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of her fubjefts. That, notwitliftanding a match had been 
propofed, by her council, with the king of Spain, yet (lie 
was determined not to liiten thereto without the concur¬ 
rence of the parliament; and concluded with exhorting 
them to ftand faff agaitilt thefe rebels. She knew that 
Wyat had many friends in London ; arid therefore put the 
care of the city into the hands of the mayor arid lord 
Howard. 
On the 3d clay of February, Wyat and his army ar¬ 
rived in Southwark, when he was joyfully received, and 
fupplied with all necefiaries for his men. Iiis intentions 
were to march into the city; but thefe were fr.uftrated by 
the gates being (hut, and the drawbridge cut down. He 
then inarched to Ivingfton in order to pafs the river, that 
he might attack them on the land-fide; but the bridge 
was broken, and the oppofite (liore guarded by two hun¬ 
dred men. Thefe he loon drove away with his ordnance ; 
and ordered 1'ome failors, who were under his command, 
to wade the river, and bring the barges that were moored 
on the other fide ; with which he fo expeditioully repaired 
the bridge, that he was able to pafs Ins army over it the night 
after. Having had the promife of his friends in London to 
-join him, and to admit him into the city at a certain hour, 
he continued his march, with an intention to reach White¬ 
hall the next morning by break of day. This felieme 
svas rendered abortive by the carriage of one of his guns 
breaking at Turnham-green, where he was obliged to halt. 
"The time he hopped there proved his deltruction; for he 
loft the opportunity of joining his friends in London, 
•<vho had promited to admit him into the city. This dif- 
.appointment occafioned Harper, who had been very in- 
fcrumenfal in bringing over Bret and his Londoners, to 
-defert him j after which he difcovered the whole defign 
of Wyat to the court. The example let by Harper was 
followed by many others ; infomuch that, in a few hours, 
he found himfelf forfaken by near one half of his army. 
Notwithftanding this, he continued his march, and, with 
the remains of his forces, arrived at St. James’s, fie there 
mounted his artillery on an eminence, and, having de¬ 
tached two companies, under the command of Cudbert 
Vaughan, to Weftminlter, left the principal part of his 
army with the artillery, and, at the head of five companies 
only, haftened away for London. At Charing-crofs, lie 
was attacked by lir John Gage, witli a fuperior force ; 
whom he not only repulfed, but obliged him to take (bel¬ 
ter in the palace of Whitehall, where he left him, and 
continued his march towards the city. In his way thi¬ 
ther, the earl of Pembroke, with his cavalry, haralfed his 
rear, and cut off leveral of his men ; and, when he arrived 
at Ludgate, inftead of the eafy entrance he expefted, he 
found the gate Unit, and lord Howard, who commanded 
within, fcolfed at and reproached him. Thus circum¬ 
stanced, and furrounded by enemies, who continued to af- 
femble from every quarter, he attempted to retreat; but 
Pembroke’s horfe intercepted his return to Temple-bar. 
His men would have fought their way; but at that inftant 
Clarencieux king at arms arrived from the queen with a 
promife of pardon for him and his men, if they would 
lay down their arms. Truiting to this, he furrendered to 
fir Maurice Berkeley ; but the promifed mercy was with¬ 
held, and Wyat was Ihortly after executed on Tower- 
hill ; his head was (tuck upon the gallows at Hay-hill, 
near Hyde-park, and his quarters hung up in different 
parts of tile city. A dreadful feene of perfecution fol¬ 
lowed the fuppreffion of this revolt; much blood was 
Hied upon the fcaffold ; and fo determined were the queen 
and her advilers that none of their viftims lliould eltape, 
that the jurors on the trial of fir Nicholas Throckmorton, 
who was tried at Guildhall, on the 17th of April, having 
acquitted the prifoner, they were commanded to appear 
before the council, and fined five hundred pounds each. 
For other viftims, in conlequence of this infurrection, fee 
the article England, vo!. vi. p. 647. 
The fumptuous and extravagant manner of living of 
the ciry-rnagiltrates had gradually rifeu to fuch a height, 
D O N. 
that many of the principal citizens retired from the city { 
rather than incur the enormous expenfe of ferving the 
city-offices. To remedy this growing evil, an aft of 
common-council was palled in this year, whereby" it was 
enafted, That thenceforth the mayor (hou'.d have but one 
courfe, either at dinner or fupper ; and thar, 011 a feftival, 
being a fielh day, to confift of no more than feven dilhes, 
whether hot or cold ; and on every feftival, being a fifh- 
day, eight dilhes; and on every common flelh-day, fix 
dilhes ; and on every common day, feven dilhes, exciu- 
five of brawn, collops with eggs, fallads, pottage, but¬ 
ter, cheefe, eggs, herrings, fprats, fhrimps, and all forts 
of lhell-fifli and fruits.—That the aldermen and Iheriffs 
lliould have one dilh lefs than the above-mentioned ; and 
all the city-companies, at their leveral entertainments, to 
have the fame number of dilhes as the aldermen and Ihe¬ 
riffs ; but with this reftriftion, to have neither fwan, crane, 
norbuftard, uponjhe penalty of 40s.—That all theferjeants 
and officers belonging to tlie mayor or Iheriffs, on flelh- 
days to have three, or filh-days four, dilhes. But, when 
any foreign minifters or privy-counfellors are invited to 
any of the city-entertainments, then the regulations or 
additions to be left to the diferetion of the mayor; pro¬ 
vided always, that no other entertainmentbe given after- 
dinner, except ipocras and wafers. And the annual fealts, 
on the three days after Whitfunday and Bartholomew- 
tide, were entirely laid afide. It was alfo enafted, in con- 
fideration of the great annual expenfe of the mayor and 
Iheriffs, in providing a fumptuous entertainment at Guild- 
ball, on lord-mayor’s days, for the honour of the city, 
that every fubfequent mayor lliould be paid one hundred 
pounds, out of the chamber of the city, in alleviation of 
that charge. 
The year 1557 was remarkable for glafs having been 
firft manufaftured in London. The fined fort was made 
in the place called Crutched-friars; and the fine flint 
glafs, little inferior to that of Venice, in the Savoy-houfe, 
in the Strand. 
This was a year both of dearth and of plenty. Before 
harved, wheat was fold at 2I. 13s. 4c!. the quarter, malt at 
zl. 4s. beans and rye 2I. and peafe 2I. 6s. 8d. the quarter; 
but after harved, wheat was fold at 5s. malt at 6s. lid. and 
rye at 3^. 4d. the quarter; “ fo that,” fays Howes, “ the 
penny wheat-loaf, that weighed in London, the lad year, 
hut eleven ounces troy, weighed now fifty-fix ounces troy, 
according to the affile fet down by the mayor at the time.” 1 
Mary died, unregretted, on the 17th of November, 1558 ; 
and the city of London expreffed their joy at the acceflion 
of queen Elizabeth in a mod loyal manner.—She was, at 
the time of her lifter’s death, at Hatfield in Hertfordfliire, 
from whence die repaired the next day to London, and 
was met at Highgate by the lord-mayor, aldermen, and 
Iheriffs, who, with great pomp and the acclamations of a 
large multitude, conducted her majedy to the Tower of 
London. On the 14th of January, 1559, the queen rode 
in grand proceffion through the city ot London to Weft- 
minder. At the wed end of Cheapfide, the recorder ad- 
dreffed her majedy in an affectionate fpeech, and at the 
fame time preferred her, in the name of the citizens, with 
a velvet purfe, richly embroidered, containing a thoufand 
marks of gold. Her majedy thanked the citizens for this 
token of their affection, promifed to continue their good 
and gracious fovereign, and that Hie would not hefitate 
to filed her blood for their protection. But nothing en¬ 
deared their new fovereign more to them than her accept¬ 
ance of an Englilh Bible, richly gilt; which was let down 
from a pageant in Cheapfide, by a child reprefenting 
Truth. The queen received the book with both her 
hands, and, having kifled it, laid it to her bread, and al¬ 
lured the city, that (lie elteemed that gift more than all 
the fumptuous prefents they had made her. The next 
day Ihe was crowned in Weftminlter Abbey. 
The new queen refumed the work of reformation which 
had been begun by her father, and fupported by her bro¬ 
ther Edward. On the firft Sunday after her acceflion, by 
virtue 
