Warders’ Lodgings, Tower of London.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1847. British Museum.
Footnotes:
[1] One of the “properties” still remains in Ironmongers’ Hall, an ostrich on which a black boy was seated in a seventeenth-century Mayoralty pageant. The beautiful drawings of Anthony Munday’s “Chrysanaleia,” a pageant prepared for Sir John Leman’s Mayoralty procession in 1616, are preserved at Fishmongers’ Hall.
[2] “Piepoudre, so called from the dusty feet of the suitors; or, according to Sir Edward Coke, because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the foot.”—Blackstone’s Comment., vol. iii., chap. 2.
[3] This extract from Fitzstephen is from the translation in Thoms’ edition of Stow, 1842.