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¶ This yeare was Robert Basset maior of Lon|don, who did sharpe correction vpon bakers, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 745. for ma|king of light bread, he caused diuerse of them to be set on the pillorie in Cornehill.Agnes Dain|tie on the pil|lorie. And also one Agnes Daintie a butterwife for selling of butter new and old mingled togither, being first trapped with butter dishes, was then set on the pillorie. ¶The countesse of Oxford deceassed and was buried at Windsore. ¶Al|so this yeare Richard Rawson one of the shiriffes of London, caused to be builded one house in the church yard of S. Marie hospitall without Bishops gate of London, where the maior of that citie and his bre|thren the aldermen vse to sit and heare the sermons in the Easter holie daies, as in times past appeared by an inscription on the front of the same house, now by wethering defaced, which I haue read in these words: Praie for the soules of Richard Rawson late Mercer and alderman of London, and Isabell his wife, of whose goods this worke was made and foun|ded. Anno Dom. 1488.]

By the diligence of Ralph Iosseline maior of London, Part of Lõ|don wall [...] builded. the wall about London was new made be|twixt Algate and Creplegate: he caused the Moore field to be searched for claie, and bricke to be made and burnt there: Iohn Rouse. he also caused chalke to be brought out of Kent, and in the same Moore field to be burnt into lime, for the furtherance of that worke. The ma|ior with his companie of the drapers made all that part betwixt Bishops gate and Alhalowes church in the same wall. Bishops gate it selfe was new built by the merchants Almans of the Stilliard, and from Alhalowes church toward Moore gate a great part of the same was builded of the goods,Bishops [...] new builded. & by the execu|tors of sir Iohn Crosbie somtimes an alderman of London, as may appeare by his armes in two places fixed. The companie of Skinners made that part of EEBO page image 703 the wall betweene Algate and Buries markes to|wards Bishops gate, as may appeare by their armes in thrée places fixed: the other companies of the citie made the other deale of the said wall, which was a great worke to be doone in one yeare.

Also this yeare Thomas Burdet an esquier of Ar|row in Warwikeshire,Burdet for a word spoken beheaded. sonne to sir Nicholas Bur|det (who was great butler of Normandie in Henrie the sixt daies) was beheaded for a word spoken in this sort. King Edward in his progresse hunted in Thomas Burdets parke at Arrow, Enguerant. and slue manie of his deere, amongst the which was a white bucke, whereof Thomas Burdet made great account. And therefore when he vnderstood thereof,Register of the Greie friers. he wished the buckes head in his bellie that moued the king to kill it. Which tale being told to the king, Burdet was apprehended and accused of treason, for wishing the buckes head (hornes and all) in the kings bellie: he was condemned, drawne from the Tower of Lon|don to Tiburne, and there beheaded, and then buried in the Greie friers church at London. Wherefore it is good counsell that the wiseman giueth, saieng: Kéepe thy toong & kéepe thy life, for manie times we sée, that speech offendeth & procureth mischéefe, where silence is author neither of the one nor the other, as it is trulie and in praise of silence spoken by the poet:

-nulli tacuisse nocet, nocet esse loquutum.]

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