His comment (in a side note) is equally worth preserving: “The readiest to speake not alwaies the wisest men.”
[189] “In London at six and thirty pounds, and in the Exchequer at thirty-five pounds five shillings.”—1st edition, p. 195.
[190] “Gray sope made in London dearer than bought from Bristol.”—Stow.
[191] “Richard Chaucer, father to Geffrey Chaucer, the poet, as may be supposed.”—Stow.
[192] “Sir William Laxton, grocer, mayor, deceased 1556, was buried in the vault prepared by Henry Keble, principall founder of that church, for himself, but now his bones are unkindly cast out, his monuments pulled downe, and the bodies of the said Sir William Laxton, and of Sir Thomas Lodge, grocer, mayor, are laid in place, with monuments over them for the time, till an other give money for their place, and then away with them.”—1st edition, p. 199.
[193] “Called de Arcubus of the stone arches or bowes on the top of the steeple or bell tower thereof, which arching was as well on the old steeple as on the new, for no other part of the church seemeth to have been arched at any time; yet hath the said church never been knowne by any other name than St. Mary Bow, or le Bow; neither is that church so called of the court there kept, but the said court taketh name of the place wherein it is kept, and is called the Court of Arches.”—1st edition, p. 203.
[194] “A false accuser of his elder brother, in the end was hanged.”—Stow.
In his first edition, p. 203, this note is continued as follows: “God amend, or shortly send such an end to such false brethren.”
[195] “Of some unknowne founder.”—1st edition, p. 205.
[196] “And in the 8th of the same Henry called Tamarsilde.”—1st edition, p. 206.