1045 Chamber Accounts (Town Clerk's offi_London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

M562 St. Paul's School.

1046 Repertory 2, fos. 121b, 123.

1047 -_Id._, fo. 126b; Journal 11, fo. 147b.

1048 Journal 11, fo. 163; Repertory 2, fos. 133b, 142.

1049 Letter of Erasmus to Justus Jonas quoted in Lupton's Life of Colet,

pp. 166, 167.

1050 Survey (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 28.

M563 Provincial grammar schools founded by citizens of London.

1051 "The number of grammar schools, in various parts of the country,

which owe their foundation and endowment to the piety and liberality

of citizens of London ... far exceeds what might be supposed,

approaching as it does nearly to a hundred."--Preface to Brewer's

Life of Carpenter, p. xi.

M564 Birth of the Princess Mary, Feb., 1516.

1052 Repertory 3, fo. 46.

M565 The city and Cardinal Wolsey, 1516.

1053 -_Id._, fos. 70b, 71.

1054 -_Id._, fos. 86, 86b, 88.

1055 Repertory 3, fos. 116, 116b.

M566 Evil Mayday, 1517.

1056 Wares bought and sold between strangers--"foreign bought and

sold"--were declared forfeited to the City by Letters Patent of Henry

VII, 23 July. 1505, confirmed by Henry VIII, 12 July, 1523.

1057 In 1500, and again in 1516, orders were issued for all freemen to

return with their families to the city on pain of losing their

freedom.--Journal 10. fos. 181b, 259.

1058 Repertory 3, fos. 141b, 142.

1059 Holinshed, iii, 618.

1060 Or Munday; the name is said to appear in twenty-seven different

forms. He was a goldsmith by trade, and was appointed (among others)

by Cardinal Wolsey to report upon the assay of gold and silver

coinage in 1526.--Journal 13, fo. 45b; Letter Book O, fo. 71b. He

served sheriff, 1514; and was mayor in 1522.

1061 In 1462 the Common Council ordered basket-makers, gold wire-drawers,

and other foreigners plying a craft within the city, to reside at

Blanchappleton--a manor in the vicinity of Mark Lane--and not

elsewhere.

1062 Repertory 3, fo. 55b.

1063 For an account of the riot and subsequent proceedings, see

Holinshed, iii, 621-623, and the Grey Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No.

53). p. 30.

M567 The City anxious to regain the king's lost favour.

1064 Repertory 3, fos. 143, 143b.

M568 A deputation attends the king at Greenwich, 11 May, 1517.

M569 Wolsey and other lords to be bought over with gifts.

M570 The king's pardon obtained, 22 May.

1065 Holinshed, iii, 624.

1066 Repertory 3, fo. 144b.

1067 -_Id._, fo. 143b.

1068 Holinshed, 624.

1069 Repertory 3, fo. 145b.

1070 -_Id._, fo. 145.

1071 Repertory 3, fo. 165.

1072 -_Id._, fo. 166.

1073 "Thys yere was much a doo in the yelde-halle for the mayer for the

comyns wold not have had Semer, for be cause of yell May-day."--Grey

Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 53), p. 33.

1074 Repertory 11, fo. 351b.

M571 The epidemic of 1518.

1075 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. ii, pt. i,

Pref., p. ccxxi.

1076 -_Id._, vol. ii, pt. ii, p. 1276.

1077 Repertory 3, fos. 184b, 189b, 191, 192.

1078 Letter Book N, fo. 95b.

1079 Repertory 3, fos. 192, 194; Letter Book N, fos. 63b, 74.

1080 Repertory 3, fo. 197.

M572 Marriage of the infant Princess Mary with the Dauphin, 5 Oct., 1518.

1081 Hall's Chron., pp. 593, 594.

1082 Holinshed, iii, 632.

1083 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. ii. pt. i,

Pref., pp. clx, clxi.

M573 Preparations for the reception of the legate in the city, July,

1519.

1084 "An order devysed by the Mayer and hys brethrern the aldremen by the

Kynges commandment for a Tryumphe to be done in the Citie of London

at the Request of the Right honorable ambassadors of the Kynge of

Romayns."--10 July, Journal 12, fo. 9.

M574 The legate lands at Deal, 23 July, 1519.

M575 A story told of his passage through the city.

1085 Hall, pp. 592, 593.

M576 The contest for the empire, 1519.

1086 Holinshed, iii, 639.

M577 The emperor's visit to the city, 1522.

1087 Journal 12, fos. 125, 172b, 173b; Letter Book N, fo. 194b.

1088 Knighted the next day at Greenwich.--Repertory 5, fo. 295.

1089 Repertory 5, fo. 294.

1090 -_Id._ 4, fo. 134b.

1091 -_Id._ 5, fo. 293.

M578 Pestilence and famine, 1519-1522.

1092 Journal 12, fos. 75b-76; Letter Book N, fos. 142-143.

1093 Grey Friars Chron., p. 30; Repertory 4, fo. 71b.

1094 Repertory 4, fos. 1b, 12, 13.

1095 Journal 12, fo. 136.

1096 -_Id._, fo. 144.

1097 Journal 12, fos. 158, 161, 163b; Letter Book N, fos. 187b, 190b.

1098 Holinshed, iii, 675.

M579 Execution of the Duke of Buckingham, 1521.

1099 Shakespere mentions the Duke's manor thus:--

"Not long before your highness sped to France,

The duke being at the Rose, within the parish

St. Laurence Poultney, did of me demand

What was the speech among the Londoners

Concerning the French journey."

--Henry VIII, act 1, sc. 2.

1100 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iii, pt.

i, Pref., pp. cxxv, cxxvi, cxxxv, cxxxvi.

1101 On the 5th July steps were taken by the Court of Aldermen for

putting a stop to the mutinous and seditious words that were current

in the city "concerning the lamenting and sorrowing of the death of

the duke"--men saying that he was guiltless--and special precautions

were taken for the safe custody of weapons and harness for fear of

an outbreak. The scribe evinced his loyalty by heading the page of

the record with _Lex domini immaculata: Vivat Rex Currat

L_.--Repertory 5, fo. 204.

M580 City loan of L20,000 to assist the king against France, 1522.

1102 Repertory 5, fo. 288.

1103 Journal 12, fos. 187b, 188b, 195; Letter Book N, fos. 203b, 204,

208.

M581 The aldermen to be assessed with the commoners and not to be

severed.

1104 Repertory 5, fo. 292.

1105 Journal 12, fo. 187b.

1106 Repertory 5, fos. 289, 290.

1107 -_Id._, fo. 291.

1108 Repertory 5, fos. 296b, 297.

1109 -_Id._, fo. 294.

M582 A further loan of 4,000 marks.

M583 Letter of thanks from Wolsey, 3 Sept., 1522.

1110 A portion remained unpaid on 16 August.--Journal 12, fo. 195.

1111 Letter dated 3 Sept.--Journal 12, fo. 196b. On 28 Sept. Wolsey asked

for more time to repay the loan.--Repertory 5, fo. 326.

1112 Journal 12, fo. 200.

M584 The City makes a stand against further loans. Nov., 1522.

M585 Others follow its example.

1113 Journal 12, fo. 210.

1114 See Green's "Hist. of the English People," ii, 121. 122.

M586 Appeal to parliament, April, 1523.

1115 Grey Friars Chron., p. 31.

1116 Repertory 4, fo. 144; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 20b; Letter Book N, fo.

222.

1117 Repertory 4, fo. 145b.

1118 Roper's "Life of More," pp. 17-20.

M587 The City and Wolsey, 1523.

1119 Repertory 4, fos. 152, 168; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 38.

1120 Repertory 4, fos. 144b, 145, 146, 150; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fos. 22b,

29, 32b.

M588 The king and queen of Denmark in the city.

1121 Grey Friars Chron. pp. 30, 31.

1122 Repertory 4, fos. 153b-154; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 42.

M589 England invaded by the Scots. 1523.

1123 Repertory 6, fo. 61b.

1124 Holinshed, iii, 692, 693.

M590 Monoux refuses to accept the mayoralty a second time, Oct., 1523.

1125 Journal 12, fos. 249-250.

1126 Journal 12, fos. 287-288.

M591 The king pledges himself to repay the City loan of L20,000.

1127 -_Id._, fo. 276.

M592 Formation of a league against France.

1128 -_Id._, fo. 284.

M593 Proclamation for the recovery of lost letters, 10 July, 1524.

M594 The king of France made prisoner at Pavia, 24 Feb., 1525.

M595 Rejoicing in the city.

1129 Letter Book N, fo. 280; Journal 12, fo. 329.

1130 Grey Friars Chron., p. 32.

M596 The Amicable Loan, 1525.

1131 Hall's Chron., p. 695.

1132 Journal 12, fo. 331; Letter Book N. fo. 278.

1133 Journal 12, fo. 331b.

1134 Hall's Chron., p. 701.

M597 A truce between England and France.

M598 French ambassadors lodged in the city, 1527.

1135 The truce was to last from 14 August to 1 December.--Letter Book N,

fos. 291, 293; Journal 12, fos. 300, 305.

1136 "Item in lyke wyse the Chamberleyn shall have allowance of and for

suche gyftes and presentes as were geven presentyd on Sonday laste

passyd at the Bysshoppes palace at Paules to the Ambassadours of

Fraunce devysed and appoynted by my lorde Cardynalles Grace and most

specyally at his contemplacioun geven for asmoch as lyke precedent

in so ample maner hath not afore tyme be seen; the presents ensue

etc."--Repertory 7, fo. 225.

M599 Troubles over Wythypol's election as alderman, 1527-1528.

M600 Wythypol again summoned to take office.

M601 Committed to Newgate, 6 Feb., 1528.

M602 Again summoned to take office, 22 May.

1137 He had been one of the commoners sent to confer with Wolsey touching

the amicable loan (Journal 12, fo. 331b). He attended the coronation

banquet of Anne Boleyn in 1533 (Repertory 9, fo. 2), and was M.P.

for the city from 1529-1536 (Letter Book O, fo. 157). His daughter

Elizabeth married Emanuel Lucar, also a merchant-tailor.--Repertory

9, fos. 139. 140.

1138 Repertory 7, fos. 171b, 172, 174b, 179.

1139 Repertory 7, fos. 179b, 180.

1140 To the effect that he was not worth L1,000.--Journal 7, fo. 198.

1141 Repertory 7, fos. 238b, 240, 240b.

1142 -_Id._, fo. 243b.

1143 Repertory 7, fo. 206. The Common Council assessed the fine at

L100.--Journal 13, fo. 61b; Letter Book O, fo. 80b.

1144 Repertory 7, fo. 264.

M603 A great dearth in the city, 1529.

1145 Journal 13, fo. 184b.

1146 Letter Book O, fos. 88b, 89b.

M604 The legatine court at the Blackfriars, 1529.

1147 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iv,

Introd., p. cccclxv.

M605 The lord mayor's banquet, 28 Oct., 1529.

1148 Letter Book O, fos. 174b-175; Journal 13, fo. 180b.

M606 The fall of Wolsey, 1529-1530.

1149 Letter Book O, fo. 157.

1150 About the year 1522 Cromwell was living in the city, near Fenchurch,

combining the business of a merchant with that of a money-lender. He

sat in the parliament of 1523, and towards the close of that year

served on a wardmote inquest for Bread Street Ward. In 1524 he

entered Wolsey's service.--Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom.

(Henry VIII.), vol. iii, pt. i, Introd., pp. cclvi, cclvii.

1151 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iv,

Introd., pp. dliii-dlvi.

M607 The House of Commons and the Clergy, 1529.

1152 Stat. 21, Henry VIII, caps. 5, 6 and 13.

1153 Proclamation, 12 Sept., 1530.--Letter Book O, fo. 199b.

M608 Disputes touching tithes payable to city clergy, 1527-1534.

1154 Burnell, "London (City) Tithes Act, 1879," Introd., pp. 1, 2.

1155 Letter Book O, fos. 47, _seq._

1156 A list of these, comprising seven churches, was submitted to the

Court of Aldermen, 23 Feb., 1528.--Repertory 8, fo. 21.

M609 The curates' book of articles.

1157 Letter Book O, fos. 140b, 141b.

1158 Repertory 8, fo. 27b.

1159 Letter Book O, fos. 145, 145b; Journal 13, fo. 125b.

1160 Letter book P, fos. 31, 34, 41b; Journal 13, fo. 417b.

1161 This order was confirmed by stat. 27, Henry VIII, cap. 21. Ten years

later a decree was made pursuant to stat. 37, Henry VIII, cap. 12,

regulating the whole subject of tithes, but owing to the decree not

having been enrolled in accordance with the terms of the statute,

much litigation has in recent times arisen.--Burnell, "London (City)

Tithes Act, 1879," Introd., p. 3.

M610 Elsing Spital and Holy Trinity Priory surrendered to the king,

1530-1531.

1162 The well-known and somewhat romantic account of the origin of the

priory and of its connection with the city cnihten-guild is given in

Letter Book C, fos. 134b, _seq._; _Cf._ Liber Dunthorn, fo. 79.

1163 Grey Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 53), p. 35. Three years later

(30 March, 1534) the Court of Aldermen resolved to wait upon the

chancellor "to know his mind for the office concerning the lands"

belonging to the late priory.--Repertory 9, fo. 53b.

M611 The Great Beam reconveyed to the City after the lapse of ten years,

1531.

1164 By letters patent dated 13 April, 1531 (preserved at the Guildhall,

Box No. 16).

1165 Henry Lumnore, Lumnar or Lomner, a grocer by guild as well as

calling (see Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII),

vol. iii, pt. ii, p. 879), was associated with Sidney in holding the

beam. The City offered to buy him out either by bestowing on him an

annuity of L10 during the joint lives of himself and Sidney, or else

by paying him a lump sum of L100.--Repertory 8, fo. 218b.

1166 Anne Boleyn.

1167 Repertory 8, fo. 131.

1168 -_Id._, fos. 142b. 202b.

M612 Feeling in the city at Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn, 1533.

1169 Chapuys to the emperor.--Cal. State Papers (Spanish), vol. iv., pt.

ii, p. 646.

M613 The queen's passage from the Tower to Westminster, 31 May, 1533.

1170 Repertory 9, fo. 1b. There is a fine drawing at Berlin by Holbein

which is thought to be the original design for the triumphal arch

erected by the merchants of the Steelyard on this occasion.

M614 The City's gift of 1,000 marks.

1171 Journal 13, fo. 371b. According to Wriothesley (Camd. Soc., N.S.,

No. 11, p. 19) the present to the queen was made to her in a purse

of cloth of gold on the occasion of her passing through the city on

the 31st May, the day before her coronation.

1172 Repertory 2, fo. 70b; Repertory 9, fo. 2.

M615 The Act of Succession, 1534.

1173 Letter Book P, fos. 37-37b; Journal 13, fo. 408b.

1174 Letter to Lord Lisle.--Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry

VIII), vol. vii, p. 208.

1175 Repertory 9, fo. 57b. "Allso the same day [20 April] all the craftes

in London were called to their halls, and there were sworne on a

booke to be true to Queene Anne and to believe and take her for

lawfull wife of the Kinge and rightfull Queene of Englande, and

utterlie to thincke the Lady Marie, daughter to the Kinge by Queene

Katherin, but as a bastarde, and thus to doe without any

scrupulositie of conscience."--Wriothesley's Chron., i, 24.

M616 Proceedings against those objecting to subscribe to the Act of

Succession.

1176 Grey Friars Chron., p. 37. In November of the last year they had

been made to do penance at Paul's Cross and afterwards at

Canterbury.

M617 The monks of the Charterhouse, 1534-1535.

1177 "Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum," 1583. Much of it is

quoted by Father Gasquet in his work on "Henry VIII and the English

Monasteries" (cap. vi), and also by Mr. Froude ("Hist. of England,"

vol. ii, cap. ix).

1178 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. vii, p.

283.

1179 This convent--the most virtuous house of religion in England--was of

the Order of St. Bridget, and received an annual visit from the

mayor and aldermen of the City of London at what was known as "the

pardon time of Sion," in the month of August. In return for the

hospitality bestowed by the lady abbess on these occasions the Court

of Aldermen occasionally made her presents of wine (Repertories 3,

fo. 94b; 7, fo. 275). In 1517 the court instructed the chamberlain

to avoid excess of diet on the customary visit. There was to be no

breakfast on the barge and no swans at dinner (Repertory 3, fo.

154b). In 1825 the Court of Common Council decreed (_inter alia_)

that "as tonchyng the goyng of my lord mayre and my masters his

brethern the aldermen [to] Syon, yt is sett at large and to be in

case as it was before the Restreynt" (Journal 12, fo. 302). It was

suppressed 25 Nov., 1539.--Wriothesley's Chron., i, 109.

M618 The Act of Supremacy, 1534.

M619 Execution of Houghton and others, 1535.

1180 The Act of Supremacy was passed in 1534, but the king's new title as

Supreme Head of the Church was not incorporated in his style before

the 15 Jan., 1535.

1181 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. viii, p.

321.

1182 -_Id._, p. 354.

M620 Execution of Fisher and More, 1535.

1183 Repertory 9, fo. 145.

M621 The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536.

1184 -_Id._, fo. 199.

1185 He had been elected mayor for the second time in October last

(1535), much against his own wish, at the king's express

desire.--Journal 13, fo. 452b; Wriothesley, i, 31. He presented the

City with a collar of SS. to be worn by the mayor for the time

being.--Repertory 11, fo. 238.

1186 Repertory 9, fos. 199, 199b.

1187 Repertory 9, fo. 200.

1188 -_Id._, fo. 200b.

1189 Son of Thomas Warren, fuller; grandson of William Warren, of Fering,

co. Sussex. He was knighted on the day that his election was

confirmed by the king (Wriothesley. i, 59). His daughter Joan (by

his second wife Joan, daughter of John Lake, of London) married Sir

Henry Williams, _alias_ Cromwell (Repertory 14, fo. 180; Journal 17.

fo. 137b), by whom she had issue Robert Cromwell, father of the

Protector. Warren died 11 July, 1533, and his widow married Alderman

Sir Thomas White.--See notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 330.

1190 Repertory 9, fo. 209b.

M622 Henry's marriage with Jane Seymour, May, 1536.

1191 Henry attributed her miscarriage to licentiousness; others to her

having received a shock at seeing her royal husband thrown from his

horse whilst tilting at the ring.--Wriothesley, i, 33.

1192 Chapuys to [Granvelle] 25 Aug., 1536.--Cal. Letters and Papers For.

and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. xi., p. 145.

M623 Convocation at St. Paul's, 9 June-20 July, 1536.

1193 Wriothesley, i, 52-53.

M624 Preparation for the new queen's coronation.

M625 She dies in childbed, 24 Oct., 1537.

1194 Letter Book P, fo. 103b.

1195 Wriothesley, i, 69.

1196 Letter Book P, fo. 135b; Wriothesley, i, 71, 72.

M626 Anne of Cleves arrives at Dover, 27 Dec., 1539.

M627 Her passage through the city, 4 Feb,. 1540.

1197 Repertory 10, fos. 152b, 153; Wriothesley, i, 109, 111.

1198 Repertory 10, fo. 161. The circumstance that Henry carried his new

bride to Westminster by water instead of conducting her thither

through the streets of the city has been considered a proof of his

want of regard for her.

M628 Cromwell's work of demolition in the city, 1537-1538.

1199 Holinshed, iii. 807.

1200 Letter Book P, fo. 113; Journal 14, fo. 30b.

1201 Stow's "Survey" (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 68.

1202 The Mercers' Company applied for a grant of the chapel and other

property of the hospital; and this was conceded by letters patent,

21 April, 1542, upon payment of the sum of L969 17_s._ 6_d._,

subject to a reserved rent of L7 8_s._ 10_d._, which was redeemed by

the company in 1560.--Livery Comp. Com. (1880), Append. to Report,

1884, vol. ii, p. 9.

M629 The division of the spoil.

1203 On the re-establishment of the Dutch or Mother Strangers' Church, at

Elizabeth's accession, it was declared by the Privy Council to be

under the superintendence of the Bishop of London (Cal. State Papers

Dom., Feb., 1560). Hence it was that Dr. Temple, Bishop of London,

was memorialised in March, 1888, as superintendent of the French

Church in London.--See "Eng. Hist. Review," April, 1891, pp. 388-389.

1204 Stow's "Survey" (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 67.

1205 Nichols' "Progresses of Queen Eliz.," iii. 598. For particulars of

Swinnerton see Clode's "Early Hist. of the Merchant Taylors'

Company," i, 262, etc.

M630 The mayor's effort to save the destruction of the steeple of the

Austin Friars Church.

1206 Strype's Stow, bk. ii, pp. 114, 115.

1207 Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 133, 134.

M631 The priory of St. Helen without Bishopsgate.

1208 In 1439 Reginald Kentwode, Dean of St. Paul's, having in a recent

visitation discovered "many defaults and excesses," drew up a

schedule of injunctions for their better regulation.--Printed in

London and Middlesex Archaeol. Soc. Transactions, ii, 200-203.

M632 Friendly relations between the Corporation and religious houses in

the city.

1209 Journal 12, fo. 75.

1210 Repertory 2, fo. 185b.

1211 Repertory 5, fos. 15, 15b, 82b.

1212 Repertory 2, fo. 185; Grey Friars Chron., pp. 29, 31.

M633 Royal injunction for keeping Parish Registers, 29 Sept., 1538.

1213 Sixteen other registers for city parishes commence in 1538, and four

in 1539.--See Paper on St. James Garlickhithe, by W. D. Cooper,

F.S.A. (London and Middlesex Arch. Soc. Trans., vol. iii, p. 392,

note).

M634 Great increase of London poor, consequent on the suppression of

religious houses.

1214 Wriothesley's Chron. (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 11), i, 77, 78.

M635 Sir Richard Gresham's letter to the king for conveyance to the City

of certain hospitals.

1215 Descended from a Norfolk family. Apprenticed to John Middleton,

mercer, of London, and admitted to the freedom of the Mercers'

Company in 1507. Alderman of Walbrook and Cheap Wards successively.

Sheriff 1531-2. Married (1) Audrey, daughter of William Lynne, of

Southwick, co. Northampton, (2) Isabella Taverson, _nee_ Worpfall.

Was the father of Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the Royal

Exchange and of the college which bears his name.--_Ob._, 21 Feb.,

1549. Buried in the church of St. Laurence Jewry.

1216 Cott. MS., Cleop. E., iv, fo. 222.--Printed in Burgon's "Life of

Gresham," i, 26-29.

M636 Two petitions from the City, Mar., 1539.

M637 The City offers to purchase certain dissolved houses, 1 Aug., 1540.

1217 Journal 14, fo. 129; Letter Book P, fo. 178.

1218 Journal 14, fo. 216b; Letter Book P, fo. 220b.

1219 Repertory 10, fo. 200.

M638 The City in difficulties with king and parliament, 1541-1542.

1220 Journal 14, fo. 269.

1221 Wriothesley, i, 129.

1222 Son of Thomas Hill, of Hodnet, co. Salop. He devoted large sums of

money to building causeways and bridges, and erected a grammar

school at Drayton-in-Hales, otherwise Market Drayton, in his native

county, which he endowed by will, dated 6 April, 1551 (Cal. of

Wills, Court of Hust., London, part ii, p. 651). See also Holinshed,

iii, 1021.

1223 Holinshed, iii, 824; Wriothesley, i, 135. According to the Grey

Friars Chron. (p. 45), it was the sergeant-at-arms himself whom the

sheriffs detained.

M639 Precautions against the spread of pestilence, 1543.

1224 Proclamation dated 13 Aug., 1543.--Journal 15, fo. 48b.

1225 Journal 15, fo. 55; Letter Book Q, fo. 93.

1226 Letter Book Q, fo. 92b; Grey Friars Chron., p. 45.

M640 Preparation for renewal of war with France, 1544.

1227 Writ to mayor and sheriffs for proclamation of war, dat. 2 Aug.,

1543.--Journal 15, fo. 46b.

1228 Repertory 11, fo. 32b.

1229 Repertory 11, fo. 65b.

1230 Journal 15, fo. 95; Repertory 11, fo. 74; Letter Book Q, fo. 109.

M641 The re-establishment of St. Bartholomew's hospital, 23 June, 1544.

1231 "Memoranda ... relating to the Royal Hospitals," 1863, pp. 4-7.

M642 The campaign in France of 1544.

1232 Repertory 11, fo. 106; Letter Book Q, fo. 116b.

1233 Repertory, 11, fo. 118b; Letter Book Q, fo. 120b.

1234 Journal 15, fo. 123; Letter Book Q, fo. 119.

1235 Journal 15, fo. 124; Letter Book Q, fo. 122.

M643 City gift to the king on his return from France.

1236 Letter Book Q, fo. 120b.

M644 Opposition to a benevolence in the city, 1545.

1237 Wriothesley, i, 151, 153; Grey Friars Chron., p. 48.

1238 Holinshed, iii, 346.

M645 William Laxton, mayor, knighted, 8 Feb., 1545.

1239 Wriothesley, i, 151, 152.

M646 A call for volunteers for the French war. April, 1545.

1240 Journal 15, fo. 239b; Letter Book Q, fo. 167b.

1241 Journal 15, fo. 240.; Letter Book Q, fo. 168; Wriothesley, i, 154.

1242 "A coarse frieze was so called from a small town in the West Riding

of Yorkshire. An Act of 5 and 6 Edward VI (1551-2) provided that all

"clothes commonly called Pennystones or Forest Whites ... shall

conteyne in length beinge wett betwixt twelve and thirtene yardes."

1243 Repertory 11, fo. 193b; Letter Book Q, fo. 133; Wriothesley, i, 154.

M647 The last subsidy to be forthwith paid up.

1244 Wriothesley, i, 155.

M648 A force of 2,000 soldiers demanded of the City, June, 1545.

1245 Repertory 11, fos. 203, 212b.

1246 30 July.--Repertory 11, fo. 215b. The Midsummer watch had not been

kept this year.--Wriothesley, i, 156.

1247 Repertory 11, fo. 213.

1248 Wriothesley, i, 58.

M649 Boulogne threatened.

1249 Repertory 11, fo. 216b.

M650 Act for confiscating chantries, &c., 1545.

1250 Stat. 37, Henry VIII, c. 4.

M651 Peace with France proclaimed, 13 June, 1546.

1251 Repertory 11, fo. 299b; Letter Book Q, fo. 181; Journal 15, fo. 270;

Wriothesley, i, 165.

M652 Uniformity of religion enforced, 1546.

M653 Recantation of the rector of St. Mary Aldermary.

1252 Holinshed, iii, 856; Grey Friars Chron., p. 50.

M654 Trial and execution of Anne Ascue.

1253 Holinshed, iii, 847.

1254 Letter Book Q, fo. 181.

M655 Improved water supply of the city, 1545-1546.

1255 Repertory 11, fo. 247.

1256 Journal 15, fo. 213b.

1257 Wriothesley, i, 162, 175.

M656 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, &c., vested in the City, 13 Jan., 1547.

1258 Journal 15, fos. 245, 399b, _seq._

1259 "Memoranda ... Royal Hospitals," pp. 20-45.

M657 A committee appointed to investigate the recently acquired property,

6 May, 1547.

1260 Repertory 11, fo. 349b.

1261 In Sept., 1547, the citizens were called upon to contribute half a

fifteenth for the maintenance of the poor of St.

Bartholomew's.--Journal 15, fo. 325b. In Dec, 1548, an annual sum of

500 marks out of the profits of Blackwell, and in 1557 the whole of

the same profits were set aside for the poor.--Journal 15, fos. 398,

_seq._; Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 512.

M658 The king's death, 28 Jan., 1547.

1262 Royal proclamation, 7 July, 1545, forbidding all pursuit of game in

Westminster, Islington, Highgate, Hornsey and elsewhere in the

suburbs of London.--Journal 15, fo. 240b.

M659 Edward VI proclaimed king in the city, 31 Jan., 1547.

1263 Son of Christopher Huberthorne, of Waddington, co. Lane, Alderman of

Farringdon Within. His mansion adjoined the Leadenhall. _Ob._, Oct.,

1556. Buried in the church of St. Peter, Cornhill.--Machyn. 115, 352.

It was in Huberthorne's mayoralty that the customary banquet to the

aldermen, the "officers lerned" and the commoners of the city, on

Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany, known as "Plow Monday," was

discontinued.--Letter Book Q, fo. 191b. It was afterwards renewed and

continues to this day in the form of a dinner given by the new mayor

to the officers of his household and clerks engaged in various

departments of the service of the Corporation. An attempt was at the

same time made to put down the lord mayor's banquet

also.--Wriothesley, i, 176.

1264 Journal 15. fos. 303b, 305b; Letter Book Q, os. 192b, 194;

Wriothesley. i, 178.

M660 Distribution of gowns of black livery.

1265 Journal 15, fo. 304; Letter Book Q, fo. 195; Repertory 11, fo. 335b.

M661 Accession and coronation of Edward VI, 1547.

1266 "The lord mayor of London, Henry Hobulthorne, was called fourth, who

kneeling before the king, his majestie tooke the sworde of the Lord

Protector and made him knight, which was the first that eaver he

made."--Wriothesley's Chron. (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 11.), i, 181.

1267 This mace is still in possession of the Corporation. It is only

brought out for use on such occasions as a coronation, when it is

carried by the lord mayor as on the occasion narrated above, and at

the annual election of the chief magistrate of the city, when it is

formally handed by the Chamberlain to the lord mayor elect. The mace

consists of a tapering shaft of rock crystal mounted in gold, with a

coroneted head also of gold, adorned with pearls and large jewels.

Its age is uncertain. Whilst some hazard the conjecture that it may

be of Saxon origin, there are others who are of opinion that the

head of it at least cannot be earlier than the 15th century.

1268 Journal 15, fo. 305; Letter Book Q, fos. 195b-196; Repertory 11, fo.

334b.

M662 Opposition in the city to the sacrament of the mass, 1547-1548.

1269 "All these chyldren shall every Chyldermasse day come to Paulis

Church and here the chylde bisshoppis sermon, and after be at the

hye masse, and eche of them offer a 1d. to the childe bisshop and

with theme the maisters and surveyors of the scole."--Statutes of St.

Paul's School, printed in Lupton's "Life of Dean Colet," p. 278b.

1270 Letter Book P, fo. 172b.

1271 Journal 14, fo. 158b; Letter Book P, fo. 197.

1272 See Brewer's Introd. to Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom., vol.

iv, pp. dcli-dcliii.

1273 Letter Book P, fo. 153.

1274 Letter Book Q, fo. 102.

1275 "Also this same tyme [Nov., 1547] was moche spekying agayne the

sacrament of the auter, that some callyd it Jacke of the boxe, with

divers other shamefulle names... And at this tyme [Easter, 1548] was

more prechyng agayne the masse."--Grey Friars Chron., p. 55.

1276 Letter Book Q, fo. 250b.

1277 Repertory 11, fo. 423.

1278 "After the redyng of the preposycioun made yesterday in the Sterre

Chamber by the lorde chaunceler and ye declaracioun made by my lorde

mayer of suche comunicacioun as his lordshyp had wt the Bysshop of

Caunterburye concernyng the demeanor of certein prechers and other

dysobedyent persones yt was ordered and agreyd that my lorde mayer

and all my maisters thaldermen shall this afternone att ij of ye

clok repayre to my lorde protectors grace and the hole counseill and

declare unto theim the seid mysdemeanor and that thei shall mete att

Saint Martyns in the Vyntrey att one of the clok."--Repertory 11, fo.

456b.

1279 Repertory 11, fo. 465.

M663 Act for abolition of chantries, 1547.

1280 A proclamation against the evil behaviour of citizens and others

against priests, 12 Nov., 1547.--Letter Book Q. fo. 218; Journal 15,

fo. 335b.

M664 Redemption of charges for superstitious uses by the city and

companies, 1550.

1281 By letters patent dated 14 July, 1550 (preserved at the Guildhall,

Box 17).

1282 Letter Book R, fo. 166b; Wriothesley's Chron. (Camden Soc., N.S.,

No. 20), ii, 35. See also exemplification of Act of Parl. passed a deg.

5 Edward VI, in accordance with the terms of this petition (Box 29).

M665 Order for demolition of images, pictures, &c., Aug., 1547.

1283 Journal 15, fo. 322; Letter Book Q, fo. 210b.

1284 Repertory 11. fo. 373; Letter Book Q, fo. 214.

1285 Grey Friars Chron., 54, 55; Wriothesley. ii, 1.

1286 Grey Friars Chron., p. 58. In May (1548) the duke applied to the

City for water to be laid on to Stronde House, afterwards known as

Somerset House.--Repertory 11, fos. 462b, 484; Journal 15. fo. 383b;

Letter Book Q, fo. 253b.

1287 Grey Friars Chron., p. 55.

1288 Wriothesley, ii, 29. Touching the ceremony of visiting the tomb of

the Bishop of London, to whom the citizens were indebted for the

charter of William the Conqueror, see chap. i, p. 35.

M666 The citizens and the Grey Friars Church, 1547.

1289 Letter Book Q, fos. 232, 234b; Repertory 11, fos. 356, 415, 431,

444b, 511b.

1290 "Item, at this same tyme [_circ._ Sept., 1547] was pullyd up alle

the tomes, grett stones, alle the auteres, with stalles and walles

of the qweer and auters in the church that was some tyme the Gray

freeres, and solde and the qweer made smaller."--Grey Friars Chron.,

p. 54.

M667 The "communion" substituted for the mass, 1548.

1291 "At Ester followyng there began the commonion, and confession but of

thoys that wolde, as the boke dothe specifythe."--Grey Friars Chron.,

p. 55; _Cf._ Wriothesley (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 20), ii, 2.

1292 The Guildhall college, chapel and library were restored to the City

in 1550, by Edward VI, on payment of L456 13_s._ 4_d._,--Pat. Roll 4

Edward VI, p. 9m. (32) 20; Letter Book R, fo. 64b.

1293 Repertory 11, fo. 493b.

1294 -_Id._, fo. 455. (431 pencil mark); Letter Book Q, fo. 237. "This

yeare in the Whitson holidaies my lord maior [Sir John Gresham]

caused three notable sermons to be made at Sainct Marie Spittell,

according as they are kept at Easter.... And the sensing in Poules

cleene put downe."--Wriothesley, ii, 2, 3. The processions were kept

up in 1554, "but there was no sensynge."--Grey Friars Chron., p. 89.

M668 The "tuning of the pulpits."

1295 -_Cf._ Journal 15, fo. 352b; Letter Book Q, fos. 230-252b. "This

yeare [1548] the xxviiith daie of September, proclamation was made

to inhibite all preachers generallie till the kinges further

pleasure. After which daie all sermons seasede at Poules Crosse and

in all other places."--Wriothesley, ii, 6.

1296 Grey Friars Chron., pp. 59, 62. Occasionally the chronicler is

overcome by his feelings, and cries out, "Almyghty God helpe it whan

hys wylle ys!" _Id._, p. 67.

M669 The insurrections of 1549.

1297 In some cases the new owners may have experienced some difficulty in

fixing a fair rent, as appears to have been the case with the City

of London and its recently acquired property of Bethlehem. When the

Chamberlain reported that the rents demanded for houses in the

precincts of the hospital were far too high, he was at once

authorised to reduce them at discretion.--Letter Book R, fo. 10b.

1298 Letter Book R, fo. 11b.

1299 Grey Friars Chron., p. 60; Wriothesley, ii, 15, 16.

M670 Cranmer at St. Paul's, 21 July, 1549.

1300 Wriothesley, ii, 16, 17; Grey Friars Chron., p. 60.

M671 The king passes through the city, 23 July.

1301 Wriothesley, ii, 19.

M672 Ket's rebellion in Norfolk. 1549.

1302 Wriothesley, ii, 20; Grey Friars Chron., p. 61.

1303 Holinshed, iii, 982-984.

M673 The fall of Somerset, 1549.

M674 Letter from lords of the council to the City accusing the Protector,

6 Oct.

1304 Letter Book R, fo. 40; Journal 16, fo. 36.

M675 Letter from Somerset to the mayor, 6 Oct., 1549.

1305 Letter Book R, fo. 39b.

M676 Conference between the lords and the City at Ely Place, 6 Oct.,

1549.

1306 Acts of the Privy Council, ii, 331-332; Wriothesley, ii, 24-25;

Holinshed, iii, 1014; Repertory 12, pt. i, fos. 149-150.

M677 Removal of the king to Windsor.

1307 Holinshed, iii, 1014-1015; Acts of Privy Council, ii, 333.

M678 The City joins the lords against Somerset, 7 Oct., 1549.

1308 Acts of Privy Council, ii, fos. 333-336.

1309 Repertory 12, pt. i, fo. 150b.

1310 Letter Book R, fo. 40b.

M679 The lords attend a Common Council, 8 Oct., 1549.

1311 -_Id._, fos. 43-43b.

1312 Acts of Privy Council, ii, 336, 337.

M680 A meeting at Sheriff York's house, 9 Oct.

M681 The City agrees to furnish a contingent of soldiers to aid the

lords.

1313 Wriothesley, ii, 26.

1314 Acts of Privy Council, ii, 337-342.

1315 Letter Book R, fos. 41-42; Journal 16, fos. 37, 37b. According to

Holinshed (iii, 1017, 1018), considerable opposition was made by a

member of the Common Council named George Stadlow to any force at

all being sent by the city. He reminded the court of the evils that

had arisen in former times from the city rendering support to the

barons against Henry III, and how the city lost its liberties in

consequence. The course he recommended was that the city should join

the lords in making a humble representation to the king as to the

Protector's conduct.

1316 Wriothesley, ii, 26, 27.

M682 The effect of the City's adhesion to the lords.

M683 Somerset brought to the Tower, 14 Oct.

1317 Letter Book R, fo. 37; Journal 16, fo. 34; Wriothesley, ii, 26.

1318 Stow's "Summarie of the Chronicles of England" (ed. 1590), p. 545;

Wriothesley, ii, 27, 28. The names are given differently in the Acts

of the Privy Council, ii, 344.

M684 Bonner deprived of bishopric of London, 1 Oct., 1549.

1319 Grey Friars Chron., pp. 63, 64; _Cf._ Wriothesley, ii, 24.

M685 The king entertained by Sheriff York, Oct., 1549.

1320 Wriothesley, ii, 28.

M686 Somerset released on parole, 6 Feb., 1550.

1321 Acts of Privy Council, ii, 384; Wriothesley, ii, 33.

M687 Warwick and the reformers, 1550.

1322 For more than a week he had been compelled to lie on nothing but

straw, his bed having been taken away by order of the knight marshal

for refusing to pay an extortionate fee.--Grey Friars Chron., p. 65.

1323 Thomas Thurlby, the last abbot of Westminster, became the first and

only bishop of the see. Upon the union of the see with that of

London Thurlby became bishop of Norwich. Among the archives of the

city there is a release by him, in his capacity as bishop of

Westminster, and the dean and chapter of the same, to the City of

London of the parish church of St. Nicholas, Shambles. The document

is dated 14 March, 1549, and has the seals of the bishopric and of

the dean and chapter, in excellent preservation, appended.

1324 For objecting to the prescribed vestments, he was committed to the

Fleet by order of the Privy Council, 27 Jan., 1551, and was not

consecrated until the following 8th March.--Hooper to Bullinger, 1

Aug., 1551 ("Original Letters relative to the English Reformation."

ed. for Parker Society, 1846, p. 91).

M688 The City and the borough of Southwark, 1550.

1325 Their respective boundaries are set out in the Report of

Commissioners on Municipal Corporations (1837), p. 3.

1326 Charter dated 6 March, 1 Edward III.

1327 Charter dated 9 Nov., 2 Edward IV.

1328 Letter Book Q, fos. 239b-241b.

M689 Charter to the City, 23 April, 1550.

1329 Letter Book R, fo. 58b.

1330 Dated 23 April, 1550. A fee of L6 "and odde money" was paid for the

enrolment of this charter in the Exchequer.--Repertory 12, pt. ii,

fo. 458. This fee appears to have been paid, notwithstanding the

express terms of the charter that no fee great or small should be

paid or made or by any means given to the hanaper to the king's use.

According to Wriothesley (ii, 36), the "purchase" of Southwark cost

the city 1,000 marks, "so that nowe they shall have all the whole

towne of Southwarke by letters patent as free as they have the City

of London, the Kinges Place [_i.e._ Southwark Place or Suffolk

House] and the two prison houses of the Kinges Bench and the

Marshalsea excepted."

1331 Wriothesley, ii, 38.

M690 The ward of Bridge Without.

1332 Letter Book R, fo. 80; Journal 16, fo. 82b.

1333 The custom in the city was for the inhabitants of a vacant ward to

nominate four persons for the Court of Aldermen to select one. As

there were no means of enforcing the above ordinance it was repealed

by Act of Co. Co., 16 June, 1558.--Letter Book S., fo. 167b.

1334 Letter Book R, fo. 71b. The following particulars of Aylyff and his

family are drawn from the city's archives. From Bridge Ward Without

he removed to Dowgate Ward. At the time of his death, in 1556, he

was keeper of the clothmarket at Blackwell Hall. His widow was

allowed to take the issues and profits of her late husband's place

for one week, and was forgiven a quarter's rent. Aylyff's son

Erkenwald succeeded him at Blackwell Hall. The son died in 1561.

After his decease he was convicted of having forged a deed. His

widow, Dorothy, married Henry Butler, "gentleman."--Repertory 13, pt.

ii, fos. 442b, 443, 461; Repertory 14, fos. 446b, 477b, 478;

Repertory 16, fo. 6b.

1335 Printed Report. Co. Co., 20 May, 1836.

1336 See Report Committee of the whole Court for General Purposes, with

Appendix, 31 May, 1892 (_Printed_).

M691 Growing unpopularity of Warwick, 1550-1551.

1337 Grey Friars Chron., p. 66. The surrender of Boulogne was "sore

lamented of all Englishmen."--Wriothesley, ii, 37.

1338 Repertory 12, pt. ii, fo. 271b; Letter Book R, fos. 74, 85b; Journal

16, fos. 66b, 91b.

M692 The debasement of the currency, 1551.

1339 Letter Book R, fo. 115; Journal 16, fo. 118.

1340 Wriothesley, ii, 48. The price of living became so dear that the

town clerk and the under-sheriffs asked for and obtained from the

Common Council an increase of emoluments.--Letter Book R, fo. 117b.

1341 Wriothesley, ii, 54.

1342 Grey Friars Chron., p. 72.

M693 The Duke of Somerset again arrested, 16 Oct., 1551.

1343 Wriothesley, ii, 56; Grey Friars Chron., p. 71.

1344 Grey Friars Chron., pp. 72, 73.

1345 -_Id._, pp. 71, 72.

M694 Trial and execution of Somerset, 22 Jan., 1552.

1346 Wriothesley, ii, 57.

1347 Repertory 12, pt. ii, fo. 426; Letter Book R, fo. 157b.

1348 Wriothesley, ii, 63.

1349 Holinshed, iii, 1032.

M695 The City and the Royal Hospitals, 1547-1553.

1350 Journal 15, fo. 325b; Letter Book Q, fo. 214b.

1351 Letter Book Q, fo. 237; Repertory 11, fo. 445b.

1352 Journal 15, fo. 384.

1353 Letter Book Q, fo. 261b; Journal 15, fos. 398, 401; Appendix vii to

"Memoranda of the Royal Hospitals," pp. 46-51.

M696 St. Thomas's Hospital.

1354 Repertory 12, pt. ii., fos. 311, 312b.

1355 Both deeds are printed in Supplement to Memoranda relating to Royal

Hospitals, pp. 15-32.

M697 Christ's Hospital.

1356 Son of Robert Dobbs, of Batley, Yorks. Alderman of Tower Ward.

Knighted 8 May, 1552. _Ob._ 1556. Buried in Church of St. Margaret

Moses.--Machyn, pp. 105, 269, 349; Wriothesley, ii, 69.

1357 Report, Charity Commissioners, No. 32, pt. vi, p. 75; Strype, Stow's

"Survey," bk. i, p. 176.

M698 Bridewell Hospital.

1358 Among the names of those forming the deputation appears that of

Richard Grafton, whose printing house, from which issued "The

Prymer"--one of the earliest books of private devotion printed in

English as well as Latin--was situate within the precinct of the Old

Grey Friars.--Repertory 12, p. ii., fos. 271b, 272b.

1359 Strype, Stow's "Survey," bk. i, p. 176.

1360 Wriothesley, 83; Repertory 13, fo. 60.

1361 Charter dated 26 June, 1553.

M699 Northumberland's conspiracy, 1553.

1362 "Letters Patent for the limitation of the Crown," sometimes called

the "counterfeit will" of King Edward VI.--Chron. of Q. Jane and Q.

Mary (Camd. Soc., No. 48), pp. 91-100.

1363 Richard Hilles to Henry Bullinger, 9 July, 1553.--"Original letters

relative to the English Reformation" (Parker Soc.), pp. 272-274.

M700 Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen, 10 July, 1553.

1364 Grey Friars Chron., pp. 78, 79.

M701 Queen Mary proclaimed, 19 July.

1365 Wriothesley, ii, 88-90.

M702 Northumberland sent to the Tower, 25 July.

1366 Letter Book R, fo. 262b; Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 68.

1367 Wriothesley, ii, 90, 91; Grey Friars Chron., p. 81.

M703 Queen Mary enters the city. 3 Aug.

1368 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 69.

1369 -_Id._, fo. 70b.

1370 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 69b.

1371 Wriothesley, 93-95.

1372 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, p. 14; Wriothesley, ii, 95.

M704 Mary releases the bishops and restores the mass.

M705 Disturbances in the city.

1373 Grey Friars Chron., p. 83; Wriothesley, ii, 96-98.

1374 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, p. 24.

1375 Letter Book R, fo. 270; Journal 16, fo. 261b.

1376 Wriothesley, ii, 99, 100; Holinshed, iv, 3.

M706 Election of Thomas White mayor, 29 Sept., 1553.

1377 Citizen and Merchant Taylor. Son of William White, of Reading, and

formerly of Rickmansworth. Founder of St. John's College, Oxford,

and principal benefactor of Merchant Taylors' School. Alderman of

Cornhill Ward; when first elected alderman he declined to accept

office and was committed to Newgate for contumacy (Letter Book Q,

fo. 109b; Repertory 11, fo. 80b). Sheriff 1547. Knighted at

Whitehall 10 Dec., 1553 (Wriothesley, ii, 105). His first wife,

Avice (surname unknown), died 26 Feb., 1588, and was buried in the

church of St. Mary Aldermary. He afterwards married Joan, daughter

of John Lake and widow of Sir Ralph Warren, twice Mayor of London.

_Ob._ 11 Feb., 1566, at Oxford, aged 72.--Clode, "Early Hist. Guild

of Merchant Taylors," pt. ii, chaps. x-xii; Machyn's Diary, pp. 167,

330, 363.

M707 The queen's coronation, 1 Oct.

1378 Journal 16, fo. 261; Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 74b.

1379 Grey Friars Chron., p. 84.

M708 Mary's first parliament, Oct.-Nov., 1553.

1380 Met in October, 1553. The names of the city's representatives are

not recorded. The Court of Aldermen, according to a custom then

prevalent, authorized the city chamberlain to make a gift of L6

13_s._ 4_d._ to Sir John Pollard, the Speaker, "for his lawfull

favor to be borne and shewed in the parlyment howse towardes this

cytie and theyre affayres theire."--Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 92.

M709 Trial at the Guildhall of Lady Jane Grey, Cranmer and others, Nov.,

1553.

1381 Grey Friars Chron., p. 85; Wriothesley, ii, 104; Chron. Q. Jane and

Q. Mary, p. 32. There is preserved in the British Museum a small

manual of prayers believed to have been used by Lady Jane Grey on

the scaffold. The tiny volume (Harl. MS., 2342) measures only 3-1/2

inches by 2-3/4 inches, and contains on the margin lines addressed

to Sir John Gage, lieutenant of the Tower, and to her father, the

Duke of Suffolk.

M710 Outbreak of Wyatt's Rebellion. Jan., 1554.

1382 Journal 16, fo. 283.

1383 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, 35.

1384 Wriothesley, ii, 106.

M711 The city put into a state of defence.

1385 Repertory 13, pt. i, fos. 116, 116b, 117, 117b, 119-122b.

1386 Wriothesley, ii, 107.

M712 The queen's speech at the Guildhall, 1 Feb., 1554.

1387 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 121.

1388 Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," vi, 414-415; Holinshed, iv, 16.

1389 Holinshed, iv, 15.

1390 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 124.

M713 A force of 1,000 men raised in the city.

1391 Wriothesley, iii, 109.

1392 Stow.

M714 Wyatt and his followers before Ludgate.

M715 Wyatt made prisoner and lodged in the Tower.

1393 Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," vi, 415.

1394 Grey Friars Chron., p. 87.

1395 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, p. 43; Wriothesley, iii, 107, 108.

1396 Grey Friars Chron., p. 87.

M716 Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Wyatt and others.

1397 Machyn, 45. The gibbets remained standing till the following June,

when they were taken down in anticipation of Philip's public entry

into London.--Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, 76.

1398 Grey Friars Chron., p. 89.

M717 Measures for preserving the peace.

1399 Journal 16, fo. 283; Letter Book R, fo. 288.

1400 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 131.

M718 The lord mayor before the Star Chamber.

1401 Holinshed, iv, 26.

1402 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 153; Letter Book R, fo. 293.

M719 Demand of money from the city, 1554.

1403 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 130; Journal 16, fo. 284b.

1404 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 138b.

1405 -_Id._, fos. 142b, 146b.

1406 -_Id._, fo. 147.

M720 Trial at the Guildhall of Nicholas Throckmorton, 17 April.

1407 Wriothesley, ii, 115.

1408 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 186b.

1409 -_Id._, fo. 190b.

1410 Howell's "State Trials," i, 901, 902; Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary,

p. 75.

M721 The queen's marriage, July, 1554.

1411 It sat from 2 April until 5 May.--Wriothesley, ii, 114, 115. The city

returned the same members that had served in the last parliament of

Edward VI, namely, Martin Bowes, Broke the Recorder, John Marsh and

John Blundell.

1412 Journal 16, fo. 295b.

1413 Repertory 13, pt. i, fos. 165, 166, 166b, 170.

M722 The passage of the king and queen through the city, 19 Aug.

1414 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, p. 77.

1415 -_Id._, p. 78.

1416 Journal 16, fo. 263.

1417 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 191. A full account of the pageants, etc.,

will be found in John Elder's letter.--Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary,

Appendix X.

1418 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, pp. 78-79.

M723 The reconciliation with Rome, 1554.

1419 Martin Bowes, of the old members, alone continued to sit for the

city, the places of the other members being taken by Ralph

Cholmeley, who had succeeded Broke as Recorder; Richard Grafton, the

printer; and Richard Burnell.

1420 Chron. of Q. Jane and Q. Mary, 82; Wriothesley, 122.

1421 Repertory 13, part i, fo. 111b.

1422 -_Id._, fo. 193.

1423 Journal 16, fo. 300. Bishop Braybroke, nearly two centuries before,

had done all he could to put down marketing within the sacred

precincts, and to render "Paul's Walk"--as the great nave of the

cathedral was called--less a scene of barter and frivolity.

1424 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 251b.

1425 In 1558, a man convicted of breaking this law was ordered to ride

through the public market places of the city, his face towards the

horse's tail, with a piece of beef hanging before and behind him,

and a paper on his head setting forth his offence.--Repertory 13, fo.

12b.

1426 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 193; Letter Book S, fo. 119b.

M724 Opposition to the reestablishment of the old religion.

1427 Journal 16, fo. 285b; Letter Book R, fo. 290b; Repertory 13, pt. i,

fo. 147; Wriothesley, ii, 114.

1428 Grey Friars Chron., p. 89.

1429 -_Id._, p. 95.

1430 -_Id._, _ibid._

1431 -_Id._, p. 78n.

M725 The Marian persecution, 1555.

1432 Journal 16, fo. 321b.

1433 Wriothesley, ii, 126; Grey Friars Chron., p. 94.

1434 Wriothesley, ii, 126n; Grey Friars Chron., pp. 56, 57, 95.

1435 Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," vi, 717, 737, 740, vii, 114, 115.

1436 "Item the vth day of September [1556], was browte thorrow Cheppesyde

teyd in ropes xxiijti tayd together as herreytkes, and soo unto the

Lowlers tower."--Grey Friars Chron., p. 98.

M726 Renewed opposition to strangers in the city.

1437 "At this time [Aug., 1554] there was so many Spanyerdes in London

that a man shoulde have mett in the stretes for one Inglisheman

above iiij Spanyerdes, to the great discomfort of the Inglishe

nation. The halles taken up for Spanyerdes."--Chron. Q. Jane and Q.

Mary, p. 81.

1438 -_Id._, _ibid_.

1439 Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 205b.

1440 By an order in council, dated Greenwich, 13 March, 1555, the

merchants of the Steelyard were thenceforth to be allowed to buy

cloth in warehouses adjoining the Steelyard, without hindrance from

the mayor. The mayor was ordered to give up cloth that had been

seized as foreign bought and sold at Blackwell Hall. He was,

moreover, not to demand _quotam salis_ of the merchants, who were to

be allowed to import into the city fish, corn and other provisions

free of import.--Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 384b; Letter Book S, fo.

76.

1441 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 399b, 404, 406; Letter Book S, fos. 70,

93b.

1442 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 508b.

1443 Wheeler's "Treatise of Commerce" (ed. 1601), p. 100.

1444 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 507b, 520b, 540.

1445 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 529.

1446 -_Id._, fo. 526b.

1447 -_Id._, fo. 534b.

M727 Philip leaves England, 4 Sept., 1555.

M728 The queen obtains a City loan of L6,000, Aug., 1556.

M729 War declared against France, 7 June, 1557.

1448 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 420.

1449 Stafford had issued a proclamation from Scarborough Castle

declaiming against Philip for introducing 12,000 foreigners into the

country, and announcing himself as protector and governor of the

realm. He was captured by the Earl of Westmoreland and executed on

Tower Hill 28 May.--Journal 17, fo. 34b; Letter Book S, fo. 127b;

Holinshed. iv, 87; Machyn's Diary, p. 137.

1450 Journal 17, fo. 37b; Letter Book S, fo. 131.

1451 Journal 17, fos. 37b, 38; Letter Book S, fo. 131b.

1452 Machyn, p. 142.

M730 A City contingent joins the expedition to France.

1453 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 517.

1454 "London fond v.c. men all in bluw cassokes, sum by shyppes and sum

to Dover by land, the goodlyst men that ever whent, and best be-sene

in change (of) apprelle."--Diary, p. 143.

1455 Merchant Taylor, son of William Offley, of Chester; alderman of

Portsoken and Aldgate Wards. Was one of the signatories to the

document nominating Lady Jane Grey successor to Edward VI, and was

within a few weeks (1 Aug.) elected sheriff. Knighted with alderman

William Chester, 7 Feb., 1557. His mansion-house was in Lime

Street, near the Church of St. Andrew Undershaft. _Ob._ 29 Aug,

1582.--Machyn, pp. 125, 353; Index to Remembrancia, p. 37, note.

Fuller, who erroneously places his death in 1580, describes him as

the "Zaccheus of London" not "on account of his low stature, but his

great charity in bestowing half of his estate on the poor."--Fuller's

"Worthies," p. 191.

1456 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 521b, 522; Letter Book S, fo. 134.

M731 The City called upon to furnish another contingent of 1,000 men, 31

July.

1457 Journal 17, fo. 54b.

M732 The citizens make demur, but in vain.

1458 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 530.

1459 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 530, 532, 522b, 535; Journal 17, fo. 54.

M733 The French king defeated at St. Quentin, 27 Aug., 1557.

1460 Machyn, p. 147.

M734 The loss of Calais, 7 Jan., 1558.

M735 A city force despatched, 24 Jan., 1558.

1461 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 571.

1462 Journal 17, fo. 55. See Appendix. They were ordered in the first

instance to be forwarded to Dover by the 19th Jan. at the latest,

but on the 6th Jan. the Privy Council sent a letter to the mayor to

the effect that "albeit he was willed to send the vc men levied in

London to Dover, forasmuch as it is sithence considered here that

they may with best speede be brought to the place of service by

seas, he is willen to sende them with all speede by hoyes to

Queenburgh, where order is given for the receavinge and placing of

them in the shippes, to be transported with all speede

possible."--Harl. MS. 643, fo. 198; Notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 362.

1463 Journal 17, fo. 56.

1464 Wriothesley, ii, 140.

1465 Order of the Court of Aldermen, 10 Jan.--Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo.

582.

1466 Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 582b; Precept to the Companies.--Journal

17, fo. 56b.

1467 Journal 17, fo. 57. So furious was this storm, lasting four or five

days, that "some said that the same came to passe through

necromancie, and that the diuell was raised vp and become French,

the truth whereof is known (saith Master Grafton) to

God."--Holinshed, iv, 93.

1468 Journal 17, fo. 7.

1469 Repertory 14, fo. 1b; Journal 17, fo. 58; Machyn, 164.

1470 Journal 17, fos. 59, 59b; Letter Book S, fos. 154b, 155.

M736 A city loan of L20,000, March, 1558.

1471 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1547-1580), p. 100; Wriothesley, ii, 140,

141.

1472 Stat. 5 and 6, Edward VI, c. 20, which repealed Stat. _37_, Henry

VIII, c. 9 (allowing interest to be taken on loans at the rate of

ten per cent.) and forbade all usury. This Statute was afterwards

repealed (Stat. 13, Eliz., c. 8) and the Statute of Henry VIII

re-enacted. The dispensation granted by Mary was confirmed in 1560

by Elizabeth.--Repertory 14, fo. 404b.

1473 Repertory 14, fo. 15b; Journal 17, fo. 63. A large portion of this

loan was repaid by Elizabeth soon after her accession.--Repertory 14,

fos. 236b, 289.

M737 Death of Mary, 17 Nov., 1558.

1474 Repertory 14, fos. 94b, 96b.

M738 The ascension of Elizabeth, 17 Nov., 1558.

1475 The commemoration was eventually put down by the Stuarts as giving

rise to tumults and disorders.--Journal 49, fo. 270b; Luttrell's

Diary, 17 Nov., 1682.

1476 Son of Roger Leigh, of Wellington, co. Salop, an apprentice of Sir

Rowland Hill, whose niece, Alice Barker, he married. Buried in the

Mercers' Chapel. By his second son, William, he was ancestor of the

Lords Leigh, of Stoneleigh, and by his third son William,

grandfather of Francis Leigh, Earl of Chichester.--Notes to Machyn's

Diary, p. 407.

1477 "The order of the sheryfes at the receyvyng of the quenes highenes

in to Myddlesex."--Letter Book S, fo. 183; Repertory 14, fo. 90b.

M739 The queen's coronation, 15 Jan., 1559.

1478 Letter Book S, fo. 182b; Journal 7, fo. 101b.

1479 Repertory 14, fos. 97, 98.

1480 -_Id._, fo. 99.

1481 -_Id._, fo. 102b.

M740 A strike among the painters.

1482 Repertory 14, fo. 103b.

M741 Elizabeth's policy of moderation, 1558.

1483 Dated 27 Dec., 1558.--Journal 17, fo. 106b.

M742 The Act of Uniformity and Supremacy, 1558.

M743 The restoration of the Prayer Book and abolition of the Mass, 1559.

1484 Wriothesley, ii, 145.

1485 -_Id._ _ibid_.

1486 Repertory 4, fo. 213b.

M744 Ultra-Protestant reformers in the city, 1559.

1487 Journal 17, fos. 120b, 168; Repertory 14, fo. 152; Letter Book T,

fo. 82b.

1488 "In some places the coapes, vestments, and aulter clothes, bookes,

banners, sepulchers and other ornaments of the churches were burned,

which cost above L2,000 renuinge agayne in Queen Maries time"

(Wriothesley, ii, 146; _Cf._ Machyn, p. 298). Among the churchwarden

accounts of the parish of St. Mary-at-Hill for the year 1558-1559

there is a payment of one shilling for "bringing down ymages to

Romeland (near Billingsgate) to be burnt."

1489 Proclamation, dated 19 Sept., 1559.--Journal 17, fo. 267; Letter Book

T, fo. 5b.

M745 The claims of Mary Stuart, 1559-1560.

1490 Journal 17, fo. 184b.

1491 Proclamation, dated 24 March, 1560.--Journal 17, fo. 223b.

1492 In April the city was called upon to furnish 900 soldiers, in May

250 seamen, and in June 200 soldiers.--Repertory 14, fos. 323, 336,

339b, 340, 340b, 344b; Journal 17, fos. 238b, 244. It is noteworthy

that the number of able men in the city at this time serviceable for

war, although untrained, was estimated to amount to no more than

5,000.--Journal 17, fo. 244b.

M746 The French war, 1562-1564.

1493 Journal 18, fos. 57-60b. The livery companies furnished the men

according to allotment. The barber-surgeons claimed exemption by

statute (32 Henry VIII, c. 42), but subsequently consented to waive

their claim. The city also objected to supplying the soldiers with

cloaks.--Repertory 15, fos. 110b, 113.

1494 Journal 18, fo. 66; Machyn, pp. 292, 293.

1495 Journal 18, fo. 71.

M747 Soldiers for the defence of Havre. 1563.

1496 The queen to the mayor and corporation of London, 30 June,

1563.--Journal 18, fo. 124.

1497 Repertory 15, fo. 258.

1498 -_Id._, fo. 259.

1499 -_Id._, fo. 263.

1500 The queen to the mayor, 2 Aug., 1563.--Journal 18, fo. 140. Precept

of the mayor.--_Id._, fo. 136; Repertory 15, fo. 279b; Machyn's

Diary, p. 312.

1501 Journal 18, fo. 128.

1502 -_Id._, fo. 119b.

1503 Repertory 15, fo. 265b.

M748 The loss of Havre, July, 1563.

1504 Machyn, 312.

1505 Journal 18, fos. 139, 139b, 142, 151b, 152b, 154, 156b, 184, 189b.

With the sickness was associated, as was so often the case, a

scarcity of food.--Repertory 15, fos. 127, 133b, 138, 168, 178, 179b,

etc. The rate of mortality increased to such an extent that a

committee was appointed for the purpose of procuring more burial

accommodation.--Repertory 15, fos. 311b, 313b, 333.

1506 Proclamation dated 1 Aug., 1563.--Journal 18, fo. 141.

M749 Peace between England and France signed, 13 April, 1564.

1507 Repertory 15, fo. 284b.

1508 Journal 18, fo. 249.

1509 -_Id._, fo. 190b.

1510 Journal 18, fos. 214, 215, 227, 291b, 354b; Holinshed, iv, 224.

M750 The restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1561-1565.

1511 Journal 17, fos. 320, 321, 331b; Letter Book T, fos. 42, 42b;

Repertory 14, fo. 491b. The fire caused by the lightning threatened

the neighbouring shops, and their contents were therefore removed to

Christchurch, Newgate and elsewhere for safety.--Journal 17, fo.

319b; Letter Book T, fo. 42.

1512 Repertory 15, fos. 474, 478.

1513 Repertory 16, fos. 227, 241b, 274; Letter Book V, fo. 108b.

1514 Repertory 16, fos. 303b, 448. Among the Chamber Accounts of this

period we find an item of a sum exceeding L4 paid for "Cusshens to

be occupied at Powles by my L. Maior and thaldermen, vz:--for cloth

for the uttorside lyning of leather feathers and for making of theym

as by a bill appearth."--Chamber Accounts, Town Clerk's Office, vol.

i, fo. 50b.

M751 Sir Thomas Gresham and the City Burse. 1565-1566.

1515 Journal 13, fos. 417, 420, 435, 442b, 443.

1516 Cotton MS., Otho E, x. fo. 45; _Cf._ Burgon's "Life of Gresham," i,

31-33.

1517 Journal 14, fos. 124, 124b.

1518 By Sir Richard's first wife Audrey, daughter of William Lynne, of

Southwick, co. Northampton. Sir Thomas is supposed to have been born

in London in 1519. Having been bound apprentice to his uncle, Sir

John Gresham, he was admitted to the freedom of the Mercers' Company

in 1543. Married Anne, daughter of William Ferneley, of West

Creting, co. Suffolk, widow of William Read, mercer.

1519 The queen's business kept him so much abroad that her majesty wrote

to the Common Council (7 March, 1563) desiring that he might be

discharged from all municipal duties.--Journal 18, fo. 137.

1520 Printed in Burgon's "Life of Gresham," i, 409.

1521 Repertory 15, fo. 237b.

1522 Burgon, ii, 30-40.

1523 Repertory 15, fos. 406b, 407.

M752 Difficulties of obtaining a site.

1524 Repertory 15, fos. 410b, 412.

1525 -_Id._, fos. 417b, 431.

1526 Repertory 16, fos. 31b, 32b, 43b; Letter Book V, fos. 5, 7b, 8, 17,

21b.

1527 The amount of subscriptions and charges is set out in a "booke" and

entered on the City's Journal (No. 19, fos. 12-20; _Cf._ Letter Book

V, fos. 70b-79); see also Repertory 16, fo. 126.

1528 Journal 18. fo. 398.

M753 Strong foreign element in connection with the building of the first

Burse.

1529 Repertory 16, fo. 316.

1530 Repertory 16, fo. 406b.

1531 Repertory 15, fo. 268b.

1532 Repertory 16, fo. 229.

M754 The Burse opened by Q. Elizabeth, 23 Jan., 1571.

M755 Wanton damage done to the new Burse.

1533 "A proclamacioun concernyng the cutting of the crest conyzans and

mantell of the arms of Sr Thomas Gresham."--Journal 19, fo. 150b;

Letter Book V, fo. 222.

1534 Journal 20, pt. ii, fo. 341.

M756 Insurance business carried on at the Royal Exchange.

1535 Repertory 18, fo. 362.

1536 "Law and Practice of Marine Insurance," by John Duer, LL.D. (New

York, 1845), Lecture ii, p. 33.

1537 At the present day the form of policy used at Lloyds and commonly

called the "Lloyd's policy" contains the following clause:--"and it

is agreed by us the insurers, that this writing or policy of

assurance shall be of as much force and effect as the surest writing

or policy of assurance heretofore made in Lombard Street or in the

Royal Exchange or elsewhere in London."--Arnould, "Marine Insurance"

(6th ed.), i, 230.

1538 Repertory 18, fo. 362b.

1539 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1547-1580), p. 523.

1540 Repertory 19, fos. 166b, 168.

1541 The reader is here reminded that there is an essential difference

between life policies and fire or marine policies of assurance. The

latter, being policies of indemnity, recovery can be had at law only

to the extent of the actual damage done, whereas in life policies

the whole amount of the policy can be recovered.

M757 Music and football at the Exchange.

1542 Repertory 17, fo. 300.

1543 Repertory 19, fo. 150.

M758 Gresham College and Lectures.

1544 Cal. Wills, Court of Hust., London, ii, 698.

1545 Printed Report "Gresham College Trust," 29 Oct., 1885.

M759 The Act of Uniformity strictly enforced, 1565.

M760 Gresham's hospitality to Cardinal Chastillon, 1568.

1546 A return made in 1567 by the livery companies of foreigners residing

in the city and liberties gives the number as 3,562.--Repertory 16,

fo. 202. Another authority gives the number as 4,851, of which 3,838

were Dutch.--Burgon's "Life of Gresham," ii, 242, citing Haynes, p.

461.

1547 Burgon's "Life of Gresham," ii, 271-275.

M761 The city crowded with refugees from the continent.

1548 Repertory 16, fo. 164.

1549 Journal 19, fo. 116.

1550 Precept of the mayor to that effect, 19 Oct., 1568.-_Id._, fo. 132b.

1551 Repertory 16, fo. 451.

1552 Journal 19, fo. 180; Letter Book V, fo. 245.

1553 Letter Book V, fo. 246. Holinshed (iv, 234) and others give the

whole credit of providing the cemetery to the liberality of Sir

Thomas Rowe, the mayor.

M762 The Prince of Orange receives substantial assistance from the

citizens.

1554 Proclamation (15 July, 1568) against suspected persons landing in

England or returning "with any furniture for mayntenaunce of ther

rebellion or other lyke cryme" against the King of Spain.--Journal

18, fo. 115; _Cf._ Letter Book V, fos. 181, 246b.

1555 Green, "Hist. of the English People," ii, 418.

M763 The decline of Antwerp London's opportunity.

M764 The queen applies to the merchant adventurers for a loan.

1556 Repertory 15, fos. 162, 164, 166b, 241b, 258, 267b, 297, etc.

1557 Strype, Stow's "Survey" (ed. 1720), bk. i, p. 283.

M765 The first public lottery, 1567-1569.

1558 Journal II, fo. 253.

1559 Journal 19, fos. 55-58; Letter Book V, fos. 115b-117b.

1560 Price's "London Bankers" (enlarged edition), p. 51.

1561 Letter Book V, fo. 139.

1562 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1547-1580), p. 314.

1563 Clode, "Early Hist. of the Guild of Merchant Taylors," pt. ii, pp.

229-230.

1564 Journal 19, fo. 133b.

1565 Holinshed, iv, 234.

1566 "Mesmes j'entendz que de la blanque, qu'on a tiree ces jours passes

en ceste ville, ceste Royne retirera pour elle plus de cent mille

livres esterlin, qui sont 33,000 escuz; de quoy le monde murumre

asses pour la diminution qu'ilz trouvent aulx benefices qu'ilz

esperoient de leurs billetz"--wrote De la Motlie Fenelon, the French

ambassador in London.--Cooper's "Recueil des Depeches, etc., des

Ambassadeurs de France (Paris and London, 1838-1840)," i, 155.

M766 English merchants in Antwerp arrested by order of Alva, 1568.

M767 Elizabeth retaliates by seizing treasure on board Spanish vessels.

1567 Proclamation, 6 Jan., 1569.--Journal 19, fo. 139; Letter Book V, fo.

210.

1568 See letter from Sir Arthur Champernowne, William Hawkins and others

to the lords of the council. 1 Jan., 1569.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1547-1580), p. 326.

M768 Order to seize Flemish merchants and their goods in London, Jan.,

1569.

1569 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1547-1580), p. 326.

1570 Cotton MS., Galba C, iii, fo. 151b. This letter was signed by John

Gresham, Thomas Offley, John White, Roger Martyn, Leonell Duckett,

Thomas Heaton, Richard Wheler, Thomas Aldersey and Francis Beinson.

1571 Citizen and Merchant Taylor: Alderman of the Wards of Portsoken and

Bishopsgate; Sheriff, 1560-61. _Ob._ 2 Sept., 1570. Buried in

Hackney Church. He bestowed the sum of L100 for the relief of

members of his company "usinge the brode shire or ell rowinge of the

pearch or making of garmentes" during his lifetime, and some landed

estate in the city by his will for like purpose.--Letter Book V, fo.

274b; Cal. of Wills, Court of Husting, ii, 686.

1572 Letter printed (from original among State Papers Dom.) in Burgon's

"Life of Gresham," ii, 287.

M769 Alva's envoy demands restitution.

1573 Sir Thomas Rowe, mayor, to Secretary Cecil. 23 Jan., 1569.--Cal.

State Papers Dom. (1547-1580), p. 329; Burgon's "Life of Gresham,"

ii, 295-296.

1574 -_Id._, 25 Jan.

1575 Cooper's "Depeches, etc., des Ambassadeurs de France," i, 176-177.

1576 Burgon's "Life of Gresham," ii, 297.

M770 Gresham suggests minting the Spanish treasure, 14 Aug., 1569.

1577 Lansd. MS., No. xii, fo. 16b.

1578 -_Id._, fo. 22.

M771 The City Courts closed to Spanish suitors, 11 July, 1570.

1579 Repertory 17, fo. 36b.

M772 Failure of efforts to effect a mutual restoration of goods seized.

M773 Spanish goods ordered to be sold.

M774 The respective claims of England and Spain referred to arbitration.

1580 Journal 19, fo. 247b; Letter Book V, fo. 301.

1581 Journal 19, fo. 257.

1582 -_Id._, fo. 390b.

1583 Journal 19, fo. 390b.

1584 Add. MS., No. 5, 755, fo. 58.

M775 Insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, 1569.

1585 In the following year he was removed to the Charterhouse, but being

discovered in correspondence with the deposed Queen of Scots was

again placed in the Tower. He was tried and convicted of treason,

and after some delay executed on Tower Hill.--Holinshed, iv, 254,

262, 264, 267.

1586 The proclamation, which is set out in Journal 19, fo. 202b (_Cf._

Letter Book V, fo. 267b), gives in detail the rise and progress of

the rebellion.

M776 Measures taken for safe-guarding the city.

1587 Journal 19, fo. 202; Letter Book V, fo. 267.

1588 Journal 19, fo. 202; Letter Book V, fo. 267.

1589 Letter Book V, fo. 269.

1590 Journal 19, fo. 206b; Letter Book V, fo. 270b; Repertory 16, fo.

522b.

M777 Papal Bull of excommunication against Elizabeth, 1570.

1591 Holinshed, iv, 254.

M778 Rejoicing in the city after the battle of Lepanto, 7 Oct., 1571.

1592 -_Id._, 262.

1593 From Hertfordshire, alderman of Billingsgate Ward.

1594 Dated 8 Nov.--Journal 19, fo. 370b.

1595 Holinshed, iv, 263.

1596 Repertory 17, fos. 8b, 23, 27b, 29. 243, etc.; Repertory 19, fos.

24b, 154, etc.; City Records known as "Remembrancia" (Analytical

Index), pp. 51-55.

M779 Peace and commercial prosperity, 1572.

1597 Stranger denizens, carrying on a handicraft in the city, had

recently preferred a Bill in Parliament against several of the

livery companies. They were persuaded, however, to drop it, and

refer their grievance to the Court of Aldermen.--Repertory 17, fos.

302b, 335, 337. A return made by the mayor (10 Nov., 1571) of the

strangers then living in London and Southwark and liberties thereof

gives the total number as 4,631.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1547-1580),

p. 427.

1598 Repertory 17, fo. 372.

M780 The shifting policy of Elizabeth towards Spain and France,

1572-1574.

1599 Journal 19, fos. 407-408b, 417-417b; Repertory 17, fos. 292, 298b,

307, 308.

1600 Journal 20, pt. i, fos. 133b, 143b; Repertory 18, fo. 224b.

1601 Journal 20, pt. i, fo. 156b.

M781 Piracy rampant, 1575-1576.

1602 Journal 20, pt. i, fo. 252; _Id._, pt. ii, fo. 280b.

M782 A loan ofL30,000, June, 1575.

M783 A city Chamberlain dismissed from office.

1603 Journal 20, pt. i, fos. 228b, 239.

1604 Repertory 19, fo. 98.

1605 Journal 20, pt. ii, fo. 371.

1606 He was removed by order of Common Council, 13 Dec., _pre diversis

magnis rebus dictam civitatem et negotia ejusdem

tangentibus_.--Journal 20, pt. ii, fo. 376b.

M784 The city called upon to furnish soldiers, 1578.

1607 Journal 20, pt. ii, fos. 388b, 389, 394-395b. The queen to the

mayor, etc., of London, 12 March.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1547-1580), p. 586.

1608 Journal 20, pt. ii, fo. 409b.

1609 -_Id._, fos. 404, 408b, 412.

1610 Repertory 19, fo. 346b.

M785 Count Casimir at Gresham House, Jan., 1579.

M786 Death of Sir Thomas Gresham, 21 Nov., 1579.

M787 Count Casimir presented by the city with a gift of 500 marks.

1611 This conjecture is made from the fact of a precept having been

issued on the 20th Jan. for certain persons to furnish themselves

with velvet coats, chains and horses, and a suitable suite, to wait

upon the lord mayor on the following Saturday.--Journal 20, pt. ii,

fo. 404b.

1612 Burgon's "Life of Gresham," ii, 451-452.

1613 Journal 20, pt. ii, fos. 464, 480.

1614 Continuation of Holinshed, iv, 315.

M788 The plague in the city, 1580-1583.

1615 City Records known as "Remembrancia" (Printed Analytical Index), pp.

306, 330, 331, 350-352; Journal 20, pt. ii, fos. 373, 379, 407.

1616 Remembrancia (Index), pp. 207, 331, 334; Journal 21, fo. 235b.

1617 Remembrancia, vol. i, No. 331.

M789 Preparations for war.

M790 Troubles in Ireland, 1579-1583.

1618 A reference to this defeat is to be found in the Dublin Assembly

Roll under the year 1581.--"Cal. of Ancient Records of Dublin" (ed.

by John T. Gilbert, 1891), ii, 155.

1619 Bright, "Hist. of England," ii, 539.

1620 Journal 21, fos. 19, 34, 52, 53, 69b-71b, 78b, etc.; Repertory 20,

fos. 90, 117, 117b, 119b, etc.; Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp.

230-236.

1621 Journal 21, fo. 329b.

1622 Among Chamber Accounts _circa_ 1585 we find the following:--"Pd. the

x of Dec. by order of Courte to Roger Warffeld Treasuror of

Bridewell towards the conveyinge of all the Irishe begging people in

and nere London to the Citie of Bristowe v1."--Chamber Accounts, Town

Clerk's Office, vol. ii, fo. 17.

M791 The Jesuits in the city, 1580-1581.

1623 Repertory 16, fo. 350.

1624 Repertory 18, fo. 167.

1625 Journal 20, fo. 219b.

1626 Journal 21, fo. 81b; Repertory 20, fo. 1b.

M792 The Recusancy Laws, 1581.

1627 Journal 21, fo. 90.

1628 -_Id._, fos. 114b, 135, 290, 322.

1629 Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 364, 365.

M793 Special preachers appointed for the city, 1581-1582.

1630 As early as 1554 students had been supported by the Corporation and

the Companies at the Universities.--Repertory 13, fos. 144b, 148,

150b.

1631 Rembrancia, i, 250, 256 (Analytical Index, pp. 365, 366). Another

difference shortly occurred between the corporation and the Bishop

of London in October of this year. A dispute arose between them as

to who was responsible for keeping St. Paul's Cathedral in repair,

each party endeavouring to throw the burden upon the other (_Id._,

Analytical Index, pp. 323-327); and in the following March (1582)

Bishop Aylmer found cause to complain by letter of unbecoming

treatment by the mayor, both of the bishop and his clergy, and

threatened, unless matters changed for the better, to admonish the

mayor publicly at Paul's Cross, "where the lord mayor must sit, not

as a judge to control, but as a scholar to learn, and the writer,

not as John Aylmer to be thwarted, but as John London, to teach him

and all London."--(_Id._, _ibid._, pp. 128-129).

1632 Repertory 20, fo. 282.

M794 Arrest and execution of Campion.

M795 Breach with Spain, Jan., 1584.

1633 Son of Richard Osborne, of Ashford, co. Kent. The story goes that he

was apprenticed to Sir William Hewet, clothworker, and that he

married his master's daughter, whom he had rescued from a watery

grave in the Thames at London Bridge. His son, Sir Edward Osborne,

was created a baronet by Charles I, and his grandson, Sir Thomas,

made Duke of Leeds in 1692 by King William III.

1634 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 157. The right of holding

musters in Southwark was again questioned; and the claim of the city

was upheld by Sir Francis Walsingham. For this he received the

thanks of the lord mayor by letter dated 15 Feb.--_Id._, p. 159.

M796 Muster of 4,000 men in Greenwich Park, 1584.

1635 "A lettre from the quenes maty for ye mustringe of 4000 men, and

also for the shewes on the evens of St. John Baptist and St. Peter

thapostles."--Journal 21, fo. 421b.

1636 Contin. of Holinshed, v, 599, 600.

M797 Assassination of Prince of Orange, 10 July, 1584.

1637 Journal 21, fo. 388b.

M798 Dutch envoys to Elizabeth, June, 1585.

1638 Stow's Annals (ed. 1592), pp. 1198-1201.

1639 Motley, "United Netherlands," i, pp. 318-324.

M799 Recruits for service in the Low Countries, July, 1585.

1640 For particulars of his life see Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p.

284, note.

1641 Journal 21, fo. 448b.

M800 The fall of Antwerp and despatch of Leicester to the Low Countries,

1585.

1642 "Thaccompte of the saide chamberlyn for the transportacioun and

necessary provision of MMCCCCXX soldiers into the lowe countryes of

Flaunders."--Chamber Accounts, vol. ii, fos. 56-58b.

1643 Motley, "United Netherlands," i, 340.

1644 Chamber Accounts, ii, 134. The earl's honor of Denbigh, North Wales,

was mortgaged to certain citizens of London, and not being redeemed,

was afterwards purchased by the queen herself.--Repertory 22, fo.

287.

1645 Repertory 21, fos. 308-311.

1646 For many years after the passing of the Act (1 Edw. VI, c. 14)

confiscating property devoted to "superstitious uses," the

corporation and the livery companies were the objects of suspicion

of holding "concealed lands," _i.e._ lands held charged for

superstitious uses, which they had failed to divulge. The

appointment of a royal commission to search for such lands was

submitted to the law officers of the city for consideration, 9

Sept., 1567.--Repertory 16, fo. 276b. Vexatious proceedings continued

to be taken under the Act until the year 1623, when a Statute was

passed, entitled "An Act for the General Quiet of the Subjects

against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever."--Stat. 21, James I,

c. ii.

M801 The city flooded with strangers from France and Flanders.

1647 Journal 22, fo. 1.

1648 -_Id._, fos. 26, 29.

1649 Journal 22, fo. 37b; Repertory 21, fo. 288b.

M802 Discovery of the Babington plot, Aug., 1586.

1650 Journal 22, fos. 52-53. Both the queen's letter and Dalton's speech

are printed in Stow's Continuation of Holinshed, iv, 902-904.

1651 Journal 22, fos. 48, 57b, 58; Repertory 21, fo. 327.

M803 Execution of Mary Stuart, 8 Feb., 1587.

1652 Proclamation, dated Richmond, 4 Dec., 1586.--Journal 22, fo. 67b.

M804 A threatened famine in the city, Nov., 1586

1653 Royal Proclamation against engrossers of corn, 2 Jan., 1587.--Journal

22, fo. 74.

1654 Journal 22, fo. 64.

1655 Repertory 21, fo. 370b.

M805 Philip's preparations for invasion, 1587.

1656 Journal 21, fo. 136b.

1657 Motley, "United Netherlands," ii, 281.

M806 Preparations in England, 1587-1588.

1658 Journal 22, fos. 144, 161b, 166-167b, 170b.

1659 Journal 22, fo. 190.

1660 Only 1,000 men out of the force raised by the city went to Tilbury,

and the earl only consented to receive this small contingent on

condition they brought their own provisions with them, so scantily

was the camp supplied with victuals through the queen's

parsimony.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 244. Letter from

Leicester to Walsingham, 26 July.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1581-1590), p. 513.

1661 Leicester to Walsingham, 28 July, 1588.--State Papers Dom., vol.

ccxiii, No. 55.

1662 William of Malmesbury bears similar testimony to the courage of

Londoners under good leadership: _Laudandi prorsus viri et quos Mars

ipse collata non sperneret hasta si ducem habuissent_.--Gesta Regum

(Rolls Series, No. 90), i, 208.

1663 Repertory 22, fo. 148b.

M807 The City fits out sixteen ships and four pinnaces.

1664 A list of "the London shippes" (including pinnaces), dated 19 July,

1588, is preserved among the State Papers (Domestic) at the Public

Record Office (vol. ccxii, No. 68), and is set out in the Appendix

to this work. Two other lists, dated 24 July, giving the names of

the ships (exclusive of pinnaces) are also preserved (State Papers

Dom., vol. ccxiii, Nos. 15, 16). Each of these lists give the number

of vessels supplied by the city against the Armada as sixteen ships

and four pinnaces, or as twenty ships (inclusive of pinnaces). It is

not clear what was the authority of Stow (Howes's Chron., p. 743)

for stating that the city, having been requested to furnish fifteen

ships of war and 5,000 men, asked for two days to deliberate, and

then furnished thirty ships and 10,000 men. At the same time there

does exist a list of "shipps set forth and payde upon ye charge of

ye city of London, anno 1588" (that is to say, the ships furnished

by the city for that whole year), and that list contains the names

of thirty ships, with the number of men on board each vessel and the

names of the commanders.--State Papers Dom., vol. ccxxxii, fos. 16,

16b.

1665 Journal 22, fo. 173. The assessment was afterwards (19 April)

settled at three shillings in the pound.--_Id._, fo. 175.

1666 Journal 22, fos. 193, 200b.

M808 The fate of the Armada, July, 1588.

1667 Richard Tomson to Walsingham, 30 July, 1588.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1581-1590), p. 517.

1668 Hawkins to Walsingham, 31 July, 1588.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1581-1590), p. 517.

1669 Howard to the same, 21 July.--_Id._, p. 507.

1670 Sir William Wynter to Walsingham, 1 Aug., 1588.--Cal. State Papers

Dom. (1581-1590), p. 521.

1671 Journal 22, fo. 196b.

1672 -_Id._, fo. 196.

M809 Richard Tomson and the London ship _Margaret and John_.

1673 Tomson to Walsingham, 30 July, 1588.--State Papers Dom., vol. ccxiii,

No. 67.

M810 The naval engagement off Gravelines 29 July, 1588.

M811 The Armada driven northward.

M812 Preparations in the city for receiving sick and wounded, 29 July.

1674 Repertory 21, fo. 578.

1675 Journal 22, fo. 200b; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 510.

M813 Reports as to the fate of the Armada, July-Aug., 1588.

1676 Journal 22, fo. 197.

1677 -_Id._, fo. 199b.

1678 Journal 22, fo. 200.

M814 The queen attends a public thanksgiving service at St. Paul's, 24

Nov., 1588.

1679 Nichols' "Progresses of Q. Elizabeth," ii, 537.

1680 Journal 22, fos. 233, 235.

1681 Nichols' "Progresses of Q. Elizabeth," ii, 538, 539.

M815 Monuments in city churches to Frobisher, Hawkins and Martin Bond.

1682 On the 7th Feb., 1583, previously to setting out on his last

ill-fated expedition, Gilbert addressed a letter to Walsingham from

"his house in Redcross Street."--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590),

p. 95.

1683 See the will of Dame Margaret Hawkins, dated 23 April, 1619.--Cal. of

Wills, Court of Hust., London, ii, 745. The will contains many

bequests of articles which savour of Spanish loot.

1684 Strype, Stow's "Survey" (1720), bk. ii, p. 44.

M816 Disorganized state of the camp at Tilbury.

1685 Journal 22, fo. 202b.

M817 City loans of L30,000 and L20,000, Sept.-Dec., 1588.

1686 Journal 22, fo. 210; Repertory 21, fos. 590b, 593; Repertory 22,

fos. 15, 26b, 27; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 471.

M818 Expedition to Spain under Norris and Drake, April-July, 1589.

1687 Journal 22, fo. 252; Repertory 22, fo. 16b.

1688 Journal 22, fos. 227b, 278.

M819 Disbanded soldiers and sailors in the city.

1689 Burghley and others to the mayor, 26 July, 1589.--Journal 22, fo.

312.

M820 Soldiers ordered to return to their own homes.

1690 -_Id._, fo. 316b.

1691 Journal 22, fo. 345b; Journal 23, fo. 79.

1692 Journal 22, fo. 314.

M821 Elizabeth and Henry IV of France, 1589-1591.

1693 Journal 22, fo. 321b.

1694 -_Id._, fo. 326.

1695 -_Id._, fo. 321.

M822 The City and the Earl of Essex, 1591.

1696 Journal 23, fos. 35, 38.

1697 July 24, 1591.--Remembrancia. i, 599 (Analytical Index, p. 408).

M823 The City agrees to fit out six ships and a pinnace, 16 June, 1591.

1698 Journal 23, fos. 31, 43b, 48b; Repertory 22, fo. 284b.

1699 Journal 23, fos. 68, 68b; _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom. (1591-1594),

p. 48, where the date of the letter is given as "May."

1700 Journal 23, fos. 325b, 383b.

M824 Search to be made for Spanish emissaries in disguise.

1701 Journal 23, fos. 45-46b.

1702 Journal 24, fo. 86.

M825 Privateering expeditions against Spain, 1591-1592.

1703 Proclamation, dated 16 Sept., 1591.--Journal 23, fo. 47.

1704 Journal 23, fo. 73.

1705 -_Id._, fo. 71.

1706 Proclamations, dated 8 Jan. and 26 Sept., 1592.--Journal 23, fos.

78b, 136.

1707 The queen to the lord mayor, 6 Jan., 1592.--Cal. State Papers Dom.

(1591-1594), p. 168. The same to the same, 25 Jan.--Journal 23, fo.

87.

1708 Journal 23, fos. 157, 167, 174, 224b; Repertory 23, fo. 29.

M826 Proposal to build a pest-house for the city, 1592.

1709 It was in 1592 that bills of mortality, kept by the parish clerks,

were for the first time published.

1710 Journal 23, fo. 204b.

1711 Journal 23, fo. 266.

1712 -_Id._, fos. 400, 402.

M827 The hysterical Anne Burnell.

1713 -_Id._, fo. 153.

M828 Six ships, two pinnaces and 350 men provided by the City against

Spain, July, 1594.

1714 Journal 23, fo. 290b. The number was afterwards reduced to 350

men.--_Id._, fo. 296b; Remembrancia, ii, 3, 27, 30.

1715 Journal 23, fo. 290.

1716 -_Id._, fo. 289.

1717 Journal 23, fo. 293. The names, tonnage and crews of the ships are

thus given (Remembrancia, ii, 26):--The Assention, 400 tons, 100

mariners; The Consent, 350 tons, 100 mariners; The Susan

Bonadventure, 300 tons, 70 mariners; The Cherubim, 300 tons, 70

mariners; The Minion, 180 tons, 50 mariners; and The Primrose, 180

tons, 50 mariners. Only one pinnace is mentioned, of 50 tons, with

20 mariners.

M829 Sir John Spencer and his daughter.

1718 Journal 23, fo. 323b.

1719 Chamberlain's Letters, _temp._, Eliz. (Camd. Soc., No. 79), p. 50.

The writer was a son of Richard Chamberlain, a city alderman.

1720 Alderman of Tower Ward; Sheriff 1584-5; Mayor 1597.

1721 Repertory 24, fo. 410b.

1722 Repertory 25, fo. 216b.

1723 The letter is printed _in extenso_ in Chambers' "Book of Days," i,

464, and in Goodman's "Court of James I," ii, 127.

M830 The capture of Cadiz, July, 1596.

1724 Journal 24, fos. 79b, 81, 82, 82b.

1725 -_Id._, fo. 85b.

1726 Journal 24, fos. 105, 144.

1727 -_Id._, fo. 84b.

1728 Macaulay's "Essay on Lord Bacon."

1729 Journal 24, fo. 145.

1730 -_Id._, fos. 146b, 149.

M831 Calais falls into the hands of Spain, April, 1596.

1731 Journal 24, fos. 110-111, 129b.; Repertory 23, fo. 594b.

1732 Journal 24, fos. 124, 154b, 157b.

M832 Reinforcements for the Netherlands, July, 1596.

1733 The queen to the mayor, 25 July; the lords of the council to the

same, 26 July.--Journal 24, fo. 142.

M833 A demand for ten ships to be furnished by the City, Dec., 1596.

1734 Journal 24, fos. 173, 175.

M834 The City's reply.

1735 The same dissatisfaction at the result of the Cadiz expedition so

far as it affected the citizens of London was displayed in a

previous letter from the mayor to the lords of the Privy Council (3

Nov.) in answer to a demand for 3,000 men and three ships to ride at

Tilbury Hope and give notice of the approach of the Spanish

fleet.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 243, 244.

1736 Repertory 24, fo. 60b.

M835 Affairs in Ireland, 1594-1599.

1737 Journal 24, fos. 210b-213b, 216, 217.

1738 Journal 24, fos. 324b, 325, 329b; Repertory 24, fos. 268, 287, 306;

_Id._ 25, fo. 4b. Elizabeth asked for L40,000, but only succeeded in

getting half that sum.--Chamberlain's Letters, p. 15.

1739 Journal 25, fos. 34, 47b, 48; Repertory 24, fo. 352b. In July, 1600,

a deputation was appointed to wait upon the lords of the council

touching the repayment of this loan.--Repertory 25, fo. 119b. It

still remained unpaid in Feb., 1604.--Journal 26, fo. 163b. By the

end of 1606 L20,000 had been paid off.--Remembrancia (Analytical

Index), p. 188; Repertory 27, fo. 278. And by July, 1607, the whole

was repaid.--Howes's Chron., p. 890.

M836 A scare in London, July-Aug., 1598.

1740 Journal 25, fos. 74b, 75, 77b-78b, 81, 81b, 82b-84, etc.

1741 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.

1742 Journal 25, fo. 79b.

1743 -_Id._, fos. 80, 80b.

1744 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.

1745 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 61; Journal 25, fos. 81, 84b.

M837 The abortive insurrection of the Earl of Essex, Feb., 1601.

1746 Journal 25, fo. 238.

1747 Journal 25. fo. 245; Letter Book BB, fo. 85. He was deprived of his

aldermanry of the Ward of Farringdon Without and debarred from ever

becoming alderman of any other ward "for causes sufficiently made

known" to the Court of Aldermen.

1748 Repertory 25, fos. 209b, 213.

1749 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1598-1601), p. 546.

1750 Secretary Cecil to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and others, 10

Feb., 1601.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1598-1601), p. 547.

1751 Proclamation, dated 9 Feb., 1601.--Journal 25, fo. 240b.

1752 Repertory 25, fos. 213, 246.

1753 Journal 25, fos. 242, 243, 243b.

1754 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1601-1603), pp. 16, 26, 89, 90.

M838 Mountjoy's conquest of Ireland, 1600-1603.

1755 Journal 25, fos. 137, 161b, 166, 179, 189, 190, 218b, 223, 237,

237b, 262b-265b, 293, 295, 301, 302b, 313b, 315; Journal 26, fos.

16b-19.

M839 The parliament of 1601.

1756 Repertory 25, fo. 296b.

M840 The last days of Elizabeth, 1601-1603.

1757 Repertory 24, fos. 343, 354; Repertory 25, fos. 165-175. The

Steelyard was re-opened in 1606.--Journal 27, fo. 66.

1758 Letter from Sir Christopher Hatton to the mayor, 27 Nov.,

1583.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 407.

1759 Journal 26, fo. 42.

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1045 Chamber Accounts (Town Clerk's office), i, fos. 202b, 203.