June 13th, rayn and in
the afternone a little thunder. June 30th, I told Mr. Daniel
Rogers,[h] Mr. Hackluyt of the Middle Temple being by, that Kyng
Arthur and King Maty, both of them, did conquier Gelindia, lately
called Friseland, which he so noted presently in his written copy of
Monumethensis,[i] for he had no printed boke therof. July 14th, my
sister Elizabeth Fromonds cam to me. July 27th, hora 9, min. 15 a
meridie Francis Cowntess of Hertford.
[Footnote h: Rogers was a member of the University of Oxford,
and a large commonplace-book in his handwriting is in Archbishop
Tenison's library in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.]
[Footnote i: That is, Galfridus Monumetensis de gestis regum
Britanni?. Hackluyt mentions this fact in his collection of
voyages.]
Aug. 5th, Mr. Raynolds of Bridewell tok his leave of me as he passed
toward Darthmowth to go with Sir Umfry Gilbert toward Hocheleya.
Aug. 15, I went toward Norwich with my work of Imperium
Brytanicum.[k] Aug. 23rd, I cam to London from Norwich. Aug. 31st,
I went to my father-in-law Mr. Fromonds to Cheyham.
[Footnote k: This is the book just mentioned under the title of
General and Rare Memorials, fol. Lond. 1577.]
Sept. 1st, I cam from Cheyham. Sept. 6th, Elen Lyne, my mayden,
departed from this life immediately after the myd-day past, when she
had lyne sik a month lacking one day. Sept. 12th, Jane Gaele cam to
my servyce, and she must have four nobles by the yere, 26_s.
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