{page 47 note b} These four last lines are erased in the MS.

^{page 48 note a} Maidstone.

^{page 48 note b} Stephen Gardiner.

^{page 48 note c} Bajnard's Castle, in the city of London.

^{page 48 note d} Holinshed relates of the battle at Pannyer haugh in March 1544–5, that among other prisoners taken by the Seotishmen “Richard Read an alderman of London was one, who, for that he refused to pay such a sum of money as the commissioners for the benevolence demanded of him, was commanded forthwith to serve the king in his wars against the Scots, and so was taken now at this overthrow.” This unfortunate alderman seems never to have arrived at the dignity of lord mayor, or even sheriff.

^{page 49 note a} A second hand has inserted these words.

^{page 49 note b} Of this accident the fullest account is that in the memoirs of sir Peter Carew in the Arehcoologia, vol. xxviii. p. 111. Several guns were recovered from the wreck so recently as the year 1839, (vide ibid. p. 386,) and are now preserved at Woolwich.

^{page 49 note c} This church escaped the great fire of 1666, and now contains many interesting memorials of the previous century.

^{page 49 note d} This refers to the conduit at the Charter-house, the water of which was derived from the White Conduit fields. A very curious ancient plan of the pipes is still preserved at the Charter-house, a fac-simile of which by Vertue is in the portfolio of the Society of Antiquaries, and a reduced engraving has been published in The Carthusian, 1839, p. 498.

^{page 50 note a} The chronicler does not give the woman's name.

^{page 50 note b} Edward Crome, S.T.P. rector of Saint Mary Aldermary.

^{page 51 note a} These articles are not contained in the MS. from which we are now printing. Dr. Crome survived this persecution, and died in 1562, still holding his rectory. Newcourt.

^{page 51 note b} Anne Askew, or Ascough, was the daughter of Sir William Ascough, of Kelsey in Lincolnshire, and had been married to Mr. Kyme of the same county, but had ceased to live with him; whence the ambiguity of the designation.

^{page 51 note c} Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

^{page 51 note d} Claude de Honnebald : compare with an account of this embassy in Holinshed.

^{page 52 note a} gifts.

^{page 52 note b} This probably means that the sight of the earl in disgrace caused great commiseration nnd lamentation.

^{page 52 note c} Again, the person or persons are not described by the chronieler.

^{page 53 note a} richly.

^{page 53 note b} A ship's anchor.

^{page 54 note a} These words are erased and amrelle written in ike margin.

^{page 54 note b} An early hand has altered this to made erlle of Warwyke and governor to the kynge.

^{page 54 note c} Francis I.

^{page 54 note d} Edmund Bonner.

^{page 54 note e} Stephen Gardiner.

^{page 54 note f} See the Prefatory Note on the Wrey Friars.

^{page 55 note a} This word is erased.

^{page 55 note b} These words are added in a sidenote.

^{page 55 note c} i. e. the inhabitants of St. Sepulchre's parish residing eastward of Newgate, as well as the parishioners of the two churches last named, were transferred to the new parish of Christ church.

^{page 55 note d} This was called the church of Saint Mary and the Holy Innocents. It was a parish church, and the parishioners were at first joined to those of St. Clement's Danes, and afterwards to the church of St. John the Baptist in the Savoy, until their own church was re-erected in the reign of queen Anne.

^{page 56 note a} Ralph Dodmer was sheriff in 1524, the 16th Hen. VIII.

^{page 56 note b} William Body : see Strype, Memorials, ii. 91.

^{page 56 note c} John Cardmaker, vicar of St. Bride's, afterwards burnt in 1555.

^{page 56 note d} December is erased, but the marginal correction is burnt away from the MS,

^{page 57 note a} Robert Ferrar.

^{page 58 note a} These words are erased in the MS.

^{page 59 note a} Old Fish Street.

^{page 59 note b} The canons, so called from their tippets (see the glossarial note at the close of Machyn's Diary, p. 461.) The caloher was apparently another portion of their furred vestment ; see the passage quoted in the same place relative to the aldermen.

^{page 60 note a} ward.

^{page 60 note b} gates ?

^{page 60 note c} Thomas Cranmer.

^{page 61 note a} The house of Augustinian canons of the Holy Trinity within Aldgate was commonly called Christchurch or Creechurch, and a neighbouring church in Leadenhall Street is still named St. Katharine Creechurch. After the dissolution this house was granted in 1533 to lord chancellor Audley, and in the reign of queen Elizabeth we find it occupied by the duke of Norfolk, in Machyn's Diary, pp. 186, 294,

^{page 61 note b} Edmund first lord Sheffield.

^{page 62 note a} Edmund Bonner.

^{page 62 note b} Thomas Cranmer.

^{page 62 note c} John Joseph, S.T.P. collated to the rectory of St. Mary le Bow by archbishop Cranmer, Oct. 20, 1546.

^{page 63 note a} Afterwards dean of Peterborough.

^{page 63 note b} Afterwards bishop of Worcester and Gloucester.

^{page 63 note c} Marshalsea.

^{page 63 note d} Richard Smith, regius professor of divinity at Oxford.

^{page 63 note e} This is printed as in the MS. The writer apparently wishes to represent the great violence of doctor Smith, and the great forbearance of bishop Bonner.

^{page 63 note f} i. e. apparently the bishop.

^{page 64 note a} i. e. deposed.

^{page 64 note b} washe in MS.

^{page 64 note c} i. e. the duke of Somerset.

^{page 64 note d} So in MS.; q ? take unto it heed.

^{page 64 note e} The person so indignantly designated is the late Protector.

^{page 64 note f} These words are an insertion after the first writing.

^{page 65 note a} See the Additional Notes.

^{page 65 note b} “Degovara.” (Side note.)

^{page 66 note a} John Scory, afterwards bishop of Hereford in the reign of Elizabeth.

^{page 67 note a} Thomas Kyrkham, S.T.P. presented by the Merchant-taylors’ company to the rectory of St. Martin Oteswich in London, 8 June, 1548. His successor was instituted by bishop Bonner, by lapse, in Feb. 1554—probably in consequence of Kyrkham having fled the country. Newcourt, Repert. Lond. i. 409, 410.

^{page 67 note b} Stephen Caston, clerk, was presented by Francis Wyatt esquire to the rectory of Sutton in Essex 9 May 1556, and died in 1575. Newcourt, Repert. Lond. ii. 567

^{page 68 note a} Nicholas Heath, afterwards archbishop of York in the reign of queen Mary.

^{page 68 note b} George Day, afterwards restored to Chichester by queen Mary.

^{page 69 note a} St. John's at Clerkenwell.

^{page 69 note b} Merton priory in Surrey is meant.

^{page 69 note c} See Machyn's Diary, p. 6.

^{page 69 note d} Read marquess.

^{page 69 note e} Thomas Goodrich.

^{page 70 note a} The inns of court. Apparently some eminent legal personages were appointed to wait on the ambassadors.

^{page 70 note b} I have collected some particulars of this epidemic in a note to Machyn's Diary, p. 319. In addition to the two examples there given of its bearing the cant name of Stopgallant, the following entry from the register of Loughborough in Leicestershire may be added : “1551, June. The swat called New acquaintance, alias Stowpe Knave and know thy Master, began on the 24th of this month.”

^{page 70 note c} The name is left blank in the manuscript. This passage is remarkable as a fuller statement of the same matter of which a brief notice occurs in Machyn's Diary, p. 8, and which was only assigned by strong presumption to bishop Ponet. See the note, ibid, p. 320.

^{page 70 note d} excused.

^{page 70 note e} i. e. and yet victuals were dearer than they were before.

^{page 71 note e} Jesus chapel was in the crypt of St.. Paul's cathedral church : see a note to Machyn's Diary, p. 365. The parishioners of St. Faith were placed in this church in 1551 : see Stowe's Survay and Newcourt's Repertorium Loudinense, vol. i. p. 349.

^{page 71 note a} George Day.

^{page 71 note b} Nicholas Heath.

^{page 71 note c} Sir Roger Cholmley.

^{page 71 note d} See Machyn's Diary, p. 9, and notes, pp. 321, 397.

^{page 72 note a} See Machyn's Diary, p. 11, and note p. 322.

^{page 72 note b} Whether this fair lady's elopement is elsewhere mentioned I have not ascertained.

^{page 72 note c} In Tothill fields by Westminster.

^{page 72 note d} coin.

^{page 73 note a} One of the many intimations of the unpopularity of the duke of Northumberland, whose badge was the ragged staff.

^{page 73 note b} sworn.

^{page 73 note c} Thomas Goodrich.

^{page 73 note d} ———which had long lain at his house by Colharbor in Thames street. Stowe.

^{page 73 note e} Probably George Ferrars : as in the following year.

^{page 74 note a} “Neere unto this schoole (St. Paul's) on the north side thereof, was (of old time) a great and high Clochier or Bell-house, foure-square, builded of stone, and in the same a most strong frame of timber, with foure bells, the greatest that I have heard ; these were called Jesus’ bells, and belonged to Jesus’ Chappell, but I know not by whose gifte. The same had a great spire of timber covered with lead, with the image of Saint Paul on the top, but was pulled down by sir Miles Partridge knignt, in the reigne of Henry the Eighth. The common speech was, that hee did set one hundred pounds upon a cast at dice against it, and so wonne the said clochier and bells of the king, and then causing the bells to be broken as they hung, the rest was pulled downe.”—Stowe's Survay.

^{page 74 note b} aqua vitæ.

^{page 74 note c} See another account of this cruel mistress in Machyn, p. 17.

^{page 74 note d} herbs, or grass.

^{page 75 note a} Other descriptions of this prodigy are given by Stowe, and by Machyn, p. 25 ; and the deaths of the double children ibid. p. 26.

^{page 75 note b} christened.

^{page 76 note a} Nicholas Ridley.

^{page 76 note b} William May.

^{page 76 note c} weary.

^{page 76 note d} The 23d of November.

^{page 76 note e} Christ's hospital.

^{page 76 note f} George Ferrars: see the passage in Machyn's Diary, p. 28, and the note thereupon, p. 328.

^{page 76 note g} sheriff's.

^{page 77 note a} ———“and the morrowe removed to Westminster.” Machyn, p. 32.

^{page 77 note b} coin.

^{page 78 note a} See constant instances of the use of this pillar in Machyn's Diary ; and on one occasion (p. 109) it is called “the post of reformation.” From the obscure orthography both of that and this chronicler it is liable sometimes to be confounded with the pillory—an instrument of punishment apparently of the same original etymology.

^{page 78 note b} Penthouses: noticed also by Machyn, p. 35.

^{page 78 note c} John Hodgeskynne, suffragan bishop of Bedford: see Newcourt, Repertorium Londinensc, i. 153.

^{page 79 note a} These words are a subsequent insertion above the line.

^{page 79 note b} This paragraph (which is very imperfect from being written in the upper margin of the manuscript, where it is partly burnt and cut away,) relates to the story of Gilbert Potter, of which the particulars have been collected in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 115—121. The present passage states, that on the change of affairs he received an immediate “reward of the chamber ”of the city, and it has been shown in the former chronicle that he had afterwards a more ample recompence from the crown.

^{page 80 note a} masteries.

^{page 80 note b} noon.

^{page 81 note a} Sir Andrew Dudley, K.Gr. was his brother.

^{page 81 note b} Nicholas Ridley.

^{page 81 note c} Lord Robert Dudley, afterwards earl of Leicester, was the duke's second son.

^{page 81 note d} Cholmley.

^{page 81 note e} Yorke.

^{page 81 note f} Wroth.

^{page 81 note g} Compare with Machyn, p. 38.

^{page 81 note h} mace.

^{page 82 note a} See Machyn, p. 39.

^{page 82 note b} Richard Cox dean of Westminster, afterwards bishop of Ely in the reign of Elizabeth.

^{page 82 note c} Stephen Gardiner.

^{page 82 note d} Cuthbert Tunstall.

^{page 82 note e} George Day.

^{page 82 note f} Nicholas Heath.

^{page 83 note a} Poorly. A note referring to the accounts preserved of this ceremonial will be found appended to Machyn's Diary, p. 331.

^{page 83 note b} John Scory.

^{page 83 note c} Gilbert Bourne, soon after bishop of Bath and Wells: see the present incident also in Machyn, p. 41, and the note from the chronicles and privy council register, ibid. p. 332.

^{page 83 note d} See the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 16, 121.

^{page 83 note e} Thomas Watson, soon after bishop of Lincoln: of this sermon see also Machyn's Diary, p. 41, and William Dalby's letter, ibid. p. 332.

^{page 84 note a} finished.

^{page 84 note b} Cranmer.

^{page 85 note a} He and John Harley bishop of Hereford had withdrawn from the solemnization of the queen's coronation at the commencement of the mass. He died soon after at Ankerwick. (Foxe).

^{page 85 note b} Cranmer.

^{page 85 note c} Lord Ambrose, lord Harry, and lord Guilford. See Chron. of Q. Jane, &c. p. 32.

^{page 85 note d} See Machyn, p. 49.

^{page 85 note e} Vide ibid.

^{page 86 note a} Egmont, see the note to Machyn's Diary, p. 337. See also the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 34.

^{page 86 note b} St. Paul's.

^{page 86 note c} Lord Cobham was at first suspected of taking part in Wyatt's rebellion: see the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 36.

^{page 86 note d} Her address to the citizens is given by Foxe.

^{page 87 note a} Lord Cobham, though he had not joined the rebels, was compromised by the conduct of his sons. He was released with his son sir William on the 24th of March 1553–4: see Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 71, and Machyn's Diary, p. 58. His son Thomas was condemned, but afterwards pardoned. (Bayley's Tower of London, p. 445.)

^{page 87 note b} He was carried first on horseback to Whitehall. See the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 50.

^{page 87 note c} Kingston, co. Kent, five miles from Canterbury.

^{page 88 note a} In St. Paul's cathedral.

^{page 88 note b} This is also noticed by Poxe, Stowe, and Machyn : see Machyn's Diary, pp. 58, 338.

^{page 89 note a} Cranmer.

^{page 89 note b} learned men.

^{page 89 note c} Lord Thomas Grey : see Maehyn, p. 61, and Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 75.

^{page 89 note d} This was in revival of an ancient custom by which the companies of the Goldsmiths and Fishmongers were associated on certain festivals. See a paper by the Editor of the present volume in the ArchDeologia, vol. XXX. “On an amity formed between the Companies of Fishmongers and Goldsmiths of London, and a consequent participation of their Coat Armour.”

^{page 89 note e} This is a mistake: the sufferer on that day was William Thomas, late clerk of the council: see Maehyn, p. 63, and the Chron. of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 76.

^{page 89 note f} See also Maehyn, p. 64 and Foxe.

^{page 90 note a} Compare with Machyn, p. 65.

^{page 90 note b} John Feckenham.

^{page 90 note c} Of this imposture see Machyn's Diary, pp. 66, 339; and Tytler, ii. 340.

^{page 90 note d} John Wymmesley, or Wymunsley, one of the natural sons of George Savage, priest, and consequently a natural brother of bishop Bonner. He was archdeacon of London from Oct. 1543 to April 1554, and then archdeacon of Middlesex until his death in Oct. 1556. See Newcourt, Repert. Londinense, i. pp. 63, 81, 211.

^{page 90 note e} Full particulars of the reception and marriage of king Philip will be found in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

^{page 91 note a} Their whole royal style. See Maohyn's Diary, pp. 34, 67, and the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 142.

^{page 91 note b} So the MS. but no doublfor whole.

^{page 92 note a} John Harpsfield, archdeacon of London : see Machyn, pp. 73, 340.

^{page 92 note b} A canon of Elsing spital.

^{page 92 note c} lighted.

^{page 92 note d} The prayers.

^{page 92 note e} Compare with Machyn, p. 74.

^{page 92 note f} The juego de cannas : see Machyn's Diary, pp. 78, 82, 83; and note in p. 389.

^{page 93 note a} Durham place in the Strand.

^{page 93 note b} In thanksgiving for “the queen's quickening: ”see notes to Machyn, p. 341.

^{page 93 note c} See Machyn, pp. 79, 341. Emanuel Philibert prince of Piedmont, and duke of Savoy, had been the first person elected into the order of the garter in the reign of queen Mary. He was cousin-german to king Philip by their mothers, and it was contemplated that he should marry the princess Elizabeth. See Tytler's Edward VI. and Mary, ii. 448 et seq.

^{page 94 note a} The shrine of saint Edward : but it had not been fully “set up again ”at the beginning of the year 1557 : see the passage in Machyn's Diary, p. 131.

^{page 94 note b} Compare with Machyn, p. 80.

^{page 94 note c} John Rogers was instituted to the prebend of Pancras, vacant by the death of John Royston, D.D. on the 24th Aug. 1551. (Neweourt, Repert. Lond. i. 196.) He was appointed reader of the lecture in St. Paul's by the dean and chapter: and is fully commemorated by Foxe as the protomartyr of the Marian persecution.

^{page 94 note d} At the same time that bishop Hooper was sent to Gloucester, Lawrence Saunders was sent to Coventry, and Rowland Taylor to Hadley : see Machyn, p. 82.

^{page 95 note a} i. e. the man who committed the assault. He had been a monk of Ely : see Machyn's account of the same occurrence, p. 84, and also Strype, Memorials, iii. 212.

^{page 95 note b} Maurice Griffin, consecrated bishop of Rochester April 1, 1554.

^{page 95 note c} Saint Magnus, which was by popular corruption called Saint Magnol's.

^{page 95 note d} John Cardmaker, late vicar of St. Bride's, before mentioned in p. 56. His fellowsufferer was John Warne, upholster of London: see a full relation in Foxe.

^{page 95 note e} Scripture. I have not been able to trace a proclamation of that date ; but on the 14th of the next month (see Machyn, p. 90) was issued a proclamation for the suppression of heretical books, including the Book of Common Prayer, which is printed at length by Foxe.

^{page 96 note a} The king's grand-dame here mentioned was Jane queen of Spain, the heiress of Castile and Arragon: and who was also queen Mary's maternal aunt. See Machyn's account of the hearse and the ceremonial, which took place in St. Paul's cathedral church, at p. 90 of his Diary, and the note thereon, p. 344.

^{page 96 note b} They then took possession of that royal palace: whose name has subsequently become the generic term for houses of penal discipline throughout the country.

^{page 96 note c} Cranmer.

^{page 97 note a} See Machyn's Diary, pp. 102, 105, and notes, pp. 348, 349.

^{page 97 note b} See Machyn, pp. 109, 351.

^{page 97 note c} beads.

^{page 97 note d} chosen.

^{page 97 note e} Sir John Lyons.

^{page 97 note f} The reader.

^{page 98 note a} These words were inserted above the line, and subsequently scratched through with the pen: at the same time the words “tome from hym ”were altered to “willed to be borne doune.”

^{page 98 note b} At St. Paul's: see note to Machyn's Diary, p. 346.

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