[1] About the same time was an hainous murther committed in London, of a merchant Genowes,An hainous murther of [...] merchant stranger. whom certeine English merchants vpon spite and enuie, which they bare towards him, caused to be slaine one euening in the stréet before his own gates. The cause that mooued the merchants so to procure his death was, for that he vndertooke to furnish this land, hauing the staple allowed him at Southhamp|ton, of all such wares as came foorth of Leuant, so plentifullie as was to be had in any place in all the west parts of christendome.Great [...] in the north countrie. In the summer of this yeare, a greeuous mortalitie afflicted the north parts of this land, so that the countrie became almost deso|late. And to the increase of that miserie,Great [...] by the [...] in the death time. the Scots thinking the time to serue th [...]ir turne, inuaded the borders, and most cruellie harried, robbed, and spoiled [page 423] the same, not letting passe any part, of most cruell murthering of the people that were left aliue, and not made awaie by that sore contagious sicknesse. The number of cattell was infinite which they droue out of the land with them, not sparing heards of swine which they tooke at this time, where they ne|uer medled with that kind of cattell before that pre|sent.