A view of all the right honourable the Lord Mayors of this honorable citty of London. With the personages, and also such chiefe occasions as happened in euery seuerall mayors time, as also their charitable gifts are set downe, and the places of their burials. Beginning at the first yeare of her maiesties happy raigne, and continued vnto this present yeare 1601. by W.I. of London printer.

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A view of all the right honourable the Lord Mayors of this honorable citty of London. With the personages, and also such chiefe occasions as happened in euery seuerall mayors time, as also their charitable gifts are set downe, and the places of their burials. Beginning at the first yeare of her maiesties happy raigne, and continued vnto this present yeare 1601. by W.I. of London printer.
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Jaggard, William, 1569-1623.
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Printed at London :: [By William Jaggard?] for William Iaggard and Thomas Pauyer and are to be sold at his house in Cornhill, at the signe of the Cat and two Parats,
1601.
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London (England) -- Officials and employees -- Early works to 1800.
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"A view of all the right honourable the Lord Mayors of this honorable citty of London. With the personages, and also such chiefe occasions as happened in euery seuerall mayors time, as also their charitable gifts are set downe, and the places of their burials. Beginning at the first yeare of her maiesties happy raigne, and continued vnto this present yeare 1601. by W.I. of London printer." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04223.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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An. reg. 39. Sir Tho. Skinner Clothwor. 1596

THis sir Thomas Skinner being chosen Mayor for this yeare, and seeing the great distresse of breadcorne to grow so vnmercifull deare, that the faces of the poore did manifest their want, this Mayor in a feeling compassion, pitty and care, prouided that breadcorne shoulde bee brought from Danske, and other the East countries by our Merchants, who had freely giuen them both custome & stowage, and also to make their owne price, so that his great care brought with it this good, that corne was to be had for money. In this yeare was great triumphe for the preseruation of her Maiesty. He liued but a while in his honor, and died the 30 of Decem. and lies buried in Milkestreat. He was of a stout stomach, very mer∣cifull and vpright and whose death was much bewayled of the poore.

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