[695] Postman, 1711.
[696] Aubrey, Remains of Gentilisme and Judaisme. Lansdowne MSS., No. 231.
[697] The Intelligencer, Sept. 4, 1665.
[698] Spence’s Anecdotes, ed. by Singer, p. 337.
[699] “On the roads near large towns and in the country, you will not find one house in twelve but it does exhibit the sign of the Sun or the Moon. They all sell wine, each of them to his own neighbourhood.”
[700] Henry Peacham’s Art of Living in London, 1642.
[701] Taylor’s Pennylesse Pilgrimage, 1630.
[702] Luttrell Ballads, ii., fol. 92.
[703] “Already had Louis XI. reigned fifteen years over the French when Ulrich and Martin [Crantz] and Michel [Friburger,] all natives of Germany, produced me in this shape at Paris by their art; carefully corrected, I am now offered for sale in the Rue St Jacques, at the Golden Sun.”
[704] This idea is in a measure set forth in some lines on the titlepage of “Gasparini Pergamensis Epistolarium opus per Joannem Lapidarium Sorbonensis Scholæ Priorem multis vigiliis ex corrupto integrum affectum ingeniosa arte impressoria in luce redactum,” 1470, beginning:—