[251] “R. G. saw a stone, and said the same to bee a tooth, but being by my selfe proued a stone, there fayled both scull and shank-bone, and followed a cluster of lies together, yet since increased by other.”—Stow.
[252] “Gerrard’s hall overthrowne with Gerrard the giant, and his great spear.”—Stow.
[253] “Every man’s house of old time was decked with holly and ivy in the winter, especially at Christmas.”—Stow.
[254] “Quest of inquiry indight the keepers of the gayles for dealing hardly with their prisoners. They indighted the bowling alleys, etc.”—Stow.
[255] “In the Exchequer thirty-six pounds, ten shillings.”—1st edition, p. 285.
[256] “But I could never learne the cause why it should be so called, and therefore I will let it passe.”—1st edition, p. 287.
[257] “There bee monumentes in this church of Andrew Awbery, grocer, mayor, and Thomas Fryar, fishmonger, in the yeare 1351, who gave to this church and parish one plot of ground, containing fiftie-six foote in length, and fortie-three foote in breadth at both endes, to be a buriall place for the dead of the said parish, the twenty-sixt of Edward the third. Also Thomas Madefry, clarke, and John Pylot, gave to the wardens of that parish one shop and a house in Distar lane, for the continual repairing of the body of that church, the belles and ornaments, the twentieth of Richard II.”—1st edition, p. 287.
[258] Liber Trinitate.
[259] It appears from Strype’s Stow (i. p, 214, ed. 1720), that “Were path or Wore path, is in the east part of the Flete of Barking, about seven miles from London; and Anedeheth is near Westminster, on the west part of London.”
[260] Liber Trinitate, Lon.