APPENDIX.
NUMBER I.
RICHARD RAWLINSON, L. L. D. and R. S. S. in his Account of Southwark, [11] informs us, that next to the Bear-Garden on the Bank-Side was formerly the Bordello, or Stewes, so called from several Licensed Houses for the Entertainment of Lewd Persons, in which were Women prepared for all Comers. They were subject to several Laws and Regulations, and their Manner of Life and Privileged Places, received several Confirmations from the Crown.
In 1162, King Henry II, in a Parliament held at Westminster, passed an Act, confirming several Ordinances, Statutes, and old Customs observed in that Place, amongst which the following are remarkable:
That no Stew-Holder or his Wife, should lett or stay any single Woman to go and come freely at all Times when she listed.
No Stewholder to keep any Woman to board, but she to board abroad at her Pleasure.
To take no more for the Woman’s Chamber than fourteen Pence.