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. 36.

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  • William Laxton Grocer
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  • Iohn Wilforde
  • [date 1544] Andrewe Iudde.

This yere was taken by the kinges shippes of the west countrey, and of the English coast, the number of. 300. fren¦che shippes, and more.

The vii. day of Iune a gret army of Frenchmen came nere to the hauen of Boloigne, and skirished with the en∣glishmen:

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and this army beganne to builde a fort, which before they depar∣ted they accomplished.

Worde was brought that the french menne entended to lande in the Isle of Wighte. Wherfore the kinge wente to Portsmouthe. At whiche tyme of the kinges aboe there, a goodly shippe of Englande called the Mary Rose, with syr George Care we the capitaine, and many other gentilmen, were drowned in the middest of the hauen, by greate negligence and foly.

Certayne frenchemen landed in the Isle of Wighte, but they were dryuen awaye with the losse of theyr captayn and many souldiours.

In August the lorde Edward Sey∣mor Earle of Hertford was sent by the king into Scotland, with an army of xii. thousand men, where he destroyed diuers townes, and greately endoma∣ged the Scottes.

This yere the .xii. day of Septem∣ber the Churche of sainte Gyles with∣out Creplegate was brent.

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