‘1577, March 11th.—My fall uppon my right nuckel bone, hora 9 fere mane, wyth oyle of Hypericon (Hypericum, or St. John’s Wort) in twenty-four howers eased above all hope: God be thanked for such His goodness of (to?) His creatures.
‘1577, March 24th.—Alexander Simon, the Ninevite, came to me, and promised me his service into Persia.
‘1577, May 1st.—I received from Mr. William Harbut of St. Gillian his notes uppon my “Monas.”[28]
‘1577, May 2nd.—I understode of one Vincent Murfryn his abbominable misusing me behinde my back; Mr. Thomas Besbich told me his father is one of the cokes of the Court.
‘1577, May 20th.—I hyred the barber of Cheswik, Walter Hooper, to kepe my hedges and knots in as good order as he saw them then, and that to be done with twice cutting in the yere at the least, and he to have yerely five shillings, meat and drink.
‘1577, June 26th.—Elen Lyne gave me a quarter’s warning.
‘1577, August 19.—The “Hexameron Brytanicum” put to printing. (Published in 1577 with the title of “General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the perfect Art of Navigation.”)
‘1577, November 3rd.—William Rogers of Mortlak about 7 of the clok in the morning, cut his own throte, by the fiende his instigator.
‘1577, November 6th.—Sir Umfrey Gilbert[29] cam to me to Mortlak.
‘1577, November 22nd.—I rod to Windsor to the Q. Majestie.