49-480: Robert Fabyan (died c. 1512) was a London draper , Sheriff and Alderman, and author of Fabyan's Chronicle . Robert Fabyan was the son of John Fabyan and his wife, Agnes. He is said to have been born in London. He had a brother, John. His nephew, John Fabyan, married Anne Waldegrave, by whom he had a daughter, Mary Fabian, wife of Sir Thomas Spert . He was apprenticed as a draper to William Holme about 1470, and
98-476: A prebendal stall at Canterbury , where he died and was buried in the cathedral. John Bale attacked his enemies with vehemence and scurrility, much of which was directed strongly and forcibly against the Roman Catholic Church and its writers: but this cavil does not significantly diminish the value of his contributions to literature. (The Roman Catholic sympathiser and antiquary Anthony Wood ,
147-616: A John Fabyan, in his will dated 16 March 1541, mentions 'the Lady Spert' (see above) as his sister, and refers to the Earl of Southampton as his master. He also mentions another sister, Martha, to whom he bequeaths four nobles yearly, and the Lady Marney, to whom he bequeaths his books of meditation and his chronicles. McLaren suggest that this might be the will of 'a grandson of Robert'; however Baldwin's statement that Robert Fabyan had
196-507: A beast, I took to wife the faithful Dorothy". He obtained the living of Thorndon, Suffolk , but in 1534 was summoned before the Archbishop of York for a sermon against the invocation of saints preached at Doncaster , and afterwards before John Stokesley , Bishop of London , but he escaped through the powerful protection of Thomas Cromwell , whose notice he is said to have attracted by his miracle plays . In these plays, Bale denounced
245-532: A man of "uncouth manners" and a condemned libeller, described him as "foul-mouthed Bale" a century afterwards.) Of his mysteries and miracle plays only five have been preserved, but the titles of the others, quoted by himself in his Catalogus , show that they were animated by the same political and religious aims. The Three Laws of Nature , Moses and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes , Pharisees and Papystes most wicked (produced in 1538 and again in 1562)
294-682: A modern edition in 1811. Fabyan was executor of the will of his father-in-law, and through his wife inherited a house called Halstedys together with other lands in Theydon Garnon , Essex. At his death he also owned tenements in the London parishes of St Benet Fink and St Michael's, Cornhill , as well as lands and tenements in East Ham , West Ham , Leyton and other towns in Essex . Stow states that Fabyan died in 1511, while Bale dates his death to 25 February 1512. Stow also records that he
343-497: A nephew, John Fabyan, whose daughter Mary married Sir Thomas Spert (see above), suggests that the 1541 will was the will of the son of Robert Fabyan's nephew. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature . London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource . Worshipful Company of Drapers The Worshipful Company of Drapers
392-439: Is almost certain that the text is his. The chronicle was initially printed without attribution by Richard Pynson in 1516 as The New Chronicles of England and France , but an edition of 1533 printed by William Rastell bore Fabyan's name on the title page: Fabyans cronycle newly prynted . Both John Bale and John Stow described the chronicle as Fabyan's work, although according to McLaren, Stow also wrongly attributes to him
441-753: Is its governing body. The Drapers' Company continues to play a role in the life of the City . Its liverymen carry out important functions in the elections of the governance of the City and its civic offices. The Drapers' Company is based at Drapers' Hall located in Throgmorton Street , near London Wall . The company has owned the site since 1543, when it purchased the London mansion of Thomas Cromwell , of Austin Friars , from King Henry VIII . Cromwell had been attainted and executed in 1540. The building
490-805: Is one of the 111 livery companies of the City of London . It has the formal name The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London . More usually known simply as the Drapers' Company , it is one of the historic Great Twelve Livery Companies and was founded during the Middle Ages . An informal association of drapers had organized as early as 1180, and
539-552: Is preserved in the Selden Collection of the Bodleian Library , Oxford . It contains the materials collected for his two published catalogues arranged alphabetically, without enlargement on them nor the personal remarks which colour the completed work. He includes the sources for his information. He noted: "I have bene also at Norwyche, our second citye of name, and there all the library monuments are turned to
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#1732772952534588-576: Is remarkable that such a developed attempt at historical drama should have been made twenty-three years before the production of Gorboduc in 1561. Kynge Johan is itself a polemic against the Roman Catholic Church. King John is represented as the champion of English church rites against the Holy See . Bale's most important work is Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum, hoc est, Angliae, Cambriae ac Scotiae summarium ("Summary of
637-464: Is the Livery Hall, which can accommodate up to 276 guests for dinner. These rooms are also available for hire and have often been used for film locations, including for The King's Speech , GoldenEye , The Lost Prince and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London . Groups may book a guided tour of Drapers' Hall; a donation to the company's charitable work is requested. The main rooms in
686-571: The Wycliffite and Protestant divines mentioned by Bale, and the most valuable section is the lives of the Roman Catholic exiles resident in Douai and other French towns. He asserts ( Nota de Joanne Bale ) that Bale's Catalogus was a misrepresentation of John Leland 's work, though in all likelihood he only knew Leland's work through his reading of Bale. The Image of Both Churches
735-651: The Company with respect to the levies on cloth exported from England to Flanders . During the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 Fabyan, John Brooke and John Warner were charged with securing Ludgate and Newgate . After the suppression of the rebellion they travelled with the King to Woodstock . In 1498 he was one of the assessors of a subsidy levied to finance the war in Scotland. In 1501 he was again elected Master of
784-697: The Drapers. In 1503 he resigned his office of alderman on the ground that he lacked the financial resources to support election as Lord Mayor . He is best known as the author of the work commonly known as Fabyan's Chronicle , which presents 'parallel histories of England and France', and covers the period from the arrival of the legendary Brutus of Troy in England to the death of Henry VII . Two manuscripts are extant ( Holkham Hall , MS 671, and BL , Cotton MS Nero C.xi), and although these are not in Fabyan's hand, it
833-550: The Famous Writers of Great Britain, that is, of England, Wales and Scotland"), published at Ipswich by John Overton in 1548, and at Wesel by Derick van der Straten in 1549. This first edition contains authors through five centuries. Another edition, almost entirely rewritten and containing fourteen centuries, was printed at Basel by Johannes Oporinus with the title Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam vocant, catalogus ("Catalogue of
882-647: The Famous Writers of Great Britain, which now they call England and Scotland") in 1557, completed by a latter part in 1559. This chronological catalogue of British authors and their works was partly founded on the De uiris illustribus of John Leland . Bale was an indefatigable collector and worker, and personally examined many of the valuable libraries of the Augustinian and Carmelite houses before their dissolution . His work contains much information that would otherwise have been hopelessly lost. His autograph note-book
931-558: The Hall are usually also open once a year as part of Open House London . The company's archives, works of art, silver and artefacts are in the care of its archivist . The document collection has items dating to the 13th century, including charters and coats of arms, charity records and records of the company's landholdings, including the Londonderry estates. The silver collection includes an ancient Celtic decorative collar found on
980-458: The King kept a time after'. Fabyan was the first London chronicler to cite his sources, which included The Brut , Bede , William of Malmesbury , Ranulf Higden , Henry of Huntingdon and numerous others, as well as records of the City of London. John Bale claimed that the 1516 edition was burned by Cardinal Wolsey . The second edition of 1533 was printed after Wolsey's death, and was followed by editions in 1542 and 1559. Henry Ellis edited
1029-549: The Londonderry estate and pieces of the company's own silverware from the 16th century onwards. There is also a collection of paintings, mostly of former members. Researchers may view its collections by appointment. 51°30′54″N 0°05′12″W / 51.51506°N 0.08654°W / 51.51506; -0.08654 John Bale John Bale (21 November 1495 – November 1563) was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland . He wrote
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#17327729525341078-461: The Masse , purporting to be written by one Hugh Hilarie, is generally attributed to Bale. John Pitts or Pitseus (1560–1616), an English Roman Catholic exile, founded on Bale's work his Relationum historicarum de rebus anglicis tomus primus (Paris, 1619), better known by its running title of De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus . This is really the fourth book of a more extensive work. He omits
1127-489: The Netherlands and thence to Frankfurt and Basel . Bale's intent in his autobiographical Vocacyon was to write a polemical account of his escape from Ireland in parallel with the life of St Paul . Although Vocacyon is a broadly true account, Bale possessed a "self-dramatizing tendency". During his exile, he devoted himself to writing. After his return, on the accession of Queen Elizabeth I , he received (1560)
1176-705: The United Kingdom (who was elected to the Court of Assistants in 2017, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of her membership of the Company), King Harald V of Norway , King Charles III , The Duchess of Gloucester , Admiral the Lord Boyce , and Lady Victoria Leatham (elected as the first female Master of the Company in 2012) are among the many distinguished recent members of the company. Professor Morag Shiach serves as Master Draper for 2024–25. Today,
1225-522: The Wyldernesse, etc. were all written in 1538. Bale is a figure of some literary-dramatic importance as the author of Kynge Johan ( c. 1538 ), which marks the transition between the old morality play and the English historical drama . It does not appear to have directly influenced the creators of the chronicle histories (such as The Troublesome Reign of King John (1591)), but it
1274-619: The accession of King Edward VI , and received the living of Bishopstoke , Hampshire , being promoted in 1552 to the Irish see of Ossory . He refused to be consecrated by the Roman Catholic rites of the Irish church, and won his point, though the Dean of Dublin made a protest against the revised office during the ceremony. He also quarrelled bitterly with the aged and respected judge Thomas St. Lawrence , who travelled to Kilkenny to urge
1323-569: The amendment of their lives. The majority of drapers lived in and around Cornhill , Candlewick Street (now Cannon Street ) and Chepe ( Cheapside ). Possibly it was for this reason that their allegiance was transferred to St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside and later to St Michael, Cornhill , where the company continues to worship today. Despite these changes, the drapers retain the Blessed Virgin Mary as their patron saint. Originally,
1372-647: The centuries the original privileges granted by Royal Charter have been confirmed and amended by successive monarchs. The acting charter of today is that granted by James I in 1607, amended by four supplemental charters, most recently in 2008. The brotherhood of drapers, a religious fraternity attached to the Church of St Mary Bethlehem in Bishopsgate , was founded in honour of the Virgin Mary by "good people Drapers of Cornhill and other good men and women" for
1421-579: The chairman and four other governors of Bancroft's School, who display the Drapers' coat of arms and motto . It is the co-sponsor of Drapers' Academy in Harold Hill , which uses a similar logo. It has maintained long-standing close ties with Kirkham Grammar School near Preston, Lancashire, founded in Tudor times . The Company founded two girls' schools: in Llandaff and Denbigh , Wales , using
1470-758: The company operates as a charitable, ceremonial and educational institution. This has included providing the site and some of the buildings of Queen Mary University of London , the library at Bangor University , the Radcliffe Science Library and Townsend Building in Oxford, the Science Library at Cardiff University , and the site and the original nineteenth-century buildings of Bancroft's School . It also administers three almshouses : Queen Elizabeth College Greenwich , Edmanson's Close Tottenham and Walter's Close Southwark . It provides
1519-595: The endowment of Welsh merchant Thomas Howell, who bequeathed a sum of money to the foundation. Both schools were independent and separate institutions but the Company still has a representative in the governing body of the former. The company also has close links with some eighteen other educational establishments, ranging from Oxbridge colleges to a primary school. It administers charitable trusts relating to relief of need, education and almshouses; it provides banqueting and catering services; and it fosters its heritage and traditions of good fellowship. The Court of Assistants
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1568-412: The first (Lord) Mayor of London in 1189, Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone , was believed to have been a Draper. The guild was formally founded in 1361; it received a Royal Charter three years later. It was incorporated as a company under a Royal Charter in 1438 and was the first corporate body to be granted a coat of arms . The charter gave the company perpetual succession and a common seal. Over
1617-518: The horsemen. Of central concern was the correct identification of the Antichrist . Bale's central thesis is that the Book of Revelation is a prophecy of how God's word and those who love it (the "saints") would fare at the hands of men and a false Church during the last age, meaning the time between the ascension of Jesus and the end of the world. Bale identified two types of churches. First, there
1666-592: The manuscript of the Great Chronicle (London, Guildhall Library , MS 3313), likely because both Fabyan's Chronicle and the Great Chronicle are written (or copied) in the same hand. A continuation in 1509 appears also to be attributable to Fabyan, and includes events personally witnessed by him, such as the arrest in 1468 of Thomas Cooke, a prominent merchant in London, and the arrival in England in 1502 of three men, inhabitants of Newfoundland , 'whom
1715-429: The monastic system and its supporters in unrestrained language and coarse imagery. The prayer of Infidelitas which opens the second act of his Three Laws is an example of his profane parody. These somewhat brutal productions were intended to impress popular feeling, and Cromwell found in him an invaluable instrument. When Cromwell fell from favour in 1540, Bale fled with his wife and children to Antwerp . He returned on
1764-663: The monastic system entitled The Actes of Englysh Votaries , three Lives as The Examinations of Lord Cobham , William Thorpe and Anne Askewe, &c , and the Pageant of Popes . The Actes of Englysh Votaries is chiefly significant for its appropriation of the legend of Joseph of Arimathea for the Protestant cause. Joseph's alleged early arrival in Britain had already been gleefully exploited by theologians and diplomats to enhance English claims to precedence. Bale's innovation
1813-857: The nickname "bilious Bale". He was born at Covehithe , near Dunwich in Suffolk . At the age of twelve he joined the Carmelite friars at Norwich , removing later to the house of "Holme", (possibly the Carmelite Hulne Priory near Alnwick in Northumberland ). Later he entered Jesus College, Cambridge , and took his degree of B.D. in 1529. He became the last Prior of the Ipswich Carmelite house, elected in 1533. He abandoned his monastic vocation, and got married, saying, "that I might never more serve so execrable
1862-471: The oldest known historical verse drama in English (on the subject of King John ), and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed. His contention that Joseph of Arimathea had brought a proto-Protestant faith to Britain that was purer than Catholicism was to have far-reaching ramifications; but his unhappy disposition and habit of quarrelling earned him
1911-602: The organisation was a trade association of wool and cloth merchants . It has been one of the most powerful companies in London civic politics. Over one hundred Lord Mayors have been members of the company; the first, Henry Fitz-Ailwyn, progenitor of the Earls of Arundel , was a draper. During the Plantation of Ulster , the company held land around Moneymore and Draperstown in County Londonderry . Amongst
1960-461: The people to reject his innovations. When the accession of Queen Mary inaugurated a violent reaction in matters of religion, he was forced to get out of the country again. He tried to escape to Scotland, but on the voyage was captured by a Dutch man-of-war, which was driven by bad weather into St Ives, Cornwall . Bale was arrested on suspicion of treason , but soon released. At Dover he had another narrow escape, but he eventually made his way to
2009-480: The royalty who have been members of the company, three had not been expected to become a monarch at the time of their admission to the company but were later crowned: Other well-known members have included Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany ( aka The Grand Old Duke of York), Sir Francis Drake , Admiral the Viscount Nelson , The Marquess of Ripon and Grinling Gibbons . Queen Elizabeth II of
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2058-658: The use of their grossers, candelmakers, sopesellers, and other worldly occupyers... As much have I saved there and in certen other places in Northfolke and Southfolke concerning the authors names and titles of their workes, as I could, and as much wold I have done throughout the whole realm, yf I had been able to have borne the charges, as I am not." John Bale's written works are listed in Athenae Cantabrigienses. While in Germany he published an attack on
2107-492: Was a morality play . The direction for the dressing of the parts is instructive: "Let Idolatry be decked like an old witch, Sodomy like a monk of all sects, Ambition like a bishop, Covetousness like a Pharisee or spiritual lawyer, False Doctrine like a popish doctor, and Hypocrisy like a gray friar." A Tragedye; or enterlude manifesting the chief promyses of God unto Man , The Temptacyon of our Lorde , and A brefe Comedy or Enterlude of Johan Baptystes preachynge in
2156-596: Was a false church, or Church of Antichrist, which persecutes those who do not bow to its dictates. He did not entirely limit his criticism to the Roman Church but, typical of the Puritans, accused also the young Church of England . By contrast, the "true Church" loves and teaches God's word truly. He also speaks critically of the Church of Mohammed ("Mahomet"): its tyranny over the people (the "Turks") and persecution of
2205-604: Was buried at St Michael's Cornhill , where his monument is no longer extant, although Stow preserved the English part of his epitaph. In his will, proved 12 July 1513, he left bequests to his wife, his six surviving children, his cousin, Dorothy, and the mercer Robert Tate, Lord Mayor of London , among others. Fabyan married Elizabeth Pake, daughter and heir of a London draper , John Pake, by Elizabeth Stokker, by whom he had sixteen children, only six of whom, four sons, John, Robert, Thomas, and Anthony, and two daughters, Joan Haryat and Mary, were alive at his death. Ellis notes that
2254-578: Was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and rebuilt to designs by Edward Jarman. After another fire in 1772, it was rebuilt again. This time the architect was John Gorham. Further extensive alterations were made in the 19th century. The Hall survived the Blitz during the Second World War . The Hall includes four finely decorated main rooms used for the company's functions. The largest room
2303-467: Was granted the freedom of the Worshipful Company of Drapers in 1476. In 1485 he served as renter warden of the Drapers, and in 1486 as auditor of the accounts of the City of London. In 1493 he was elected Sheriff , and in the following year as alderman of the ward of Farringdon Without . In 1495 he was elected Master of the Drapers, and in 1496 was chosen to petition Henry VII on behalf of
2352-519: Was published by John Bale in 1545, and is a detailed commentary on the Book of Revelation , the last book in the Christian Bible. Bale proceeded by taking short passages and following with a detailed paraphrase to explain the meaning and significance of such things as the opening of the seven seals, the first beast, the second beast with two horns, the blowing of the trumpets, and the going forth of
2401-670: Was to contend that the faith which Joseph brought, was also purer than that of Rome: "the Brytaynes toke the christen faythe at the verye sprynge or fyrst goynge forth of the Gospell, whan the churche was most perfyght, and had most strengthe of the holye ghost". It was a claim that was enthusiastically taken up by English Protestants, including Queen Elizabeth . While Rector of Bishopstoke he produced The Image of Both Churches , and after his stormy association with Ossory he printed an account of his "Vocacyon" to that see. The Resurreccion of
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