1805.] ExtraSfsfrdm the Pert-folio of a Man of Letters:, 427 



pHy, ac'ded to a forei?n scent, is. the bed (ions ; to which we muft add, that many 



me ho ! to arcooti' for fitch imrcuracies. places which are not mentioned were at 



The ("urvev, 't muft be vbferved, in g;e- that time -vafte grounds. 



neral, was made wi h ^itat exa^nefs ; In Ibmc fiture paper it is probable the 



though the sres nefs of the delisn, and fubiecl of the Domelday-furvey may be 



the f<vour which w^s fliewn, confefi'cdlv, refume'J. 



in feme inftances, occafioneJ mmy omif- 



Extra£Js Jrom the Port folio of a Man of Lelteri. 



James the first. 



JAMES the Pint, K ng ot Englnnd, 

 acquiieJ ihe name of Kex Pactficus, 

 from his a,reat anxiety to keep the nation 

 from going to war : however, 'his pacific 

 dif ofitiin, which he gloried fo much in 

 as tu notice ii in his Ipetches in P.irlia- 

 tnent, did n. t fcreen him fro.n obloquv. 

 His Wealc effort to recover the PWati- 

 nate which had been wrelfed fom his(on- 

 in-law, who had been eleflcd K'lig of 

 Bohemia, was ndiculed on the (tage in 

 Flanders: a mirlTcnger was reprefented 

 Coming in hafte, in a comedy, bringing 

 news that the Palatine was like to have a 

 fonnidabie army on foot (liorily ; for the 

 King of Denmark would furi.ifh him 

 with a hundred thoufand pickled her- 

 rings, the Hollan'lers with a hundred 

 thouland butter-boxes, and England with 

 a bundled thouland ambaflfadors: and in 

 pictures; in one place the King was re- 

 prefented with a fcahbard without a 

 iword ; in ancther with a fword, which 

 no one Ci)u.d pull out, though divers 

 ftuod pulling at it : at Bruflcls they paint- 

 ed him wuh hii pockets h:<nging out, 

 and never a penny in them, nor in his 

 purfe, turned jnfide out. In Antwerp 

 they pictured the Queen of Bohemia like 

 a po r beggar, with her hair hanging 

 about her ears and hi r child at her back, 

 with the King her father "carrying the 

 cradle after her i and every one ot ihele 

 pictures had leveral mutios expreffing 

 their malice. " Such fcorns and con- 

 tempt* (fays Wi fon, King James's hif- 

 toi-ian,) wcie put upon his Majefty, and 

 in hiin upm the whole nation.'" 



PKOPriKCY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 

 Lord Bacon lays that he heard a com- 

 mon prophecy wh' n he wan a child, and 

 Qii^ten Elizabeth in the fl. wcr ol her 

 year*, which wa», " When Hemfe is 

 fpuii, England is d«ne j" whereby it was 

 conceived, that after the pilnccs had 

 leigntd whole initials formed the woid 

 Hempe (viz. H nr^, Edward, Mary and 

 Phili|>, and Elizabeth), England fhali 

 •oinc to utter confufion j which, fay* he. 



is verified in K'ng James 'he Firft's title, 

 no more England but Britain. 

 i-tTTER-LANE. 



This lane whs formerly called Fevjter- 

 lane, from the na'iie cf fetvters, given 

 to certain idle people refortirg tlieie, fays 

 Howell (LondinopoJis, 1657), it having 

 been a way leading to gardens and -vafte 

 griunds, which extended from this lane 

 to Shoe-lane. The word Fcwier I take 

 to be (he fame as Foiterer, ufed by Chau- 

 cer in the following paffage, in his Houfe 

 of Fame : — " Cowen in tomblejieres fetis 

 andfmale, andyoung Foiurers,'" 



ALICE PIERCE. 



In the forty-eighth year of Edward III. 

 (A. D. 1375) Dame Alice Perrers or 

 Pierce, the King's concubine, rode at 

 Lady of the Sun from the Tower of Lon- 

 don through Cheaplide, accompanied by 

 many lords and ladies, every lady leading 

 a lord by his horfe's bridle, till they 

 came into We(f Smlthfield, and then be- 

 gan a great Juji, whicn endured (even 

 days after, fayj Howell in his Londino- 

 poiib, 1657, 



THE DANCE OF DEATH. 



HowelJ likewife ikys, •' On the north 

 fide of St. Paul's there was a great cloyf- 

 ter environing a plot of ground, of old 

 time called Pardon Chmch-yard. About 

 this cloyl>er was artificially and richly 

 painted the Dance of Mochabray, or 

 Dance ot Death, commonly called the 

 Danc6 of Paul's; the like whereof was 

 painted about St. Innocent's Cloylter at 

 P^iris : the meetcrs or poefie of this Dance 

 were tranllated out of French into Eng- 

 l.fti, by John Lidgate, Monk of Bury, 

 the Picture of Deaih leading all Eftates." 



PATER NOSTER ROW. 



" Pater Nulicr-row (fays Howell) had 

 its uaiiic troiii (taiioners, or ttxi-wnters, 

 who dwelled there, and wrote and fold ali 

 loits of books then in ufe, namely, 

 A. B. C With the Paier Nolter, Ave, 

 Creed, Oiace-, &c. There and in Ave 

 Mary-lane dwelled turntis of b.ads, 

 and they weie cajled Pattr Notter maJcers." 

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