battail of Edge hill was fought an reg 17. After many battels at Newbery Marston Moore Naseby and other places the King was quite worsted and enforced to fly to the Scots an reg 22. The King being sold to the English by the Scots was brought from the Isle of Wight and being tryed by a High Court of Iustice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal an reg 23. XXV Oliver Cromwel Protector AFter the death of King Charles Oliver Cromwel having made himself famous by many great atchievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Common-wealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax and advancing into Ireland he took Drogheda by storm and pursuing his victories he became absolute master of that Nation anno 1649. and 1650. The great battail at Dunbar was fought where the Scots were totally overthrown two and twenty great guns taken and arms for fifteen thousand men an 1651. The arms of the Crown of England and statues of King Charles were put down by order of Parliament 1651. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded both on Tower hill 1651. The great battail at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown an 1652. Many great battails at sea betwixt English and Hollanders 1652. and 1953. The Lord General Cromwel was declared and sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 1654. The Hollanders obtained peace of the English 1654. A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF All the wonders and remarkable passages since William the Conquerour till the Raign of King Charles Written for the benefit of posterity To the Reader REader I have taken pains to abstract out of the Chronicle all the remarkable wonders and passages of concernment from William the Conqueror to the raign of King Charles I hope thou art not so ignorant but that thou wilt find it and grant it useful for us and our posterity hereafter Vale. Wonders and remarkable passages William Conquerour An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1069 A Gelricus Bishop of Durham being accused of treason was imprisoned at Westminster An. Reg. 4 Such a dearth was in England that men did eat horses cats dogs and mans flesh An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereaved all the Monasteries and Abbies of England of their gold and silver sparing neither Challice nor Shrine An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham bought of King William the Earldome of Northumberland wherein he used such cruelty that the inhabitants slew him An. Dom. 1076 An. Reg. 11 The earth was hard frozen from the middest of November to the midd'st of April An. Dom. 1077 An. reg 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon appeared a blazing Star neer unto the Sun An. Dom. 1078 An. reg 13 This year King William builded the Tower of London An. Dom. 1079 An. reg 14 Thurstone Abbot of Glassenbury in his Church caused three monks to be slain and eighteen men to be wounded that their blood ran down from the Altar to the steps An. Reg. 15 This year was a great wind on Christmas day a great Earthquake and roaring out of the earth the sixth of April An. reg 20 There was a great floud so Pauls Church burnt that hills were made soft and consumed and with their fall overwhelmed many villages to the great amazement of all An. reg 21 In a province of Wales called Rose was found the Sepulchre of Gawen upon the sea shore who was sisters son of Arthur the Great king of Brittain being in length fourteen foot King William being at Roan in Normandy went with a great Army into France spoyling all things as he passed last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorits that were inclosed there the king cheared his men to feed the fire and came himself so neer that with the heat of his harness he got a disease also the Kings horse leaping over a ditch did burst the inner parts of the King with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted and returned to Roan where shortly after he ended his life the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had raigned 20. years eight months and sixteen dayes I would have the Reader understand that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this kings dayes nor in any kings dayes else and that is the reason that the date of years do not follow in order for I skip a great part of needless things because I would not be too tedious nor abuse thy patience too much William Rufus An. Reg. 4 Agreat tempest fell on St. Lukes day especially in Winchcomb where a great part of the Steeple was overthrown and in London the wind overturned 606. houses and the roof of Bow Church in Cheap-side wherewith some persons were slain An. Reg. 6 This year was a great famine and so great a mortality that the quick were scant able to burie the dead An. Reg. 11 All the land that sometimes belonged to Earl Goodwin by breaking in of the sea was covered with sands and is yet to this day called Goodwin sands An. Reg. 13 In the summer blood sprang out of the earth at Finchamsted in Barkshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting in the new Forrest sir William Tirrel shooting at a dear at unawares hit the King in the brest that he fell down dead and never spake word his men and especially that Knight hid themselves but some came back again and laid his body upon a colliers cart which one poor lean beast did draw to the City of Winchester where he was buried he reigned twelve years eleven months lacking eight daies Henry Beauclark Henry the first An. Reg. 2 VVInchester and Glocester burnt An. Reg. 5 There appeared about the sun four circles and a blazing star An. Reg. 13 This year was a great mortality of men and murren of beasts An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles dâ—d so fail of water that in the midst of the Channel the smallest vessels and boates could not pass the self same day the Thames did suffer the like want of water for between the Tower of London and the Bridge not onely with horses but also a great number of men and children did wade over on foot An. Dom. 1115 Chichester was burnt many storms and a blazing starr An. Dom. 1116 In March was exceeding lightning and in December thunder and hail and the moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood An. Dom. 1119 An. Reg. 20 King Henry having tamed the French men and pacified Normandy returned into England in which voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his son and Mary his daughter Richard Earl of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of 160. persons were drowned An. Reg. 23 The City of Glocester burnt An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced
Suffolk The second of May Ione Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresie she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary Richarâ— Lion Godard Gorran and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent In the moneth of May a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheap-side and had both his ears cut off for speaking some words against the Duke of Sommerset On Saint Valentines day at Feversham in Kent one Arden a gentleman was murdered by consent of his wife for the which fact she was on the fourteenth of March burnt at Canterbury Michael Master Ardens man was hanged in chains at Feversham and a maiden burnt Mosby and his Sister were hanged in Smithfield at London Green which had fled came again certain years after and was hanged in chains in the high-way over against Feversham and Black-VVill the Ruffin that was hired to do the act was burnt in Zealand at Flushing The twenty fourth of April a Dutch-man was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croydon and those parts did put the people in great fear An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth oâ— February Sir Richard Vine and Sir Martin Patridge were hanged on tower-hill Sir Martin Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundel were beheaded there the last of April a house near to the tower of London with three barrels of powder was blown up the Gunpowder-makers being fifteen in number were all slain The third of August at Middleton eleven miles from Oxford a woman brought forth a child which had two perfect bodies from the navel upwards and were so joyned together at the navel that when they were laid out at length the one head and body was West and the other East the legs of both the bodies were joyned together in the midst they lived eighteen daies and they were women children The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes called Dolphins and the week following at Black-wall was six more taken and brought to London The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirl-pools taken at Gravesend The eighth of October was three more great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the Kings Bridge at VVestminster King Edward being at the age of sixteen years ended his life at Greenwich on the sixth of Iuly when he had reigned six years five moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVestminster The tenth of Iuly was proâ—lamation made of the death of King Edward and how he had ordained that the Lady Iane Daughter to Frances Dutchess of Suffolk which Lady Iane was married to the Lord Gilford Dudley fourth son to the Duke of Northumberland should be Heir to the Crown of England The eleventh of Iuly Gilbert Pott draweâ— to Ninion Sanders Vintner dwâ—lling â—â— the sign of Sâ—int Iohn-Baptâ—st-head within Ludgate was set on the pillory in Cheap wiâ—h boâ—h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady Iane. Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the countrey almost wholly resorted unto her In Oxford Sir Iohn Williams in Buckinghamshire Sir Edmond Peckham and in divers other places many men of worship offering themselves as guides to the common people gathered great powers and with all speed made towards Suffolk where the Lady Mary was Also the thirteenth of Iuly by the appointment of the Councel the Duke of Northumberland the Earl of Huntington the Lord Grey of Wilton and divers others with a great number of men of Armes set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force and were on their way as far as Burie The ninteenth of Iuly the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynards Castle where they communed with the Earl of Pembrook and immediately with the Lord Mayor of London certain Aldermen of London and the Sheriffs Garter King of Arms and a Trumpet went into Cheap where they proclaimed Lady Mary daughter to King Henry the eight Queen of England France and Ireland The twentieth of Iuly Iohn Earl of Northumberland being at Saint Edmonsbury and having sure knowledge that the Lady Mary was at London proclaimed Queen of England returned back again to Cambridge and about five of the clock in the Evening he came to the market-place and caused the Lady Mary to be likewise proclaimed Queen of England but shortly after he was arrested and brought to the Tower of London the twenty fifth of Iuly under the conduct of Henry Earl of Arundel thus was the matter ended without any bloodshed which men feared would have brought the death of thousands Queen Mary An. Reg. 1 MAry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight began her reign the sixth of Iuly in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy and entred the Tower the third of August where Thomas Duke of Norfolk Doctor Gardner late Bishop of Winchester and Edward Courtney son and heir to Henry Marquess of Exeter prisoners in the Tower discharged the fifth of August Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London prisoner in the Marshal Seas and Cutbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham prisoners in the Kings Bench were restored to their Seas shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks again also all beneficed men that were married or would not forsake their opinions were put out of their livings and others set in the same The eleventh of August certain gentlemen minding to pass through London Bridge in a Wherrie were there overturned and six of them drowned The thirteenth of August master Bourn a Canon of Pauls preached at Pauls Cross so offended some of his audience that they breaking silence cryed out pull him down and one threw a dagger at him whereupon master Bradford and Master Rogers two preachers in King Edwards dayes with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Pauls School The twenty second of August Iohn Duke of Northumberland Sir Iohu Gaites and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights were beheaded on tower hill The Queen was crowned at VVestminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The twenty fâ—fâ—h of October the Baâ—ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned In the beginning of the moneth of Ianuary the Emperour sent a nobleman called Egmont and certain other Embassadours into England to conclude a marriage between King Phillip his son and Queen Mary The twenty fifth of Ianuary Sir George Gage Chamberlain certified the Lord Major of London that Sir Thomas VViat with cettain other Rebels were up in Kent whereupon great watch was kept and that night the Lord Major himself rode about the City to look to the same and every night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the City were guarded by substantial Citizens The
avoiding of Emminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience and forthwith the Commons of the Parliament for the manifestation of their alleigance love and duty they voluntarily of their own accord took the Oath of Allegiance and after them the Lords of the upper house did so likewise who ministred the same Oath to all their servants and followers and such as refused to take oath were put from their Lord Services and the Bishops in the Convocation House ordained that every Bishop in their severall visitations should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergie which they performed accordingly this oath was also ministred to others as followeth according to the Tenor of a speciall Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf The fourth of Iune Proclamation was made commanding all Romane Priests and Iesuites and Seminaries to depart this Kingdom by the fourth day of Iuly next and not to return upon paine of the severity of the Law also by this Proclamation the King straitly commands all Recusants to return home to their dwellings not to come within 10 miles of the Court without speciall licence but to depart from London and the Court by the last day of this Moneth and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministred unto all officers Atturnies and Clarkes belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall and the Exchequer and unto all Advocates and Proctors of the Spirituall Courts this Oath was also administred unto all Lawvers in the Inns of Court and Chancery and unto all Students and Schollers in both the Vniversities The appointed time now drew neer or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales and upon Thursday the last of May the Loâ—d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges bearing armes distinguished by their proper Ensignes Banners and streamers in warlike manner and therewithal plentiously furnished with several sorts of excellent Mâ—sick and had also to entertain the Prince divers pleasant and ingenious trophies upon the water all which in comely order went to Chelsea the Lord Mayor as Admiral going formost where from nine a clock in the morning till thâ—eâ— in â—hâ— afternoon they attended the coming of the Prince who could not come sooner by reason of the low ebb at which time the King came from Richmond being very honourably accompanied and attended and from Cheâ—sea the Lord Mayor and Citizens conducted his Highness unto the Court at White Hall as they returned from Chealsea the citizens led the way and the Lord Mayor followed them going alwaies next the Princes Barge to see this joyful sight the people for seven miles space swarmed on both sides the River and the Thames was covered with Boates Barges and Lighters full fraught with men women and childred and upon Sunday the third of Iune the King made twenty five Knights of the Bath and the next day the King crowned the prince his eldest son Henry prince of Wales in the great chamber at Westminster being perormed with great magnificence and solemnity and with full consent of all the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of the Parliament being all there present the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London were also present at this creation the princes titles were then proclaimed Viz. Henry prince of Wales Duke of Cornewal and Rotheser and Earl of Chester in honor of this creation there was the next night at the Court a most rich and royal mask of Ladies viz. the Queen the Lady Elizabeth daughter to our Soveraign Lord the King the Lady Arrabella the Countess of Arundel the Counress of Darbie the Countess of Essex the Countess of Dorset the Countess of Mountgomery the Visecounts of Haddington the Lady Elizabeth Gray the Lady Elizabeth Guilford the Lady Katherine Peter the Lady Winter the Lady VVindsor and upon Wednesday in the afternoon in the Tilt yard there were divers Earles Barons and others being in rich and glorious armour having most costly caparisons wonderous riâ—hly embrodered with pearl gold and silver the like abillements for horses were never seen before presented their several ingenious trophies before the King Queen and Prince and then ran a tilt where there was a world of people assembled to behold them and that night there were other triumphs upon the water with ships of war and Gallies fighting one against an other and against a great Castle builded upon the water and after these battels then an houres space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle and in the ships and Gallies This year the King builded a most stately ship for war being in all respects the greatest and goodliest ship that ever was made in England and this glorious ship the King gave to his sonne Henry prince of VVales the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince The seventh of December Iohn Roberts a Benedickt Monk sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England and Thomas Summers a Seminary were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburne they having been before sundry times taken and bannished and yet presumed to return again and bere to practice against King and State Upon Newyears day at night the prince oâ— VVales being acâ—ompanied with twelve others viz. Two Earles three Barons five Knights and two Esquires they performed a very stately mask in which was an excellent Sceane ingenious speeches and rare songs and with great variety of most delicate Musick The twentieth of April 1611. Sir Thomas Overburie was committed to the Tower and died there the fifteenth of September next following May the thirteenth being Munday in Whitson week at Windsor were enstalled Knights of the Garter Prince Charles Duke of York sonne to our soveraign Lord the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Robert Viâ—â—ount Rochester Wednesday the eighteenth of March 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretick and a strong Arian was burned in Smithfield and the eleaventh of April following viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretick having refused more favour then he could desire or deserve was burned at Lichfield this Heritick would have made the people believe that he himself was the Holy Ghost and immortal with other vild opinions not fit to be mentioned amongst Christians May the twenty ninth 1612. Richard Newport and VVilliam Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburne Iune the twenty fifth Robert Carliele and Iames Edwin were executed for murthering Iohn Turner fencer and the twenty seventh of Iune the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar for conspiring and hiring the said two persons to kill the said Turner the Lord confessed the Indightment and was executed upon a Gibber the 29 of Iune at Westminster In the months of October November and December there hapned great winds violent storms and tempests which caused much shipwrack upon the Ocean in havens and Rivers and did
all the prisons in London were full of them divers of them were executed An. Dom. 1415 The King rode to Southampton where was discovered a great conspiracy against him by Richard Earle of Cambridge Sir Thomas Grey and Henry Scrope and others who were executed at Southampton An. Dom. 1416 The King entred the Sea with a thousand Sail and the third night after arrived at Normandy He laid siege to Hartslue which was yeelded to him he foâ—ght the battel at Agent-Court where he had a marvellous victory An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1417 On Easter day at a Sermon in Saint Dunstones in the East of London a great fray hapned where many people were fore wounded and Thomas Pettwarden Fishmong slain The beginners of the fray was the Lord Strange and Sir Iohn Russel Knight through the quarrel of their two wives were brought to the Counter in the Poultry and excommunicated at Pauls-Cross An. Reg. 6 An. Dom. 1418 Sir Iohn Old-Castle being taken after he had broke out of the Tower was sent to London by the Lord Powes out of VVales whiâ—h Sir Iohn was convict by Parliament and sent to Saint Giles in the fields and was there hanged consumed with fire An. Reg. 7 An. Dom. 1419 The Parson of VVrotham in Norfolk which had haunted Newmarket-hith and there robbed and spoiled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate at London and there died An. Reg. 9 At this time such was the general and capital command of the King of England in France as their own Chronicles testifie that in the Court of Chancery in Paris all things were sealed with the Seal of King Henry of England and the Great Seal of England was there new made and used wherein was the Arms of France England as the King sat in chair of State he held two Scepters in his hands in his right hand was a Scepter smooth and plain only the proportion of the French coyn commonly called the French crown and in his left hand he held a Scepter full of curious arts carved and vvrought vvith the Arms of England as is used in the English money and on the top thereof a Cross the French were much vexed thereat but knevv not hovv to help themselves An. Reg. 10 An. Dom. 1422 King Henry being at Boys at Vincent waxed â—â—ck and died the last day of August in the year 1422. when he had reigned nine years five moneths and odd daies he was buried at VVestminster Henry of Windsor An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Sixth being an Infant of eight moneths old began his Reign the last of August in the year 1422. the governing of the Realm was committed to the Duke of Glocester and the guard of his person to the Duke of Exeter and to the Duke of Bedford was given the Regency of France An. Reg. 4 The morrow after Simon and Iudes day the Mayor caused a great watch to be kept with most part of the Citizens in armour to stand by the Duke of Glocester against the Bishop of VVinchester who lay in Southwark with a great power of Lancashire and Cheshire men but the matter was appeased by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury An. Reg. 5 The 28 of September was an earthquake which continued the space of two houres An. Reg. 6 From the beginning of April unto Hallow-tide was such abundance of rain that not only hay but corn also was destroyed An. Reg. 7 The Duke of Norfolk passing through London-Bridge his Barge overwhelmed so that thirty persons were drowned and the Duke with others that escaped were drawn up with ropes So under God the people stood their friend And sav'd them by a Rope that 's some mens end An. Reg. 8 A Brittain murdered a Widdow in VVhite-Chappel Parish without Algate and bare away her goods but being pursued he took succour in the Church of Saint George in Southwark from whence he was taken and forswore the Land but as he came by the place where he did the murder the women of the Parish with stones and sheeps-horns and dirt off the dung-hills made an end of him An. Dom. 1431 At Abbington began an Insurrection of certain lewd persons that intended to have wrought much mischief but the chief Author being Bailiff of the Town named William Mundevile a Weaver with some others were put to death An. Dom. 1432 The King of England crowned in Paris but within a while after lost all his Father got in France An. Dom. 1433 Four souldiers of Calice beheaded and a hundred and ten banished and before that time was banished one hundred and twenty An. Reg. 13 The Thames was frozen that the Merchants which came to the Thames mouth were carried to London by land An. Reg. 15 The gate on London-bridge with the Tower next to Southwark fell down and the two furthest arches of the said Bridge and no man perished An. Reg. 16 All the Lions in the Tower of London died An. Reg. 17 A great wind in London blevv down almost one side of the street called the Old-Change An. Dom. 1439 Sir Richard VVich Vicar of Hermetsworth in Essex was burnt on Tower-hill the 17 of Iune An. Dom. 1440 The 18 of Iuly the Postern of London by East-Smith-field against the Tower of London sunk by night An. Dom. 1441 A stack of wood at Bernards-Castle fell down and killed three men by the fall of a stair at Beford where the shire day was kept eighteen persons were slain An. Dom. 1442 Eleanor Cobham Dutchess of Glocester was cited to appear before Henry Chichely archbishop of Canterbury to answer certain matters of Necromancy Witchcraft Sorcery Heresie and Treason vvhere when she appeared the aforesaid Roger was brought forth to witness against her and said that she vvas the cause and first stirred him to labour in that art then she vvas committed to the ward of Sir Iohn Stuard Knight then vvas taken also Margery Gurdmain a Witch of Ely vvhose Sorcery and Witchcraft the said Eleanor had a long time used wherefore the said Witch vvas burned in Smith-field The ninth of November Dame Eleanor appeared before the archbishop and others and received sentence of Penance vvhich she performed on the 17 of November she came from Temple-Bar vvith a taper of vvax in her hand from Fleet-street to Pauls vvhere she offer'd her taper to the altar on Wednesday next she vvent through Bridg-street Grace-Church-street to Leaden-hall and so to Christ-Church by Algate on Friday she vvent through Cheap to Saint Michaels in Corn-hill in form aforesaid The eighteenth of November Roger Bolinbroke vvas arraigned dravvn from the Tower to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered An. Dom. 1445 On Candlemass Eve in divers places of England vvere heard terrible thunders vvith lightning whereby the Church of Baldock in Hartfordshire the Church of VValden in Essex and divers others vvere sore shaken and the Steeple of Saint Pauls in London about three of the clock in the afternoon vvas set on fire in the midst of the shaft but
the country came down so fast upon them that the French men fled Some certain ships of the Kings Ships called Hedgehogs one of them had a mischance before Westminster a firkin Men burned of powder took fire and killed seven men and the eighth man was drowned The 20 of Iuly the King being at Another mischance Portsmouth the goodly ship called the Rose with Sir George Carrow the Captain and many other Gentlemen were drowned in the midst of the Haven The French were beaten off at the Isle of Wight and likewise in Sussex at a place called New-haven One William Foxley Potmaker for the Mint in the tower of London fell asleep the 27 of April who could not be wakened neither by kicking cramping or pinching till the first day of the next term whiâ—h was full fourteen daies and fifteen nights the cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known though the same were diligently enquired after by the Kings Physitians and men of learning yea the King himself examined him and he was in all points found as he had slept but one night and he was living till the year of our Lord 1587. The 16 of Iuly were burned in Smithfield for the Sacrament Anne Askew Iohn Lassels Nicholas Overden Priest Iohn Adlam taylor and Doctor Shaxton sometimes Bishop of Salisbury preached at the same fire and recanted perswading them to do the like but they would not The Admiral of France came to England where he was gallantly and honourably entertained the English in those daies kept them at a distance and forced them to submit The 12 of December Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Henry Earl of Surrey his son was sent to the tower Henry Howard Earl of Surrey was beheaded on the tower-hill the 19 of Ianuary The 28 of Ianuary King Henry deceased and left the Crown to his son Prince Edward Lady Mary his daughter by Katherine and the third Lady Elizabeth by Queen Anne of Bullen he deceased when he had reigned 37 years nine moneths and odd daies and was buried at VVindsor Edward the Sixth An. Reg. 1 EDward the sixth began his reign the 24 of Ianuary 1546. when he was but nine years old King Henry his Father had appointed by his Will for his Privy-Councel the Archbishop of Canterbury the Chancellour the Bishop of Durham with others to the number of sixteen The sixth of February the Earl of Hertford was elected to be Protector to the Kings person the sixth of February the Lord Protector in the Tower of London endued King Edward with the Order of Knighthood King Edward was crowned at Westminster the twentieth of February An. Dom. 1557 The fifteenth of May Doctor Smith recanted at Pauls-Cross The Lord Protector and the rest of the Councel sent Commissioners into all parts of the Realm willing them to take down all images out of their Churches for the avoiding of idolatry with them were sent divers preachers to perswade the people from their Beads and at that time procession was forbidden The Church-Service read in English to the people On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester preached before the King for the which he was sent to the Tower An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1548 The seventh of Iuly a Priest was hanged and quarter'd in Smith-field for killing one Mr. Body one of the Kings Commissioners other of his Fellows were put to death in other places A great pestilence in London The 16 of September Saint Anns Church within Aldersgate was burnt An. Reg. 3 The 16 of Ianuary Thomas Seimer Lord Admiral was sent to the Tower of London he was Brother to the Lord Protector on the 20 of March he was beheaded on the Tower-hill An. Dom. 1549 The 23 of April six houses at Broken-wharf were burned In May by reason of a Proclamation for Inclosures the Commons of Sommersetshire and Lincolnshire made a commotion and brake up certain Parks of Sir VVilliam Herberts and the Lord Sturtons but Sir VVilliam Herbert slew and executed many of those Rebels In Iuly the Commons of Essex and Kent Suffolk and Norfolk rose against Inclosures and pulled down many parks and houses Also the Commons of Cornwall and Devonshire desired not only the inclosures might be disparked but also to have their old Religion these besieged the City of Exeter which was valiantly defended Iohn Lord Russel with a number of Souldiers enter'd the City of Exeter slew and took prisoners more then four thousand and after hanged a number of them in the town and about the country the Lord Grey likewise with strangers horsemen slew many people and spoiled the country The last of Iuly VVilliam Lord Marquess of Northampton entered the City of Norwich and on the morrow the rebels also entered the town burnt part thereof put the Lord Marquess to flight and slew the Lord Sheffield Divers persons were executed as aiders of the aforesaid rebels of the which one was hanged within Algate and an other at the Bridg-foot towards Southwark The rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk incamped themselves at Mount Surrey near unto Norwich against whom Sir Iohn Dudley Earl of VVarwick went with an army where meeting with the rebels they had thought all to have died in the place but God brought it to pass as well there as in all other places they were partly by power constrained partly by promise of a pardon perswaded to submit themselves the Earl of VVarwick enter'd the City of Norwich the 27 of August when he had slain above five thousand rebels and taken their chief Captain Robert Kett of Windam tanner The twentieth of September Edmond Bonner Bishop of London was sent from Lambeth to the Marshalsey for a Sermon which he preached at Pauls-cross on the first of December on the first of October he was deprived of his Bishoprick and sent again to the Marshalsey for disobeyding the Kings order in Religion The twentieth of November Robert Kett and VVilliam Kett his brother were dâ—livered out of the tower of London to Sir Edward Windam Sheriff of Norwich where Robert Kett was hanged in chains on the top of Norwich castle and William Kett hanged on the top of Windam-steeple The nineteenth of Ianuary were murdered by St. Sepulchres Church without Newgate in London two Captains that had served the King at Boloigne and elswhere the one that was murdered was Sir Peter Gambo the other Filieirga which murders were committed by Charles Gavero a Flemming who came post from Barwick to do that act the next morning he with three of his companions were taken in Smith-field and carried to Newgate and the twenty fourth of Ianuary they were all 4 hanged in Smithfield Charles Gavero Balthazar Gavero Nicholas Dissalveron and Francis Devalasco The twenty seventh of Ianuary Humphrey Arundel Esquire Thomas Holmes VVinslowe and Bury captains of the rebels in Devonshire were hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn The tenth of February one Bell was hanged and quarter'd at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion in
Cleba a Schoolmaster and three Gentlemen in Lincolns-Inne being brethren in Norfolk were hanged and quarter'd at Bury for conspiracy About this time began the hot burning Feavers whereof died many old persons so that in London died seven Aldermen in the space of ten moneths The 21 of November a man was brought from Westminster with a paper on his head riding with his face toward the horse tail to the Standard in Cheap-side and there set on the pillory and after burned in both the cheeks with the letters F and A for falsly accusing a gentleman of treason The sixteenth of December a stranger born was arraigned for making keyes to Newgate to have murdered the Keeper and let forth the prisoners at which time of his arraignment he thrust a knife into the side of his fellow prisoner that had given witness against him so that he was in peril of death thereby for the which fact he was taken from the Bar into the street before the Justice Hall where his hand being first stricken off he was then hanged on a Gibbet the Keeper of Newgate was arraigned and indicted for that the said prisoner had a weapon about him and his hands loose The Lord Sturton murdered two men for the which he was conveyed from the tower of London to Salisbury and there hanged with four of his servants the sixth of March. A Blazing-star was seen at all times of the night from the sixth to the tenth of March. The twenty third of April Thomas Stafford and others to the number of thirty two persons coming out of France took the Castle of Scarborough which they enjoyed two daies and then were taken and brought to London The twenty eighth of May Thomas Stafford was beheâ—ded on the tower-hill and on the morrow after three of his companions were drawn to tyburn and there hanged and quartered The first of Ianuary the Frenchmen came to Calice with a great Army and within four daies were masters thereof and shortly after won all the pieces on that side of the Sea The French King also invaded Flanders spoiled and burnt Dunkirk before King Philip could come to the rescue The seventh of Iuly within a mile of Nottingham a tempest of thunder as it came through two towns beat down all the houses and Churches the bells were cast to the outside of the Church-yard and some webs of lead four hundred foot in the field writhen like a glove the river of Trent running between the two towns the water running was with the mud carried a quarter of a mile and cast against trees trees were pulled up by the roots and cast twelve score off a child was pulled out of a mans hands and carried a hundred foot and then let fall and died five or six men were killed there fell some hail-stones that were fifteen inches about The Quartain Agues continued very sharp insomuch that many old folk died especially Parsons and Priests so that a great number of Parishes were unfurnished King Philip being absent out of the Realm Queen Mary ended her life the seventeenth of November in the year 1558. when she had reigned five years four moneths and odd daies the same day deceased Cardinal Pool and a little before two of her Physitians beside many Bishops and Noble men Queen Mary was buried at Westminster and Cardinal Pool at Canterbury Queen Elizabeth An. Reg. 1 THe seventeenth of November 1558. came certain news unto the Parliament House of the death of Queen Mary whereat many rejoyced and many lamented and forthwith her death being generally known they proclaimed Lady Elizabeth second daughter to Henry the Eight Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith this was done in London and Westminster the Queen was then at Bishops Hatfield but not proclaimed there till two daies after The Queen came shortly after from Hatfield to the Charterhonse until the time of her Coronation she stayed there the Bishops kneeling down acknowledged their alleageance the fourteenth of Iannary she rode in triumph to the Palace of Westminster and the next day was crowned by Doctor Oglethrop Bishop of Carlisle The twentieth of Ianuary began a Parliament wherein the fruits tenths and supremacy were reserved and connexed to the Crown In this Parliaments time the Queen granted license for a free disputation to be held in Westminster Church concerning some different points in Religion but it came to no effect The twenty fourth of Inne the book of Common-prayer was established and the Mass clean suppressed in all Churches In ancient time many images were in Churches which were maintained by Queen Mary but by Queen Elizabeth beaten down and burned in the open streets The fifth of Inly through shooting off a gun in a house in Crooked-lane a barrel of gunpowder took fire which blew up four houses shatter'd many other houses slew twenty persons outright and hurt as many besides great damage to houses and goods The tenth of April William Geffery was whipped from the Marshalsea to Bedlam for publishing that one Iohn Moor was Jesus Christ which said Iohn Moor after he had been well whipped confessed himself a cozening knave An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1561 The fourth of Iune between four and five a clock in the afternoon a terrible tempest chanced of thunder and lightning and chiefly about London where amongst many harms it fired the lofty Spire of Pauls-steeple and began about the top thereof which was two hundred foot high from the top of the stone battlements the fire ceased not till it came down to the roof of the Church and consumed all the bells lead and timber-work An. Reg. 4 In March a Mare brought forth a Foal with one body and two heads and a long tail growing out between the two heads A Sow farrowed a pig with four legs like to the arms of a child with hands and fingers In April a Sow farrowed a pig with two bodies eight feet and but one head many calves and lambs were monstrous some with collers of skin about their necks like to the double cuffs of shirts and neckerchiefs then used An. Dom. 1562 The fourteenth of May a man-child was born at Chichester in Sussex the head legs and arms were like an Anatomy rhe brest and belly big from the navel a long string hanging about the neck a coller of flesh like the ruff of a neckerchief coming up about the ears An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1563 The sixteenth of Ianurry a great tempest of winde and thunder happened in the town of Leicester which uncover'd many houses and overturned many Pestilence in 108. Parishes in London besides eleven in the Suburbs The eighth of Iuly a great tempest of thunder and lightning by the same was slain a woman and three kine in the Covent-garden near Charing-cross in Essex a man was torn in pieces his Barn beaten down and his hay burnt An earthquake in the moneth of September in Liucolnshire and Northamptonshire From the first of December to the â—â—elfth was
which star was seen till eight a clock in the morn The seventeenth of Ianuary one Simon Pembrook dwelling in Southwark being suspected to be a conjurer by the Commandement of the ordinary judge for those parts appeared in the parish Church of Saint Saviour at the Court holden there this Simon leaned his head upon the Pew where the Proctor stood which after he had done for a little space the Proctor lifted up his head to see what he ailed and found him to be dead and straightway the said Simon fell down and ratled a little in the throat and never spake after this was done just as the Judge came into the Church who said it was the just judgement of God upon him after his cloathes being opened there were found about him devilish books of conjuration and abominable practices a picture of a man having three Dice in his hand and this writing chance dice fortunately and divers papers of such like matter as behad dealt in for men such as are mentioned in Leviticus chap. 20. ver 6. If any soul turn himself after such as work with spirits and after soothsayers to go a whoring saith the Lord I will put my face from that soul and will cut him off from among my people The third of February Iohn Nelson for denying the Queens supremacy was drawn to Tyburne and there hanged and quartered The fourth of February and the night following fell such abundance of snow that on the fift in the morning the same was found at London to be two foot deep and being driven northeast on bancks it was found to be an ell deep and in some places a yard and an halfe in the which drifts of snow in the countries many cattel and men and women were overwhelmed and lost it snowed till the eighth day and freezed till the tenth then followed a thaw with continual rain a long time after which caused such high floods that the marshes and low grounds were drowned the water rising so high in Westminster Hall that after the fall thereof some fishes were sound there remaining The twenty fourth of April Matthew Hammont of Hithersey three miles from Norwich Plowright for denying Christ to be our Saviour and publishing divers other horrible heresies was convented before the Bishop oâ— Norwich condemned in the consistory and delivered to the Sheriffs of Norwich to be executed but because he had spoken treasonable words against the Queen and some of her Counsel he was by the Major Sir Robert Wood and Serjeant Windham condemned to loose his ears which were cut off the thirteenth of May in the market place of Norwich and on the twentieth of May he was burned in the Castle Ditch This year Mark Scaliot Black-smith of London for trial of his workmanship made one Lock of Iron Steel and Brass of eleven several pieces and a pipe key all clean wrought which weighed but one grain of gold he also at the same time made a chain of gold of 43 links to which chain the lock and key being fastned and put about a fleas neck she drew the same with ease all which lock and key chain and flea weighed but one grain and a half The seventeenth of Iuly the Queens Majesty being on the river of thames being betwixt her Mannor of Greenwich and Deptford in her privy Barge accompanied with the French Embassador the Eaâ—l of Lincoln and others it chanced that one Thomas Appletree Serving-man being in company with some of his friends would needs discharge a Caliver being charged with a bullet and shooting at randome by misfortune shot one of the Water-men in the Queens Barge the second next unto the Bales of the said Barge who sat within six foot of her Highness clean through both arms for the which fact the said Thomas was on the 21 of Iuly brought to the water side where was a Gibbet set up and when the Hang-man had put the rope about his neck he was by the Queens pardon delivered from execution This year Iohn Fox of Woobridge 269 William Wicnor Robert Moor Englishmen having been prisoners about the space of thirteen years In Turkey with more then two hundred of divers Nations freed themselves by killing their Keeper and returned home to their own countries In the moneth of September and October fell great store of rain which caused great raging floods in sundry places of this Realm which caused many men cattel and houses to be drowned In the town of Newport the cottages were boâ—ne down and the corn lost pasture ground overwhelmed cattel dâ—owned In the town of Bedf. the water came up to the market place where cupboards chests and forms swam abour the houses their fuel coâ—n and hay was by the water borne away also the town of Saint Edes in Huntington-shire was overflowed sâ—ddenly when all men were at rest in their beds the waters brake in with such force that the town was all defaced the Swans swam down the market place and all the town about the boats did float Gormanchester was suddenly supprest their houses full of water and their cattel destroyed An. Reg. 22 An. Dom. 1580 The sixth of April being Wednesday in Easter week about six a clock in the evening a terrible earthquake happened at London and generally throughout all England by violence whereof the great clock bell at Westminster struck against the hammer as divers clock bells did both in City and Country In London a piece of the Temple Church fell down in the late dissolved Church of the Grey-Friers now called Christ-Church in the Sermon time one stone falling from the top of the Church killed a young man out-right and one other stone so bruised a maid that she lived but four daies after the man and the maid being fellow-servants in one house divers were bruised and run out of the Church Some stones fell off from the Church of Saint Pauls in London and some from the Church of Saint Peters at Westminster divers chimneys lost theâ—â—â—ops and ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to totter this earthquake did not continue above a quarter of an hour in London but in divers parts of Kent it held them so terrible that the people went out of their houses for fear they should fall on their heads The thirteenth of Iune about six a clock in the morning at Shipwash within Bothel-Baron in Northumberland there happened a tempest of lightning and thunder after the which of a sudden came great showres of hail among the which were stones of divers shapes The seventeenth of Iune in the Parish of Blandsdon in York-shire after a great tempest of lightning and thunder a woman of fourscore years of age named Alice Perin was delivered of an hideous monster whose head was like unto a Sallet the forepart of him like a man only he had eight legs and not one like an other and a tail of half a yard long The 23 of September at Fenistanton in Hnntingtonshire one
Yarmouth there was a fish by force of the Easterly wind driven ashore the length thereof from the neck to the tail was seventeen yards and a foot the head was great for the chap of the jaw was three yards and a quarter in length with teeth of three quarters of a yard in compass great eyes with two great holes over them to spout water her tail was fourteen foot broad in thickness from the back to the belly she was four yards and a half An. Reg. 26 Iames Earl of Desmond in Ireland wandring without succour being taken in his Cabbin by one of the Irish his head was cut off and sent to England where the same as the head of an arch traytor was set on London-Bridge on the thirteenth of December The thirteenth of December a fire beginning in a Brew-house in the town of Nantwich from the West end of the town the flame was dispersed so furiously that in short time a great part of the South side and some part of the East side was burned down to the ground which fire continuing from six a clock in the evening till six a clock in the morning consumed in a manner all the whole town and about the number of two hundred houses besides Brew-houses barns stables and in all about six hundred houses Iohn Sommervile of Edstow in Warwickshire of late discovered and taken in his way coming to have killed the Queen confessed that he was moved thereunto by certain trayterous persons his Kinsmen and Allies as also by reading of certain seditious books lately published for the which the said Sommervile Edward Arden Esquire Mary Arden his wife Father and Mother-in-law to the said Sommervile and Hugh Hall Priest were on the sixteenth day of December arraigned in the Guild-Hall in London where they were found guilty and condemned of High-Treason On the nineteenth of December Iohn Sommervile and Edward Arden being brought before the Tower of London to Newgate and there shut up in several places within two houres after Sommervile was found to have hanged himself and on the morrow after Edward Arden was drawn from Newgate to Smithfield and there hanged and quartered whose head with Sommerviles was set on London-Bridge and their quarters on the gates of the City On the tenth of Ianuary William Carter was arraigned and condemned of High-Treason for printing a seditious book and was so the same drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The seventh of February were arraigned at Westminster Iohn Fenne George Haddock Iohn Munden Iohn Nutter and Thomas Hemerford all these were found guilty of High-Treason and had Judgement to be hanged and quartered and were executed at Tyburn on the twelfth of February An. Dom. 1584 The 21 of May Francis Throgmorton was arraigned at the Guild-Hall in London where being arraigned and found guilty of high-treason had Judgement to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd the tenth of Iuly next following the said Throgmorton was conveyed by water from the Tower of London to the Black-Friers stairs and from thence by land to the Sessions Hall in the Old-Bailey without Newgate where he was delivered to the Sheriffs of London laid on a hâ—rdle drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered The 21 of Ianuary Jesuits Seminaries and other Mass Priests to the number of twenty one late â—â—isoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were shipped at the Tower-Wharf to be conveyed towards France and banished this Land for ever The second of March William Parry was drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Westminster and there in the Palace Court was hanged and quartered for high-treason as may appear by a book entituled A true and plain Declaration of the horrible Treasons practised by William Parry that Arch Traytor The twenty seventh of April Philip Howard Earl of Arundel for attempting to have passed beyond the Seas without license of the Queen was sent to the Tower On the twentieth of Iune Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland prisoner in the Tower of London upon suspition of high-treason was found there to have murdered himself The fifth of Iuly Thomas Aâ—â—field Seminary Priest and Thomas Welby Dyer were arraigned at London and found guilty and had Judgement to be hanged as Felons for publishing books containing false seditious and slanderous matter these on the next morning were executed at Tyburn On the fourth of August at the end of the town called Nottingham in Kent eight miles from London the ground began to sink three great Elms being swallowed up and driven into the earth past mans sight The fourteenth of September Sir Francis Drake General as well by Sea as by Land Christopher Carlile Esquire Lievtenant General Martin Frobisher with divers other Gentlemen Captains and two thousand and three hundred Souldiers in twenty two Ships and Pinnaces departed from Plimmouth and passing by the Isles of Bayon and the Canaries arrived at Saint Iago which City they took and burn'd after they sailed to Saint Domingo which they spoiled and ransacked and retiring homewards razed and spoiled the City and Fort of Saint Augustine in Terra Florida and the twenty seventh of Iuly in Anno 1586. arrived at Plimouth The nineteenth of September to the number of thirty two Seminary Priests and other prisoners in the Tower of London Marshalsea and Kings Bench were imbarqued to be transported to Normandy and banished for ever The nineteenth of Ianuary Nicholas Devoreux was condemned of treason as being made Priest at Rhemes in France also Edward Barbat Priest for coming into this Realm was likewise condemned of treason and both drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered on the 21 of Ianuary On the same day a maid was burned in Smithfield for poysoning of her Aunt with whom she lived and would have poysoned her Unkle but that she was prevented The fourteenth of March at the Assizes kept at the City of Exeter in Devonshire before Sir Edward Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Serjeant Floriday Sir Iohn Chichester Sir Arthur Basset and Bernard Drake Knights Thomas Carew Richard Cary Iohn Fortescue Iohn Waldran and Thomas Risdon Esquires and Justices of the Peace of the common people died very many Constables Reves Tythmen and Jurors especially of one Jury being twelve of them died eleven a strange sickness This sickness began first among the prisoners and then fastned on the rest by degrees The seventeenth of March a strange thing happened Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire one of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pentioners had a horse which died suddenly and being ripped up to see the cause of his death there was found in a hole of the heart of the horse a worm and of a wondrous form for it lay on a round heap in a Call or skin in the likeness of a toad which being taken out and spread abroad was in form and fashion not easie to be described the length of which worm divided into
poste and bâ—ought the first newes to â—he king as he rod gave knowledge unâ—o his brother Sir Iohn Carie then Governour of Barwick this calme and discreet course of the English Lords in Proclaiming the King and quiet setling the whole Estate without faction or interruptiâ—n was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects as admired of Forraign Nations Aprill the fifth the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick and the next day came newes of many disordered persons that were in Armes in the Borders whereat the King was much troubled and forthwith there was power sent to suppress them and after that when the King came to London he with the advise of the Counsell set all the parts of the North Borders in as good condition as any other parts of his Dominions Aprill the tenth divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower amongst whom the Earle of Southampton was the chiefest Aprill the twenty seventh was thirteen persons slain and blown in peeces by misfortune at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe Aprill the twenty eight at Westminster a very Royall Obsequy for the late Queene Elizabeth according to the Kings appointment by his Letters to the Lords of the Privie Counsell May the nineteenth Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North and for the mutuall Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms Iune the first there was one whipped through London for presuming to come to the Court having his house infected Iune the fourth Vallentine Thomas having been many yeers prisoner in the Tower of London was arraigned at the Kings Bench Barr and there condemned of High Treason for Conspiracy against our late Queene and some of her Counsell and the seventh of Iune about Six of the clock he was drawn from the Kings Bench in Southwarke to Saint Thomas a Waterings and there hanged and quartered Iuly the second the King Solemnized the Feast of Saint George at Winsor and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter and there the chief Ladies of England did Hommage to the Queene There were also made Knights with Prince Henry the Duke of Lennox the Earle of South-Hampton the Earle of Marre and the Earle of Pembroke Within a few dayes after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley Sir Griffin Markham Knight and William watson and VVilliam Cleark Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traytors the Lord Cobham and his brother the Lord Gray Sir VValter Rawley and others The fifth of August was Commanded by the Bishops to be kept as a Holy day with Prayers Preaching and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Kings escape from being murdered by Earle Gowrie in Scotland The Plague increased most gâ—ievoâ—sly in London and thereupon it wâ—s ordered that every Wednesdâ—y theâ—e shoâ—ld be a general Fasting and Prayer with preaching through the land to dâ—aw the people to humility and repâ—ntance This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept and Michaelmas Teâ—m adjorned and to be kept at Westminster but by reason of the sickness it was afterward kept at Winchester and the Lord Mayors great triâ—mphs and feasts was this year omitted The fourth of November the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton were bâ—ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester to be arraigned and to that purpose were sent to Wâ—nchester Sir VValter Rawleigh Sir Grâ—ffin Markham Knights George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham Anthony Copley Gentleman William Watson and William Cleark Pâ—ieâ—â—s and the same day out of the Gâ—tehouse at Westminster went Sir Edward Parham he was acquitted by the Jury The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Pâ—iests and six daies after was George Brook hanged and the ninth of December Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons aâ—ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester and had made their confessions and pâ—epared themselves to die upon a suddain the Kings Warrant written with his own hand was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne High Sheriff of Hampshire â—ommanding him to stay execution these three and Sir Walter Rawleigh were returned Pâ—isoners to the Tower again the fifteenth of December From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty seâ—ond oâ— December 1603 theâ—e died of all diseases within London and the libeâ—ties thereof thiâ—ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four wheâ—eof of the Plague thirty thousand five hundred sâ—venty eight and the neâ—t year afteâ— London was clear of that infection and then were all the shires in England grievously visited note the work of God March the fifth was proclamation mâ—de for authorising the Book of Common Prayer February the twenty second Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries that they shoâ—ld forthwith depart out of the Kingdome March the fifth Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Châ—rch of England and the book of Common Pâ—ayer as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabeâ—h At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor gave competent meâ—ns â—oâ— ever for the toling of a bell in Saint Sepulchres Church to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed out of Newgate and to cease when they are executed this bell should begin to toll at six a clock in the morning and the same is made known to the Prisoners that the said bell is to put them in mind to pâ—epare themselves for death Upon the first day of May Richard Haydock a Physitian asked forgiveness of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for deluding the King and many oâ—hers under pretence of being inspired and to preach in his sleep by night with which deâ—eit he had strongly possest the vulgar as it was hard to remove them although he confessed the abuse In this moneth Iohn Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq a Gentleman of an anâ—ient family and of good reputation his Majesties servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as I may not omit to record the same to future ages the rather because I have heard sundry Gentlemen who were gooâ— horsemen â—nd likewise good Physâ—tians affiâ—me it was impoâ—sible to be done without danger of his life He â—ndertook to â—ide five several times betwixt London and York in six daies to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night he began his journey upon Munday being the twentieth day of May betwixt two and three of the cloâ—k in the morning forth of Saint Martins neer Aldersgate within the City of London and came into York the same day betwixt the houres of five and six in the aâ—ternoon where he rested that night the noxt morning being Tuesday about three of the cloâ—k he took his journey fourth of York and came to his lodging in St. Martins aforesaid betwixt the houres of 6 and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night the next morning being
Kingdom and not accusations against those who were then the principall Ministers of state dissolved the Parliament The contagion raging in London Michaelmas Terme was ordered to be kept at Redding and speciall Instructions were given to the Judges to put in execution the statutes against Recusants An. Dom. 1626 On the sixth of February the solemnity of his Coronation were celebrated And a Parliament was called again on the sixt of the same moneth where the King demanding a supply for monies and representing that on the yeer before the Fleet miscarried at Cuziz for wat of it Master Clement Cooke son to the Lord Cooke stood up and said it was better to dye by a forraign Enemie then to be destroyed at home at which most insolent words the King was much troubled and instead of satisfaction hearing of a Declaration that was then contriving by some busy heads he disolved that Parliament also This yeer the King of France seized An. Dom. 1527 on all the English ships which lay at Burdeaux and other places and then began an open war against England wherefore in the yeer following the Duke of Buckingham with ten of the Navy Royall and ninety Marchantmen set sayl from Portsmouth and landed at the Isle of Ree from whence in September following he was beaten off with the loss of 2000. common Souldiers and fifty Officers An. Dom. 1628 The Rochellers having sollicited the King of England whom they found to be powerfull at Sea for his assistance the King called another Parliament on the seventeenth of March where a bill being drawn up against Tunnage and Poundage which the King by no meanes would condescend unto the Parliament was adjourned the twentieth of Decemb. In the meantime the Duke of Buckingham being ready again to set sayl from Portsmoth was killed by Iohn Felton a discontented officer of the last yeers Army who for that offence was hanged up in chaines neer unto the place where the murder was committed The Duke being slain the Earl of Lindsey was chosen Admirall who found the Haven of Rochell so strongly barred that it was impossible for his Ships to force their way give relief unto the besieged who thereupon submitted to their King without delay In the yeer 1629. a peace was concluded betwixt England and the two Crownes of France and Spain The Parliament called on the yeer before was dissolved by the King who extreamly complained against the carriages of some men in the House of Commons who being examined by the Lord Treasurer were sent some of them to the Tower some to the Gatehouse and some to the Fleet. Charles Iames eldest son to the King was borne at Greenwitch May the thirteenth and dyed almost as soone as he was borne being first Christened by one of the Kings Chaplains An. Dom. 1630 Doctor Layton a Schotchman having wrote a Book inciting the people to kill all the Bishops had his nose slit his eares cropt and was stigmatized in the forehead Peter Paul Rubin the famous Painter having made overtures for a peace with Spain the said peace was afterwards proclaimed November the twenty seventh 1630. In which it was articled that the King of Spain should use all his power and interest with the Emperour for the restitution of the Palatinate to King of Bohemiah Charles Duke of Cornewall by birth was born at Saint Iame's May 19. 1630. An. Dom. 1621 On the twenty fifth of Aprill the Earl of Castle-haven being Arraignen at the Kings Bench Bar and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy was by his Peeres condemned and executed on the Tower Hill the fourteenth of May following On the 4. of Novem. the Queen was delivered of her eldest daughter who was baptized Mary An. Dom. 1632 The Church of Saint Pauls was this yeer begun to be repaired and on the second of December the King was visited with the small pox An. Dom. 1633 May the thirteenth the King went to Scotland attended with a gallant train and on the tenth of Iune he was crowned at Edenbrough and on the twentieth of Iuly returned safe to the Queen at Greenwitch This yeer the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Doctor Abbot died and Doctor Land then Bishop of London succeeded in his place On the thirteenth of October the Queen was delivered of her third son who was Baptized Iames and on the twenty fourth of the same moneth was Created Duke of York Orders were sent into Scotland for the observing of the Church Discipline as in England which was the the occasion of great tumults and the sad war that followed An. Dom. 1634 The Dutch this yeer began to incroach upon his Majesties Dominions by Sea which was defended by Grotius in his Book intituled Mare Liberum and answered by Master Selden in his book intituled Mare Clausum Writts being issued out to rayse money for a certain number of Ships to be set forth for the defence of the Nation which then was called Ship money some of the discontented members of the former Parliament were absolutely against it and it begat a great quarrell An. Dom. 1635 On the sixth of March 1635. William Iuxon Bishop of London was made Lord Treasurer On the eighth of Ianuary the Lady Elizabeth was borne who survived her father but dyed with hearts grief not long afterwards An. Dom. 1636 In September the Earl of Arundel was sent Ambassadour extraordinary to the Emperour This yeer 1636. Master Prin Doctor Bastwick and Master Burton in the moneth of Iune were sentenced in the high Commission Court and ordered to be banished c. Master Hamden refusing to pay Ship money sentence passed against him by twelve of the Judges who absolutely declared for the legality of it only Judge Hutton and Judge Crook dissented An. Dom. 1637 On the twenty third of Iune 1637. the Book of Common prayers being begun to be read in Scotland according to the Kings orders there began a great uprore all the Churches protesting absolutely against it whereupon by the Kings Command a Proclamation was published and severe penalties to be inflicted on the contemners of it but nothing would prevail whereupon the Marques of Hamilton was sent down to Scotland and a treaty there was but it took no effect for during the said treaty the Scots had provided all things necessary for war and not long afterward Episcopacy was there totally abollished This yeer on the seventeenth of March the Queen was delivered of a daughter who at the Font received the name of Ann. This yeer there were great contestations in Scotland two Petitions were presented against the Common prayer book Proclamations were made at Edinborough and severall places for preventing of disorders but to no effect for the Covenanters every where began to rayse Arms impose texes seise on the Kings Castles and prepare for war having chosen David Lesly an old Soldier for their Generall On the latter end of October the Queen mother came into England which many people looked upon as a forerunner of mischief
An. Dom. 1639 On the seventeenth of March 1639. The King set forth against the Scots attended with a Royall Army and on the seventeenth of Iune a generall accord was made at Barwick upon which the King presently disbanded his forces and returned to London whither he was no sooner come but the Scot did openly protest against the Pasification and retained the Officers of the Army in pay hereupon the King was inforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the antient Ceremonies was looked upon as addicted too much to to the Religion of Rome An. Dom. 1640 On the thirteenth of August 1640. Another Parliament assembled and the King finding that they had no desire to assist him with money to advance against the Scots but were ready to comply with them he dissolved that Parliament to the great grief both of City and countrey Iuly the eighteenth The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized Henry On the twentieth of August the King marched towards the North in his own person having received some large contributions from the Clergie and a very considerable number of the Gentry At Annick he understood of a defeat given by Generall Lesly to a party of his consisting of 3000. foot and 1200. Horse that Sir Iacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishoprick of Dirham and 300. pound a day on the Countey of Northumberland which sad newes did much afflict him On the twenty fourth of Septem the Lords being assembled with the King at Yorke it was resolved that a Parliament should be called on the third of November following In the mean time the English to gain a cessation of Arms was inforced to yeeld to the Scots unreasonable propositions This Parliament by reason of the long Sessions of it being called the long Parliament being met Master Prin Master Burton and Doctor Bastwick were released of their Imprisonment having great dammages allowed them The Earl of Straford the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Wren were impeached of High treason and to the Tower Sir Francis Windebank and the Lord Finch fled beyond the Seas and most of the Judges who had declared themselves for Ship money were voted delinquents Judge Barkely was arrested by the Usher of the Black Rod for high Treason as he sate one the Kings Bench. An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March 1641 the tryall was of the Lord Straford which continued many dayes and having said as much for himself as man could speak and the King himself interceding for him it made his cause the worse and on Wednesday the twelft of May he was beheaded on Tower Hill On the second of May the Lady Mary was married to the Prince of Orange with great solemnity Three hundred thousand pounds was ordered for the Scotch Army to send them out of England to which they were a charge unsupportable The Parliament adjourned from the eight of September to the twentieth of October and on the tenth of August the king went to Scotland and came back to London on the beginning of November following About the latter end of October brake out the barbarous inhumane Rebellion in Ireland where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of Ianuary 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen came into the house of Commons and seating him in the Speakers Chayre demanded five members of the house to be delivered to him whose names were Sir Ar. Hazelrig Master Denzill Hollis Master Prin Mr. Hamden and Master Sroud but finding they were not there he went into his coach for London being informed they were fled thither and made Proclamation for their apprehension which the Commons voted illegall and scandalous In February the King and Queen went to Canterbury with the Princes wife to the Prince of Orange the Queen understanding that the house intended to charge her with Treason went along with the Princesse her daughter into Holland Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down The king coming back to Greenwitch went afterwards towards Yorke in the mean time the Parliament doth Seise upon the Magazine at Hull and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed and the Earl of Essex appointed to be Generall the noyse of whose preparations doth hasten the King from Yorke to Nottingham where he Sets up his sttandard and much encreaseth his Forces as he marcheth on Sunday October twenty third was the great Battaile fought at Edgehill the fight terrible and five thousand slain upon the place He afterwards marcheth towards London and at Brainford defeateth a Regiment of the Parliaments but finding how numerous the Earle of Essex Army was that lay betwixt Brainford and London he retired to his Winter quarters at Oxford An. Dom. 1643 On the latter end of February 1643. the Queen who had bin accused of pawning the Jewels of the Crown came to him and brought great supplies of powder Arms and Ammunition The ensuing Summer made the King master of the North and West Some few places onely excepted The Earl of Newcastle had cleared all beyond the Trent but Hull and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice had redewced Bristol Exeter and all the Towns of any importance in the West Pool Lime and Plimotuh excepted but making some stay to reduce Glocester the Siege was raysed by the Earl of Essex and on the twentieth of September the famous Battaile of Newbery was fought where many were flain on both sides and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Reare of the Earle of Essex Army almost as far as Reading An. Dom. 1644 The K. being come to Oxford he Summoned a Parliament which appeared on the two and twentieth day of Ianuary and on the Sixteenth of the same moneth the Scots Army entred England consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse at this time Newark being besieged by Sir Iohn Meldrum with an Army of seven thousand Prince Rupert with four thousand horse and one thousand foot doth raise the siege not long afterwards Latham house was relieved by him The Queen went from Oxford to the west of England April 16. where at Exceter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains on the yeer before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford whose name was Katharine and died almost as soon as it was born The King having given a defeat to Sir William Waller at Cropredy Bridge advanced after the Earl of Essex and followed him so close that at last he forced him into Cornwal his horse taking the advantage of the night made a shift to escape but the foot came to capitulation and delivered up their Arms and Artillery there being nine thousand arms and forty nine pieces of excellent brass Ordnance the
thousand and five hundred were taken prisoners and six men of war were sunk the English pursued their victory to the very mouth of the Texell and blocked up the Hollanders in their own ports In the mean time on the beginning of July Gen. Cromwell called another Parliament which by reason of the sudden and unexpected dissolution of it was called the short Parliament On the latter end of this moneth there was a memorable fight betwixt the Dutch and the English during the time of a treaty betwixt both Nations this battel was fought with admirable resolution on both sides The fight began in the evening which though but short was very smart The Dutch in the night-time being recruited with five and twenty gallant ships did fall of themselves the next morning on the English fleet with a great deal of gallantry and resolution In this fight Admirall Van-trump was slain there were twenty men of War of the Hollanders sunk or burnt in this fight Of the English there were slaine outright eight Captains and five hurt the Triumph and the Andrew two Frigots were sorely put to it and received great dammage in their sails and rigging The Hollanders seeing so great a number of their ships lost did face about and did bear away with al the sail they could make unto the Texell and the Engl. not judging it expedient to ingage too far upon them did set saile with the whole Fleet towards Yarmouth to dispose of such ships as were disabled and to put their wounded men on shore The Paâ—liament before mentioned being conceived too weak to go on with the management of the great and high affairs of State it was dissolved on the 12 of Decemb. following And presently afterward the Lord G. Cromwell was declared sworn Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland at Westminster in the presence of all the Judges the Barons of the Exchecquer and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London At this time certain Articles were presented which he took a solemn oath according to his custome to see them kept protesting moreover that he would mind nothing so much as the good of the Common-wealth and the glory of God Presently after this he was proclaimed Protector at the Palace-yard in Westminster and at the old Exchange by the Lord Mayor His Highness being now where he would be desired to know the affections of the people A report was raised that a great part of the army was discontented at his inauguration unto his new dignities whereupon the disaffected in severall counties thinking to joyn with them did take up arms and finding the succourse promised and expected to stand out against them they cryed out they were betrayed and most of them being taken were sent to forreign plantations On this account Sir Henry Slingsby was taken prisoner in York-shire beheaded afterwards upon another account of the same nature M. Penruddock M. Luces M. Thorpe M. Kensey M. Graves who cryed out much against Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe were condemned and executed in Wiltshire Much about the same time Mr. Peter Vowel was hanged at Charing-cross and on the same monday M. Iohn Gerrard and the brother to the Portugall Ambassadour were beheaded on Tower-hill On the third of September another Parliament was assembled which was dissolved again on the January following This year the Marquess of Leda came over in a magnificent manner as an Ambassadour from Spain but his Highness at that time having no desire to make any alliance with Spain did conclude a peace with the Crown of France This year on the latter end of December a gallant Fleet under the command of Generall Pen and Generall Venables did put forth to sea who on the tenth of May following arrived at Iamaica the design having miscarryed as Sancto Domingo in Hispaniola On the fifth of April the articles of peace were signed and delivered on the behalf of the two Nations of England and Holland the Protector to testifie his joy did most sumptuously intreat the Holland Ambassadours This year the Highlanders in Scotland disdaining the subjection of Generall Middleton but Generall Monk falling into the North of Scotland did give them so full a charge on the latter end of July that he absolutely defeated them and made them incapable of ever appearing in arms again An. Dom. 1655 This year his Highness constituted Major Generals for the preservation of the peace of the Common-wealth in the respective Counties of this Nation whose power appearing to be of too great a latitude they were afterwards disinvested of it The Lord Bulstrode Whitlock was sent Ambassadour into Sweden where he entred into a close league with that nation Generall Blake arriving with his fleet at Sunis sent unto the Governour of the place to demand satisfaction for some English ships which the pirats in those parts had taken away which being denied he came with the Vice-admirall and Rear-admirall within musket shot of the Castle on which he incessantly fired and on the other forts whilest the other ships took the opportunity to fire part of the Turkish Navy then riding in the Haven This was so well performed that in four hours space nine great vessels were burnt down to the very keels the English losing but five and twenty men and five and forty wounded Hereupon the King of Tunis sought to the English for peace and restored the prisoners which Blake had demanded for little or nothing The Lord Willougby of Parham the Lord Newport Mr. Seamor and M. Newport were sent to the Tower upon the suspition of a new Conspiracy His Highness going into S. Iamses Park for his recreation had his coach ready for him which was drawn with six Flanders horses he undertook to drive the coach himself but the horses impatient of his command did flie forth and threw him out of the coach-box on the ground being much hurt and bruised Not long afterwards his eldest son had a fal from his horse and did break his leg of which he still goes lame His Highness sent twelve good men of War well manned and well provided with all necessaries to Iameica with Colonel Humpheries Regiment not long afterwards Gene. Pen and after him General Venables arrived from Iameica who had not the same countenance from his Highness as when they did put forth to sea In the yeer 1656 Seven Spanish Ships comming from Lime in the Indies most richly laded were incountred in the way by Generall Montague about nine leagues from Cadis The fight was violent and the rather because it was known with what mettall the Ships of Spayn were laded In the fight the fortune of England easily prevailed there was one Ship burned another sunk two were taken and two run a ground one got away with a Portugall prize In the ship that was burned was Marquess of Budex his wife and one daughter In another of the Ships that were taken was the young Marques his brother and a sister
that was set on shore in Spain The two brothers were brought to England and a long time prisoners in Chelsy Colledge from whence they had the fortune to make their escape An. Dom. 1657 The rich Plate fleet being after much expectation come to Spain Blake understanding where they had unladen resolved with himselfe though he missed of the money to be revenged on the purse and made up to them with the greatest part of the strength he had and burned and sunck sixteen great vessails amongst which there were five Gallions the Admirall Vice-Admirall and Rear-Admirall the greatest part whereof had Brasse Ordnance mounted on them His Highness rewarded this service of Blakes with a Diamond Ring worth a thousand pound On the beginning of May the English were sent to assist the French with a body of six thousand Foot under the Command of the Noble Sir Iohn Reynolds In the middle of the moneth of Iune his Highness was installed in the Protectorship when the Trumpets sounded there were few or almost no acclamations of the people although the numbers were almost infinite who thronged to behold him at his Investment into his new dignities This veer the Fort of Mardike was convaied unto the English and Sir Iohn Reynolds comming for England was at Sea most unfortunately if not cruelly cast away Generall Blake being sick died in the sight of Plimmouth and had the Honour to be buried in the Chappell of Henry the Seventh Henry Cromwell the younger son of the Protector was made Lord Deputy of Ireland and not long afterwards the Court began to be full of Jealousies for now there was a new report of another conspiracy against the Protector for the effecting whereof VVhitehall should have been set on fire by one Iohn Syndercombe and some others Syndercombe was apprehended and sent to the Tower and sentenced to lose his life which many that knew his crime affirmed would never be by a publike Execution he died suddenly in the Tower on the night before his execution to the murmuring of many and the admiration of all howsoever his Body was brought to Tower Hill where it was buryed under the Scaffold and to increase yet more the noyse of the people it had a stake drove through it On the fourth of February 1658. his Highness put a period to the Parliament then being on the proceedings whereof so many hopes depended he said he would trust no more to men but rely on GOD onely The Parliament being thus dissolved a high Court of Justice was presently erected Many young men were acccused and at this court of Justice were condemned to dye whose last words on the ladder and the haltars about their necks were that they were drawn in by those men who afterwards did accuse them the old Knight Sir Henry Slingsby said he was trappanned Colonel Ashton and some others who were hanged drawn and quartered confessed rather a desire then any ability to put the plot in execution and all of them absolutely denied and seemed to abhor that most barbarous and desperate design of setting the City on fire At the same time and for the same plot Doctor Iohn Hewyt was beheaded on the Tower hill whose death was much lamented by many learned Divines but above all by the pious Lady his wife who not long afterwards petitioned to the Parliament for justice for the death of her husband In this year on the second of Iune a Whale of a prodigious bulk being sixty foot in length and of a proportionable bigness was cast upon shoar not far from Greenwich which was taken to be a presage of new events to come The English and French having overthrown the Spaniards in a memorable battail not far from Dunkirk which was at that time besieged by them it was the means that not long afterwards the most considerable Town of Dunkirk was surrendred to the English In Iuly the Lady Elizabeth Cleypole second daughter to the Protector departed this life she was a Lady of a gallant spirit and dyed in the flower of her age which struck more to her Fathers heart than all the heavy burden of his affairs so great a power hath nature over the dispositions of men when the tye of blood is seconded by love likenes she dyed with good lessons in her mouth and seemed to despise the frailty of greatness and the pomp of the earth her last words were very memorable and left a great impression in the brest of her Father Not long afterwards it pleased God that the Protector fell sick himself he languished about a fortfortnight of a disease which at the beginning was but an Ague but on Friday morning the third of September he had all the signs of a dying person and about three of the clock in the afternoon he departed the world being disserted his vital parts were found to be sound and whole only his heart was dryed up and no blood in it to make it either moist or warm His greatest care was to name a Protector to be his successor which was Richard his eldest Son a Gentleman of great hopes of a generous spirit and beloved even of those who were enemies to his Father of whose short Protectorship we will give you as short but as precise a view as possibly we can committing nothing that is superfluous nor omitting any thing that is memorable The Life of RICHARD Son to OLIVER during the short time of his Protectorship OLiver the Protector of these three Nations was no sooner dead but on the day following being Saturday Septem 4. Richard his eldest son was proclaimed Protector with great solemnity both at the old Exchange and in other places the Commanders of the Army were the first that acknowledged him and they were the first that forsook him The flatteries of the people did seem to promise a long continuance to his regency for from the first week of his Protectorship almost to the last there were nothing but gratulations from one place or another to him with as many protestations that they would live and die in his service The very same they presented to the Parliament when the supremacy of power was restored unto them to be as officious no doubt to third interest if a third interest had gained the predominancy The first care of our neece Protector was for the funerals of his father which were resolved should be solemnized with extraordinary magnificense to leave more glory on the name of his father and to beget a greater estimation in his own Wherefore being imbalmed and wrapped in a sheet of Lead the hearse on the 26 of September was conveighed about ten of the clock at night from White-hall to Somerset house where it remained some daies in private before it could be in a readiness to be exposed to the publike view The Effigies more richly adorned then ever was any King of England was lâ—id first on a bed of state afterwards it was set upright there was nothing admitted that was