“The day that you see St Christopher’s face,
That day shall you not die an evil death. 1423.”
[415] Aubrey, Remains of Judaism and Gentilism. Lansdowne MSS., No. 231.
[416] Memoirs of Roger Earl of Orrery, by Rev. Mr Th. Morris, (Earl of Orrery’s State Letters,) 1742, fol. 15.
[417] Strype, B. ii., p. 162.
[418] Tottenham High Cross.
[419] The first library sold by auction in this country was that of Dr Seaman, of Warwick Court, Warwick Lane, in 1676.
[420] “If your potations overnight do not agree with you, take another glass of wine in the morning, and it will cure you.”
[421] Skinker, an old English word, synonymous to tapster, drawer.
“Bacchus the win him skinketh all about.”—Chaucer, Marchant’s Tale, 9696