Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

[384] Act ii. sc. 1.

[385] Vol. ii. p. 163.

[386] The Hangman was known by the name of Gregory in the year 1642, as we learn from the Mercurius Aulicus, p. 553.

[387] History of London, vol. II. p. 74.

[388] Rapin. See also Bale's Life and Trial of Sir John Oldcastle. St. Giles's was then an independent Village, and is still called St. Giles's in the Fields, to distinguish it from St. Giles's, Cripplegate; being both in the same Diocese.

[389] Mr. Ray, in his Itinerary, gives the Fractional Parts of the Scottish Penny.

[390] The Proclamation may be seen in Strype's Annals, vol. IV. p. 384; where the Mark-Piece is valued exactly at Thirteen Pence Halfpenny.

[391] Coriolanus, Act i. Sc. 8.

[392] More's Life of Sir Thomas More, p. 271.

[393] Stat. 13 Edward I.