?????? = TOWER OF LONDON; Elizabeth did not keep her court here.
?????? = 1st lottery in England was drawn at the west door of St. Pauls.
1559AD =Sir William Hewet was Lord Mayor of London. (see 1536)
1563AD =5th Elizabeth. c.14, Statute entitled ‘an act against forgers of false deeds and writings.
?????? =Temple Bar Custom; when Q. Eliz. went to St. Pauls to return thanks for the defeat of the Armada, the Lord Mayor delivered to her hands the sceptre(sword), which her highness re-delivered to the Mayor; and he, again taking his horse, bore the same before her.
1566-7; Lord Burghley notes; Somerset House . Cornelius de la Noye, an alchemist, wrought here and abused many in promising to turn any metal into Gold.
?????? =Queen E. visited the Earl of Pembroke at his Castle, and took supper with his Lordship, after which she showed herself upon the balconey to people assembled in boats and barges upon the river; and then entered her own barge amid a brilliant display of fireworks, and the acclaimation of the people.
1569-70AD =March 17th, The Earl of Pembroke died and was burried in the cathedral of St. Paul’s with such magnificence, that the mourning given at his funeral, according to Stow, cost the very large sum, at that period, of 2000lbs.
?????? ="The Beggers Daughter of Bethnol Green," was written in her reign.
?????? =Elizabeth appropriated the "Lollards Tower" as a state prison. Here she commited the two popish prelates, Tunstall and Thirlby, to the custody of the Archbishop, as well as other persons of rank. The Earl of Essex was confined here before he was sent to the Tower of London.
?????? =Savoy Hospital, she maintained it.
1570AD =Queen Elizabeth went to open the Royal Exchange, from her house at the Strand, called Somerset House. She let the mansion to her kinsman, Lord Hunsdon.
?????? =Thomas Lord Wentworth alienated the Manor of the Priory of St. Bartholomew to Sir John spencer, Knight and Bart., commonly called, "Rich Spenser." also known as Canonbury.
1577AD = The severed heads were removed from the North end of the Drawbridge on London Bridge to the Southwark entrance, thence called Traitors Gate.
1578AD = The head of a recusant Priest was hung on Traitors Gate.
1581AD =Thomas Myagh, a prisoner in the Tower for treason was tortured with skevingtons irons and the rack.
?????? =Somerset House. She let the mansion to her kinsman, Lord Hunsdon.
tried to obtain this position for Bacon. Coke married the Lady Hatton, the sister of Thomas Lord Burghley.
1603AD =Raleigh confined in his own house, then in the Tower, then to Winchester Goal, back to the Tower, for two to three months in the Fleet, then back to the Tower to stay for 13 years.
1603AD =Feb. 25th; the Countess of Nottingham(cousin to Eliz.) died at Arundel House, London, was buried 28th Feb. 1603. Her funeral was kept at Chelsea, March 21st.
?????? =Robert Bainbridge was imprisoned in the Tower for writing a letter offensive to Elizabeth.
?????? =From a lease dated 1603 it is concluded that Sir John Spencer was resident at Canonbury.
?????? =Canonbury; Sir Walter Raleigh resided here.(in a house believed to be near the site of Islington Chapel).
1603AD =MARCH 24TH, ELIZABETH DIED.
?????? =At Eliz. Death Somerset House became a jointure-house of the Queen Consort, Anne of Denmark
1605AD =The head of Garnet the Jesuit, as well as those of the Romish priests that were excuted in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I were hung on traitors gate.
1616AD =Raleigh released from TOWER OF LONDON
SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THIS SITE;
LONDON FROM THE AIR; PAUL JOHNSON HAMPTON COURT; R.J.MINNEY THE TOWER OF LONDON; R.J. MINNEY, W.T.C. PII ORDERICUS VITALIS WILLIAM OF MALMSBURY 1066, THE YEAR OF THE CONQUEST; BY DAVID HAWORTH THE NORSEMEN; COUNT ERIC OXENSTIERNA SEVEN MEDIEVAL QUEENS;JOSEPH DAHMUS, DOUBLEDAY, 1972
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