[1] [2] [3] About the same time, certeine English ships of Rie,Ships of Rie win a good price. and other places, went to the sea, and meeting pirats, fought with them, and ouercame them, ta|king seuen ships, with thrée hundred men in them. One of those ships had béene taken from the Eng|lishmen afore time, and was called the falcon, be|longing to the lord William Latimer. They were all richlie laden with wine, wax, and other good mer|chandize. This yeare the maior of London Iohn de Northampton,Iohn de Northa [...] maio [...] o [...] L [...]|don, & [...] punis [...] [...] [...]|dulterie [...] [...]me. otherwise called Iohn de Comber|ton, did punish such as were taken in adulterie, ve|rie extremelie: for first he put them in the prison, cal|led the tunne, that then stood in Cornehill, and after caused the women to haue their haire cut, as théeues in those daies were serued that were appeachers of others, and so were they led about the stréets with trumpets & pipes going before them. Neither were the men spared more than the women, being put to manie open shames and reproches. But bicause the punishment of such offenses was thought rather to apperteine vnto the spirituall iurisdiction, than to the temporall, the bishop of London, and other of the cleargie, tooke it in verie euill part: but the maior be|ing a stout man, would not forbeare, but vsed his au|thoritie héerein to the vttermost.