?????? = He watched rope dancing feats held from the battlement
of St. Pauls.
1547AD =Somerset House was commenced by the Protector Somerset,
Maternal Uncle of Edward VI. In 1603 it was still unfinished.
1547AD =John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland,Father-in-law of Lady
Jane Grey, was awarded the Priory of St. Bartholomew.
1547AD =February 19th; Coronation of Edward VI at Westminster, the
gate at Temple Bar was painted and fashioned with battlements and
buttresses of various colors, richly hung with cloth of arras, and
garnished with fourteen standards of flags; there were also 8 French trupeters, blowing their trumpets, after the fashion of the country,
and a pair of regals with children singing to the same.
1547AD =Temple Bar Gates; Sir Thomas Wyat�s rebellion had destroyed,
or so damaged the old gates in forcing his way into the city, that
the civic authorities were compelled to erect new ones,the care of
which devolved on such of the City�s tenants as were living adjacent
to them.
1547AD =The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem (Of the order of St. John)
was blown up with gunpowder and the materials used by the Lord Protector
in building Somerset Place.
1548AD =TOWER OF LONDON. A great fire was caused by a French man
setting on fire a barrel of gunpowder, "and so burned himself, and
no mare persons."
?????? =Edward kept his court in the Tower prior to his coronation.
1549AD =The Protector Somerset was imprisoned in the Tower.
1549AD =The site of Walthom Abbey was granted for 31 years to Sir
Anthony Denny, who, dying in 1549AD, his widow bought the reversion
in fee from Edward VI, for somewhat more than 3000lb.
1552AD =TOWER OF LONDON; His Uncle, the Protector Somerset was twice imprisoned before his decapitation.
1552AD =Somerset was beheaded and Somerset House was assigned by
Edward VI to his sister Elizabeth.
?????? =On the Eve of St. Bartholomew, the scholars of some of the
grammer-schools would collect in the churchyard of St. Bartholomes
under a tree and dispute with one another. After the suppression
they were removed for a few years to the cloisters of Christ�s
Hospital, in the time of Edward VI. The winners were rewarded with
bows and arrows of silver.
?????? =Baynards Castle was the residence of Sir William Sydney, who
died Chamberlain and Steward to Edward. It next became the residence
of the Earls of Pembroke.
?????? =EdwardVI resided at Duke Humphrey�s Tower at Greenwich.
?????? =Dec. 25th. Edward VI kept Xmas at Greenwich Tower.
1553AD =Feb. 17th; The �Earl of Pembroke rode to his mansion of
Baynard�s Castle, with 300 horse in his retinue, of which 100 of
them were gentlemen in plain blue cloth, with chains of gold, and
badges of a dragon on their sleeves.
1553AD =Part of the revenues of the Savoy Hospital was bestowed on
Bridewell and Christchurch, on account ofthe abuses, for instead of
the Savoy being a lodging for pilgrems etc. it became a refuge for
loiterers and whores.
1553AD =July 6th; Edward VI died at Greenwich Tower.
?????? =Pirates entered the Humber river in this Century and wrecked
havok.
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