| Anno dn̄i. M.iiii.C.lxviii. | Anno dn̄i. M.iiii.C.lxix. | |
| Symonde Smyth. | ||
| wyllyam Taylour Grocer. | Anno .viii. | |
| wyllyam Haryot. |
THys yere and .xxi. day of Nouē¦bre / a seruaunt of the dukes of Exceter named Rychard Ste∣rys, after hys iugement was drawen thorugh the citie vnto the towre hyl, and there parted in two pesys / that is the hede from the body. And vpon the daye folowynge / two persones beyng named the one Poynys & that other Alforde, were drawē west ward to tyborne / and there whā they shuld haue ben hanged, there chartours were shewed and so preserued.
And about thys season or soon af¦ter / was the erle of Oxenford, which before tyme was taken by a surmyse in ielosy of treason awayted for and after deliuered. In the latter ende of this mayres yere, & .ix. yere of ye king / the marchauntes eesterlynges were condempned vnto the marchauntes auenturers Englyssh, after longe & sumptuous exspences in the lawe & before the kynges counsayll / in .xiii.M.v.C. and .xx.li. whereof the pay∣ment was kept secret frome wryters.
In thys yere the dyssymuled fa∣uoure, whiche betwene the kyng and the erle of warwyke had styll conty∣nued syne the maryage of the quene, beganne to appere / in so moche that the erle wythdrewe hym frome the kynge, and confedered vnto hym the duke of Clarence that before hadde maryed hys doughter.
whereupon the commons of the north beganne to rebell, and chase theym a capytayne, whome they had named Robyn of Ryddysdale. The whyche dyd many feates / and lastly bare hym so wysely, that he & hys cō∣pany were pardoned of the kyng. In the which rumour and styrryng / the lord Ryuers, and syr Iohn̄ hys sonn̄, that before had maryed the old duchesse of Northfolke, lyenge at a place by Charynge crosse called the Muys, were taken by Lyncoln̄shyre men and brought vnto Northamtō, and there beheded.