98 A^ D. 1546. 



Henry VIII, by his lafl will and teflament, among other things, ' be 



* queaths to his daughters Mary and Ehzabeth, at their marriages, tl>ey 

 ' being married to any outward (foreign) potentate (by the advice of 

 ' his counfellors), if he beftow them not in his lifetime, ten thoufand 

 ' pounds, in money, plate, jewels, and houfehold fluff, for each of 

 ' them, or a larger fum, at the difcretion of the executors.' [^Fcedera, 

 V. XV, p. 1 16.] 



1 547. — In this year, the firfl; of King Edward VI, Peter Baude, a 

 Frenchman, was the firft who in England caft iron ordnance or can- 

 non, fays the author of an 8vo book, intitled, Englifh worthies in' 

 church and ftate (London, 1684). As the EngliiTi made ufe of can- 

 non 2CO years prior to this time, it is fomewhat flrange they were fo 

 late in making iron ones at home *. 



Thuanus [/.. 129.] fpeaking of the progrefs of filk from the eafl to 

 the weftern parts, relates, that, in the reign of King Francis I of 

 France (who died this year), filk profpered in Touraine, but more efpe- 

 •cially in Provence, as lying mofl; foutherly, and alfo at Avignon, Lyons, 

 and feveral other parts of France; but near Paris, the climate was 

 found not to be proper for it, though the greatefl care was taken of the 

 lilk-worms at Fontainebleau, 



The ftatute againfl: vagabonds [i 'Ediv. VI, c. 3.I carries fo many 

 marks of the antient bondage of the lower clafs of the people of England, 

 that it is no wonder it was repealed in the fame reign, and ftill farther 

 in the 39th of Queen Elizabeth, as improper for a free and commercial 

 people. It enads, ' That a runagate fervant, or any other who liveth 

 ' idly and loiteringly by the fpace of tliree days, being brought before 

 ' two juflices of the peace, they fliall caufe him to be marked with an 

 ' hot iron on the breaft, with the mark V, and adjudge him to be the 

 ' Have of him who brought him for two years after, who fliall take the 

 ' faid flave, and give him bread, water, or fmall drink, and refufe 

 ' meat, and caufe him to work by beating, chaining, or otherwife, in 

 ' fuch work and labour as he fliall put him to, be it never fo vile ; and 

 ' if fuch flave abfent himfelf from his faid mafler within the faid term 

 ' of two years, by the fpace of fourteen days, then he fhall be marked 



* on the forehead, or the, ball of the cheek, with an hot iron, with the 

 ' fign of an S, and farther fliall be adjudged to be flave to his faid maf- 

 ' ter for ever ; and if the faid flave fliall run away the fecond time, he 

 ' fhall be adjudged a felon. It fliall be lawful to every perfon, to whom 

 ' any fliall be adjudged a flave, to put a ring of iron about his neck, 



* Stow, whom this author of Englifi -worthies invented by them ; and that Bawd continued in 



is pcihaps following, fays, tliat in the year 1543, the reign of Edward VI to make ordnance of call 



Henry VIII employed r«cr Bawd a Frenchman, iron, and was the inftruftor of a fuccefiion of 



ar.d another foreigner called Peter Van Collen, to artills in that m^-inufadure. \_jiimalcs, p. 983, ed. 



make mortars for bombs, which he reprcfents as 1600.] M, 



