[137] Authorities: Chronicle of London (1827), p. 36; I. Julius B II. in Chronicles of London (C. L. Kingsford, 1905), pp. 62-3; Gregory’s Chron. (Camden Society, 1876), p. 102; Grey Friars Chron., ed. Howlett, p. 161; Chroniques de Waurin, ed. Hardy, vol. ii. pp. 41-3; Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits, &c., tome i, Paris, 1787. English translation, 1789. [138] Hall’s Chronicle, ed. 1809, p. 26. [139] Walsingham, “Hist. Anglic.,” ed. Riley, ii. 249. [140] Stow, Annals, 330. Here again Gregory’s Chronicle supplies the place of execution—Tyburn (p. 104). [141] Stow, Annals, p. 365; Hall’s Chronicle, ed. 1809, p. 128. Stow evidently took his account of Mortimer from a chronicle which has been printed only quite lately in Chronicles of London. C. L. Kingsford, 1905, pp. 282-3, 341-2. [142] Stow, Annals, ed. Howes, 1615, pp. 381-2. The “Swan” in Thames Street became the “Old Swan” (it is so called in Braun and Hogenberg’s map), and still retains the name. [143] Gregory’s Chron., p. 188. Stow adds, “but yᵉ yeoman of yᵉ crowne had their liuelode, and the hangman had their cloths, or wearing apparrell. The Pardon for liues was obtained through the earnest sute and labor of master Gilbert Worthington, then parson of S. Andrewes in Holborn a doctor of Diuinity a famous man and a greate preacher in those daies” (p. 386). [144] Gregory’s Chronicle, pp. 234-5. Here again it is to the citizen of London that we owe this curious illustration of the life of the times. [145] Gregory’s Chronicle (“Camden Soc.,” 1876), pp. 236-7. Lord Wenlock was killed in the battle of Tewkesbury. [146] Smith, Sir Thomas, “De Republica Anglorum,” ed. 1583, pp. 83, 84. [147] Lettres et Voyages, 1725-9, (Lausanne, 1903), p. 129. [148] Wriothesley’s Chronicle (Camden Soc.), i. 17. Holinshed supplies the date, December 4, and gives the names as Sir Rees Griffin and John Hewes (iii. 928). Pennant, a Welshman, corrects these names to Sir Rhys ap Gryffydd, and John Hughes. He gives particulars of the family of Sir Rhys. [149] This was the inner gate, still standing, of the London Charterhouse. [150] Calendar of State Papers, Henry VIII., ed. Gairdner, xi. No. 780; xii. (1), No. 479. [151] Chron. Jocelin of Brakelond (Camden Society), p. 28. [152] As, for example: In 1175, William of Waterville, Abbat of Peterborough, designed to pledge with the Jews the arm of St. Oswald. The monks objecting, the abbat took with him ten armed knights, and forced his way into the cloisters and the church, inflicting mortal wounds on some monks and servants of the monastery who resisted him. For this he was deposed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Chron. Benedict of Peterborough, ed. Stubbs, i. 106. [153] Fortescue, “The Governance of England,” ed. Plummer, 1885, pp. 137-41. [154] Latimer’s Seven Sermons, ed. Arber, pp. 40-1.