Excerpt from Grafton's Chronicle, or History of England, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Added His Table of the Bailiffs, Sherrifs, and Mayors, of the City of London, From the Year 1189, to 1558, Inclusive

IN The beginning of the worlde most 'pcople went naked, sauingthat they ivere partly couered with the slrinnes of some beast, 8c at that tyme they had no dwelling houses to de fend them, neyther from the colde, nor yet from the beate, but after their owhe phantasies they made with prety boughes and twigs of trees, such little pretye lodgings, as we call Ca bons, or Boothes. And It so chaunced that Cain beyng verye olde and also werye, happened one day to lay him downe to rest in a bush that was enclosed with grene booughes as afore said. And Lamech one of the kindred of Cain in yfift degree, who by reason of his great age had lost his sight, 8: yet at a time was disposed to go abroad to kill some wilde Beast, and taking his Bow and Arrow es, he tooke also with him a little boy tolead and di rect him where he might haue a good shot. And when they drew somewhat neare vuto the Bush where Cain lay, the little hoye espying the bush to wag, and seeing as it were a great thing in the midst thereof, he imagined that there lay some wilde beast, and the boy beyng afraid therof gaue knowledge vnto old father Lamech, that in a bush stading right before him and not farre off, there lay a great and terrible beast. And Lamech vpon the report of the child stretched out his arme (l:ew a streight draught towarde the bush.

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