London was dyvers that denyed many of the artycles, as doctor Weston, with dyvers other, as it shalle shoo after.
Item the furst day of June was sett up at the standerde in Cheppe a pyller[1] new made of a good lengthe from the grownde, and too yonge servanddes tayed un-to yt with a chayne that thee myght goo abowte it, and to bettyn with roddles soore on their backes for because they had too wenches in-to their maste's howse; and on the morrw after, wyche was the sonday, and then was too other in the same case bettyn at the same pyller, and so as many as plesyd the mayer after-warde, &c.
Item this yere the mayer dyd put in execucion the acte for the hyghth of pentoseese[2] thorrow all London.
Item the ijde day of July prechyd doctor Hodskyne[3] that was some tyme suffecane of London, and dyd nether pray for lady Mary's grace nor it (sc. yet) for lady Elizabeth; and the nexte sonday after prechyd the byshoppe of London, Nicolas Reddesle, and there callyd bothe the sayd ladys bastarddes, that alle the pepull was sore anoyd with hys worddes, soo uncherytabulle spokyne by hym in soo opyne ane awdiens.
Item the vj. day of July dyde kyng Edward the vj. at Grenewyche, as they say, and some say he was powsynd, as it shalle apere ar-after.
Jana Regina.
Item the x. day of the same monythe after vij. a clocke at nyght was made a proclamacyon at the crosse in Chepe by iij. harraldes and one trompet with the kynges shreffe of London master Garrard
- ↑ See constant instances of the use of this pillar in Machy's Diary; and on one occasion (p.109) it is called "the post of reformation." From the obscure orthography both of that and this chronicler it is liable sometimes to be confounded with the pillory—an instrument of punishment apparently of the same original etymology.
- ↑ Penthouses: noticed also by Machyn, p.35.
- ↑ John Hodgeskynne, suffragan bishop of Bedford: see Newcourt, Repertorium Londinense, i. 153.
