A. D. 1541. By 



likewife to a defenfivc alliance, whereby the two kings mutually en- 

 gaged to aflift each other with 25,000 troops and 50 fhips. 



A ftatute was made, whereby all former ones were confirmed, for 

 confining the importation of wines from Gafcony, and woad from 

 Tholoufe, to Englifh and Irifh fliips only. [32 Hen. VIII, c. 14.] 



By an a6t of this fame year \c. 16.] the power which the king had 

 before alTumed, by his proclamation alone, of remitting to merchants- 

 aliens the duties they would otherwiie have been obliged by law to pay, 

 was confirmed and made legal. Such abjed flaves did thofe parliaments 

 render themfelves to the pleafure of that monarch. 



There is an adl for paving the following ftreets or ways in London, 

 viz. i) The ftreet leading from Aldgate to Whitechapel church. 2) 

 The upper part of Chancery-lane. 5) The way leading from Hol- 

 bovirn-bars weftward towards St. Giles in the fields, as far as any ha- 

 bitation is on both fides of the faid fl:reet. 4) Gray's Tnn-lane. 5) 

 Shoe-lane ; and, 6) Feuter (now Fetter) lane ; the two lafi: being tho- 

 rough-fares and pafiiiges from Fleet-itreet into Holbourn. That part 

 of Chancery-lane now to be paved is thus defcribed, viz. from the bars 

 befidc the rolls, lately fet up by the lord privy-feal, unto the faid high- 

 way in Holbourn. This pafliige fhows the age of the rolls-office in 

 Chancery-lane; andalfo that all Holbourn above the city-bars remained 

 nnpaved till now ; neither was it now all built on both fides, (nor a 

 good while later than this time, as appears by a map of London in 

 Queen Elizabeth's reign). All thefe fix ways now direcT:ed to be paved 

 are herein defcribed as very foul, and full of pits and floughs, very pe- 

 rilous, and noyous (noifonie),as well for all the king's'fubjeds on horfe- 

 back as on foot, and vvith carriage. [-^,2 Hen. P'JH, c. ly.} Yet three 

 of thefe, viz. Shoe-lane, Fetter-lane, and Chancery-lane, are now in the 

 •yery centre of the prefent vafl contiguity, and all the refl: are likewife 

 well built and inhabited. So great is the increafe and improvement of 

 London fince thofe times. 



In the fame year, by a fiatute [c. 18.] a lifi; of decayed cities and 

 tovi^ns is exhibited (as in 1535) wherein it is faid, there had been 

 in times- pall: many beautiful houfes within the walls and liberties ot 

 York, Lincoln, Canterbury, Coventry, Bath, Chicheftcr, Salifbury, Win- 

 chefter, Briftol, Scarborough, Hereford, Colcheft;er, Rochelter, Portf-* 

 mouth, Poole, Lynn, Feverfiiam, Worcefl:er, Stafford, Buckingham, 

 Pontefradt, Grantham, Exeter, Ipfwich, Southampton, Great Yarmouth, 

 Oxenford, Great Wicomb, Guildford, Eflretfore (quaere, if Stafford ?) 

 Kingfton upon Hull, Newcaftle upon Tync, Beverley, Bedford, Leicef- 

 ter, and Berwick : And in another [r. 19.] Shafton, Sherborn, Bridport, 

 Dorchefter, and Weymouth, (all in Dorfetihire); Plymouth, Plympton, 

 Rarnftable, Taviftoke, and Dartmouth, (all in Devon fiiire) ; Lancefi:on, 

 Lefkeard, LeflwithicI, Bodmin, Truro, and Helfton, (all in Cornwall) v 



