Item the iiij. day of June was tane downe alle the gallos within London.
Item the x. daye of June was sonday and theme was a goonne shotte nere Powlles cherch-yerd that the pellyt came nere the precher's face that preched at Powlles crosses.[1]
Item the xxij. day of June was a proclamacion made for shottynge wyth hand-gonnes and berynge of weppons.
Item the furst day of July was . . . . and whereas there was in the parich of sent Gregory's one John Hylle a cutler [that was] obstenatt that wolde not beleve in the blyssyd sacrament of the alter, nor it (sc. yet) tylle the [n ha]d not resevyd it; but he was conventyd be-fore hys ordenary the dene of Powlles [that] was at that tyme doctor Facname,[2] and soo revokyd hys opynyone opynly before all the pariche, and askyd them mercy and foryefnes for his evylle insampulle, and prayd them to pray for hym, and then and there he reservyd the sacrament opynly befor them alle.
Item the . . day of the same monyth, wher as ther was a mayd that spake in a walle[3] in a howse [in] Aldersgat stret stode at the Powlles crosse before the precher doctor Wymbsle[4] archedekon of [Middlesex], and there shoyd alle the hole matter and asked God mercy and the quene, and alle the pepulle, for ar evy[ll] insampulle. And the xviij. day of the same monyth stode a man on the pyllery for the same matter, with a paper and a scryptor on hys hed, that was consentynge there-to.
Item the x[ix] day of the same monyth the prince of Spayne came in at Hamtone, and there was goodly resevyd.[5] And the
- ↑ Compare with Machyn, p. 65.
- ↑ John Feckenham.
- ↑ Of this imposture see Machyn's Diary, pp. 66, 339; and Tytler, ii. 340.
- ↑ John Wymmesley, or Wymunsley, one of the natural sons of George Savage, priest, and consequently a natural brother of bishop Bonner. He was archedeacon of London from Oct. 1543 to April 1554, and then archedeacon of Middlesex until his death in Oct. 1556. See Newcourt, Report. Londinense, i. pp.63, 81, 211.
- ↑ Full particulars of the reception and marriage of king Philip will be found in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary.
