Given at our Court at Whitehall, the fourteenth day of May in the thirteenth yeare of our reigne.
Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne.
Printed by the speciall procurement and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of remembrance, Anno 1637.
Provided alwayes that the first yeare of every newe man this lawe shall not be of[223] force.
And my will and desyre is, that he will be kind to his Ante Beacham and his ant Rose Ken: by alowing the first about fiftie shilling a yeare in or for bacon and cheise (not more), and paying 4li.
Spong and I had also several fine discourses upon the globes this afternoon, particularly why the fixed stars do not rise and set at the same houre all the yeare long, which he could not demonstrate, nor I neither, the reason of.
Sometimes they are of a very large size and one was taken this yeare 1668 which was by measure an ell long and of the length of a good salmon, at Lestoffe.
This yeare [1548] the xxviiith daie of September, proclamation was made to inhibite all preachers generallie till the kinges further pleasure.
This yeare in the Whitson holidaies my lord maior [Sir John Gresham] caused three notable sermons to be made at Sainct Marie Spittell, according as they are kept at Easter.
II--That they have set out an Expedition this Yeare in their Shipps and Cargoe to more than the Value of their First Stock again; the trading of which Goods may well be estimated, in expectation as much more.
The which decessed the yeare that is goone, A thousand four hundred neynty and oone.
Then Robin Hood said to the friar: "If thou wilt forsake fair Fountains Dale And Fountains Abbey free, Every Sunday throughout the yeare A noble shall be thy fee.
And every holiday throughout the yeare Changed shall thy garment be If thou wilt go to fair Nottinghame And there remaine with me.
This battell was fought in the sixt yeareof king Stephans reigne, vpon Candlemas daie, being sundaie, as Niger saith.
This yeare through great and immoderate raine that fell in the summer, the growing of corne was so hindred, that a great death of people insued[4].
October, in the nine and fortith yeare of his age, and after he had reigned eighteene yeares, ten moneths, and od daies, in the yeare after the birth of our Sauiour 1154.
This yeare was an heinous act committed by the Jewes at Norwich, where they put a child to death, in crucifieng him vpon a crosse to the reproch of Christian religion.
The great raine that fell in the summer season thisyeare did much hurt vnto corne standing on the ground, so that a great dearth followed.
The same yeare also king Stephan by siege and force of assault did win the castell of Newberie not far from Winchester.
This yeare also was the battell of Monadmore fought in Ireland, where the flower and chiefest personages of Mounster and Leynister were slaine.
After this king Stephan in the same yeare brake into the citie of Worcester, and whereas he could not the last time win the castell, he now endeauoured with all his force to take it.
The forme of the peace was now also ingrossed and registered for a perpetuall witnesse of the thing, in this yeare 1154.
In this yeare duches Elenor, wife to Henrie Fitzempresse, was brought to bed of hir first borne son, whom they named William, after the maner of the ancient dukes of Aquitaine.
Caerbranke, now called Yorke, about the 14, yeare of his reigne.
Ebranke the sonne of Mempricius began to rule ouer the Britons in the yeare of the world 2969.
Here therefore he began to build and lay the foundation of a citie, in the tenth or (as other thinke) in the second yeare after his arriuall, which he named (saith Gal.
LEILL the sonne of Brute Greeneshield, began to reigne in the yeare of the world 3021, the same time that Asa was reigning in Iuda, and Ambri in Israell.
Slouth engendred lecherie] Mempricius the eldest sonne of Madan began his reigne ouer the Britons in the yeare of the world 2949, he continued not long in peace.
Locrinus or Locrine the first begotten sonne of Brute began to reigne ouer the countrie called Logiers, in the yeare of the world 1874, and held to his part the countrie that reached from the south sea vnto the riuer of Humber.
Brute Greeneshield, the sonne of Ebranke, was made gouernor of this land in the yeare of the world 3009, Asa reigning in Iuda, and Baasa in Israell.
Lud or Ludhurdibras the sonne of Leill began to gouerne in the yeare of the world 3046.
Baldud the sonne of Ludhurdibras began to rule ouer the Britaines in the yeare of the world 3085.
Leir the sonne of Baldud was admitted ruler ouer the Britaines, in the yeare of the world 3105, at what time Ioas reigned in Iuda.
In the same book James also promises "two hundred pounds a yeare to begin from Midsommer day last past.
In one church it was voted that "the Deacons have liberty for a quarter of a yeareto git in every mans sume either in a Church way or in a Christian way.
Evelyn, in his Memoirs, that he was elected one of the comptrollers of the Middle Temple revellers, "as the fashion of the young students and gentlemen was, the Christmas being kept this yeare with greate solemnity.
I extract the following fragment from Evelyn's memoir of her: "She died in the 26 yeare of age, to the inexpressible affliction of her deare husband.
And yet I sawe in that little tyme in one citie more libertie to sinne than ever I heard tell of in our noble citie of London in ix yeare .
His "Wonderfull yeare 1603," from which Defoe seems to have taken several hints, abounds in scenes of this sort.
Also euery yeare they send messenters vnto the Caliph mouing him to come vnto them.
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