He continued it nine monthes; was within a month of his reckoning; the crowe's head began to appear black.
1557—He, pressed on a warre proclaimed against the French (Burnet's History, part 2, p. 355), broke and cast all away. January 1, he began; July 20, he ended, his Breviary.
1562—He marryed Agnes Norden at Stockland, Bristoll.
1563—He buryed Absolon his son.
1566—He dedicated a booke to Queen Elizabeth 9 yeares after the Breviary was penned.
He dated the rolle at Stockland.
1572—He wrote the posy on the rolle.
He wrote his aenigma ad Alchimiam[638] and de Alchimia[639].
1573—the fragment[640] of 'knocke the child on the head.'
1574—that he never saw the white ferment to the red till that 50th yeare of his age.