[1] [2] [3] This Italian in great hast complained to the ma|ior, so that at the next court holden at the Guildhall, the merchant was sent for, and vpon charge of his of|fense, he was commanded to ward. Wherevpon di|uerse other light persons within the citie, assembled togither in great plumps,In vprore in the citie of London. by force constreined the maior to deliuer the prisoner out of Newgate: and not so satisfied, like mad men ran to the seuerall hou|ses of diuerse Uenetians, Lucases, and Florentins, and them spoiled,A foule disor|der. robbed, and rifled without reason or measure. The maior, perceiuing this enormious dooing, assembled a number of substantiall and graue citizens; who (not without bloudshed and maiming of sundrie) appeased the rage, and caused the misruled people to depart to their houses. The beginner of this vprore got him to Westminster, and there registred himselfe for a sanctuarie man.