[...] pag. 1185. God punish|ed periurie.¶ The eleuenth of Februarie Anne Aueries, wi|dow, forswearing hir selfe for a little monie that she should haue paid for six pounds of tow at a shop in Woodstréet of London, fell immediatlie downe spéechlesse, casting vp at hir mouth in great aboun|dance, & with horrible stinke, the same matter which by natures course should haue béene voided downe|wards, till she died. A terrible example of Gods iust iudgement vpon such as make no conscience of swearing against their brother.Archbishop [...]. The fiftéenth of Fe|bruarie, Edmund Grindale somtime bishop of Lon|don, late archbishop of Yorke, was in the chapter-house of S. Paules church at London elected archbi|shop of Canturburie. The fift of March in the night through a great flaw of wind then in the northeast,The bote [...]wned. a tilt bote with about the number of one and thirtie persons, men and women, comming from Graues|end toward London, were all drowned; one boie ex|cepted. The thirtith of Maie Thomas Gréene gold|smith was drawen from Newgate of London to Tiburne,Gréene han|ged. and there hanged, headed, and quartered, for clipping of coine both gold and siluer.

Frobishers first voiage for the disco|uerie of Ca|taia.The fiftéenth of Iune Martine Frobisher being furnished of aduenturors, with two small barkes & one pinnesse departed from Blackewall, vpon his voiage for the discouerie of a passage to Cataia by the northwest seas. Upon the first of Iulie he had sight (as he iudged) of Fréesland, but durst not ap|proch the same, by reason of the great yee that laie a|longst the coast. Not far from thense he lost his pin|nesse and one of his barkes, who mistrusting the dan|ger of tempests returned home, with report that their generall Martine Frobisher was cast awaie: which worthie capteine notwithstanding continued his course northwest,A rumor that capteine Fro|bisher was cast awaie. Queene Eli|sabeths fore|land. beyond anie man that hath heretofore discouered, and the twentith of Iulie had sight of a high land, which he named Quéene Elisa|beths foreland; and after that another foreland with a great passage, diuiding (as it were) the two maine lands asunder: this place he named Frobishers streits. After he had passed sixtie leagues further, he went ashoare, found the same to be inhabited with sauage people, caught one of them into his barke, and returning, arriued in England in the moneth of August following. One of his companie brought from thense a péece of a blacke stone, much like to a seacole in colour, which being brought to certeine goldfiners in London, to make a saie thereof, found it to hold gold, and that verie richlie for the quantitie.

A woman burnt at Tun|bridge for poi|soning hir husband.The ninteenth of Iulie a woman was burnt at Tunbridge in Kent for poisoning of hir husband: and two daies before a man, named Oxleie, was hanged at Maidstone for being accessarie to the same fact. The tenth of August a rare péece of worke and almost incredible,Rare worke|manship shew|ed in the com|passe of a penie by the hand|writing of an Englishman. was brought to passe by an Englishman borne in the citie of London named Peter Bales, who by his industrie and practise of his pen, contriued and writ within the compasse of a pe|nie in Latine, the Lords praier; the créed, the ten commandements, a praier to God, a praier for the quéene, his posie, his name, the daie of the moneth, the yeare of our Lord, and the reigne of the quéene. And on the seuentéenth of August next following at Hampton court he presented the same to the quéens maiestie in the head of a ring of gold, couered with a christall, and presented therewith an excellent specta|cle by him deuised for the easier reading thereof: wherewith hir maiestie read all that was written therein with great admiration, and commended the same to the lords of the councell, and the ambassa|dors, and did weare the same manie times vpon hir finger.]