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rel or tub, with the ficles open, and one end perforated, was put 

 over the drunkard's head, -which covered his moulders and body 

 to the fmall of his legs, where it was fattened. This was called, 

 The Neiv-faftjioned Cloak. An iron-engine, in a crown-like form, 

 enclofed the head and face of the female brawler, an iron- 

 tongue entering her mouth, and fo contrived, that her face 

 might be feen. This was called, The ranks (z). 



For prcferving peace, tranquillity, and order, in preventing 

 accidents in the night-time, an act of parliament was obtained ' 

 by the corporation, 17^3, for having lamps and a night-watch. 

 Thus diftinguifhed is Neivcaftle for its good government. It is 

 as eminent for its 



Commerce, trade, and revenue. It is the great Emporium of 

 the north of England, and of a good part of Scotland. In the 

 early reign of K. Edward III, it was fo powerful in fhipping, that 

 in his expedition againft the French, it fent him an aid of 17 

 ihips, and 314 men, as appears from the roll of his fleet before 

 Calais, extant in the king's great wardrobe in London, and cited 

 by Haklnyt in his Englijh Voyages (a). That great king, for the 

 encouragement of its trade, granted the merchants leave to 

 carry their goods to any part of England toll or cuftom-free (b). 

 It is in the lift of the trading towns to which Sir Thomas White, 

 lord mayor of London, i Q^Mary, 1553, gave ioo/. per annum 



(z) Gardiner, p. 1 10, in. where there is a print of a woman under this difcipline, attended. 

 by an officer of the corporation ; her name, Anne Bidle/lone* 



(a) Vol. i. p. 176. 



(1) Homines Novi Caftri fuper Tyr.arn poffint mercimor.ia fua in qualefcunque partes 

 regni transfcrre fine folutione fubfidii. Clauf. 20 R. Ed, III. p. i. m. 16. 



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