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. 5.

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• [date 2563] Sir Iohn White grocer

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• Edward Bāks
• Rouland Hai∣warde

This Maior kept no Maiors feast at* 1.1 y^• Guyld hall, as it had ben accustomed before time: Also he toke his othe at the vttermost gate of the tower of Lōdon.

This yeare thanks be geuen to God was a peaceable yeare, and the plague of pestilence wel ceassed in London: neuerthelesse for feare therof, Hillarye terme was kept at Hertford castell, be syde Ware.* 1.2

The .xxiii. day of Apryll was a ioy∣full peace proclaimed with the sounde of trompettes betwene Englande and Fraunce.* 1.3

This yeare through the earnest suite of the arinorers, there was on the Di∣gile of Sainct Peter, a watche in the Citie of London, whiche dyd onely stand in the hyghest stretes of Cheape, of Cornhyll, and so foorthe towardes Algate: whiche was to the commons of the same citie (for the moste parte)

〈◊〉〈◊〉 chargeable 〈◊〉〈◊〉 when in times paste, it was most cōmendably done, wher••s this being to very smal purpose, was of as smal a number w••l ••iked.

The second day of October in the a•• te•• ho•••••••• was a solem••ne obsequi•• kept at sainct Paules churche in Lon∣don, for F••rdinando the Emperor, late beyng departed out of this mortal life, and lyke wyse the moro••••next after 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the for••none.

Notes

• * 1.1

  No Ma∣iors feast.
• * 1.2

  An. reg. 6.
• * 1.3

  Watche on S. Peters euen at Lōdon.