1807.] 
cum vece-comitibus et mann forti fugave- 
runt populum et cum fumo animalium 
turpaverunt locum ne ibi ulterius fieret 
Idolotria. 
“Henry VI. anno 21. In isto anno 
apud Bakwellehalle in London, quidam 
Jaborarins frangendo parieten lapideum 
in Thesauro argenteo ibidem abscondito 
Superscriptionis et ymayinis incognite 
2191. 
* Jolves Cade ad Tabardum in Suth- 
werk fecit decapitari Ric’m Haywarden 
qui venit ad ipsum de Sanctuario Sancti 
Martiimi le Graunte.” 
Under the ninth year of Henry IV. 
also, there is mention of a frost, which 
lasted fifteen weeks; during which nearly 
all small birds died. People on foot 
during the whole time crossed the Thames 
from one part to another. 
GILTSPUR-STREET. 
Giltspuy street, says Stow, was formerly 
called Knightrider street, and both that 
by Doctors Commons and this for the 
same reason; the knights with their vilt 
spurs riding that way from the Tower 
Royal to entertain the king and his nobles 
with justs and tournaments in Smithfield. 
They rode fromthe Tower Royal, through 
great and little Knightrider streets, up 
Creed-lane to Ludgate, and thence up 
Giltspur-street to Smithfield. 
The golden or gilt spurs were the dis- 
tinctive mark of a knight, those of a 
squire being always of silver.- The ori- 
ginal spurs were mere goads, fastened to 
the heel of the shoe, as appears from a 
seal of Alain Fergent, Duke of Bretany, 
in 1034, and many other instances. 
Rowels were afterwards invented, and 
the size @f these was gradually increased 
to such a degree, that ii the reign of 
Charles VII. they were nearly as broad 
asa man’s hand, and the necks of the 
spurs were about six inches long, At 
the creation of a knivht, the king or 
prince who conferred the order, generally 
buckled on the spurs with his owa hands: 
and as this was the first ceremony of in- 
vestment, so the hacking of the spurs 
was the first act of degradation, (Way’s 
Fabliaux. vol. i. p..251.)) 
An account of a tournament in Simith- 
field, in the reign of Edward IV. will 
form no unappropriate appendage to 
these anecdotes: copicd from an ancient 
manuscript. 
“The bastard of Burgoyne, a man of 
haughte courage, challenged Anthony 
Lord Scales, brother to the duchesse of 
Bedforde, (whom the kinge maryed,) a 
man egall bathe in harte and valiauat- 
Londiniana.—No. TX. 
943 
nesse with the Bastard, to fighte with 
him bothe on horsebacke and on fvote. 
The Lord Scales did gladly receave his 
demaunde, and promised him on the 
faithe of a gentylman, tv answere him in 
the helde at the daye appointed. The 
kynge entendinge to see this martial 
Sporte, and valiaunte challenge perfor- 
med; caused lystes royall to be made 
for the champions, and costly galleryes 
for the ladyes to loke on, to be newl 
erected in West Smithfield in London. 
And at the day by the king assigned, the 
two Loiles entered within the lysts, well 
mounted, richely trapped and curiously 
armed, at what tyme they entered cers 
tayne courses, and so departed with egall 
honoure. Havinge thus dealte with 
sharp speares the first daye, on the 
morowe they entered the field againe, the 
Bastard sitting on a bay courser beinge 
somewhat dim of sight, and the Lord 
Scales mounted onagraye courser, whose 
schafron had a longe and a sharpe pike 
of steele. When these two valiaunte 
personnes coped together arthe tournay, 
the Lord Scales horse (either by chaunce 
or custome,) thruste his pike into the 
nostril of the horse of the bastard. So 
that for very payne he mounted so high 
that he fell on thone side with his mas- 
ter, and the Lord Scales rode round 
aboute him with bis sword shakiow in his 
hand, untill the king gommanded the 
marshail to help up the Bastard, which 
openly said, I cannot holde by the 
clowdes, for thowghe my horse faile me, 
yet will not IL fayie my~countercome- 
paignons. And when he was re-moun- 
ted, ne! made a countenance to assaile 
his adversary; but the king, either fa- 
vournge his brother’s honour there got- 
teh, or mistrusting the shame that might 
come to the Bastard if he were again 
foyled, caused the herald to cry—A Lose 
tell, and every man to departe. The 
inorewe atter these two noblemen came 
ico the field on fuote, with poleaxes, 
and there fought valiauntly like two con- 
ragious champions; but at the: last, the 
poynte of the axe of the Lord Scales 
happened to enter into the sighte of the 
healme of the Bistard, and by fyne force 
might have plucked him on als knees, 
the kinge sodaynely caste downe his 
warder, aud then the marshalls them 
severed. The Bastard, not content with 
this chaunce, veary desirous to be re- 
venged, trustinge on his comiminge at the 
pole-axe, (which feate he had yreatly 
experienced,) required the King of jus- 
tice, that be might perorme his eaters 
Prise, 
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