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[^MACHYN, HENRY.
THE DIARY OF HENRY MACHYN, CITIZEN
AND MERCHANT-TAYLOR OF LONDON,
FROM A. D. 1550 TO A. D. 1563.
CAMDEN SOCIETY, XLII.
ED. J. G. NICHOLS.
LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 1848.
PP. 38.3  - 48.33   (SAMPLE 1)
PP. 97.4  - 101.17  (SAMPLE 2)
PP. 196.8 - 201.7   (SAMPLE 3)^]

[^EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS GIVEN IN (1) ROUND OR (2) SQUARE 
BRACKETS IN THE EDITION ARE CODED AS 'EMENDATIONS', I.E.: 
     (1) INSTANCES OF ROUND BRACKETS:  [{(...){]
     (2) INSTANCES OF SQUARE BRACKETS: [{...{] ^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 38>
   The xxvj day of July cam unto the Towre my lord marqwes of
Northamton, by and my lord Robart Dudley, and the bysshop of
London, and ser Recherd Corbett; and after cam in to the Towre
my lord cheyffe justes Chamley, the lord Montyguw, at v of the
cloke at nyght.
   The xxvij day of July the duke of Suffoke, maister [{Cheke{]
the kynges scolmaster, maister Coke, [{(and){] ser John Yorke,  #
to the
Towre.
   The xxxj day of July was delevered owt of the Towre the duke
of Suffoke; and the sam day rod thrugh London my lade Elssabeth
to Algatt, and so to the qwens grace her sester, with a M=l=.
hors with a C. velvett cotes.
   The sam tyme cam to the Flett the yerle of Ruttland and my
lord Russell, in hold. The qwen[{('s){] grace mad [{sir         #
Thomas{] Jarnyngham
vyce-chamburlayn and captayne of the garde, and ser 
Edward Hastyngs her grace mad ym the maister of the horsse
the sam tym.
   [{The iij day of August the Queen came riding to London, and
so to the Tower; making her entrance at Aldgate, which was
hanged,{] and a grett nombur of stremars ha[{nging about the    #
said
gate;{] and all the strett unto Ledynhalle and unto the         #
[{Tower were
laid with{] graffvell, and all the crafts of London stood [{in  #
a row,
with{] ther banars and stremars hangyd over ther heds. Her
grace cam, and a-for her a M=l=. velvet cotes and [{cloaks{]    #
in brodere,
and the mar of London bare the mase, and the erle of
Arundell bare the sworde, and all the trumpets [{blowing{] ;    #
and
next her my lade Elssabeth, and next her the duches of          #
Norffoke,
and next her the marqwes of Exseter, [{and other{] lades; and
after her the aldermen, and then the gard with bowes and        #
gaffylens,
and all the reseduw departyd [{at Aldgate{] in gren and whyt,
<P 39>
and red and whyt, and bluw and gren, to the nombur of iij M=l=.
horse and speres and gaffelyns.
   The fenerall, the iiij day of August, of my lade Browne, the
wyche she ded in chyld-bed; with a harold and iiij banars of
armes, and mony schochyons; and a gret dolle, and many mornars,
and a gret dener to the pore and ryche; the wyff of ser Antony
Brown in Sussex.
   The v day of August cam to the Towre doctur dene of          #
Westmynster,
master Cokes.
   The sam day cam out of the Marsalsay the old bysshop of
London, Bonar, and dyvers bysshopes bryng hym home unto ys
plasse at Powlles; and doctur Cokes whent to the sam plasse in
the Marselsay that the bysshope was in.
   The v day of August cam in to the Towre my lord Ferrys
by . . . . at ix of the cloke, and so whent he a-for the
consell, and so with-in a nowre he was delevered unto ser John
Gage, constabull of the Towre, and so he had the custody of my
lord for that tyme.
   [{The Queen released from prison the lord Courtenay, soon
after created earl{] of Denshyre, and odur moo.
   And the Qwene grace mad ser Edward Hastyngs master of
the horse, and ser Thomas Jernyngham vysse-chamburlayne
and captayn of the gard, and master Rochastur master            #
controller; 
my lord marqwes of Wynchaster lord tresorer of England,
and dyvers odur offeserse, and dyvers odur.
   The vj day of August cam in-to the Towre, from [{Calais,     #
ser{]
Hare Dudley, that was gohyng in-to Franse.
   The viij day of August was bered the nobull kyng Edward
the vj, and vij yere of ys rayne; and at ys bere[{ing was{] the
grettest mone mad for hym of ys deth [{as ever{] was hard or    #
sene,
boyth of all sorts of pepull, wepyng and lamentyng; and furst
of alle whent a grett company of chylderyn in ther surples, and
clarkes syngyng, and then ys father[{('s){] bedmen, and then ij #
harolds,
and then a standard with a dragon, and then a grett nombur of
<P 40>
ys servants in blake, and then anodur standard with a whyt      #
greyhond,
and then after a grett nombur of ys of[{ficers,{] and after
them comys mo harolds, and then a standard with the hed         #
offesars
of ys howse; and then harolds, Norey bare the elmett and the
crest on horsbake, and then ys grett baner of armes in-brodery,
and with dyvers odur baners, and then cam rydyng maister        #
Clarensshuws
with ys target, with ys garter, and ys sword, gorgyusly
and ryche, and after Garter with ys cotte armur in brodery, and
then mor [{harolds{] of armes; and then cam the charett with    #
grett 
horsses trapyd with velvet to the grond, and hevere horse       #
havyng
[{a man{] on ys bake in blake, and ever on beyryng a banar-roll
[{of{] dyvers kynges armes, and with schochyon[{(s){] on ther   #
horses,
and then the charett kovered with cloth of gold, and on the
[{charett{] lay on a pycture lyeng recheussly with a crown of   #
gold,
and a grett coler, and ys septur in ys hand, lyheng in ys robes
[{and the garter about his leg, and a coat in embroidery of     #
gold;
about the corps were borne four banners, a banner of the order,
another of the red rose, another of queen Jane (Seymour) ,      #
another
of the queen's mother. After him went a goodly horse,
covered with cloth of gold unto the ground, and the master of   #
the
horse, with a man of arms in armour, which{] was offered, boyth
the man and the horsse. [{There was set up a go{]odly hersse in 
Westmynster abbay with banar [{-rolls{] and pensells, and honge
with velvet a-bowt.
   The sam day, the wyche was the viij day of August, cam to
London [{the go{]od yerle of Darbe, with iiij=xx= in cottes of  #
velvet
and oder ij C. xviij yomen in a leveray, and so to Westmynster.
   The ix day of August cam the bysshope of Wyncheaster owt
of the Towre [{(conducted){] by the yerle of Arundell to ys     #
owen
parish of sant Mare Overeys, and from thens with my lord of
Arundell to dener to Bayth plasse.
<P 41>
   The x day of August was drounyd vij men at L[{ondon{] bryge
by folij; on was master Thomas of Brygys the leyff-[{tenants{]  #
sune
and heire, and iij gentyllmen more, be-syd odur; and one . . .
   The xiij day [{(of){] August dyd pryche at Powlles crosse    #
doctur
[{Bourn{] parsun of hehnger, in Essex, the qwen[{('s){]         #
chaplen, and
ther [{was a{] gret up-rore and showtyng at ys sermon, as yt    #
[{were{]
lyke madpepull, watt yonge pepell and woman [{as{] ever was     #
hard,
as herle-borle, and castyng up of capes; [{if{] my lord mer     #
and my
lord Cortenay ad not ben ther, ther had bene grett myscheyff    #
done.
   The xvj day of August was a man sett on the pelere for       #
forgeng
of falss letters in odur mens name.
   The xvij day of August was mad a grett skaffold in           #
Westmynster
hall agaynst the morow, for the duke of Northumberland commyng
to be raynyd, with odur, as the marqwes of Northamton
and the yerle of Warwyke.
   The xviij day of August was reynyd at Westmynster hall the
marqwes of Northamton, and the duke, and th'erle of Warwyke,
and so they wher condemnyd to be had to the place that thay cam
fro, and from thens to be drane thrugh London onto Tyburne,
and ther to be hangyd, and then to be cott downe, and ther
bowells to be brentt, and ther heds to be sett on London bryge
and odur [{places{] .
   [{The xix day were arraigned at Westminster hall sir Andrew
Dudley, sir John Gates, sir Harry{] Gattes, ser Thomas Palmer,
and cast [{to be hanged and{] quartered.
   The sam day was a gret feyre at Chelsay [{beyond{]           #
Westmynster,
and ther was dyvers howsses brent, [{and{] dyvers barnes
with corne brent, to the nombur . . .
   The xx day of August dyd pryche at Powlles crosse master
Wattsun, chaplayn unto [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] , and ther    #
wher [{present all the{]
craftes of London in ther best leveray, syttyng on formes,      #
[{every{]
craft by them-seylff, and my lord mere and the aldermen, and    #
ij C.
of [{the guard,{] to se no dysquyet done.
<P 42>
   The sam day was bered master Kyrtun, alderman and marchand
tailler, and marchand of the stapull of Cales, a-for non.
   The xxj of August was, by viij of the cloke in the mornyng,  #
on
the Towre hylle a-boythe x M=l=. men and women for to have      #
[{seen{]
the execussyon of the duke of Northumberland, for the skaffold
was mad rede, and sand and straw was browth, and all the men
[{that{] longest to the Towre, as Hogston, Shordyche, Bow,      #
Ratclyff,
Lymhouse, Sant Kateryns, and the waters of the Towre,
and the gard, and shyreyffs offesers, and evere man stand in    #
order
with ther holbardes, and lanes made, and the hangman was ther,
and sodenly they wher commondyd to [{depart{] .
   And the sam tym after was send for my lord mer and the       #
aldermen
and cheyffest of the craftes in London, and dyvers of the       #
consell,
and ther was sed mas a-for the Duke [{and the rest{] of the
presonars.
   The xxj day of August was sett on the pelere ij men, on a    #
prest
and a-nodur a barbur, and boyth ther herers nayllyd to the
pelere, the parsun of sant Alberowgh with-in Bysshope-gate for
hannus wordes and sedyssus wordes aganst the qwen[{('s){]       #
magesty
hygnes at the sermon at Powlles crosse, that was the Sonday the
xiij day of August, and for the up-rore that was ther don. The  #
prest
 . . . twys.
   The xxj day of August was a proclamasyon, that no man shuld
reson aganst her grases magesty and her conselle, dohyng the
wyche she wyll doe to the honor of God and ys mother.
   The xxiij day of August was the sam prest sett on the pelere
agayne for mo w[{ordes{] .
   The sam day be-gane the masse at sant Nicolas Colabay,       #
goodly
song in Laten, and tapurs, and [{set on{] the owtter, and a     #
crosse,
in old Fysstrett.
   Item, the next day a goodly masse songe [{at{] sant Necolas
Wyllyms, in Laten, in Bredstrett.
<P 43>
   The xxv day of August was bornyd the [{Great{] Hare, the     #
grettest
shype in the world, and yt was pete and yff yt had plesyd God,
at Wolwych, [{by{] neckclygens and for lake of over-syth; the   #
furst
y[{ere of queen Mary.{] 
   The xxviij day of August ded ser John [{Haryngton{] knyght,  #
of
Rottland-shyre, with-in in Saynt Ellens, Bysshopgatt stret,     #
and from
that day that he ded tyll he was cared in-to ys contray, was    #
mas
and dirige evere day songe; and Monday the iiij day of          #
September,
[{he{] whent in-to the contray in a horse lytter, with ys       #
standard
and ys penon of armes, and after ys horsse . . . . .
with iiij pennons of armes borne a-bowt hym, and with a goodly
helmet gylt, with targett, sword, and crest, and a x dosen of
schochyons, and x dosen of pensells for a herse, and staff      #
torchys,
and a herse of wax, and a fere mageste, and the walans gylded
and frynged, and so to Ware, and so [{(forwards.){] 
   The vj day of September cam owt of the Towre my lord Ferrys,
my lord cheyff justys Chamlay, and my lord Montyguw,
unto the denes place, for ther satt the consell, and ther thay
wher delevered and dyscharged of the Towre with a grett fyne.
   The iij day of August, at Rychemond, was my lord Cortnay
created the yerle of Denshyre of owre nobulle qwene Mare.
   [{The xij day of September the citizens began to adorn the   #
city
against the Queen's coronation; to hang the streets, and        #
prepare
pageants at{] Fanchyrche and Grasse-chyrche and Leaden-hall, in
Gracyus strett, and at condutt in Cornhyll, and [{the great     #
conduit
in{] Chepe, at standard in Chepe, the crosse reparyd, [{at{]
the lytyll coundytt, a pagantt in Powlles chyrche[{-yard{] ,    #
a-nodur
pagant and mony spechys, and Ludgat nuly reparyd, and mony
chylderyn; [{at the condy{]tt in Flettstrett a pagantt, and     #
nuwe
trymmyd [{very gorg{]yously, and the strett hangyd, and plases  #
for
every cr[{aft to stan{]d seve[{(ral){]ly, mad with tymber from  #
evere 
cr[{aft{] ther standyng, and so to remane unto evere halle      #
[{for ev{]er
when they shall have nede for shyche dohyng.
<P 44>
   The xxj day of September was the obseqwe of the baron of
Dudley ser John Dudley at Westmynster, the bake-syd of Sant
Margatts; and ther was at ys beryng prestes and clarkes syngyng
in Laten, the prest havyng a cope and the clarke havyng the     #
halewater
sprynkull in ys hand, and after a mornar baryng ys standard,
and after a-nodur beyryng ys gret baner of armes gold and       #
sylver,
and a-nodur beyryng ys elmett, mantyll, and the crest a bluw    #
lyon[{('s){]
hed standyng a-pon a crowne of gold, and after a-nodur mornar
bayryng [{his{] targett, and a-nodur ys sword, and after cam    #
master
Somersett the harold bayryng ys cott armur of gold and selver,
and then the corse covered with cloth of gold to the grond,     #
and iiij
of ys men beyryng hym, and ys armes hangyd a-pone the cloth of
gold, and xij men of ys servands bayryng xij stayffs torchys    #
bornyng
to the chyrche; and in the qwer was a hersse mad of tymbur
and covered with blake, and armes apon the blake, and after the
mornars a grett compene; and a-for the durge began, the harold
cam to the qwer dore and prayd for ys soll by ys stylle, and so
began the durge song in Laten, all the lessons, and then the
harold prayd for a for masse, and so the masse songe in Laten;
and after ys helmet ofered, and cott and targatt, and after all
was endyd offered the standard and the baner of armes; and so
hom to dener, and ther was goodly ryngyng and a gret doll.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   The xxj day of September was a grett wache in . . . . . 
ser Edward Hastynges, the master of the horse, in sant
G[{eorge's{] on the banke a-bowt my lord of                     #
Wynchester[{('s){] ; for
ther wher serten taken, and Sowthwarke w . . .
   The xxiiij day of September dyd pryche master doctur Fecknam
at Powlles crosse, the Sonday a-for the qwuen[{('s){]           #
crounasyon; he
mad a godly sermon as was hard in that place.
   The xxviij day of September the Qwen[{('s){] grace removed   #
from
Sant James, and so to Whyt Hall, and ther her grace took her
barge unto the Towre, and ther all the craftes and the mare and
the aldermen in bargurs with stremars and mynstrells, as        #
trumpets
<P 45>
wettes, shames, and regalls, and with a gret [{shooting{] of 
gunes tyll her grace cam in-to the Towr, and . . .
   The xxix day of September the Qwuen[{('s){] grace mad        #
knyghts of
the Bathe xv; the furst was the yerle of Devonshyre, the yonge
yerle of Surray, the iij=de= lord of Borgane, and lord          #
Barkley, the 
lord Monjoye, lord Sowche, ser Wylliam Pallet, my lord Cardyff,
the lord Wyndsore[{('s){] sune, sir [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^]  #
Ryche[{('s){] sune, sir
Clynton, ser [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] Pagett, ser Robart      #
Rochaster, ser Hare Jernyngham, 
ser Edward Dormer.
   The xxx day of September the Qwuyen[{('s){] grace cam from   #
the
Towre thrugh London, rydyng in a charett gorgusly be-sene unto
Westmynster; by the way at Fanche-chyrche a goodly pagant, with
iiij grett gyants, and with goodly speches, the geneways mad    #
yt;
at Grache-chyrche a-nodur goodly pajant of esterlyngs makyng;
and at Ledyne-hall was nodur pagant hangyd with cloth of gold,
and the goodlyst playng with all maner of musyssoners, and ther
was on blohyng of a trumpet all the day longe; at the conduyt   #
in
Cornhyll a-nodur of the sete; and [{(at){] the grett condutt    #
a-nodur
goodly on, and the standard pentyd and gyldyd, and the crosse
pentyd; and [{(at){] the lytyll conduyt a goodly pagant; in     #
Powlles
chyrche-yerde ij pagants; and ij scaffolds on Powlles stepull   #
with
stremars; and Ludgat pentyd; at the conduyd in Flett-stret a
goodly pajant and pentyd . . . . . . . . . 
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
holy [^A CLOSING SQUARE BRACKET FOLLOWS THE WORD holy^]         #
water-stokes and sensers and copes . . . Westmynster
chyrche, and ther her grace hard masse, and was crounyd a-pon
a he stage, and after [{she was{] a-nontyd Qwene, the forst     #
day of
October. [{When all{] was don, her grace cam to Westmynster
hall . . . . . yt was iiij of the cloke or she whent to dener
[{or pa{]st; and ther the duke of Norffoke rod up and done the  #
hall,
my lord the yerle of Darbe he constabull, the yerle of Arundell
he boteler, and my lord of Borgane cheyff larderer, master
Dymmoke the qwyen[{('s){] champyon; and ther was [{great        #
me{]lode;
<P 46>
and the erle of Devonshyre bare the sword, and the yerle of     #
Westmorland
bare the cape of mantenans, and the erle of Shrowsbery
bare the crowne, and the duke of Norffoke [{was earl{]          #
marshall, and
the yerle of Arundell lord stuard, and the erle of Surray was   #
doer
under the duke ys grandshyr, and the erle of Woseter was
her grace[{('s){] carver that day at dener, my lord Wyndsore    #
was
[^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] ; and at the end of the tabull dynyd #
my lade Elisabeth and
my lade Anne of Cleyff; and so yt was candyll-lyght or her      #
grace
or she had dynyd, and so [{anon{] her grace toke barge.
   The ij day her grace mayd lxxiiij knyghts, the morowe after  #
her
crownnasyon, the wyche her be ther names folowyng: [\not        #
inserted
by the Diarist; but see the Illustrative Notes.\]
   The iiij day of October was cared to the Towre the           #
archebysshope 
of Yorke, and dyvers odur to [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] .
   The v day of October the Qwuen[{('s){] grace rod unto        #
Westmynster
chyrche, and ther her grace hard masse of the Holy-gost, and    #
ther
wher ij bysshopes; on delevered her the shepter and odur thyng.
Her grace rod in her parlement robes, and all the trumpeters
blohyng a-for them all; and so, after her grace had hard masse,
they whent to the Parlement howsse all to-geyther, and the      #
yerle
of Devonshyre bare the sworde, and the yerle of Westmorland
bare the cape of mayntenans.
   The xxij of October dyd pryche at Powlles doctur Westun,     #
dene
of Westmynster, and [{there at{] evere gatt in Powlles cherche
yerd wher mad, [{to prevent the breaking in of{] horses, and    #
for
grett throng of pepull, grett bars.
   The xxij day of October was bered the good [{lady{] Bowes,   #
the
wyff of ser Marten Bowesse late alderman and goldsmyth of       #
London,
with harolds, and with a C. men and women in gownes and
cotes of . . and xxiiij gownes of mantyll frys, alff men and    #
the
[{half{] women, and ys howse and the strett and the chyrche     #
hangyd
with blake clothe, and with ther armes a-pon the blake . . . .
hangyd with blake and armes, and ther wher iiij grett           #
candyllstykes
<P 47>
gyldyd, with iiij grett tapurs of . . . and ij grett whytt
branchys bornyng gyldyd, and the compeny of Clarkes, and        #
prestes;
and then cam the corpse with iiij penons of arms borne a-bowt
her . . . stayffes torchys bornyng a-bowt her with xij of ys
servands beyryng of them; and then cam the cheyffe mornars;
and then my lord mare and the swordbeyrer, and ser Hare         #
Hubbellthorne
and ser Rowland Hyll knyghtes, and mornars many,
and ij knyght[{(s){] more, and dyvers gentyllmen, and after the
craft of Goldsmyth[{(s){] ; and when all was done they whent,   #
and
the durge, so home to ys placsse; and the marow after a goodly
masse song in Laten, and a sermon, and when all was done they
whent to dener ther.
   The xxix day of October dyd pryche [\unfinished\] .
   [{The same day the new Lord Mayor went{] toward Westmynter
[{attended by the{] craftes of London in ther best leveray . . 
 . . . with trumpets blohyng and the whets playng . . . .
a goodly fuyst trymmed with banars and guns . . . waytyng
of my lord mayre[{('s){] barge unto Westmynster [{and{] all the #
craftes
bargers with stremars and banars [{of every{] craft, and so to  #
the
Cheker, and so hom-wards; my lord mayre landyd at Banard
Castyll and [{in St. Paul's{] chyrche-yerd dyd hevere craft     #
wher
set in [{array{] : furst wher ij tallmen bayreng ij gret        #
stremars [{of{]
the Marchand-tayllers armes, then cam on [{with a{] drume and a
flutt playng, and a-nodur with a gret f[{ife?{] all they in     #
blue sylke,
and then cam ij grett wodyn [{armed{] with ij grett clubes all  #
in
grene, and with skwybes bornyng . . . with gret berds and
syd here, and ij targets a-pon ther bake . . . and then cam
xvj trumpeters blohyng, and then cam in [{blue{] gownes, and
capes and hosse and blue sylke slevys, and evere man havyng a
target and a gayffelyn to the nombur of lxx . . and then cam
a duyllyll, and after the bachelars all in a leveray, and       #
skarlett
<P 48>
hods; and then cam the pagant of sant John Baptyst gorgyusly,
with goodly speches; and then cam all the kynges trumpeters
blowhyng, and evere trumpeter havyng skarlet capes, and
the wetes capes and godly banars, and then the craftes, and     #
then
the wettes playhyng, and then my lord mayre[{('s){] offesers,   #
and
then my lord mayre and ij good henchmen, and then all the
aldermen and the shreyffes, and so to dener; and after dener to
Powlles, and all them that bare targets dyd [{bare{] after      #
stayfftorches,
with all the trumpets and wettes blowhyng thrugh Powlles,
thrugh rondabowt the qwer and the body of the chyrche blowhyng,
and so home to my lord mere[{('s){] howsse.
   The v day of November dyd pryche master Feknam at sant
Mare Overays a-for non, and ther wher at ys sermon the yerle
of Devonshyre, ser Antony Browne, and juge Morgayn, and dyvers
odur nobull men.
   The sam day at after-non dyd prych master Feknam at sant
Sthevyns in Walbroke, and ther wher serten pepull mad besenes
for the sermon, and ther wher juge Browne, ser Rownland Hyll,
ser Rechard Dobes, ser John Yorke; and sum wher sent to the
mare, and to the Conter.
   [{The 13th of November were arraigned at Guildhall doctor
Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, the lord{] Gylfford Dudlay,
the sune of the duke of Northumberland, and my lade Jane ys     #
wyff,
the doythur of the duke of Suffoke-Dassett, and the lord        #
Hambrosse
Dudlay, [{and the{] lord Hare Dudlay, the wyche lade Jane
was proclamyd [{Queen{] : they all v wher cast for to dee.
   The xix day of November dyd pryche master Feknam at sant
Stheyns in Walbroke, and ther he mad the goodliest sermon that
ever was hard of the blessed sacrament of the body and blud for
to be after the consecracion.
   The xxiiij day of November dyd ryd in a c[{art{] Cheken,     #
parsun
of sant Necolas Coldabbay, [{round{] a-bowt London, for he sold
ys wyff to a bowcher.

<S SAMPLE 2>
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   The xiiij day of November be-gane the knyll for the most     #
ryght 
reverent father in God my lord chaunseler of England, doctur 
Sthevyn Gardener, byshope of Wynchastur, and of the preve 
consell with kyng Henry the viij=th= and unto quen Mare quen    #
of 
England; and with a hersse of iiij branchys, with gylt          #
candyllstykes, 
and ij whytt branchys and iij dosen of stayffes-torchys, and 
all the qwyre hangyd with blake and armes, and a durge songe; 
and the morow masse of requiem, and alle bysshoppes and lordes 
and knyghtes and gentyllmen; and my lord bysshope Bonar of 
London did syng masse of requiem, and doctur Whyt bysshope of 
Lynkolne dyd pryche at the sam masse; and after all they whent 
to his plasse to dener.  
   The sam day at after-none was durge in evere parryche in     #
London, 
and a hersse and ryngyng, and the morow masse of requiem, 
and so prayd for after the old custom.  
   The xxj day of November at none be-gane the knyll for my 
lord chanseler, for then was the body browt to the chyrche of   #
sant 
Mare Overes, with grett compene of prestes and clarkes, and     #
alle 
the bysshopes; and my lord of London dyd exsecute the offes,    #
and 
ware ys myter; and ther wher ij goodly whyt branchys bornyng, 
and the harsse with armes and [{(tapers){] bornyng, and iiij    #
dosen of  
stayffes; and all the qwyre with blake, and ys armes; and afor  #
the 
corse the kyng of haroldes with ys cot, and with v baners of    #
ys  
armes, and iiij of emages wrothe with fyne gold and inowlle; 
and the morowe-masse iij masse, one of the Trenete, on of owre 
Lade, and [{(the){] iij of requiem for ys solle; and after to   #
dener; and 
so he was put in a hersse tyll a day that he shall be taken up  #
and 
cared unto Wynchaster to be bered ther.  
   [{The xxvj of November a stripling was whipt about London, 
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and about Paul's cross, for speaking against the bishop{] that 
dyd pryche the Sonday a-for.  
   The iiij day of Desember was a voman [{set in the{] pelere   #
for 
beytyng of her chyld with rodes and . . . . . to peteusly; 
and the sam day was a man and a voman cared a-bowt London at 
a care-arse for baudry and . . .   
   The furst day of December was reseyvyd with pressessyon my 
lord cardenall Pole into Westmynster abbay; and ther mett hym 
x [{viij bishops,{] and the bysshope of Yorke dyd menyster with #
ys 
myter; [{and they{] whent a pressessyon a-bowt the chyrche and 
the cloyster.  
   The ix day of Desember was the parlement [{adjourned{] at    #
the 
Whyt Hall, her grace[{('s){] place-the iij yere; and so to Sant
James thrughe the parke.   
   The x day of Desember was had to the Towre ser Anthony 
Kyngston knyght, and to the Flett, and cam owt a-gayn shortely 
after.  
   The xiij day of Desember was bered at sant Androwes in the 
Warderobe master Recherd Stokdun, gentyllman of the warderobe, 
with ij goodly whyt branchys and xiij stayffes-torchys, and     #
xiij pore 
men, and thay had gownes of mantell frysse, and iiij grett      #
tapurs, 
and money mornars; and the strett hangyd with blake and armes; 
and money prestes syngyng; and the morowe masse and alffe a 
trentall of masses, and after the offeryng a sermon [{(by){]    #
a doctur 
callyd master Sydnam, a gray frere of Grenwyche.
   [{The xv day of December, before the sermon at Paul's cross
began, an old man, a shepherd,{] be-gane to spyke serten        #
thynges
and rayllyng, [{whereupon he was{] taken and carett to the      #
conter
for a tyme.
   The xviij day of Dessember be-twyn [{8 and 9{] of the cloke  #
in
the mornyng, was cared in-to Smythfeld to be bornyd on master 
[{(Philpot, archdeacon of Winchester,){] gentyllman, for        #
herese.
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   The xx day of Dessember was bered at sant Donstones in the
Est master Hare Herdsun, altherman of London and skynner, and
on of the masturs of the hospetall of the gray frers in         #
London, with 
men and xxiiij women in mantyll fresse gownes, a hersse of 
wax, and hong with blake; and ther was my lord mare and the
swordberer in blake, and dyvers odur althermen in blake, and    #
the
resedew of the aldermen, at ys beryng; and all the masters,     #
boyth
althermen and odur, with ther gren stayffes in ther handes,
and all the chylderyn of the gray frersse, and iiij men in      #
blake 
gownes bayryng iiij gret stayffes-torchys bornyng, and then     #
xxiiij
men with torchys bornyng; and the morowe iij masses songe;
and after to ys plasse to dener; and ther was ij goodly whyt
branchys, and mony prestes and clarkes syngyng.
   The xij even was at Henley a-pon Temes a mastores Lentall 
wedow mad a soper for master John Venor and ys wyff,
and I and dyver odur neybors; and as we wher at soper, and
or whe had supt, ther cam a xij wessells, with maydens syngyng
with ther wessells, and after cam the cheyff wyffes syngyng
with ther wessells; and the gentyll-woman had hordenyd a
grett tabull of bankett, dyssys of spyssys and frut, as         #
marmelad,
gynbred, gele, comfett, suger plat, and dyver odur.
 . . . . . . . .
 . . . dwellyng in Ive-lane, stuard unto master G . . .ser
Rechard Recherdsun, prest, with ij whytt . . . . , xij          #
stayfftorchys, 
and iiij grett tapurs, a dolle, and a knell at Powlles, and
a-nodur at sant Feyths.
   The xxij day of January whent in-to Smythfeld to berne       #
betwyn
vij and viij in the mornyng v men and ij women; on of the
men was a gentyllman of the ender tempull, ys nam master
Gren; and they wer all bornyd by ix at iij postes; and ther     #
wher 
a commonment thrughe London over nyght that no yong folke
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shuld come ther, for ther the grettest [{number{] was as has    #
byne
sene at shyche a tyme.
   The v day of Feybruary was bered master Cry[{stopher{]       #
Allen,
sum-tyme altherman of London, in sant . . . in London, with iij
dosen torchys, on dosen of [{staff{]-torchys, ij whyt           #
branchys, and
iiij grett tapurs, and pore men and women had gownes, and ther
wher mony mornars in blake, a lx; and the xxviij was the
monyth[{'s mind?{]
   The viij day of Feybruary dyd pryche at Powlles crosse       #
master
Peryn, a blake frere, and at the sam sermon was a prest, on ser
Thomas Samsun, dyd penanse for he had ij wyffes, and a shett
abowt hym, and a tapur in ys hand bornyng a-for the precher,
and the mayre of London and the althermen and worshephull men,
and mony odur.
   The xij day of January was bered in Essex master Leygett,
justes of pesse, with ij whyt branchys and a v dosen of         #
torchys,
and iiij gret tapurs and a gret dolle, and mony mornars, and a
gret dener; and shroyff sonday was ys monyth myne, and ij
dosen stayffes more, and a grett dolle to the pore  and a ij    #
dosen
skochyons.
 . . . . . . . . . .
 . . . . . . . . Grenwyche, and to the courtt gatt for the
Spaneardes and odur, one master Kayes kepyng [{there{] tavarne
and vetell.
   The xxiiij day of Feybruary was the obsequies of the most
reverentt father in God, Sthevyn Gardener, docthur and bysshope
of Wynchastur, prelett of the gartter, and latte chansseler of  #
England,
and on of the preve consell unto Kyng Henry the viij and
unto quen Mare, tyll he ded; and so the after-none be-gane the
knyll at sant Mare Overes with ryngyng, and after be-gane the
durge; with a palle of cloth of gold, and with ij whytt         #
branchys,
and ij dosen of stayffe-torchys bornyng, and iiij grett         #
tapurs; and
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my lord Montyguw the cheyffe mornar, and my lord bysshope of 
Lynkolne and ser Robart Rochaster, comtroller, and with dyvers
odur in blake, and mony blake gownes and cotes; and the morow
masse of requeem and offeryng done, be-gane the sarmon; and so
masse done, and so to dener to my lord Montyguw[{('s){] ; and   #
at ys
gatt the corse was putt in-to a wagon with iiij welles, all     #
covered
with blake, and ower the corsse ys pyctur mad with ys myter on
ys hed, with ys and ys armes, and v gentyll men bayryng ys v 
banars in gownes and hods, then ij harolds in ther cote armur,
master Garter and Ruge-crosse; then cam the men rydyng,         #
carehyng
of torchys a lx bornyng, at bowt the corsse all the way; and 
then cam the mornars in gownes and cotes, to the nombur unto 
ij C. a-for and be-hynd, and so at sant Gorges cam prestes and
clarkes with crosse and sensyng, and ther thay had a grett      #
torche
gyffyn them, and so to ever parryche tyll they cam to           #
Wynchaster,
and had money as money as cam to mett them, and durge and
masse at evere logyng. 

<S SAMPLE 3>
<P 196> 
   The xxviij day of Aprell ther was a man sett on the pelere 
[{for{] lewd wordes and slanderers wordes.  
   The xxv day of April, was sant Markes day, the Quen[{('s){]  #
grace 
supt at Beynard castyll at my lord of Penproke[{('s){]          #
p[{lace,{] and 
after supper the Quen[{('s){] grace rowed up and downe Temes,   #
and 
[{a{] C. bottes at bowte here grace, with trumpettes and        #
drumes and 
flutes and gones, and sqwybes horlyng on he to and fro, tyll x  #
at 
nyght, or her grace depertyd, and all the water-syd st ...      #
with 
a M. pepull lokyng one here grace.  
   The furst day of May ther was ij pennys was dekyd with 
stremars, baners, and flages, and trumpetes and drumes and      #
gones, 
gahyng a Mayng, and a-ganst the Quen[{('s){] plasse at          #
Westmynster, 
and ther they shott and thruw eges and oregns on a-gaynst 
a-nodur, and with sqwybes, and by chanse on fell on a bage of 
gune-powdur and sett dyvers men a'fyre, and so the men drue to 
on syd of the penus, and yt dyd over-swelmed the pennus, and 
mony fell in the Temes, butt, thanke be God, ther was but on 
man drownyd, and a C. bottes abowtt here, and the               #
Quen[{('s){] 
grace and her lordes and lades lokyng out of wyndows; thys was 
done by ix of the cloke on May evyn last. 
  The xxix day of Aprell at Dowgatt in London ther was a mayd 
dwelling with master Cotyngham, on of the quen[{('s){] pulters; #
the 
mayd putt in-to a pott of [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] serten     #
powyssun and browth 
them unto her mastores, and to iiij of her servandes, and they  #
dyd 
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ett them; and as sone as they had ett them thay be-gane to      #
swell 
and to vomett peteusle; and ther cam a good woman causyd to 
be feychyd serten dolle of salett owylle to drynke, and thanke 
be to God they be-gayne to mend and never one ded of ytt.  
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
and servandes, and ther herers nayled to the pe[{llory,{] . .   #
was 
thes ij persunes have dullysly gyffen poyssun [{to their{]      #
mastores 
and ther howshold, and ether of them ij handes cute off.  
   The x day of May the parlement was endyd, [{and the{]        #
Quen[{('s){] 
grace whent to the parliament howsse.  
   The xj day of May the sam fellow and the [{maid{] was sett   #
on 
the pelere a-gayne, and ther thodur handes cut off for the sam 
offens.  
   The xij day of May be-gane the Englys [{service{] in the     #
quen[{('s){] 
chapell.  
   The xv day of May dyd pryche at Powlles [{cross{] master 
Gryndalle, and ther was the quens consell, the duke of          #
Norfoke, 
my lord keper of the seylle, and my lord of Arundell, my lord 
treysorer, my lord marques of Northamtun, my lord admerall, my 
lord of Sussex, my lord of Westmorland, my lord of Rutland,     #
and 
mony mo lordes and knyghtes, my lord mare and the althermen; 
and after sermon done they whent to my lord mayre to dener, 
and my lord Russell.         
   The xxj day of May dyd pryche at Powlles crosse master
Horne, and ther was my lord mayre and the althermen and mony
juges and sergantes of the law, and a grett nombur of pepull    #
to the
nombur [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^]
   The xxiij day of May cam from be-yonde the see out of        #
France 
and landyd at Towr-warff, and cam thrugh London, and unto my
lord bysshope of London docthur Benard, monser Memeranse
ij sunes, and . . . unto ys palles to ly; and mony              #
lord[{(s){]
and nobull men browth them to their logying.
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 . . . . . . . . . . . .
 . . attes and mony mo for serten Frenche-men.
   The xxiiij day of May the inbassadurs the Frenche [{were{]
browth from the byshope[{('s){] palles by land thrugh
Flet-street
[{unto{] the quen's pales to soper, by the most nobull men ther
was a-bowt the cowrt, and ther was the hall and the [{privy{]
chambur and the grett chambur of pressens hangyd with ryche 
clothes of arres, as ever was sene, and the cloth [{of{] state  #
boyth
hall and grett chamburs, and they had as [{great{] chere at     #
soper,
and after a bankett as goodly as has be[{en seen,{] with all    #
maner
musyke tyll mydnyght, for they wher [\unfinished\]
   The xxv day they wher browt to the cowrt with musyke to
dener, for ther was gret cher; and after dener to b[{ear{] and  #
bull
baytyng, and the Quen[{('s){] grace and the embassadurs stod in #
the
galere lokyng of the pastym tyll vj at nyght; and after they    #
whent
by water unto Powll wharff, and landyd, and contenent unto ther
logyng to the byshope of London[{('s){] to soper, for ther wher #
gorgyus
aparell as has bene sen in thes days.
   The xxvj day of May they whent from the byshope[{('s){]      #
howsse to 
Powlles warff, and toke barge, and so to Parys garden, for ther
was boyth bare and bull baytyng, and the capten with a C. of
the gard to kepe rowm for them to see the baytyng.
   The sam day was a proclamassyon of v of the actes; on was
for [\unfinished\]
   The thursday the xxv day of May master John Whyt altherman
and grocer ys chyld was cristened in lytyll sant Barthelmuw
be-syd sant Antonys; thes wher the god-fathers' names, my lord 
marques of Wynchester now lord tresorer of England, and my
lord byshope of Wynchester docthur Whytt, and the god-moder
my lade Laxtun, lat the wyffe of ser Wylliam Laxtun latt mare
of London and grocer; and after ther was waferers and epocras
grett plente; and after they whent home to the plasse, with the
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chyld nam[{(ed){] John Whytt; the wyche wyff was master Raff
Grenway altherman and grocer of London wyff.
   [{The xxviij day of May . . . . . . . . . . . . .
bisho{]pryke of yt by quen Mare, [{for that he had{] a wyff,    #
and
odur maters that he was fayn to . . .
   The sam day the inbassadurs of France whent [{away,{] and
toke barge toward Grayffhend and they had . . . . gyftes
gyffyne them, and they cared money mastiffs [{with{] them for   #
the
wolf, and [\unfinished\]
   The xxj day of May was bered at sant [{Andrew's{] in the
Warderobe mastores Boswell, the wyff [{of . . .{] Boswell
clarke of the wardes, with ij whytt branchys . . , the wyche    #
she
ded with chyld, and a dosen and [\unfinished\]
   The xxx day of May was mared in the parryche of sant         #
Andrews 
in the Warderobe, master Mathuw, draper, unto the dowther
of master Wylliam Blakwell, towne-clarke of [{London?{] the
mornyng; and they wher mared in Laten, and masse, and after 
masse they had a bryd cupe and waffers and epocras and          #
muskadyll 
plente to hevere body; and after unto master Blakwell[{('s){]
plasse to bryke-fast, and after a grett dener.
   The ij day of Juin was bered at lytyll sant Baythelmuw my 
lade Barnes, the wyff of ser George Barnes, knyght, and late
mare of London; and she gayff to pore men and powre women
good rosett gownes a [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] , and she       #
gayffe to the powre men
and women of Calles [^A BLANK IN THE EDITION^] a-pesse, and she #
gayff a C. blake
gownes and cottes; and ther she had penon of armes, and master
Clarenshux kyng of armes, and ther was a xx clarkes syngyng
afor her to the chyrche with blake and armes; and after master
Horne mad a sermon, and after the clarkes song (\Te Dewn 
laudamus\) in Englys, and after bered with a songe, and a-for   #
songe
the Englys pressessyon, and after to the place to dener; ser
Wylliam Garrett cheyff morner, and master Altham and master
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Chamburlayn, and her sunes and doythurs; ther was a nobull
dener.
   [{The vj day of June saint George's feast was kept at        #
Windsor;{]
the yerle of Pembroke was the [{Queen's substitute,{] lord      #
Montycutt 
and my lord of . . . . ; ther was stallyd at that tyme
the duke of [{Norfolk{] , my lord marques of Northamtun, and    #
the
yerle of [{Rutland{] , and my lord Robart Dudley the master of  #
the
quen[{('s){] horse, nuw mad knyghtes of the Garter, and ther    #
was gret
[{feasting{] ther, and ther be-gane the comunion that day and
Englys.
   The xxix day of May was depreved of ys byshopepryke of
London doctur Boner, and in ys plasse master Gryndall; and
[{Nowell{] electyd dene of Powlles, and the old dene depreved,  #
master
[{Cole{] .
   The xj day of June dyd pryche at Powlles master [{Sandys{] ,
and ther was my lorde mayre and the althermen, and my lord of
Bedford, and with dyvers odur nobull men; and postulles masse
mad an end that day, and masse a' Powlles was non that day, and
the new dene toke possessyon that was afore, by my lord of      #
Bedford,
and thys was on sant Barnabe day; and the sam nyght
thay had no evyng-song at Powlles.
   The sam nyght abowtt viij of the cloke at nyght the          #
Quen[{('s){]
grace toke her barge at Whyt hall, and mony mo barges, and rod
a-longe by the banke-syd by my lord of Wynchaster[{('s){]       #
place, and
so to Peper alley, and so crost over to London syd with drumes
and trumpetes playhyng ard be-syd, and so to Whyt hall agayne
to her palles.
   The xviij day of June dyd pryche at Powlles crosse docthur
Juell, and ther was my lord mare and the althermen and master
comtroller of the quens howse ser Edward Rogers, and mony mo,
boyth men and women.
   The xxj day of June was v bysshopes deprevyd, the bysshope
of Lychfeld and Coventre, and the bysshope of Carley, the
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bysshope of Westchester, the bysshope of Landaffh, and the
bysshope of ... [^NO TEXT SUPPLIED BY THE EDITOR^] .
   The xxiij day of June was electyd vj nuw byshopes, com from 
beyond the see, master Parker bysshope of Canturbere, master
Gryndall bysshope of London, docthur Score bysshope of          #
Harfford,
Barlow Chechastur, doctur Bylle of Salysbere, doctur Cokes
[{(of){] Norwyche.  



