day even, which was the 28th day of March, was a great sudden tempest of wind, and broke open two windows at Whitehall at Westminster, and turned up the lead of the King's new Tennis Play at York Place, and broke off the tyles of three goldsmiths' houses in Lombard Street, and folded up the lead at Pewterers' Hall and cast it down into the yard, and blew down many tyles of houses in London, and trees about Shoreditch. bachelor's barge hanged with cloth of gold to the Tower. Also this year, on Palm Sunon the outside with banners and bells upon them in their best manner, with a galley to wait upon her, and a foyst with a beast therein which shot many guns. And then they fetched Queen Anne up to the Tower of London; and in the way on land about Limehouse there shot many great chambers of guns, and two of the King's ships which lay by Limehouse shot many great guns, and at the Tower or she came on land was shot innumerable many guns. "And on the 31st day of May, which was Whitsun even, she was conveyed in a chariot from the Tower of London to York-place, called Whitehall at Westminster; and at her departing from the Tower there was shot off guns which was innumerable to men's thinking and in London divers pageants, that is to say, : "One at Gracechurch; "The Crosse in Chepe new trimmed; "At the conduit at Paul's Gate; "At Paul's gate a branch of Roses; "Without at the east end of Paul's; "At the conduit in Fleet Street; "And she was accompanied, first Frenchmen in colored velvet and one white sleeve, and the horses trapped, and white crosses thereon; then rode gentlemen, then knights and lords in their degree, and there was two hats of maintenance, and many chariots, with lords and many gentlewomen on horseback following the chariots; and all the constables in London were in their best array, with white staves in their hands, to make room and to wait upon the Queen as far as and there rode with her sixteen knights of the Bath; and on Whit-Sunday she was crowned at Westminster with great solemnity; and jousts at Westminster all the Whitsun holidays, and the feast was kept in Westminster Hall, and jousts afore York Place called Whitehall. "This year, in the beginning of September, Queen Anne was delivered of a woman child at Greenwich, which child was named Elizabeth. "Item, this year foreign butchers sold flesh at Leadenhall, for the butchers of the city of London denied to sell beef for a halfpenny the pound according to the Act of Parliament. "1534. Christopher Ascue, draper, mayor. "This year, the 23rd day of November, preached at Paul's Cross the Abbot of Hyde, and there stood on a scaffold all the sermon time the Holy Maid of Kent, called [Elizabeth] Barton, and two monks of Canterbury, and two Friars observant, and two priests and two laymen, and after the sermon went "Item, the first day of April, which was tenebre Wednesday, Wolf and his wife, that killed the two Lombards in a boat upon Thames, were hanged upon two gibbets by by the water-side between London Bridge and Westminster; and on the Monday in Easter week the woman was buried at the Crossed Friars in London. Item, the 20th day of April, the parson of Aldmary (sic, but the real person was the priest of Aldington in Kent) Church, in London, was drawn on a hurdle from the Tower of London to the Tyburn and there hanged and headed. Item, two observant Freers drawn on a hurdle and both hanged and headed. Item, two monks of Canterbury, one was called Doctor Bocking, drawn on a hurdle and hanged and headed. Item, the Holy Maid of Kent was drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn and hanged and headed; and all the heads set upon London Brigge and on the gates of London. Item, the 11th day of July, the Lord Dacres of the North was conveyed from the Tower of London to Westminster to receive judgment for treason, but there he was quit by a quest of Lords. Item, all men, English and others being in England, were sworn to be true to the King and his heirs between Queen Anne and him begotten and for to be begotten. Item, the Lord Thomas Garrard, of Ireland, beheaded the Bishop of Dublin, called Doctor Allen, as he would come into England. Item, a general peace cried between the King of England and the Scottish King for their lifetime. Item, there was a great sudden storm in the Narrow Sea, and two ships of the Zealand fleet were lost, with cloth and men and all, for they sank in the sea. "Sir John Champneys, mayor. "This year, in November, came over the high Admiral of France as ambassador from the French King, and he had great gifts and his costs provided for as long as he was in the Realm. "1535. Item, the fourth day of May, the Prior of the Charterhouse in London, and two other monks of the Charterhouse in other places, and the father of the Place at Sion, being in a grey habit, and a priest which was, as men said, the vicar of Thystillworth, were drawn all from the Tower of London to Tyburn and hanged and their bowels burnt, gallon of corn, and eight gallons make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. the number of 2s. 6d. And it is to know that the baker ought not to go to the pillory, but if he pass the number of 2s. 6d. default a quartern bread, and he shall not be merced, but if the default of bread pass 15d. "When the quarter of wheat is sold for shilling, then the wastell, well boulted and clean, shall weigh six pounds sixteen shillings. The loaf of a quarter of the same corn and the same bultell shall weigh more than the said wastell two shillings. The symnell of a quarter shall weigh less than the said wastell two shillings, because that is boyled and clean. The loaf of clean wheat of a quartern shall weigh a coket and a half, and the loaf of all corns of a quartern shall weigh two cokets; and it is understand that the baker so may get of every quarter of wheat as it is proved by the King's bakers four pence and the bran, and two loaves to furnage of the price of two pence; and three servants a penny farthing, and two grooms a farthing; in salt a farthing; in yeast a farthing, in candell and in wood three pence, in bultell allowed a farthing. "Two or four loaves are made to be sold for a penny: none other kind of bread to be made of great price, but only two or four loaves to a penny. There is no bread made to be sold of three quarterns; nor of five quarterns; also, there shall be no bread made of corn the which shall be worse in breaking than it is without. It is to know that of old custom of the city of London, by authority of divers Parliaments affirmed for divers weights which the citizens of London suffer in the bakers which they have had and have been wont to have in every assise of bread, the settling of two pence in a quarter of wheat above all foreign bakers in the realm of England; so that in assise of wheat when a quarter wheat is sold for five shillings, then it shall be set to the bakers of London seven shillings for assise; and so of every other assise two shillings to the increase. "The assise of bread after that above contained truly may be holden after the selling of wheat; that is to say, of the best price, of the second price, and of the third, and as well wastell bread as other bread shall be weighed after, of what kind so ever it be, as it is above by a mean price of wheat; and then the assise or the weight of bread, shall not be changed but by six pence increasing or distressing in the selling of a quarter of wheat. Also, the baker shall be amerced 2s. 6d., and his quartern bread may be proved faulty in weight; and if he pass the number he shall go to the pillory, and the judgment of the trespass shall not be forgiven for gold nor silver; and every baker must have his own mark on every manner bread; and after eight days bread should not be weighed and if it be found that the quartern bread of the baker ibe faulty he shall be amerced 15d., and unto "The Rule set upon White Bakers and Brown Bakers.-The rule is that white bakers should inowe make and bake all manner of bread, and that they can make of wheat: that is for to say, white loaf bread, wastell buns. and all manner white bread that hath been used of old time; and they inowe make wheat bread sometimes called Crybill bread, and basket bread such as is sold in Cheep to poor people. But the white bread baker shall bake no horse bread of any assise, neither of his own neither of none other men's, to sell. The brown baker shall inowe make and bake wheat bread as it cometh ground from the mill, without any boulting of the same; also horse bread of clean beans and peasen; and also bread called household bread, for the which they shall take for every bushel kneadring bringing home 1 penny; but they shall bake no white bread of any assise, neither of their own, neither of none other men's to sell. And what person of the said bakers offend in any of the articles above writ, shall as oft as he may be proved guilty pay 6s. 8d., half to the use of the Chamber of London, and the other half to the use of the master of the bakers. "THE ASSISE OF BREAD WITHIN LONDON. grains, and the farthing horse loaf, is of like "Mem.-That the farthing loaf of all weight. Stratford must weigh two ounces more than "Mem.-That the halfpenny white loaf of the halfpenny white loaf of London. must weigh six oz. more than the penny wheat "That the penny wheat loaf of Stratford loaf of London. must weigh three ounces more than the half"The halfpenny wheat loaf of Stratford Penny wheat loaf of London. must weigh as much as the penny wheat loaf. "Three halfpenny white loaves of Stratford loaf, must weigh as much as the penny wheat "The loaf of all grains: that is, the wheat loaf and the halfpenny white loaf. "The chete white loaf must weigh 12 oz. "The chete white brown loaf must weigh 18 oz." After so much solid matter, our repast shall be completed with something of a lighter kind. A list of "Divers good proverbs" is curious, as showing the long growth and long endurance of established maxims of practical wisdom. They are written in a distinct and singular hand, not to be traced elsewhere in prose or poetry: And hevyn fell we shall have meny larkys. Though peper be blek yt hath a gode smek. He that ys warnyd beffore ys not begylyd. } Hyt ys a febyll tre thet fallyth at the fyrst strok. Hyt fallyth yn a day that fallyth not all the yere afore. Whyle the fote warmyth the shoe harmyth. When thou hast well done hange up thy hachet. Often tymys the arrow hyttyth the shoter. Sone crokyth the tre that crokyed wyll be. Seld sene sone forgotyn. When the bely ys ffull the bonys wold have craft.r Better yt ys to be unborn than untawght. Yf he never thryve, who shall hym werne? He that all covetyth often all lesyth. Never hope, herte wold breste. Hasty man lakkyth never woo. A gode begynnyng makyth a gode endyng. Poverte partyth felyshype. } Non sygheth so sore as the gloton that may no " 'Mary mother, thee I pray, To be our help at Domys day; "At Domys day when we shall rise, And come before the high Justice, And give account for our service, What helpeth then our clothing gay? "When we shall come before his doom, What will us help there all and some? We shall stand as sorry grooms, Yclad in a full poor array. "That ylke day without lesing, That wot when he shall wend away. "Mater ora filium, "Faire maiden, who is this bairn "Man to Father he hath none, But himself God alone; "Three Kings brought him presents, "Faire maiden pray for us Unto thy Son, sweet Jesus, "Gaude Maria, thou birde so bright, Brighter than blossom that bloweth on hill, "Gaude Maria, thou rose of ryse, "Now blessed birde, we pray thee abone, And pray him as he was on the rood done, In perenni gaudio." "Ad faciendum unumquemque hominum duo capita. "Sume sulphur et argentam vivam, et pone ad lumen lampadis, et unusquisque putabit socium suum habere duo capita. "Gossips mine" has been printed from another manuscript by the Percy Society. To most readers of Fraser, however, it is likely to be new. I select it from the humorous poems as being capable (which most of them are not) of being printed without omissions. The necessary discretion, it will be seen, has been supplied by the author. "How gossips mine, gossips mine, Where is the best wine, tell you me. But yet I would not for my gown, For they will come, both all and some. "And each of them will somewhat bring, Goose or pig, or capon's wing, Pasties of pigeons, or some such thing. For we must eat some manner meat. "Go before, between, and tween, Wisely that ye be not seen; "Ut homo videatur habere duo capita equina." For I must home and come again. Quoth Alice then,-I dread no men. "Now we be in the tavern set, A draught of the best let him fet, To bring our husbands out of debt; For we will spend-till God more send. "Each of them brought forth their dish, Some brought flesh and some brought fish, Quoth Margaret meke-now with a wish, I would that Anne were here; she would make us cheer. "How say ye, gossips, is the wine good? That is it, quoth Eleanour, by the rood. It cheereth the heart and comforts the blood. Such jonkets among shall make us live long. "Anne bade fill a pot of muscadell; For of all wines I love it well. Sweet wines keep my body in hell. If I had it not I should take great thought. "How look ye, gossips, at the board's end. Not merry, gossips? God it amend, |