The summarie of English chronicles (lately collected and published) nowe abridged and continued tyl this present moneth of Marche, in the yere of our Lord God. 1566. By J.S.
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The summarie of English chronicles (lately collected and published) nowe abridged and continued tyl this present moneth of Marche, in the yere of our Lord God. 1566. By J.S.
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Stow, John, 1525?-1605.
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Imprinted at London :: in Fletestrete by Thomas Marshe,
[1566]
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Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Early works to 1800.
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Anno. 24.
[date 1349] Walter Turke
fyshmonger
S
Adam Bu∣rye
Rafe Lynne
The King caused to be voyned gro∣tes and halfe grotes, the whych lacked* 1.1 of the weyght of his former coyn .ii. •• vi. d. of a pound troy. And about y• end of August ceased the death in London,
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which was so vehemēt and sharp, that ouer the bodies buryed in churches and churchyardes, monasteries, and o∣ther accustomed burying places, was buried in the Charter house yarde of* 1.2 London. I. M. persons. And also ma∣ny persons of good credite yet liuinge in the citie of Lōdon affirme that they haue redde the lyke, written on a plate of laton, fastned on a crosse of stone in the same Charter house churcheyarde: and also to haue seene recorded in one olde Booke of the sayd Charter house, that at that tyme the sayde mortalitis was so great, that there remayned not the tenth person alyue throughout the realme.