Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century

A C G O U N t, He. xa
Thomas Fulsord, Knt. eldest son of Baldewyn Fulford, late
cf Fulsord, in the county of Devonshire, Knt. Rot. Pat.
8 Edw. IV. p. i. m. 13. The preamble of this act, after
stating the attainder by the act 1 Edw. IV. goes on thus :
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And also the said Baldewyn, the said first yere of your noble
reign, at Bristowe in the shere of Bristowe, before Henry Erie
of Essex William Hastyngs of Hastyngs Knt. Richard Chock
William Canyng Maire of the said
towne of Bristowe and
Thomas Yong, by force of your letters patentes to theym and
other directe to here and determine all treesons &c. doon withyn
the said towne of Bristowe before the vth day of September the
first yere of your said reign, was atteynt of dyvers tresons by
him doon ayenst your Highnes &c."
If the commission fate
soon after the vth of September, as is most probable, King
Edward might very possibly be at Bristol at the time of Sir
Baldewyn's execution ; for, in the interval between his coro
nation and the
parliament which met in November, he made
a progress (as the Continuator of Stowe informs us, p. 416.)
by the South coast
places) at Bristol.
into the West, and was (among other
Indeed there is a circumstance which might
lead us to believe, that he was. actually a spectator of the exe
cution from the minster-window, as described in the poem.
In an old accompt of the Procurators of St. Ewin's church,
w■h'ich was then the minster, from xx March in the 1 Edward
IV. to r April in the year next ensuing, is the following artfc