[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.