[1] The manner of this sweat was such, Rich. Gra [...]. that if men did take anie cold outwardlie, it stroke the sweat in, and immediatlie killed them. If they were suffered to sléepe, commonlie they swooned in their sleepe and departed, or else died immediat|lie vpon their waking.Remedie [...]|gainst the danger of the sweating sicknesse. But the waie to escape dan|ger was close keeping moderatlie with some aire and a little drinke, and the same to be posset-ale, and so to kéepe them thirtie houres, & then was the dan|ger past; but beware of sudden cold. Before men had learned the manner of keeping, an infinit num|ber perished. This disease at that time followed Englishmen & none other nation; for in Antwerpe and other countries, our Englishmen being there a|mongst diuerse other nations, onelie our English|men were sicke thereof, and none other persons. The consideration of which thing made this nation much afraid thereof, who for the time began to repent and giue almes, and to remember God from whom that plague might well séeme to be sent among vs. But as the disease in time ceased, so our deuotion in short time decaied.The imb [...]|sing of the coine.] At this time also the king with the ad|uise of his priuie councell, and hauing also great conference with merchants and others, perceiuing that by such coins and copper monies, as had beene coined in the time of the king his father, and now were commonlie currant in the realme; and indéed a great number of them not worth halfe the value that they were currant at, to the great dishonor of the kings maiestie & the realme, and to the deceit & no little hinderance of all the kings maiesties good subiects, did now purpose not onelie the abasing of the said copper monies, but also meant wholie to r [...]|duce them into bullion, to the intent to deliuer fine and good monies for them. And therefore in the mo|neth of Iulie by his graces proclamation, he abased the péece of twelue pence,Two [...]a [...]les of moni [...]. commonlie called a tes|ton vnto nine pence, and the péece of foure pence vnto three pence. And in August next following, the peece of nine pence was abased to six pence, and the peece of thrée pence vnto two pence, and the pennie to an halfepennie.