¶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.

Iohn Ligh of Wlfrunehãp|ton, his rare example of charitie.Moreouer, about Anno 1566, sir Iohn Ligh a préest, which had serued in that church there, the space of thréescore years, for fiue pounds, six shillings eight pence the yeare, without anie other augmentation of his liuing, who would neuer take anie benefice, or other preferment, gaue twentie pounds, to purchase twentie shillings the yeare lands, the same to be gi|uen yearelie for euer to the poore of Wlfrunehamp|ton vpon good fridaie; & twelue pounds thirteene shil|lings foure pence, to purchase a marke a yeare lands, the same to be giuen to the poore of Chifnall, in the countie of Salope, where the said Ligh was borne. This man liued nigh one hundred years. He bestow|ed besides his owne labour which was great (in hea|ring of stones, &c.) aboue twentie pounds on the high waies about that towne of Wlfrunehampton.