Rob't Large, m'c', Robt. Marchall, groc'. Anno xviij^{o}.
meir. Philip Malpas, drap'.
[Sidenote: Obit' comitisse Arundell and Huntyngdon.]
[Sidenote: Maist' Richard was brent as a heretike.]
[Sidenote: Lowlars.]
[Sidenote: Ignis.]
[Sidenote: Ignis.]
[Sidenote: Merchaunts straungers to be oosted with Englisshmen.]
This same yere[125] deyde the countesse of Arundell and of Huntyngdon,
in Gascoigne. Also this yere were too bargemen hanged in Tempse
beyownde seynt Katerines, for scleying of iij Flemynges and a child,
beynge in a schip in Tempse of there contre, and weren homward; and
there they hengen til the water hadde wasted them be ebbyng and
flowyd, so the water bett upon them. Also the same yere upon a Fryday,
that is for to sey the ij^{de} day of August, was on Maister Richard
Wyche, sum tyme vicary of Depforde in the schire of Kent, brent for
lollery at the Tour hill; and there manye of his secte and of his lord
wenten and offred at the same place where he was brent, tyl manye of
them were aspyed and put in prison; and for doughte that there schulde
a ben a maner of arysyng of suyche mysbelevers, the maire, the
schirreves, with alle the aldermen, be comown counseill and comown
assent, dede ordeyne diverses wacches of diverses wardes of the citee,
that a certeyn schulde wacchen a day and as manye a nyght at the same
place, unto the tyme that the maire with his counseill wolde sende
them discharge. Also this same yere on a Fryday, that is for to seye
the xij day of August, aboughte iij of the belle at afternoon, there
fill a sodeyn thondyr clap with a gret reyn and a lyghtnynge, the
whiche lyghtnynge entred in at a wynde and distroyd moche hey which
was stuffed in a gret hous at the Sterre in Bredstrete; and the
remenaunt of the hey was cast out and had in to Chepe, the quantyte of
l cart full: and so, worschepyd be God, there was not moche more harme
do, but palbrakyd sore therein and lost the hey. Also on Fryday xiiij
nyght after that, in the nyghtes tyme was a goldsmyth hous be syde the
crosse in Chepe althernest the Egle brent, and al that was therinne;
but it were the lesse and a part of the tannere at the Egle, and the
good man of the Egle hadde moche harm as it was seyd. Also in this
same yere began the parlement at Westm' at Mighelmesse ant lasted to
Cristemasse, and enyorned til after the feste to Redyng in Berkschire,
and so it lasted there til Schroftyd, and there endyd; and at the
whiche parlement was ordeyned that all marchauntes strangers schulde
gon to oost with Englysshmen withinne too dayes after they be comen
into the lond, in what partie of the lond soevery thei be, to selle
there marchaundyse, and bye ayen withinne viij monthes after there
comynge, and gon ageyn withinne the same terme; and in cas that eny of
there marchaundyse leve unsold at there partynge, they to have it with
them withoughten eny custom payenge; and the goodes that thei bye and
selle shall yeven to there hoost for every xx _s._, worth, ij _d._,
except the Estirlynges. Also at the same parlement was graunted that
the kynges vitaill schulde be payed; and the town of Caleys for to be
made ageyn; and the see for to be kept with the V portus of Engelond;
and that every houshold of Duche peple shall paye to the kyng be yere
xvj _d._, and every servaunt of them shall paye vj be yere. And in
this yere come pardon into Engelond fro the pope of Rome, undir his
lettre and seall of leed, of as moche power as he has, to every prest
to assoilen every Cristeman that yevyth a part of his goodes to the
sustentacion of the popes werres in strengthynge of the Cristen feith.
Also in this yere was cried pees betwen Engelond and Zelond, Holond
ant Freselond perpetuell. Also in this same yere was a man drawen and
hanged, hedid, and quarterd, and sett up at diverses places, for he
tok up bestes and all maner vitaill in the cuntre in the kynges name,
and was but a thef, and so robbyd the cuntre with treson.
[Footnote 125: _See note_ DDD.]