[291] “Which is a goodly house, lately builded nigh to Ivy bridge, over against the old Bedforde house, namely, called Russell house and Dacres house, now the house of Sir Thomas Cecile, Lorde Burghley; and so on the north side to a lane that turneth to the parish church of St. Martin in the Fielde, and stretcheth to St. Giles in the Fielde.”—1st edition, pp. 370-1.
[292] “I thinke custome.”—1st edition, p. 376.
[293] “Foundation of Westminster by Sebert, a Christian king, not onely in word, but in deed.”—Stow.
[294] “One of her majesties chaplens.”—1st edition, p. 381.
[295] “Earle of Bridgewater.”—1st edition, p. 382.
[296] In the first edition, the passage relative to Henry II.’s command to Hugh Gifford and William Browne, to distribute alms “according to the weight and measure of the king’s children” (see ante, page 83), is inserted in this place.
[297] “I find of record, the 50th of Edward III., that the chapter-house of the abbot of Westminster was then the usual house for the commons in parliament.”—Stow.
[298] “Of England.”—1st edition, p. 387.
[299] The corruption alluded to by Stow exists to the present day—the Almonry being styled by the lower classes in Westminster, the Ambry. The house said to have been Caxton’s is also, we believe, still remaining, though in a state of great dilapidation.
[300] “Eleutherius died in the yeare 186, when he had sitten bishop 15 yeares.”—Stow.