Note 124 — Chapter VII · THE FALL OF THE HANSA

This document is assigned in the Calendar to the year 1553, but it obviously belongs to the sequence of events of 1551–2. At the end of the original (R. O., S. P. For. Ed. VI, vol. xi, ff. 147–9) occur the words: ‘This decree was made and given at Westmr. the xxiiii of February in the sixt year of the reign.’ The sixth year of Edward VI extended from January 29, 1552, to January 28, 1553. See also the Journal of Edward VI and A. P. C., iii. 487–9.