in token that sadness and
abstinence of mirth should follow, and an holy time; and so rode in
divers streets of the city, with other people with him disguised,
making mirth, and disport, and plays.

"The said Sir Thomas and John Haydon, among many other full strange
and untrue presentments, made by perjury at the said inquest, caused
the said mayor and commonality, and the said John Gladman, to be
indicted of that, that they should have imagined to have made a
common rising, and have crowned the said John Gladman as king, with
crown, sceptre and diadem, (when they never meant it), nor such a
thing imagined, as in the said presentiment it showeth more plain,
and by that presentiment, with many other horrible articles therein
comprised, so made by perjury, thay caused the franchise of the said
city to be seized into the king's hands, to the harm and cost of the
said mayor and commonality."

And now we take a long stride from the reign of Henry V. to that of
Charles II., omitting the intermediate century that was marked by the
royal visit of the maiden queen, chronicled at length among the
"pageantries;" and passing over the troubled era of the Commonwealth, the
Reformation, and "Kett's rebellion," all of which have found a place for
notice elsewhere, we find ourselves once more in the smooth waters of
peace, with the tide of prosperity at the full within the walls of the
old city; and we ask no pardon for making copious extracts from the
journal that furnished Macaulay with materials to serve up the rich
banquet that lies condensed in the few lines devoted to this period of
the city's history, in his unrivalled work. The diary of Dr. Edward
Browne gives a picture of the society and habits of the citizens in his
time, perhaps not to be met with elsewhere. His father, Sir Thomas
Browne, then tenanted the house now known by the title of the "Star," and
in the winter of 1663-4 was visited by his son Edward, who, during his
stay, made the entries in his journal which we have extracted. At that
time, Henry, afterwards Lord Howard, of Castle Rising, subsequently Earl
of Norwich, and Marshal of England, resided in the city, at the palace of
his brother, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, who was an invalid, on the
continent, suffering from disease of the brain.

"Jan. 1st. (1663-4.) I was at Mr. Howard's, brother to the Duke of
Norfolk, who kept his Christmas this year a