Diary of Henry Machyn
p.35
‘The vj day of July, as they say, dessessyed the nobull kyng Edward the vj. and the the vij yere of ys rayne, and sune and here to the nobull kyng Henry the viij; and he was poyssoned, as evere body says, wher now, thanke be unto God, ther be mony of the false trayturs browt to ther end, and j trust in God that mor shall follow as they may be spyed owt.’
The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.1
‘King Edward died at Greenwich, on the 6th July 1553, towards night.’
Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation
p.365-374
‘The most godly Josiah, our earthly hope, died on the 6th of July; of consumption, as the physicians assert; by posion, according to common report…This death, and the other evils which now oppress England, were apparently portended by a dreadful storm, to which I do not remember any equal: it was accompanied by the most extreme darkness, most violent wind, innumerable flashes of lightning, terrible claps of thunder, and an immense body of water…’
Letter CLXXXII
Julius Terentianus to John (Ab Ulmis)
Strasburgh Nov 20 1553
