[1] On New yeares daie, was sir Thomas Wrio|thesleie the kings secretarie made lord Wriothesleie of Tichfield.

The lord Wriothesleie. Abr. Fl. ex I S. pag. 1027 Foure E| [...]lipses.

Germaine Gardner and other execu|ted.

I Stow 1005. Charitable déeds of sir Iohn Allen.

¶ This yeare chanced foure eclipses, one of the sunne the fourtéenth of Ianuarie, and three of the moone. On the seuenth of March, Germaine Gardner, and Larke person of Chelseie were execu|ted at Tiburne, for denieng the kings supremacie, & with whom was executed for other offenses one Sin|gleton. And shortlie after Ashbeie was likewise exe|cuted for the supremacie. In this yeare sir Iohn Al|len (who had bin twise maior of London, & of coun|cell to the king) departing out of this life, did giue to the citie of London a rich collar of gold, to be worne by the maior: which collar was first worne by sir William Laxton on S. Edwards daie, to the elec|tion of the new maior, who gaue to euerie ward in London twentie pounds to be distributed to the poore housholders, besides to one hundred and twen|tie persons, three score men euerie of them a gowne of brode cloth, and a blacke cap, and thréescore wo|men, to euerie of them a gowne of the like cloth, and a white kerchiefe. Humfreis Monmouth,Shiriffes put awaie their officers. and Iohn Coles which were shiriffes in his maioraltie, in the beginning of their yeare put awaie twelue sarge|ants and twelue yeomen, till they were forced by a court of common councell to take them againe.]