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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.]