Item the xxvij. of June was kept the obijit of the kynges grandhame,[1] with a goodly herse as ever was sene, and stode a vj. or vij. days after.
Item the xxvj. day of August the jeynge and the qwene came thorrow the citte, and soo to Grenwyche towarde in hys jurné unto hys fader the emperar; and there toke hys leffe.
Item the xvj. day of October was burnyd at Oxforde doctor Ridley that was sometyme byshoppe of London, and doctor Lattimer, for gret herysy.
Item the xxvij. day of September after was the counter in Bredstret removed in-to Wood-strete.
Thys yere was dyvers burnyd in many places in Ynglond. And the xxvij. day of Januarij [1556] was burnyd in Smythefelde v. men and too women for great heryse.
Item the iiij. day of November began the parlament at Westmyster. And the xj. day after began the cardnalles senod at Lambyth, and contnewyd telle the xij. day of February after.
Item the mayer with the cittá enterde into Brydwelle.[2]
Item the xxiij. of February was Shroft sonday, and then was leppe yere, and that day the byshoppe of London Edmonde Boner, the byshoppe of Lyncolne then beynge [John White], and the byshoppe of Ely doctor Thyrebe, sattle at Oxforde in commyssoners for the pope aponne Thomas Creme[3] some tyme archebyshoppe of Cantorbert apone hys leggatsheppe and of hys archebyshoppecheppe, and presthed, wyth alle other ecclesiasticall degres, and presthode, and soo comyttyd unto the temperalle honddes and jurysdycion.
Item the xxj. day of Marche folowynge was burnyd there and
- ↑ The king's grand-dame here mentioned was Jame queen of Spain, the heiress of Castile and Arragon: and who was also queen Mary's maternal aunt. See Machyn's account of the hearse and the ceremonial, which took place in St. Paul's cathedral church, at p. 90 of his Diary, and the note thereon, p. 344
- ↑ They then took possession of that royal palace: whose name has subsequently become the generic term for houses of penal discipline throughout the county.
- ↑ Cranmer.
