Robert Basing: William Mazaliuer, the 28. of September.
Gregory Rokesley, the 28. of October.
Where as before this time, the peny was wont to haue a double crosse, with a creast, in suche sorte that the same might be easily broken in the midst, or into four quarters, and so to be made into halfe pence, or farthings, it was now ordeyned that pence, halfepence and farthings shoulde be made rounde, wherevpon was made these Uerses follo∣wing.
Edward did smite round peny, halfepeny farthing,
The crosse passes the bond of all throughout the ring.
The Kings side was his head, and his name written,
The crosse side, what Citie it was in, coyned and smitten.
To poore man, ne to priest, the peny frayses nothing,
Men giue God aye the least, they feast him with a farthing.
A thousand two hundred, fourescore yeares and mo,
On this money men wondred, when it first began to go.
At this time, twentie pence wayed an ounce of Troy weight, whereby the peny, halfepeny, and farthing, were of good quantitie.
Thomas Boxe: Ralph de Lamere, the 28. of September.
Gregory Rokesley, the 28 of October.
Dauid, the brother of Lewlin Prince of Wales, rose against the King, and in the night season brake into the house of Roger Clifford, when he was in his bed a sléepe, on Easter day at night, and sent him fettered in yrons as a théefe vnto Snowdon, to his brother Lewlin. He also rased and laid flatte on the grounde, the Castell of Flint belonging to the King.
William Farrendon: Nicholas Wi••ichester, the 28. of Sep.
Gregory Rokesley, the 28. of October.
From Christmas, till the purification of our Lady, there was such great Frost and Snow, as the olde men could not remember the like, wherethrough, fiue arches of London Bridge, and all Rochester Bridge was borne downe, and caryed away, with many Bridges more. Men passed