The History of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers of London: Preceded by an Introduction on London and Her Gilds Up to the Close of the XVth Century, Band 3

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Clarendon Press, 1922

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Seite 37 - From Scotland came many, and from England not a few, yet all of them generally the scum of both nations; who, from debt or breaking and fleeing from justice, or seeking shelter, came hither, hoping to be without fear of man's justice, in a land where there was nothing, or but little as yet, of the fear of God.
Seite 4 - Among those many monuments his quill Has so revived, helping now to fill A place (with those) in his survey, in which He has a monument, more fair, more rich Than polish'd stones could make him, where he lies, Though dead, still living, and in that ne'er dies.
Seite 62 - The Governor and Company of the City of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands...
Seite 122 - Bench, who had declared that there was a rule of law and a rule of government, and that many things which might not be done by the rule of law might be done by the rule of government.
Seite 5 - And first of all cometh two great standards, one having the arms of the city, and the other the arms of the mayor's company ; next them two drums and a flute, then an ensign of the city, and then about...
Seite 60 - This lottery was so plainly carried, and honestly performed, that it gave full satisfaction to all persons, Thomas Sharplisse, a tailor of London, had the chief prize, viz, four thousand crowns5 in fair plate,6 which was sent to his house in very stately manner.
Seite 12 - ... of after ages, and Antiquity, the register of Fame, containing in her golden legend their names and titles ;" Fame explaining the pageant in her speech. His lordship is now conducted toward the new standard, and in allusion to the repair that it and St. Paul's had recently undergone; " one, in a cloudy ruinous habit, leaning upon the turret, at a trumpet's sounding suddenly starts and wakes, and in amazement throws off his unseemly garments " at the mayor's approach, and addresses him in a complimentary...
Seite 9 - Foure goodly mounts" are raised as bulwarks to protect her ; being " Learned Religion, Militarie Discipline, Navigation, and Homebred Husbandrie." After all these shewes, appears a " device of huntsmen, all clad in greene, with their bowes, arrowes, and bugles, and a new slaine deere carried among them. It savoureth of Earle Robert de la Hude, sometime Earle of Huntingdon, and sonne-in-lawe (by mariage), to olde Fitz-Alwine." He is attended by " Little John, Scathlocke, Much the miller's sonne, Righthitting...
Seite 6 - SS. about his neck, and with him rideth the old mayor also, in his scarlet gown, hood of velvet, and a chain of gold about his neck. Then all the aldermen, two and two, (among whom is the Recorder,) all in scarlet gowns ; those that have been mayors have chains of gold, the others have black velvet tippets, The two sheriffs come last of all, in their black scarlet gowns, and chains of gold.
Seite 58 - ... ill provided for, before they come, and worse governed when they are here, men of such distempered bodies and infected minds, whom no examples daily before their eyes, either of goodness or punishment, can deter from their habitual impieties or terrify from a shameful death, that must be carpenters and workers in this so glorious building.

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