After that came other women also, of whome one (she said) should haue beene the rocker: but she in no wise would let go hir sonne, who at the writing here|of being aliue and called Timothie Malt, was of the age of thirtéene yeares and vpward. Thus much (I saie) I heard of the woman hir selfe. What credit is to be giuen to hir relation, Ex testimonio e|iusdem puerpe|rae Londinensis. I deale not withall, but leaue it to the libertie of the reader, to beleeue it they that list: to them that list not, I haue no further war|rant to assure them. Among manie other great pre|parations made for the quéenes deliuerance of child,The yoong princes cradle there was a cradle verie sumptuouslie and gorgeous|lie trimmed, on the which cradle for the child appoin|ted, these verses were written, both in Latine and in English, as they are set downe here in record:

Quam Maria sobolem Deus optime summe dedisti,

Anglis incolumem redde, tuere, rege.

The child which thou to Marie,

Uerses vpon the cradle. ô Lord of might hast send,

To Englands ioie in health

preserue, keepe and defend.

About this time there came ouer into England a certeine English booke, giuing warning to the Englishmen of the Spaniards, and disclosing cer|teine close practises for recouerie of abbeie lands, which booke was called A warning for England. Whereof ye shall vnderstand much more at large where I. Fox in mart. sub tit. Hen. 8we speake of the Spanish inquisition. So that by the occasion of this booke, vpon the thirteenth daie of this moneth came out a certeine proclamation, set foorth in the name of the king and the quéene, re|pealing and disanulling all maner of bookes writ|ten or printed, whatsoeuer should touch anie thing the impairing of the popes dignitie, wherby not one|lie much godlie edification was hindered, but also great perill grew among the people. This procla|mation is recorded at large with other appendents, in the Acts and Monuments, vnder the title of quéene Marie.]

¶ In this yeare died sir Iohn Gresham, I. Stow. 1037. Free scale [...] Holt, with o|ther charita [...] deeds of sir Io. Gresh [...] who bare the office of lord maior of London 1547, a man of a mercifull nature, and good deuotion both to God and his countrie. He founded a frée schoole at Holt, a market towne in Norffolke, & gaue to euerie ward in London ten pounds to be distributed to the poore; and to thréescore poore men and women, euerie one of them thrée yeards of brode cloth of eight or nine shillings the yard, to be made in gownes readie to their backs. He gaue also to maids mariages, and to the hospitals in London, aboue two hundred pounds in readie monie.A blasing starre. A blasing starre was seene at all times of the night, the sixt, seuenth, eight, ninth, and tenth of March.]