Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London Volume 53 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADDITIONAL NOTES. P. 1, 1. 7. The worl imperfect in the MS. is in Arnold's Chronicle, " Portehaf," /. e. Port Jaffa or Joppa. P. 15,1. 4. For " Stawe " reul Strawe. P. 22. A bladce stem. So our MS., but in Arnold's Chronicle "a biasing starre," i. e. a comet. P. 26, 4th I. from foot. "And Oiis yen mm brent a palmer.'' This is a flagrant clerical error of the MS. In Arnold's Chronicle we read " this year was brent yc towne of Paburh'm." Qu. was this Baburham or Dabraham, co. Cambridge ? P. 30. Bvil May-day and John Afeanlys. In the fuller account which Stowe gives of these riots, he relates that the mob ran from Cornhill " to a house east from Leaden- hall, called the Green Gate, where dwelt one Mewtas, a Piekard or Frenchman, within whose house dwelled divers Frenchmen, whom they likewise spoiled, and if they had found Mewtas they would have stricken off his head." The present chronicle tells us how he escaped,?by hiding in the gutters of his house. The history of that house, "a fair house of old time called the Green Gate," will be found in Stowe's Survay, where he states that " John Mutas, a Pickarde or Frenchman, dwelt there, and harboured in his house many Frenchmen that kalendred wolstedes, and did other things contrary to the franchises of the citizens." This John Meutas, or Mcautys, (called James in the present chronicle,) founded a family in England, of which a pedigree will be found in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 93, and some further account in the memoir accompanying the portrait of Sir Thomas Meautys, (sometime secretary to lord chancellor Bacon,) engraved for the Granger Society. P. 81. Alice lady Hv.ngtrford. The passage relating to this execution is extracted by Stowe from the present chronicle, which is cited in his margin as...