[271] “And in the Exchequer at thirty-four pounds.”—1st edition, p. 338.
[272] “Li. St. Mary Eborum. English people disdayned to be baudes. Froes of Flaunders were women for that purpose.”—Stow.
[273] “John Gower was no knight, neither had he any garland of ivie and roses, but a chaplet of foure roses onely.”—Stow.
[274] Li. St. Marie Overy.
[275] “To Wapping in the Wose, and Wapping itself, the usual place, etc.”—1st edition, p. 347.
[276] “Fayre hedges, long rowes of elme, and other trees.”—Ibid.
[277] “By encroachments for building of small tenements, and taking in of garden-plots, timber-yards, or what they list. From this tower hill towards Aldgate (being a long continuous street), amongst other buildings, was that abbey of nunnes called the Minorities, or Minories, whereof I have spoken. And on the other side of that streete lyeth the ditche without the wall of the citie from the Tower unto Aldegate.”—1st edition, pp. 347-8.
[278] “Brought up in Lincoln’s inn.”—1st edition, p. 349.
[279] “And neare thereunto are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of comedies, tragedies, and histories, for recreation. Whereof one is called the Courtein, the other the Theatre; both standing on the south-west side towards the field.”—Ibid.
[280] Shoreditch. In the first edition, it is called Sors ditch, or Sewers ditch.