[322] The original reading is, so while they were doying.
[323] Innkeeper. This form of the word continued to be used by English writers even in the later half of the seventeenth century.
[324] Perhaps this, like Makeshift, was merely intended as a phrase to disguise the real name of the person intended.
[325] Northumberland Alley was in Fenchurch Street, and was notorious for bowling-greens, gaming-houses, &c. Probably this is the locality intended. See Cunningham's Handbook to London. 596 edit. 1848.
[326] i.e. a burlesque play.
[327] Orig. and Singer read man.
[328] Aldersgate. In the Ordinary, by W. Cartwright, Moth the Antiquary says:—
"Yclose by Aldersgate there dwelleth one
Wights clypen Robert Moth; now Aldersgate
Is hotten so from one that Aldrich hight;
Or else of Elders, that is, ancient men;
Or else of Aldern trees which growden there;
Or else, as Heralds say, from Aluredus."
[329] Inns were not so plentiful at this time as they afterward became. Perhaps the establishment here referred to was the celebrated Bell Inn, which was still standing in the time of James the First, and which is mentioned by Taylor the Water-Poet in his Penniless Pilgrimage, 1618 (Works, 1630, i. 122):—
"At last I took my latest leave, thus late
At the Bell Inn, that's extra Aldersgate."