Volume 1

A survey of London / by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

  • Stow, John
Date:
1908
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Credit: A survey of London / by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Page 342 Parliament at the Blacke Fryers called the blacke Parliament. 340 Farin^don JFard within furnished with Ornaments : wherein diuerse parliaments and other great meetings hath beene holden ; namely in the yeare 1450. the twentie eight of Henrie the sixt, a parliament was begun at Westminster, and adiourned to the Blacke-Friers in London, and from thence to Leycester. In the yeare 1522. the Emperour Charles the fift was lodged there. In the yeare 1524. the fifteenth of Aprill, a parliament was begun | at the Blacke Friers, wherein was demaunded a subsidie of 800000. pound, to bee raysed of goodes and landes, foure shillings in euery pound, and in the ende was granted two shillinges of the pound, of goodes or landes, that were worth twenty pound, or might dispend twentie pound by the yeare, and so vpward, to be payed in two yeares. This Parliament was adiourned to Westminster, amongst the blacke Monkes, and ended in the kings palace there, the fourteenth of August, at nine of the clocke in the night, and was therefore called the blacke parliament. In the yere 1529. Cardinall Campeius the Legat, with Cardinal Woolsey sate at the said blacke friers, where before them as Legats & fudges, was brought in question the kings marriage with Oueene Kaiherm as to be vnlawfull, before whom the king and Oueene w'ere cited and summoned to appeare, &c. whereof more at large in my Annales I haue touched. The same yeare in the Moneth of October began a parlia- ment in the Blacke Friers, in the which Cardinall Woolsey was condemned in the premunire ^: this house valued at 104.H. 15.S. 5.d. was surrendred the xii. of Nouember, the 30. of Henrie the eight. There were buried in this Church, Margaret Oueene of Scots, Hubert de Burgh Earle of Kent, translated from their olde Church, by Old-Boorne: Robert dc Attabeto Earle of Bellimon: Dame Isabel wife to Sir Roger Bygot, Earle Marshall: William and lane Huse, children to Dame Ellis, Countes of Arundell, and by them lieth Dame Ellis, daughter to the Earle War rot, and after Countesse of Arundell: Dame wife to Sir Waltar daughter toFerrers of Chartley, Richard de Bretves, Richard Strange, sonne to Roger Strange, Elisabeth daughter to sir Barthol. Badlesmerc, wife to sir William Bohun Earle of Northampton. Marsh, ‘ premunire] priminerie ; preminire 1603
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