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The faithful Analist: OR The EPITOME OF The ENGLISH History: GIVING A true Account of the Affairs of this NATION, from the Building of the Tower of LONDON, in the days of William the Conqueror, to the Throwing down the Gates of the said City, by the command of the PARLIAMENT, which sat before the Secluded Members were admitted, in the Year 1660.  
IN WHICH All things Remarkable both by Sea and Land, from the Year 1069. to this present Year of 1660. are truly and exactly represented.  Lipsius' in Tacit. 
In Historiâ pressum & concisum dicendi Genus praestat copioso.  
LONDON, Print. for W. Gilbertson in Giltspurstreet.   

TO THE Right Worshipful and Right Worthy MATTHEW GILLEY Esquire.  
Honoured Sir,  
IT hath been heretofore as much the Commendation as the Industry of the ablest Wits, to contract much into little; by which they have been as Beneficial to the Memory as the Apprehension; For in long Discourses or Sentences (be they never so acute) the apprehension often fails and is lost, before it can arrive to the period of them; and the Memory which can retain that which the Understanding never fully apprehended, must be needs prodigious.  
Sir, In this Book you shall find much in little; the History of almost a thousand years contracted into a Manuel, and that which is profitable unto all men, must needs be ungrateful unto none.  
There is nothing memorable from the Conquest to these present Times, that is here omitted, whether you look upon the magnificent of our ancient buildings, or the gallant Exploits of this Nation, both by Sea Land, against domestic and foreign Enemies; or rare Revolutions of State, or the sad labours of the English Swords that were drawn of late for the purity of Reformation, which as yet is more in the Idea, than the Embryo, and is rather discovered, then obtained.  
Sir, should I insert more (as much more I might) I should but anticipate your understanding, I shall only humbly desire you to grant this compendious Chronicle your Protection, and if there be life in History, as no doubt there is, you shall live with it, And it shall be Honour for me to be found to be  
The humblest and most faithful of all that serve you. W. G.   

A Table of the most remarkable passages, in the lives of all the Kings and Queens of England, from William the Conqueror to the late Lord Richard the Protector.  

I. William the Conqueror.  
SUch a dearth was in England, that men did eat horses, cats, dogs, and man's flesh, Anno regni. 3.  
The earth hard frozen from the midst of Novem. to the midst of Apr. an. reg. 11.  
So great a flood (by immoderate rain, that hills were made soft, and in their fall overwhelmed many villages that lay under them, to the great amazement of all. an. reg. 20.   

II. William Rufus.  
BY a great tempest in London, the wind overturned six hundred, and six houses, and the roof of Bow Church in Cheapside, an. reg. 4.  
So great a famine and pestilence, that the quick were not able to bury the dead, a. reg. 6.  
All the Land belonging to Earl Goodwin, was covered with sands by an inundation of the Sea, which place ever since is called Goodwin sands. an. reg. 11.  
Blood sprang out of the earth, at Finchamsted in Berkshire. an. r. 12.  
The King hunting in Newpark in Hampshire, was accidentally killed by the glance of an Arrow, ann. reg. 13. wanting one month and some few days.   

III. Henry the first, called Beauclark.  
THere appeared about the Son four circles, and a Blazing Star, ann. reg. 5.  
In March and December, exceeding great thunders, and lightnings, and the Moon at both times seemed to be turned into blood. an. reg. 18.  
So low an ebb, betwixt the Tower of London and the Bridge, that men, women, and children, did wade over on foot, a. reg. 15.  
A great fire beginning in the West-cheap, consumed a great part of London, all along from thence to Algate, an. reg. 33.  
The King dying in France, his body being powdered with salt, and wrapped in bulls hides, was conveyed from thence, and buried a● Redding in Berkshire, an. reg. 35.   

iv King Stephen.  
THe town of Bath, and Saint Peter's Church in it, were both consumed with fire, a. reg. 3  
Many Cities, and towns in several places of this Land, were either destroyed or defaced with fire, in the time of this King and his Predecessor.  
It is memorable in this King, that although during his whole reign, he had continual wars, yet he never burdened the people with taxes.   

V King Henry the second.  
LOndon Bridge was new builded of timber, by Peter a Priest of Colechurch, an. reg. 10.  
So great an Earthquake in Ely, Norfolk, and Suffolk, that it overthrew them that stood upon their feet, and caused the Bells to ring in the steeples, an. reg. 12.  
The City of Leicester burned by the King's command, the walls, and Castle razed, and the inhabitants dispersed into other cities for their disobedience to their King, a. reg. 20.  
A fish was taken near to Orford in Suffolk, which had the shape of a man, it was kept in the Castle of Orford, for the space of six months for a wonder, it would eat greedily all manner of meat, but could not speak a word; at the last he stole away from his keeper and ran to the sea again, a. reg. 33.   

VI King Richard the first called Ceur de Lion.  
IN the days of this King, were Robin Hood and little John, the lawless subjects of so many Ballads. Robin Hood maintained a hundred tall men, and Archers so expert, that four hundred have fled at the twang of their bow.  
The jews of Norwich, St. Edmonsbury, Lincoln, Stamford, and Lyn, were plundered; at York, five hundred of them, besides women and children, did betake themselves unto the Castle, to defend themselves, which the people assaulting the jews grew so desperate, that they cut the throats of their own wives, and children, and did cast them over the walls on the Christians heads, and having▪ committed this execrable murder, they burned both the house and themselves, a. reg. 7.   

VII. King john.  
Hail as big as the eggs of hens, an. reg. 4.  
Many men and women were destroyed by thunder and lightning, a. reg. 8.  
The Arches, and stone work of the London bridge were finished, an. re. 9  
Three thousand persons endeavouring to preserve themselves from the fire, not far from London bridge, so indiscreetly did throng into the boats, (that were ready to receive them) that they were devoured by the water, anno reg. 15.   

VIII. Henry the third.  
A Young man, who called himself jesus, and desired to be crucified, and an elderly woman who called herself Mary the mother of Christ, and who had bewitched the young man to his madness, were both brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury, who caused them both to be closed up between two walls of stone, where most miserably they ended their wretched lives, an. reg. 5.  
So terrible a thunderclap was heard, when Mass was saying in the Cathedral Church of Paul's, that the Church did shake as if it would have fallen, and out of a dark cloud there leapt such a flash of lightning, that all the Church seemed to be on a fire, the people thinking they should have been burned, ran all of them out of the Church, fell groauling on the ground void of understanding, an. reg. 15.  
The jews at Norwich stole a boy, and circumcised him, an indirision of Christian Religion, they had an intent to have crucified him at Easter, for which fact, they justly suffered as they deserved, an. reg. 19  
A Scholar of Oxford endeavouring to kill the King in his chamber at Woodstocst, was taken and pulled to pieces with horses, an. reg. 20.  
The jews were constrained to pay twenty thousand mark, or to be kept in perpetual imprisonment; the walls of the Tower of London, were thrown down by an Earthquake, as they were some years before, an. reg. 27.  
The Thames overflowed the banks about Lambeth, and drowned houses and fields, for the space of six miles all along. In the great Hall at Westminster, men did ride on horseback, an. reg. 28.  
The sea flowing twice without an Ebb, did make so horrible a noise, that it was heard a great way into England, and did much amaze and affright the people; and not long afterwards, in a dark night, the sea seemed to be all on a fire, and the waves to fight against one another, so that the Mariners were not able to save their ships from shipwreck, an. reg. 34.  
The steeple of Bow in Cheapside, fell down, and slew many men and women, an. reg. 35.   

IX. Edward the first called Longshanks.  
GReat Earthquakes, lightning, and thunders, with a blazing star, and a Comet in the appearance of a great Dragon which made many men afraid, anno reg. 3.  
An accusation was made, for clipping the King's coin, for which offence, two hundred sixty and seven jews were executed, an. reg. 5.  
So great a frost, that five arches of London Brige, and all Rochester Bridge were born down, and carried away, anno regni, 9  
The Summer was so exceeding hot, that many died with the extremity thereof, an. reg. 16.  
The King banished the jews out of England, giving them wherewith to bear their charges till they were out of England, the number of the jews expulsed were 15 M. and nine person, an. reg. 19  
Three men had their hands cut off, for rescuing a prisoner from an Officer of the City of London, an. reg. 22.  
The Monastery at Westminster, was much ruined by fire, a. reg. 27.   

X. Edward the second.  
Pierce Gauston being banished, and returned again into England, was taken by the Barons of England, and beheaded at Warwick Castle, a. reg. 5.  
The King caused Writts to be published, that no ox stalled, or cornfed, should be sold for more than four and twenty shillings; no gras-fed ox, for more than sixteen shillings, a fat stalled cow at twelve shillings, another cow at ten shillings. A Butt Motton, whose wool is well grown, at twenty pence, a fat mutton shorn at fourteen-pences, a fat hogg of two years old, at three shillings four pence, a fat goose at two pence half penny, in the City three pence; a fat Capon at two pence, in the City two pence half penny, a fat hen at one penny, in the City at three halfpences; four pigeons for one penny, twenty four eggs for a penny, in the city twenty eggs a penny; I would they were so still, a. reg. 6.  
And yet for all this, there was a grievous famine and mortality, so that the quick could hardly bury the dead; the  died by reason of the corruption of the grass: the famine was so great, that some in holes and corners, did eat the flesh of their own children. the thiefs that were in prison, did pluck in pieces those that were newly brought in amongst them, and greedily devoured them half alive, an. reg. 11.  
A great murrain of kine happened, insomuch, that dogs and ravens eating of them were poisoned, an reg. 12.   

II. King Edward the third.  
KIng Edward the second, was cruelly murdered in the Castle of Berkley by the practice of the Queen his wife, and the Lord Mortimer, a. reg. 2.  
Roger Mortimer was taken and sent to London, where he was condemned and hanged, an. reg. 3.  
The sea broke in through all the banks of England, so that great store of cattle were drowned, an. reg. 11.  
In Oxfordshire, a serpent was found having two heads, and two faces, like women, one face attired of the new fashion of women's attire, and the other face like the old attire, and wings like a bat, an. reg. 20.  
Many men and women, perished with thunder and lightning. Fiends and devils, and strange apparitions were seen by men, and spoke to them as they traveled, an. reg. 25.  
A frost in England, from the midst of September, to the month of April, an reg. 38.   

XII. King Richard the second.  
IAck Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King, anno regni 3.  
Wat. Tiler being arrested by the Mayor of the City for high Treason was slain in Smithfield, and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King.  
There was a general Earthquake, of the effects whereof, the waters did partake, insomuch that it made the ships in the havens to totter, an. reg. 6.  
The nobles risen against the King, and in Oxford the West and Southern Scholars did assail the Northern, by reason whereof many murders were committed, an. reg. 11.   

XIII. King Henry the fourth.  
IOhn Holland late Duke of Excester, Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey, Edward Duke of Aumarle, John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, with several other persons, having conspired privily to murder the King, were all put to death for their treason, an. reg. 2.  
King Richard died in Pontefrad Castle, he was buried at Langley, an. reg. 3.  
A pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand persons, and not long afterwards, there followed a hard frost which continued fifteen weeks, an. reg. 11.   

XIV. King Henry the fifth.  
RIchard Earl of Cambridge, Sir Thomas Grey, and others, were executed at Southampton for a conspiracy against the King, a. reg. 2.  
The King fought the memorable battle at Again Court in France, and obtained a marvellous victory, anno reg. 4.  
Sir John Oldcastle having broke out of the Tower, was taken by the Lord Powis and sent to London, where being convicted by the Parliament, he was carried to St. Giles in the fields, where he was both hanged and consumed with fire, a. reg. 6.   

XV. King Henry the sixth.  
THere was a great Earthquake which continued for the space of two hours, an. reg. 5.  
A Welshman murdered a Widow in White-Chappel, and stole away her goods, but afterwards coming by the place where he did the murder, the women of the Parish with stones, and sheeps-hornes, and dirt off the dunghills made an end of him, a. reg. 8.  
The gate on London bridge, with the Tower next to Southwark fell down, and the two farthest Arches of the said Bridge, and no man perished, anno reg. 15.  
All the Lions in the Tower of London died, an. reg. 16.  
The Postern of London, by East-Smithfield, against the Tower of London sunk by night, and a great wind blew down almost one side of the street, called the old change, a. reg. 18.  
Eleaner Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester for sorcery, received sentence of penance from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and on the seventeenth of November, she came from Temple-Bar to Paul's, with a Taper of wax in her hand, which she offered at the Altar; on the Wednesday following, she went from Gracious street to Leaden-Hall, and so to Algate; and on the next Market day, she went from Cheapside to St. Michael's in Conrnhil, in form aforesaid, an. reg. 20.  
The Commons of Kent did rise in great number, one Jack Cade being their Captain; these Rebels did great mischief, but they submitted at last to the King's mercy, and Jack Cade was slain in the Wild of Sussex, an. reg. 30.  
William Carton of London Mercer, brought over into England from Germany, the science of Printing, which he practised afterwards at the Abbey of St. Peter's in Westminster, an. reg. 38.   

XVI. Edward the fourth.  
MAny battles were fought betwixt King Edward, and the adherents to King Henry the sixth, in which King Edward still prevailed, at the last King Henry was taken and sent to the Tower where he was murdered, an. reg. 4.  
Some riotus persons that fired the gates of the City of London, and would force their entrance into the City, being apprehended. the King caused the rich to hang by the purse, and the poor by the neck, an. reg. 12.  
George Duke of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmssey, anno reg. 18.   

XVII. King Richard the fourth.  
EDward the fifth being deprived of his life by his unnatural Uncle Ri. having reigned but two months & some few days, his Uncle commonly called, the usurper was proclaimed King, and crowned at Westminster, presently afterwards ensued the death of the Duke of Buckingham, who was beheaded at Salisbury for treason, and on the year following was the battle at Bosworth field where Richard was slain himself, and buried in the Grey Friar's Church at Leicester.   

XVIII. King Henry the seventh.  
THe Sweeting sickness began in the month of September, which in six week's time devoured a great number of people, an. reg. 1.  
A commotion was made by the Commons in Cornwall, upon the discontent of some subsidy which was granted to the King, they came as far as Black Heath, where three hundred of them were slain, and fifteen hundred taken Prisoners; the Lord Andely chief leader of them was beheaded on Tower hill, an. reg. 10.  
Perkin Warbeck proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth, second son to King Edward, was taken, being once pardoned before, and executed at Tyburn, an. reg. 11.   

XIX. King Henry the eighth.  
AN Insurrection of the Apprentices in London against Aliens, for which divers of them were hanged with their Captain John Lincorn a Broker, this being on the first of May, it was called afterwards the ill May day, anno regni 9  
Richard Rice a Cook was boiled in Smithfield for poisoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchester's house, a. reg. 23.  
Many great personages were beheaded in this King's days, and some of his own wives when he began to be weary of them.   

XX. Edward the sixth.  
THe Book of Common Prayers was read in English to the great contentment of the people, an. reg. 2.  
The Commons made great commotions, and risen against enclosures, the Rebels in Norfolk and Suffolk were most formidable, but being subdued by the Earl of Warwick, Rob. Kett was hanged in Chains on the top of Norwich Castle, and William his Brother was hanged on the top of Windham Castle, a. reg. 3.   

XXI. Queen Marry.  
THe Popish Bishops were all restored, an. reg. 1.  
Sir Thomas Wyatt having drawn forces together against the Queen and peace of the kingdom was beheaded, anno reg. 3.  
The French became Masters of Calais, an. reg. 4.  
Many Protestants for their consciences did perish in the flames of Martyrdom during the reign of this Queen.   

XXII. Queen Elizabeth.  
THe Book of Common Prayer was established and Mass clean suppressed, an. reg. 1.  
The lofty spier of Paul's steeple, which was two hundred foot high from the top of the Stone battlements, was set on fire by lightning, which fire ceased not till it came down to the roof of the Church, and consumed all the bells and lead, a. reg. 3.  
Sir Thomas Gresham did build the Royal Exchange at his own proper costs, by the advice and encouragement of Queen Elizabeth, a. reg. 8.  
The ground opened, and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed, and went forward for the space of four days, so that where pasture grounds was, there was tillage, and where tillage ground was, there was pasture found in the place of it; this was done near Marlech in the County of Hereford, a. reg. 13.  
Strange and numerous apparitions of great flies in Winter, and terrible Earthquakes, and a woman in London brought to bed of four children, an. reg. 18. the like afterwards, an. reg. 22.  
Marry Queen of the Scots was put to death, an. reg. 31. and in the year following was the great victory against the Spanish Armado supposed to be invincible.  
The Earl of Essex was beheaded, the Earl of Southampton was also arraigned, and found guilty of high treason, an. reg. 43.   

XXIII. King james.  
RObert Dove Merchant tailor, gave means for ever, for the tolling of a Bell in Sepulchers Church, to cause good people to pray for such prisoners as are to be executed, an. reg. 2.  
The wonderful deliverance from the horrible gunpowder treason, an. reg. 3.  
The great hard frost when booths were set up on the River of Thames, an, reg. 7.  
Sir Thomas Overbury was committed to the Tower, where not long afterwards he was poisoned, an. reg. 10.  
Prince Henry died on the sixth of Octob. 1611. and on the fourteenth of February following, the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave.  
Sir Walter Raleigh that miracle of arms and arts was beheaded, anno reg. 16.   

XXIV. King Charles.  
KIng Charles was married to Henretta Maria, sister to the King of France then living, an. reg. 1. In this year the pestilence raged in London, of which above five thousand died in one week.  
The Earl of Castle-Haven, being arraigned at the King's Bench bar, and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy, was executed on Tower hill, an. reg. 6.  
Mr. Pryn, Doctor Bastwick, and Mr. Burton, were sentenced in the high Commission Court, and ordered to be banished, an. reg. 11. Ship-money this year was called upon to be paid which procured afterwards great divisions.  
The King marched against the scots, who would not endure any alteration in their religion.  
The Scots in the second expedition having the better, the King was enforced to call a Parliament, an. reg. 15.  
The King and Parliament not agreeing, the battle of Edge hill was fought, an. reg. 17.  
After many battles at Newberry, Marston Moor, 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 tried by a High Court of justice was beheaded before the gates of Whitehal, an. reg. 23.   

XXV. Oliver Cromwell Protector.  
AFter the death of King Charles, Oliver Cromwell having made himself famous by many great achievements was chosen to be Generalissimo of the Commonwealth 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 battle 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 battle at Worcester where the young King of Scotland was overthrown, an. 1652.  
Many great battles at sea betwixt English and Hollanders, 1652. and 1953.  
The Lord General Cromwell was declared, and sworn Lord Protector of the Commonwealth 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 Conqueror till the Reign 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 reign 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 Conqueror.  
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 man's flesh.  
An. Dom. 1070 An. Reg. 5 King William bereft all the Monasteries and Abbeys of England, of their gold and silver, sparing neither Chalice nor Shrine.  
An. Dom. 1075 An. Reg. 10 Walter Bishop of Durham, bought of King William the Earldom 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 midst of November to the midst of April.  
An. Dom. 1077 An. reg. 12 Upon Palm Sunday about noon, appeared a blazing Star near 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 flood, so 
Paul's 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 sister's son of Arthur the Great, king of Britain, being in length fourteen foot. King William being at Rouen in Normandy, went with a great Army into France, spoiling all things as he passed, last of all he burned the city of Meaux with our Lady Church and two Anchorites that were enclosed there, the king cheered his men to feed the fire, and came himself so near, that with the heat of his harness he got a disease: also the King's horse leaping over a ditch, did burst the inner parts of the King, with the pain whereof he was sore afflicted, and returned to Rouen, where shortly after he ended his life, the ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord 1087. when he had reigned 20. years, eight months, and sixteen days.  
I would have the Reader understand, that I set down nothing but things that are remarkable in this king's days, nor in any king's days 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. Luke's 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 Cheapside, 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 bury 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 Berkshire.  
King William on the morrow after Lammas day, hunting in the new Forest, sir William Tirrel, shooting at a dear, at unawares hit the King in the breast, that he fell down dead, and never spoke 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 days.   

Henry Beauclark. Henry the first.  
An. Reg. 2 Winchester and Gloucester 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 murrain of beasts.  
An. Reg. 15 The City of Worcester was burnt, the tenth of October the River Medway by no small number of miles, d●d so fail of water, that in the midst of the Channel, the smallest vessels and boats 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 only 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 star.  
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 Gloucester burnt.  
An. Reg. 32 The City of Rochester sore defaced with fire.  
An. Reg. 33 A great fire beginning at Gilbert Beckers house, in West Cheap, consumed a great part of London from thence to Allgate.  
An. Dom. 1135 An. Reg. 36 Worcester was sore defaced with fire.  
An. reg. 34 King Henry remaining in Normandy, deceased the first day of December, Anno 1135. when he had reigned 35. years four months: his bowels, brains and eyes were buried at Rouen, the rest of his body being powdered with salt, and wrapped in bulls hides was buried at Reading.   

King Stephen.  
KIng Stephen was a man of noble parts, and hardy; passing comely of favour and personage, he excelled in martial policy, gentleness and liberality towards all men: and although he had continual war, yet he did never burden the Commons with taxes.  
An. Reg. 1 Fire which began at London stone consumed eastward to Algate, and westward to St. Paul's Church.  
An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1137 Rochester was burnt, with all the city.  
An. Reg. 3 The Arch-Bishops Sea in York, Saint Martins Church without the walls, and the hospital with thirty nine Churches were burnt.  
Saint Peter's Church at Bath, and all the city was burnt.  
An. Reg. 5 Robert Earl of Gloucester with a great power, invaded the town of Nottingham, and spoiled it, the townsmen were taken, slain, or burnt in the Churches whereunto they fled.  
An. Reg. 16 An. Dom. 1150 England was full of trouble and war, set forth to fire and rapine, through the discord betwixt the king and certain Lords, which took part with Henry Plantagenet.  
An. Dom. 1154 This caused the king to be so willing to render up his crown and government to Henry Plantagenet, only he had his honour granted him so long as he lived: King Stephen died the twenty fifth of October when he had reigned eighteen years, ten months, and odd days.   

Henry the second.  
An. Reg. 10 An. Dom. 1163 LOndon Bridge was new made of timber, by Peter a Priest of Colechurch.  
An. Reg. 12 An. Dom. 1165 A great Earthquake in Ely, Norfolk and Suffolk, so that it overthrew them that stood upon their feet, and caused the bells to ring in the Steeples.  
An. Reg. 20 An. Dom. 1174 The City of Leicester burnt by the king's command, the walls and castle razed, and the inhabitants dispersed into other cities for disobedience towards the king: the king of Scots taken prisoner led into Normandy, and compounded for his ransom Christ's Church in Canterbury burnt.  
An. Reg. 26 The City of York was burned, the Church of St. Andrews in Rochester was consumed with fire.  
An. Reg. 31 The Abbey of Glassenbury burned  
An. Reg. 32 A great Earthquake threw down many buildings, among the which the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. was rend in pieces, Chichester city likewise was burnt.  
An. Reg. 33 Near unto Orford in Suffolk, certain fishers took in their nets, a fish 
●●●1.  having the shape of a man; which fish was kept by Bartholomew de Glanvile, custos of the castle of Orford in the same castle for the space of six months, and more for a wonder, he spoke not a word, all manner of meat he would gladly eat; but most greedy was he after raw flesh, or fish: at length he stole away from his keeper and ran to the sea again.  
An. Reg. 34 The town of Beverly with the Church of St. john there, was burnt.  
King Henry departed this life, the sixth day of july in the year of our Lord, 1189. when he had reigned twenty four years, seven months, lacking eleven days, and was buried at Fonteverald in the Monastery of Nuns, by him founded.   

Richard Coeur de lion.  
An. Reg. 1 IN this time were many outlaws and robbers, among whom Robin Hood and little john remained in the woods despoiling and robbing the rich of their goods; the said Robert maintained an hundred tall men, and good Archers, with such spoils as he got, upon whom four hundred men were they never so strong, durst not give the onset, poor men's goods he spared, abundantly relieving them with that which he got from Abbeys and houses of rich Earls.  
An. Dom. 1191 The Jews of Norwich, Saint Edmonsbury, Lincoln, Stamford and Lyn, were rob, and at York to the number of five hundred, besides women and children entered a tower of the castle, which the people assailing, the Jews cut the throats of their wives and children, and cast them over the walls on the Christians, heads, the residue they locked up, and burned both the house and themselves.   

Richard the first.  
An. Dom. 1199 KIng Richard turned his arms against the Barons of Poicton that rebelled against him; he set their Cities and Towns on fire, spoiled their country, and killed many of his adversaries: at last came to the Dukedom of Aquit●●e, and besieged the Castle of Chalne, whereon Bertrane de Gordani, smote him with a venomed dart; and although the King won the Castle, yet he lost his life, for of this wound he died the sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord 1199. when he had reigned 9 years 7 months, and was buried at Founteverard, his heart was buried at Rouen, and his bowels at Chalne.   

King john.  
An. Reg. 4 An. Dom. 1202 HAil as big as hen's eggs.  
An. Reg. 7 The 14 of january began a frost which continued till the 22 of March, so that the ground could not be tilled, whereof it came to pass, that in Summer following, a quarter of wheat was sold for a Mark, which in the days of Henry the seventh, was sold for twelve pence.  
An. Reg. 8 Great thunder and lightning were seen, so that many men and women were destroyed, besides  and houses overthrown and burned; corn in the fields was beaten down with hailstones as big as Goose-eggs.  
An. Reg. 9 The arches and stone bridge over the Thames at London, was this year finished, by Serle Mercer and William Alman, than procurators, or ●a●e●s of the bridge works.  
An. Reg. 15 The tenth of july at night, the City of London upon the south side of the River of Thames, with the Church of our Lady, of the Cannons in Southwark being a fire, an exceeding great multitude of people passing the bridge, suddenly the north-part, by blowing of the south wind, was also set on fire, and the people which were even now passing the bridge perceiving the same, would have returned, but were stopped by the fire, and it came to pass, that as they protracted time, the south end was fired, so that people thronged between the two fires; there came to aid them many ships and vessels, into the which the multitude so undiscreetly pressed, that the ships being drowned, it was said there were destroyed about three thousand persons.  
An. Reg. 17 Saint Edmonsbury consumed with fire.  
It was reported that King john was poisoned by a Monk, but certain it is he died in the Castle of Newarck on the 19 of Octob. 1216. where the Captain of the Castle caused him to be imboweled, and was conveyed to Worcester and there honourably buried, when he had reigned seventeen years and five months, lacking eight days.   

Henry of Winchester.  
An. Dom. 1222 A young man was brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury who willed himself to be crucified, and to be called Jesus, and an old woman that had bewitched the young man to such madness, procured herself to be called Mary the mother of Christ, they were both closed up between two walls of stone where they ended their lives in misery.  
The Citizens of London falling out with the Bailiff of Westminster and the men of the Suburbs at a game of wrestling, made a great tumult against the Abbot of Westminster, for the which their Captain Constantine, with some others, were hanged, the rest had their feet and their hands cut off.   

Henry the third.  
An. Reg. 13 An. Dom. 1230 GReat thunder and lightning which burned many houses, and slew both men and beasts.  
An. Reg. 15 Upon the day of St. Paul, when Roger Niger Bishop of London was at Mass in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, suddenly the weather waxed dark, and a horrible thunder-clapp lighted on the Church, the same was shaken as if it would have fallen, and out of a dark cloud came such a flash of lightning, that all the Church seemed to be on fire, all the people thought they should have been burned, and ran all out of the church; and being astonished, fell upon the ground void of all understanding, none of all the multitude tarried in the Church save the Bishop and one Deacon, which stood still at the high All ●●●.  
An. Dom. 1233 The seventh of April there appeared as it were four suns besides the natural sun, of a red colour, and a great circle of Crystal colour.  
An. Reg. 17 The morrow after Saint Martin's day began thunders very horrible which lasted fifteen days.  
An. Reg. 19 This year was a great dearth and pestilence, so that many poor people died for want of victuals.  
An. Dom. 1235 The Jews of Norwich stole a boy, and circumcised him, and had an intent to have crucified him at Easter, for which fact they were convicted.  
An. Dom. 1236 The Thames overflowed the banks, so that in the great Palace of Westm●nster men did row with Wherries in the midst of the Hall.  
An. Dom. 1237 Ottobon a Cardinal came into England as a Legate from the Pope, this year passed stormy and troublesome weather and very unhealthful.  
An. Dom. 1238 Ottobon being lodged in the Abbey of Osney; the Scholars of Oxford slew his Master-cook, and the Legate for fear got him into the Steeple of the Church, where he stayed, till the King's Officers coming from Abingdon, conveied him to Wallingford where he accused the misdoers, Otho de Killeney a Standard bearer to the Scholars, was taken and put into prison, with twelve others; who not long after, went from Saint Paul's Church to the Legates house, bare footed and bore headed, where they asked him forgiveness.  
A Scholar of Oxford enterprised to kill the king in his chamber, at Woodstock was taken and pulled to pieces with horses.  
An. Dom. 1240 The Stone work and Bulwark which the King caused to be builded by the Tower of London, was shaken by a tempest and an Earthquake together that it fell down: but the King commanded that the same should be builded again, many strange fishes came to shore, whereof forty were Sea Bulls and one of a huge bigness passed through the Bridge of London unhurt, till he came to the King's house at Mortlack and there he was killed.  
An. Dom. 1241 An. Reg. 26 The Jews were constrained to pay 20000 marks or else to be kept in perpetual imprisonment. The walls and bulwarks that were newly builded about the Tower of London, were again thrown down by an Earthquake.  
An. Dom. 1263 The Thames overflowed the banks about Lambeth, and drowned houses and fields the space of six miles, & in the great Hall at Westminster, men took their horses backs.  
An. Reg. 31 The Church of Saint Mildred in Canterbury; and a great part of the City was burnt.  
An. Reg. 32 A great plague was in England.  
An. Reg. 32 The Town of Newcastle upon Tine was burned, Bridge and all.  
An. Reg. 33 By a strange Earthquake tops of houses were thrown down, walls did cleave, the heads of Chimneys and Towers were shaken.  
An. Reg. 34 In October, the Sea flowing twice without ebb, did make such a horrible noise, that it was heard into England a great way; besides this, in a dark night, the Sea seemed to be on a light fire, and the waves to fight one against another, so that the Mariners were not able to save their ships: and at Winchelsea, besides cottages for salt, and fither-mens' houses, bridges and mills, above three hundred houses, with certain Churches, through the violent rising of the Sea were drowned.  
An. Dom. 1255 142 Jews were brought to Westminster, which were accused for crucifying a child at Lincoln, eighteen of them were hanged, the rest remained long prisoners.  
An. Reg. 43 A Jew at Tewksbury fell into a Privy upon the Saturday, and would not be helped out because it was his Sabbath; wherefore Richard of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, kept him there while Monday, at which ●ime he was dead.  
An. Dom. 1263 In the 10 year of Richard the Emperor, there was a Blazing-star seen three months; at this time there was a Schism among the Prince's Electors in Germany.  
An. Dom. 1264 There was slain of Jews in London to the number of 700. their wares spoiled, and their Synagogues defaced, a multitude more of them, because one Jew would have forced a Christian man, to have paid more than two pence for the usury of twenty shillings the week.  
An. Dom. 1268 Variance fell between the fellowship of Goldsmiths, and Tailors of London, causing great mischief to be done, and many men slain, for which Riot, twelve of the chief Captains were hanged.  
An. Dom. 1269 The river of Thames was so hard frozen, from Saint Andrews tide to Candlemas, that men and beasts passed over from Lambeth to Westminster, the Merchandise was carried from Sandwich, and other Havens, to London by Land.  
An. Dom. 1271 The Steeple of Bow in Cheap, fell down, and slew many people, men and women.  
An. Dom. 1272 In june began a great riot in Norwich, through the which the Monastery of the Trinity was burned: whereupon the King road down, and making enquiry for the chief doets thereof, caused thirty of them to be condemned, hanged, drawn & quartered, and their Quarters to be burned.  
King Henry died on the sixteenth of November, in the year of our Lord 1272. when he had reigned 56 years, and 28 days, and was buried at Westminster; he built a great part of the Church.   

King Edward, sir-named Longshanks.  
An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1274 THis year fell a great variance at Oxford, between the Northern men and Irish men, wherein many of the Irish men were slain.  
An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1276 On Saint Nicholas day even, were great Earthquakes, Lightnings, and Thunder, with a great Dragon, and a Blazing-star, which made many men afraid.  
An. Reg. 4 An. Dom. 1277 There was a general Earthquake, by force whereof, the Church of Saint Michael of the Mount without Glassenbury, fell to the ground.  
An. Reg. 5 Michael Tony was hanged, drawn and quartered for Treason.  
Michaelmas Term was kept at Shrewsbury. Reformation was made for clipping the King's coin; for which offence 267 Jews were executed.   

Edward the First.  
An. Dom. 1281 An. Reg. 9 THere was such a Frost, that five arches of London-Bridge, and all Rochester-Bridge was borne down, and carried away, with many Bridges more.  
An. Reg. 15 On New-year's day at night, as well through vehemency of the wind, as violence of the Sea, many Churches were overthrown and destroyed, not only at Yarmouth, Dunwich, and Ipswich, but also in divers other parts of England.  
An. Reg. 16 An. Dom. 1288 The Summer was so exceeding hot, that many men died with extremity thereof, and yet Wheat was sold at London for three shillings four pence the Quarter, and such cheapness of Beans and Pease, as the like hath not been heard of.  
An. Reg. 17 Great hail fell in England, and after ensued great rain, that the year following Wheat was raised from five pence the bushel, to sixteen pence, and so increased yearly, till it was lastly sold for twenty shillings the Quarter.  
An. Reg. 19 The King banished all the Jews out of England, giving them to bear their charges till they were out of the Realm; the number of Jews then expulsed, were 15. M. 9 persons.  
An. Reg. 22 An. Dom. 1294 Three men had their right hands cut off, for rescuing a prisoner from an Officer of the City of London.  
An. Reg. 23 An. Dom. 1295 The water of Thames overflowing the banks, made a breach at Rotherhith beside London. The low ground about Bermondsey and Tothil, was over-flowed.  
An. Reg. 27 An. Dom. 1299 Fire being kindled in the lesser Hall of the Palace at Westminster, the flame thereof being driven by wind, fired the building of the Monastery next adjoining, which with the Palace were both consumed.  
An. Reg. 33 An. Dom. 1305 William Wallace, which had often times set Scotland in great trouble, was taken and brought to London, where he was hanged, headed, and quartered.  
An. Dom. 1307 The King being vexed with a Bloody Flux, departed this life the seventh of july at Burgh upon the Sands, in the year of our Lord, 1307. when he had reigned thirty four years, seven months, and odd days, his body was buried at Westminster.   

Edward Carnarvan.  
An. Reg. 1 EDward Carnarvan, so called, being born at Carnarvan, began his Reign the seventh of july, in the year 1307. he was fair of body, but unsteadfast in manners, not regarding to govern the Commonwealth by discretion and Justice, which caused great variance between him and his Lords.   

Edward the Second.  
An. Reg. 2 An. Dom. 1309 THe Lords envying Pierce of Gavestone, Earl of Cornwall, a stranger born, banished him the Land.  
An. Dom. 1309 An. Reg. 3 The King sent for Pierce of Gavestone out of Ireland, and gave him the Earl of Glocesters' Sister in marriage, which caused him again to rise in pride, scorning the Nobles of the Realm; the Barons therefore declared to the King; that except he would dispel the said Pierce from his company, they would rise against him, as against a perjured Prince: whereupon once again he caused Pierce to abjure.  
An. Dom. 1310 An. Reg. 4 Pierce of Gaveston returned into England, and came to the King's presence, who forgetting all oaths and promises made to his Barons, received him as a heavenly gift.  
An. Reg. 5 The Church of Middleton in Dorsetshire was consumed with lightning, the Monks being at Matins.  
An. Dom. 1311 The Barons of England being confederated against Pierce of Gaveston, besieged him at the Castle of Scarborough, where they took him, and brought him to Warwick Castle, and caused his head to be stricken off.  
An. Dom. 1314 THe King caused his Writs to be published for victuals, that no Ox stalled or cornfed, be sold for more than twenty four shillings; no grass-fed Ox for more than sixteen shillings; a fat stalled cow at twelve shillings; an other cow at ten shillings; a fat mutton cornfed, or whose wool is well grown, at twenty pence; another fat mutton shorn, at fourteen pence; a fat hogg of two years old, at three shillings four pence; a fat goose at two pence half penny, in the City three pence; a fat capon at two pence, in the city two pence half penny; a fat hen at one penny, in the City one penny half penny; four Pigeons for one penny; twenty four eggs a penny; in the City twenty eggs a penny.  
An. Dom. 1315 A Tanner's Son of Exeter named himself the Son of Edward the First, for the which he was hanged at Northampton.  
An. Dom. 1316 The dearth increased through the abundance of rain that fell in harvest, so that a quarter of Wheat, or Salt, was sold for eleven shillings. There followed this famine, a grievous mortality of people, so that the quick could hardly bury the dead; the beasts and  also by the corruptness of the gross, whereof they fed, died; horseflesh was counted great delicates; the poor stole fat dogs to eat; some in holes and corners eat the flesh of their own children; the thiefs that were in prison, did pluck in pieces those that were newly brought in amongst them, and greedily devoured them half alive.  
An. Dom. 1318 A great murrain of kine happened, dogs and ravens eating of the kine were poisoned, and did swell to death, so that no man durst eat any beef.  
The King doting so much on the two Spencers, as he did on Pierce of Gaveston, maintaining wars against his Barons, and his Barons against him, was at last overthrown, and taken prisoner, the two Spencers hanged, drawn, and quartered, as Traitors to the Commonwealth of England. The King, after he had reigned nineteen years, six months, and odd days, was deposed by consent of Parliament, who elected Edward his eldest Son.   

Edward the Third.  
An. Reg. 1 EDward the Third, about the age of fourteen years, began his reign the 25 of january, in the year of our Lord, 1326. in feats of arms he was very expert, at the beginning of his reign he was chief ordered by his Mother Isabella.  
An. Dom. 1327 The Inhabitants of the Town of Bury besieged the Abbey, burned the gates, wounded the Monks, bore out all the gold and silver ornaments, books, Charters, the assay to their coin, stamps, and all other things appertaining to their coin.  
An. Dom. 1328 The 22 of September, at night, King Edward the second was cruelly murdered in the castle of Barkley, by the practice of the Queen his wife, and the Lord Mortimer, and the Bishop of Hereford; he was buried at Gloucester.  
An. Dom. 1329 By procurement of the old Queen, Roger Mortimer, and Edmond of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, the King's Uncle was beheaded at Winchester.  
An. Reg. 3 Roger Mortimer was taken by William Montacute, and sent to London, where he was condemned, and hanged.  
An. Dom. 1335 The Sea banks broke in all through England, but specially in the Thames, so that all the  and beasts near thereunto were drowned.  
An. Dom. 1339 A sudden undation of water at Newcastle upon Tine, bore down part of the Town wall, where an hundred and twenty men and women were drowned.  
An. Dom. 1350 In Oxfordshire, near Chippingnorton, was found a Serpent, having two heads, and two faces, like women; one face attired of the new fashion of women's attire, and the other face like the old attire, and wings like a B●tt.  
An. Reg. 25 Men and women perished in divers places with Thunder and Lightning, Fiend's or Devils, and strange apparitions were seen by men, and spoke unto them as they traveled.  
An. Reg. 36 A great dearth and pestilence in England, in which died Henry Duke of Lancaster, who was buried at Leicester.  
An. Reg. 38 A great wind in England overturned houses and Church-steeples.  

An. reg. 37.  A Frost in England lasted from the midst of September, to the month of April.  
An. Reg. 51 King Edward ended his life at his Manor of Shene, the 21 day of june, in the year of our Lord, 1377. when he had reigned fifty years, four months, and odd days; he was buried at Westminster.   

King Richard of Bourdeaux.  
An. Reg. 1 RIchard the Second, the Son of Prince Edward, being but eleven years old, began his Reign the 21 of june, in the year of our Lord, 1377. in bounty and liberality he far passed all his Progenitors; but for that he was young, was most ruled by young counsel, and regarded nothing the counsel of the sage and wise men of the Realm: This thing turned the Land to great trouble, and himself to great misery.  
An. Dom. 1388 jack Straw was beheaded for Rebellion against the King; Wat Tyler arrested by the Mayor of the City of High-Treason, was slain in Smithfield, and all the rest of the crew pardoned by the King.  
An. Reg. 6 A general Earthquake the 21 of May, and a water-shaking, which made the ships in the Haven to totter.  
An. Reg. 7 john Bale brought to Saint Alban, was hanged, drawn and quartered.  
john Raw, Captain of the Rebels in Suffolk, was hanged and quartered.  
An. Reg. 9 The 18 of july was an Earthquake.  
An. Reg. 11 An. Dom. 1390 The Nobles rise against the King.  
In Oxford, the Welsh and Southern Scholars assailed the Northern, whereby many murders were committed.  
An. Dom. 1391 The good man of the Cock in Cheap a Brewer, at the little Conduit, was murdered in the night by a Thief, who came in at the gutter window, as it was known long after by the same thief, when he was condemned for felony.  
His wife was burned in Smithfield, and his three men hanged wrongfully.  
An. Dom. 1397 The Earl of Arundel, with many more, were put to death, for that they rebuked the King in matters of State something liberally.  
An. Dom. 1398 Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, was banished the Realm.  
An. Dom. 1399 john of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, deceased, and was honourably buried in Saint Paul's Church.  
An. Reg. 23 The King exacted great sums of money of seventeen Shires of the Realm, and laid to their charges, that they had been against him with the Duke of Gloucester, the Earls of Arundel and Warwick; wherefore he went about to induce the Lords, both spiritual and temporal, to make a submission by writing, acknowledging themselves to be Traitors to the King, though they never offended him.— Moreover, he compelled them to set their hands to blanks, to the end, that so often as it pleased him, he might oppress them.  
An. Reg. 23 But all this made nothing for him, but all against him, for within a while after, he was sent to the Tower, till the next Parliament, which was begun the morrow after Michaelmas-day, at which time he resigned all his power and Knightly title to the Crown of England and France, to Henry Duke of Hereford, and Lancaster, when he had reigned twenty two years, three months, and odd days.   

Henry the Fourth: Henry of Bollengbrook.  
An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fourth, son to john of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was made King of England, more by force, then by lawful succession, or election: He began his Reign the 29 of September, in the year 1399.  
An. Reg. 2 The King caused the Blanok Charters to be burnt, made to King Richard.  
john Holland, late Duke of Exeter; Thomas Holland, Duke of Surrey, Edward Duke of Awmarl, john Mountecute, Earl of Salisbury; Thomas Spencer, Sir Ralph Lumley, Sir Thomas Blunt, Sir Benedict Cely, Knights, with others, conspired against King Henry, and appointed privily to murder him, but their Treason was found out, and they were all put to death.  
King Richard being in Pomfret-Castle, died the fourteenth day of February, his body was brought to London, and so through the City of London to St. Paul's Church, bare-faced three days for all beholders; from thence he was carried to Langley, and there buried.  
An. Dom. 1402 Certain men affirmed that King Richard was alive, for the which a Priest was taken at Warwick, who was drawn, hanged, and quartered. Walter Waldock, Prior of Lawd, was likewise hanged and headed, and eight grey Friars hanged and headed at London, of the which, one Richard Fresby, Doctor of Divinity, was drawn, and hanged.— Sir Roger Claringdon Knight, a Esquire, and a Yeoman, were beheaded at London, and divers grey Friars hanged and beheaded, and two at Leicester, all these had published King Richard to be alive.  
An. Dom. 1407 A Pestilence in London consumed above thirty thousand.  
An. Dom. 1408 A Frost lasted fifteen weeks.  
An. Dom. 1409 Henry Earl of Northumberland, and the Lord Bardolph, came into England with a great company, pretending by Proclamation to deliver the people from the great oppression that they were burdened with; but by Sir Thomas Rokebey, Sheriff of Yorkshire, he was encountered at Bramhammoor, and there slain; the Lord Bardolph was likewise wounded to death.  
An. Dom. 1412 After the fortunate chances happened to King Henry, being delivered of all civil division, he was taken with sickness, and yielded to God his spirit, the 20 of March, 1412. when he had reigned thirteen years, six months, and odd days: he was buried at Canterbury.   

Henry of Monmouth.  
An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Fifth began his Reign the 20 of March, in the year 1412. This Prince exceeded the mean stature of men; he was beauteous of visage, his neck long, body slender and lean, his bones small, nevertheless he was of marvellous great strength, and passing swift in running.  
An. Dom. 1413 Sir john Oldcastle, for divers points touching the Sacrament, before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Winchester, and others, was convicted and committed to the Tower of London, out of the which he broke, and fled.  
An. Dom. 1414 Certain adherents of Sir john Oldcastle, assembled them in Thickets field near London, but the King being warned, took the field before them, and so took of them such numbers, that all the prisons in London were full of them, divers of them were executed.  
An. Dom. 1415 The King road to Southampton, where was discovered a great conspiracy against him by Richard Earl of Cambridge, Sir Thomas Grey, and Henry Scrope, and others, who were executed at Southampton.  
An. Dom. 1416 The King entered the Sea with a— thousand Sail, and the third night after arrived at Normandy: He laid siege to Hartslue, which was yielded to him; he fought the battle at Agent-Court, where he had a marvellous victory.  
An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1417 On Easter day, at a Sermon in Saint Dunston's, in the East of London, a great fray happened, where many people were fore wounded, and Thomas Pettwarden Fishmong, slain. The beginners of the fray was the Lord Strange, and Sir john 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 john Oldcastle being taken after he had broke out of the Tower, was sent to London by the Lord Powes out of Wales; whi●h Sir john 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 Wrotham in Norfolk, which had haunted Newmarket-hith, and there rob 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 testify, 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 Sceptres in his hands; in his right hand was a Sceptre smooth and plain, only the proportion of the French coin, commonly called the French crown; and in his left hand he held a Sceptre full of curious arts, carved and wrought with 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 known not how to help themselves.  
An. Reg. 10 An. Dom. 1422 King Henry being at Boys at Vincent, waxed ●●ck, and died the last day of August, in the year 1422. when he had reigned nine years, five months, and odd days, he was buried at Westminster.   

Henry of Windsor.  
An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Sixth, being an Infant of eight months old, began his Reign the last of August, in the year 1422. the governing of the Realm was committed to the Duke of Gloucester, 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 judes' day, the Mayor caused a great watch to be kept, with most part of the Citizens in armour to stand by the Duke of Gloucester against the Bishop of Winchester, who lay in Southwark with a great power of Lancashire and Cheshire men, but the matter was appeased by the Archbishop of Canterbury.  
An. Reg. 5 The 28 of September was an earthquake, which continued the space of two hours.  
An. Reg. 6 From the beginning of April unto Hallowtide, 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 saved them by a Rope; that's some men's end.  
An. Reg. 8 A Britain murdered a Widow in White-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 dunghills, 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 soldiers of Calais 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 blew down almost one side of the street, called the Old-Change.  
An. Dom. 1439 Sir Richard Which, Vicar of Hermetsworth in Essex, was burnt on Tower-hill the 17 of june.  
An. Dom. 1440 The 18 of july, 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, Duchess of Gloucester, was cited to appear before Henry Chichely archbishop of Canterbury, to answer certain matters of Necromancy, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Heresy, and Treason; where, when she appeared, the aforesaid Roger was brought forth to witness against her, and said, that she was the cause, and first stirred him to labour in that art; then she was committed to the ward of Sir john Stuard Knight; then was taken also Margery Gurdmain, a Witch of Ely, whose Sorcery and Witchcraft the said Eleanor had a long time used; wherefore the said Witch was burned in Smithfield.  
The ninth of November, Dame Eleanor appeared before the archbishop, and others, and received sentence of Penance, which she performed; on the 17 of November she came from Temple-Bar with a taper of wax in her hand, from Fleetstreet to Paul's, where she offered her taper to the altar; on Wednesday next she went through Bridgstreet, Grace-Church-street to Leaden-hall, and so to Christ-Church by Algate; on Friday she went through Cheap, to Saint michael's in Cornhill, in form aforesaid.  
The eighteenth of November, Roger Bolinbroke was arraigned, drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
An. Dom. 1445 On Candlemass Eve, in divers places of England, were heard terrible thunders, with lightning, whereby the Church of Baldock in Hartfordshire, the Church of Walden in Essex, and divers others, were sore shaken, and the Steeple of Saint Paul's in London, about three of the clock in the afternoon, was set on fire in the midst of the shaft, but by the labour of well-disposed people the same was squenched.  
An. Dom. 1448 Adam Molins, Bishop of Chichester, Keeper of the King's Privy Seal, was by Seamen slain at Portsmouth.— Bluebeard, a Fuller taken beside Canterbury, for raising a Rebellion, was hanged and quartered.  
An. Dom. 1449 The Duke of Suffolk was banished the Land, who sailing towards France, was met on the Sea by a Man of War, and was beheaded, his corpse was cast up at Dover. The Commons of Kent did rise in great numbers; one jack Cade being their Captain, these Rebels did great mischief, putting to death whom they pleased, until at last the King offering them a pardon if they would submir, they condescended to it; jack Cade their Captain fled, and was slain in the Wild of Sussex. after this the King went down into Kent, and finding who were the chief of this rebellion, caused them to be hanged, drawn and quartered; the 29. of june, William Bishop of Salisbury was murdered by his own Tenants.  
An. Reg. 35 An. Dom. 1456 A great riot was committed in London against the Italians and Lumbards'.  
An. Dom. 1457 At Erith were taken four great fishes, whereof two were Whales: Frenchmen landing at Sandwich, wasted the town, and slew the inhabitants.  
An. Reg. 36 Sir Thomas Piercie, Lord Egremount, and Sir Richard Piercie his brother, being prisoners in Newgate, broke out by night, and went to the King, other prisoners took the leads of the gate and defended themselves a long while against the Sheriffs, and all other Officers.  
An. Dom. 1458 A fray in Fleetstreet, between men of the Court, and the inhabitants of the same street, in which fray the Queen's Attorney was slain: for this fact the King committed the Governors of Furnival, Clifford, and Barnard's Inn to prison, and William Taylor Alderman of the Ward, with many others, were sent to Windsor Castle.  
An. Dom. 1459 The science of Printing was found in Germany at Magunce: William Caxton of London Mercer, brought it into England in the year 1471. and first practised it at the Abbey of St. Peter's at Westminster.  
An. Reg. 38 The land being miserably divided, the King fight many battles in midst of several dissensions, was at last worsted, and Edward Earl of March got his kingdom from him.  
An. Reg. 29 Edward Earl of March came to London with a mighty power of March men, and accompanied with the Earl of Warwick, the 26 of February, where he was joyfully received: Edward being elected, was proclaimed by the name of Edward the fourth, on the fourth of March, and King Henry lost his kingdom, when he had reigned thritty eight years, six months, and odd days.   

Edward the fourth.  
An. Reg. 1 EDward Earl of March began his reign the fourth of March by the name of Edward the fourth, in the year 1460.  
The twelfth of March Walter Walker Grocer, living in Cheapside, for speaking some words against King Edward, was beheaded.  
The thirteenth of March Edward took his journey towards the North, where between Shierburn and Tad-Caster, all the North part met him, and on Palm Sunday the twenty ninth of March fought a great battle, in which were slain Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland, john Lord Clifford, john Lord Newel, Leo Lord Wells, and many of rank and quality on both sides, to the number of 357 and eleven persons, but King Edward got the field, the Duke of Exeter, the Duke of Somerset, the Lord of Ross; the Lord Hungerford fled to York to King Henry, and then with the King and Queen, and Prince fled to Barwick and so to Edinburgh.  
An. Reg. 3 Queen Margaret landed in the N●rth, where having but small succour, was fain to take the Sea again, and by a tempest of weather was driven to Barwick where she landed, but lost her ships and goods.  
Many battles were fought between the two Kings, Henry and Edward, and much blood was shed on both sides, striving for supremacy, one while the Commons with some of the Lords would have Henry restored again to his former dignity. and another while Edward should rule; at length Henry being overpowred, was arrested, and sent to the Tower, where within a while after, he was murdered, and buried at Chertsey since removed to Windsor.  
An. Reg. 4 A great pestilence and the Thames frozen over.  
An. Reg. 11 Thomas the Bastard of Fauconbridge with a riotous company of shipmen, and others, of Essex and Kent, came to London, where being denied passage through the City, he fired the gates, w●n the Bulworks at Algate, and entered the City; but the Citizens killed them that entered, causing the rest to fly pursued them as far as Black wall, slaying many.  
An. Reg. 12 King Edward road into Kent, where he caused inquiry to be made of the foresaid riotous persons, hanged the rich by the purse and the other by the necks: the Major of the town with others, were beheaded there.  
Thomas the Bastard of Falkonbridge was taken at Southampton and beheaded.  
An. Reg. 14 The Duke of Exeter was found dead in the Sea, between Dover and Calais.  
john Goose was burnt on the Tower hill.  
An. Reg. 17 An. Dom. 1478 King Edward in his progress hunted in Thomas Burdits Park, at a Buck and slew many Deer, among the which, one was a white Buck: Thomas Burdit, when he understood thereof, wished the Bucks head in his belly that moved the king to do it; Burditt was apprehended of treason, condemned, drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn and there beheaded.  
An. Reg. 18 An. Dom. 1479 George Duke of Clarence, Edward's broth●● in the Tower of London was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey.  
An. Reg. 19 A great dearth and a great sickness in London, and divers other parts o● the Realm.  
An. Reg. 21 Thiefs for robbing St. martin's le grand, in London, three were drawn to the Tower hill, and there hanged and burnt, the other were pressed to death.  
An. Reg. 23 King Edward making great provision for war into France, ended his life at Westminster, the ninth of April, in the year 1483. when he had reigned twenty two years one month, and odd days; he was buried at Windsor, he left issue, Edward the Prince, and Richard Duke of York, and five daughters: Elizabeth that after was Queen, Cicely, Ann, Katherine and Bridget.   

Edward the fifth.  
An. Reg. 1 EDward the fifth about the age of thi●teen years, began his reign the ninth of April, in the year 1483 which Prince reigned a small space, either in pleasure o● liberty, for his unnatural uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester, within three months, deprived him of his life and Crown, as it was generally reported, this Edward reigned two months and ten days.   

Richard Duke of Gloucester.  
An. Reg. 1 RIchard the third, brother to Edward the fourth, was proclaimed king the 22 of june in the year 1483. he put to death Anthony Woodvile, Earl Rivers, Lord Richard Grace, the Queen's brother, Sir Thomas Vaughan, and Sir Richard Hawes at Pomfret, and William Lord Hastings, in the tower of London, all in one day.  
He was crowned at Westminster on the seventh day of july.  
After this were taken for Traitors against the king, Robert Ruff Sergeant of London William Davie Pardoner, john Smith Groom of king Edward's stirrup, and Stephen Ireland Wardroper in the Tower, with many more, who were charged that they had sent Letters into Britain to the Earl of Richmond and of Pembroke, and also that they were minded to steal our of the Tower Prince Edward and his brother, for the which they were drawn from Westminster to the Tower of London, and there upon the hill they were all four beheaded.  
A grudge began between king Richard and the Duke of Buckingham, insomuch that the Duke conspired with some Noble men against him, intending to bring into the land Henry Earl of Richmond as heir to the Crown, for which conspiracy the Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Salisbury.  
The thirteenth of December, was a great fire in Leaden-hall in London, where was burnt a number of houses, and all the stocks for guns & other provision belonging to the city.  
King Richard borrowed great sums of money of the City, but being cut off before the time of payment came, the City lost it.  
Collingborn Esquire, was drawn from Westminster to the tower of London, and there upon the hill was headed and quartered.  
An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1415 Sir Roger Clifford Knight, and one Fortescue, were drawn through London; and at Saint Martin le grand, Sir Roger would have broke from the Sheriffs, and taken Sanctuary, but the Sheriffs took him again, and had him to tower hill, where he was beheaded, and Fortescue had his pardon.  
Henry Earl of Richmond, jasper Earl of Pembroke his Uncle, the Earl of Oxford, and many other Knights, and Esquires, with a small company of Frenchmen, landed at Milford Haven on the sixth of August, whose coming when it was heard of in Wales, divers Noble men with great companies met him, and then marching against king Richard at a village called Bosworth near to Leicester, he met with his enemies the 22 of August, where between them was fought a very sharp battle, in conclusion whereof, King Richard with divers others were slain, and King Henry obtained a Noble victory; and immediately the L. Stanley crowned him King in the field, with the crown which was taken off King Richard's head: Richard was buried at the Greyfriars Church at Leicester, when he had held the crown two years, two months.   

Henry Earl of Richmond.  
An. Reg. 1 HEnry the seventh, born in Pembroke Castle, began his reign the 22 of August, in the year 1485. he was a Prince of marvellous wisdom, policy, justice, temperance, and gravity; and notwithstanding many great troubles and war, he kept his Realm in right good order, for the which he was greatly honoured of Foreign Princes.  
On the 22 of August was a great fire in Bredstreet, in the which fire was burnt the Parson of Saint Mildred's, and one man more of the Parsonage there.  
The sweeting sickness began the 21 of September, and continued to the end of October, of the which sickness a number of people died.  
The 30 of October, King Henry was crowned at Westminster; he ordained a number of chosen Archers, to give daily attendance on his person, whom he named Yeomen of the Guard.  
King Henry borrowed certain sums of money of the City, which was repaid the nexr year after.  
Wheat was sold for 3 shillings the bushel, and Bay-salt at the like price.  
The Cross in Cheapside was new builded.  
The King married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Edward the 4th, by the which means the two Houses, York and Lancaster, were united.  
An. Reg. 6 Roger Shavelock a Tailor within Ludgate slew himself; and forasmuch as he was a man of great wealth, there was a great contest between the King's Almoner, and the Sheriffs of London.  
An. Dom. 1493 A riot made upon the Eastelings, or Stilliard-men, by Mercer's men, and others of the City of London; for the which many of them were sore punished.  
An. Dom. 1494 An. Reg. 10 Wheat was sold at London for six pence the bushel, Bay-salt at three pence half penny, Nantwitch salt for six pence the bushel, white herrings at six shillings the barrel, red, at three shillings the Cade, red sprats six pence the Cade, and Gascoin wine at six pound the Tun.  
Sir William Stanley was behe aded on Tower-hill.  
An. Dom. 1495 Perkin Warbeck arrived in Kent, where when he and his company saw they could have no comfort of the country, they withdrew again to their ships; but the Mayor of Sandwich, with certain men of the country, fought with the residue that were left behind, and took 169 persons, who were hanged in Kent, Essex, Sussex, and Norfolk.  
An. Dom. 1497 By means of a subsidy that was granted to the King, a commotion was made by the Commons of Cornwall; whi●h under the leading of james Lord Audley, with Michael a Blacksmith, and others, came to Black-heath, where the King met them, overthrew them, and took their Captains: there was slain of the Rebels three hundred, and taken fifteen hundred.  
The Lord Audley was beheaded on Tower-hill, the Blacksmith and Flamock were hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
The King sent an Army into Scotland, under the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Nevil, which made sharp war upon the Scots. In Bedfordshire at the town of Saint Needs, fell hailstones eighteen inches about. Perkin Warebeck landed in Cornwall, went to Bodmin, where being accompanied with three or four thousand men, he proclaimed himself King Richard the fourth, second son of Edward the fourth: from thence he went to Exeter and besieged it, which City was valiantly defended by the inhabitants, but many of the Rebels were slain, and the● withdrew themselves to Taunton; from thence Perkin fled to Bewdley, where he took sanctuary, and was afterward taken, and pardoned his life.  
An. Reg. 14 A Shoemakers son was hanged at Saint Thomas Watering, for naming himself to be Edward Earl of Warwick, who was then kept close prisoner in the Tower.  
An. Dom. 1499 Perkin Warbeck and john-a-water were executed at Tyburn.  
Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, son to George Duke of Clarence, was beheaded at Tower-hill. Shortly after, Bluet and Astwood were hanged at Tyburn.  
An. Reg. 19 The 21 of November at night, a perilous fire began upon London-bridge, near to Saint Magnus' Church, whereof six tenements were burnt. The 7 of February certain houses more consumed with fire, against Saint Buttolph's Church in Thames-street.  
An. Reg. 21 The prisoners of the marshalsea broke out, and many of them being shortly after taken, were put to execution, especially those that had lain for Felony.  
An. Dom. 1507 An. Reg. 23 About Christmas was a Baker's house burnt in Warwick-lane, with the Mistress of the house, and two women servants.  
About this time the City of Norwich was much wasted with fire, there was 160 houses consumed, with most part of their goods.  
King Henry died at Richmond the 22 of April, when he had reigned 23 years, and 8 months, and was buried at Westminster in the new Chapel, which he caused to be builded: he left issue Henry Prince of Wales, who succeeded in the Kingdom. Lady Margaret, Queen of Scots, and Lady Mary, promised to Charles King of Castille.   

Henry the Eighth.  
An. Reg. 1 HEnry the Eighth, at the age of eighteen years began his reign the 22 of April, Anno 1590. of personage he was tall and mighty, in wit and memory excellent: the third of june he married Lady Katherine his first wife, who had been late wife to Prince Arthur deceased. On Midsummer day the King and Queen were crowned at Westminster.  
An. Dom. 1510 Sir Richard Emson Knight, and Edmond Dudley Esquire, who had been great Councillors to King Henry the seventh, were beheaded on Tower-hill the eighteenth of August.  
An. Dom. 1515 Richard Hun, a Merchant-Taylor of S. Margaret's Parish of Bridge-street, who had been put in the Lollards Tower about the end of October, was now the fifth of December found hanged in the same place, and after burned in Smithfield.  
An. Dom. 1517 The Thames was frozen, that men with horse and carts might pass betwixt Westminster and Lambeth.  
An. Dom. 1517 An. Reg. 9 On May-eve was an insurrection of young men, and Apprentices of London, against Aliens, of the which divers were hanged, with their Captain john Lincorn a Broker; the residue, 
Ill May-day.  to the number of four hundred men, and eleven women, tied in ropes all along one after another in their shirts, came to Westminster-hall with halters about their necks, and were pardoned.  
An. Dom. 1518 Many died in England of the sweeting sickness, and especially about London; wherefore Trinity Term was one day at Oxford, and then adjourned to Westminster.  
An. Dom. 1521 The 27 of May was Edward Duke of Buckingham beheaded.  
King Henry wrote a book against Luther, and therefore the Pope named him Defender of the Faith.  
An. Dom. 1524 In December, in the City of Coventry, Francis Philip, Christopher Pickering, and Anthony Mainle, intended to have taken the King's treasure of his Subsidy, as the same came towards London therewith to have raised men, and to have taken the Castle of Killingworth, and then to have made wars against the King, for the which they were drawn, hanged and quartered at Tyburn; the other of their conspiracy were executed at Coventry.  
An. Dom. 1526 The eleventh of February, four Merchants of the Still-yard did penance at Paul's, and Doctor Barnes bore a faggot.  
An. Dom. 1527 An. Reg. 19 In November, December, and january, fell abundance of rain, that thereof ensued great floods, which destroyed cornfields, pasture, and beasts; then was it dry till the twelfth of April, and from that time it reigned every day and night till the third of june.  
Such a scarcity of bread was then at London, and all England over, that many died for want of succour: The bread-carts coming from Stratford to London, were met by the way, and the people were ready to p●ll it out of the carts, insomuch that the Mayor and Sheriffs were forced to go and rescue the same, and see the carts brought to the markets appointed: Wheat was then at fifteen shillings the quarter; shortly after the Merchants of the Still-yard brought from Dansk such store of wheat and rye, that it was better cheap in London, then in any part of the Realm beside.  
An. Reg. 23 Richard Rice a Cook was boiled in Smithfield, for poisoning divers persons at the Bishop of Winchester's house.  
The eleventh of April, seven men with their horses, and a ferry man; were drowned at Lambeth.  
Thomas Bilney was burned at Norwich.  
An. Reg. 24 An. Dom. 1532 The 25 of May was taken between London and Greenwich, two great fishes, called Hurlepools.  
Five men were hanged and quartered at Tyburn, for coining and clipping of money.  
A great fish was taken at Blackwall, which was brought to Westminster to the King.  
An. Reg. 26 The 15 of May was a great fire at Salter's Hall in Bredstreet.  
The fourteenth of August was a great fire at Temple-bar: the sixteenth of August was the King's Stable burned at Charing-cross, wherein were burned many great horses, and great store of hay.  
An. Dom. 1537 The Prior of the  at London, the Prior of Beval, the Prior of Exham; Reynolds a Brother of Simon, and john Hail, Vicar of Thisleworth, were all condemned, drawn, and hanged, and quartered at Tyburn, the fourth of May.  
The eighteenth of june, three Monks of the  of London, Exmewe, Middlemore, and Nidigate, were hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
The 22 of june, Doctor john Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was beheaded on the Tower-hill.  
The sixth of july, Sir Thomas Moor was beheaded on Tower-hill.  
Within a while after the Lady Ann Queen was had to the Tower, and there for things laid to her charge, was shortly after beheaded: The nineteenth of May, the Lord Rochfort, Brother to the said Queen, Henry Norrice, Mark Smeton, William Brierton, and Francis Weston, all of the King's Privy Chamber, about matters touching the Queen, were put to death.  
In the beginning of October, at an Assize for the King's subsidy kept in Lincolnshire, the people made an insurrection, and gathered nine and twenty thousand persons together; against those the king did send the Duke of Suffolk, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Earl of Rutland, with a strong power, whereof, when the Rebels heard, they desired pardon, broke up their Army, and departed home, but their Captains were apprehended and executed.  
The ninth of October, a Priest and a Butcher were hanged, for speaking in the behalf of the Lincolnshire men, they were hanged at Windsor.  
After began an insurrection for the same's causes in Yorkshire, the people gathered to the number of forty thousand, against those Rebels the king sent the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Marquis of Exeter, with a great Army, with whom a battle was appointed to be fought, on the Eve of Simon and jude, but there fell such rain the night before, that the two armies could not meet, whereupon they desired the D. of Norfolk to sue to the King for a pardon, and that they might have their liberties, whi●h the Duke promised, and rid post to the king then lying at Windsor, to know his pleasure, and so appeased them; Ask that was the chief in this rebellion came to London, and was not only pardoned but rewarded with gifts: the king dealt with this Ask as his Father did with Perkin Warbeck, let him alone a while to see what he would do, and these kings did but just play with these miscreants as the cat plays with the mouse, for they were both of them hanged.  
The twelfth of December, the Thames being frozen, the king, and Queen jane road through London to Greenwich. The third of February was Thomas Fitz Garret, son and heir to the Earl of K●ldare beheaded, and five of his Uncles, drawn, hanged, and quartered at Tyburn: in this month Nicholas Musgrave, Thomas Gilby, and others, stirred a new rebellion, and besieged the City of Carlisle, from whence they were driven, and many of them put to death; also Sir Francis Bigott, and others began a conspiracy, and for the same were attainted.  
The twenty ninth of March were twelve men of Lincoln drawn to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered for a new rebellion.  
In Somerset shire was another rebellion began by Mr. Paulet, and some other of his friends; the chief of them to the number of sixty were condemned, whereof fourteen were hanged and quartered, one of them was a woman.  
In june the Lord Darcie the Lord Hussey, Sir Robert Constable, Sir Tho. Pierce, Sir Francis Bigott, Sir Stephen Hamelton, Sir john Bulmer, and his wife, George Lumbley Nicholas Temple, Robert Ask, William Thrift, Abbot of Fountains, Anthony Abbot of Gervaur, the Abbot of Rivers, William Prior of Burlington, all these were put to death. Sir Robert Constable of Hull, Ask hanged on a Tower ●t York Lady Bulmer burned in Smithfield Lo●d Darcie beheaded at Tower hill, Lord Hussey at Lincoln, and the rest of them suffered at Tyburn.  
The twelfth of October was born at Hampton-Court, Prince Edward, and Queen jane lost her life the 14 of October.  
Alwin a P●iest, Harsam customer of Plymouth, and Thomas Evel were all hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
The twelfth of May Friar Forrest was hanged and burned in Smithfield, for denying the king's supremacy, with him was burnt the gathering of Wales, (that is) as much as to say Darvar an image.  
The seventeenth of May was a great fire at Saint Margaret Pattons in London, where many houses, and many per●ons were burned, Edmond Cunningsby for counterfeiting the king's sign Manual, and Edward Clifford for the same cause were hanged at Tyburn.  
The first of September, was one Cartwel hangman of London, and two other hanged by Clarkenwel, for robbing a Booth in Bartholomew fair.  
Henry Marquess of Exeter, Earl of Devonshire, Hen. Pool. L. Montacute, & Sir Edward Nevil, the 9th of jan. were beheaded on tower hill, two Priests, Crofts, Collins, and a Mariner, were hanged and quartered at tyburn.  
john Lambert was burnt in Smithfield, on Ash-wednesday, john Potter and William Mannering hanged in Paul's Churchyard, for killing of Roger Cholmley Esq; in the same place.  
The third of March, Sir Richard Carew knight of the Garter, and Master of the king's horse, was beheaded on towe● hill.  
The Vicar of Wansworth with his servant and his Chaplain, and Friar Ware w●●e h●nged and quartered at Saint Thomas Watering.  
At this time were all monasteries suppressed because the king like janus would look two ways.  
The Abbot of Reading, and two Priests, were hanged and quartered at Reading; the same day was Richard Whiteing, Abbot of Glassenbury, hanged and quartered at Tower-hill, besides his Monastery, according to an old Prophecy.  
The Lady Anne Cleve received at Black-heath, and brought to Greenwich, and the sixth of the same month married to King Henry.  
The ninth of july, Thomas Lord Cromwell, Earl of Essex, was committed to the tower of London: the 28 of july he was beheaded on tower-hill, with the Lord Hungerford. King Henry was divorced from the Lady Anne of Cleve.  
The thirtieth of july, Robert Barnes, Thomas Gerrard, William Jerome, Priests, we●e burned in Smithfield, the same day Thomas Abel, Edward Powel and Richard Featherstone, were hanged and quartered for denying the king's supremacy, the fourth of August, were drawn to Tyburn, six persons and one lead Laurence Cook Prior of Doncaster, William Horn a Lay b●other of the Charterhouse, Giles Horn Gentleman, Clement Philpot, Edmond Broomeham, Derby, Kenham, Robert Bird, Gervis Carow, all put to death for denying the supremacy.  

The King married again.  
The eighth of August, Lady Katherine Howard was ●hewed openly as Queen at Hampton-Court.  
Great draught, and a great death of hot bu●ning, agues and fevers. the salt water flowed above London-bridge.  
Ralph Egerton, and Thomas Harman, put to death for counterfeiting the King's broad Seal. In April, certain persons began a new rebellion in Yorkshire, whi●h were shortly taken and put to death in several places, of which Leigh Tattersal and Thornton were put to death at London, Sir john Nevil Knight, and ten persons more were put to death at York.  
The Countess of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower, Damport and Chapman were hanged at Greenwich for a robbery.  
The 21 of june Lord Leonard Grey was beheaded on the tower-hill; he was Deputy of Ireland; the same day were hanged at St. Thomas Watering, Mantile, Roydon, and Frowds, Gentlemen, for spoil and murder they had done in Nicholas pelham's Park: the Lord of Dacres of the South being in company on Saint Peter's day, was led from the tower to tyburn, and there hanged.  
On Christmas Eve at night began a great fire in the house of Sir john Williams, master of the King's Jewels, where many of those jewels were burnt, and a great many of them stolen.  
The Lady Katherine Howard, whom the King had married, for her unchaste living with Thomas Culpeper, and Francis Durham, was by Parliament attainted, Culpeper and Durham were hanged at Tyburn. The 23 of january the King was proclaimed King of Ireland: the 13 of February were beheaded within the Tower, the Lady Katherine Howard, otherwise called Queen Katherine, and the Lady Rochfort.  
An. Reg. 34 An. Dom. 1542 The seventh of March, Margaret Davy, a Maid, was boiled in Smithfield, for poisoning three households where she had lived.  
The 12 of july, King Henry married Lady Katherine Parr, late wife to the Lord Latimer.  
Anthony Person, Robert Testwood, and Henry Filmer, were burnt at Windsor.  
A great plague was at London, and therefore Michaelmas term was adjourned to Saint Alban.  
This year ●han●ed four eclipses, one of the Sun the 24 of january, and three of the Moon.  
German Gardner, and Lark Parsons of Ch●lsey, Singleton and Assbey, were hanged at Tyburn for denying the King's Supremacy.  
An. Dom. 1544 The third of April a Gunpowder house in East-Smithfield was blown up, and therein burned five men, a boy, and a woman.  
This year was taken by the King's ships on the English Coast, the number of three hundred French ships, so that the Greyfriars Church in London was laid full of wine; the Austin-friars-s and Blackfriars were laid full of Herrings, and other fish, that were taken going into France.  
A Priest did penance at Pauls-Cross, and there confessed that he pricked his finger, when he was at Mass, and wiped it on the Corporis and Altar cloth, and went about to make the people believe that the miraculous Host did bleed after the words of Consecration.  
The 13 of February, a Priest was set on the Pillory in Cheapside, and burnt in both cheeks with the letters F and A. a paper on his head wherein was written, For false accusing; which judgement was given by the Lord Chancellor in the Star-chamber: a notable example of Justice.  
An. Reg. 37 An. Dom. 1545 The French Kings Navy coming out of New-haven and Deep, arrived in Sussex afore bright Hamsted, where they set some of their Soldiers a land, but the Beacons were fired, and 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 july 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, whi●h was full fourteen days and fifteen nights: the cause of this his thus sleeping could not be known, though the same were diligently enquired after by the King's Physicians, 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 july were burned in Smithfield for the Sacrament, Anne Askew, john Lassels, Nicholas Overden Priest, john Adlam tailor, and Doctor Shaxton, sometimes Bishop of Salisbury, preached at the same fire, and recanted, persuading 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 days 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 january.  
The 28 of january King Henry deceased, and left the Crown to his son Prince Edward, Lady Marry his daughter by Katherine, and the third, Lady Elizabeth by Queen Anne of Bullen: he deceased when he had reigned 37 years, nine months, and odd days, and was buried at Windsor.    

Edward the Sixth.  
An. Reg. 1 EDward the sixth began his reign the 24 of january, 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 Chancellor, 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 King's 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 Council, 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 persuade the people from their Beads, and at that time procession was forbidden.  
The Church-Service read in English to the people.  
On Saint Peter's 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 july a Priest was hanged and quartered in Smithfield, for killing one Mr. Body, one of the King's Commissioners; other of his Fellows were put to death in other places.  
A great pestilence in London.  
The 16 of September Saint Ann's Church within Aldersgate was burnt.  
An. Reg. 3 The 16 of january 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 Enclosures, the Commons of Sommersetshire and Lincolnshire made a commotion, and broke up certain Parks of Sir William herbert's, and the Lord Sturtons'; but Sir William Herbert slew and executed many of those Rebels. In july the Commons of Essex and Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk, rose against Enclosures, and pulled down many parks and houses.  
Also the Commons of Cornwall and Devonshire, desired not only the enclosures might be disparked, but also to have their old Religion: these besieged the City of Exeter, which was valiantly defended; john Lord Russel with a number of Soldiers entered the City of Exeter, slew and took prisoners more than 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 july, William Lord Marquis of Northampton entered the City of Norwich, and on the morrow the rebels also entered the town,  part thereof, put the Lord Marquis 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 encamped themselves at Mount Surrey, near unto Norwich, against whom Sir john Dudley Earl of Warwick 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 persuaded to submit themselves, the Earl of Warwick entered 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 marshalsea, for a Sermon which he preached at Pauls-cross, on the first of December: on the first of October he was deprived of his Bishopric, and sent again to the marshalsea, for disobeyding the King's order in Religion.  
The twentieth of November, Robert Kett, and William Kett his brother, were delivered 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 january were murdered by St. Sepulchers Church without Newgate, in London, two Captains that had served the King at Boulogne, and elsewhere; the one that was murdered was Sir Peter Gamba, the other Filieirga; which murders were committed by Charles Gavero, a Fleming, who came post from Barwick to do that act; the next morning he, with three of his companions, were taken in Smithfield; and carried to Newgate; and the twenty fourth of january they were all 4 hanged in Smithfield, Charles Gavero,— Balthasar Gavero,— Nicholas Dissalveron,— and Francis Devalasco.—  
The twenty seventh of january, Humphrey Arundel Esquire, Thomas Holmes, Winslowe, and Bury, captains of the rebels in Devonshire, were hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
The tenth of February one Bell was hanged and quartered at Tyburn for moving a new rebellion in Suffolk.  
The second of May, jone Butcher was burned in Smithfield for heresy, she held that Christ took no flesh of the Virgin Mary, Richar● Lion▪ Goddard Gorran, and Richard Ireland were executed the fourteenth of May for attempting a new rebellion in Kent.  
In the month of May, a miller at Battle-bridge was set in the pillory in cheapside, and had both his ears cut off, for speaking some words against the Duke of Somerset.  
On Saint Valentine's 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 Arden's 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 highway over against Feversham, and Blackwill, the Ruffian, that was hired to do the act, was burnt in Zealand at Flushing.  
The twenty fourth of April, a Dutchman was burnt in Smithfield for an Arrian.  
The twenty fifth of May an earthquake about Croyden, and those parts, did put the people in great fear.  
An. Dom. 1552 The twenty sixth o● February, Sir Richard Vine, and Sir Martin Partridge 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 joined 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 joined together in the midst, they lived eighteen days, and they were women children.  
The eighth of August were taken at Queenborough three great fishes, called Dolphins and the week following at Blackwall was six more taken, and brought to London.  
The seventh of October were three great fishes called Whirlpools taken at Gravesend.  
The eighth of October was three more great fishes, called Whirlpools, taken at Gravesend and drawn up to the King's Bridge at Westminster.  
King Edward being at the age of sixteen years, ended his life at Greenwich, on the sixth of july, when he had reigned six years, five months, and odd days, and was buried at Westminster.  
The tenth of july was proclamation made of the death of King Edward, and how he had ordained that the Lady jane, Daughter to Frances, Duchess of Suffolk; which Lady jane 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 july, Gilbert Pott drawe● to Ninion Sanders Vintner, dwelling ●● the sign of S●int - Iohn-Bapt●st-head within Ludgate, was set on the pillory in Cheap, wi●h bo●h his ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off, for words speaking at the time of Proclamation of the Lady jane.  
Lady Marry eldest daughter to King Henry the eight fled to Frammington Castle in Suffolk where the people of the country almost wholly resorted unto her.  
In Oxford Sir john 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 july by the appointment of the Council, the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Huntingdon, the Lord Grey of Wilton, and divers others, with a great number of men of Arms set forward to fetch the Lady Mary by force, and were on their way as far as Bury.  
The ninteenth of july the Counsel assembled themselves at Baynard's Castle, where they communed with the Earl of Pembroke, 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 july, john 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 marketplace 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 july 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 Marry.  
An. Reg. 1 Marry the eldest daughter to King Henry the eight, began her reign the sixth of july, in the year 1553. She came to London and was received with great joy, and entered 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 Marquis of Exeter, prisoners in the Tower, discharged: the fifth of August, Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London, prisoner in the Marshal Seas, and Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham, prisoners in the King's 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 Bishoprics again, also all beneficed men that were married, or would not forsake their opinions, were put out of their live 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 Paul's, preached at Paul's Cross, so offended some of his audience, that they breaking silence cried out, pull him down, and one threw a dagger at him, whereupon master Bradford, and Master Rogers, two preachers in King Edward's days, with much labour conveyed the said master Bourn out of the audience into Paul's School.  
The twenty second of August, john Duke of Northumberland, Sir johu Gaites, and Sir Thomas Palmer Knights, were beheaded on tower hill.  
The Queen was crowned at Westminster the first of October by Doctor Gardiner Bishop of Winchester.  
The twenty f●f●h of October the Ba●ge of Gravesend was overturned and forty persons drowned.  
In the beginning of the month of january, the Emperor sent a nobleman called Egmont, and certain other Ambassadors into England, to conclude a marriage between King Philip his son, and Queen Mary.  
The twenty fifth of january, Sir George Gage Chamberlain, certified the Lord Major of London, that Sir Thomas Wiat, with cettain other Rebels, were up in Kent, whereupon great watch was kept, and that night the Lord Major himself road 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 27 of jan. the L. Treasurer came to Guild-Hall from the Counsel, to request the citizens to prepare hundred foormen well armed, to go against Wiat, which was granted; and on the morrow were sent to Gravesend by water.  
The twenty ninth of january, the Duke of Norfolk with the Captain of the guard, and other Soldiers, and the Captains and Soldiers that were sent from London, minding to assault Rochester Castle, where Wyatt and his company lay, but the Captains of the City fled over Rochester Bridge to Wyatt, so that the Duke was feign to fly for London again to save his life.  
Thus Wiat's number being straightened with the Queen's Ordnance and treasure, the thirtieth of january he removed to Black Heath.  
Henry Duke of Suffolk Father to Lady jane, flying into Leicestershire and , made Proclamation against the Queen's marriage with the Prince of Spain, but the people gave no regard to his words.  
The first of February the commons of the City assembled in their Liveries at the Guild-Hall in London, whether the Queen with her Lords came riding from Westminster; and there after vehement words against Wyatt, declared that she meant no otherwise to marry then the Counsel shall think both honourable and commodiously to the Realm, and therefore willed them truly to assist her, in oppressing them that contrary to their duties rebelled, she appointed Lord William Howard Lieutenant of the City, and the Earl of Pembroke, General of the field, which both prepared all things necessary: Wyatt entered Southwark the third of February wherefore the draw bridge was broken down, Ordnance bend to that part, general pardon proclaimed to all that would give over and forsake the rebels. After Wyatt had lain three days in Southwark, he turned his journey to Kingson on Shrove-tuesday in the morning, being the sixth of February, where he passed over the Thames, and purposed to come to London in the night, but by reason that the carriages of his chief Ordnance broke, he could not come before it was fair day.  
The same Shrove-Tuesday in the afternoon were two men hanged in Paul's Churchyard, one of them was late Sheriff of Leicester, the other a Baker.  
On the morrow early in the morning, the Earl of Pembroke and divers others were in Saint Iame's field, with a great power, and their Ordnance so bend, that Wyatt was forced to leave the common way, and with a small company came under Saint Iame's wall, to scape the Ordnance, and so went by Chearing-Cross to the Bell-Savage, nigh unto Ludgate without any resistance, in at the which gate, he thought to have been received, but perceiving that he was deceived of his purpose, he fled back again, and at Temble Bar, was taken and brought by water to the Tower of London.  
The tenth day of February, the Duke of Suffolk which was taken in Leicester shire, was brought to the City of London, by the Earl of Huntingdon, and one of his brethren with him, and so had to the tower.  
The twelfth of February Lady jane and her husband Lord Gilford were beheaded.  
The fourteenth of February about the number fifty of Wiat's faction were hanged on twenty pair of Gallows. in divers parts about the City proclamation was made.  
The seventeenth of February, that all strangers should departed.  
The twenty second of February certain of Wyatt faction to the number of four hundred and more, were lead to Westminster, coupled together with halters about their necks, and their in the tilt yard, the Queen who looked forth of her Gallery pardoned them.  
The twenty fourth of February Henry Grace Duke of Suffolk was beheaded on the tower hill.  
The eleventh of April Sir Thomas Wiat was beheaded on the tower hill, and after quartered; his quarters were set up in divers places, and his head on the Gallows, at Hay hill, near Hid Park.  
The twenty seventh of April, Lord Tho. Grace was beheaded: William Thomas Gentleman, for conspiring the Queen's death, was hanged and quartered.  
The tenth of june Doctor Pendleton preached at Paul's Cross, at whom a gun was shot, the bullet lighted on the Church wall, but he that shot it could not be found.  
The nineteenth of july, the Prince of Spain arrived at Southampton, after he came to Winchester, and there going to Church, was honourably received by the Bishop, and a great number of Nobles on Saint james day; the marriage was solemnised between him and Queen Mary shortly after they came to London, where with great provision they were received of the Citizens, the eighteenth of August.  
The 26 of Octob. a Spaniard was hanged for killing an ●nglish-man.  
The eighteenth of November, great joy there was among the people, with ringing of bells, prayers for the Queen, and thanksgiving in all churches for he● being with-child, which proved no such matter.  
The 4 of Febr. joh. Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulc. was b●●nt in Smithfield.  
On Easter day a Priest named William Slower, with a wood knife wounded an other Priest, as he was ministering the Sacrament to the people in Saint Margaret's Church at Westminster, for the which fact the said William on the twenty fourth of April had his right hand cut off, and for opinions he held in matters of Religion, was burned nigh unto Saint Margaret's Church.  
The tenth of May, William Constable a miller's son▪ who had named himself to be King Edward the 6th, was sent to the Marshalsea, and the 22 of May he was carried about Westminster-Hall, before the Judges, whipped about the Palace, and then through Westminster into Smithfield.  
The first of july, john Bradford was burned in Smithfield for Religion.  
In the month of August▪ a monstrous fish was brought to Lin, of forty foot in length.  
In October fell such abundance of rain, tha● for the sp●ce of six day's men might ●ow with Boats in Saint George's fields; water came into Westminster Hall half a yard deep.  
The twenty sixth of October, Doctor Ridley, and Doctor Latimer were burned at Oxford for Religion.  
William Constable, who had caused letters to be cast abroad, that King Edward was alive, and to some shown himself to be King Edward, the thirteenth of March was drawn, hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
Cardinal Pool the Sunday following was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury.  
The twenty eighth of March, part of Newgate, called manning's Hall, was burnt.  
Certain persons purposed to have rob the Queen's Exchequer, to the end they might be the better able to make war against her; Udal Throgmorton; Pecham, Daniel, and Stanton, were apprehended, and divers others fled.  
The twenty eighth of April, Throgmorton, and Richard Udal, was hanged and quartered at Tyburn.  
The nineteenth of May, Stanton was likewise executed at Tyburn.  
The eighth of june, Rossey, Detick, and Bedell, were executed at Tyburn.  
The eleventh of june, Sands, a younger son of Lord Sands, was hanged at Saint Thomas a Watering, for a robbery.  
The twenty seventh of june, thirteen persons were burnt at Stratford the Bow.  
The eighth of july, Henry Peacham, and Thomas Daniel, were hanged and headed for conspiracy on Tower-hill.  
Cleba a Schoolmaster, and three Gentlemen in Lincolns-Inne, being brethren in Norfolk, were hanged and quartered at Bury for conspiracy.  
About this time began the hot burning Fevers, whereof died many old persons, so that in London died seven Aldermen in the space of ten months.  
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 Cheapside, and there set on the pillory, and after burned in both the cheeks with the letters F and A, for falsely accusing a gentleman of treason.  
The sixteenth of December, a stranger born was arraigned for making keys 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 lose.  
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 days, and then were taken and brought to London.  
The twenty eighth of May, Thomas Stafford was beheaded 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 january, the Frenchmen came to Calais with a great Army, and within four days 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 july, 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 Churchyard, and some webs of lead, four hundred foot in the field, writhe 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 man's hands, and carried a hundred foot, and then let fall, and died; five or six men were killed; there fell some hailstones 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 months, and odd days: the same day deceased Cardinal Pool, and a little before two of her Physicians, 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 rejoiced, 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 days 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 allegiance: the fourteenth of jannary she road in triumph to the Palace of Westminster, and the next day was crowned by Doctor Oglethrop, Bishop of Carlisle.  
The twentieth of january began a Parliament, wherein the fruits, tenths, and supremacy were reserved, and connexed to the Crown. In this Parliaments time the Queen granted licence 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 Inn, 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, shattered many other houses, slew twenty persons outright, and hurt as many, besides great damage to houses and goods.  
The tenth of April, William Geoffrey was whipped from the Marshalsea to Bedlam, for publishing, that one john Moor was Jesus Christ; which said john Moor, after he had been well whipped, confessed himself a cozening knave.  
An. Reg. 3 An. Dom. 1561 The fourth of june, between four and five a clock in the afternoon, a terrible tempest chanced of thunder and lightning, and chief about London, where amongst many harms, it fired the lofty Spire of Paul's-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 collars of skin about their necks, like to the double cuffs of shirts, and neckerchiefs, then used.  
An. Dom. 1562 The fourteenth of May, a manchild was born at Chichester in Sussex, the head, legs and arms were like an Anatomy, the breast and belly big, from the navel a long string hanging about the neck, a collar of flesh like the ruff of a neckerchief, coming up about the ears.  
An. Reg. 5 An. Dom. 1563 The sixteenth of janurry, a great tempest of wind and thunder happened in the town of Leicester, which uncovered many houses, and overturned many.  
Pestilence in 108. Parishes in London, besides eleven in the Suburbs.  
The eighth of july, a great tempest of thunder and lightning, by the same was slain a woman and three kine in the , near Charing-cross; in Essex a man was torn in pieces, his Barn beaten down, and his hay burnt.  
An earthquake in the month of September in Liucolnshire and Northamptonshire.  
From the first of December to the ●●elfth, was such continual lightning and thunder, that the like hath not been seen nor heard by any man living.  
An. Dom. 1564 In the month of December, was driven or the shore at Grimsby in Lincolnshire, a monstrous fish, in length nineteen yatds, his tail fifteen foot broad, and six yards between his eyes.  
The twentieth of September risen great floods in the Thames, that the marshes were overflowed, and many  drowned.  
The seventh of October, all the North parts of the element seemed to be covered with flames of fire, proceeding from the North-East, and North-West, towards the midst of the firmament, and descended West.  
The twenty first of Decemb. began a frost, which continued so extremely, that on New-year's even people went over, and along the thames on the ice, from London-bridge to Westminster, some played at the Football; divers of the Court being there at Westminster, shot at the Butts upon the Thames; and people, both men and women, went on the ice, in greater numbers then in any street in London: On the third day of january it began to thaw, and on the fifth day was no ice to be seen between London-bridge and Lambeth, which sudden thaw caused great floods, and high waters, that bore down bridges and houses, and drowned many people in England, especially in Yorkshire, it bore away Owse bridge, and many other bridges.  
The sixteenth of june, began a tempest about nine a clock at night, so great a tempest of lightning and thunder, with showers of hail, which continued till three of the clock in the next morning, so terrible, that at Chelmesford in Essex, five hundred acres of corn was destroyed; the glass windows of the East side of the town were beaten down, and on the West and South-sides of the Church were beaten down, with all the tiles of their houses, besides divers barns and chimneys, with the battlements of the Church which were overthrown: the like harm was done in many other places, as at Lead, Crainbrook, and Dover.  
This year, by the commandment of the Council, divers musters of light horsemen on sundry days, and in divers places about the City of London, were taken by the Mayor and other Commissioners for that purpose: But thus it happened on the eighth day of October, that Sir Richard Mallory riding through tower-street toward the tower-hill, there to take muster as was appointed, he was met by Sir Francis jobson then Lieutenant of the tower, and by him forbidden to enter the Hill with the Sword before him, whereunto no answer was made by the Mayor, but the Sword was violently seized upon by the Lieutenant, and his men, and defended by the Officers of the Mayor, so that the Lieutenant called for more Officers, and assistance out of the tower, and the Mayor's Officers were minded to raise tower-street, and some of the City, so there was like to have been a great tumult, but the Lord Mayor caused proclamation to be made, that no man should draw a weapon, or strike a stroke, but every man to departed home, horsemen and all, till they were again warned to appear, which was on the same day seventh night, being likewise Monday, and the fifteenth day of Octoher, they did there appear before the Mayor, and did muster in the very place where they were appointed, where by the Counsels appointment, the Mayor had the Sword peaceably born before him, as had been accustomed.  
An. Reg. 8 The twenty fourth of December, there arose a great storm of wind, by whose rage the Seas and thames overwhelmed many persons, and the great gates at the West end of Saint Paul's Church in London, by force of the wind were blown open.  
An. Dom. 1596 About this time Sir Thomas Gresham built the Royal Exchange, by the advice of Queen Elizabeth, at his own proper cost and charges, a fit meeting place for Merchants, who in former times used to meet in Lombardstreet.  
An. Reg. 9 The 22 of April, by great misfortune of fire, in the town of Ossestry in Wales, to the number of two hundred houses, besides cloth, corn and , were consumed.  
The seventeenth of May, in the town of Milnal in Suffolk, thirty seven houses, besides ba●ns and stables, were consumed with fire in the space of two hours.  
An. Reg. 9 After a dry Summer, followed a sharp Winter, which caused such a scarcity of fodder and hay, that in divers places the same was sold by weight, for five pence the stone: there followed also a great dearth of corn.  
On the twenty eighth of March, the Queen sent three of her Ships to Sea, to wit, the Antelope, the Swallow, and the Aid, and one Bark, against the Subjects of King Philip, who fought with eleven Sail, and brought home great treasure.  
Within a while after they fought with fourteen Sail more, whereof six of them were sent into the river of thames.  
An. Dom. 1568 The Gravesend Barge was cast away, and a many boats beside through a tempest.  
The eleventh of October were taken in Suffolk at Downham-bridge, seventeen monstrous fishes, some of them twenty seven foot in length, two miles from Ipswich.  
The twenty seventh of january, a French man, and two English men were drawn from Newgate to Tyburn, and there hanged; the French man was quartered for coining of gold counterfeit; the English men, the one had clipped silver, the other for coining tin-money.  
The plague increasing, Michaelmas term was adjourned unto Hillary term.  
An. Reg. 12 The Queen caused the Earl of Northumberland, and the Earl of Westmoreland, for rebellion in the North, to be proclaimed traitors, and forthwith prepared an Army to suppress them, the twenty fourth of November.  
The two Earls were overthrown, and fled into Scotland.  
The other rebels were taken by the Earl of Sussex.  
The fourth and fifth of january did suffer at Durham, to the number of sixty six Constables, and others, among whom an Alderman of the town, and one Parson Plumtree: then George Bowers Martial did see them executed in every town, and other places, betwixt Newcastle and Wetherby, about six miles in length, and four miles in breadth.  
The 22 of February, Leonard Dacre having raised a number of people, the Lord Hunsdon setting on him with a company of valiant Soldiers, slew many of his people, and forced him to fly into Scotland.  
On Good-Friday, the twenty seventh of March, Simon Digby, john Fulthroppe Esquire, Robert Pennieman, Thomas Bishop Gentleman, were drawn from the Castle of York, and there hanged, headed, and quartered.  
The seventeenth of April, the Earl of Suslex, with the Lord Hunsdon, Master William Drury, High Marshal of Barwick, with all the Garrison, and power of the same, began a journey into Scotland, and entered into Tividale, burnt, overthrew, and spoiled all the Castles, towns and villages before them, till they came to Craling.  
Sir john Foster with a Garrison entered Scotland, burnt and spoiled Cargeln; there both the Armies met, and overthrew all that came before them, till they came to Godworth: the Lieutenant returned to Barwick the 22 of April.  
The Lord Scrope, Warden of the West marches, entered Scotland the eighteenth of April, burnt and spoiled almost Dunfreize, took many prisoners, and returned safely: the marches of England were so well guarded by the Lord Eure, Sir George Bowes, and other of the Bishopric, that not one house was burned, nor one cow taken away out of England: there were razed, and overthrown, and burnt in this journey, above fifty strong Castles, and Piles, and above three hundred towns and villages.  
The twenty seventh of May, Thomas Norton, and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire, were drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered for rebellion.  
The twenty eighth of May, the Castle of Hambleton was yielded to Sir William Drury, and by him presently burned.  
A conspiracy was made by certain gentlemen, and others, in the County of Norfolk, ten of them were condemned of High-treason, three of them were hanged and quartered, which were these, Throgmorton, Thomas Brook, and George Deadman.  
The fourth of August, the Duke of Norfolk was removed to the  near Smithfield.  
This day johu Felton was arraigned for hanging a Bull at the gate of the Bishop of London's palace, and also two young men for coining and clipping, who were all all found guilty of high treason.  
The eight of August john Felton was drawn from Newgate into Paul's Church yard, and there hanged before the Bishop's palace gate, and being cut down alive, was bowelled and quartered, the Sheriffs returned to Tyburn with two young men, which were executed for coining and clipping.  
The 5 of October, happened a terrible tempest of wind and rain, so that many ships and boats were drowned, the water overflowing, drowned many towns, villages, , houses and goods, besides many men women and children were drowned in their beds.  
An. Reg. 13 The seventeenth of February, at Kingston, neat Marlech, in the County of Hereford, was seen the ground to open, and certain rocks with a piece of ground removed, and went forward the space of four days, it removed itself between six of the clock in the evening, and seven the next morning, forty paces, carrying great trees and sheep coats, some with threescore sheep in them. The depth of the hole, where it first broke out, is thirty foot, the breadth of the breach wa● eightscore yards; it overthrew Rinnastone Chapel, also two high ways were removed, nigh a hundred yards, with trees and hedgrowes, the ground in all is 26 Acres, and where tillage ground was, there is pasture left in place, and where was pasture, there is tillage ground gone upon it.  
The first of june john Story Doct. of the canon Law, who before had been condemned of high treason; was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
The sixteenth of july, Rebecca Chamber for poisoning her husband Thomas Chamber, was burnt at Maidstone in Kent.  
The seventh of September, the Duke of Norfolk was removed from the  to the Tower.  
The sixteenth of january, Thomas Duke of Norfolk was arraigned in Westminster Hall, and there by his Peers found guilty of high treason.  
The eleventh of February, Kenelm Barn, and Edmond Mather were drawn from the Tower of London, and Henry Rolfe from the Marshall-see in Southwark, all three to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered; Barn and Mather for conspiracy, and Rolfe for counterfeiting the Queen's hand.  
The tenth of March, deceased Sir William Pawlet Knight, Lord Saint john Earl of Wiershire, Marquis of Winchester, Knight of the Garter, one of her Majesty's privy council, and Lord high Treasurer of England, he was borne in the year of our Lord 1443. he served Henry the seventh, Henry the eight, Edward the sixth, Queen Marry, and Queen Elizabeth: himself did see the children of his children's children growing to the number of 103.  
This year 1572 was the massacre in Paris.  
The second of june, was Thomas Duke of Norfolk beheaded on tower hill.  
The twenty second of August, Thomas Piercie Earl of Northumberland, now brought out of Scotland, whether he had fled, was beheaded at York.  
The twenty fifth of March, being Wednesday in Easter week, George Brown, cruelly murdered, near to Shooter's hill in Kent a wealthy Merchant of London named George Sanders, which murder was committed by the procurement of Mistress Sanders, wife to the said George Sanders, for the which fact, George Brown was hanged in Smithfiold, in London, the twentieth day of April, and after hanged in chains near the place where he did the deed: Mistress Ann Sanders, Mistress Ann Druery, and trusty Roger, Mistress Drueries man; being all consenting to the murder, were all hanged in Smithfield on the thirteenth of May: not long after, Anthony Brown, brother to the said George Brown, was for notable felonies conveyed from Newgate to York, and there hanged.  
The second of Inn a great tempest o● rain and hail happened at Tocester in Northamptonshire, where six houses in that town were borne down, and fourteen more fore perished, the hail stones that fell were six in hes about, one child was there drowned, and many sheep and other .  
The sixteenth of june Thomas Woodhouse Priest, was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London and condemned for high treason; who had judgement to be hanged and quartered, and was executed at Tyburn the 19 of june.  
The sixteenth of August, Walter Earl of Essex sailed into Ireland with the Lo●d Rich, and many other Gentlemen; the Earl after many great dangers on the sea, landed at Knockfergus, the Lord Rich after the like dangers landed at Castle Kilciffe, Sir Brian Makephelin; on the sixth of September came to Knockfergus to the Earl of Fssex, and there made his submission: After him, Ferdorough, Macgillastick, Roze, Oge, Mackwilline did the like; and divers others sent their messengers to the Earl, to signify, that they were at his command; as the Baron of Dongarrow, Condonell, Odonell, and the Captain o● Kylulto.  
The Earl of Essex having the Country of Clanyboy, and other, the Queen's Majesty directed her letters to the Deputy of Ireland willing him to make the Earl of Essex General of the Irish Nation.  
An. Reg. 16 The sixth of july, in the Isle of Thanet, a monstrous fish of the Sea did shoot himself on shore, where for want of water, beat himself on the Sands, and died; the length of this fish was twenty two yards, the nether jaw twelve foot, the opening, the thickness of the back whereon he lay, to the top of his belly, was fourteen foot, his tail o● the same breadth; between the eyes twelve foot, some of his ribs were sixteen foot long, his tongue was fifteen foot long.  
The fifteenth of August, being Sunday, Agnes Bridges, a Maid, about the age of twenty years, and Rachel Pinder, a wench about twelve years of age, both of them counterfeiting to be possessed by the Devil, stood at Pauls-Cross, where they acknowledged their hypocritical counterfeiting, requiring forgiveness of God, and the world, for they made the people believe many strange things.  
The fourth of September, in the afternoon, such a storm of rain happened at London, as the like a long time could not be remembered, insomuch that the channels of the City ran so violently, that a Lad about ●he age of eighteen years, near unto Dowgate, was borne down the stream, and by the same carried from the Conduit there towards the thames, with such a swiftness, that no man with staves, or otherwise, could stay him, till he came against a cartwheel that stood in the water-gate, and there he was taken up dead.  
An. Reg. 17 Michaelmas term, which had been adjourned by Proclamation, began at Westminster on the sixth of November; the same sixth day in the morning, there happened two great tides in the river of thames; the first by course, the second within an hour after, which overflowed the marshes: the fourteenth of November, about midnight, divers strange apparitions of fire and smoke were seen in the air, to proceed out of a dark cloud in the North, towards the South which so continued till the morning: the next day following, the heavens did seem to be all on a fir●, and over our heads, the flames from the Horizon round about, did seem to meet.  
The twenty fourth of February, at 
Flies in February  Tewksbury a strange thing happened after a flood, in the afternoon there came down the river of Avon, a great number of flies and Beetles, su●h as in Summer evenings use to strike men on the face, in great he●ps, a foo● thick on the water, so that to credible men's judgements, there were within a pair of Butts length of those flies, about an hundred quarters; the mills thereabout were quite dammed up with them, for the space of four days after, and then were cleansed, by digging them out with shovels: from whence they came is yet unknown, but the day was cold, and a hard frost.  
The sixteenth of February, between four and five a clock in the afternoon, great earthquakes happened in the City of York, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Hereford, and the countries about, which caused the people to run out of their houses, for fear they should have fallen upon their heads: in Tewksbury, Bredon, and other places, the dishes fell from the shelves, and books in men's Studies fell down before their faces: In Norton Chappel the people being on their knees at evening prayer, the ground moving, caused them to run away in great fear, fearing that the dead bodies would have risen, or the Chapel have fallen; part of Rithing Castle fell down, with certain brick Chimneys in gentlemen's houses.  
The 22 of july, two Dutchmen Anabaptists were burned in Smithfield.  
The thirtieth of july was a great tempest of thunder and lightning, both men and beasts in divers places were stricken dead; also hailstones fell which were seven inches about.  
The twenty sixth of September, a Poulterer's wife in the Parish of Christ-Church without Newgate, was brought to bed of four children at one birth, and the same day month, the mother was buried, but all the four children were living, and were christened, but lived not long after the mother.  
An. Reg. 18 The eleventh of February, Anne Averies, Widow, forswearing herself for a little money, that she should have paid for six pound of tow at a shop in Woodstreet, of London, fell immediately down speechless, casting up at her mouth the same matter, which by nature's course should have been voided downwards, till she died; a terrible example of God's Judgements against them that make no conscience of forswearing themselves.  
An. Dom. 1576 The fifth of March, in the night, a Tilt-boat, with the number of thirty persons, coming from Gravesend to London, were all drowned, except one boy.  
The month of August, many complaints being brought to the Queen against the Flushingers for great spoils and robberies by them committed upon her Subjects, her Majesty gave commandment to put four good ships, and two Barks of her own to Sea, under the charge of Master William Hollstock, Esq; Controller of her Majesty's Ships, with eleven hundred men, victualled for six weeks, in which time was taken eight Flushingers Ships and Barks, prizes, and two hundred and twenty Sea-rovers in them, who were sent to several prisons.  
Walter Earl of Essex, and Earl Marshal of Ireland, Knight of the Garter, died in Ireland the twenty fifth of August, at Divelyn, and was buried at Carmarthen in Wales.  
The seventeenth of March, through a strange tempest which happened in the North, near the town of Richmond, not only cottages, trees, barns, and hay-stacks, but also the most part of a Church called Patrick Brunton, was overthrown, with most strange sights seen in the air, both terrible and fearful.  
The twentieth of june, William Lumley, a poor man in the Parish of Emeley, in the County of Worcester, being kept in prison by a wealthy Widow, he having a Mare of 22 years old with Foal, within three days after foaled a mare colt, the which immediately had an Udder, out of which was milked the same day a pint of milk, and every day after gave above three pints, to the great relief of his wife and children, the which colt continued so a long time after, as hath been seen by many thousands.  
The fourth, fifth, and sixth days was the Assizes held at Oxford, where was arraigned and condemned one Rowland Inks, for his seditious tongue, at which time there arose amidst the people a damp that almost all were smothered, very few escaped that were not taken at that instant; the Jurors died at that instant; shortly after died Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron; Sir Ro de Olie, Sir William Babington, Master Wenman, Master de Olie, High Sheriff, Master Danvers, Master Harcourt, Master Kirk, Master Fietplace, Master Greenwood; Master Foster, Master Nash, Sergeant Barham, Master Stevens: there died in Oxford three hundred persons, and sickened there, and died in other places two hundred and odd, from the sixth of july, to the twelfth of August, after which day died not one of that sickness.  
On Sunday, the fourth of August, between the hour of nine and ten of the clock in the forenoon, whilst the Minister was reading of the second Lesson in the Parish Church of Bliborough, a town in Suffolk, a strange and terrible tempest of lightning and thunder, strooke through the wall of the same Church into the ground, almost a yard deep, drove down all the people on that side, above twenty persons, then rending the wall up to the Vestry, cloven the door and returned to the Steeple, rend the timber, broke the chains, and fled towards Bongey six miles off; the people that were stricken down, were found grovelling on the ground more than half an hour after, whereof a man and a boy were found stark dead, the other were scorched; the like flash of lightning and cracks of thunder rend the parish Church of Bongey, nine miles from Norwich, wrung in sunder the wires and wheels of the Clock, slew two men which sat in the Belfry and scorched another, which hardly escaped.  
An. Reg. 20 The eleaventh of November, at night was seen a blazing Star with a long stream, which star was seen till eight a clock in the morn.  
The seventeenth of january one Simon Pembroke, dwelling in Southwark, being suspected to be a conjurer, by the Commandment 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 rattled a little in the throat, and never spoke 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  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, john Nelson for denying the Queen's supremacy was drawn to Tyburn 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 north-east on banks, it was found to be an ell deep, and in some places a yard and an half; in the which drifts of snow, in the countries, many , 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 o● 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 Sergeant Windham condemned to lose 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, Blacksmith 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 fastened, 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 july, the Queen's Majesty being on the river of thames, being betwixt her Manor of Greenwich, and Deptford, in her privy Barge, accompanied with the French Ambassador, the Earl of Lincoln, and others, it chanced that one Thomas Appletree, Servingman, being in company with some of his friends, would needs discharge a Caliver, being charged with a bullet, and shooting at random, by misfortune shot one of the Watermens in the Queen's 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 july brought to the water side, where was a Gibbet set up, and when the Hangman had put the rope about his neck, he was by the Queens pardon delivered from execution.  
This year, john Fox of Woobridge, 
269  William Wicnor, Robert Moor, Englishmen, having been prisoners about the space of thirteen years, 
In Turkey.  with more than two hundred of divers Nations, freed themselves, by killing their Keeper, and returned home to their own countries.  
In the month of September and October, fell great store of rain, which caused great raging floods in sundry places of this Realm, which caused many men, , and houses to be drowned: In the town of Newport, the cottages were bo●ne down, and the corn lost, pasture ground overwhelmed,  drowned: In the town of Bedf. the water came up to the market place, where cupboards, chests, and forms swum abour the houses; their fuel, co●n and hay, was by the water borne away; also the town of Saint Edes in , was overflowed s●ddenly, when all men were at rest in their beds, the waters broke in with such force, that the town was all defaced, the Swans swum down the market place, and all the town about the boats did float, Gormanchester was suddenly suppressed, their houses full of water, and their  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 Greyfriars, now called Christ-Church, in the Sermon time, one stone falling from the top of the Church, killed a young man outright, and one other stone so bruised a maid, that she lived but four days 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 Paul's in London, and some from the Church of Saint Peter at Westminster; divers chimneys lost the●●●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 june, 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 showers of hail, among the which were stones of divers shapes.  
The seventeenth of june, in the Parish of Blandsdon in Yorkshire, 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 Salad, 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 Agnes, wife to William Linsey, was delivered of an ugly and strange monster, with a black face, mouth and eyes, like a Lion, and both male and female.  
The eighth of October appeared a Comet or Blazing-star bushing towards the East, which was seen by night two months together.  
The thirteenth of October, a man was drawn to Saint Thomas a Watering and there hanged, headed, and quartered, for begging by a licence; whereto the Queen's hand was counterfeited.  
In the marshes of Dainsey Hundred, in a place called Southminstor, in the County of Essex, there suddenly appeared an infinite number of mice, which overwhelmed the said marshes, and did gnaw and shear the grass by the roots, spoiling and tainting the grass with their venomous teeth, in such sort, that the  that grazed thereon were smitten with a murrain, and died thereof; which vermin could not be destroyed by the policy of man, till it came to pass, that there flocked about the marshes such a company of Owls, as all the Shire was not able to yield, whereby the marsh-holders' were shortly delivered from the vexation of those mice; the like of these was once in Kent.  
The Queen the fourth of April dined at Deptford, and there after dinner entered the ship wherein Captain Drake had sailed about the World, and being there, a Bridge that her Majesty came over broke, being upon the same more than two hundred persons, and no hurt done by the fall, and there she Knighted Captain Francis Drake in his ship.  
This year was to be seen two Dutchmen of strange statures, the one i● height seven foot, and seven inches, in breadth betwixt the shoulders three quarters of a yard, and two inches, the compass of his breast one half yard, and two in hes, and about the waist one yard and one in●h; the length of his arms to the hands, a full yard, a comely man of person, but lame of his legs, for he had broke them with lifting a barrel of beer; the other was in height but three foot, he had never a good foot, nor any knee at all, and yet could dance a Galliard; he had no arm, but a stump to the elbow, or little more on the right side, on the which singing he would dance a cap, and after toss it three or four times, and every time receive the same on his stump; he would shoot an arrow near the mark, flourish with a Rapier, throw a Bowl, beat with a hammer, hue with an Axe, sound a trumpet, and drink every day ten quarts of the best beer, if he could get it.  
The first of December, Edmond Campion Jesuit, Ralph Sherwin, and Alexander Brian, Seminary Priests, having been arraigned and condemned for High-Treason, were drawn from the tower of London to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
An. Dom. 1581. john Pain Priest, being condemned of High-Treason for words by him spoken, was executed the fourth of April.  
The fifteenth of May, a Blazing-star appeared about ten a clock at night descending in the Northwest, the beard whereof streamed South-west.  
The twenty eighth of May, Thomas Ford, john Sherret, and Robert johnson, Priests, having been before condemned of High-Treason, were drawn from the Towor of London to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered; and on the thirtieth of May, Luke Kerby, William Felby, Thomas Totten, and Laurence Richardson, were for the same treason in the same place executed.  
The nineteenth of july, certain Firkins of Gunpowder, to the number of seven, and as many more of Sturgeon laden in a Cart upon Galley Key, some small portion of the same powder being shed on the ground, the horse in the same Cart striking fire with his foot, fired all together, where the Sturgeon was blown away, some into the Thames, and some elsewhere; one Firkin was driven through a loom wall that was boarded over; the Crain at the Wharf, with many houses thereabouts, were sore shattered, many men and horses blasted, three men and seven horses killed.  
The twelfth of August, there arose a great tempest of lightning and thunder, whirlwind and rain, besides hailstones fashioned like the Rowels of Spurs, two or three inches about, in the County of Norfolk; which tempest beat the corn flat to the ground, rend up many great trees, and shivered them in pieces: at Hemming, a mile from Worsted, the West door of the Church weighing above three hundred weight, was lifted off the hooks, and blown over the Font, within one yard of the Chancel-door; the top of the Church was riven up, and the lead blown away; five webs of lead were ruffled up together like a glove, and blown into a field without the Churchyard: at East Russen were many Barns blowed down.  
The seventeenth of january, in the Parish of Armitage in a place called Blackmore in Dorsetshire, a piece of ground containing three acres, removed itself from the place where it was planted first, and was carried clean over an other Close, where elder and willow trees grew, the space of forty Goad, every Goad containing fifteen foot, and hath stopped up a highway that directed towards the market town of Cearn; and yet the hedges wherewith it was enclosed, environ it still, and the trees stand thereon bolt upright, saving one Oak that is almost twenty load, and the ground remains a deep pit.  
An. Reg. 25 The twenty third of january, being Sunday, about four of the clock in the afternoon, the old underpropped Scaffolds of the Bear-Garden, on the Southside of the Thames, over against the City of London, overcharged with people, fell down, whereby to the number of eight persons, men and women, were slain, and many others sore hurt and wounded; a friendly warning to such as more delight themselves in the cruelty of beasts, then in the works of mercy, the fruits of full possessed Faith, which ought to be the Sabbath day's exercise.  
An. Dom. 1583 This year 1583. William Prince of Orange was slain by jowrigny a Wallon Soldier, who notwithstanding sundry extreme torments inflicted upon his body in prison; as also having his flesh pulled off with hot pinchers upon an open Stage, yet he never shrunk, or craved any favour, neither repent him of the fact.  
On the sixteenth of April, about eight of the clock in the morn, a Gunpowder house in Fetter-lane, and many other houses neat adjoining, were blown up, with the loss of fifteen hundred weight of powder, two men and one woman were slain, and divers others sore hurt, and some strangely saved.  
Elias Thacket was hanged at Saint Edmonsbury in Snffolk, on the fourth of june, for sedition; john Coping on the sixth, for publishing certain books seditiously penned by one Robert Brown against the book of Common-Prayer, established by the Laws of the Realm.  
On the seventeenth of September, john Lewis, who named himself Abdoit, an obstinate Heretic, denying the Godhead in Christ, and holding other detestable opinions, was burned at Norwich.  
The twenty fifth of September, a monstrous child was born in Yorkshire, having two heads.  
The tenth of October, at Caster in Norfolk, about two miles from 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 james Earl of Desmond, in Ireland wand'ring without succour, being taken in his  by one of the Irish, his head was cut off, and sent to England, where the same, as the head of an arch traitor was set on London-Bridge, on the thirteenth of December.  
The thirteenth of December, a fire beginning in a Brewhouse 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.  
john 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 traitorous persons, his Kinsmen and Allies; as also by reading of certain seditious books lately published for the which the said Sommervile, Edward Arden Esquire, Marry 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, john Sommervile, and Edward Arden, being brought before the Tower of London, to Newgate, and there shut up in several places; within two hours 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 january, 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▪ john Fen, George Haddock, john Munden, john 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 hanged, drawn and quartered the tenth of july next following, the said Throgmorton was conveyed by water from the Tower of London to the Blackfriars stairs, and from thence by land to the Session's Hall in the Old-Bailey, without Newgate, where he was delivered to the Sheriffs of London, laid on a h●rdle, drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
The 21 of january, Jesuits, Seminaries, and other Mass Priests, to the number of twenty one, late ●●isoners in the Tower of London, Marshalsea, and King's 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 entitled, A true and plain Declaration of the horrible Treasons practised by William Parry, that Arch Traitor.  
The twenty seventh of April, Philip Howard Earl of Arundel, for attempting to have passed beyond the Seas, without licence of the Queen, was sent to the Tower.  
On the twentieth of june, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, prisoner in the Tower of London, upon suspicion of high-treason was found there to have murdered himself.  
The fifth of july, Thomas A●●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 man's sight.  
The fourteenth of September, Sir Francis Drake, General as well by Sea as by Land, Christopher Carlisle Esquire, Lieutenant General, Martin Frobisher, with divers other Gentlemen Captains, and two thousand and three hundred Soldiers in twenty two Ships and Pinnaces, departed from Plymouth, and passing by the Isles of Bayon, and the Canaries, arrived at Saint jago, which City they took and burned; after they sailed to Saint Domingo, which they spoilt, and ransacked, and retiring homewards, razed and spoiled the City and Fort of Saint Augustine, in Terra Florida; and the twenty seventh of july, in Anno 1586. arrived at Plymouth.  
The nineteenth of September, to the number of thirty two Seminary Priests, and other prisoners in the Tower of London, Marshalsea and King's Bench, were embarked to be transported to Normandy, and banished for ever.  
The nineteenth of january, Nicholas Devoreux was condemned of treason, as being made Priest at Rheims 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 january.  
On the same day a maid was burned in Smithfield, for poisoning of her Aunt with whom she lived, and would have poisoned her Uncle, 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, Sergeant Floriday, Sir john Chichester, Sir Arthur Basset, and Bernard Drake, Knights: Thomas Carew, Richard Cary, john Fortescue, john 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 fastened on the rest by degrees.  
The seventeenth of March a strange thing happened; Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick, in the County of Huntingdon Esquire, one of her Majesty's Gentlemen Pensioners, 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 easy to be described; the length of which worm, divided into many grains, to the number of eighty, spread from the body like the branches of a tree, was from the snout to the end of the longest grain seventeen inches, having four issues in the grains, from whence dropped forth a red water; the body in bigness round about, was three inches and a half; the collar was very like the collar of a Mackarel: this monstrous worm, crawling about to have got away, was stabbed in with a dagger, and died, which after being dried, was showed to many Honourable persons of the Realm.  
The eighteenth of june, one Elks Clark, for counterfeiting the Queen's Sign Manual, to a presentation of the Parsonage of All-Saints in Hastings, directed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, or to his Commissary General, (the Diocese of Chichester being void) that he might be instituted Parson there, was drawn, hanged, and quartered at Tyburn.  
In the month of july divers traitorous persons were apprehended, and detected of most wicked conspiracy against her Majesty; and also of minding to have stirred up a general Rebellion through the whole Realm, for joy of whose apprehension, on the fifteenth of the same month at night, the Citizens of London caused the Bells to be rung, and Bonfires to be made, and also banqueting, every man according to his ability, some in their houses, some in the streets, with singing of Psalms, and praising God for preserving her Majesty, and the people of this land; which do of the Citizens were so well accepted of her Majesty, as by letters to them directed may appear.  
The seventh of September, certain of these wicked subjects were indicted: First, For intending treason against the Queens own person: Secondly, For stirring Civil War within this Realm: and thirdly, For practising to bring in a Foreign Power to invade the Realm: Seven of them appeared at Westminster, on the thirteenth of September, who all pleaded guilty, and were condemned.  
On the eighteenth of September the other seven were likewise arraigned, who pleaded not guilty, but were found guilty, and were condemned.  
These traitors, fourteen of them in all, were executed in Lincolns-Inn fields, on a Scaffold of timber made strongly for that purpose, even in the place where they had used to meet, and to confer on their traitorous practices, there were they hanged, drawn and quartered: seven of them on the twentieth of September, to wit, john Ballard Priest, Adam Babington Esquire, john Savage Gentleman, Richard Barnwel Gentleman, Chidrick Titchburn Esq; Charles Tylney Esquire, Edward Abbington Esquire: the other seven were also executed on the 21 of September, to wit, Thomas Salisbury Esquire, Henry Dunne Gentleman, Edward jones Esquire, john Travers Gentleman, john Charnock Gentleman, Richard Gage Gentleman, jerom Bellamy Gent.  
The eighth of October john Low, john adam's, and Richard Dibdail, being before condemned of treason in being made Priest, by order of the Bishop of Rome, were drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
The eighth of February, being Wednesday, according to sentence lately given by the Nobility, Marry Stuart Queen of Scots, about ten of the clock before noon, was executed, and suffered death, by beheading, on a Scaffold set up on purpose at the great end of the Castle of Fodringay in the presence of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry Grey Earl of Kent, principal Commissioners, and others the Gentlemen of the country near adjoining to the number of three hundred; all her apparel was burned, but her body with the head was honourably buried at Peterborow, on the first day of August next following.  
Monday the twenty fourth of February, a man was hanged for Felony at Saint Thomas a Watering, being begged of the Surgeons for an Anatomy; after he was dead to all men's thinking, cut down, and stripped, laid naked in a chest, thrown in a cart, and so brought from the place of execution, through the Borough of Southwark, and the City of London, to the Surgeons Hall in London, near unto Aldersgate, the chest being then opened, the weather being extreme cold, he was found to be alive, and lived till thursday next following, and then died.  
The twenty third of February, a Gunpowder house at Redriff was blown up, and much harm done.  
An. Dom. 1588. Great provision was made this year, both by Sea and Land, to withstand the invasion of the Spanish Armado against the Realm: for besides the general forces of the Land, appointed to be mustered, and put in readiness in several Shires for the defence of the Land, there was also a Levy made of two several Armies; the one to make a body of a Camp to reside at Tilbury in Essex, to encounter with the Enemy, if he should attempt to land in any place of that country, whereof the Earl of Leicester, Lord Steward of her Majesty's household, was Lieutenant General; as also of the armies levied against Foreign Invasion; the other to be employed for the Guard of her Majesty's person, under the charge of the Right Honourable the Lord Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty: the Camp at Tilbury consisting both of Horsemen and Footmen, raised out of all Shires, were of Lancers, two hundred fifty three, of light Horsemen seven hundred sixty nine, of Footmen twenty two thousand: the Army for the Guard of her Majesty's person, four hundred eighty one, light Horsemen one thousand four hundred thirty one, Footmen thirty four thousand and fifty. The Navy set forth, and armed for the Seas, consisted partly of her Majesty's ships, partly of her Subjects, which were furnished out of the Port-towns whereunto they belonged: 
269  Of this Navy, the chiefest and greatest part was under the charge of the Lord Charles Howard, of Essingham Lord, Admiral of England, and were addressed to encounter with the Spanish Fleet: the rest of the Ships were assigned unto the Lord Henry Seimour Admiral of the Fleet, to guard the Narrow Seas, and to stay the issuing out of the ships and vessels prepared by the Duke of Parma at Dunkirk.  
The twenty third of May, the Lord Admiral c●me to Plymouth, with the Fleet aforesaid, finding there Sir Francis Drake in a readiness with more than 50 ships and Pinnaces: the twenty fourth of june, the Lord Admiral issued out towards Plymouth; he divided her Majesty's ships into three parts, viz. Sir Francis Drake in the Revenge, he being Vice-Admiral, with other, towards the Islands of Scilly; john Hawkins Rear-Admiral, in the Victory, with other, toward the Isle of Ushent; and the Lord Admiral, with the rest, remaining in the Sleeve, appointed other there, all to discern if the Spanish forces did any way pass.  
The nineteenth of july, intelligence was brought to the Lord Admiral by a pirate Pinnace, whose Captain was Thomas Fleming, that the Spanish Fleet was descried, and that it was near.  
The twentieth of july, the Lord Admiral made toward the sea, and the same day had sight of the Spanish Fleet, in number by estimation one hundred fifty eight sails, the Lord Admiral cast about towards the land to interrupt them from landing, and having got the wind of them, followed them close all that night, and so continually from place to place, until the second of August, in which space having by the power of God wonderfully overcome them, he returned to Margaret in Kent: now the Camp being kept at Tilbury in Essex, under the charge of the Earl of Leicester, the ninth of August, her Majesty repaired thither, where all the whole camp being set in order of Battalia; she passed through every rank of them, to their great rejoicing, and lodged that night, and the night following, in the house of Master Edward Rich, in the Parish of Hornedon; on the next morning, she returned to the camp, and on the twelfth returned to Saint Iame's and shortly after the camp was dissolved.  
Sunday the twentieth of August, Master Nowell Dean of Paul's— at Paul's Cross, in the presence of the Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen in scarlet, all the Companies in their liveries, preached, & moved them to give God thanks for the great victory given to our English Nation, by the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet.  
August the twenty sixth, at the Sessions ne'er unto Newgate, were condemned eight men for being made Priests beyond the seas, and remaining in this Realm contrary to the statute, four temporal men for being reconciled to the Church of Rome, and four others for relieving the others.  
September the second, at night a fierce fire broke out over against the Dutch Church in London, to the great terror of the whole City, but by the burning down of one house, and pulling down some other, the fire was quenched.  
September the eighth, the Minister at Paul's Cross, moved the people to give God thanks for the overthrow of our enemies the Spaniards, and there were showed eleven Ensigns or Banners, taken in the Spanish ships by our men, and on the next morning hanged on London Bridge, towards Southwark, where then the fair was kept, being our Lady day.  
October the eighth, a stable was burned with the number of twenty horses, at Drury house near the Strand.  
An. Reg. 32 November the nineteenth, was this year kept holy day through the Realm, with Sermons, singing of Psalms, Bonfires, and much rejoicing and thanksgiving unto God, for the overthrow of the Spaniards, our enemies upon the seas, and a sermon at Paul's Cross tending to that end.  
November the twenty fourth, being Sunday, the Queen's Majesty having attendants upon her the privy counsel and other of the Nobility, honourable persons, as well spiritual as temporal in great number, all on horseback, did ride in a Chariot Throne; the Lord Mayor and, aldermans attending her, with all the companies in their Liveries, stood along to Paul's Church, where she heard a Sermon preached by Doctor Pierce, Bishop of Salisbury, and then went to the Bishop's Palace where she dined, and returned to Somerset house by torch light.  
january the fifth at night, a great wind in the North-east, overturned trees, and did great harm in many places.  
February the first, two soldiers were set on the Pillory at Leaden-Hall, where they stood for the space of three hours, the one had his ear nailed, the other his tongue pierced with an aul, which aul remained in his tongue till he was taken from the Pillory, for abusing their Captains with bad words.  
About this time Francis Ket Master of Art, of Wimondham, for holding divers detestable opinions against Christ our Saviour, was burnt near to the City of Norwich.  
February the fifth, two Soldiers were hanged on trees at the miles end for being mutinous.  
April the fourteenth, Philip Earl of Arundel, was arraigned at Westminster of high treason, and found guilty by his Peers, and had judgement accordingly.  
April the eighteenth, Sir john Norris, and Sir Francis Drake, with six of her Majesty's ships, twenty ships of war, and an hundred fit for burden, having in them a choice company of Knights, Captains, Gentlemen, and soldiers, departed from Plymouth, and the twenty third of the same arrived at the Groin, the twenty sixth, they took the lower town with great store of Ordinance, victuals, cables, and other furniture for shipping; about the sixth of May they fought with the Spaniards, at Borges Bridge, where the enemy fled with the loss of seven hundred men, the lower town of Groin was burned, and the ninth of May our fleet set sail, the Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Butler and Sir Roger Williams met the Fleet, so that on the sixteenth the whole navy arrived at Phinicha where they set to land, and the same day won both town and castle, after this they divided the Army, whereof part matched with Sir john Noris by land, to Lisbon▪ the rest with Sir Francis Drake passed by sea to Cascales; the twenty fourth our men entered the suburbs of Lisbon, where they obtained rich spoils, and plenty of every good thing: the twenty seventh the Army left Lisbon and came to Cascales, without any great fight or skirmish, where they took the town and then returned for England, but landing at Vigoe, they took the town, and wasted the Country.  
The twenty first of june Sir Francis Drake arrived at Plymouth; and the third of july, Sir john Norris with the rest of the Fleet arrived there also; the two Generals being offended one with the other.  
The first of August at night, was the greatest lightning and thunder, that ever was seen or heard of any man living, and yet but small hurt done, God be praised.  
The sixth of November Lodowick Grevil of Warwickshire Esquire, was brought from the Tower of London to Westminster, and there at the King's Bench Bar for murder, and other notorious crimes wherewith he was charged, arraigned, and found guilty; but standing mute, had Judgement to be pressed to death, which was performed in the Goal of the King: Bench in Southwark, on the fourt●enth of November: on the which day for the same fact, his man was hanged at the Court Gate at Westminster.  
An. Reg. 23 In this month of November, the Citizens of London were oftentimes affrighted by fire: first on the twentieth, about four a clock in the morn, on Fish-street Hill, where one fair house was burned to the ground, and some people, in helping to quench it, were consumed, and the houses next adjoining to it. Also the one side of Saint leonard's was sore spoiled: On the twenty two of November at night, about eleven of the clock, one other house over against the first was in great danger, but soon slaked: On the twenty sixth, about one of the clo●k in the morn, one other house and some people were burnt, and many other houses near about were spoiled.  
The fifth of january, about five a clock in the evening before Twelfth day, began a terrible tempest of wind in the South-west, which continued with great vehemency till about eleven a clo●k at night: this in the City of ●ondon blew the tiles off men's houses, and caused them to fear the overthrow of their houses: the lesser West-gate of Saint Paul's, next to the Bishop's Palace, was broken, with bolts, and locks, and strong bars of iron, so that the same was blown over.  
In the Country, houses and barns were blown down, and some far from the places whereon they had stood, besides t●ees in great numbers to●n up by the roots: At the Sea a great deal of harm was done at Southampton; the Ships and Barks riding at anchor, we●e driven a shore and sunk, the like was never seen.  
The fifth of March, a maid was burned in S●int George's field without Southwark, for poisoning her Mistress, and other people.  
This year 1589. Henry Duke of Guise, and his B●other the Cardinal Guise, were both slain by the commandment of the French King Hen. the third. This Duke was wonderfully beloved of the Clergy, and of the Peers, and Commons of France, of the Conclave, and many Foreign Princes; the manner of his death was taken very grievously.  
Within a while after, the said King Henry of France was also slain by a Friar, in revenge of the death of the two Brethren before named, and the Friar himself was instantly slain by them that were about the King, who slew him with the same envenomed knife wherewith he stabbed the King: this Henry the third was the last of the House of Valois, and presently upon his death, Henry of Bourbon, King of Navarre, laid just claim to the Crown, but it was a long time  he was settled: by the help of Queen Elizabeth at length he enjoyed the Crown of France peaceably, without any further molestation.  
The next year following, the great and ancient City of Paris, by their new King Henry the Fourth, was besieged, which City, until the day of their visitation, was a glorious and a flourishing City, and the most populous City in all Europe, until for their better defence, they were constrained to pull down all their Suburbs; and although the Siege lasted not above five months, yet such was the extremity of famine amongst them, as it may well be said to be greater than that of Samaria, or jerusalem; for after they had eaten all their herbage and carrion, and all manner of moist leather, with whatsoever else they could get, many of them did eat their own children, and the children of others.  
On Wednesday in Easter week, by shooting off a gun in the town of Ulfringhamton in Staffordshire, about the number of eighty houses were burned.  
In the month of january, one Nicholas a Perveyer, for converting to his own use certain provision taken for her Majesty, was hanged for example to others.  
The sixteenth of july Edmond Copinger, and Henry Arrington Gentlemen, came into Cheap, and there in a Car, proclaimed news from heaven (as they said) to wit, that one William Hacket Yeoman, represented Christ, by partaking his glorified body, by his principal spirit, and that they were two Prophets, the one of Mercy, the other of Judgement, called and sent of God to help him in this great work: these men were afterward apprehended; the twentieth of july, Hacket was arraigned, and found guilty, as to have spoken diverse most false and traitorous words against her Majesty, to have razed and defaced her Arms, as also her picture, thrusting a iron instrument into that part that did represent the breast and heart, for the which he had Judgement, and upon the twenty eighth of july brought from Newgate to a Gibbet in Cheap, where being moved to ask God and the Queen forgiveness, he fell to cursing and railing against the Queen, he made a prayer against the Divine Majesty of God, he was therefore hanged and quartered: His immodest speeches at his arraignment and death, utterly disgraced all his former seemed sanctity, wherewith he had shrewdly possessed the common people.  
The next day Edmond Copinger having wilfully abstained from meat; died in Bridewell; and Henry Arrington, long after in the Compter, submitting himself, writ a book of repentance, and was delivered.  
On the twenty eighth of October, Ben O Royrk, a great man of Ireland, was arraigned at Westminster, and found guilty of High-Treason; and on the third of November executed at Tyburn.  
The tenth of December three Seminaries for being in this Realm, contrary to the Statute, and four other for relieving them were executed, to wit, Ironmonger a Seminary, and Swithen Wells Gentleman, in Grays-inn fields, Blaston & White Seminaries, & three others at Tyburn.  
The fourteenth of january, Captain Arnold Cosby an Irish man, did forcibly set upon john Lord Burk, near to the town of Wansworth, in the County of Surry, and there upon a malicious intent did wilfully murder him, giving him one mortal wound with a Rapier, by means whereof he fell down; and after that, the said Cosby with a Dagger gave unto the said Lord Burk twelve, or more several wounds, of the which mortal wound he died within two hours after, for the which fact he was hanged on a Gibbet near Wansworth, on the twenty 7th. of january.  
The eighteenth of February, Thomas Parmort was convicted of two several High-Treasons, one for being a Seminary Priest, and remaining in this Realm, and the other for reconciling john Barwis against the form of a Statute: the said Barwis was likewise convicted of treason, for being so reconciled, and also of Felony for relieving the said Priest: Thomas Parmort was executed in Paul's Churchyard, on the twentieth of February.  
The 27 of Febru. Sir john Parrot Knight, was arraigned at Westminster, and found guilty of Treason, and had judgement, but died in the Tower.  
The fourth of May, a Tilt-boat of Gravesend, having in the same Boat about the number of forty persons, was overrun by a Hoy, so that the greatest part of them were drowned over against Greenwich, the Court then being there, the Queen beheld the mischance.  
In the month of june a young man was hanged in Smithfield, and a woman was burnt, both for poisoning her husband a Goldsmith.  
The fourth of September a woman was burnt in Smithfield, for poisoning her husband.  
The sixth of September, the wind being in the West, as it had been for the space of two days before very boisterous; the river of Thames was made void of water, the wind forcing out the fresh, and keeping back the Salt, that men in divers places might go two hundred paces over, and then fling a stone to the land. A Collier on a Mare road from the North side to the South, and back again, on either side London-Bridge, but not without peril of drowning both ways.  
An. Reg. 35 A certain woman, by the Counsels appointment, was whipped through the City of London, for afferming herself to be the daughter of Philip King of Spain, as she had been persuaded by some accounted Soothsayers; after proved liars, for she was known to be a Butcher's daughter in Eastcheap.  
March the twenty first Henry barrow Gentleman, and john Greenwood Clark, Daniel Studley Girdler, Sapio Bislot Gentleman, Robert Bowlet Fishmonger, were indicted for felony, the said Barrow and Greenwood for righting certain seditious books tending to the ruin of the Queen and state, Studley, Billot, and Bowley for publishing and setting forth of the same books, and on the twenty third, they were all arraigned, found guilty, and had judgement the last of March, Henry Barrow, and Greenwood were brought to Tyburn and there hanged the sixth of April.  
About the same time Henry a principal penner and publisher of books, entitled, Martin Marre Prelate was apprehended at Stebbenheath by the Vicar there, and sent to prison, in the month of May, he was arraigned at the King's Bench Bar, condemned of felony, and afterwards conveyed from the King's Bench to Saint Thomas waterings, and there hanged, this pernicious book much troubled the people.  
july the nineteenth, the Court of Assize was kept in Saint George's fields in a tent there, set up on purpose, many prisoners were arraigned, nineteen were burnt in the hand, but none executed; this assize was made an end the same day, which was thought to have lasted three days, but the justices made haste away for fear of being infected with the pestilence.  
This year no Bartholomew fair was kept, because of the sickness.  
The whole number buried this year within the City of London, the Suburbs and other places adjoining, as well of the plague as other diseases from the twenty first of the month of December in the year 1592. until the nineteenth of December 1593. was as followeth, within the walls of all diseases, 8598. whereof the plague 5390. without the walls and in the liberties, 9295. the plague 5285, so that within the City and liberties, of all diseases, 17863. whereof of the Plague 10675.  
February the eighteenth, Harrington a seminary, was drawn from Newgate to Tyburn, and there hanged and cut down alive, he struggled with the hangman but was quartered.  
The last of February, Rodoreck Lopez a Portugal as it was said, professing Physic, was arraigned at the Guild-Hall in London, and there found guilty, and had judgement of high treason, for conspiring her Majesty's destruction by poison.  
In this month of March, were many great storms of wind, which overturned trees, houses, steeples, and barns, in Worcester shire, in Bewdley Forrest, many Oaks were overthrown, in Horton wood of the said shire, more than one thousand five hundred Oaks overthrown in one day.  
In Stafford shire, the shaft of the steeple in Stafford town was rend in pieces, along through the midst, and thrown upon the Church, wherewith the said roof was so broken, that one thousand pound would not make it good, houses and barns were overthrown in most places in that shire, in Canck Wood, more than three thousand trees were overthrown, more than fifty steeples in Staffordshire were blown down.  
The eleventh of April was a great rain, which continued more than twenty four hours, and withal a great north wind.  
April the fourteenth, a woman was burnt in Smithfield for killing her husband.  
May the second came down great floods by reason of sudden showers of hail and rain that had fallen, which bore down houses, iron mills, provision of coals prepared for those mills, and likewise .  
june the seventh Doctor Lopez, and two other Portugals were drawn from the King's Bench in Southwark to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered.  
This year in the month of May, fell many great showers of rain, but in the months of june and july much more, for it commonly reigned day and night till Saint Iame's Eve; and on Saint Iame's day it began again and continued two days after, notwithstanding there followed a fair harvest in the month of August; but in September great reins rai●ed high waters, such as stayed the Carriages, and bore down bridges, as at Cambridge, Ware, and elsewhere, so that grain grew to be of a great price, as a strike or a bushel of rye, five shillings, of wheat, six, seven, or eight, which dearth happened more by means of transporting by our Merchants, than the unseasonableness of thew either.  
December the thirtieth a woman was burnt in Smithfield for coining of money.  
February the tenth, two Captains named York and Williams, were executed at Tyburn for felony.  
February the tenth, Southwel a Jesuit that long time had lain in the Tower of London, was arraigned at the King's Bench Bar, he was condemned, and on the next morrow, drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged and quartered.  
This year by reason of the late transportation of corn into foreign countries, it was grown here to an excessive rate, so as in some parts of the realm, from fourteen shillings to four marks the quarter.  
C●r●ain men for coining were hanged, also a Scrivener in Holbourn was hanged and quartered for taking the great Seal of England from the old Patent, and putting the same to a new.  
On the twenty ninth of june being Sunday in the after noon, a number of unruly youths were gathered together on Tower hill, being blamed by the warders of Tower street ward, who willed them to seaver themselves and departed from thence, these youths threw stones at them, and drove them back into Tower- street, and were heartened on by a soldier, who sounded a trumpet, but the trumpeter and many other of them being taken by the Sheriffs of London, and committed to prison, about seven a clock the same night, Sir john Spencer Lord Mayor, road to the Tower hill, attended by his Officers and some others, to see the hill cleared of all the tumultuous people where about the middle of the hill, some Warders of the Tower, with the Lieutenant's men, told Sir john that the sword ought not to be born up there, and two or three catching at it, some bickering was there, insomuch that the sword bearer was hurt amongst them, but the Lord Mayor seeing the hill cleared of all trouble, road back, and the sword bearer bearing up the sword.  
july the twenty second, in the presence of the Earl of Essex and others sent from the Queen, were arraigned at the Guild Hall, five of those unruly youths that were on the Tower hill apprehended, they were condemned and had judgement to be hanged and quartered, & were on the twenty fourth day of the same month drawn from Newgate to the Tower hill, and there executed.  
An. Reg. 38 February the twentieth, five men for cozening and counterfeiting of Commissions, were set on the Pillory in West Cheap, some of them had their ears nailed, and some cut off, some that had before lost their ears, were burnt on their cheeks and foreheads.  
In the month of May fell continually rain, every day or night, whereby the waters grew deep, broke over the high ways, namely, betwixt Ilford and Stratford the Bow, so that the market people riding towards London hardly escaped, but some were drowned, also toward Lambeth in the high way, people not on horseback were born on men's b●cks, and rowed in Wherries in Saint George's fields.  
Robert Earl of Essex, and Charles Haward, high admiral of England, embarked with one hundred fifty ships on the first of june, weighed Anchor, and hoist up sails, and took their way from Plymouth towards Spain, and won Cadiz and returned with great booties and spoils.  
Sunday the eight day of August, great triumphs was made in London for the good success of the Earl of Essex against the Spaniard, the winning and burning of the famous town of Cadiz, the overthrew of the Spanish Navy, with orher victories; a sermon of thanksgiving was preached at Paul's Cross in the forenoon, and bonfires with great joy in the afternoon.  
August the fifteenth a new house in Fleetstreet, hardly finished, suddenly fell down, and with it one old house adjoining next to it, by the fall whereof, the man of the house with a man servant and a child were killed.  
Sunday the fifth of December, great number of people, being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in , in the sermon time before noon, a sudden darkness fell among them, and storm and tempest followed after, with lightning and thunder, such as overthrew to the ground them that were in the body o● the Church, all the Church seemed to be on a light fire, a loathsome steanch followed; some stones were strike out of the Bell Tower, the wires and iron● of the clock were melted, which tempest being ceased, and the people come again to themselves, some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies, and their garments not perished, nor any marked that were in the chansel.  
A Parliament began at Westminster on the twenty fourth of October, on the which day many people were were smothered and crushed to death, pressing between White-Hall and the College Church to have seen her Majesty and the Nobility, riding in their robes to the said Parliament.  
This year pepper was sold for eight shillings the pound.  
january the twenty fifth, one named Ainger, was hanged at Tyburn, for wilfully and secretly murdering of his own father, a Gentleman and a Counsellor of Gray Inn, in his chamber there.  
An. Dom. 1958 On the third of April, Twiford town in Devonshire was burnt by casualty of fire, beginning first in a poor cottage; a woman there frying Pancakes with straw the same fired the house and so to the town, about one of the clock in the afternoon; the rage of which fire lasted one hour and an half, consumed four hundred houses, one hundred and fifty thousand pounds consumed in money, plate, merchandise, householdstuff and houses, fifty persons, men, women and children consumed, an alms house preserved, with poor men therein in the midst of the fire.  
july the twelfth, one johannes Buckley, a priest made beyond seas, having been arraigned in the King's Bench on the third of july, and there condemned of Treason for coming into this land contrary to the Statute was drawn to Saint Thomas a Watering, and there hanged and quartered, his head set on the Pillory in Southwark, his quarters in the high ways towards Newington.  
The first of September, in the afternoon was great thunder and lightning at London, two great cracks, as it had been the shooting off Ordnance, some men were hurt at the Postern by the Tower of London, and one man slain at the Bridgehouse in Southwark over against the Tower.  
November the ninth, an Esquire at Greenwich was arraigned at Westminster, and found guilty of high-treason, and on the thirteenth drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
In the month of july, were drawn hanged and quartered 2 Priests, one of them was named Hunt, and the other Sprat, for coming into this Realm contrary to the Statute, they were executed at Lincoln, two other Priests Edward Thing and Robert Nutter, were likewise executed for this same offence at Lancaster, also Thomas Pallafray a Priest executed at Durham, and a Gentleman with him for relieving him, and lodging him in his house.  
August the fifth, james King of Scots, escaped a strange and strong conspiracy in Scotland, practised by the Earl of Gowry and his brother.  
An. Reg. 43 February the fifth in the morning being Sunday, a great tempest of wind broke the Windmill beyond Saint Giles in the fields without London, the miller thrown one way, an other man an other, one thrown north and the other south, a part of the Mil-roof and half the millstone likewise thrown down.  
Sunday the eighth of February, about ten of the clock in the forenoon Robert Devoraux Earl of Essex assisted by divers noble men and gentlemen in warlike manner, entered the City of London at the Temple bar, crying for the Queen, till they came to Fanchurch street, and there entered the house of Master Thomas Smith, one of the Sheriffs of London, who finding himself not master of his own house, by means of the strength the Earl brought with him, and being ignorant of his intent and purpose, conveyed himself out of a back door to the Lord Mayor of the City, whereupon the Eearl and his troop turned into Grace street, and there perceiving himself and his assistance to be proclaimed Traitors, also the Citizens to be raised in Arms against him, he with his followers wand'ring up and down the City, towards Ludgate would have passed through, which was closed against him, so that he was forced to return to Queen Hith, and from thence by water to his own house in the Strand, which he fortified, but understanding that great Ordnance were brought to beat down his house, he yielded and was conveyed to the Tower about midnight.  
February the seventeenth, Captain Thomas Lee was drawn to Tyburn and there hanged, bowelled, and quartered, for conspiracy against the Queen, he took it upon his death that although he deserved death, yet he was innocent of that he was condemned for.  
The eighteenth of February, john Pibush a Seminary Priest, after seven years' imprisonment in the King's Bench, was hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas a Watering, for coming into this Realm, contrary to the Statute.  
The nineteenth of February, the Earl of Essex, and the Earl of South-hampton, were both arraigned at Westminster, and found guilty of high treason.  
Ash-wednesday the twenty fifth of February, the Earl of Essex was beheaded within the Tower, between the hours of seven and eight a clock in the morning, being present the Earls of Hartford and Cumberland, the Lord Thomas Haward Constable of the Tower for that time, and not passing sixty or seaventy persons more; the hangman was beaten as he returned thence, so that the Sheriffs of London were sent for to assist and rescue him from such as would have murdered him.  
The seventeenth of February, Mark Backworth, and Thomas Filcoks Seminary Priests, were drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered for coming into the realm, contrary to the Statute.  
And the same day a Gentlewoman named Ann Lina a widow was hanged in the same place for relieving a Priest in her house contrary to the Statute.  
February the last, a young Gentleman named Waterhouse was hanged in Smithfield, for speaking and Libelling against the Queen's proclamation, and the apprahending of the Earl of Essex.  
March the thirteenth, Sir Jelly Merrick Knight, and Henry Cuff Gentleman, were drawn to Tyburn, the one from the Tower, the other from Newgate, and there hanged and quartered, as being actors with the Earl of Essex.  
March the fifteenth, a new Scaffold was carried from Leaden Hall in the night, to the Tower hill, and there set up by torch light.  
The eighteenth of March, Sir Charles Danvers, and Sir Christopher Blunt Knights, were upon the new scaffold beheaded.  
Two men were set on the Pillory in Fleetstreet, whipped with gaggs in their mouths, and their ears cut off for attempting to have rob a Gentlewoman in Fetter lane, in the day time, putting gaggs into the mouths of the servants of the house because they should not cry out; one of these thiefs was afterward hanged and quartered at Saint Thomas Watering.  
August the twenty sixth, Desmond and an other Knight brought out of Ireland, were sent to the Tower of London.  
In November, the Lady Mary Ramsey, widow to Sir Thomas Ramsey, sometime Mayor of London, was buried in the Parish Church or Hospital of  by Newgate-market, a charitable dole or arms was given for her on the same day in the afternoon, at the Leaden Hall, seventeen poor people being weak and aged, were there among the sturdy beggars crushed and trodden to death.  
Lightning and Thunder often before Christmas, and in the holidays, and an Earthquake at London on Christmas Eve at noon.  
In the month of january, news came out of Ireland, that on Christmas day, that the Spaniards and Irish were overcome and slain in great numbers, and the English were victors.  
The eighteenth of january at night, Bonfires were made, with ringing of Bells, for joy of the news out of Ireland, the victory of our men against Tyrone.  
Windsor Boat was cast away against Black Friars stairs by a tempest.  
April the nineteenth, Peter Bullock Stationer, and one named Ducat, for printing of books offensive against the Queen and State were hanged at Tyburn.  
April the twentieth, Stichborne, William Kenson, and james Page, Seminary Priests, were drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered.  
The last of june, Atkenson a customer of Hull, was set on the Pillory in Cheap, and with him three other, who had been brought thither on horseback, with their faces towards the horse tail, and papers on their heads, they were there whipped on the Pillory and lost their ears by judgement of the Star-Chamber, for slanderous words by them spoken against the Counsel.  
The same day in the afternoon fell great lightning and thunder, with hailstones in many places of nine inches compass, which in Sandwich in Kent lay a foot deep on the ground, broke the glass windows of their Churches and many tiles off their houses, some barns were fired with lightning.  
February the seventeenth, William Anderson alias Richardson a Seminary Priest, was drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered for being found in England contrary to the Statute.  
In the month of March, the Q lying at Richmond, dangeroes sick, straight watches were set in London, with warding of the Gates; Lanterns with lights all the night hanged out of Windows, at which news the people were sore perplexed.  
Thursday the twenty fourth of March, about two of the Clock in the morning deceased Queen Elizabeth, at her Manor of Richmond in Surrey, being aged seventy years, and had Reigned four and forty years five months and odd days, whose Corpse was privily conveyed to White Hall, and there remained till the twenty eight of April, and then buried at Westminster.  
The same day aforesaid, the Nobility and Council of State, with as great peace, prudence, and providence, as the heart of man could imagine, assembled themselves together, and far beyond the general imagination of all men, being a matter of remarkable conscernment, took speedy order, aswell for the instant manifesting the Queen's death, as in publishing to the whole Realm, for their lasting comfort, the true and lawful Successor, and about eleven of the clock the same Thursday in the forenoon, which according to the computation of the Church of England is the last day of the year, 1602. being accompanied with the Lord Major, Aldermen and Sheriffs of London, and many other of most Reverend and Honourable quality, at the Cross in Cheap, Proclaimed, james the Sixth of that name King Scotland, to be the right King of England Scotland, France and Ireland Defender of the faith, being lineally descended from Margaret, the eldest daughter to King Henry the Seventh, by Elizabeth his wife, which was the eldest daughter of King Edward the fourth, the said Margaret was married to King james the fourth of that name, King of Scotland, in the year of our Redemption 1503. who had Issue james the fifth: Who was father to Mary Queen of Scotland, and the said Mary was mother to james the Sixth, Monarch of the Island of great Britain, and King of France and Ireland; This forenamed Proclamation, was most distinctly, and audibly read by Sir Robert Cecil Principal Secretary unto Queen Elizabeth, also the Lords and Privy Counsellors of Estate, with great diligence, send speedily Condinge Messengers to his Majesty into Scotland, who manifested, their whole proceeding, with tender of their zealous love and duty, and the people's universal joy, and great desire to see their King, which his Majesty most graciously accepted, approved all their proceed, and returned them all Princely thanks, Authorising the Lords, and others late Privy Counselors of Estate to the Queen, to persist as they had begun, until He came personally unto them.  
This Change was very Plausable, and well pleasing unto the Nobility and Gentry, and generally to all the Commons of the Realm, among whom the name of a king was to strange, that few could Remember, or had seen a King before, except they were aged persons, considering that the Government of the Realm had continued near the space of fifty years under the Reign of two Queens, which is the far greater part of an old man's age, but tidings hereof being brought to the king in Scotland, he called a Co●nsell to him, and taking order for settling all things in his Realm of Scotland, began his voyage towards England.   

King james.  
An. Reg. 1 PResently upon the death of Queen Elizabeth of Famous memory, the Nobility of this land, and Privy Councillors of estate unto the said Queen, accknowledged james the sixth than King of Scotland for their lawful king, and within six hours after her death, the said Lords and Counsellors, gave full satisfaction unto the people by three proclamations, the first at the Court Gate, the second at the Cross in Cheapside, and the third at the Tower, by the name of james the First King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, the King being then full thirty six years of age, and Crowned King of Scots in his infancy, began his Reign over the Isle of Great Britain the 24. of March, 1602.  
The Nobility and State aforesaid, with ●ll speed sent Charles Piercy, and Master Thomas Somerset, with Letters unto the King signifiying the death of the Queen, and the tender of their duties, love, and allegiance, but Sir Robert Carry rid post, and b●ought the first news to ●he king & as he rod gave knowledge un●o his brother Sir john Carie, than Governor of Barwick, this calm and discreet course, of the English Lords, in Proclaiming the King, and quiet settling the whole Estate, without faction or interruption, was as plausible unto all his loving Subjects, as admired of Foreign Nations.  
April the fifth, the King came from Eden-Borowgh to Barwick, and the next day came news of many disordered persons, that were in Arms 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 advice of the Counsel, set all the parts of the North Borders, in as good condition, as any other parts of his Dominions.  
April the tenth, divers prisoners were discharged out of the Tower, amongst whom, the Earl of Southampton was the chiefest.  
April the twenty seventh, was thirteen persons slain and blown in pieces by misfortune, at the Gunpowder Mill at Reddriffe.  
April the twenty eight, at Westminster a very Royal Obsequy, for the late Queen Elizabeth, according to the King's appointment, by his Letters to the Lords of the Privy Counsel.  
May the nineteenth, Proclamation was made for the suppression of disordered persons in the North: and for the mutual Peace and Amity of both Kingdoms.  
june the first, there was one whipped through London, for presuming to come to the Court, having his house infected.  
june the fourth, Valentine Thomas, having been many years prisoner in the Tower of London, was arraigned at the King's Bench Barr, and there condemned of High Treason, for Conspiracy against our late Queen, and some of her Counsel, and the seventh of june, about Six of the clock he was drawn from the King's Bench in Southwark to Saint Thomas a Water, and there hanged and quartered.  
july the second, the King Solemnised the Feast of Saint George, at Windsor, and Installed Prince Henry Knight of the Garter, and there the chief Ladies of England, did Homage to the Queen.  
There were also made Knights with Prince Henry, the Duke of Lennox, the Earl of South-Hampton, the Earl of Marre, and the Earl of Pembroke.  
Within a few days after were made divers Proclamations for the apprehension of Anthony Copley, Sir Griffin Markham▪ Knight, and William watson, and William Clerk Priests and about the same time was apprehended as Traitors, the Lord Cobham and his brother, the Lord Grace, Sir Walter 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 King's escape from being murdered by Earl Gowrie in Scotland.  
The Plague, increased most grievously in London, and thereupon it w●s ordered that every Wednesd●y the●e should be a general Fasting and Prayer, with preaching, through the land, to d●aw the people to humility and repentance.  
This year was Bartholomew fair forbidden to be kept, and Michaelmas Te●m adjourned, and to be kept at Westminster, but by reason of the sickness, it was afterward kept at Winchester, and the Lord Mayor great triumphs and feasts was this year omitted.  
The fourth of November, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Grey of Wilton were b●ought from the Tower of London unto Winchester, to be arraigned; and to that purpose were sent to W●nchester, Sir Walter Raleigh▪ Sir Gr●ffin Markham Knights, George Brook brother to the Lord Cobham, Anthony Copley Gentleman, William Watson and William Clerk P●ie●●s: and the same day out of the G●tehouse at Westminster▪ went Sir Edward Parham, he was acquitted by the Jury. The twenty ninth of November were executed the two Priest's and six days after was George Brook hanged, and the ninth of December, Sir Griffin Markham and the two Barons, a●ter they had been severally brought upon the Scaffold in the Castle of Winchester, and had made their confessions, and prepared themselves to die, upon a sudden, the Kings Warrant written with his own hand, was there delivered to Sir Benjamin Titchborne, High Sheriff of Hampshire, commanding him to stay execution, these three and Sir Walter Raleigh were returned P●isoners to the Tower again, the fifteenth of December.  
From the twenty third of December 1602. unto the twenty se●ond o● December 1603, the●e died of all diseases, within London and the libe●ties thereof, thi●ty eight thousand two hundred forty and four, whereof, of the Plague, thirty thousand, five hundred s●venty eight, and the ne●t year after, 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 m●de, for authorising the Book of Common Prayer.  
February the twenty second, Proclamation was made against all Jesuits and Seminaries, that they should forthwith departed out of the Kingdom.  
March the fifth, Proclamation was made for conformation of the Ecclesiastical government of the Ch●rch of England, and the book of Common P●ayer, as it had been used in the time of Queen Elizabe●h.  
At this time Robert Dove of London Merchant Taylor, gave competent means ●o● ever, for the tolling of a bell in Saint Sepulchers 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 prepare themselves for death.  
Upon the first day of May, Richard Haydock a Physician, asked forgiveness of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, for deluding the King and many o●hers, under pretence of being inspired, and to preach in his sleep by night, with which de●eit he had strongly possessed the vulgar, as it was hard to remove them, although he confessed the abuse.  
In this month john Lepton of Kepwick in the County of York Esq; a Gentleman of an ancient family, and of good reputation, his Majesty's 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 goo● horsemen, ●nd likewise good Physicians affirm, it was impossible to be done without danger of his life.  
He undertaken to ●ide five several times betwixt London and York, in six days to be taken in one week, betwixt Monday morning and Saturday night, he began his journey upon Monday being the twentieth day of May, betwixt two and three of the clo●k in the morning, forth of Saint Martin's near Aldersgate; within the City of London, and came into York the same day, betwixt the hours of five and six in the afternoon, where he rested that night; the noxt morning being Tuesday, about three of the clo●k, he took his journey fourth of York, and came to his lodging in St. Martin's aforesaid, betwixt the hours of 6 and seven in the afternoon, where he rested that night, the next morning being Wednesday, betwixt two and three of the clock, he took his journey forth of London, and came into York about seven of the clock the same day, where he rested that night, the next morning being Thursday, betwixt two and three of the clock, he took his journey forth of York, and c●me to London the same day, betwixt seven and eight of the clock where he rested that night▪ the next morning being Friday, betwixt 2. and 3. of the clock, he took his journey towards York, and came thither the same day betwixt the hours of seven and eight, in the afternoon, so as he finished his appointed journey, to the admiration, o● all men in five days, according to hi● promise's, and upon Monday the twenty seventh of this month, he went from York and came to the Court at Greenwich upon Tueseday the twenty eight to his Majesty in as fresh and cheerful manner, as when he first began.  
The second of july 1605 seventeen Scottish Ministers, contrary to the King's former Express Comandment, h●ld a Solemn Assembly at Aberdine in Scotland, who being Convented fo● the same before the Council of Scotland utterly denied, not only their Lordship's authority in that behalf, but the Kings also, saying that in matters Ecclesiastical they neither own no● ought to acknowledge themselves in any subjection, either to the King or to any Temporal power; and that all Sp●rituall difference, aught to be tried and determined by the Church, as Competent Judges, justifying their voluntary meeting to be good and warrantable by the word of God, alleging the several Assemblies of the Apostles, without knowledge or con●ent o● any Temporal Estate, for which Riot, and for denying the King's Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical, Six of the chief of them the tenth of january following at Blackness, were arraigned and condemned of High Treason.  
july the eighth Proclamation was m●de against Pirates, and other English Mariner's, and Soldiers, who under pretence of Serving the Sta●es▪ rob divers English men and others who made complaint thereof to his Majesty. Now this is the third Proclamation against Pirates.  
William Calverley of Carverley in Yorkshire Esquire, murdered two of his own children, at home at his own ho●se, than stabbed his wi●● in●o the body, with full intent to have killed her, and then instantly with like fury went from his house, would have killed his child at nu●se, but was prevented, he was pressed to death at York the fifth of March.  
Thomas Percy, Robert Catesby, and o●her● in the last year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, by the Instigation of certain Jesuits practised with the King of Spain, to send a well furnished Army upon England, promising him great aid, to entertain them at their arrival at Milford Haven, and to that end the King promised to send them fifty thousand pound, for Levying of Horse and Foot, and preparation in England for them of Ammunition, but when this was in a manner concluded upon Queen Elizabeth died, and the King of Spain upon certain knowledge that King james was established, dispatched his Embassado●●●●n● Commissioners for England, for con●●●mation o● a la●●ing Peace between them, yet nevertheless, the said Robert Catesby sent Thomas Winter again to the King of Spain, to Resollicite their former project, but the King answered him? Your old Queen is dead with whom I had wars; and you have a King with whom I have ever been at Peace and amity, and for continuance thereof, I have sent my Commissioners, and until I see what will become thereof, I will not hearken unto any other course whatsoever, when Winter returned and made this known unto Catesby, Percy, and the rest, they began to cast about what might be done of themselves, to the Advance of the Roman Catholic Religion, but first they would see the event of the first Parliament, if they would mitigate any former laws, and try what good the conclusion of Peace with Spain would do before they attempted any further, but when they perceived, that neither Parliament, nor public peace so●ted in any part to their desires, and that the peace concluded with Spain, was rather a more ready means for the law to proceed against them then otherwise, because the peace concerned only the amity of christian princes, for the general good of Christendom, without any particular or private respect; then Catesby told the rest he had a devise in his head that should free them and the rest of the Catholics here in England from their oppressors, and when he had found out fit Ministers for execution of his devise, after they had taken oath and Sacrament for secrecy, he told them he had devised the mean to blow up the Parliament house▪ by undermining the same, when the King, and Queen, and Prince, and Commons were assembled, which project they presently embraced, and forthwith Pearcie hired lodgings close to the Parliament house, and then they appointed miners, who with great difficulty digged and undermined part of the wall, but after a while they understood that the vaunt right under the Parliament house was to be let, than Guido Faukes hired it, this Guido Fawks was of late a Soldier in Flanders and for that purpose sent for, who by consent of the rest changed his name, and was called john johnson, Master Pearcies man, after they had hired the vault, they secretly conveyed into it thirty and six barrels of powder and covered them over with billets and faggots.  
About ten days before, the Parliament began, an unknown party met with a servant of my Lord Mounteagles, and delivered him a letter, charging him speedily to deliver it to my Lord, which he did, when his Lord had read it, and observed the dangerous contents, with a special caveat not to appear the first day of Parliament, he was amazed, and forthwith delivered it to the Earl of Sallisbury the King's chief Secretary, and Counsellor of State, when the Earl had judiciously observed the strange phrase and teno● thereof, with the terrible threats therein against the whole state, he acquainted the Lord Chamberlain therewith, and then they shown it to the Lord Admiral●, the Earls of Worcester, and Northampton, who instantly consulted what was fittest to be done, omitting neither time, diligence, nor industry, all which notwithstanding, they could not as yet find out the depth of this mystery, and were therefore much troubled in mind, because the appointed day of Parliament drew near, which was Tuesday the fifth of November: the Saturday before, the King being returned from hunting, the said Lord acquainted his Highness with what had passed, and when his Majesty had well noted the strange contents of the letter, which purported the sudden ruin of the state, the King said that notwithstanding the slight regard that should be given to scattered Libels, yet this was more quick than was usually in Libels, and willed them to search in all places as well not daily frequented as of usual repair, and as concerning any foreign disturbance or invasion, he well knew the force and preparation of all Christian Nations, and that whatsoever plot and treason was now in hand, it must be performed in some unsuspected place, and by some homebred Traitors, whereupon new search was made, about the Court and Parliament house, but co●ld not as ●et find any thing out worthy their labours, all which labours, all which searches was performed with such silence and discretion, as there risen no manner of suspicion either in Court or City, the Lord Chamberlain whose office it most concerned, never rested day nor night, and the night before the Parliament, as Sir Thomas Knevet with others scouted about the Parliament house, espied a fellow standing in a corner very suspiciously, and asked him his name, and what he was, and what he did there so late, who answered very bluntly his name was john johnson, Master Pearces man, and keeper of his lodgings, Sir Thomas Knevet still continued his search in all places, and returning thither again, found him lingering there, still searched him, and found under his cloak a dark Lantern with a candle burning in it, and about him other signs of suspicion, that he stood not there for any good, than the Knight entered the vault, where he found the powder covered with faggots and billots, and then the Lord Chamberlain commanded the Traitor to be bound, and being now three of the clock in the morning, he went unto the King, and with exceeding joy, told his Majesty the treason was found out, and the traitor in hold, the King desired to see Faukes, who when he came before the King, used like traitorous speeches, as he did at his first apprehension, affirming he was the only man to perform this treason: saying it sore vexed him that the deed was not done, and for that time would not confess any thing, touching the rest of the conspirators, but that he himself only alone was the contriver and practiser of this treason.  
Between five and six a clock in the morning, the Conusel gave order to the Lard Major of London to look well to the City, and in very calm manner, to set civil watch at the City Gates, signifying therewithal that there was a plot of treason found out, and that the king would not go to Parliament that day, the same day in the afternoon the manner of the treason was by way of Proclamation made known unto the people, for joy whereof there was that night, within the City and about as many bonfires as the streets could permit, and the peole gave humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for their King and Countries right blessed, escape.  
Within three days after two other Proclamations were made, signifying unto the people who were the chief Conspirators, with commandment to apprehend Percy and Catesby, and to take them alive if it were possible, which said Percy and Catesby were gone to Holback in Warwick Shire, to meet Winter, Grante and others; where under pretence of a great hunting they made account to raise the Country and surprise the lady Elizabeth, from the Lord Harrington, whom they meant to Proclaim Queen, and in whose name they meant to take up Arms, being persuaded that the King, the Prince and the Duke of York, were at that time blown up in the Parliament House, but when they found their treason was known and prevented, and saw the King's Forces round about the house, so as they could not escape, Pearsey and Catesby very desperately issued out, and fight back to back, were both flain with one Musket shot.  
Saturday the ninth of November, the King went to Parliament, where in the presence of the Queen, the Prince, the Duke of York, the Ambassadors of the King of Spain, and the Archduke, and the Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, and Commons of the same, he made a very solemn oration, Manifesting the whole Complott or this treason.  
january the nineteenth, a great Porpaise was taken alive at West-Ham, in alittle Creek; a mile and a half within the land, and was presented unto Francis Gofton Esquire, Chief Auditor of the Imprests, and within a few days after, a very great Whale came within eight miles of London: whose length was divers times seen above the Water, and the same was judged to be a great deal longer than any Ship in the River.  
A few days before Christmas, the Parliament broke up, and began to sit again the twenty second of january being Tuesday, and continued until the twenty seventh of May next following, in which Parliament, they gave the King and and his Successors, three entire Subsidies, and six Fifteen, and then the Parliament was proro●ged, until the eigh●een●h o● November at this 〈◊〉 the Clergy gave unto the King and his Successors four entire Subsidies, and in this Parliament it was enacted, that the fifth of November should be kept Holy day for ever, with preaching, and giving God thanks for his mercy, in preventing that terrible danger, of the late practice by Percy and Catesby with the rest of their wicked Crew, to blow up the Parliament House.  
janury the twenty seventh, at Westminster were Arraigned Thomas Winter, Guydo Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, for plotting to blow up the Parliament House, Digging in the Mine, taking oath and Sacrament for secrecy, and Sir Everard Digby for being made acquainted with the said treason, yielding assent to it, and taking his corporal oath for secrecy all which Inditements were proved against them, and by themselves confessed, and thereupon had Judgement given them, to be Drawn, Hanged, and quartered, their limbs to be set upon the City Gates, and their heads upon London Bridge according to which sentence, the thirtieth of january, Sir Everard Digby, Robert Winter, john Grant, and Baits, at the West end of Saint Paul's Church, and the next day after the other four were executed in the Parliament yard, and six of the eight acknowledged their guiltiness in this horrible plot, and died very penitently, but Grant and Keys did not so.  
Saturday the twenty second of March, between six and seven a clock in the forenoon; a rumour was so dainly spread throughout the Court, and the City of London, that for certain, the King that morning was slain, as he was a h●nting in Okeing Park, twenty miles from London, which dreadful news still increased, until nine of the Clock, being seconded by Infinite suggestions, by reason whereof it was generally received for truth, and thereupon the Court Gates were kept shut; The Lord Major began to set Cuard at the City Gates, and to raise the Trained bands; Sir William Wade Liverenant of the Tower did the like with his Hamlets within his liberties, and the Parliament was much amazed: but by eleven of the Clock, the joyful news of the King's good health was made known in London by Proclamation, as it had been at the Court an hou●e before, whereat the people began to revive their vexed spirits, which till then were wondrously surcharged with heart's grief. This flying news went three day's journey into the Country before it was suppressed.  
Friday the twenty eight of March, 1606. w●s Arraigned and Condemned Henry Garnet, Provincial of the jesuites in England, for being acquainted with the Gunpowder plot, and consealing the same, for the which▪ he was condemned to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered and his head to be set upon London Bridge, and according to that Sentence he was Executed the third of May at the West end of Saint Paul's Church where he acknowledged the greatness of his offence, in consealing the treason; and besought all Catholics to forbear and desist from Treason and all other violent attempts whatsoever, against Kings, and Princes, saying that all such practices were utterly against the Catholic Religion.  
The twenty nine and thirtieth of March, the wind was extreme violent, so as it caused much Shipwreck upon the Coasts of England France and the Low Countries, in brought in the Sea and drowned much Cattles, and in Picardy near Dyope, it blew down a steeple which Slew sourscore persons in the fall thereof, in Flanders, and up towards Germany, there were many Churches, Towns, Windemills. and Trees blown down, and the eighth of june following it rained twenty four hours, and the next day there arose great land floods which carried away Mills, Trees and Houses, made new Currants where never any was before, it carried away great store of Cattles, Timber and other things from off upland grounds.  
The tenth of june Proclamation was made for the banishing of all seminaries, Jesuits, and Roman-priests.  
The fifteenth of july the wife of Richard Homewood of East Grimsteed in Sussex without any known cause, murdered her own three children, and threw them into a pit, and then cut her own throat likewise.  
The twentieth of january, it pleased God to send a mighty westwind, which continued sixteen hours, which brought in the sea, by reason whereof, and of high springtides, both which encountered the land waters, after a great rain, which caused the River of Severn, beginning as far as the Mount in Cornwall, to overflow her banks all along on both sides, up into Somerset shire, and , in some places the water overflowed the banks three foot, in other places five foot, and some places seven foot, by reason of which sudden inundation, much people and cattle were drowned, many Churches and villages borne down and spoilt and some utterly destroyed, and in Wales in several places, it did great harm in manner as aforesaid, the like before was never known.  
Maundy Thursday, the second of April, there happened great inundations of water in Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and the seventeenth of April, there arose in the City of Coventry a most strange and dreadful inundation.  
November the twenty sixth, proclamation was made concerning the Earl of Tyrone Terconnel, and others of Ireland, signifying their purpose and practise to exterpit the English Nation out of Ireland, and to confer and yield the kingdom of Ireland, to the Pope, and Tyrones soliciting foreign Princes to attempt the conquest thereof.  
The twentieth of December, proclamation was made to apprehend the Lord Maxwel, who wounded the porter and so broke prison out of Edinburgh Castle, this Lord Maxwel aided james Mackdonel to escape likewise.  
December the eighth, begun a hard frost, and continued till the fifteenth of the same, and then thawed, and the twenty second of December, it began again to freeze very violently, so as some persons went half wap over upon the ice, and the thirtieth of December, many people went quite over in many places, and so continued till the third of january▪ the people passed daily between London and the Bankside at every half ebb, for the flood removed the ice, and forced the people daily to seek new paths, except only between Lambeth and the ferry at Westminster, by which it became very firm passage, until the great thaw, and from Sunday the tenth of january, until the fifteenth of the same, the frost grew extreme, so as the ice became firm, and removed not, and then all sorts of men women and children went boldly upon the ice in most parts, some shot at pricks, others bowled, and danced, with other variable pastimes; by reason of which concourse of people, were many that set up booths, and stand, upon the ice, as fruit-sellers, victuallers, that sold beer and wine, shoemakers, and a barber's tent, every of them had fire near unto them, the fifteenth of january it began somewhat to thaw, and so continued four days together; yet nevertheless the great ice upon the Thames held firm and passable, and became somewhat smooth, like as in the last great frost in the year 1564. which before were very craggy and uncertain: the nineteenth of january, the frost began again, but not so violently, until Sunday the twenty fourth of january, and held on until the thirtieth of the same, the first of February the ice began to break by little and little, and the next day in the afternoon all the ice was gone, and quite dissolved, so as no sign remained thereof. Many bridges were spoiled by this frost, and much fowl perished, especially small birds, which in many places▪ were found frozen to death▪ this frost was more grievous in France and Ireland then in England.  
February the ninth, Sir john Ramsey Knight, Baron of Barnes, Viscount Hadington, married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Robert Earl of Sussex, the King gave her in marriage, and at dinner he drank to the Bride and the Bridegroom in a fair cup of gold, which he gave him, and with it six hundred pound a year pension out of the Exchequer, to the longest liver of them both, this the King did do, to reward his faithful service, against the dangerous treason of Earl Gowry in Scotland.  
March the tenth, was laid the first stone for the new building of Algate, but it was not fully finished till the next year after, this ouldgate was taken down and finished at the charges of the Citizens.  
April the eleaventh, George jervas' a Seminary, was drawn to Tyburn and there executed.  
April the eleaventh being Monday, the quarter Sessions was held at Edmonsbury, and by negligence an out malthouse was set on fire, from whence in most strange and sudden manner, through fierce winds, the fire came to the farther part of the town, and as it went, left some streets and houses safe, and untouched; the flame flew clear over many houses near unto it, and did much spoil to many fair buildings farthest off, and ceased not until it had consumed one hundred sixty houses, besides others, and in damage of wares and household goods, to the full value of threescore thousand pound, the King shown a great deal of kindness to the distressed inhabitants, as in giving them five hundred load of Timber to repair their houses, as in preferring their best means to raise their general and particular estates, and in giving them a new Charter, the Knights and Gentlemen likewise of the County performed great kindness unto the townsmen, the City of London gave freely towards their relief.  
April the nineteenth, at White-Hall died Thomas Earl of Dorcet, Lord High Treasurer of England, he died suddenly at the Counsel table.  
April the twenty ninth proclamation was made, commanding the oath of allegiance to be ministered to all persons that should come from beyond the seas, only to distinguish honest subjects, from traitorous practisers, and not for any point or matter in religion, all known Merchants and others of honest state and quality, was exempt from takeing this oath, this proclamation was made, by reason that many suspicious persons of base sort came daily from beyond seas, and refused to take the oath.  
june twenty third, Thomas Garnet a Jesuit was executed at Tyburn, having favour offered him, if he would have taken the oath of allegiance which he refused.  
This Summer at Astley in Warwick shire, by reason of the fall of the Church, there was taken up the corpse of Thomas Grey Marquis of Dorset, he was buried the tenth of October, 1530 in the twenty second year of the ●aign of Henry the eighth, and albeit he had lain seventy eight years in the the Earth, yet his Eyes, Hair, and flesh remained in a manner as if he had been newly buried.  
For these five years past, great and manifold Roberies spoils, Piracies, murders and Depredations, within the straits, and elsewhere, have been committed by several Companies of English Pirates, as well upon our own Nation as others, but especially upon the Florentines and Venetians, wherewith his Majesty was much grieved, and for that cause published from time to time several Proclamations, denownsing the same offenders to be Rebels, and therewithal gave order for their suppression and apprehensias Traiters and peace breakers: but all this prevailed not, for they still prevailed, persisted and maintained their former villainies▪ with which offenders there were some English Merchants who very cunningly underhand used Commerce, Track, and Traffic for stolen goods, to the great Cherishing, of those Malefactors, and dishonour of this Nation, for redress whereof the King by Proclamation the eighth of january, Prohibited from all manner of meddling, or dealing with them upon great penalties, all English Merchants whatsoever, Commanding the judge of the Admiralty to proceed severely in Justice against all such offenders, and that from him there should be no appeal granted to any person touching the premises: all which notwithstanding the number of Pirates still increased, and did much damage to the English Merchants and to all other Nations, there were Hollanders and Easterlings, that at this time and before became fierce Pirates, and held consort with the English Robbers, viz. Ward, Bishop, Sir Francis Vorny: and others, whereupon the King of Spain sent certain Ships of War, under the command of Don Lewis Faxardo, who very politicly about the middle of july came upon them at Tunis, and suddenly burned twenty of their ships, lying in Harbour, at which time though Captain Ward escaped in person, by being then a shore, yet his great Strength, and Riches perished in the fire, with some of his Confederates.  
December the two and twentieth, Nineteen Pirates were executed at Waping some had been in consort with the English Pirates.  
Sunday the nineteenth of February, when it should have been low water at London-Bridge, quite contrary to course, it was then high Water, and presently it ebbed almost half an hour, the quantity of a foot, and then suddenly it flowed again, almost two foot higher than it did before, and then ebbed again, until it came to its course almost as it was at first, so that the next flood began in a manner as it should, and kept its due course in all respects, as if there had been no shifting nor alteration of Tides, all this happened before twelve a clock in forenoon, the weather being indifferent calm.  
The thirteenth of june the King, Queen and Prince, with many great Lords and others, came to the Tower, to make trial o● the Lion's single valour, and to have the Lion's skill, a great fierce Bear that had killed a Child, but the Lion's being tried by one and one at a time, and lastly by two together wh●ch were bread in that open yard, where the Bare was put lose for Combat, yet would none of them assail him, but fled from him, to their Dens, after the first Lion was put forth, then was there a Stone Horse put into the Bare and Lion, who when he had gazed upon them a while, fell to grazing, standing in the midst between them both, and whereas at the first there was but two Mastiffs let in who fought stoutly with a lion, there was now six Dogs let in, who flew all upon the Stone Horse, being most in their sight at their first entrance, and would soon have wearied the horse to death, but that suddenly, even as the King wished, there Entein th●ee stout Barewards, who wondrous valiantly rescued the Horse, and brought away the Dogs: whilst the Lion and the Bear stood staring upon them, and the fifth of july, this Bare according to the king's Commandment was baited to death by Dogs, upon a Stage, and the Mother of the murdered Child had twenty pound given her out of the money given by the people to see the death of the Bare.  
Robert Allyley being Arraigned at Newgate for felony, stood mute and and refused the ordinary trial, whreupon as the manner is, the Hangman came unto him to bind his hands, but Allyley resisted, and with his fist struck him on the face in the presence of the Judges, who presently Remembered, that this priprisoner but the last Sessions before was there Convicted of Felony, and for the same had obtained the King's Special pardon, which pardons in general, are unto all persons but only upon their good behaviour unto King and his Subjects, and thereupon the Court gave judgement, that for the blow he gave, his hand should first be cut off: and then his body to be hanged for that fact, for the which he had his pardon, according to which sentence he was presently executed at the Session's Gate.  
Thursday the third of May, the French Queen was Crowned with all Solemnity in Paris, and having been ten years before married to the King, and the next day was murdered in his Coach as he road through Paris by a base villain that stabed him into the body twice with a long knife, that he died instantly, and his body was carried to the Loover, presently upon the King's death, the Queen was made Regent, during her son's minority, viz. Lewis the thirteenth. The twentieth of May, being Sunday, our King, Queen and Prince, the Duke of York, the lady Elizabeth, and all the Lords and Ladies of the Court mourned in Black for the death of the French King, Henry the fourth, and about the end of june, was he buried in Paris in as great Royalty as ever King of France; upon the murrher of this French King, the Lords and Commons of the house of Parliament of England, humbly besought the King to have a more especial care then formerly, for the preservation of his Royal Person; and also to the speedy order for the avoiding of Eminent danger and keeping his subjects in their due obedience, and forthwith, the Commons of the Parliament, for the manifestation of their allegiance, 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 ministered 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 several visitations, should minister the same Oath unto all their Clergy, which they performed accordingly, this oath was also ministered to others as followeth, according to the Tenor of a special Statute made this Session of Parliament made in that behalf.  
The fourth of june Proclamation was made commanding all Roman Priests and jesuites, and Seminaries, to departed this Kingdom, by the fourth day of july next, and not to return upon pain of the severity of the Law, also by this Proclamation, the King straight commands, all Recusants to return home to their dwellings, & not to come within 10 miles of the Court, without special licence, but to departed from London, and the Court by the last day of this Month: and to remain confined according to the Tenor of the Statute in that behalf provided.  
Presently after that the Oath of Allegiance was ministered unto all officers, Attorneys and Clerks, belong-to any of the Courts at Westminster Hall, and the Exchequer, and unto all Advocates, and Proctors of the Spiritual Courts, this Oath was also administered unto all Lawvers, in the Inns of Court, and Chancery, and unto all Students and Scholars in both the Universities.  
The appointed time now drew near, or Prince Henry to be created Prince of Wales, and upon Thursday the last of May the Lo●d Mayor and the Aldermen being accompanied with 54 several Companies of Citizens of London in several Barges, bearing arms distinguished by their proper Ensigns, Banners and streamers in warlike manner, and therewithal plenteously furnished with several sorts of excellent M●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 foremost, where from nine a clock in the morning till th●e● in ●h● 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 Che●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 always next the Prince's Barge, to see this joyful sight, the people for seven mile's space, swarmed on both sides the River, and the Thames was covered with Boats, Barges and Lighters, full fraught with men, women, and childred; and upon Sunday the third of june, 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 aldermans of London were also present at this creation, the prince's titles were then proclaimed, Viz. Henry prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewal, and Rotheser, and Earl of Chester, in honour 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 Sovereign Lord the King, the Lady Arrabella, the Countess of Arundel, the Counress of Derby, the Countess of Essex, the Countess of Dorset, the Countess of Mountgomery, the Visecounts of Haddington, the Lady Elizabeth Grace, the Lady Elizabeth Guildford, the Lady Katherine Peter, the Lady Winter, the Lady Windsor, and upon Wednesday in the afternoon, in the Tilt yard there were divers Earls, Barons and others, being in rich and glorious armour, having most costly comparisons, wondrous richly embroidered, with pearl gold, and silver, the like habiliments 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 Galleys fight one against an other, and against a great Castle builded upon the water, and after these battles, than an hour's space there were many strange and variable fire works in the Castle, and in the ships and Galleys.  
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 son Henry prince of Wales, the prince named it after his own dignity and called it the prince.  
The seventh of December, john Roberts a Benedickt Monk, sometimes provincial of the Benidictans in England, and Thomas Summer a Seminary, were condemned at Newgate and hanged at Tyburn, they having been before sundry times taken and banished, and yet presumed to return again, and bear to practise against King and State.  
Upon New-year's day at night, the prince o● Wales being accompanied with twelve others, viz. Two Earls, three Barons, five Knights, and two Esquires, they performed a very stately mask, in which was an excellent Scene, ingenious speeches, and rare songs, and with great variety of most delicate Music.  
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 Monday in Whitsun week, at Windsor were installed Knights of the Garter, Prince Charles Duke of York, son to our sovereign Lord the King, and Thomas Earl of Arundel, and Robert Viscount Rochester.  
Wednesday the eighteenth of March, 1611. Bartholomew Legate an obstinate Heretic, and a strong Arian, was burned in Smithfield, and the eleaventh of April following, viz. Edward Wightman an other perverse Heretic, having refused more favour than 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 William Scot Seminaries were executed at Tyburn.  
june the twenty fifth, Robert Carliele, and james Edwin, were executed for murdering john Turner fencer, and the twenty seventh of june the Lord Sanquire was arraigned at the King's 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 june at Westminster.  
In the months of October, November and December, there happened great winds, violent storms, and tempests, which caused much shipwreck upon the Ocean, in havens and Rivers, and did great damage upon the land, and the net spring extraordinary rain fell, even till Saint james-tide, and yet upon the humble and hearty prayers of the people in all Churches, it pleased Almighty God to send a more plentiful harvest than had been in many years before.  
Friday the sixteenth of October, 1612. at eleven a clock at night aririved at Gravesend the most illustrious young Prince Fredrick, the fift of that name, Count Palatine of the Rein, being very princely attended, he was received by Sir Lewis Lewkenor Knight, master of the ceremonies, whom the King had sent before to attend the coming of the Prince, upon knowledge of his arrival, the King sent speedily the Duke of Len●x, with other Earls and Barons, to signify his hearty welcome, and the next Sunday they accompanied the Palsgrove by Barge, from Cravesend to White Hall, where Prince Charles Duke of York received him at his first landing, and brought him up into the great bankqueting house, where he was entertained by the King, Queen, Henry Prince of Wales, and the Lady Elizabeth.  
The twenty ninth of October, the Palsgrave dined at Guild-Hall, and the chief nobility of the Land, where he had presented unto him a rich Basin and Ewer, and two Liverypots, richly engraven, and richly guilded.  
Friday the sixth of October, died the most noble and hopeful Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, he was royally buried in the Chapel Royal at Westminster the seventh of December.  
Upon Saint Thomas day, the Palsgrave and Grave Marris were elected Knights of the Garter, and upon Sunday the seventh of February, the Palsgrave and Grave Maurice was installed at Windsor.  
The fourteenth of February being Shrove Sunday, the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave, in as most royal manner as ever Princes were, with masking, tilting, and tournament, and many rare shows both by land and water, where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, in behalf of the City and themselves, presented the bride with a very fair chain of oriental Pearl.  
And thus Reader have I presented thee a chain of the best oriental pearls I could pick out of K. james his reign, being most remarkable, and worthy observation, who was called a second Solomon, and the peacemaker of Christendom, and had peace with all Nations: and I conclude thus,  
If we by Kings again should ruled be,  
We wish to have no worse a King than he;  
This land did flourish, by the trades increase  
He ruled, he swayed, he lived, he died, in peace.   

Remarkable Passages, The Life and Reign of King Charles.  
Anno. 1600 CHarles the second Son of King james, on the ninetenth day of November, in the year 1600. During his Infancy he was of a very sickly constitution, and at his birth so unlike to live that his Christening was dispatched in haste, but as he grew in years he did grow into strength.  
An. Dom. 1602 Being two years old he was Created Duke of Albany marquis of Ormond, Earl of Rosse, and Baron of Ardmanock,  
An. Dom. 1603 On the twenty sixth of March, King james had news that Queen Elizabeth was dead, by Sir Robert Cary, for which good news this young D. of Albany was afterwards committed to the charge and governance of Sir Robert Caries Lady.  
An. Dom. 1604 On the seventh of june 1604. he was created Duke of York, An. Dom. 1606 and in the sixth year of his age 1606. he was taken from the charge of the women, Master Thomas Murray a Scot by Nation was made his Tutor, he profited exceedingly in the knowledge of good letters.  
An. Dom. 1611 In the 11. year of his age was he made Knight of the Garter, and in the year following he lost his Brother Prince Henry, whom he immediately succeeded in the Dukedom of Cornwall.  
An. Dom. 1616 On the third of November 1616. he was creared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint.  
An. Dom. 1622 And on the eighteenth of February 1622. attended with the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Francis Cottington, and Master Indimion Porter, he being disguised took Ship at Dover, arrived at Bulloign in France, and having casually had a sight of Lady Henretta Maria, at a Mask at Paris, he road post from thence to the Court of Spain.  
An. Dom. 1623. On the seventh of March, he arrived at Madrid, and the King of Spain being informed by Count D: Olivares what a hazardous adventure he had taken to have a sight of the Infanta, he had that Royal entertainment given him, which a Princely Suitor might expect, and by his Courtly and Gallant behaviour, did win much on the affections of the Infanta, and the Articles of the Marriage were agreed upon, but the Pope protracting time, and there being no hope of the Restitution of the Palatinate, which was one of the gratest occasion of his Journey, having desired leave to return, he with much danger arrived at Portsmouth on the fifth day of October 1623.  
The treaty with Spain being not now likely to proceed, it was now thought fit to negotiate a Marriage with the Princes Hennaretta Maria the youngest daughter of France, which in the year 1624. was carrion by the Earl of Holland, and afterwards concluded by the Earl of Carlisle, and King james did seem to be exceedingly well pleased with it.  
An. Dom. 1624. On the year following March the seventh, King james died at Thebalds, and immediately afterwards Prince Charles was Proclaimed at the Court Gate, King of Great Britain France and Ireland. The Funerals of the deceased King were celebrated on the seventh of May, and presently afterwards were the Espousals of King Charles with the Lady Hennaretta Maria, who on the twelfth of june landed at Dover, the King being then at Canterbury, did meet her the next day at Dover, His first compliment unto her was, that he would be no longer master of himself than he was a servant to her. And this love he continued to the last hour of his life, for on the day before his unfortunate end, his daughter the Lady Elizabeth, with the Duke of York, being with much ado permitted to come unto him, he desired the Lady Elizabeth to assure her mother if ever she again did see her, that his thoughts had never strayed from her, and that his affections should be the same to the last.  
On the Thursday following they came from Gravesend to Whitehall with a very great company of Lords and Ladies, and the Great Guns from the Ships, and the Tower of London did thunder forth their gratulations as she passed by them.  
On Saturday the eighteenth of june, there was a Parliament assembled, but the plague growing hot, it was adjourned to Oxford, where the King did put them in mind as before of necessity of putting forth his Fleet the in pursuance of the war, in which they had engaged his father, but the began now to quarrel at the greatness of the Duke of Buckingham, and laid something to his charge in reference to the death of his father, whereupon the King expecting moneys to advance the affairs of the Kingdom, and not accusations against those who were then the principal Ministers of state dissolved the Parliament.  
The contagion raging in London, Michaelmas Term was ordered to be kept at Redding, and special 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 sixth of the same month, where the King demanding a supply for moneys, and representing that on the year before, the Fleet miscarried at Cuziz for wat of it, Master Clement Cook son to the Lord Cook stood up, and said it was better to die by a foreign Enemy, 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 year the King of France seized An. Dom. 1527 on all the English ships which lay at Bordeaux and other places, and then began an open war against England, wherefore in the year following the Duke of Buckingham, with ten of the Navy Royal, and ninety Marchantmen, set sail from Portsmouth, and landed at the Isle of Ree from whence in September following he was beaten off with the loss of 2000 common Soldiers, and fifty Officers.  
An. Dom. 1628. The Rochellers having solicited the King of England, whom they found to be powerful at Sea for his assistance, the King called another Parliament on the seventeenth of March, where a bill being drawn up against Tonnage and Poundage, which the King by no means, would condescend unto, the Parliament was adjourned the twentieth of Decemb. In the meantime the Duke of Buckingham being ready again to set sail from Portsmoth was killed by john Felton, a discontented officer of the last years Army, who for that offence was hanged up in chains, near unto the place where the murder was committed.  
The Duke being slain the Earl of Lindsey was chosen Admiral, who found the Haven of Rochel 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 year 1629. a peace was concluded betwixt England and the two Crowns of France and Spain.  
The Parliament called on the year before was dissolved by the King who extremely 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 james, eldest son to the King was borne at Greenwich, May the thirteenth, and died almost as soon as he was borne; being first Christened by one of the King's 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 ears cropped, and was stigmatised 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 Emperor for the restitution of the Palatinate to King of Bohemiah.  
Charles Duke of Cornwall by birth, was born at Saint Iame's, May 19 1630.  
An. Dom. 1621. On the twenty fifth of April, the Earl of Castle-haven being Arraignen at the King's Bench Bar, and found guilty of Rape and Sodomy, was by his Peers 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 baptised Mary.  
An. Dom. 1632 The Church of Saint Paul's was this year 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 june he was crowned at Edenbrough, and on the twentieth of july returned safe to the Queen at Greenwich.  
This year 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 Baptised james, and on the twenty fourth of the same month 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 year began to encroach upon his Majesty's Dominions by Sea, which was defended by Grotius in his Book entitled Mare Liberum, and answered by Master Selden in his book entitled Mare Clausum.  
Writts' being issued out to raise 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 quarrel.  
An. Dom. 1635 On the sixth of March 1635. William juxon, Bishop of London was made Lord Treasurer.  
On the eighth of january, the Lady Elizabeth was borne, who survived her father, but died with heart's grief not long afterwards.  
An. Dom. 1636 In September the Earl of Arundel was sent Ambassador extraordinary to the Emperor.  
This year 1636. Master Prin, Doctor Bastwick, and Master Burton in the month of june were sentenced in the high Commission Court, and ordered to be banished, etc.  
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 june 1637. the Book of Common prayers being begun to be read in Scotland according to the King's orders, there began a great uproar, all the Churches protesting absolutely against it, whereupon by the King's Command, a Proclamation was published, and severe penalties to be inflicted on the contemners of it, but nothing would prevail, whereupon the Marquis 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 abolished.  
This year on the seventeenth of March the Queen was delivered of a daughter, who at the Font received the name of Ann.  
This year there were great contestations in Scotland▪ two Petitions were presented against the Common prayer book, Proclamations were made at Edinborough, and several places, for preventing of disorders, but to no effect, for the Covenanters every where began to raise Arms, impose texes, seize on the King's Castles, and prepare for war, having chosen David Lesly an old Soldier for their General.  
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 Royal Army, and on the seventeenth of june, a general 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 enforced to call for the Lord Leievetenant out of Ireland, whom not long afterwards he created Earl of Straford.  
The Bishop of Canterbury reviving the ancient 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 country.  
july the eighteenth, The Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptised Henry.  
On the twentieth of August, the King marched towards the North in his own person, having received some large contributions from the Clergy, and a very considerable number of the Gentry, At Annick he understood of a defeat given by General Lesly to a party of his, consisting of 3000. foot, and 1200. Horse, that Sir jacob Ashley had deserted Newcastle, and that the Scots had imposed a task of 350. pound a day on the Bishopric of Dirham, and 300. pound a day on the Country of Northumberland, which sad news did much afflict him.  
On the twenty fourth of Septem. the Lords being assembled with the King at York, 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 enforced to yield 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 damages 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 sat one the King's Bench.  
An. Dom. 1641 On the two and twentieth of March, 1641, the trial was of the Lord Straford, which continued many days, 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, broke out the barbarous & inhuman Rebellion in Ireland, where above two hundred thousand persons were most barbarously murdered.  
An. Dom. 1642 On the fourth of january 1642. the King attended with divers Gentlemen, came into the house of Commons, and seating him in the Speakers Chair 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 illegal 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 Princess her daughter into Holland. Much about this time the Bishops were quite voted down.  
The king coming back to Greenwich went afterwards towards York, in the mean time the Parliament doth Seize upon the Magazine at Hull, and Regiments of Horse and Foot are Listed, and the Earl of Essex appointed to be General, the noise of whose preparations, doth hasten the King from York to Nottingham, where he Sets up his sttandard, and much increaseth his Forces, as he marcheth, & on Sunday, October twenty third, was the great Battle 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 Earl 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 been 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 only 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 Gloucester the Siege was raised by the Earl of Essex, and on the twentieth of September the famous Battle of Newberry was fought, where many were slain on both sides, and on the next day Prince Rupert follow-the Rear of the Earl 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 january, and on the Sixteenth of the same month the Scots Army entered England, consisting of eighteen thousand foot and two thousand horse; at this time Newark being besieged by Sir john 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 Exeter she was delivered of a daughter Henretta, who not long afterwards did follow her into France where she still remains: on the year before she was brought to bed of a daughter at Oxford, whose name was Katherine, 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 Cornwall, 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 king made such a stay in Cornwall, that before he could return to Oxford, the Earl of Essex was again in the head of an army seconded by the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller, and at Neubery again there was a very hot encounter in which both sides drew off by degrees, and the Parliaments side had the better of it.  
Prince Rupert having marched from Latham house to York, some certain months before, there was a terrible fight at Marshon Moor between the army of the prince Rupert, and the forces of the parliament, where multitudes being slain, there was three thousand taken prisoners, twenty pieces of Ordnance, and a considerable number of Officers: not long afterwards York was surrendered, and Colonel Brown at Abingdon performed remarkable service.  
An. Dom. 1645 On the first of january 1645. Sir john Hotham was executed on the Tower-hill for betraying his trust, and on the next day, his son followed the same fortune.  
On the tenth of january the Archbishop of Canterbury voted guilty of High Treason, was brought unto the Scaffold on Tower-hill where his head at one blow was severed from his shoulders by the hands of the executioner.  
The town of Taunton held out gallantly against the King's party, Pomferat was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale, the Treaty at Uxbridge took no effect, the Earl of Essex being thought to be too mild, the Lord Fairfax is made Captain General of the Parliaments forces, in the mean time the king's force who had taken the field not long before do range up and down the countries, and having relieved Chester they faced Leicester, and presently after began to storm it, the King's Canons playing upon the town a whole day and a night, many breaches were made, and the contestation was carried on with much resolution on both sides, in some breaches they came to the push of pike, on Saturday they entered the town, where much treasure was taken, and in hot blood many were put to the sword.  
Sir Thomas Fairfax, who (as I have said) was wholly made General in the place of the Earl of Essex, hearing this, advanced from Gilling to Naseby, where observing great bodies of horse to appear on the hills near harbour, he ordered the army to randezvouse near to Naseby to which places the royal army made their approaches.  
Saturday the fourteenth of june, both armies engaged, the King having the better at the first, for Prince Rupert had routed one wing of the Parliaments horse, and followed the chase at Maston Moor so unadvisedly, that he left the whole body of the foot open to the other wing, who giving them a gallant charge, did put the whole army to an absolute rout, and made themselves masters of the king's Camp, carriage and canon, and of his Cabinet also where many letters were found which the Parliament afterwards published.  
After this Leicester was immediately reduced, and General Fairfax, marching into the West defeated the Lord Goring, and became master of all the Garrisons in the West, and for a conclusion of all, had the City of Bristol surrendered unto him; at the same time there being no hope of relief, Pomfret, and Scarborough, and Carlisle, and some other Garrisons in the North, did yield themselves unto the mercy of the Parliament, and Bazing house, which a long time had been besieged, was stormed and taken by Lieutenant General Cromwell.  
A great defeat was given to the Lord Hopton, at Torrington, and the same fortune attended Sir Marmaduke Langdale at Sherburn, all being lost in the west the prince of Wales found the opportunity to convey himself into France.  
The King marching toward Chester which was then besieged by Sir William Berton, and Colonel jones was pursued in the way, and charged in the front by the besiegers, routed at Bouton heath, where the Lord Bernard Stuart was killed upon the place, the last of the three brethren that had lost their lives in their prince's quarrel.  
After this the King returned to Oxford, and was so much incensed against his two Nephews, prince Rupert and Maurice, for delivering up such places of great importance in the west, the loss of Bristol did most of all perplex him, who thereupon when prince Rupert and his brother Maurice returned to Oxford did command them to be disarmed, and would not suffer them to walk the streets with their swords by their sides as they had done formerly, though afterwards they were restored again to all appearances of favour.  
An. Dom. 1646 In the twenty first of March, Sir jacob Astley was beaten at Donnington near unto Stow in the Wold, in the which fight himself was taken prisoner, and the king's hopes quite lost.  
Wherefore on the twenty seventh of April, he left the City of Oxford in a disguse, and on the fourth of May did put himself into the hands of the Scots at Newark, who carried him to Newcastle, which occasioned the surrender of Oxford to the Lord Fairfax on the twenty fourth of june following.  
On the fifteenth of july prince Rupert went for France, and prince Maurice to the Hague.  
In the midst of August or thereabouts the Scots sold the King for the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in ready money, the Commissioners sent by the House to receive him, did bring him to Holmby.  
On the fourteenth of September the Earl of Essex died.  
An. Dom. 1647 In the month of February, the Scots abandoned Newcastle, and the Parliament voted the Army to disband, those only excepted who were reserved for the subduing of Ireland; there began now to be some contestations in the House betwixt the Presbyterian and Independent party, and the Parliament began to find that they had not the Army so much at their devotion as they conceived.  
On the fourth of june, Cornet joice carried away the king from Holmby, and brought him to Newmarket; on the twenty eighth of june he was brought to Hatfield, and from thence to Causam, where after much importunity, his children were permitted to come unto him, at whose sight he was very joyful.  
On the seventh of August, the Lord Fairfax and his victorious Army, did ride in triumph through the City of London; a little before this, there were eleven of the members of parliament impeached, and Major General Massey, and Colonel Poyntz abandoning the guarding of the City did fly over into Holland.  
From Casam Lodge, the King was removed to Hampton Court, where being terrified with the apprehension of some dangers, he put himself into the power of Col. Hammond in the Isle of Wight who secured him in Carisbrook Castle during his restraint: in this place he wrote that excellent Book entitled Icon Basilicon. Propositions were here sent unto him by both Houses of Parliament as had been before at Newcastle, and Holmby house, to which he returned the same answer as he did then.  
An. Dom. 1648 The Parliament voted on the third of january, that no more addresses should be made unto his Majesty.  
February the twenty first, judge Lenkins was brought unto the Bar of the House, for which he was fined a thousand pound, and a charge was voted to be brought in against him.  
The Wel●h being up in arms to the number of eight thousand foot, and four hundred horse, were defeated by Colonel Horton.  
There were several insurrections in Kent, Cornwall, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge-shire, and other places. There was a sharp encounter at Maidstone betwixt the Kentish forces and those of the Parliaments, the fight continued six hours, at the last, the town was taken, and 1400 prisoners with good store of booty.  
The Seamen revolt and refuse to serve the Earl of Warwick; the Earl of Holland riseth in arms with the Lord Francis, brother to the Duke of Buckingham, the Lord Francis was killed about Kingston, and the Earl of Holland flying to Saint Needs was taken by Col. Scroop and sent prisoner to Warwick Castle.  
Sir john Owen is taken prisoner in Wales, the Kentish being scattered did put themselves in the town of Colchester, which being strongly besieged by Sir Thomas Fairfax, did yield upon composition, Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were there shot to death, and the noble L. Capel was reserved for the scaffold, where he looked death in the face with an undaunted magnanimity.  
The mariners that revolted being discontented that prince Rupert, and prince Mauris were there Admirals fell off with the greatest part of their ships, and return again to the Earl of Warwick.  
Lieutenant General Cromwell, having reduced Wales, and the three Captains that were the ringleaders, having yielded themselves, whose names were Langhorn, Poyer and Powel, two whereof were afterwards shot to death, he marched against the Scots in Lanchashire, who although they were formidable in their numbers, yet he discomfits them, takes all their Foot, Canon, Arms, Ammunition; the Duke did render himself prisoner to the Lord Grace, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and Lieutenant General Middleton were both taken prisoners.  
Following this blow Lie. Goe Crom. advanceth into Scotland, & suppressed all those that did there oppose him, and had the towns of Barwick and Carlisle delivered to him.  
In the mean time the Parliament recall the Votes of no addresses to the King, and ordered that a personal treaty should be at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, but the Commissioners sent thither, spent so much time before they drew towards a conclusion, that they gave the Officers of the Army the opportunity to frame a remonstrance, in which it was declared that the King was the sole cause of all that bloodshed which had been in the kingdom, and nothing could be more expedient then to bring him to the bar of Justice; in persuance whereof, some of the officers having seized upon his person, did bring him over to Hurst Castle in Hampshire, and from thence by degrees to Windsor, and at last to Westminster.  
In the mean time the Army having purged the House of all those Members whom they conceived to be opposite to them, they did erect a High-Court of Justice, Sergeant Bradshaw being chosen to be presis●dent of it.  
On Saturday january the twentieth, his Majesty was brought from the Palace of Saint james unto Westminster-hall, where being brought up into the Court, he was no sooner sat, but the Lord precedent told him that they were assembled by the authority of the Commons of England to proceed to his trial for betraying the trust reposed in him by the people, and commanded his charge to be read, which was to this effect.  
That being admitted King of England, and entrusted with a limited power to govern according to the laws for the good of the people, out of a wicked design to hold up a tyrannical power to overthrow the people's rights, he the said Charles Stuart hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the parliament, particularly on or about, the 13 of june 1642 at Beverley, and on the 24 of August, at Nottingham, where he set up his Standard of war, and on the 23 of October at Edgehil, and at many other times in other places, by which cruel and unnatural war by him levied, much innocent blood hath been spilt, much treasure wasted, and some parts of the land spoiled even to desolation, by which, and by granting Commissions to the prince his son, it appeareth that the said Charles Stuart is the author and contriver of the said unnatural war, and thereby guilty of all the murders and Treasons committed in the said war, for the which he is impeached, as a Tyrant, Traitor, and Murderer, and it was desired that he may answer the premises, that such proceedings and sentences may be had upon him as are agreeable to Justice.  Lord Precedent. 
Sir, you heard your Charge read, and it is desired that in the behalf of the Commons of England you do put in your answer to it.  King. 
I would know by what power I was called hither, I was not long ago in the Isle of Wight, how I came thither it is too long to relate, I would know by what lawful Authority I was brought from thence, and when I know that I shall answer. Remember, I am your King, and what sins you bring upon your heads, and think well upon it, I say, think well upon it before you go from one sin to a greater; I will not betray my trust, by answering to a new and unlawful Authority.  Lord Presi. 
If you had been pleased to have observed what had been-hinted to you, you would have known by what Authority it is, by that Authority, which Authority require, you in the name of the people of England by which you are Elected King to answer them.  King. 
Sir, I deny that.  Lord Presi. 
If you acknowledge not the Authority of the Court they must proceed.  King. 
Let me know by what Authority I am called hither, I stand more for the privilege of my people then any that is seated here.  Lord Press. 
The Court desires to know whether this is all you will answer.  King. 
I do desire that you would give me, and all the World satisfaction in this; It is no slight thing you are about, I am sworn to to God for the peace of my Country, and therefore you may do well, first, to satisfy God, and afterwards the World, by what Authority you do this, There is a God in Heaven that will call you, and all that gives you power, to account.  Lord Pres. 
The Court expects your final Answer, you desire satisfaction of their Authority, It is by God's Authority, and that's our present work.  King, 
That Which you have said satisfies no reasonable Man.  Lord Pres. 
That is in your apprehension, We that are your judges think it reasonabl.  
The Precedent commanded the King to be taken, who accordingly was conveyed back to S. jamses. On the Monday following, the Court having met in the Painted Chamber, did order that the King should be suffered to argue to the jurisdiction of the Court, which if he did, the Precedent should give him to understand, That the Commons in England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted this Court whose power may not, nor shall not be disputed against by him.  
Immediately afterwards, the Court being set the Captain of the Guard was commanded to fetch the King, and Solicitor Choe having read the Charge as before, he required the King to give his positive answer, which if he refuse, it should be taken pro Confesso, and the Court should proceed to Justice.  Lord Prisi. 
I require your positive Answer.  King, 
I protest against the Jurisdiction of this Court, if power without Law may alter the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, what Subject is he that can be secure of his life, or Estate. And proceeding to show Reasons why he could not allow the Authority of the Court, he was interrupted by the Precedent, who told him that the Court desired a direct Answer.  
The King, I understand law, and Reason, and therefore under favour, I do plead for the liberty of the people more than you do, and therefore if I should impose a belief upon any Man without giving reasons for it, it were unreasonable.  Precedent. 
The Votes of the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament are the Reasons of the Kingdom.  King. 
The Commons of England were never allowed to be a Court of Indicature: The King urging again to give in his Reasons, the Precedent told him that his Reasons were not to be heard against the highest jurisdiction, to which the King answered, Show me the Court where Reason is not to be heard. Upon these words the Precedent commanded the King to be taken away, and the default recorded.  
On the day following the Court met again, and the King being brought, and seated in his chair. The Precedent told him that it was not for him to dispute the prerogative of the Court, and being sensible of his delays the Court required him positively to answer whither he was guilty or not guilty of the Treasons laid to his Charge.  King. 
I desire to know whither I may speak freely or not.  Precedent. 
You are not to be permitted to run out into any discourses until you have given a direct answer to the matter laid in charge against you.  King, 
I valve not the Charge a a rush, It is the liberty of the People that I stand for; Being here interrupted, he proceeded, Sir you ought not to interrupt me. How I came here, I know not, there is no Law to make your King your prisoner.  Precedent, 
The Court once more demands your positive Answer. To which the King replied. To give satisfaction to the people of my clearness, and to satisfy them, that I have done nothing against the trust commited to me, but to alter the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom, and to acknowledge a new Court against thei● privileges, you must excuse me. To which the Presid. replied. This is the third time you have affronted and disowned the Court. How far you have preserved the privileges of the the people, your actions have spoke, you have written your meaning in bloody Characters, but Sir, The pleasure of the Court is, that the Clerk record the default, and Gentlemen you that have the Charge of him, Take away the prisone●, who was immediately conveyed back to Saint jamses.  
On Saturd●y, june the twenty seventh, the court sat again, and the King desired that he might be heard to speak, and hoped he should give no occasion of interruption.  Precedent. 
You may, but you must hear the court first, whereupon the Precedent addressing himself to the Court, told them that the prisoner at the Bar hath been several times charged with Treason, and hath been so far from obeying the Court, by submitting to their justice, that he began to debate their Authority, and being required to answer he was pleased to be Contumations, whereupon the Court having Considered of the notoriousness of the Fact were resolved to pronounce Sentence on the prisoner, but in respect he desired to be heard before Sentence, the Court was resolved to hear him.  
The King told him, A hasty Sentence once past may sooner be repent, then called, I do desire to be heard before the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber if it be reason, and really for the welfare of the Kingdom, and liberty of the Subject, I am sure of it, it will be well worth your hearing before my sentence be past, I therefore do conjure you, as you love that which you pretend, which I hope is real, the liberty of the Subject, and the peace of the Kingdom, that you will grant me a hearing before you pass sensentence.  Precedent. 
This is but a further declinig the jurisdiction of the Court.  
The King told him It was no declining the Jurisdiction, although he could not own it.  
The Precedent told him that what he offered, tended to a delay, which neither the Kingdom nor Justice could admire, but the Court was content to withdraw for a time; hereupon the King being withdrawn, after the space of half an hour the Court did sit again, and the prisoner being brought, the Precedent told him that the Court had withdrawn pro forma tantum, and that having considered what he had offered them, and of their own Authority, which was grounded on the Supreme authority of the Parliament, they had Acted according to their Confession, and being now his Judges they were to know, that Judges were no more to delay then to deny, and were therefore resolved to proceed on punishment and judgement.  King. 
It is vain for me to dispute, I know yo● have power enough, but I would fain know the lawfulness of that power. I do put at your doors all the inconveniences of a hasty sentence, which the child unborn may repent.  Precedent. 
The Court desireth to know, If you have any thing more to say before sentence.  King. 
If you will grant me this delay, I doubt not but to give you some reasonable satisfaction, I require you therefore, as you will answer at the dreadful d●y of Judgement, that you will consider it.  Precedent. 
If you have nothing more to say, we must proceed to Sentence.  King. 
I have nothing more to say.  Precedent. 
Then the Court hath something to say to you, though it will not be acceptable to you, and proceeding in a long speech, showing how Kings had been executed for their misgovernment. The King desired to be heard concerning the Imputations laid to him, before that sentence was pronounced.  
The Precedent replied that his time was now past and not far from Sentence & because they would not acknowledge him to be a Court, they could not admit of what had to say, and the Clerk by the Precedents appointment, did read the Sentence, which was: That for the Treasons and Crimes laid to his charge, the Court did adjudge him the said Chales Stuart, as a Tyrant, Traitor, and Murderer to be put to death, by severing his head from his Body. The sentence being read, the Court stood up in Confirmation of it, as the Act and Resolution of the whole Court. The King offered again to speak something, but the Presid. would not hear him, and commanded the prisoner to be carried away, and conveyed to Whitehall.  
On Monday january, 29. The King desired that he might have the happiness to see his children, which was granted him, they were with him, three or four hours, and at the parting there was a sad farewell betwixt the Father and the children.  
On the day following he received the Sacrament, and about ten of the clock, being attended by a Regiment, Doctor juxon being on the right hand of him, and Colonel Tomlinson on the le●t, he walked on foot through the Park from S. jamses to White-Hall. In the way some of the Foot Soldiers reviled him, the King hearing of them did pity them, and said, Alas poor men, they will speak as much of their own Colonel for a tester.  
And going on, he desired the Bishop of London and the Colonel to go a little faster, for said he I am now going for a Heavenly Crown, which I do with less trouble of Spirit, than I have often fought for an earthly Diadem. As soon as he came into White-Hall, he immediately retired himself into his cabinet chamber, where he continued in his devotions, and dinner being ready he refused to eat, and only refreshed himself with a Manchet and a Glass of Claret wine.  
About one of the clock he was conveyed through the Banqueting house, and a way being made through the great Window he came upon the Scaffold, which was covered with black, where he beheld two Executioners, and both of them disguised with visards, which nothing affrighted him, and pulling off his doublet he was to be seen by all in a Silk Waistcoat of Azure Colour. The multitude that were on the ground making a great and confused noise which were increased by many Troops of Horse that were near unto the Scaffold to attend the Execution, he addressed him to Colonel Tomlinson in these words.  
I shall be very little heard of any body else, I shall therefore speak a word unto you here. Indeed I could have held my peace very well, if I did not think that holding of my peace would make some men to suppose that I did submit as much unto the guilt as to the punishment; But I conceive it is my Duty first to God, and then unto my Country to clear myself, bo●h as an honest Man, a good King, & a good Christian. I shall begin first with my Innocence, and introth I think it not very needful for me to insist long upon this, for all the world knows that I never did begin a war with the two houses of Parliam. and I call God to witness to whom I must shortly make an account, that I never did intent to encroach upon their privileges. They began upon mine. It was the Militia they began upon. They confessed that the Militia was mine, but they thought it fit for to have it from me; And to be short, if any body will look into the Dates of the Commissions, of their Commissions, and mine, and likewise to the Declarations, he will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles, not I; So that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me, I do hope that God will clear me of it. I will not (for I am in charity) and God forbidden that I should lay it upon the two ho●ses of Parliament, there is no necessity of either. I hope they are free of this guilt, but I believe that evil instruments betwixt them and me, have been the chief Cause of all this bloodshed, so that, as I find myself clear of this, I hope and pray to God that they may also. Yet for all this, God forbidden, that I should be so evil a Christian as not to say, that God's judgement are just upon me. Many times he doth pay Justice by an unjust sentence, that is ordinary. I will only say this, that an unjust sentence that I suffered to take effect, is now punished by an unjust sentence upon me; So far I have said to show you how that I am an innocent man. Now for to show you that I am a good Christian I hope (pointing to Doctor juxon) there is good man will bear me witness, that I have forgiven all the world, and even those in particular, who have been the chief causers of my death, who they are God knows, I do not desire to know, I pray God forgive them. But this is not all. My charity must go further, I wish that they may repent, for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular, I pray to God with Saint Steven, That this be not laid to their charge, and withal that they may take the right way to the peace of the kingdom, for my charity commands me, not only to forgive particular men, but to endeavour to the last Gasp the peace, and happiness of the Kingdom; So sirs I do wish with all my soul, that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom.  
Now sirs I must show you both how you are out of the way, and put you in a way. First, you are out of the way; for certainly all the way that you ever had yet, as far a I could find by any thing, is in the way of conquest: Certainly this is an evil way, for conquest in my opinion is never just, except there be a good and a just cause, either for matter of wrong or a just title; and than if you go beyond the first quarrel that you have, that makes it unjust in the end that was just at first; for if there be only matter of conquest, than it is a great robbery, as a Pirate said to Alexander, that he was the great Robber, himself was but a petty Robber; and so Sirs, I do think, for the way you are in you are much out of the way. Now sirs, for to put you in the way, believe it, you will never go right, nor will God ever prosper you, until you give God his due, the King his due, that is, my successor, and the people their due; I am as much for them, and more than any of you; you must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church, according to the scripture, which is now out of order, and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot, but only a Nationall Synod freely called, freely debating among themselves, must settle this, when every opinion is freely and clearly heard; For the King indeed I will not, the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that, therefore because it concerns my own particular, I do only give you a touch of it. For the people I do truly desire their liberty and freedom as much as any body whosoever; but I must tell you, that their liberty and their freedom consists in having government under those laws by which they live, and their goods may be most their own, it is not in having a share in the Government, that is nothing pertaining to them. A Sovereign and a Subject are clean different things, and therefore until you do that, I mean, that you do put the people into that liberty which I speak of, they will never certainly enjoy themselves.  
Sirs, it was for this that I am hither come, for if I would have given way to an arbitrary power, that is, to have all laws changed according to the power of the sword, I needed not to have come here, and therefore I tell you, and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people. Introth sirs, I should not hold you any longer, I will only say this to you, that I could have desired some little time longer, because I would put this which I have said in a little better order, and have had it a little better digested than I have now done, and therefore I hope you will excuse me, I have now delivered my conscience, and I pray God you take those courses that are best for the good of the kingdom, and your own salvations.  Doctor Juxon. 
Although it be very well known what your Majesty's affections are to Religion, yet because it may be expected that you should speak something to give satisfaction to the world therein, I must beseech your Majesty to declare yourself in that particular.  King. 
I thank you hearty my Lord for this remembrance, I had almost forgotten it; in troth Sirs my conscience in religion is already, as I think, well known to all the world, and therefore I declare before you all, that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of Engl. as I found it left unto me by my Father: and (pointing to the Bishop of London) this I do believe, that this honest man will witness with me. Then turning to the Officers, he said, Excuse me for the same, I have a good Cause and a gracious God, I will say no more. On this the Bishop of London said unto him, There is but one stage more; this stage is full of noise and tumult, it is but a short one, but you may consider it will soon carry you from earth to heaven, and there you will find an abundance of unrepented joy and comfort. To this the King replied, I pass from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where there is no disturbance, no disturbance in the world. The Bishop melting into tears, assured him that he was exchanged from a temporal to an eternal crown: a good exchange. After this, the King putting his hair under his cap, after some short and fervent ejaculations in private, with his hands and eyes lift up to heaven, immediately stooped down and laid his neck upon the block, and the King perceiving the Executioner prepared and armed to give the fatal blow, said unto him, Stay for the sign: and after a very little pause, stretching forth his hands, the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body: and even his enemies wept in private for what they had done in public.  
His body was put into a coffin covered with black velvet, and carried from thence to his house at Saint jamses, where being embalmed and wrapped up in a sheet of lead, it was exposed to the view of the people.  
On Wednesday the 7 of Feb. his body was delivered to two of his servants to be buried at Windsor, where the next day the Bishop of London, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Hartford, and the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton repaired, and buried him in a vault in St. George's Chapel, it being the same vault where Henry the eight had been heretofore interred.   

The Life and death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.  
OLiver Cromwell was born in the town of Huntingdon, he was descended from the family of the Williams in the Coun. of Glamorgan, one whereof marrying with the only child and daughter of the Lord Cromwell, raised and beheaded by Henry the Eight, the whole Family afterwards retained the Name of Cromwell which was thought more Honourable.  
In the month of August 1649. Six months after the decease of King Charles Oliver Cromwell, being chosen by the Parliament to be Governor of Ireland, advanced into that Nation with a very gallant Army of Horse and Foot, where having taken and besieged Dogheda, by degrees became absolute master of that whole Nation.  
In the same year Doctor Dorislaus who assisted at King Charles his death, being sent as Agent into the Low Countries, was killed at the Hagne; and Mr. Acham being not long afterwards sent as an Agent into Spain, was killed at Madrid.  
In the year 1650. the Commonwealth of England preparing to make war against the Scots, Oliver Cromwell, who for his many great services in the wars of England, was made Lieutenant General, was now chosen to be Generallissimo of the Armies of the Commonwealth of England in the place of the Lord Fairfax.  
This year in the month of September, was the famous battle of Dunbar, where the English having totally overthrown the Scots, did take ten Colonels, 12 Lieutenant-collonels, 9 Majors, 47 Captains, 72 Lientenants, and eighty Ensigns, two and twenty great Guns, and arms for fifteen thousand men.  
In the same month Edinburgh and Leith were taken.  
Col: Eusebius Andrews being discovered to bring over Commissions to raise soldiers for the King of Scotland, was condemned for it, and beheaded on Tower hill. Much about the same time General Blake at sea did ruin Prince rupert's Fleet.  
In the year 1651. the Arms of the Crown of England were put down by order of Parliament, and the Statues of King Chales were put down, one of them at the old Exchange, and the other at the west end of Paul's.  
This year the Lord Saint john and Mr. Walter Strickland were sent Ambassadors into Holland, where they were much affronted by the English Royalists.  
The Isle of Scilly was reduced, and one Brown Bushel was beheaded at London, a famous Royalist both by sea and land.  
This year M. Love and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded on Tower-hill.  
In the month of August the King of Scotland with an army of twelve thousand men, did enter into England by the way of Carlisle, and on the third of September following was the battle at Worcester, where the King of Scotland being overpowered lost the day, where there were taken six Colonels of horse, eight of foot, thirty seven Captains of ho●se, seventy three of foot, seventy ●●x Standards, ninty nine Ensigns, one hundred fifty and eight Colours, all the Canon, the Royal Standard, the King's coach and horses, the King himself made an escape strangely, and in a disguise passed unknown into France.  
This year the Isle of jersie was taken and the Isle of Man reduced; and not long afterwards the strong castle of G●ernsey was surrendered to the Pa●liament.  
In the month of May 1652. was the first Sea-fight betwixt the Engglish and the Hollanders, General Blake gave the first volley, and let fly three guns at Vantrumps flag, to which Van-trump answered by a shot from the stern of his ship backwards, signifying his disdain to veil his flag, and instead of striking his main topsail, he caused a red flag of war to be set up in token of a combat to his whole Fleet, and without any further delay he gave Gen. Blake a broad side, who returned two for one, and for the space of four hours together both Fleets did fight with great animosity. In this fight it is said that one Holland man of war was sunk, and another taken with thirty guns: on the English side there were some slain, and more wounded, and the ship Gen. Blake commanded as Admiral, was much indammag'd in her masts, sail, tackling, and apparel.  
This action being disowned by the States of Holland, there was afterwards open war proclaimed betwixt the two Nations, and the greatest part of the English Fleet sailed Northwards towards the Isle of Orkeney under the command of General Blake, thinking the Dutch would be ready there to convey home their Fishermen: in the mean time another Fleet of the Hollanders were discovered not far from Plymouth, against which Sir George Ascue advanced with forty men of war, and though in his first charge he was sufficiently dammaged in his sails, masts and yards, yet he got windward of his Enemies, and once again charged the whole body of them. Amongst the English there were several hurt and killed, and it was conjectured by the wrack that two of the Holland men of war were sunk: the night coming on, the English made towards Plymouth to repair their vessels, but especially their masts, yards, and tackling which were so torn in the fight, yet they were enforced to give over the enemy.  
In the month of September General Blake fought with the French fleet that were carrying Auxiliaries and provisions to the relief of Dunkirk, and having mastered them to obedience, it was the only means that Dunkirk was surrendered to the Spaniard.  
Some few days afterwards he discovered about sixty sail of Holland men of war, commanded by Admiral de Witte, on the backside of the goodwin's Sands, whom he followed almost as far as Westchappell in Zealand, and took the Admiral of the rear squadron.  
Not long afterwards there was another fight betwixt eleven of the Holland men and a squadron of the English in the Mediterranean sea, where the the English being overpowred by numbers, the Phoenix, a very gallant Frigate, of five and forty guns, was boarded by a Holland man of war, and enforced to yield.  
On the ninteenth of September a part of the English fleet set sail for Denmark, to demand the English ships that were there detained, and whose lading was carried on shore and sold. This Ambassage was fruitless, and no restauration made until many months afterwards: coming home the Antelope Frigate being Admiral, commanded by Captain Ball, steering too much to the shore, did run upon the sands, where she was lost, and it was ten to one that the whole Fleet had not followed her, she bearing the lantern. She was an excellent Frigate, and carried fifty brass guns.  
Not long afterwards the Hollanders came forth to sea again with fourscore ships and upwards, against whom the English Fleet, under the command of Gen. Blake, advanced; it is said they consisted not of above two and forty ships, and that not above half of them engaged in that day's service, and bore the brunt of the puissant Holland Fleet. The Avent-guard and the Victory, two brave Frigates, having been that whole afternoon engaged in the midst of the enemy, who fired from all sides on them, got off in a very good condition. The Garland, a frigate that carried forty pieces of Canon, was boarded, and being overpowered on all sides, was enforced to yield; the Bonaventure, a gallant ship, going to relieve the Garland, did fall also into the hands of the enemies. General Blake, who commanded the Triumph plunging into the midst of his enemies to fetch off the Garland and Bonaventure, was clapped on board by the Dutch, and had his foremast shot down close to the board; but having stoutly defended himself, he at length got clear, and went off with the rest of the Fleet.  
But on the latter end of February 1653. the English did put forth to sea again with a gallant fleet, Gen. Blake in the Triumph followed by Gen. Dean, having discovered 80. Holl. men of War (who seemed to outdare them between the Isle of Wight and Portland) began the fight; the English Fleet came not up unto their General, who all the morning had been engaged until two in the afternoon, at what time there was a most cruel fight, which continued till dark night. The English lost the Samson, which was so leaky and so unserviceable, that the Hollanders sunk her themselves after they had taken her. On the next day and the day following the Engglish again assaulted the Hollanders; on the last day the fight was more obstinate than the former. The English in this fight took about nine men of War, and fifty Merchant's ships, and sunk several other ships; fifteen hundred prisoners were brought up to London. Gen. Blake was hurt in this encounter, having done as much as could be expected from a gallant seaman, and many of his captains and officers, who were men of great courage, were both hurt and killed in this desperate encounter. In this spring the English lost some ships at Legorne, captain Badily who commanded a squadron of nine men of War, being not able by the averseness of the wind to come up and assist captain Appleton, whose Frigates not equal to the Hollanders were surrounded by them. There were lost in this fight the Leopard and Smugge Frigate, which carried fifty pieces of canon; she was boarded & taken by the Dutch Admiral, and for the space of five hours maintained a stout fight with him and two other great ships. At the same time the Bonaventure, a gallant frigate of the English was blown up, an iron bullet from the enemy having unhappily fired the powder. The Pilgrim was also taken, having her main and mizzen masts both shot down. The Levant Merchant another stout English frigate was taken. The Samson being assaulted by young Van-trump, and a fireship of the Hollanders, was soon set on fire, and perished in the sea.  
Not long afterward Gen. Cromwell alleging that the drifts of the Parliament were to establish themselves in a perpetual Senate, which was directly against the ambition of his spirit, which desired predominant over all, he found the means to dissolve the long Parliament, which very few seemed to be grieved at; and that all the world might be satisfied with the reasons wherefore he did it, he published his Manif●esto for it.  
A Council of State was presently settled, and not long afterwards there was another great fight betwixt the English and the Dutch, which continued for the space of two days: in this fight the English lost Gen. Dean one of their Admirals, who was taken off by a great shot in the first days engagement: there were slain of the English (as the lists than gave account) one hundred and threescore men, and two hundred and forty hurt; of the Hollanders one 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 texel, 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 month there was a memorable fight betwixt the Dutch and the English, during the time of a treaty betwixt both Nations, this battle 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 nighttime 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 Admiral Van-trump was slain: there were twenty men of War of the Hollanders sunk or burnt in this fight. Of the English there were slain outright eight Captains, and five hurt: the Triumph and the Andrew, two Frigates, were sorely put to it, and received great damage in their sails and rigging. The Hollanders seeing so great a number of their ships lost did face about, and did bear away with all the sail they could make unto the texel and the Engl. not judging it expedient to engage too far upon them, did set sail with the whole Fleet towards Yarmouth, to dispose of such ships as were disabled, and to put their wounded men on shore.  
The Pa●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 Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland at Westminster, in the presence of all the Judges, the Barons of the Exchequer, 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 custom) to see them kept, protesting moreover that he would mind nothing so much as the good of the Commonwealth, 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 several counties thinking to join with them, did take up arms, and finding the succourse promised and expected to stand out against them, they cried out they were betrayed, and most of them being taken were sent to foreign plantations. On this account Sir Henry Slingsby was taken prisoner in Yorkshire, & beheaded afterwards upon another account of the same nature. M. Penruddock, M. Luce's, M. Thorpe, M. Kensey, M. Graves, who cried out much against Sir joseph 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. john Gerrard and the brother to the Portugal Ambassador 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 Marquis of Leda came over in a magnificent manner, as an Ambassador 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 General Pen and General Venables, did put forth to sea, who on the tenth of May following arrived at jamaica, the design having miscarried, 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 testify his joy did most sumptuously entreat the Holland Ambassadors.  
This year the Highlanders in Scotland disdaining the subjection of General Middleton, but General 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 Commonwealth 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 Ambassador into Sweden, where he entered into a close league with that nation.  
General Blake arriving with his fleet at Sunis, sent unto the Governor of the place to demand satisfaction for some English ships which the pirates in those parts had taken away, which being denied, he came with the Vide-admiral and rear-admiral within musket shot of the Castle, on which he incessantly fired, and on the other forts whilst 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 suspicion of a new Conspiracy.  
His Highness going into S. jamses 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 fly 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 fall 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 jameica with Colonel Humpheries Regiment, not long afterwards Gene. Pen, and after him General Venables arrived from jameica, who had not the same countenance from his Highness, as when they did put forth to sea.  
In the year 1656, Seven Spanish Ships coming from Lime in the Indieses most richly laded, were encountered in the way by General Montague, about nine leagues from Cadis, The fight was violent, and the rather because it was known with what mettle 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 Portugal prize. In the ship that was burned, was Marquis of Budex, his wife and one daughter, In another of the Ships that were taken, was the young Marquis 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 College, 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 himself, though he miss 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 sunk sixteen great vessails, amongst which there were five Galleons, the Admiral, Vice-admiral, and rear-admiral, the greatest part whereof had Brass 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 john Reynolds.  
In the middle of the month of june, 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 conveyed unto the English, and Sir john Reynolds coming for England, was at Sea, most unfortunately, if not cruelly cast away. General Blake being sick, died in the sight of Plymouth, and had the Honour to be buried in the Chapel 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 Whitehall should have been set on fire by one john 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 public 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 buried under the Scaffold, and (to increase yet more the noise 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 proceed whereof so many hopes depended, he said he would trust no more to men but rely on GOD only. 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 die, whose last words on the ladder, and the halter's 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 than 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 john 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 june, a Whale of a prodigious bulk, being sixty foot in length, and of a proportionable bigness, was cast upon shore 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 battle, 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 surrendered to the English.  
In july, the Lady Elizabeth Cleypole, second daughter to the Protector, departed this life; she was a Lady of a gallant spirit, and died in the flower of her age, which struck more to her Father's 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 & likeness: she died 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 breast 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 dried 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 niece Protector, was for the funerals of his father which were resolved should be solemnised 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 conveyed about ten of the clock at night, from Whitehall to Somerset house where it remained some days in private, before it could be in a readiness to be exposed to the public view. The Effigies (more richly adorned then ever was any King of England) was l●id first on a bed of state, afterwards it was set upright, there was nothing admitted that was in Art, or Wealth, or Industry to render it illustrious.  
On Tuesday, November 23. the Effigies with all the solemnity, and Pageantry that could be was brought in a stately Chariot from Somerset house to Westminster Abbey, and that day, and many weeks afterwards, the people in great multitudes came to behold it, and with their hats off, did reverence to it, in the same place, where before the Altar stood in the Temple of God; but this blind superstition had its period in the month of May following, at the time of the restauration of the long Parliament, who having taken away the power from the son, might well pull down the image of his Father.  
Not long afterwards, his Highness was advised by his Counsel to choose a Parliament, it being conceived to be the only way to establish himself in the affections of the people; Writs therefore were issued for a free Parliament, which met on the seven and twentieth of january next en●●ing, where the death of the two speakers Mr. Chalonel Cruse, (a person of admirable knowledge, and integrity) and Mr. Lis●eho●e Long, Recorder of London, we●e the forerunners of the short life of that Parliament, and of the short government of the Protector himself.  
In this Parliament, the Lady Mary Hewyt, (sister to the Earl of Lindsey, and the Relict of Doctor john Hewyt not long before beheaded) petitioned the grand Committee of the whole House for grievances, against the High Court of Justice, for taking away the life of her dear husband; but some Members of the House of Parliament, who were present at the reading of it, did declare themselves to be concerned in it, and alleged that it was the privilege of a Member of Parliament, not to be petitioned against any any where▪ nor to seek redress from any Court but from the Parliament itself; the Petition therefore was returned from her to the Committee with that intimation.  
After this, and several other Petions of a high nature, for unjustly apprehending and detaining men Prisoners in the Tower, and for the bannishing and the selling of several Gentlemen to the Barbadoss, for slaves; for which Sergeant Maeynerd was ordered to bring in a Bill for prevention of the like Tyranny in the future: the accounts of the Commonwealth was called for, and a Committee being appointed to examine them, it was found that in the last five years, the Commonwealth was much in arrears, and by the ill mannagement of those who were entrusted with the receipts and disbursements of the money, they were run in debt no less than five and twenty hundred thousand pounds.  
At the last, some transactions in the Army, being taken into consideration, and it being voted that all Officers of the Army, should repair to their several charges, and that they should hold no meeting during the sitting of Parliament, but by the consent o● the Protector, and both Houses; and that none should be in office but such only as world subscribe not to interrupt either house of Parliament in their proceed, it wrought so much upon the spirits of some of the Commanders, that not long afterwards, the Parliament was dissolved, and a period given to the Government of the Protectorship.   

THE RESTAURATION Of the Long PARLIAMENT.  
THe long Parliament being dissolved in the year 1653. by the Lord Oliver Cromwell, were now encouraged by the Lord Fleetwood, and many other of the Commanders to return to exercise of their former power, and promised the uttermost assistance of the Army therein, and accordingly on the seventh of May, 1659. some forty of them, or thereabouts, did meet in the painted Chamber, from whence, having the Mace carried before them, they passed into the house, where a Declaration was passed; that all such as shall be employed in any place of power in the Commonwealth, be persons fearing God, and faithful to the Commonwealth: After this, they chose a Counsel of State, consisting for the most part of their own Members.  
There being at the same time, many Members of the same Parliament, in London, and some of them in the Hall, they endeavoured to go up into the House, but were not permitted by the Souldery; amongst these Members was Sir George Booth who being of a high spirit, and discontented at it, did speak some words very hastily, which as rashly afterwards, he did put in practice.  
The Parliament removed Col. Berkstead, from being Lieutenant of the Tower, many Petitions and complaints being preferred against him, and Col. Fitz was chosen to supply his place.  
A pardon was pulished for the most part, of whatsoever had been acted from the interruption of the Parliament, in April 1659. until the new convention of them on the ninth of may, 1659.  
In the Month of june, Leiu. General Fleetwood was made Commander in chief of all the forces in England and Scotland; the Lord Henry Cromwell, was removed from his command in Ireland, and Commissioners were appointed to govern that Nation in his place.  
The Militia of the City of London, and of the respective countries were revived, and the Commissioners for the Militia of the three Nations, were signed and delivered by the Speaker of the Parliament, and ordered so to continue.  
In the month of july, there was a whisper throughout the Nation, that now was the time for a free Parliament, and for the taking off the Taxes from the shoulders of the oppressed, whereupon there began to be a general insurrection (almost) all England over; but it was quickly supposed by the vigilance, and the industry of the County Troops. The insurrection which was most great, and dangerous, was in the Northwest of England, where in the Counties of Lancashire, and Cheshire, and parts adjoining, Sir George Booth had drawn together an Army of four thousand persons, some of them, both Commanders and others, having been actually, in the service of the King of Scotland, and the King his Father; against these the Lord Lambert marched, with an Army consisting of about seven thousand horse and foot, and having given them a great rout at Winnington bridge, he totally dispersed them.  
Sir George Booth was taken afterwards at Newport Pagnel, being disguised in the habit of a Lady, from whence being sent to London with a strong guard, he was encountered in the way by a party of Colonel Hackers Regiment, who did convey him prisoner to the Tower of London, where for the present he continueth having been oftentimes examined by Sir Arthur Hazelrige, Sir Henry Vane, and others.  
A Proclamation was agreed upon, that if john Mordant Esquire, Son to the Earl of Peterborough, Major General Massy; Charles Stuart, Earl of Litchfield, of the family of the Duke of Ritchmond. Sir Thomas Leventhop Knight, William Compton, Son to the Earl of Northampton; Thomas Fanshaw, son to Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight, and Major General Brown, do not render themselves to the Parliament, upon the seventeenth of September, or to the Counsel of State, they shall be accounted guilty of the treasonable crimes that are charged against, which time is not expired at the ending of this History, it being Thursday September 8. in the year 1659.  
To begin the year the Army submitted to the Parliament, who sat again at Wewminster; the nine Commanders, whose Commissions were made void on the twelfth of Octob. were all commanded to departed to their houses most remote from London, if otherwise they were found to stay there, to be secured, Sir Henry Vane was required to go to his house at Raby, in the County of Durham, and Major Salloway was committed prisoner to the Tower.  
General Monck, being on his march to London, according to the desire of Parliament, Mr. Scot, and Mr. Luke Robinson, were sent to congratulate him; the Parliament conferred on him, for his remarkable service, a thousand pound a year, and the Lord Mayor called a Commoncounsel, where it was ordered, that three of their Members should be sent unto him, to acquaint him how sensible they were of the great service which he had performed for the good of the City, and Commonwealth, for which they were resolved at his coming to the City, to give him some testimony of their gratitude.  
On the eighteenth of this month, the Parliament resolved upon Commissioners for the great seal, and Judges of the several Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, as also of Judges for the Court of Admiralty, and for the probate of Wills.  
The City of Excester, and Count of Devonshire, have declared for the recelling of the Members that were secluded in the year 1648. which on wednesday last, was delivered by Mr. Bamphield recorder of Excester, to Mr. Speaker; and it is informed that other Counties are adjoining with them, in a petition to the same effect.   
The End.