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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43591	The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington three times Lord Major of London, who lived in the time of King Henry the Fift, in the year 1419 : with all the remarkable passages and things of note which hapned [sic] in his time, with his life and death / written by T.H.; Whittington and his cat.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1780; ESTC R10116	14,660	56

might have raised the siege of the Turkes It is an old and a true saying Covetousnesse is the mother of ruine and mischief This strange thing hapned in the second time that he was elected Lord Maior and that was upon the twenty seventh of Aprill being Tuesday in Easter-week William Foxley Pot-maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asleep and so continued sleeping and snoring and could not be wakened with oricking cramping or otherwise burning whatsoever till the first day of the Terme which was full 14. daies and 15. nights The cause of this his sleeping could not be known though the same were diligently searched for by the Kings command of his Physitians and other learned men yea the King himself examined the said William Foxley who was in all points found at his waking to be as if he had slept but one night and yet lived 41 years after But in length of time he did call to minde how he did wish to God that he might sleep a Fortnight together if it was not so and so concerning a bargain between a neighbour of his and himself On thursday in Whisun week following the Duke of Somerset with Anthony Rivers and four other kept Justs and Turnaments before the King and Queen and other of the Nobility in the Tower of London against three Esquires of the Queens Bed-chamber which were performed before some of the French Nobility that then were prisoners to the King which he took in France to the great admiration of those strangers who never saw the like action before being so earnestly performed There was also Sir Richard Whittington and the two Sheriffes and that night the King and Queen did suppe with the Lord Maior Those strangers which beheld the Justs were prisoners in the Tower at that time namely the Duke of Orleance and Burbon brother to the Duke of Brittain the Earls of Vandosme of Ewe and Richmond and the High Marshall of France and many other Knights and Esquires to the number of seven hundred all all which were at one time prisoners to the King but nobly used and attended every one according to their rank and quality who when they were ransomed made it known to their King how honourably they were attended in England and what re●pect the King and our English Nation shewed them being prisoners who might have taken their lives away as well as their persons prisoners The second thing that was remarkable in Sir Richard Whittingtons yeare was that the King kept his Christmas at Lambeth and at the feast of Purification seven Dolphins of the Sea came up to the River of Thames and played there up and down while four of them were kill'd On Saturday the Eve of Saint Michael the Arch-angell the yeare following in the morning before day betwixt the hour of one and two of the clock began a terrible Earthquake with Lightning and Thunder which continued the space of six hours and that universally through the whole World so that menhad thought the world as then should have ended The unreasonable beasts roared and drew to the Tow n with ahideous noise also the Fowles of the Air cryed out such was the work of God at that time to call his people to repentance The four and twentieth day of January following a battail or combate was fought in Smithfield within the lists before the King between two men of Feversham in Kent Iohn Upton Notary Appellant and Iohn Downe Gentleman Defendant John Upton accused John Downe that hee and his Compiers should imagine the Kings death on the day of his Coronation following When they had fought some what long and had received each of them some wounds and still persisting in their violent action and no hopes to finde out the truth the King took up the matter and forgave both parties On Candlemas Eve following in divers places of England was great weathering of wind hail snow rain with thunder and lightning whereby the Church of Baldock in Hertfordshire and the Church and part of the Town of Walden in Essex with other neigbouring Villages were sore shaken and the Steeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clock in the afternoon was set on fire in the midst of the shaft first on the West side and then on the South and divers people espying the fire came to quench it in the steeple which they did with Vinegar so far as they could find so that when the Lord Maior with much people came to Pauls to have holpen if need had been returned again every man to his own home trusting to God all had been well But anon after between eight and nine of the clock the fire burst out again atresh out of the steeple by reason of the wind more hot and fervent than before and did much hurt to the Lead and Timber thereof Then the Lord Maior and many people came thither again and with vinegar quenched the fire which was so violent so that no man received any hurt Moreover in Sir Richard Whittingtons time lived one Richard Fleming Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1430 Who founded Lincoln Colledge in Oxford which was afterwards in Richard the thirds time in the year of our Lord 1479. by Tho. Rotheram Bishop of the same Sea much augmented and enlarged with great revenews Likewise Magdalen College in Oxford was built and also a great part of Eaton Colledge in Oxford was built and also a great part of Eaton Colledge by William Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester who was a loving and a constant friend to Sir Richard Whittington and did much good in many parts of this Kingdom and the said Sir Richard did largely contribute to these and the like pious uses by the intreaty of this Bishop The four and twentieth day of February following being Saint Matthews day her Coronation was solemnized in Saint Peters Church in Westminster which being ended she was ateerwards royally conveyed in the great Hall and there under a rich Canopy of State sate to Dinner upon whose right hand sate at the end of the same Table the Lord Archbishops Grace of of Canterbury and Henry called the rich Cardinall Bishop of Winchester upon the left hand of the Queen sate the King of Scots in a chair of estate and was served with covered Dishes as the Bishops were But after them and upon the same side next to the boords end were seated the Dutchesse of York and Countesse of Huntington the Earl of March holding a Scepter in his hand kneeled upon the right side the Earl Marshal in the like manner kneeled upon the left hand of the Queen The Countesse of Kent sate under the Table at the right foot and the Countesse Marshall at the left foot of her Majesty Humphrey Duke of Glocester was that day Dverseer and stood before the Queen baresheaded Sir Richard Newell was Carver and the Earles brother of Suffolk Cup-bearer Sir Iohn Steward Sewer the Lord Clifford instead of the Earle of Warwick Pantler