Chapter XXVI: Book I: , fo. 103b. In 1417 the mayor and aldermen ordained that the (3)

1629 Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 364, 365.

M793 Special preachers appointed for the city, 1581-1582.

1630 As early as 1554 students had been supported by the Corporation and
the Companies at the Universities.--Repertory 13, fos. 144b, 148,
150b.

1631 Rembrancia, i, 250, 256 (Analytical Index, pp. 365, 366). Another
difference shortly occurred between the corporation and the Bishop
of London in October of this year. A dispute arose between them as
to who was responsible for keeping St. Paul's Cathedral in repair,
each party endeavouring to throw the burden upon the other (_Id._,
Analytical Index, pp. 323-327); and in the following March (1582)
Bishop Aylmer found cause to complain by letter of unbecoming
treatment by the mayor, both of the bishop and his clergy, and
threatened, unless matters changed for the better, to admonish the
mayor publicly at Paul's Cross, "where the lord mayor must sit, not
as a judge to control, but as a scholar to learn, and the writer,
not as John Aylmer to be thwarted, but as John London, to teach him
and all London."--(_Id._, _ibid._, pp. 128-129).

1632 Repertory 20, fo. 282.

M794 Arrest and execution of Campion. M795 Breach with Spain, Jan., 1584.

1633 Son of Richard Osborne, of Ashford, co. Kent. The story goes that he
was apprenticed to Sir William Hewet, clothworker, and that he
married his master's daughter, whom he had rescued from a watery
grave in the Thames at London Bridge. His son, Sir Edward Osborne,
was created a baronet by Charles I, and his grandson, Sir Thomas,
made Duke of Leeds in 1692 by King William III.

1634 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 157. The right of holding
musters in Southwark was again questioned; and the claim of the city
was upheld by Sir Francis Walsingham. For this he received the
thanks of the lord mayor by letter dated 15 Feb.--_Id._, p. 159.

M796 Muster of 4,000 men in Greenwich Park, 1584.

1635 "A lettre from the quenes maty for ye mustringe of 4000 men, and
also for the shewes on the evens of St. John Baptist and St. Peter
thapostles."--Journal 21, fo. 421b.

1636 Contin. of Holinshed, v, 599, 600.

M797 Assassination of Prince of Orange, 10 July, 1584.

1637 Journal 21, fo. 388b.

M798 Dutch envoys to Elizabeth, June, 1585.

1638 Stow's Annals (ed. 1592), pp. 1198-1201.

1639 Motley, "United Netherlands," i, pp. 318-324.

M799 Recruits for service in the Low Countries, July, 1585.

1640 For particulars of his life see Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p.
284, note.

1641 Journal 21, fo. 448b.

M800 The fall of Antwerp and despatch of Leicester to the Low Countries,
1585.

1642 "Thaccompte of the saide chamberlyn for the transportacioun and
necessary provision of MMCCCCXX soldiers into the lowe countryes of
Flaunders."--Chamber Accounts, vol. ii, fos. 56-58b.

1643 Motley, "United Netherlands," i, 340.

1644 Chamber Accounts, ii, 134. The earl's honor of Denbigh, North Wales,
was mortgaged to certain citizens of London, and not being redeemed,
was afterwards purchased by the queen herself.--Repertory 22, fo.
287.

1645 Repertory 21, fos. 308-311.

1646 For many years after the passing of the Act (1 Edw. VI, c. 14)
confiscating property devoted to "superstitious uses," the
corporation and the livery companies were the objects of suspicion
of holding "concealed lands," _i.e._ lands held charged for
superstitious uses, which they had failed to divulge. The
appointment of a royal commission to search for such lands was
submitted to the law officers of the city for consideration, 9
Sept., 1567.--Repertory 16, fo. 276b. Vexatious proceedings continued
to be taken under the Act until the year 1623, when a Statute was
passed, entitled "An Act for the General Quiet of the Subjects
against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever."--Stat. 21, James I,
c. ii.

M801 The city flooded with strangers from France and Flanders.

1647 Journal 22, fo. 1.

1648 -_Id._, fos. 26, 29.

1649 Journal 22, fo. 37b; Repertory 21, fo. 288b.

M802 Discovery of the Babington plot, Aug., 1586.

1650 Journal 22, fos. 52-53. Both the queen's letter and Dalton's speech
are printed in Stow's Continuation of Holinshed, iv, 902-904.

1651 Journal 22, fos. 48, 57b, 58; Repertory 21, fo. 327.

M803 Execution of Mary Stuart, 8 Feb., 1587.

1652 Proclamation, dated Richmond, 4 Dec., 1586.--Journal 22, fo. 67b.

M804 A threatened famine in the city, Nov., 1586

1653 Royal Proclamation against engrossers of corn, 2 Jan., 1587.--Journal
22, fo. 74.

1654 Journal 22, fo. 64.

1655 Repertory 21, fo. 370b.

M805 Philip's preparations for invasion, 1587.

1656 Journal 21, fo. 136b.

1657 Motley, "United Netherlands," ii, 281.

M806 Preparations in England, 1587-1588.

1658 Journal 22, fos. 144, 161b, 166-167b, 170b.

1659 Journal 22, fo. 190.

1660 Only 1,000 men out of the force raised by the city went to Tilbury,
and the earl only consented to receive this small contingent on
condition they brought their own provisions with them, so scantily
was the camp supplied with victuals through the queen's
parsimony.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 244. Letter from
Leicester to Walsingham, 26 July.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1581-1590), p. 513.

1661 Leicester to Walsingham, 28 July, 1588.--State Papers Dom., vol.
ccxiii, No. 55.

1662 William of Malmesbury bears similar testimony to the courage of
Londoners under good leadership: _Laudandi prorsus viri et quos Mars
ipse collata non sperneret hasta si ducem habuissent_.--Gesta Regum
(Rolls Series, No. 90), i, 208.

1663 Repertory 22, fo. 148b.

M807 The City fits out sixteen ships and four pinnaces.

1664 A list of "the London shippes" (including pinnaces), dated 19 July,
1588, is preserved among the State Papers (Domestic) at the Public
Record Office (vol. ccxii, No. 68), and is set out in the Appendix
to this work. Two other lists, dated 24 July, giving the names of
the ships (exclusive of pinnaces) are also preserved (State Papers
Dom., vol. ccxiii, Nos. 15, 16). Each of these lists give the number
of vessels supplied by the city against the Armada as sixteen ships
and four pinnaces, or as twenty ships (inclusive of pinnaces). It is
not clear what was the authority of Stow (Howes's Chron., p. 743)
for stating that the city, having been requested to furnish fifteen
ships of war and 5,000 men, asked for two days to deliberate, and
then furnished thirty ships and 10,000 men. At the same time there
does exist a list of "shipps set forth and payde upon ye charge of
ye city of London, anno 1588" (that is to say, the ships furnished
by the city for that whole year), and that list contains the names
of thirty ships, with the number of men on board each vessel and the
names of the commanders.--State Papers Dom., vol. ccxxxii, fos. 16,
16b.

1665 Journal 22, fo. 173. The assessment was afterwards (19 April)
settled at three shillings in the pound.--_Id._, fo. 175.

1666 Journal 22, fos. 193, 200b.

M808 The fate of the Armada, July, 1588.

1667 Richard Tomson to Walsingham, 30 July, 1588.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1581-1590), p. 517.

1668 Hawkins to Walsingham, 31 July, 1588.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1581-1590), p. 517.

1669 Howard to the same, 21 July.--_Id._, p. 507.

1670 Sir William Wynter to Walsingham, 1 Aug., 1588.--Cal. State Papers
Dom. (1581-1590), p. 521.

1671 Journal 22, fo. 196b.

1672 -_Id._, fo. 196.

M809 Richard Tomson and the London ship _Margaret and John_.

1673 Tomson to Walsingham, 30 July, 1588.--State Papers Dom., vol. ccxiii,
No. 67.

M810 The naval engagement off Gravelines 29 July, 1588. M811 The Armada driven northward. M812 Preparations in the city for receiving sick and wounded, 29 July.

1674 Repertory 21, fo. 578.

1675 Journal 22, fo. 200b; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 510.

M813 Reports as to the fate of the Armada, July-Aug., 1588.

1676 Journal 22, fo. 197.

1677 -_Id._, fo. 199b.

1678 Journal 22, fo. 200.

M814 The queen attends a public thanksgiving service at St. Paul's, 24
Nov., 1588.

1679 Nichols' "Progresses of Q. Elizabeth," ii, 537.

1680 Journal 22, fos. 233, 235.

1681 Nichols' "Progresses of Q. Elizabeth," ii, 538, 539.

M815 Monuments in city churches to Frobisher, Hawkins and Martin Bond.

1682 On the 7th Feb., 1583, previously to setting out on his last
ill-fated expedition, Gilbert addressed a letter to Walsingham from
"his house in Redcross Street."--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590),
p. 95.

1683 See the will of Dame Margaret Hawkins, dated 23 April, 1619.--Cal. of
Wills, Court of Hust., London, ii, 745. The will contains many
bequests of articles which savour of Spanish loot.

1684 Strype, Stow's "Survey" (1720), bk. ii, p. 44.

M816 Disorganized state of the camp at Tilbury.

1685 Journal 22, fo. 202b.

M817 City loans of L30,000 and L20,000, Sept.-Dec., 1588.

1686 Journal 22, fo. 210; Repertory 21, fos. 590b, 593; Repertory 22,
fos. 15, 26b, 27; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1581-1590), p. 471.

M818 Expedition to Spain under Norris and Drake, April-July, 1589.

1687 Journal 22, fo. 252; Repertory 22, fo. 16b.

1688 Journal 22, fos. 227b, 278.

M819 Disbanded soldiers and sailors in the city.

1689 Burghley and others to the mayor, 26 July, 1589.--Journal 22, fo.
312.

M820 Soldiers ordered to return to their own homes.

1690 -_Id._, fo. 316b.

1691 Journal 22, fo. 345b; Journal 23, fo. 79.

1692 Journal 22, fo. 314.

M821 Elizabeth and Henry IV of France, 1589-1591.

1693 Journal 22, fo. 321b.

1694 -_Id._, fo. 326.

1695 -_Id._, fo. 321.

M822 The City and the Earl of Essex, 1591.

1696 Journal 23, fos. 35, 38.

1697 July 24, 1591.--Remembrancia. i, 599 (Analytical Index, p. 408).

M823 The City agrees to fit out six ships and a pinnace, 16 June, 1591.

1698 Journal 23, fos. 31, 43b, 48b; Repertory 22, fo. 284b.

1699 Journal 23, fos. 68, 68b; _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom. (1591-1594),
p. 48, where the date of the letter is given as "May."

1700 Journal 23, fos. 325b, 383b.

M824 Search to be made for Spanish emissaries in disguise.

1701 Journal 23, fos. 45-46b.

1702 Journal 24, fo. 86.

M825 Privateering expeditions against Spain, 1591-1592.

1703 Proclamation, dated 16 Sept., 1591.--Journal 23, fo. 47.

1704 Journal 23, fo. 73.

1705 -_Id._, fo. 71.

1706 Proclamations, dated 8 Jan. and 26 Sept., 1592.--Journal 23, fos.
78b, 136.

1707 The queen to the lord mayor, 6 Jan., 1592.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1591-1594), p. 168. The same to the same, 25 Jan.--Journal 23, fo.
87.

1708 Journal 23, fos. 157, 167, 174, 224b; Repertory 23, fo. 29.

M826 Proposal to build a pest-house for the city, 1592.

1709 It was in 1592 that bills of mortality, kept by the parish clerks,
were for the first time published.

1710 Journal 23, fo. 204b.

1711 Journal 23, fo. 266.

1712 -_Id._, fos. 400, 402.

M827 The hysterical Anne Burnell.

1713 -_Id._, fo. 153.

M828 Six ships, two pinnaces and 350 men provided by the City against
Spain, July, 1594.

1714 Journal 23, fo. 290b. The number was afterwards reduced to 350
men.--_Id._, fo. 296b; Remembrancia, ii, 3, 27, 30.

1715 Journal 23, fo. 290.

1716 -_Id._, fo. 289.

1717 Journal 23, fo. 293. The names, tonnage and crews of the ships are
thus given (Remembrancia, ii, 26):--The Assention, 400 tons, 100
mariners; The Consent, 350 tons, 100 mariners; The Susan
Bonadventure, 300 tons, 70 mariners; The Cherubim, 300 tons, 70
mariners; The Minion, 180 tons, 50 mariners; and The Primrose, 180
tons, 50 mariners. Only one pinnace is mentioned, of 50 tons, with
20 mariners.

M829 Sir John Spencer and his daughter.

1718 Journal 23, fo. 323b.

1719 Chamberlain's Letters, _temp._, Eliz. (Camd. Soc., No. 79), p. 50.
The writer was a son of Richard Chamberlain, a city alderman.

1720 Alderman of Tower Ward; Sheriff 1584-5; Mayor 1597.

1721 Repertory 24, fo. 410b.

1722 Repertory 25, fo. 216b.

1723 The letter is printed _in extenso_ in Chambers' "Book of Days," i,
464, and in Goodman's "Court of James I," ii, 127.

M830 The capture of Cadiz, July, 1596.

1724 Journal 24, fos. 79b, 81, 82, 82b.

1725 -_Id._, fo. 85b.

1726 Journal 24, fos. 105, 144.

1727 -_Id._, fo. 84b.

1728 Macaulay's "Essay on Lord Bacon."

1729 Journal 24, fo. 145.

1730 -_Id._, fos. 146b, 149.

M831 Calais falls into the hands of Spain, April, 1596.

1731 Journal 24, fos. 110-111, 129b.; Repertory 23, fo. 594b.

1732 Journal 24, fos. 124, 154b, 157b.

M832 Reinforcements for the Netherlands, July, 1596.

1733 The queen to the mayor, 25 July; the lords of the council to the
same, 26 July.--Journal 24, fo. 142.

M833 A demand for ten ships to be furnished by the City, Dec., 1596.

1734 Journal 24, fos. 173, 175.

M834 The City's reply.

1735 The same dissatisfaction at the result of the Cadiz expedition so
far as it affected the citizens of London was displayed in a
previous letter from the mayor to the lords of the Privy Council (3
Nov.) in answer to a demand for 3,000 men and three ships to ride at
Tilbury Hope and give notice of the approach of the Spanish
fleet.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 243, 244.

1736 Repertory 24, fo. 60b.

M835 Affairs in Ireland, 1594-1599.

1737 Journal 24, fos. 210b-213b, 216, 217.

1738 Journal 24, fos. 324b, 325, 329b; Repertory 24, fos. 268, 287, 306;
_Id._ 25, fo. 4b. Elizabeth asked for L40,000, but only succeeded in
getting half that sum.--Chamberlain's Letters, p. 15.

1739 Journal 25, fos. 34, 47b, 48; Repertory 24, fo. 352b. In July, 1600,
a deputation was appointed to wait upon the lords of the council
touching the repayment of this loan.--Repertory 25, fo. 119b. It
still remained unpaid in Feb., 1604.--Journal 26, fo. 163b. By the
end of 1606 L20,000 had been paid off.--Remembrancia (Analytical
Index), p. 188; Repertory 27, fo. 278. And by July, 1607, the whole
was repaid.--Howes's Chron., p. 890.

M836 A scare in London, July-Aug., 1598.

1740 Journal 25, fos. 74b, 75, 77b-78b, 81, 81b, 82b-84, etc.

1741 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.

1742 Journal 25, fo. 79b.

1743 -_Id._, fos. 80, 80b.

1744 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.

1745 Chamberlain's Letters, p. 61; Journal 25, fos. 81, 84b.

M837 The abortive insurrection of the Earl of Essex, Feb., 1601.

1746 Journal 25, fo. 238.

1747 Journal 25. fo. 245; Letter Book BB, fo. 85. He was deprived of his
aldermanry of the Ward of Farringdon Without and debarred from ever
becoming alderman of any other ward "for causes sufficiently made
known" to the Court of Aldermen.

1748 Repertory 25, fos. 209b, 213.

1749 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1598-1601), p. 546.

1750 Secretary Cecil to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and others, 10
Feb., 1601.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1598-1601), p. 547.

1751 Proclamation, dated 9 Feb., 1601.--Journal 25, fo. 240b.

1752 Repertory 25, fos. 213, 246.

1753 Journal 25, fos. 242, 243, 243b.

1754 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1601-1603), pp. 16, 26, 89, 90.

M838 Mountjoy's conquest of Ireland, 1600-1603.

1755 Journal 25, fos. 137, 161b, 166, 179, 189, 190, 218b, 223, 237,
237b, 262b-265b, 293, 295, 301, 302b, 313b, 315; Journal 26, fos.
16b-19.

M839 The parliament of 1601.

1756 Repertory 25, fo. 296b.

M840 The last days of Elizabeth, 1601-1603.

1757 Repertory 24, fos. 343, 354; Repertory 25, fos. 165-175. The
Steelyard was re-opened in 1606.--Journal 27, fo. 66.

1758 Letter from Sir Christopher Hatton to the mayor, 27 Nov.,
1583.--Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 407.

1759 Journal 26, fo. 42.