1313—This yeare the king of France burned all his leporous and pocky people, as well men as women; for that he supposed they had poysoned the waters, which caused his leprosie. About this time, also, the Jews had a purpose to poyson all the Christians, by poysoning all their springs.
1361—Men and beasts perished in diuers places with thunder and lightning, and fiends were seene speake unto men as they trauelled.
1386—The making of gunnes found; and rebels in Kent and Essex, who entered London, beheaded all lawyers, and burnt houses and all bookes of law.
1388—Picked shoes, tyed to their knees with siluer chains, were vsed. And women with long gownes rode in side-saddles, like the queen, that brought side-saddles first to England; for before they rode astrid.
1401—Pride exceeding in monstrous apparrell.
1411—Guildhall in London begun.
1417—A decree for lantherne and candle-light in London.
1427—Rain from the 1st of Aprill to Hollontide.