A Relation, Or Rather A True Account, of the Island of England: With Sundry Particulars of the Customs of These People, and of the Royal Revenues Under King Henry the Seventh, about the Year 1500 |
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Page 9 - with them, and with some companion reciting it in the church verse by verse, in a low voice, after the manner of churchmen,) they always hear mass on Sunday in their parish church, and give liberal alms, because they may not offer less than a piece of money, of which fourteen are equivalent to a golden ducat;
Page 16 - is left far behind by a ruby, not larger than a man's thumb-nail, which is set to the right of the altar. The church is rather dark, and particularly so where the shrine is placed, and when we went to see it the sun was nearly gone down, and the
Page 28 - but to the shops of London. In one single street, named the Strand, leading to St. Paul's, there are fifty-two goldsmith's shops, so rich and full of silver vessels, great and small, that in all the shops in
Page 73 - unthrifts riot and run in debt, upon the boldness of those places, yea, and rich men run thither with poor men's goods, there they build, there they spend, and bid their creditors go whistle them. Men's wives run thither with their husband's plate, and say that they dare not abide with their husbands for beating. " Thieves bring thither their stolen goods, and
Page 69 - The timber work of this shrine on the outside was covered with plates of gold, damasked with gold wire, which ground of gold was again covered with jewels of gold, as rings ten or twelve cramped with gold wire into the said ground of gold, many of those rings having stones in them, brooches, images, angels, precious stones, and great pearls
Page 23 - from the King's Majesty, or the Court, or this Chief Justice. And if the King should propose to change any old established rule, it would seem to every Englishman as if his life were taken from him ; but I think that the present King Henry will do away with a great many, should he live ten years longer.
Page 10 - years at the utmost, they put them out, both males and females, to hard service in the houses of other people, binding them generally for another 7 or 9 years. And these are called apprentices, and
Page 20 - Such severe measures against criminals ought to keep the English in check, but, for all this, there is no country in the world where there are so many thieves and robbers as in England ; insomuch, that few venture to go alone in the country, excepting in the middle of the day, and fewer still in the towns at night, and least of all in London.
Page 29 - Milan, Rome, Venice, and Florence put together, I do not think there would be found so many of the magnificence that are to be seen in London.
Page 15 - there is no small innkeeper, however poor and humble he may be, who does not serve his table with silver dishes and drinking cups ; and no one, who has not in his house silver plate to the amount of at least £ 100 sterling, which is equivalent to 500 golden crowns with us, is considered by the English to be a person of any consequence.