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[Maiors and Sheriffs.] The TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT.
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Queen MARY began her Reign the 6th of July, in the Year 1553.
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| A.D. 1553. | } | { Thomas Offley. |
| 1 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { William Hewet. |
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MAIOR, Sir Thomas White, Merchant Taylor,
Son to Tho. White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. |
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The Bounty of Sir Thomas White.
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This Sir Thomas White founded St. John Baptist's College in Oxford, and gave 2000l. to the City of Bristol, to purchase 120l. Land yearly, &c.
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Wiat, his Rising and Suppressing.
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| A.D. 1554. | } | { David Woodroffe. |
| 2 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { William Chester. |
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MAIOR, Sir John Lyon, Grocer,
Son to Thomas Lyon of Peryfare in Middlesex. |
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Lady Jane beheaded.
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| A.D. 1555. | } | { Thomas Leigh. |
| 3 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { John Machil. |
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MAIOR, Sir William Garret, or Gerard, Haberdasher,
Son to John Garret, Citizen and Grocer of London, who was Son to William Garret of Seddingbourne in Kent. |
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Seven Aldermen in London died in less than 10
Months.
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| A.D. 1556. | } | { William Harper. |
| 4 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { John White. |
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MAIOR, Sir Thomas Offley, Merchant Taylor,
Son to William Offley of the City of Chester. |
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First ordaining of the Night-Bellman.
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| A.D. 1557. | } | { Richard Mallory. |
| 5 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { James Altham. |
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MAIOR, Sir Thomas Curteis, Fishmonger,
Son to John Curteis of Enfield in Middlesex. |
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Calais lost to the French.
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He was Free of the Pewterers, and translated to the Fishmongers.
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| A.D. 1558. | } | { John Halsey. |
| 6 Mar' | } Sheriffs, | { Richard Champion. |
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MAIOR, Sir Thomas Lee, or Leigh, Mercer,
Son to Roger Lee of Willington in Shropshire. |
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Death of Queen Mary.
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Queen ELIZABETH began her Reign the 17th of November, in the Year 1558.
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| A.D. 1559. | } | { Thomas Lodge. |
| 1 Eliz' | } Sheriffs, | { Roger Martin. |
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MAIOR, Sir William Hewet, Clothworker,
Son to Edmund Hewet of Wales in Yorkshire. He died the 6th of February 1566. His Wife was the Daughter of Leveson of Kent. |
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Common Prayer in English, and Images pulled
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This Maior was a Merchant possest of a great Estate, valued at 6000l. per Ann. And was said to have had three Sons and one Daughter; to which Daughter this Mischance happened; (the Father then living upon London Bridge.) The Maid playing with her out of a Window over the River Thames, by chance dropt her in, almost beyond expectation of being saved. A young Gentleman, named Osborne, then Apprentice to Sir William the Father (which Osborne was one of the Ancestors of the Duke of Leeds in a direct Line) at this calamitous Accident, immediately leapt in bravely, and saved the Child. In Memory of which Deliverance, and in Gratitude, her Father afterwards bestowed her in Marriage on the said Mr. Osborne, with a very great Dowry. Whereof the late Estate of Sir Thomas Fanshaw, in the Parish of Barkin in Essex, was a Part; as the late Duke of Leeds himself told the Reverend Mr. John Hewyt, from whom I have this Relation; and together with that Estate in Essex, several other Lands in the Parishes of Harthil and Wales in Yorkshire; now in the Possession of the said most
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An Accident happening to this Maior's
Daughter.
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