Annales of England – John Stow
The following are extracts
from a book published in 1605, the year of John Stow’s death. The book is introduced as “A BRIEFE
DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND CORNWALL”, set out in chronological
order and running to 1437 pages, abruptly ending in July 1605.
The book has recently been
accessioned to the Library of The Essex Society for Archaeology and History in
the Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex.
Page 1166
“1581
Mice devour the grasse at
Danesey.
About Hallowtide last past, in
the marshes of the Danesey Hundred in a place called Southminster in the countie
of Essex, a strange thing hapned: there sodainlie appeared an infinite
multitude of mice, which overwhelmed the whole earth in the said marshes, did
sheare and gnaw the grasse by the rootes, spoyling and tainting the same with
their verimous teeth, in such sort, that the cattell which grazed thereon were
smitten with a murerine, and died thereof, which vermine by policie of man
could not be destroyed, till, at the last it came to passe that there flocked
together all about the same marshes, such a number of owles as all the shire
was not able to yield: whereby the marsh-holders were shortly delivered from
the veration of the said mice.”
Page 1169
“1582
John Paine executed at
Chelmeford
John Paine priest, being
indicted of high treason for words by him spoken to one Eliot, was attained and
condemned at Chelmesford on the last of March, and was there executed on the
second day of Aprill.”
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