that stode in Powlles church-yerde;[1] and sir Raffe Vane, theys too ware hongyd. Also sir Myhyll Stonnappe and sir Thomas Arndelle, theys too ware beheddyd at that same tyme. And theis iiij. knyghttes confessyd that they ware bever gylté for soche thynges as was layd unto their charge, and dyde in that same oppinion.
The daye before endyd the parlament.
Item the xvj. day of Aprill was Easter evyn, and that day rydde a woman in a carte abowte London that dwelte in Aldersgate strete that made aqwavyte,[2] for cardynge of hare mayde wyth a payer of carddes soche as doth carde wolle with-alle[3] and was sende unto warde agayne.
Item wher as it hath of an olde costome that there shulde be three sermons in Ester weke, this yere was a commandment that there shulde be but ij. and that the wedynsday shuld not be kepte holy day.
Item also wher as it hathe bene of ane olde costome that sent Gorge shoulde be kepte holy day thorrow alle Englond, the byshoppe of London commandyd that it shulde not be kepte, and no more it was not.
Item lyke-wyse at Wytsontyde was but ij. sermons; they ware lyke-wyse at the crosse, and he that prechyd the sonday prechyd the ij. other, and but ij. dayes kepte holy days.
Item on Wytsone evyne it raynyd in dyvers places in London that it was sene lyynge in dyvers places on the erbbes[4] as redde as wyne.
- ↑ "Neere unto this schoole (St. Paul's) on the north side thereof, was (of old time) a great and high Clochier or Bell-house, foure-square, builded of stone, and in the same a most strong frame of timber, with foure bells, the greatest that I have heard; these were called Jesus' bells, and belonged to Jesus' Chappell, but I know not by whose gifte. The same had a great spire of timber covered with lead, with the image of Saint Paul on the top, but was pulled down by sir Miles Patridge knight, in the reigne of Henry the Eighth. The common speech was, that hee did set one hundred pounds upon a cast at dice against it, and so wonne the said clochier and bells of the king, and them causing the bells to be broken as they hung, the rest was pulled downe."—Stowe's Survay.
- ↑ aqua vitæ.
- ↑ See another account of this cruel mistress in Machyn, p. 17.
- ↑ herbs, or grass.
