A chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483; written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British museum: to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis.
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A chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483; written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British museum: to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis.
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London,: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green [etc.]
1827.
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"A chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483; written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from mss. in the British museum: to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00006. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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[Custodes.]—Normane Bloundene. John of Ely.
Anno iiijto.
In this yere of oure lord a ml'ccij, there fallen grete reynes, [Hailstones grete:] and hailstones as gret as an ey medlyd with reyn, where thorugh trees, vines, cornes, al manner frutes were moche distroied; and the peple were sore abaysshed, for there were seyn foules fleynge [and foules were seyn berynge fyer in the eyr in there billes.] in the eyre berynge in there billes brennyng coles, whiche brenden manye houses. And in this yere Engelond and Walys were enterdited, and stood so vj yere and more, for the kynges trespas.
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