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danger, not only unhorsed, but also after on foot stricken down, and hardly escaped.
upon them, having intelligence before of their assembly, outlaws, caused the gentlemen of those west marches, with a part of their powers, to repair to him to Carlisle, and understanding what hour the said Lieutenant, with his power, intended to burn the rebels' habitations, he sent his son Leonard Dacre very early in the morning, with a company of the best bor- derers, to the waters of Eske; as well to attend that no harm should be done to the subjects of this realm, as also to stop any the said rebels to be received or relieved here : where he tarried all the time of the skirmish, even in the sight of the same. And none of the said rebels entered, nor attempted to seek any relief within the English marches. But the Greyms of Eske, although they were strictly com- manded by the Lord Dacres both to give their attendance upon his son, and that they should not by any ways relieve nor take part with the said rebels of Scotland, yet they came not to give their attendance according to the com- mandment, but the greatest part of them were in company, aiding and assisting the same outlaws in the skirmish ; yea, and took the greatest part of the prisoners : a thing that would be sorely complained upon by the Scots. The rebels, for revenge of the burning of their houses, The outlaws (for they had not, it seems, taken sufficient revenge yet,) on ^ ond tirae> " vol. ill. k k
498 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, the 22d of July, in the morning;, got tog-ether to the num- XXXVIII. ! ber of two hundred, purposing some exploit of annoyance
again, and lying at Annon town. These sent sixteen horse- men, and seized twelve horses about that town. Whereupon arose a fray ; and the lieutenant and his soldiers pursuing 304 to have rescued the horse, followed too far, while they came to the rebels'* ambush, who set upon them, and slew one captain of the Frenchmen, and two others, and also hurt divers, to the peril of their lives ; the said rebels escaping without any hurt or danger, and winning divers horses, re- turned home. The Queen July the 21st the Queen removed from St. James in the removes to Eitham. Fields, unto Eltham, passing through the park and White- hall, and took her barge, crossing over to Lambeth, unto my Lord Cardinal's place. And there she took her chariot, and so rid through St. George'' s-fields unto Newington, and so over the fields towards Eltham at five of the clock afternoon. She was attended on horseback with the Cardinal, the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Montague, and divers other lords and knights, ladies and gentlewomen ; and a conflux of people to see her Grace, above ten thousand.
Two set on On the 31st, a man and a woman stood on the pillory in the pillory. CJjgap^ wno we re officers of Bridewell, for favouring the harlots that were brought thither, and conveying away sun- dry thence : divers of which were afterwards taken again, and brought back thither. Several la- Infectious burning fevers raged this summer, and took dies die this awav m any persons of quality as well as others ; and parti- cularly in the city of London. And in this month of July died three ladies of note there ; viz. the Lady Seymer, wife of Sir Tho. Seymer, knight, late lord mayor: the Lady Norwich, wife to the Lord Norwich, a judge ; which lady was buried in Essex : and the Lady Broke, wife to the Lord Broke, chief baron ; who was brought from Canbury UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 499 to Islington church to burial, with six long torches, and six CHAP, tapers of three pounds a piece for six women, and other lights, and a herald of arms, and other solemnities. To these Anno 1056 - I add Sir William Laxton, lent, of the corporation of grocers, late lord mayor, living in St. Mary Aldermary parish ; a man of great eminence in the city, who died the 29th of July, and was very splendidly buried the 9th of the next SirWil1 - month in the said parish church. There was a goodly hearse burial, with five principals, and the majesty and the vallans gilded. Eight dozen of pencils, and thirteen dozen of escutcheons and an half; and a standard and four pennons, and two ban- ners of images. The house, church, and street hanged with black and arms ; and a coat armour and helmet, target and sword, mantle and crest, being a tiger's head, with a colum- bine and the slipe. There were two great and goodly white branches, and thirty-four staff-torches, and as many mantle- frieze gowns to poor men ; an hundred black gowns : mourners, Mr. Lodge, alderman, chief mourner ; Mr. Ma- chyl, [the same that was sheriff last year,] second mourner ; Mr. Wanton, third mourner, and divers others : the Lord Mayor, Mr. White, and all the other aldermen, in violet. Then came the women mourners and ladies, and many al- dermen's wives and gentlewomen. And after dirge, they retired from church to the place, [that is, Sir William Lax- ton's house,] to drink. Thither went also the company of grocers, and after, the priests and clerks, and the heralds and the waxchandlers, and the painters, (all which had as- sisted in adorning the funeral,) also to drink, with many 305 others. And on the morrow, three masses were sung in prick-song, and three requiems. At the mass Mr. Arch- deacon Harpsfield preached. After all was done at church, the company went to the place to dinner : where there was a most splendid entertainment ; and there dined many wor- shipful men and women.
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CHAP. XXXIX. Various matters falling out in the months of August, Sep- tember, October, November, December, January, Febru- ary, and part of March. The lamentable Jail and end of Sir John Cliche. Anno 1556. \_ HESE sickly dying times carried off two bishops in one August. j a ^ v fa t j ie g t j Q f August, that is to say, Dr. Day, bishop shops die in °f Chichester, who was carried down honourably into the oneda y> l3 P- country to be buried there; and Dr. Bell, sometime bishop Bp. Bell, of Worcester, who was buried with due respect, Aug. 13,
Two wo- Aug. 13, a woman and her child both set on the pillory ; ized P ' ' tne daughter for whoredom, and the mother for procuring her own child, and bringing her to uncleanness. A just punishment to the mother, but it wanted some further severity. Month's Aug. 30, was the month's mind of Sir William Laxton, SirWiu! wno ^ied tne ^ ast montn 5 his hearse burning with wax, and Laxton. the morrow-mass celebrated, and a sermon preached ; and after that a great dinner ; and after dinner the hearse was taken down. September. Sept. 6 was Philip Denys, esquire, buried at Barking g S hll '^e S n . ys ' church in London, a goodly man of arms, and a great
And Lucas, And on the 15th day, another of King Henry Villus esqune. serV ants was buried at St. Peter's the Poor, named
The Queen On the 19th, the Queen having been sometime at Croy- StTmes's d° n > the Archbishop's place, removed unto St. James's, her
Rose-pence j± certain sort of coarse small money, called rose-pence^ cried down. UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 501 coined for the use of Ireland, in the exigence of money in CHAP. XW1X England, passed in London and other parts of the realm ; ' ' ' " ' whereby the realm of Ireland was the more disfurnished, and A,mo 1366 - other inconveniences accrued to England : which caused the Queen to have this money cried down in England ; which she did by a proclamation made in London, Sep- tember 19, the crier having the Queen's seal, that rose- pence should not be taken after the cry was made, but in'30o Ireland only to be taken for pence. But yet, notwithstand- ing, in the north parts these pieces of money still passed about. Wherefore, Octob. 8, the Queen's Council wrote to the President and Council in the north, to forbid the same, and to cause the proclamation to be published there. The letter was in these words :
" ship. The same shall understand, that the Queen's hereupon. " Majesty considering that the rose-pence that went lately C o m P s a jop. " abroad here were coined only for the realm of Ireland, and «n offic. " never allowed to be current within the realm ; and under- vo i. c / " standing nevertheless, that certain greedy persons, mind- " ing more their own private lucre than the commonwealth " of their country, have uttered divers sums of the said " rose-pence here within the realm, whereby the said realm " of Ireland is presently disfurnished of exchange of money : " her Highness, being loath her loving subjects either be " driven to want in Ireland, or be any longer abused in " England with that coin, thought it good to give them " warning thereof in time. And therefore caused, on Sa- " turday the 19th of the last month, proclamation to be " made at London, for the calling down of the said rose- " pence : and albeit it was then thought, that this procla- " mation, being made in London, should have been a suffi- " cient warning to the rest of the realm ; and therefore it " should not need to send the same to any other place ; " yet understanding now, that the common people in sun- " dry parts seem to stand in doubt of the truth of this " matter, we have thought meet to send the said procla-
502 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. " mation presently unto you; praying your Lordship, in ' . ' " case you shall perceive that the people stand not yet Anno 1556. " clear of doubt of this matter, to cause the same to be " proclaimed within such places of the country, within the " limits of your commission, as you shall think most conve- " nient. And so we bid your Lordship right heartily well " to fare. From St. James's, 8 Octob. 1556.
" Nico. Ebor. Cane. Arundel. " Tho. Wharton. Tho. Ely. Jo. Bourn.'" " Forasmuch as this proclamation that is now sent you, " was proclaimed here so long agone, we think it shall " suffice, that you do cause the same to be set in the " market-places of such towns as you shall think con- " venient, without any further proclaiming it.""
about the about the excessive prices of victuals, as in Cheapside, Bil- dearth. lingsgate, Leadenhall, Newgate market, among the market- folks and mealmen. So that the Mayor and the two She- riff's were fain to go into the markets to set people at a stay, and so to mitigate matters; and there caused meal and other provisions to be sold at more reasonable prices. 307 The Emperor being dispirited, and broke much with the ^e'ror^on cares °^ g overnment > an d with the gout, which was extreme the coast of upon him, was ready to resign all his dominions unto his son wdtethto King Philip, and so intended for Spain, to spend the re- the Queen, mainder of his days in peace and retirement. In this month of September, I find him on the sea, bending his course for Spain, but put in with his fleet in a port in England : whence he wrote another kind letter to the queen. The sub- stance whereof was,' to signify his great desire to see her, being so near her, if it could possibly have been, and to ex- cuse his son King Philip's absence, who was not yet come into England.
peine, &c. " That lie could not express the pain he felt UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 503 " to pass along the coasts of her realm, as he was at present CHAP. . . • • XXXIX " arrived in one of her ports, without being able to see her. " That there could have been nothing should have hindered Anno 1556 - " it, had not his own indisposition and the inability of his " limbs been the cause ; and that he could not have given " her a visit without much trouble and inconvenience to " herself: adding, that the season also was so far spent, " that he might have lost the benefit of the time. That " nothing would have been a greater pleasure to him, than " to have seen his son the King and her together. He " feared much that she might lay on him the blame of his " so great delay of his return, and so long absence : but, in " truth, that his affairs were such, that it could not possibly " be otherwise. And he trusted that the understanding of " these just causes thereof would make it a reasonable fault; " and that the pain which he endured, servira pour satisfac- " tion de celleque nous vous donnons, et que vous nous tien- " dres pour descoulpe de celle si longue demoure, should " serve to satisfy for that which he had given her, and which " he offered her for the fault of so long absence. But that by " the content which she should have in the King's joyful re- " turn towards her, (which he knew his son would take care " should be soon,) she should forget all that was past." This letter he sent by the Queen's Admiral, (who, it seems, waited upon him while he was upon the English coasts,) whom he had instructed to acquaint her with the cause more par- ticularly. It was dated September 20, and subscribed, De la main de voire bon pere,Jrere et cousin Charles.
St. Martins besides Charing-cross, and Mr. William Har- Harris die - ris, a person notably rich in lands and farms, buried at Mal- don [or Southminster] in Essex. In the next month, viz. October 3, being the day of the October, sessions at Oxford, were sixty persons condemned to die, per- deniI1 ed at haps most for treasonable practices.
October 18, being St. Luke's day, Dr. White, bishop of Paul's table sermon at Paul's Cross. n) r ° n ss s
Winchester, preached a notable sermon at Paul's Cross. n)on ss 504 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP. On the 20th day were all the heretics delivered out of
Anno 1656. pl aces • subscribing and promising in general, to keep them- deifveryout se l yes good and true to God, and to the King and Queen, of Lollard's This looks as though the state began now to be weary of ToWe 308 burnin g; Persons of In this month the fever swept away these persons of note: note de- gj r j onn Champney, knt. alderman and skinner, and late lord ceasing this •% • • month. mayor of London, honourably carried down into Kent, and there buried : the Lord Vaux of Northamptonshire : Sir Richard Cotton, knt. comptroller of the household to the late King Edward VI. Sir Henry Hoblethorn, knt. merchant tailor of London, and merchant of the staple of Calais, and late lord mayor, buried at St. Peter's in Cornhill : Sir John Oliff, knt. sometime chirurgeon unto King Henry VI 1 1, and after sheriff of London ; and had he lived till the next year, he had been mayor, having already, for that purpose, turned from the company of chirurgeons to that of the grocers ; buried at St. Michael at Basinghall : Dr. Man, bishop of Man, who dying at Mr. Witherly's, merchant tailor, was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft ; he was first prior of the charter-house at Shene ; and afterward, in King Edward's time, made bishop of Man, and was married : Sir Bartho- lomew Fawl, sometime prior of St. Mary Overy's, in South- wark, a man much lamented ; and his funeral honoured with the fellowship of the drapers, and among the rest, Mr. Chester, alderman and late sheriff, attending him to church: Sir John Gresham, knt. mercer, and merchant of the staple of Calais, and merchant adventurer, late mayor and alder- man of London, buried with a very pompous and expensive funeral : he gave two hundred black gowns of fine cloth ; the sermon was preached by Harpsfield ; and an extraordi- nary fish dinner, it being a fish day ; at which were ad- mitted all that came. Lastly, Mr. Lock, son of Sir William Lock, dying at his father's place in Walbroke, was honour- ably buried at St. Thomas of Acres, and Doctor Pendleton preached.
UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 505 adjoining, ran as far as the north: for with it was the CHAP. Lord Dacre seized at the castle of Carlisle, being one of the 2. wardens of the marches against Scotland : the effect of the A|1 "° '*S6- distemper had in some measure crazed him, and made him L r or , (l Da( Tf s
taken away from him : in the mean time he busied himself much with devices and practices of small purpose, as once he had done before in a like ague at London : and yet he had a good memory, and convenient consideration of things needful. This, his son Thomas Dacre signified to the Lord President of the north, trusting however, that his father would soon amend, and not doubting that his office and charge should be well regarded, to the honour of the realm, and the discharge of his duty. But whether the Lord Dacre died in this fit, or recovered, I cannot tell.
letter and message to the King, then at Gaunt, by the hands ^"froui " of Dr. Martin. The import whereof was twofold, partly the Coon- relating to the Duke of Savoy, perhaps about his matching phiUp. with the Lady Elizabeth, who was not inclinable thereto : the other concerning- trade with the states of the Low Countries. Dr. Martin having delivered his message to the King, he sent him to the said states to treat with them ; and with command, that the whole business might, with all expedition, be decided according to the fairest equity; and 309 that despatched, to return home to the Privy Council. The King also sent a letter at this time to the Council, pleading therein for the merchants of the said states : that whereas an order was made in England, that they should not buy cloths in this realm above 4Z. price, Philip per- suaded, that considering the times, in which the price of all commodities was grown greater, and money become worse, that therefore the said merchants might buy cloth as high as the value of 61. which privilege, since it was not, as he said, denied to other strangers, " the Queen, his dearest wife, " would not deny to his subjects, upon his intercession." And surely this was a sort of command. We proceed to the month of November. On the 5th November. 506 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL CHAP, day whereof, as though King Philip were now coming, came through London, from the said King, forty gennets, and Anno 1556. sixteen great horses. The gennets were mounted by the through*^ 5 P a g es °f honour, otherwise called the King's henchmen. London, On the 16th day of November, one Walker, servant to King, the Lord Denshire, came out of the Tower to be arraigned Condemned at Westminster for carrying of letters, and for keeping imprison- counsel with them that had died before for treason ; and was ment, condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
And Smith, fault, Mr. Smith, a merchant ; that is, for keeping their counsel that were put to death ; and was condemned to per- petual prison. Fecknam Q n t ] le same 2j s t d a y was Tj r . Feckenham, late dean of
minster. an( j f our t een monks more shorn. And the morrow after, the Lord Abbot, with his convent, went a procession after the old fashion in their monks' weeds, in coats of black say, with two vergers carrying two silver rods in their hands; and evensong time, the vergers went through the cloisters to the Abbot, and so went into the church afore the high altar, and there my Lord kneeled down, and his convent. And after his prayer made, was brought to the choir with the vergers, and so into his place ; and presently he began the evensong, being St. Clement's even. St. Katha- The 24th being St. Katharine's day, [or rather eve,] at six cession. °f tne clock at night, St. Katharine went about the battle- ments of St. Paul's church, accompanied with fine singing and great lights : this was St. Katharine's procession. Pembroke On the 25th day the Earl of Pembroke took his barge for goes to Ca- pi- lais. L^aiais. The Abbot On the 29th day, at Westminster abbey, was the Lord crated". Abbot stalled, and did wear a mitre. The Lord Cardinal was there, and many bishops, and the Lord Treasurer, and a great company ; the Lord Chancellor sang mass, and the Yüklə 12,09 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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