[1] [2] Whilest such things were in dooing about Bul|longne, Iohn Stow. and other places (as before ye haue heard in this twentie and sixt yeare) the ships of the west countrie and other coasts of this realme wasted a|broad on the seas, and tooke to the number of thrée hundred & od French ships, so that the Graie friers church in London was laid full of wine,Great pri [...]es of French goods taken by the Wes|terne ships. the Austine friers and Blacke friers full of herring, and other fish that was taken, as the same should haue béene con|ueied into France. About the same season the king demanded a beneuolence of his subiects spirituall and temporall, towards the maintenance of the warres against the Frenchmen and Scots. ¶On the twelfe of Ianuarie, Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1030. the lord chancellour, the duke of Suffolke, and other of the kings councell, began to sit at Bainards castell, where they first called before them the maior and aldermen, &c. And bicause Ri|chard Read alderman would not agree to paie as they set him; he was commanded vpon paine to serue the king in his warres of Scotland, who de|parted from London the thrée and twentith of Ia|nuarie.