Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen

Anno domini .M.CC.lxxxiiii.		Anno dn̄i. M.CC.lxxxv.
	Stephen Corn̄hyll.
Gregory Rokesle.		Anno .xiii.
	Robert Rokesby.

IN thys .xiii. yere vpon the day of the conuersiō of saynt Pau¦le or y^e .xxv. day of Ianuarii / y^e kynge ceased the fraunchese and lybertyes into hys handes, and discharged the mayre of London thā beyng Grego∣ry Rokkisle / & admytted for custos or gardeyn of the cytye Stephā Sā¦dewyche. The whyche contynued in that offyce tyll the mōday folowyng the puryfycacyon of our Lady. At whyche season the sayd Stephā was dyscharged / and syr Iohn̄ Breton̄ knyght charged for the resydue of y^e yere. The cause of thys dyspleasure that the kyng had vnto the cytye is nat shewed of no certaynte. But in an olde panflete it appereth, that the sayd Gregory Rokkisley toke cer∣tayne brybes of the bakers, and suf∣fered them to sell brede lackynge .vi. vnces / or .vii. oz in a peny lofe, for y^e whyche the kynge shuld be sore dys∣pleased. But yet to me it semeth no conuenyent cause, to sease the lyber∣tyes of the cytie for the offence of one man. wherfore it is to presuppose, y^t it was for a more greuous cause. And in this yere was fully fynisshed and ended the new werke of y^e chyrch of westmynster vnto the ende of the quere, begonne as before is shewed / in the thyrde yere of the .iii. Hēry. By whyche reason it shuld apere, y^t thys chyrche shuld be in edyfyenge vpon lxvi. yeres. Of the fyrste fundacyon of thys chyrche are dyuers opiniōs. For as before is shewed in y^e thyrde Chapytre of the story of Carce, and v. parte of thys werke / thys chyrche was fyrste founded by a cytezeyne of Londō, and after reedyfyed by saynt Edwarde, and lastly by kynge Hēry the .iii. But in the same abbey of west mynster, where of lykelyhode y^e most certaynte is to be had / it is regystred that thys sayd chyrche was a temple of the Brytons longe or they recey∣ued the fayth of Chryste. And in the tyme of theyr crysten kynge Lucius, it was hallowed of Augustyne & hys felowes. And secundaryly it was re∣edyfyed by Sebertus than kynge of Estsaxons or Essex, aboute the tyme whan Ethelbert kyng of Kent buyl∣ded saynt Paules chyrch of Londō. whyche was after the tyme that Lu∣cyus receyued the fayth of Chryste, vppon .iiii.C. yeres. Than thyrdly it was buylded by saynt Edwarde the

confessoure / whiche reygned vpon CCCC. and .xl. yeres after the sayde Sebertus. And fourthly or lastly by the foresayd Henry y^e thyrde, whiche began his reygne after the dethe of saynt Edwarde .C.l. yeres.

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