Chapter XXIV: Book I: , fo. 103b. In 1417 the mayor and aldermen ordained that the (1)

rector of St. Peter's for the time being should in future take
precedence of the rectors of all other city churches, on the ground
that Saint Peter's was the first church founded in the city of
London, having been built in 199 by King Lucius, and for 400 years
or more held the metropolitan chair.--Letter Book I, fo. 203.
(Memorials, pp. 651-653.) _Cf._ Journal 1, fo. 21b.

M397 Further proceedings against Oldcastle and the Lollards, 1413.

750 "Eminentissima turris Ecclesiae Anglicanae et pugil invictus Dominus
Thomas de Arundelia."--Hist. Angl. ii, 300.

M398 Meeting of Lollards in St. Giles' Fields, 12 Jan., 1414.

751 A certain William Fyssher, a _parchemyner_ or parchment-maker of
London, was afterwards (1416) convicted of assisting in Oldcastle's
escape, and was executed at Tyburn.--Letter Book I, fo. 181b.
(Memorials, p. 641.)

752 Walsingham, ii, 292-299; Fasc. Zizan. (Rolls Series No. 5), 433-449;
Chron. of London (ed. by Sir H. Nicolas), p. 97.

753 Letter Book I, fos. 286-290.

M399 The last Statute against the Lollards, 1414.

754 2 Hen. V. Stat. i, c. 7.

755 It was not, however, the last occasion upon which parliamentary
action was attempted. In 1422, and again in 1425, the Lollards were
formidable in London, and parliament on both occasions ordered that
those who were in prison should be delivered at once to the
Ordinary, in accordance with the provisions of this Statute.--Stubbs,
Const. Hist., iii, 81, 363.

M400 The king's offer of pardon refused by Oldcastle, 1415.

756 Letter Book I, fo. 147.

757 Walsingham, ii, 306, 307.

M401 Trial and execution of Cleydon, a Lollard, 1415.

758 Hist. Angl., ii, 307.

759 Letter Book I, fol. 154.

760 See letter from the mayor to the king, giving an account of
Cleydon's trial, 22nd August, 1415.--Letter Book I, fo. 155.
(Memorials, p. 617). Foxe, "Acts and Monuments," iii, 531-534.

M402 Oldcastle taken and executed, 1417.

761 Walsingham, ii, 327, 328.

762 Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 46; Chron. of London
(Nicolas), p. 106.

763 Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii., 363, 364.

M403 Preparations for the invasion of France, 1414-1415. M404 A question of precedence in the city.

764 Letter Book I, fo. 150. This "very antient memorandum" of the Lord
Mayor's precedence in the City was submitted to Charles II in 1670,
when that monarch insisted upon Sir Richard Ford, the Lord Mayor of
the day, giving "the hand and the place" to the Prince of Orange
(afterwards William III of England), on the occasion of the prince
being entertained by the City.--Repertory, 76, fos. 28b, 29.

765 Letter Book I, fo. 158b. (Memorials, p. 613).

766 -_Id._, fo. 157.

M405 The king takes leave of the citizens on Blackheath, June, 1415.

767 Gregory's Chron. (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 17), pp. 108-109. Gregory was
an alderman of the City, and an eye-witness of much that he relates.

768 Letter dated 2nd August--the day on which Sir Thomas Grey, one of the
chief conspiritors was executed.--Letter Book I, fo. 180.

M406 The capture of Harfleur, 18 Sept., 1415.

769 Letter Book I, fo. 143. (Memorials, p. 619).

M407 Volunteers for service in France required, Oct., 1415. M408 Citizens invited to reside in Harfleur.

770 Letter Book I, fo. 177.

M409 Joy in the city at the news of the battle of Agincourt, Oct., 1415. M410 The citizens welcome the king on his return from France.

771 Letter Book I, fo. 159. (Memorials, pp. 620, 622).

772 "Quali gaudio, quali tripudio, quali denique triumpho, sit acceptus
a Londoniensibus, dicere praetermitto. Quia revera curiositas
apparatumn, nimietas expensarum, varietates spectaculorum, tractatus
exigerent merito speciales."--Walsingham, ii, 314.

773 Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 103.

M411 Preparations for another expedition, 1416-1417.

774 Letter Book I, fo. 178b. Other proclamations on the same subject are
recorded in the same place, most of which will be found in
"Memorials" (pp. 627-629).

775 Letter Book I, fo. 190b.

776 -_Id._, fos. 188, 188b.

M412 City loans, 1417.

777 Letter Book I, fo. 191b.

778 Letter Book I, fo. 218b. In May, 1419, the sword was surrendered,
and the security changed to one on wool, woolfells, &c.--_Id._, fo.
227b.

M413 Letter from the king to the City announcing his success, 9 Aug., 1417. M414 Another letter informing them of the capture of Caen, 5 Sept.

779 Letter Book I, fo. 229. (Memorials, p. 654.)

780 Journal 1, fo. 30b.

781 Letter Book I, fo. 200b. (Memorials, p. 657.)

782 Letter, dated Caen, 11 September.--Letter Book I, fo. 200b.

M415 Proclamation by the Duke of Bedford, 18 Oct. M416 Supplies granted by parliament, Dec, 1417.

783 Writ, dated 18th Oct.--Letter Book I, fo. 203.

784 Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii, 89.

785 Letter Book I, fo. 222.

M417 Henry's conquest of Normandy, 1417-1419.

786 Letter Book I, fos. 211b, 212b, 217. Proclamations made by the civic
authorities at this time were subscribed "Carpenter"--the name of the
Common Clerk or Town Clerk of the City. The custom of the Town Clerk
of London for the time being, signing official documents of this
kind with his surname alone, continues at the present day.

787 Letter Book I, fo. 215b.

788 Letter Book I, fo. 216. (Memorials, p. 664).

789 Letter Book I, fo. 216. On the 15th September the question of
payment to the brewers, wine drawers and turners of the cups was
considered.--Journal I, fo. 48. (Memorials, pp. 665, 666).

790 Gregory's Chron. (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 17), 1222.

791 Letter Book I, fos. 236, 236b.

M418 The king's letter to the City, 17 Aug., 1419.

792 Letter Book I, fo. 237. (Memorials, p. 674).

M419 The treaty of Troyes, 20 May. 1420.

793 -_Id._, fo. 241b.

794 Letter Book I, fo. 252.

795 Walsingham, ii, 335.

M420 The king's letter to the City, 12 July, 1420. M421 The mayor's reply, 2 Aug.

796 Letter Book I, fo. 263.

M422 The queen's coronation.

797 Letter Book I, fo. 259. According to Walsingham (ii, 336), the
ceremony took place on the _first_ Sunday in Lent.

798 Walsingham, ii, 336, 337.

M423 Henry's last expedition, and death, Aug., 1422.

799 Parliament voted a fifteenth and a tenth to assist the king in his
necessities; John Gedney, alderman, John Perneys, John Bacon,
grocer, and John Patesley, goldsmith, being appointed commissioners
to levy the same within the City.--Letter Book I, fo. 277b.

800 Letter Book K, fo. 1b.

M424 Rivalry between Bedford and Gloucester, 1422.

801 Letter Book I, fo. 282b.

802 Letter Book I, fo. 282b; Letter Book K, fo. 12.

803 Letter Book K, fo. 2.

804 Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii, 97.

M425 An expedition to start for France, 1 March, 1423.

805 Letter Book K, fos. 10, 10b.

M426 Sir John Mortimer.

806 -_Id._, fo. 15b.

M427 The debts of Henry IV.

807 Letter Book K, fos. 10-18.

M428 Gloucester and Beaufort, 1425-1428.

808 Chron. London (Nicolas), p. 114; Gregory's Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S.,
No. 17), p. 159; Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 64), pp. 53, 54.

809 See two letters from the mayor.--Letter Book K, fos. 18b, 21.

810 Gregory's Chron., p. 160.

M429 End of the quarrel between Gloucester and Beaufort.

811 -_Id._, p. 162.

M430 Gloucester loses the favour of the citizens.

812 Journal 2, fos. 22b, 64b (new pagination).

813 Letter Book K, fo. 50b.

M431 The siege of Orleans, 1428-1429.

814 Gregory's Chron., p. 161.

815 Letter Book K, fo. 55b.

M432 Famine in London, 1429.

816 Letter Book K, fos. 62, 63b; Gregory's Chron., p. 164.

M433 Beaufort joins Bedford in France.

817 Letter Book K, fo. 66b; Gregory's Chron., p. 164.

M434 Allowances made to those representing the City in parliament, 1429.

818 Letter Book K, fo. 68b. In 1443 the Common Council agreed to allow
the City members their reasonable expenses out of the chamber
(Journal 5, fo. 129b), but when parliament met at Coventry in 1459,
the City members were allowed 40_s._ a day, besides any
disbursements they might make in the City's honour (Journal 6, fo.
166b), and the same allowance was made in 1464, when parliament sat
at York (Journal 7, fos. 52, 54).

M435 The coronation of Henry VI, 6 Nov., 1429.

819 -_Id._, fo. 69b.

820 Gregory's Chron., pp. 164-168.

821 City Records, Liber Dunthorn, fo. 61b; Letter Book K, fo. 70.

822 Cal. of Wills, Court of Husting, London, ii, 509.

M436 Sets out for France, April, 1430. M437 And is crowned in Paris, Dec., 1431.

823 Letter Book K, fo. 84.

824 A long account of his entry into the French capital, and of the
pageantry in honour of the occasion, is set out in full in the
City's Records.--Letter Book K, fos. 101b-103.

M438 The citizens welcome him on his return, 1432. M439 The mayor and aldermen present him with a gift of L1,000.

825 A full descriptive account of Henry's reception on his return from
France is set out in the City Records (Letter Book K, fos.
103b-104b). It purports to be an account sent by John Carpenter, the
Town Clerk, to a friend, and has been printed at the end of the
_Liber Albus_ (Rolls Series); _Cf._ Gregory's Chron., pp. 173-175.

M440 Gloucester's attacks on Beaufort and Bedford, 1432-1433.

826 He informed the City of his intention by letter, dated from Ghent
the 13th April.--Letter Book K, fo. 105.

827 Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii, 114-117.

M441 Financial reform, 1433.

828 Letter Book K, fo. 137b.

829 Letter Book K, fo. 138.

M442 The death of Bedford, 14 Sept., 1435.

830 Gregory's Chron., p. 177.

M443 Calais appeals to London for assistance, 27 June, 1436.

831 Letter Book K, fo. 148.

832 "And that same yere (1437), the Mayre of London sende, by the good
a-vyse and consent of craftys, sent sowdyers to Calys, for hyt was
sayde that the Duke of Burgone lay sege unto Calis."--Gregory's
Chron. p. 178.

833 Letter Book K, fos. 160-162.

834 Gregory's Chron. p. 179.

M444 A tax imposed on aliens, 1439.

835 Letter Book K. fo. 183b. The tax was found to be so successful that
it was subsequently renewed. In 1453 it was renewed for the king's
life.--_Id._, fo. 280b.

M445 The penance of Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife, 1441.

836 Journal 3, fo. 103b.

837 Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 129.

M446 The king's charter to the City, 26 Oct., 1444.

838 The validity as well as the effect of this charter (which is
preserved in the Town Clerk's office) has been made the subject of
much controversy, some contending that it is in effect a grant of
the soil of the river from Staines to Yantlet, that being the extent
of the City's liberties on the Thames, whilst others restrict the
grant to the City's territorial limits, _i.e._, from Temple Bar to
the Tower.

839 Letter Book K, fo. 220b.

M447 Henry's marriage with Margaret of Anjou, 22 April, 1445.

840 Chron. of London (Nicholas), p. 134.

M448 Jack Cade's rebellion, 1450.

841 See "Historical Memoranda," by Stow, printed in "Three Fifteenth
Cent. Chron." (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), pp. 94-99.

842 "And the Meire of London with the comynes of the city came to the
kynge besekynge him that he wolde tarye in the cite, and they wolde
lyve and dye with him, and pay for his costes of householde an halff
yere; but he wold nott, but toke his journey to
Kyllyngworthe."--"Three Fifteenth Cent. Chronicles" (Camd. Soc.), p.
67.

M449 The city prepares to defend itself.

843 Journal 5, fo. 36b.

844 Journal 5, fo. 39.

845 He had been admitted alderman of Lime Street ward in 1448, at the
king's special request, and had only recently been
discharged.--Journal 4, fo. 213b; Journal 5, fo. 38b. In 1461 he left
England, but was captured at sea by the French and put to ransom for
4,000 marks.--Fabyan, p. 638.

846 Holinshed, iii, 224.

847 Gregory's Chron., p. 192.

848 Journal 5, fo. 40b.

M450 Mock trials held by the rebels at the Guildhall. M451 Cade apprehended.

849 Alexander Iden, who appears to have pursued Cade beyond the limits
of his own jurisdiction, as Sheriff of Kent, into the neighbouring
county of Sussex, where the rebel was apprehended in a garden at
Heathfield.--"Three Fifteenth Cent. Chron.," preface, p. vii.

M452 The question of the succession to the throne. M453 Rivalry between the Dukes of York and Somerset, 1450.

850 The exclusion of the Duke and other nobles from the king's council
had been made an express ground of complaint by the Kentish
insurgents.

851 Chron., p. 196.

M454 Civil war averted.

852 "And so thei brought (the duke) ungirt thurgh London bitwene ij
bisshoppes ridyng unto his place; and after that made hym swere at
Paulis after theire entent, and put him frome his good peticions
which were for the comoen wele of the realme."--Chron. of London
(Nicolas), p. 138.

M455 The king's illness, 1453.

853 Journal 5, fos. 131, 132b, 133b.

M456 The City again called upon to assist in the defence of Calais,
1453-1454.

854 Journal 5, fos. 134b, 135b, 136.

855 -_Id._, fo. 148.

856 -_Id._, fo. 152.

857 -_Id._, fo. 152b.

858 -_Id._, fos. 183, 184.

859 Journal 5, fo. 206.

860 Report of City Chamberlain to the Court of Common Council.--Journal
5, fos. 227-228b.

M457 The Duke of York and his supporters take up their quarters in the
city, 1454.

861 News-letter of John Stodeley, 19 Jan., 1454; Paston Letters
(Gairdner), i, 265, 266.

862 Journal 5, fos 143, 145b, 152, 152b-160b.

M458 The Duke of York nominated protector, 1454.

863 Journal 5, fo. 150.

864 -_Id._, fos. 162, 162b.

865 -_Id._, fo. 164b.

M459 The first battle of St. Albans, 22 May, 1455. M460 A rising against the Lombards in the city, May, 1456.

866 Booking to Paston, 15 May; Paston Letters (Gairdner), i, 387; _Cf._
Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 139; Gregory's Chron., p. 199.

867 William Cantelowe, alderman of Cripplegate and Billingsgate wards,
from the latter of which he was discharged in October, 1461, on the
score of old age and infirmity (Journal 6, fo. 81b). He appears in
his time to have had financial dealings with the crown, on one
occasion conveying money over sea for bringing Queen Margaret to
England, and on another supplying gunpowder to the castle of
Cherbourg, when it was in the hands of the English. He is thought by
some to be identical with the William Cantelowe who afterwards (in
1464) captured Henry VI in a wood in the North of England.--"Three
Fifteenth Cent. Chron." (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 28), Preface, p. viii.

868 Short English Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), p. 70.

M461 Letter from the king for safe-guarding the city, 3 Sept., 1456.

869 Letter Book K, fo. 287.

M462 The citizens offer to man and victual ships to punish France, 1457.

870 -_Id._, fo. 288b.

M463 A general reconciliation at St. Paul's, 25 March, 1458.

871 Cotton MS., Vitell. A, xvi, fo. 114.

872 Engl. Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 77.

873 Fabyan, Chron. (ed. 1811), p. 633; _Cf._ Chron. of London (Nicolas),
p. 139.

M464 Warwick implicated in a riot, Nov., 1458. M465 Seeks refuge in the city. M466 Leaves for Calais.

874 Journal 6, fos. 138, 138b, 139.

875 Engl. Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 78; _Cf._ Fabyan,
p. 633; Holinshed, iii, 249.

M467 Riot between citizens and Templars, April, 1459.

876 Short Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), p. 71; Chron. of
London (Nicolas), p. 140.

M468 The battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept., 1459. M469 Parliament at Coventry, 20 Nov., 1459.

877 Journal 6, fo. 166.

878 -_Id._, fo. 145.

M470 The king loses favour.

879 -_Id._, fo. 163.

880 English Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 179.

M471 Unconstitutional conduct of the king in issuing commissions to raise an army, Jan., 1460. M472 A deputation from the City waits upon the king at Northampton. M473 The City's liberties not to be prejudiced.

881 Journal 6, fo. 224b.

882 William Paston, writing to his brother John, under date 28th
January, 1460, remarks, "Item, the kyng cometh to London ward, and,
as it is seyd, rereth the pepyll as he come; but it is certayn ther
be comyssyons made in to dyvers schyres that every man be redy in
his best aray to com when the kyng send for hem."--Paston Letters
(Gairdner), i, 506.

883 Paston Letters (Gairdner), Introd., p. cxl.

884 The king's letter, dated 2 Feb., was read before the Common Council
on the 5 Feb.--Letter Book K, fo. 313b; Journal 6, fo. 196b.

M474 Military precautions taken by the City, Feb., 1460.

885 Journal 6, fo. 197b.

886 -_Id._, fo. 203b.

887 -_Id._, fo. 158.

M475 Landing of the confederate earls. M476 The Common Council determine to oppose their entrance to the city, 27 June, 1460.

888 Journal 6, fo. 237.

889 It had been destroyed by fire during the Kentish outbreak.--Gregory's
Chron., p. 193.

890 Journal 6, fo. 237b.

M477 Meeting of Common Council on Sunday, 29 June.

891 Journal 6, fo. 238.

892 -_Id._, fo. 238b.

M478 The Yorkist earls admitted into the city, 2 July, 1460.

893 Journal 6, fos. 239, 239b; Eng. Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc. No.
64), p. 94.

M479 The Tower holds out.

894 Journal 6, fo. 252b.

895 Eo quod nullus alius modus videtur esse tutus pro civitate.--_Id._,
fo. 251.

896 Journal 6, fo. 251b.

M480 The Tower surrendered, 19 July. M481 Murder of Lord Scales.

897 -_Id._, fo. 250b.

898 Eng. Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 98. The Thames boatmen and
sailors were almost as powerful and troublesome a body of men as the
London apprentices. The Common Council had recently (11th July)
endeavoured to subdue their turbulent spirit by the distribution
among them of a large sum of money (L100).--Journal 6, fo. 254.

M482 Battle of Northampton, 10 July, 1460.

899 On the 4th July the Common Council voted the earls the sum of L1,000
by way of loan.--Journal 6, fo. 253.

900 Journal 6, fo. 256. By some inadvertence two copies of the agreement
were sealed, one of which was returned to the mayor to be cancelled.

M483 Measures for restoring confidence in the city.

901 Journal 6, fo. 257.

M484 Parliament of 7 Oct., 1460. M485 The Duke of York's claim to the throne allowed. M486 The Livery Companies declare their allegiance to the king.

902 Gregory's Chron., p. 208; Engl. Chron., pp, 99-100; Short Engl.
Chron., p. 75.

903 The interview with the wardens of the companies took place at a
Common Council held on the 13th December, 1460.--Journal 6, fo. 282b.

M487 The battle of Wakefield, 29 Dec., 1460. M488 The second battle of St. Albans, 17 Feb., 1461.

904 Journal 6, fo. 13.

905 The governing body in the city was still Lancastrian at heart. On
the 13th Feb. the Common Council had voted Henry, at that time in
the hands of Warwick, a loan of 1,000 marks, and a further sum of
500 marks (making in all L1,000) for the purpose of _garnysshyng_
and safeguarding the city. On the 24th a certain number of aldermen
and commoners were deputed to answer for the safe custody of the
Tower, and on the following day (25 Feb.) the mayor forbade, by
public proclamation, any insult being offered to Sir Edmund Hampden
and others, who had been despatched by the king and queen to London
for the purpose of ascertaining "the true and faithful disposition"
of the city.--Journal 6, fos. 35, 35b, 40.

M489 The Earls of March and Warwick admitted into the city, Feb., 1461.

906 Gregory's Chron., p. 215.

M490 Edward's claim to the crown recognised, 1 March, 1461.

907 Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii, 189.

908 Journal 6, fo. 37b.

M491 The accession of King Edward IV, March, 1461.

909 Letter Book L, fo. 4; Lib. Dunthorn, fo. 62; Journal 7, fo. 98.

910 Short English Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), p. 80.

911 Journal 7, fos. 97b, 98.

M492 Edward's first charter to the city, 26 Aug., 1461.

912 Charter, dat. Winchecombe, 26 Aug., 1461. Preserved at the Guildhall
(Box No. 28).

M493 Second charter of Edward IV, 25 March, 1462.

913 Inspeximus charter, dated Westminster, 25 March, 1462. Preserved at
the Guildhall (Box No. 13).

M494 City Loans, 1462.

914 Journal 7, fo. 8.

915 -_Id._, fo. 15.

916 See Inspeximus charter 15 Charles II.

M495 The king's reception in the city on his return from the North, Feb.,
1463.

917 Journal 7, fo. 21b.

M496 Estrangement of Warwick, 1464-1468. M497 Alliance between England and Burgundy, 1468.

918 Journal 7, fo. 175.

M498 Renewal of the civil war, 1469.

919 Ancestor of Lord Bacon and others of the nobility.--See Orridge
"Citizens and their Rulers," p. 222.

920 Fabyan, p. 656. He was deprived of his aldermanry (Broad Street
Ward) by the king's orders.--Journal 7, fo. 128.

921 Journal 7, fos. 196, 198, 199.

922 Journal 7, fos. 215b, 222b.

923 -_Id._, fos. 229b, 230b.

M499 Flight of Edward and restoration of Henry VI, Oct., 1470.

924 -_Id._, fo. 222b.

925 A record of what took place in the city between the 1st and 6th
October is set out in Journal 7, fo. 223b.

926 -_Id._, fo. 225.

927 He had, after Warwick's flight to France in March of this year, put
to death and impaled twenty of the earl's followers.--Warkworth's
Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 10), p. 9.

928 Journal 7, fo. 225.

M500 Sir Thomas Cooke or Coke, late alderman.

929 Fabyan Chron., p. 660.

M501 Edward recovers the throne, April, 1471.

930 Warkworth's Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 10), p. 15.--According to the
chronicler, the _Commons_ of the city were still loyal to Henry,
whom Archbishop Nevill had carried through the streets, weak and
sickly as he was, in the hope of exciting the sympathy of the
burgesses. Had the archbishop been a true man, "as the Commons of
London were," Edward would not have gained an entry into the city
until after the victory of Barnet-field.

M502 The Kentish rising under "bastard" Fauconberg, May, 1471. M503 Attack made on the City.

931 Journal 5, fos. 152, 175.

932 The "bastard's" letter and the reply of the mayor and aldermen are
set out in Journal 8, fos. 4b-6b, and Letter Book L, fo. 78.

933 Holinshed, iii, 323; Fabyan, p. 662.--According to Warkworth (p. 19),
the _Commons_ would willingly have admitted the rebels had the
latter not attempted to fire Aldgate and London Bridge.

934 Paston Letters, iii, 17.

M504 Edward's return to London, and death of Henry VI, May, 1471.

935 The 21st May is the day usually given as that on which Edward
returned. The City's Journal, however, gives the day as the Eve of
the Ascension, that festival falling on May the 23rd.--Journal 8, fo.
7.

936 Warkworth's Chron., p. 21.

937 Namely, Richard Lee, Matthew Philip, Ralph Verney, John Young,
William Tailour, George Irlond, William Hampton, Bartholomew James,
Thomas Stalbrok, and William Stokker.--Journal 8, fo. 7.

938 Journal 7, fo. 246.

M505 Birth of Edward V.

939 -_Id._, 8, fo. 98.

M506 The invasion of France, 1475.

940 -_Id._, fo. 101.

941 Journal 8, fo. 110b.

M507 Edward and the citizens.

942 Preserved at the Guildhall (Box No. 28).

943 Journal 8, fo. 244.

944 Fabyan, p. 667.

M508 A famine threatened, 1482.

945 Proclamation, dated 21 Nov., 22 Edw. IV.--Letter Book L, fo. 281b;
Journal 9, fo. 2.

M509 Edward's last parliament, 1483.

946 Journal 9, fo. 12.

947 -_Id._, fo. 14.

948 -_Id._, fo. 14b.

M510 Preparations for the coronation of Edward V.

949 -_Id._, fos. 18, 18b.

950 Journal 9, fo. 21b.

951 The oath taken by Gloucester to King Edward V, as well as the oath
which he was willing to take to the queen, if she consented to quit
Westminster, were read before the Common Council on the 23rd
March.--Journal 9, fo. 23b.

M511 Shaw's sermon at Paul's Cross, Sunday, 22 June, 1483. M512 The Duke of Buckingham at the Guildhall, 24 June, 1483.

952 Wife of Matthew Shore, a respectable goldsmith of Lombard Street:--

"In Lombard-street, I once did dwelle,
As London yet can witness welle;
Where many gallants did beholde
My beautye in a shop of golde."

(_Percy Reliques_).

She had recently been made to do penance by Gloucester in a white
sheet for practising witchcraft upon him; but her unhappy position,
as well as her well-known charity in better days, gained for her
much sympathy and respect.

953 The duke's speech, interesting as it is, as showing the importance
attached to gaining the favour of the City, cannot be regarded as
historical.--Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii, 224 note.

M513 The deposition of Edward V, 26 June, 1483. M514 The coronation of Richard III, 6 July, 1433.

954 Journal 9, fo. 27.

955 Journal 9, fo. 33b. The names of the citizens selected for that
honour are recorded.--_Id._, fo. 21b. The names also of those who
attended coronations in the same capacity down to the time of George
IV are, with one exception (the coronation of Charles I), entered in
the City's archives.--(See Report on Coronations, presented to Co.
Co., 18 Aug., 1831. _Printed_.)

956 -_Id._, fo. 43.

957 -_Id._, fo. 114b.

M515 Rebellion of the Duke of Buckingham, 1483. M516 His execution, 2 Nov. M517 The king's reception in the city, Nov., 1483. M518 Bold speech of the Londoners.

958 Journal 9, fo. 39.

959 Green, Hist. of the English People, ii, 63.

M519 Richard's Parliament, Jan., 1484.

960 Stat. 1 Richard III, c. 9.

961 -_Id._, c. 2.

M520 Expected invasion of Henry of Richmond, 1484.

962 Journal 9, fo. 43b.

963 Journal 9, fo. 56.

964 Cotton MS. Vitellius A, xvi, fo. 140.

M521 Richard defeated and slain at Bosworth, 22 Aug., 1485.

965 Journal 9, fos. 78b, 81. Richard issued a proclamation against Henry
"Tydder" on the 23 June, calling upon his subjects to defend
themselves against his proposed attack.--Paston Letters (Gairdner),
iii, 316-320.

966 Journal 9, fos. 81b-83b.

M522 Henry VII escorted to the city.

967 Journal 9, fos. 84, 85b, 86b; _Cf._ "Materials illustrative of the
reign of Henry VII" (Rolls Series, No. 60), i, 4-6.

968 Holinshed, iii, 479.

M523 The sweating sickness, Sept.-Oct., 1485.

969 Hecker's "Epidemics of the Middle Ages," p. 168.

970 Journal 9, fo. 87b.

971 The day for election of mayor varied; at one time it was the Feast
of the Translation of S. Edward (13 Oct.), at another the Feast of
SS. Simon and Jude (28 Oct.).

972 Journal 9, fo. 88.

973 -_Id._, fo. 78b.

974 -_Id._, fo. 89b.

M524 A City loan of L2,000.

975 Holinshed, iii, 482, 483; Cotton MS. Vitellius A, xvi, fo. 141b.
According to Fabyan (p. 683), the Mercers, Grocers and Drapers
subscribed nearly one half of the loan.

M525 Henry's marriage with Elizabeth of York, Jan., 1486.

976 Pol. Verg., 717; "Materials illustrative of the reign of Henry VII"
(Rolls Series, No. 60), i, 3.

977 Gairdner's "Henry the Seventh" (Twelve English Statesmen Series), p.
47. No record of this appears in the City's archives.

M526 The insurrection of Lambert Simnel, 1487. M527 City gifts to the king, June and July, 1487.

978 Journal 9, fos. 150b, 151.

979 -_Id._, fo. 151.

M528 The king escorted to London, Oct., 1487. M529 The City's gift to the queen at her coronation, 25 Nov., 1487.

980 He arrived on the 3rd Nov.--Gairdner, p. 57.

981 Journal 9, fos. 157b, 158.

982 -_Id._, fo. 161.

M530 Henry VII and Brittany, 1488-1492.

983 Journal 9, fo. 223b; Cotton MS. Vitellius A, xvi, fo. 142b; Fabyan,
p. 683; Holinshed, iii, 492.

M531 Parliamentary supplies and City loans.

984 Henry's second parliament was summoned to meet the 9th Nov., 1487.
The names of the City's representatives have not come down to us,
but we know that William White, an alderman, was elected one or the
members in the place of Thomas Fitz-William, who was chosen member
for Lincolnshire, and we have the names of six men chosen to
superintend the City's affairs in this parliament (_ad prosequendum
in parliamento pro negociis civitatis_), viz:--William Capell,
alderman, Thomas Bullesdon, Nicholas Alwyn, Simon Harrys, William
Brogreve, and Thomas Grafton.--Journal 9, fo. 224.

985 Holinshed, iii, 492.

986 Journal 9, fo. 273b.

987 Fabyan, p. 684.

M532 Perkin Warbeck conspiracy, 1496-1497. M533 The city put into a state of defence.

988 Journal 10, fos. 80b, 83; Repertory 1, fos. 10b, 13. The
"Repertories"--containing minutes of the proceedings of the Court of
Aldermen, distinct from those of the Common Council--commence in
1495.

989 Repertory 1, fo. 19b.

990 Two years later, when the post was held by Arnold Babyngton,
complaint being made of the noisome smell arising from the burning
of bones, horns, shavings of leather, &c., in preparing food for the
City's hounds, near Moorgate, the Common Hunt was allowed a sum of
26_s._ 8_d._ in addition to his customary fees for the purpose of
supplying wood for the purpose.--Repertory 1, fo. 70. The office was
maintained as late as the year 1807, when it was abolished by order
of the Common Council.--Journal 84, fo. 135b.

991 Repertory 1, fo. 20b.

992 -_Id._, fos. 20, 20b.

M534 The rebels defeated at Blackheath, 22 June, 1497. M535 Perkin Warbeck in Cornwall. M536 Surrenders to the king's forces and is brought prisoner to London, Oct., 1498. M537 Is executed at Tyburn, 1499.

993 Journal 10, fo. 104b.

994 -_Id._, fo. 105.

995 -_Id._, fo. 108.

996 Fabyan, p. 687.

M538 Visit of Henry VIII as a boy to the city, 30 Oct., 1498.

997 Cotton MS. Vitellius A, xvi, fo. 176.

M539 His speech.

998 Repertory 1, fo. 41b.

M540 Negotiations for a marriage between Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon. M541 Preparations for reception of the princess, Nov., 1499.

999 Repertory 1, fo. 62.

1000 Journal 10, fo. 187b.

M542 Death of an infant prince, June, 1500.

1001 Journal 10, fo. 190b.

1002 -_Id._, fo. 191.

M543 The marriage of Prince Arthur with Catherine of Aragon, 14 Nov.,
1501.

1003 This is the date given by Gairdner (p. 198). According to Fabyan
(p. 687) she arrived on the 4th Oct.

1004 Journal 10, fos. 238, 238b.

M544 More rejoicings in the city, March, 1503

1005 Repertory 1, fos. 122b-126. The account will be found in Archaeol.,
vol. xxxii, p. 126.

1006 Repertory 1, fos. 130, 130b.

M545 Charter of Henry VII to the Tailors of London, 6 June 1503.

1007 By Stat. 19 Henry VII, c. 7, annulling Stat. 15 Henry VI, c. 6.

1008 Repertory 2, fo. 146.

M546 Henry's charter to the City, 23 July, 1505.

1009 Charter dated 23 July, 1505, preserved at the Guildhall (Box No.
15).

1010 Repertory 1, fo. 175.

M547 Henry's high-handed policy towards the City, 1506-1509.

1011 Strype, Stow's "Survey" (1720), bk. ii, p. 193.

1012 Repertory 2, fos. 12, 14; Grey Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 53),
p. 29.

1013 The sum mentioned by Holinshed (iii. 539), is L1,400; _Cf._ Fabyan,
p. 689.

1014 Baker, in his Chronicle (ed. 1674), p. 248, puts Capel's fine at
L1,400; _Cf._ Fabyan, p. 689; Holinshed, iii, 530; Journal 11, fo.
94.

1015 Fabyan, p. 690.

M548 Marriage of the Princess Mary, Dec., 1508.

1016 Letter Book M, fo. 138; Journal 11, fo. 28.

1017 Journal 11, fos. 37-39.

1018 Gairdner's "Henry the Seventh," p. 206.

M549 Henry's taste for the fine arts. M550 The King's Chapel and Chantry at Westminster.

1019 Journal 10, fos. 318, 318b; Repertory 2, fos. 10b-11b. A list of
"such places as have charged themself and promysed to kepe the
yerely obit" of Henry VII, as well as a copy of indentures made for
the assurance of the same obit, with schedule of sums paid to
various religious houses for the observance of the same, are entered
in the City's Records.--Repertory 1. fo. 167b; Letter Book P, fo.
186b.

M551 The king's death, 22 April, 1509.

1020 The generally accepted day of his death, although the City's
Archives in one place record it as having taken place on the
21st.--Journal 2, fo. 67b; _Cf._ Fabyan, 690.

1021 Holinshed, iii, 541.

1022 Journal 11, fos. 67b-69.

1023 "Aldermen barons and presenting barons astate whiche hath been
Maires."

1024 Journal 2, fo. 69.

1025 Repertory 11, fo. 68b.

M552 Proceeding against Empson and Dudley and their agents.

1026 Letters Patent, dated 9 June, 1509, preserved at the Guildhall (Box
No. 29).

1027 Letter Book M, fo. 159; Journal 11, fo. 74b.

1028 Repertory 2, fo. 68.

M553 City gift on occasion of the king's coronation, 24 June, 1509.

1029 Journal 11, fos. 80, 81b, 82; Letter Book M, fo. 160.

1030 Journal 11, fo. 80.

1031 Holinshed, iii, 547.

M554 The war with France, 1512-1513.

1032 According to Holinshed (iii, 567), Parliament opened on the 25th
Jan., 1512. The Parliamentary Returns give the date as the 4th Feb.
with "no returns found." The names of the City's members, however,
are recorded in the City's Archives. They were Alderman Sir William
Capell, who had suffered so much at the close of the last reign,
Richard Broke, the City's new Recorder, William Cawle or Calley,
draper, and John Kyme, mercer, commoners.--Journal 11, fo. 147b;
Repertory 2, fo. 125b.

1033 The Act for levying the necessary subsidy ordained that every alien
made a denizen should be rated like a native, but that aliens who
had not become denizens should be assessed at double the amount at
which natives were assessed.--See "Historical Introd. to Cal. of
Denizations and Naturalizations of Aliens in England, 1509-1603."
(Huguenot Soc.), viii, 7.

1034 Journal 11, fo. 1.

1035 -_Id._, fo. 1b.

1036 Journal 11, fo. 171; Repertory 2, fos. 150b, 172.

1037 Repertory 2, fos. 151b-152.

1038 Journal 11, fo. 2.

1039 Repertory 2, fo. 153.

M555 The Battle of Spurs, 16 Aug., 1513. M556 Peace with France, 1514. M557 The New Learning. M558 Thomas More.

1040 Letter Book M., fo. 257; Repertory 3, fo. 221. In July, 1517, the
Fellowship of Saddlers of London consented, on the recommendation of
Archbishop Warham, to refer a matter of dispute between it and the
parishioners of St. Vedast to the Recorder and Thomas More,
gentleman, for settlement (Repertory 3, fo. 149); and in Aug., 1521,
"Thomas More, late of London, gentleman," was bound over, in the sum
of L20, to appear before the mayor for the time being, to answer
such charges as might be made against him.--Journal 12, fo. 123.

1041 Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More, pp. 3, 5, 6.

M559 Dean Colet.

1042 Journal 8, fo. 144; Journal 9, fos. 13, 142b.

M560 Education in the city.

1043 William Lichfield, rector of All Hallows the Great, Gilbert
Worthington, rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, John Cote, rector of
St. Peter's, Cornhill, and John Nigel or Neel, master of the
hospital of St. Thomas de Acon and parson of St. Mary
Colechurch.--Rot. Parl. v, 137.

M561 The City of London School.

1044 Stow's Survey (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 42.

1045 Chamber Accounts (Town Clerk's office), i, fos. 202b, 203.

M562 St. Paul's School.

1046 Repertory 2, fos. 121b, 123.

1047 -_Id._, fo. 126b; Journal 11, fo. 147b.

1048 Journal 11, fo. 163; Repertory 2, fos. 133b, 142.

1049 Letter of Erasmus to Justus Jonas quoted in Lupton's Life of Colet,
pp. 166, 167.

1050 Survey (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 28.

M563 Provincial grammar schools founded by citizens of London.

1051 "The number of grammar schools, in various parts of the country,
which owe their foundation and endowment to the piety and liberality
of citizens of London ... far exceeds what might be supposed,
approaching as it does nearly to a hundred."--Preface to Brewer's
Life of Carpenter, p. xi.

M564 Birth of the Princess Mary, Feb., 1516.

1052 Repertory 3, fo. 46.

M565 The city and Cardinal Wolsey, 1516.

1053 -_Id._, fos. 70b, 71.

1054 -_Id._, fos. 86, 86b, 88.

1055 Repertory 3, fos. 116, 116b.

M566 Evil Mayday, 1517.

1056 Wares bought and sold between strangers--"foreign bought and
sold"--were declared forfeited to the City by Letters Patent of Henry
VII, 23 July. 1505, confirmed by Henry VIII, 12 July, 1523.

1057 In 1500, and again in 1516, orders were issued for all freemen to
return with their families to the city on pain of losing their
freedom.--Journal 10. fos. 181b, 259.

1058 Repertory 3, fos. 141b, 142.

1059 Holinshed, iii, 618.

1060 Or Munday; the name is said to appear in twenty-seven different
forms. He was a goldsmith by trade, and was appointed (among others)
by Cardinal Wolsey to report upon the assay of gold and silver
coinage in 1526.--Journal 13, fo. 45b; Letter Book O, fo. 71b. He
served sheriff, 1514; and was mayor in 1522.

1061 In 1462 the Common Council ordered basket-makers, gold wire-drawers,
and other foreigners plying a craft within the city, to reside at
Blanchappleton--a manor in the vicinity of Mark Lane--and not
elsewhere.

1062 Repertory 3, fo. 55b.

1063 For an account of the riot and subsequent proceedings, see
Holinshed, iii, 621-623, and the Grey Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No.
53). p. 30.

M567 The City anxious to regain the king's lost favour.

1064 Repertory 3, fos. 143, 143b.

M568 A deputation attends the king at Greenwich, 11 May, 1517. M569 Wolsey and other lords to be bought over with gifts. M570 The king's pardon obtained, 22 May.

1065 Holinshed, iii, 624.

1066 Repertory 3, fo. 144b.

1067 -_Id._, fo. 143b.

1068 Holinshed, 624.

1069 Repertory 3, fo. 145b.

1070 -_Id._, fo. 145.

1071 Repertory 3, fo. 165.

1072 -_Id._, fo. 166.

1073 "Thys yere was much a doo in the yelde-halle for the mayer for the
comyns wold not have had Semer, for be cause of yell May-day."--Grey
Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 53), p. 33.

1074 Repertory 11, fo. 351b.

M571 The epidemic of 1518.

1075 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. ii, pt. i,
Pref., p. ccxxi.

1076 -_Id._, vol. ii, pt. ii, p. 1276.

1077 Repertory 3, fos. 184b, 189b, 191, 192.

1078 Letter Book N, fo. 95b.

1079 Repertory 3, fos. 192, 194; Letter Book N, fos. 63b, 74.

1080 Repertory 3, fo. 197.

M572 Marriage of the infant Princess Mary with the Dauphin, 5 Oct., 1518.

1081 Hall's Chron., pp. 593, 594.

1082 Holinshed, iii, 632.

1083 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. ii. pt. i,
Pref., pp. clx, clxi.

M573 Preparations for the reception of the legate in the city, July,
1519.

1084 "An order devysed by the Mayer and hys brethrern the aldremen by the
Kynges commandment for a Tryumphe to be done in the Citie of London
at the Request of the Right honorable ambassadors of the Kynge of
Romayns."--10 July, Journal 12, fo. 9.

M574 The legate lands at Deal, 23 July, 1519. M575 A story told of his passage through the city.

1085 Hall, pp. 592, 593.

M576 The contest for the empire, 1519.

1086 Holinshed, iii, 639.

M577 The emperor's visit to the city, 1522.

1087 Journal 12, fos. 125, 172b, 173b; Letter Book N, fo. 194b.

1088 Knighted the next day at Greenwich.--Repertory 5, fo. 295.

1089 Repertory 5, fo. 294.

1090 -_Id._ 4, fo. 134b.

1091 -_Id._ 5, fo. 293.

M578 Pestilence and famine, 1519-1522.

1092 Journal 12, fos. 75b-76; Letter Book N, fos. 142-143.

1093 Grey Friars Chron., p. 30; Repertory 4, fo. 71b.

1094 Repertory 4, fos. 1b, 12, 13.

1095 Journal 12, fo. 136.

1096 -_Id._, fo. 144.

1097 Journal 12, fos. 158, 161, 163b; Letter Book N, fos. 187b, 190b.

1098 Holinshed, iii, 675.

M579 Execution of the Duke of Buckingham, 1521.

1099 Shakespere mentions the Duke's manor thus:--

"Not long before your highness sped to France,
The duke being at the Rose, within the parish
St. Laurence Poultney, did of me demand
What was the speech among the Londoners
Concerning the French journey."

--Henry VIII, act 1, sc. 2.

1100 Cal. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iii, pt.
i, Pref., pp. cxxv, cxxvi, cxxxv, cxxxvi.

1101 On the 5th July steps were taken by the Court of Aldermen for
putting a stop to the mutinous and seditious words that were current
in the city "concerning the lamenting and sorrowing of the death of
the duke"--men saying that he was guiltless--and special precautions
were taken for the safe custody of weapons and harness for fear of
an outbreak. The scribe evinced his loyalty by heading the page of
the record with _Lex domini immaculata: Vivat Rex Currat
L_.--Repertory 5, fo. 204.

M580 City loan of L20,000 to assist the king against France, 1522.

1102 Repertory 5, fo. 288.

1103 Journal 12, fos. 187b, 188b, 195; Letter Book N, fos. 203b, 204,
208.

M581 The aldermen to be assessed with the commoners and not to be
severed.

1104 Repertory 5, fo. 292.

1105 Journal 12, fo. 187b.

1106 Repertory 5, fos. 289, 290.

1107 -_Id._, fo. 291.

1108 Repertory 5, fos. 296b, 297.

1109 -_Id._, fo. 294.

M582 A further loan of 4,000 marks. M583 Letter of thanks from Wolsey, 3 Sept., 1522.

1110 A portion remained unpaid on 16 August.--Journal 12, fo. 195.

1111 Letter dated 3 Sept.--Journal 12, fo. 196b. On 28 Sept. Wolsey asked
for more time to repay the loan.--Repertory 5, fo. 326.

1112 Journal 12, fo. 200.

M584 The City makes a stand against further loans. Nov., 1522. M585 Others follow its example.

1113 Journal 12, fo. 210.

1114 See Green's "Hist. of the English People," ii, 121. 122.

M586 Appeal to parliament, April, 1523.

1115 Grey Friars Chron., p. 31.

1116 Repertory 4, fo. 144; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 20b; Letter Book N, fo.
222.

1117 Repertory 4, fo. 145b.

1118 Roper's "Life of More," pp. 17-20.

M587 The City and Wolsey, 1523.

1119 Repertory 4, fos. 152, 168; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 38.

1120 Repertory 4, fos. 144b, 145, 146, 150; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fos. 22b,
29, 32b.

M588 The king and queen of Denmark in the city.

1121 Grey Friars Chron. pp. 30, 31.

1122 Repertory 4, fos. 153b-154; _Cf._ Repertory 6, fo. 42.

M589 England invaded by the Scots. 1523.

1123 Repertory 6, fo. 61b.

1124 Holinshed, iii, 692, 693.

M590 Monoux refuses to accept the mayoralty a second time, Oct., 1523.

1125 Journal 12, fos. 249-250.

1126 Journal 12, fos. 287-288.

M591 The king pledges himself to repay the City loan of L20,000.

1127 -_Id._, fo. 276.

M592 Formation of a league against France.

1128 -_Id._, fo. 284.

M593 Proclamation for the recovery of lost letters, 10 July, 1524. M594 The king of France made prisoner at Pavia, 24 Feb., 1525. M595 Rejoicing in the city.

1129 Letter Book N, fo. 280; Journal 12, fo. 329.

1130 Grey Friars Chron., p. 32.

M596 The Amicable Loan, 1525.

1131 Hall's Chron., p. 695.

1132 Journal 12, fo. 331; Letter Book N. fo. 278.

1133 Journal 12, fo. 331b.

1134 Hall's Chron., p. 701.

M597 A truce between England and France. M598 French ambassadors lodged in the city, 1527.

1135 The truce was to last from 14 August to 1 December.--Letter Book N,
fos. 291, 293; Journal 12, fos. 300, 305.

1136 "Item in lyke wyse the Chamberleyn shall have allowance of and for
suche gyftes and presentes as were geven presentyd on Sonday laste
passyd at the Bysshoppes palace at Paules to the Ambassadours of
Fraunce devysed and appoynted by my lorde Cardynalles Grace and most
specyally at his contemplacioun geven for asmoch as lyke precedent
in so ample maner hath not afore tyme be seen; the presents ensue
etc."--Repertory 7, fo. 225.

M599 Troubles over Wythypol's election as alderman, 1527-1528. M600 Wythypol again summoned to take office. M601 Committed to Newgate, 6 Feb., 1528. M602 Again summoned to take office, 22 May.

1137 He had been one of the commoners sent to confer with Wolsey touching
the amicable loan (Journal 12, fo. 331b). He attended the coronation
banquet of Anne Boleyn in 1533 (Repertory 9, fo. 2), and was M.P.
for the city from 1529-1536 (Letter Book O, fo. 157). His daughter
Elizabeth married Emanuel Lucar, also a merchant-tailor.--Repertory
9, fos. 139. 140.

1138 Repertory 7, fos. 171b, 172, 174b, 179.

1139 Repertory 7, fos. 179b, 180.

1140 To the effect that he was not worth L1,000.--Journal 7, fo. 198.

1141 Repertory 7, fos. 238b, 240, 240b.

1142 -_Id._, fo. 243b.

1143 Repertory 7, fo. 206. The Common Council assessed the fine at
L100.--Journal 13, fo. 61b; Letter Book O, fo. 80b.

1144 Repertory 7, fo. 264.

M603 A great dearth in the city, 1529.

1145 Journal 13, fo. 184b.

1146 Letter Book O, fos. 88b, 89b.

M604 The legatine court at the Blackfriars, 1529.

1147 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iv,
Introd., p. cccclxv.

M605 The lord mayor's banquet, 28 Oct., 1529.

1148 Letter Book O, fos. 174b-175; Journal 13, fo. 180b.

M606 The fall of Wolsey, 1529-1530.

1149 Letter Book O, fo. 157.

1150 About the year 1522 Cromwell was living in the city, near Fenchurch,
combining the business of a merchant with that of a money-lender. He
sat in the parliament of 1523, and towards the close of that year
served on a wardmote inquest for Bread Street Ward. In 1524 he
entered Wolsey's service.--Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom.
(Henry VIII.), vol. iii, pt. i, Introd., pp. cclvi, cclvii.

1151 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. iv,
Introd., pp. dliii-dlvi.

M607 The House of Commons and the Clergy, 1529.

1152 Stat. 21, Henry VIII, caps. 5, 6 and 13.

1153 Proclamation, 12 Sept., 1530.--Letter Book O, fo. 199b.

M608 Disputes touching tithes payable to city clergy, 1527-1534.

1154 Burnell, "London (City) Tithes Act, 1879," Introd., pp. 1, 2.

1155 Letter Book O, fos. 47, _seq._

1156 A list of these, comprising seven churches, was submitted to the
Court of Aldermen, 23 Feb., 1528.--Repertory 8, fo. 21.

M609 The curates' book of articles.

1157 Letter Book O, fos. 140b, 141b.

1158 Repertory 8, fo. 27b.

1159 Letter Book O, fos. 145, 145b; Journal 13, fo. 125b.

1160 Letter book P, fos. 31, 34, 41b; Journal 13, fo. 417b.

1161 This order was confirmed by stat. 27, Henry VIII, cap. 21. Ten years
later a decree was made pursuant to stat. 37, Henry VIII, cap. 12,
regulating the whole subject of tithes, but owing to the decree not
having been enrolled in accordance with the terms of the statute,
much litigation has in recent times arisen.--Burnell, "London (City)
Tithes Act, 1879," Introd., p. 3.

M610 Elsing Spital and Holy Trinity Priory surrendered to the king,
1530-1531.

1162 The well-known and somewhat romantic account of the origin of the
priory and of its connection with the city cnihten-guild is given in
Letter Book C, fos. 134b, _seq._; _Cf._ Liber Dunthorn, fo. 79.

1163 Grey Friars Chron. (Camd. Soc., No. 53), p. 35. Three years later
(30 March, 1534) the Court of Aldermen resolved to wait upon the
chancellor "to know his mind for the office concerning the lands"
belonging to the late priory.--Repertory 9, fo. 53b.

M611 The Great Beam reconveyed to the City after the lapse of ten years,
1531.

1164 By letters patent dated 13 April, 1531 (preserved at the Guildhall,
Box No. 16).

1165 Henry Lumnore, Lumnar or Lomner, a grocer by guild as well as
calling (see Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII),
vol. iii, pt. ii, p. 879), was associated with Sidney in holding the
beam. The City offered to buy him out either by bestowing on him an
annuity of L10 during the joint lives of himself and Sidney, or else
by paying him a lump sum of L100.--Repertory 8, fo. 218b.

1166 Anne Boleyn.

1167 Repertory 8, fo. 131.

1168 -_Id._, fos. 142b. 202b.

M612 Feeling in the city at Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn, 1533.

1169 Chapuys to the emperor.--Cal. State Papers (Spanish), vol. iv., pt.
ii, p. 646.

M613 The queen's passage from the Tower to Westminster, 31 May, 1533.

1170 Repertory 9, fo. 1b. There is a fine drawing at Berlin by Holbein
which is thought to be the original design for the triumphal arch
erected by the merchants of the Steelyard on this occasion.

M614 The City's gift of 1,000 marks.

1171 Journal 13, fo. 371b. According to Wriothesley (Camd. Soc., N.S.,
No. 11, p. 19) the present to the queen was made to her in a purse
of cloth of gold on the occasion of her passing through the city on
the 31st May, the day before her coronation.

1172 Repertory 2, fo. 70b; Repertory 9, fo. 2.

M615 The Act of Succession, 1534.

1173 Letter Book P, fos. 37-37b; Journal 13, fo. 408b.

1174 Letter to Lord Lisle.--Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry
VIII), vol. vii, p. 208.

1175 Repertory 9, fo. 57b. "Allso the same day [20 April] all the craftes
in London were called to their halls, and there were sworne on a
booke to be true to Queene Anne and to believe and take her for
lawfull wife of the Kinge and rightfull Queene of Englande, and
utterlie to thincke the Lady Marie, daughter to the Kinge by Queene
Katherin, but as a bastarde, and thus to doe without any
scrupulositie of conscience."--Wriothesley's Chron., i, 24.

M616 Proceedings against those objecting to subscribe to the Act of
Succession.

1176 Grey Friars Chron., p. 37. In November of the last year they had
been made to do penance at Paul's Cross and afterwards at
Canterbury.

M617 The monks of the Charterhouse, 1534-1535.

1177 "Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum," 1583. Much of it is
quoted by Father Gasquet in his work on "Henry VIII and the English
Monasteries" (cap. vi), and also by Mr. Froude ("Hist. of England,"
vol. ii, cap. ix).

1178 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. vii, p.
283.

1179 This convent--the most virtuous house of religion in England--was of
the Order of St. Bridget, and received an annual visit from the
mayor and aldermen of the City of London at what was known as "the
pardon time of Sion," in the month of August. In return for the
hospitality bestowed by the lady abbess on these occasions the Court
of Aldermen occasionally made her presents of wine (Repertories 3,
fo. 94b; 7, fo. 275). In 1517 the court instructed the chamberlain
to avoid excess of diet on the customary visit. There was to be no
breakfast on the barge and no swans at dinner (Repertory 3, fo.
154b). In 1825 the Court of Common Council decreed (_inter alia_)
that "as tonchyng the goyng of my lord mayre and my masters his
brethern the aldermen [to] Syon, yt is sett at large and to be in
case as it was before the Restreynt" (Journal 12, fo. 302). It was
suppressed 25 Nov., 1539.--Wriothesley's Chron., i, 109.

M618 The Act of Supremacy, 1534. M619 Execution of Houghton and others, 1535.

1180 The Act of Supremacy was passed in 1534, but the king's new title as
Supreme Head of the Church was not incorporated in his style before
the 15 Jan., 1535.

1181 Cal. Letters and Papers For. and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. viii, p.
321.

1182 -_Id._, p. 354.

M620 Execution of Fisher and More, 1535.

1183 Repertory 9, fo. 145.

M621 The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536.

1184 -_Id._, fo. 199.

1185 He had been elected mayor for the second time in October last
(1535), much against his own wish, at the king's express
desire.--Journal 13, fo. 452b; Wriothesley, i, 31. He presented the
City with a collar of SS. to be worn by the mayor for the time
being.--Repertory 11, fo. 238.

1186 Repertory 9, fos. 199, 199b.

1187 Repertory 9, fo. 200.

1188 -_Id._, fo. 200b.

1189 Son of Thomas Warren, fuller; grandson of William Warren, of Fering,
co. Sussex. He was knighted on the day that his election was
confirmed by the king (Wriothesley. i, 59). His daughter Joan (by
his second wife Joan, daughter of John Lake, of London) married Sir
Henry Williams, _alias_ Cromwell (Repertory 14, fo. 180; Journal 17.
fo. 137b), by whom she had issue Robert Cromwell, father of the
Protector. Warren died 11 July, 1533, and his widow married Alderman
Sir Thomas White.--See notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 330.

1190 Repertory 9, fo. 209b.

M622 Henry's marriage with Jane Seymour, May, 1536.

1191 Henry attributed her miscarriage to licentiousness; others to her
having received a shock at seeing her royal husband thrown from his
horse whilst tilting at the ring.--Wriothesley, i, 33.

1192 Chapuys to [Granvelle] 25 Aug., 1536.--Cal. Letters and Papers For.
and Dom. (Henry VIII), vol. xi., p. 145.

M623 Convocation at St. Paul's, 9 June-20 July, 1536.

1193 Wriothesley, i, 52-53.

M624 Preparation for the new queen's coronation. M625 She dies in childbed, 24 Oct., 1537.

1194 Letter Book P, fo. 103b.

1195 Wriothesley, i, 69.

1196 Letter Book P, fo. 135b; Wriothesley, i, 71, 72.

M626 Anne of Cleves arrives at Dover, 27 Dec., 1539. M627 Her passage through the city, 4 Feb,. 1540.

1197 Repertory 10, fos. 152b, 153; Wriothesley, i, 109, 111.

1198 Repertory 10, fo. 161. The circumstance that Henry carried his new
bride to Westminster by water instead of conducting her thither
through the streets of the city has been considered a proof of his
want of regard for her.

M628 Cromwell's work of demolition in the city, 1537-1538.

1199 Holinshed, iii. 807.

1200 Letter Book P, fo. 113; Journal 14, fo. 30b.

1201 Stow's "Survey" (Thoms's ed., 1876), p. 68.