[273]“John Gower was no knight, neither had he any garland of ivie and roses, but a chaplet of foure roses onely.”—Stow.[274]Li. St. Marie Overy.[275]“To Wapping in the Wose, and Wapping itself, the usual place, etc.”—1st edition, p. 347.[276]“Fayre hedges, long rowes of elme, and other trees.”—Ibid.[277]“By encroachments for building of small tenements, and taking in of garden-plots, timber-yards, or what they list. From this tower hill towards Aldgate (being a long continuous street), amongst other buildings, was that abbey of nunnes called the Minorities, or Minories, whereof I have spoken. And on the other side of that streete lyeth the ditche without the wall of the citie from the Tower unto Aldegate.”—1st edition, pp. 347-8.[278]“Brought up in Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 349.[279]“And neare thereunto are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of comedies, tragedies, and histories, for recreation. Whereof one is called the Courtein, the other the Theatre; both standing on the south-west side towards the field.”—Ibid.[280]Shoreditch. In the first edition, it is called Sors ditch, or Sewers ditch.[281]“Over against the north end of Grub street.”—1st edition, p. 349.[282]“Next to that a large house, with gardens of pleasure, builded by Jasper Fisher, from this up to the west end of Hog lane, etc.”—1st edition, p. 350.[283]“Soerditch, so called more than four hundred yeares since, as I can prove by record.”—Stow.[284]“Banqueting houses like banqueroutes, bearing great shew and little worth.”—Stow.[285]“The same was after the bishop of Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 361.[286]“Beyond this Southampton house.”—Ibid.[287]“Fratres de Monte Jovis, or Priory de Cornuto, by Havering at the Bower.”—Stow.[288]H. Knighton.—Stow.[289]“Savoy brent: blown up with gunpowder. Rebels, more malitious then covetous, spoyle all before them.”—Stow.[290]“In the high street standeth a pair of stocks.”—1st edition, p. 369.[291]“Which is a goodly house, lately builded nigh to Ivy bridge, over against the old Bedforde house, namely, called Russell house and Dacres house, now the house of Sir Thomas Cecile, Lorde Burghley; and so on the north side to a lane that turneth to the parish church of St. Martin in the Fielde, and stretcheth to St. Giles in the Fielde.”—1st edition, pp. 370-1.[292]“I thinke custome.”—1st edition, p. 376.[293]“Foundation of Westminster by Sebert, a Christian king, not onely in word, but in deed.”—Stow.[294]“One of her majesties chaplens.”—1st edition, p. 381.[295]“Earle of Bridgewater.”—1st edition, p. 382.[296]In the first edition, the passage relative to Henry II.’s command to Hugh Gifford and William Browne, to distribute alms “according to the weight and measure of the king’s children” (see ante, page 83), is inserted in this place.[297]“I find of record, the 50th of Edward III., that the chapter-house of the abbot of Westminster was then the usual house for the commons in parliament.”—Stow.[298]“Of England.”—1st edition, p. 387.[299]The corruption alluded to by Stow exists to the present day—the Almonry being styled by the lower classes in Westminster, the Ambry. The house said to have been Caxton’s is also, we believe, still remaining, though in a state of great dilapidation.[300]“Eleutherius died in the yeare 186, when he had sitten bishop 15 yeares.”—Stow.[301]“At Bartholomew’s priory in Smithfield.”—1st edition, p. 304.[302]“Leviticus 13. Numbers 5. Leprose persons to be separated from the sound.”—Stow.[303]“Since called shiriffes, and judges of the King’s court, and have therefore under-shiriffes, men learned in the law, to sit in their courts. Domesmen, or judges of the King’s court.”—Stow.[304]The first edition has “mayor Hugh Fitz Thomas,” and does not make mention of “Fitz Ottonis.”[305]Hallontide,—or, as it was more generally designated, All Hallontide,—is the older designation of All Saints’ day, the 1st of November.[306]Sic in Stow; Strype corrects it intoπολεύω.
[273]“John Gower was no knight, neither had he any garland of ivie and roses, but a chaplet of foure roses onely.”—Stow.
[273]“John Gower was no knight, neither had he any garland of ivie and roses, but a chaplet of foure roses onely.”—Stow.
[274]Li. St. Marie Overy.
[274]Li. St. Marie Overy.
[275]“To Wapping in the Wose, and Wapping itself, the usual place, etc.”—1st edition, p. 347.
[275]“To Wapping in the Wose, and Wapping itself, the usual place, etc.”—1st edition, p. 347.
[276]“Fayre hedges, long rowes of elme, and other trees.”—Ibid.
[276]“Fayre hedges, long rowes of elme, and other trees.”—Ibid.
[277]“By encroachments for building of small tenements, and taking in of garden-plots, timber-yards, or what they list. From this tower hill towards Aldgate (being a long continuous street), amongst other buildings, was that abbey of nunnes called the Minorities, or Minories, whereof I have spoken. And on the other side of that streete lyeth the ditche without the wall of the citie from the Tower unto Aldegate.”—1st edition, pp. 347-8.
[277]“By encroachments for building of small tenements, and taking in of garden-plots, timber-yards, or what they list. From this tower hill towards Aldgate (being a long continuous street), amongst other buildings, was that abbey of nunnes called the Minorities, or Minories, whereof I have spoken. And on the other side of that streete lyeth the ditche without the wall of the citie from the Tower unto Aldegate.”—1st edition, pp. 347-8.
[278]“Brought up in Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 349.
[278]“Brought up in Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 349.
[279]“And neare thereunto are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of comedies, tragedies, and histories, for recreation. Whereof one is called the Courtein, the other the Theatre; both standing on the south-west side towards the field.”—Ibid.
[279]“And neare thereunto are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of comedies, tragedies, and histories, for recreation. Whereof one is called the Courtein, the other the Theatre; both standing on the south-west side towards the field.”—Ibid.
[280]Shoreditch. In the first edition, it is called Sors ditch, or Sewers ditch.
[280]Shoreditch. In the first edition, it is called Sors ditch, or Sewers ditch.
[281]“Over against the north end of Grub street.”—1st edition, p. 349.
[281]“Over against the north end of Grub street.”—1st edition, p. 349.
[282]“Next to that a large house, with gardens of pleasure, builded by Jasper Fisher, from this up to the west end of Hog lane, etc.”—1st edition, p. 350.
[282]“Next to that a large house, with gardens of pleasure, builded by Jasper Fisher, from this up to the west end of Hog lane, etc.”—1st edition, p. 350.
[283]“Soerditch, so called more than four hundred yeares since, as I can prove by record.”—Stow.
[283]“Soerditch, so called more than four hundred yeares since, as I can prove by record.”—Stow.
[284]“Banqueting houses like banqueroutes, bearing great shew and little worth.”—Stow.
[284]“Banqueting houses like banqueroutes, bearing great shew and little worth.”—Stow.
[285]“The same was after the bishop of Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 361.
[285]“The same was after the bishop of Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 361.
[286]“Beyond this Southampton house.”—Ibid.
[286]“Beyond this Southampton house.”—Ibid.
[287]“Fratres de Monte Jovis, or Priory de Cornuto, by Havering at the Bower.”—Stow.
[287]“Fratres de Monte Jovis, or Priory de Cornuto, by Havering at the Bower.”—Stow.
[288]H. Knighton.—Stow.
[288]H. Knighton.—Stow.
[289]“Savoy brent: blown up with gunpowder. Rebels, more malitious then covetous, spoyle all before them.”—Stow.
[289]“Savoy brent: blown up with gunpowder. Rebels, more malitious then covetous, spoyle all before them.”—Stow.
[290]“In the high street standeth a pair of stocks.”—1st edition, p. 369.
[290]“In the high street standeth a pair of stocks.”—1st edition, p. 369.
[291]“Which is a goodly house, lately builded nigh to Ivy bridge, over against the old Bedforde house, namely, called Russell house and Dacres house, now the house of Sir Thomas Cecile, Lorde Burghley; and so on the north side to a lane that turneth to the parish church of St. Martin in the Fielde, and stretcheth to St. Giles in the Fielde.”—1st edition, pp. 370-1.
[291]“Which is a goodly house, lately builded nigh to Ivy bridge, over against the old Bedforde house, namely, called Russell house and Dacres house, now the house of Sir Thomas Cecile, Lorde Burghley; and so on the north side to a lane that turneth to the parish church of St. Martin in the Fielde, and stretcheth to St. Giles in the Fielde.”—1st edition, pp. 370-1.
[292]“I thinke custome.”—1st edition, p. 376.
[292]“I thinke custome.”—1st edition, p. 376.
[293]“Foundation of Westminster by Sebert, a Christian king, not onely in word, but in deed.”—Stow.
[293]“Foundation of Westminster by Sebert, a Christian king, not onely in word, but in deed.”—Stow.
[294]“One of her majesties chaplens.”—1st edition, p. 381.
[294]“One of her majesties chaplens.”—1st edition, p. 381.
[295]“Earle of Bridgewater.”—1st edition, p. 382.
[295]“Earle of Bridgewater.”—1st edition, p. 382.
[296]In the first edition, the passage relative to Henry II.’s command to Hugh Gifford and William Browne, to distribute alms “according to the weight and measure of the king’s children” (see ante, page 83), is inserted in this place.
[296]In the first edition, the passage relative to Henry II.’s command to Hugh Gifford and William Browne, to distribute alms “according to the weight and measure of the king’s children” (see ante, page 83), is inserted in this place.
[297]“I find of record, the 50th of Edward III., that the chapter-house of the abbot of Westminster was then the usual house for the commons in parliament.”—Stow.
[297]“I find of record, the 50th of Edward III., that the chapter-house of the abbot of Westminster was then the usual house for the commons in parliament.”—Stow.
[298]“Of England.”—1st edition, p. 387.
[298]“Of England.”—1st edition, p. 387.
[299]The corruption alluded to by Stow exists to the present day—the Almonry being styled by the lower classes in Westminster, the Ambry. The house said to have been Caxton’s is also, we believe, still remaining, though in a state of great dilapidation.
[299]The corruption alluded to by Stow exists to the present day—the Almonry being styled by the lower classes in Westminster, the Ambry. The house said to have been Caxton’s is also, we believe, still remaining, though in a state of great dilapidation.
[300]“Eleutherius died in the yeare 186, when he had sitten bishop 15 yeares.”—Stow.
[300]“Eleutherius died in the yeare 186, when he had sitten bishop 15 yeares.”—Stow.
[301]“At Bartholomew’s priory in Smithfield.”—1st edition, p. 304.
[301]“At Bartholomew’s priory in Smithfield.”—1st edition, p. 304.
[302]“Leviticus 13. Numbers 5. Leprose persons to be separated from the sound.”—Stow.
[302]“Leviticus 13. Numbers 5. Leprose persons to be separated from the sound.”—Stow.
[303]“Since called shiriffes, and judges of the King’s court, and have therefore under-shiriffes, men learned in the law, to sit in their courts. Domesmen, or judges of the King’s court.”—Stow.
[303]“Since called shiriffes, and judges of the King’s court, and have therefore under-shiriffes, men learned in the law, to sit in their courts. Domesmen, or judges of the King’s court.”—Stow.
[304]The first edition has “mayor Hugh Fitz Thomas,” and does not make mention of “Fitz Ottonis.”
[304]The first edition has “mayor Hugh Fitz Thomas,” and does not make mention of “Fitz Ottonis.”
[305]Hallontide,—or, as it was more generally designated, All Hallontide,—is the older designation of All Saints’ day, the 1st of November.
[305]Hallontide,—or, as it was more generally designated, All Hallontide,—is the older designation of All Saints’ day, the 1st of November.
[306]Sic in Stow; Strype corrects it intoπολεύω.
[306]Sic in Stow; Strype corrects it intoπολεύω.