PLYMOUTH MEMOIRS. 
521 
This yeare a great ship of portugal ladan with 
[pepper and other — B.B.] spiee was cast away on 
german Rock at plym? much Spoyl made, & great 
inquisitions and divers imprisoned on that account 
[moche spoyle made as well by the portyngales as 
by englyshmen of Plymouth & of the eomons of 
the contrey — B.B.]. 
541- 42 102. Tho: Mylles. 
542- 43 103. James Horswell. 
One Ferrers serving plym? In parliam* this yeare, 
being arrested on an execution by y e sheriffe of 
london, he was fetcht from y e Counter, an act made 
to free him of y e debt, and the Sherriffe Imprisoned. 
See Rd. Raker, Chronicle, page 289. 
543- 44 104. Tho: Hollo wy [Holwaye]. 
544- 45 105. Tho : Clowter. 
545- 46 106. W m Randell [Randall]. 
546- 47 107. Lucas Cock [Coke]. 
Some of the earliest entries in the White Book refer to the purchase 
of the great bell. In addition to outside subscriptions, Feb., 1560, it was 
ordered that each of the twelve should pay xx 3 -, and each of the twenty- 
four x 8 -, towards this object. 
547- 48 108. Jn° Elliott [Elyott]. 
548- 49 109. Rich? Hooper. 
" In this yere was a greatte insurrecyon throughoute all the Royalme 
of England & esspecially in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall in 
w ch tyme the Cytee of Excestre & the Castell of Plymothe were valyently 
defended and kepte from the Rebelles vntyll the comyng of the lord 
Russell .... then was our stepell burnt w th all the townes evydence, 
in the same by Rebelles." — B.B. What this steeple was I cannot think. 
Not St. Andrew's tower, for that is standing now ; not the tower of the 
White Friars, for that was standing several years later. 
549- 50 100. "Weekes [Weeks] [_Wiks]. 
In this man's mayoralty the cornish, devonshire 
& sumonsire men, began to Rebell, beseiged exon 
but were defeated. 
The same disturbance as recorded (B.B.) the previous year. 
550- 51 111. Jn? Kainsham [Keynsham] [Keynsam~\. 
551- 52 112. Tho: Clowter. 
55 2 - S3 113 « Jn? Thomas. 
A John Thomas commanded the Marigold in Drake's circumnavigation . 
1553-54 114. Lucas. Cock [Cocke]. 
