h to chastise Ailmer, and to appease the
displeasure of the said duchess and Sir Thomas; and also the said mayor
arrested and imprisoned all other persons which the said duchess and Sir
Thomas could understand had in any way given favour or comfort to the
said Ailmer, in making the affray. Notwithstanding which punishment, the
displeasure of the duchess and Sir Thomas was not appeased. And it is
so, moreover, that one John Haydon, late was recorder of the city, taking
of the mayor and citizens a reasonable fee, as the recorder is
accustomed; he, being so recorded, had interlaced himself with the prior
of Norwich, at that time being _in travers_ with the said mayor and
commonality, and discovered the privity of the evidence of the said city
to the said prior, because whereof the mayor and commons of the said city
discharged the said Haydon of the condition of recorder; for which Haydon
took a displeasure against the said city.

By malice of these displeasures of the said duchess, Sir Thomas
Tuddenham, and John Haydon, the Duke of Suffolk, then earl, in his
person, upon many suggestions by the said Tuddenham and Haydon to him
made, that the mayor, aldermen, and commonality aforesaid, should have
misgoverned the city, laboured and made to be taken out of the chancery a
commission of over determiner. And thereupon, at a sessions holden at
Thetford, the Thursday next after the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle,
the said Sir Thomas and John Haydon, finding in their conceit no manner
or matter of truth whereof they might cause the said mayor and
commonality there to be indicted, imagined thus as ensueth: first, they
_sperde an inquest_, _then taken_ in a chamber, at one Spilmer's house;
in which chamber the said T. _lodged_, _and so kept them sperde_.

"And it was so, that one John Gladman, of Norwich, which was then,
and at this hour, is a man of 'sad' dispositions, and true and
faithful to God and to the king, of disport, as is and hath been
accustomed in any city or borough through all this realm, on fasting
Tuesday made a disport with his neighbours, having his horse trapped
with tinsel, and otherwise disguising things, crowned as King of
Christmas, in token that all mirth should end with the twelve months
of the year; afore him went each month, disguised after the season
thereof; and Lent clad in white, with red-herring's skins, and his
horse trapped with oyster shells after him,