“1533.  Stephen Peacock, haberdasher, mayor.  “This year, the 29th day of May, the Mayor of London, with the aldermen in scarlet gowns, went in barges to Greenwich, with their banners, as they were wont to bring the Mayor to Westminister; and the bachelor’s barge hanged with cloth of gold on the outside with banners and bells upon them in their manner, with a galley to wait upon her, and a foyst with a beast therein which shot many guns.  And then they fetched Queen Anne up to the Tower of London; and in the way on land about Limehouse there shot many great chambers of guns, and two of the King’s ships which lay by Limehouse shot many great guns, and at the Tower or she came on land was shot innumerable many guns.

“And the 31st day of May, which was Whitsun even, she was conveyed in a chariot from the Tower of London to York-place, called Whitehall at Westminster; and at her departing from the Tower there was shot off guns which was innumerable to men’s thinking; and in London divers pageants, that is to say, “One at Gracechurch; “One at Leadenhall; “One at the great Conduit; “One at the Standard; “The Crosse in Chepe new trimmed; “At the conduit at Paul’s Gate; “At Paul’s gate a branch of Roses; “Without at the east end of Paul’s; “At the conduit in Fleet Street; “And she was accompanied, first Frenchmen in—­ coloured velvet and one white sleeve, and the horses trapped, and white crosses thereon; then rode gentlemen, then knights and lords in their degree, and there was two hats of maintenance, and many chariots, with lords and many gentlewomen on horseback following the chariots; and all the constables in London were in their best array, with white staves in their hands, to make room and to wait upon the Queen as far as -------; and there rode with her sixteen knights of the Bath; and on Whit-Sunday she was crowned at Westminster with great solemnity; and jousts at Westminster all the Whitsun holidays, and the feast was kept in Westminster Hall, and jousts afore York Place called Whitehall.

“This year, in the beginning of September, Queen Anne was delivered of a woman child at Greenwich, which child was named Elizabeth.

“Item, this year foreign butchers sold flesh at Leadenhall, for the butchers of the city of London denied to sell beef for a halfpenny the pound according to the Act of Parliament.

“1534.  Christopher Ascue, draper, mayor.  “This year, the 23rd day of November, preached at Paul’s Cross the Abbot of Hyde, and there stood on a scaffold all the sermon time the Holy Maid of Kent, called [Elizabeth] Barton, and two monks of Canterbury, and two Friars observant, and two priests and two laymen, and after the sermon went to the Tower.  Also this year, on Palm Sunday even, which was the 28th day of March, was a great sudden tempest of wind, and broke open two windows at Whitehall at Westminster, and turned up the lead of the King’s new Tennis Play at York Place, and broke off the tyles of three goldsmiths’ houses in Lombard Street, and folded up the lead at Pewterers’ Hall and cast it down into the yard, and blew down many tyles of houses in London, and trees about Shoreditch.