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.

Anno. 3.

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• Sir Wil. Harper mar. ta••.

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• [date] Humf. Basker∣uile
• Alexā. Auenon

The .xv. day of Nouember, the que∣nes maiestie published a proclamation wherin her grace restored to the realme diuers smal peces of siluer money, as the pece of .vi. d .iiii. d .iii. d .ii. d. & .i. d. thre halfpeny, & thre farthynges. And also forbad all maner of forain coynes to be currant within the same realme: as well gold as syluer, except two sor¦tes of crownes of golde, whereof the one was the frenche crowne, and the other a flemmyshe crowne.

This fourthe yeare in England wer* 1.1 many monstrous byrths, as in March a mare brought foorth a foale with one body being in good proportion, & two heads, hauing as it were a longe tayle growing out right like a horn betwen the same two heades. Also a s••w farro∣wed a pig with .4. legs like vnto y^• a••¦mes of a mā child with handes & fin∣gers disfigured. &c. In April a sow fa•• ••owed a pig y^• had 2. bodies .8. sete, bu••

one head many calues & lambes wer•• monstrous, and one calf had a coller of skinne growing about the necke, lyke to a double ruffe, whiche to the behol∣ders semed strange and wonderfull.

The. 20. day of May a monsterous* 1.2 chyld was born at Chichester in Sus∣sex. The head armes & legs like vnto an anotomy, the breast, and belye very monstrous byg, from the nauill, as it were a long string hanging: about the necke a great coller of fleshe and skyn growing like the ruffes of a shirte or neckerchief comminge vp about the eares pleyting or folding. &c.

This yere the Quenes Maiestie in September, addressed a band of her sub¦iectes to the towne of Newhauen in Normandye: who were embarked at Portismouth, because y^t hauen is moste apte for transportation to that place, Vpon whose arriuall the townes men* 1.3 & inhabitantes ioyfully surrendred thē selues and the town into the possession of the Quenes maiestie, whiche was kept by Englishmen from September 1562. to the. 29. day of July then nexte folowinge, whiche was in the yeare 1563. the gouernoure of whiche bande was the righte honorable the Earle of

Warwike, who with the capitaynes seruinge there (whiche were of greate experience) and souldiours trayned by them to knowledge of seruice, toge∣thet with parte of the olde approued garrison of Barwike, dyd at that time bothe manfullye defende the piece, and valeauntly encountered by sun∣drye skyrmishes and conflictes with the countie Ringraue and hys bande, the moste parte wherof, wher happely atchiued, to the great ouerthrow of the aduersaries parte, and singuler com∣mendations of oures.

Notes

• * 1.1

  An. reg. 4▪ M••strous byrthes.
• * 1.2

  A monstros child
• * 1.3

  New hauē