1489. This yeare the Kinge sent manye knightes with seaven thowsand^b men into Brytane.

Note b. Eight thousand according to Stow.

28 Apr 1489. Th' Earle of Northumberlande (age 40) slayne in the Northe.^c.

Note c. By the rebels, April 28th, 1489.

1489. A capp of mayntenance brought from Rome to the Kinge.^d

Note d. This agrees with Arnold and Bernard André, but Stow places it in 1505.

1490. This yeare Creplegate [Map] was new made, and E. Francke^e and other put to death.

Note e. Edward Franke in Arnold.

12 Mar 1491. Sir Robert Chamberlayne (age 53) was beheaded. A conduict begon at Christ Churche.^h

Note h. Christ Church probably refers to Christ Church Greyfriars [Map].

1492. This yeare the Kinge (age 34) went to Calis [Map] with a great armieⁱ againste France, but the peace was made without battell.^k.

Note i. 25,000 foot and 1,600 horse.

Note k. By the terms of this treaty, known as the Peace of Estaples, the French King engaged to pay 745,000 crowns down and 52,000 crowns yearly under the name of pension.

08 Jun 1492. The Queenes (age 26) mother (age 55)^l deceased, and the Lowers^m set upon Guylde Hall [Map].

Note l. Elizabeth Woodville (age 55), widow of Edward IV.

Note m. Towers.

1493. This yeare was a risinge of yonge men againste the Stiliarde [Map].^a

Note a. The Hanseatic or Easterling merchants had their repository, "Goyhalda Tentonicorum" in the Still-yard [Map] in Thames Street, from which circumstance they received the sobriquet of Merchants of the Steelyard.

22 Jun 1497. This yeare was Blackheath [Map] feild in June.^e The Lord Awdley (age 34) chiefe capteyn with 30,000 Cornishe men. The capteynes put to death,^f.

Note e. June 22nd.

Note f. Lord Audley (age 34) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]; Flammock, an attorney, and Michel Joseph, a blacksmith, were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn [Map]; all the rest were pardoned by proclamation.

Dec 1498. This yeare, in December, was the weathercock of Paules, the crosse [Map], and the bowle,^k taken downe, and all new made. And in May after were solemnlye hallowed, and sett up agayne.

Note k. ball.

22 Feb 1499. This yeare was borne the third sonne of King Henry the VII (age 42) named Edmunde Duke of Somersett, at Greenwich [Map], the 22nd of Februarie.

19 Jun 1500. This yeare, in June, deceased the third sonne (age 1) of the Kinge (age 43), named Duke of Somersett, and was buried at Westminster [Map].^a

Note a. Our author follows Arnold, but others say that the infant Prince Edmond did not die till the fifth year of his age.

23 Nov 1499. Perkin Werbeck (age 25) putt to death at Tyburne [Map]; and the Earle of Warwyke (age 24),^b sonne to the Duke of Clarence, who had bene kept in the Tower [Map] from the age of 11 years unto the end of 14 yeares, was beheaded at the Tower Hill [Map].^c A great pestilence throughout all England.

Note b. Edward Earl of Warwick (age 24) was the last remaining male of the honse of Plantagenet. He bore the title of Earl of Warwick, though it does not appear that his father's attainder had been reversed.

Note c. Warbeck (age 25) was executed at Tyburn [Map] on the 23rd Norember, together with O'Water, Mayor of C!ork, and the Earl of Warwick on the following day, or, according to some anthorities, on the 28th.

Note. "though it does not appear that his father's attainder had been reversed." Edward's (age 24) claim was from through his mother Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence, daughter of Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury and Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick, whose claim had come from her mother Anne Beauchamp, so his father's attainder was irrelevant.

1501. This yeare the Kinge (age 43) buylded new his manner at Sheene,^d and chaunged the name and named it Richmonde [Map];^e and buylded new his place, called the Baynards Castle [Map], in London; and repayred his place in Greenewich [Map], with muche new buyldinge.^f

Note d. Stow has placed this paragraph under the year 1507, being the twenty-second year of Henry's reign.

Note e. After his own title.

Note f. Greenwich [Map] has much favoured by Henry VII (age 43) and here his son, afterwards Henry VIII (age 9) was born.

02 Apr 1502. And in Easter weeke followinge the saide Prince Arthure (age 15) deceased at Ludlowe [Map], in Wales, and was buried at Worcester [Map].^b

Note b. Prince Arthur (age 15) died on the Saturday following Easter Sunday in 1503, being April 2nd, and was buried in Worcester cathedral on the 27th April.

11 Feb 1503. This yeare, in Februarie, died Queene Elizabeth (age 37) at the Towre of London [Map], lyeinge in childebedd of a daughter named Katherine (the 8th day after her birth), and was buried at Westminster [Map];^c

Note c. Elizabeth (age 37), the eldest child of Edward IV by Elizabeth Woodville his wife, was heiress of the house of York. She was born at Westminster [Map] on the 11th February, 1466, and died on her thirty-seventh birthday in the Tower of London [Map], having been delivered of a daughter on the second of the same month, who died soon after its mother.

08 Mar 1503... and on Passion Sundaye a peace made betwene the Emperoure and the Kinge (age 46) duringe their lyves, solemnized upon a great oathe at the highe aulter in Paules queere [Map].

1504. This yeare the Taylors sued to the Kinge (age 46) to be called Marchant taylors.^d

Note d. This Society, anciently denominated "Taylors and Linen-Armorers," was incorporated by letters patent of 6 Edward IV 1466. But many of the members being great merchants, and Henry VII a member thereof, he for their greater honour reincorporated the same in 1503, by the name of "The Master and Wardens of the Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St John the Baptist in the City of London." — Maitland's "History of London."

1504. And this yeare was a great fier at the ende of London Bridge next to St. Magnus [Map].

1505. This yeare was a great strife for th' election of the sheriffs in the Guylde Hall [Map]. One parte woulde have William Fitz-Williams, marchante taylor, and another Boger Grove, grocer, who at length was admitted for one of the sheriffes.^a

Note a. The two sheriffs chosen for the yetr 1606 were Richard Shore and Roger Grore.

1506. This yeare a great parte of the cittie of Norwich [Map] was burnt, and the towne of Berkwaye^b more then halfe burnt. Also a great fier in London betwene the Custome Howsse and Billinsgate, that did great hurte.

Note b. Berkwey in Arnold, probably Berkeley in Gloucestershire.

1507. This yeare, about the latter ende of Januarye, the Kinge of Castell and his wife (age 28)^c were driven into Englande,^d and had here great cheare. The King was made Knight of the Garter at Windsore [Map].^e

c. Archduke Philip and his wife Juana, who, by the death of her mother lsabella, was now Queen of Castille.

Note d. For a full account of the arrival of the Archduke Philip, and his entertainment whilst in England, see MS. Harleian. Cod. 640, fol. 60-66, and Cod. 643, fol. 140.

Note e. The English monarch invested Philip with the order of the Garter at Windsor, and the latter made him and Prince Henry Knights of the Golden Fleece.