was dyvers lordes and gret men of the ines,[1] and laye at the kynges place in Sothewarke.
Item the ix. day of the same monyth beganne the gret sykenes callyd the swetth,[2] that there dyde a grett multitude of pepull sodenly thorrow alle London and thorrow the most parte of alle Ynglonde. And that same day was the proclamacion for testornes at ixd. And the vitelles as dere after as it was before and worser, that the pepull cryde owte of it in every place thorrow alle the realme.
And the xxvij. day of the same monyth the byshoppe of Wynchester that was than (John Ponet[3]) was devorsyd from hys wyffe in Powlles, the whyche was a bucheres wyff of Nottynggam, and gave hare husbande a sartyne mony a yere dureynge hys lyffe as it was jugydde by the lawe.
Item the last day of July (and) the furst of August rydde in a cartte a tayler of Fletstret and hys syster rydde in a carte abowte London, and bothe ther heddes shavynne, for avouttre, that he had ij. childerne by harre, and the iijde day was bannyshyd the citte bothe; but he wolde have gevyne moch to a be scowsyd,[4] but it wold not be tane.
Item the xvij. day of August was a proclamacion at vj. a cloke in the mornynge for the qwyne of testornes of ixd. unto vjd., and grottes unto ijd., and ijd. unto jd., and jd. unto a ob., and ob. unto q.; and it the vitolles [were dearer] than the ware before.[5]
- ↑ The inns of court. Apparently some eminent legal personages were appointed to wait on the ambassadors.
- ↑ I have collected some particulars of this epidemic in a note to Machyn's Diary, p. 319. In addition to the two examples there given of its bearing the cant name of Stopgallant, the following entry from the register of Loughborough in Leicestershire may be added: "1551, June. The swat called New acquaintance, alias Stoupe Knave and know thy Master, began on the 24th of this month."
- ↑ The name is left blank in the manuscript. This passage is remarkable as a fuller statement of the same matter of which a brief notice occurs in Machyn's Diary, p. 8, and which was only assigned by strong presumption to bishop Ponet. See the note, ibid. p. 320.
- ↑ excused.
- ↑ i.e. and yet victuals were dearer than they were before.
