 | David William Garrow - Croydon (London, England) - 1818 - 444 pages
...1st. that a similar accident happened at Croydon. "The like chanced," says he, "some four years since at Croydon, in Surrey, where a great depopulation...Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days after." Of these judges we have no very certain memorial; nor is there any historical information which... | |
 | David William Garrow - Canterbury (England) - 1818 - 452 pages
...similar accident happened at Croydon. "The like chanced," says he, "some four years since atCroydon, in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened at...Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days- after." Of these judges we have no very certain memorial ; nor is there any historical information... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 564 pages
...speaking of the fatal assizes at Oxford, in 1577, says, " the like chanced about four years since, at Croydon in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened...persons of quality; and the two judges, Baron Yates and Rigby, died a few days after." || The summer assizes are now held alternately at Croydon and Guildford.... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1837 - 562 pages
...two at Hereford, in the reigns of king James and king Charles. The like chanced some four years since at Croydon, in Surrey ; where a great depopulation...Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days after. Yet here no papists were arraigned to amount it to a popish miracle, so that Sanders's observation... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1837 - 564 pages
...two at Hereford, in the reigns of king James and king Charles. The like chanced some four years since at Croydon, in Surrey ; where a great depopulation...Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days after. Yet here no papists were arraigned to amount it to a popish miracle, so that Sanders's observation... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 638 pages
...mentioning the Black Assizes at Oxford, in 1577, adds, — "The like chanced some four years since (1052?) at Croydon in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened...and the two judges, Baron Yates, and Baron Rigby, died a few days after. Mr. Lysons remarks, that it does not appear by the Register, there was any great... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1842 - 570 pages
...two at Hereford, in the reigns of king James and king Charles. The like chanced some four years since at Croydon, in Surrey ; where a great depopulation...quality ; and the two judges, baron Yates and baron lligby, getting their banes there, died a few days after. Yet here no papists were arraigned, to amount... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1844 - 288 pages
...mentioning the Black Assizes at Oxford, in 1577, adds, — "The like chanced some four years since (1652?) at Croydon in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened...and the two judges, Baron Yates, and Baron Rigby, died a few days after. Mr. Lysons remarks, that it does not appear by the Register, there was any great... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 488 pages
...at Hereford, in the reigns of king James and king Charles. The like chanced, some four years since, at Croydon in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened,...Yates and baron Rigby, getting their banes there, died few days after. Yet here no papists were arraigned to amount it to a popish miracle; so that Sanders... | |
 | John Corbet Anderson - Croyden (London, England) - 1882 - 260 pages
...reigns of King James and Charles I., Dr. Fuller adds : — " The like chanced some four years since at Croydon, in Surrey, where a great depopulation...Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days after." The exact date at which this fatal catastrophe occurred has not been ascertained, but Ducarel... | |
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Stow further tells us that in 1551 an earthquake was felt at Croydon, and several neighbouring places. Fuller, in his " Church History of Britain" (1656), after mentioning the Black Assizes at Oxford, in 1577, adds "The like chanced some four years since... 
