Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the first session of which parlement, there pas|sed no more acts but one, and that was, to declare queene Marie lawfull heire in descent to the crowne of England by the common lawes, next after hir brother king Edward;Treason. Felonie. Premunire. and to repeale certeine cau|ses of treason, fellonie, and premunire, conteined in diuers former statutes: the which act of repeale was, for that cardinall Poole was especiallie looked for (as after ye shall heare) for the reducing of the church of England to the popes obedience: and to the end that the said cardinall now called into England from Rome, might hold his courts legantine without the danger of the statutes of the premunire, made in that case, whereinto cardinall Wolseie (when he was legat) had incurred to his no small losse, and to the charge of all the clergie of England, for exerci|sing the like power:The parle|ment proro|ged. the which act being once passed, foorthwith the queene repaired to the parlement house, and gaue therevnto hir roiall assent, and then proroged the parlement vnto the foure and twentith daie of the said moneth. In which second session were confirmed and made diuerse and sundrie statutes concerning religion, wherof some were restored, and other repealed.

¶Sir Thomas White for this yéere maior and mer|chant tailor, Abr, Fl. ex. I. S. pag 1075. Charitable deeds of sir Thomas White. a woorthie patrone and protector of poore scholers & lerning, renewed or rather erected a college in Oxenford, now called saint Iohns college, before Bernard college. He also erected schooles at Bristow and Reading. Moreouer, this worshipfull citizen in his life time gaue to the citie of Bristow two thou|sand pounds of readie monie to purchase lands, to the yearlie value of one hundred & twentie pounds, for the which it is decreed, that the maior, burgesses and communaltie of Bristow, in the yeare of our Lord 1567, and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing,A president of monie well emploied af|ter death. should cause to be paid at Bristow, one hundred pounds of lawfull monie. The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore yoongmen clothiers, & fréemen of the same towne, for the space of ten yeares, fiftie pounds the péece of them, putting sufficient suerties for the same, and at the end of ten yeares, to be lent to other sixteene, at the discretion of the maior, aldermen, and foure of the common councell of the said citie.

Prouision of corne for the poore.The other two hundred pounds to be imploied in the prouision of corne, for the reléefe of the poore of the same citie, for their readie monie, without gaine to be taken. And after the end of ten yeares on the feast daie of saint Bartholomew, which shall be in the yeare of our Lord 1577, at the merchant tailors hall in London, vnto the maior and communaltie of the citie of Yorke, or to their atturnie authorised, an hundred & foure pounds, to be lent vnto foure yoong|men of the said citie of Yorke, fréemen and inhabi|tants (clothiers alwaie to be preferred) that is, to e|uerie of them fiue and twentie pounds, to haue and occupie the same for the tearme of ten yeares, with|out paieng anie thing for the loane, the foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred and foure pounds, at the pleasure of the maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the receipts and paiments of the said hundred pounds.