Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this same time Lewes the French king, the twelfe of that name (who succéeded Charles the eighth that died at Amboise the night before the eighth daie of Aprill, of a catarrhe, Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 18 [...]. which the physi|cians call an apoplexie, the same rising in him with such aboundance, as he beheld a match plaied at tennisse, that in few houres he ended at the same place his life: during the which, he had with grea|ter importunitie than vertue troubled the whole world with great apparance of danger to kindle eft|soones new fiers of innouation and troubles) maried his eldest daughter named Clare, vnto Francis de Ualois Dolphin of Uienne, and duke of Angolesme, which ladie was promised vnto Charles the king of Castile: wherevpon by ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt king Henrie and the said king of Castile, a mariage was concluded betwixt the said king of Castile, and the ladie Marie, daughter to king Hen|rie, being about the age of ten yeares. For conclusi|on of which mariage, the lord of Barow, & other am|bassadors were sent into England from the emperor Maximilian which with great rewards returned.

¶William Browne mercer maior of London this yeare deceassed, and foorthwith sir Laurence Ailmer draper was chosen and sworne, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 879. and went home in a graie cloake, with the sword borne before him, on the eight and twentith daie of March. Item he tooke his oth at the Tower, and kept no feast. William Ca|pell was put in sute by the king for things by him doone in his maioraltie.William Ca|pell sued by the king Tho. Kneis|worth impri|soned. Also Thomas Kneisworth that had beene maior of London, and his shiriffes, were sent to the kings Bench, till they were put to EEBO page image 796 their fines of foureteene hundred pounds. In the mo|neth of Iune,Norwich on fier. the citie of Norwich was sore perished, & neere consumed with fier, that began in a French|mans house named Peter Iohnson, a surgian, in the parish of saint George.

Frée schoole at Wlfrune|hampton.Stephan Genings merchant tailor, maior of London, founded a free grammar schoole at Wl|frunehampton in Staffordshire, with conuenient lodgings for the maister and vsher, in the same place where he was borne. He gaue lands sufficient for the maintenance, leauing the ouersight thereof to the merchant tailors in London, who haue hither|to iustlie dealt in that matter, and also augmented the building there. Maister Nichols, who maried the onelie daughter and heire of the aforesaid Stephan Genings, gaue lands to mainteine the pauements of that towne. Also, Iohn Leneson esquier, about Anno 1556, gaue lands, whereof foure pounds should be dealt euerie yeare, on good fridaie, to the poore people of Wlfrunehampton, and six and twentie shillings eight pence yéerelie, towards the reparati|on of the church there.