The Story of the City CompaniesHoughton Mifflin, 1926 - 325 Seiten |
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Seite 183 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Seite 104 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Seite 133 - were of a fine red brick, and surrounded a small square court, paved ; the front being ornamented with stone corners, wrought in rustic, and a large arched entrance, which exhibited a high pediment, supported on Doric columns, and open at the top, to give room for a shield of the Company's arms. The livery, or common hall, which was on the east side of the court, was a spacious and lofty apartment, paved with black and white marble, and very elegantly fitted up. The wainscoting was very handsome,...
Seite 136 - Letter written in 1567, remarks, that it was " a great pity but it [the wearing of furs] should be renewed ; especially in Courts and among Magistrates, not only for the restoring of an old worshipful Art and Company, but also because they are for our climate wholesome, delicate, grave, and comely, expressing dignity, comforting age, and of long continuance ; and better with small cost to be preserved than those new silks, shags, and rags, wherein a great part of the wealth of the land is now hastily...
Seite 272 - An HABERDASHER, and a CARPENTER, A WEBBE, a DEYER, and a TAPISER, Were alle yclothed in o livere, Of a solempne and grete fraternite. Ful freshe and newe hir gere ypiked was. Hir knives were ychaped not with bras, But all with silver wrought ful clene and wel, Hir girdeles and hir pouches every del.
Seite 216 - play was the sacred Scriptures from the creation of the world. " They call this Corpus Christi play in my country, which I have " seen acted at Preston and Lancaster, and last of all at Kendall, " in the beginning of the reign of King James...
Seite 42 - London, suggesting to him how that many persons of that trade by ' fire and smoke of quicksilver have lost their sight, and that others of ' them by working in that trade became so crazed and infirm that they were disabled to subsist but of relief from others...
Seite 214 - Hrit. much shorter than anciently was accustomed, to the great loss and scandal of the whole trade of Ironmongers. Whereupon an inquisition was taken of lawful and honest men, who presented three iron rods of the just and anciently used lengths of the strytes (strytorum), and also of the length and breadth of the gropes (groporum), belonging to the wheels of carts, which rods were sealed with the seal of the Chamber of Guildhall, London, whereof one remains in the said chamber, and another rod was...
Seite 165 - Taylors have for their armorial ensigns — Argent, a tent royal between two parliament robes; gules, lined ermine, on "a chief azure, a lion of England.
Seite 62 - Merceries then comprehended all things sold retail by the little balance or small scales, in contradistinction to all things sold by the beam or in gross, and included, not only toys, together with haberdashery, and various other articles connected with dress, but also spices and drugs ; in short what at present constitutes the stock of a country shopkeeper.