“Then I hyed me into East Chepe;
One cryes ribbs of befe, and many a pye:
Pewter pottes they clattered on a heape;
There was harpe, pype and mynstrelsye,” etc.
[94] “Pater noster beade-makers and text-writers are gone out of Paternoster rowe into stationers of Paule’s churchyard.”—1st edition, p. 63.
[95] Thomas Clifford.
[96] Liber Constitutionis. Liber Horne. Liber Clerkenwell.
[97] W. Patten.
[98] Liber S. Mariæ Eborum.
[99] Carts shod or bound with iron. Carrectæ ferro ligatæ are mentioned in the Liber Garderobæ, Edw. I.
[100] W. Fitzstephen.
[101] There are few documents calculated to throw greater light upon the social and domestic life of our ancestors than their Household Books. Stow has here set an example, which has of late years been followed to a great extent. The Liber Garderobæ, Edw. I., published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1787—The Northumberland Household Book—The Privy Purse Expences of Henry VIII.—The Privy Purse Expences of the Princess Mary, etc.; and lastly, the handsome volume, printed for the Roxburgh Club by Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P., containing the Household Book of the Countess of Leicester, wife of Simon de Montford, and that of Sir John Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, in the reign of Richard III., afford views of ancient manners and illustrations of olden customs, which would be sought for in vain in works of a graver character.
[102] Record of Pontefract, as I could obtain of M. Cudnor.—Stow.