[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] A monstrous fish driuen to shore.In the moneth of December was driuen on the shore at Grimsbie in Lincolnshire a monstruous fish, in length ninetéene yards, his taile fiftéene foot broad, and six yards betwéene his eies, twelue men stood vpright in his mouth to get the oile. For that the plague was not fullie ceassed in London, Hila|rie tearme was kept at Hertford castell beside Ware. Terme kept at Hertford. Rich. Grafton A peace be|tweene Eng|land and France. This yeare the thirtéenth of Aprill, an hono|rable and ioifull peace was concluded, betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king; their realmes dominions and subiects: and the same peace was proclamed with sound of trumpet, before hir maie|stie in hir castell of Windsor, then being present the French ambassadors. And shortlie after, the quéenes grace sent the right honourable sir Henrie Careie lord of Hunnesdon,The noble de|scent of the lord of Hun|nesdon. now lord chamberleine (of whose honourable and noble descent it is thus written

—cuius fuerat matertera pulchra

Reginae genitrix Henrici nobilis vxor)

accompanied with the lord Strange, beside diuerse knights and gentlemen, vnto the French king, with the noble order of the garter, who finding him at the citie of Lions, being in those parties in progresse, he there presented vnto him the said noble order: and Garter king at armes inuested him therewith, ob|seruing the ceremonies in that behalfe due and re|quisit. The plague (thanks be to God) being cleane ceassed in London, both Easter and Midsummer tearmes were kept at Westminster. ¶And here by the waie to note the infection of this plague to haue béene dispersed into other countries besides Eng|land, it is read in Schardius In epitome rerum gestarum sub Ferdinando primo imperatore, The plague in Germanie whereof three hundred thou|sand died. that the pestilence did so rage in Germanie, and poisoned such peopled pla|ces, namelie Norimberge, Francford, Magdburge, Danske, Hamburgh, and their borders, that by esti|mation (saith he) there died of that contagion to the number of thrée hundred thousand. A grieuous scourge of God (saith mine author) howbeit verie few thereby so terrified, that they reformed their wicked liues. Which plague in Germanie I there|fore doo here repeat, bicause by all likelihoods it is to be gathered, that as it raged in the same yeare both there and here; so the cause maie be all one that bred so venemous an effect.]