1800.) 
and wages, one penny; making 574]. 9s. 7d. 
And in filver 3845lb. troy, from every 
pound of which fourpence- palipenoy was 
retained; making 72]. 1s. rod. 
The Old Exchange, about 1625, was 
adorned by Nicholas Stone with four fta- 
tues, of Edward V. Richard IYI. and 
Henry WII. for which he bad twenty- 
five pounds a piece, and one of Queen 
Elizabeth, which was aiterwards removed 
to Guildhall gate, and for which he re- 
ceived thirty pounds. 
LOMBARD-STREET. 
Lombard-ftreet received its name from 
the Longobards or Lombards, the fic and 
greatelt bankers of the capital. They 
feem to have come from Italy early in the 
reign of Edward I.; poflibly on the ex- 
pultion of the Jews, whom they appear 
to have fucceeded as money-changers and 
ufurers. Theirextortions at length be- 
came fo great, that Edward III. who to 
the execution of juftice united the neceflity 
of furnithing money for bis Flemifh expe- 
ditien, feized on their eftates. - But the 
Lombards foon repaired their lofs; re- 
gained at leaft their trade, if not their 
credit, and Jaid many of cur monarchs 
under obligations to them for money. 
Robert Langland, who wrote the Vi- 
fions of Piers Plowman foon after 1350, 
has a keen {troke of fatire on them— 
( Paffus Quintus, fig. G.1.} 
§* T learned amonge Lumberdes and Jewes a 
leffon 
To wey pence with a payes, and pare the 
hevieft.”” 
And popular prejudice appears not to have 
overlooked them in the fucceeding reign. 
Wat Tyler’s rebels, among their other 
devaitaiions, according to 
“ brake up dyvers houlea! GE the Loin- 
bardes and robbed iheym, and toke their 
goodes at their pleafure ; for there was 
none that durft fay them nay.” 
Mr. Pennant fays they did not feem to 
hike trufting Henry the Fourth upon. his 
bond, fo had the cuftoms mortgaged to 
them for fecurity. 
- The Lombards, however, were net the 
fole merchants who occupicd the ftreet here 
mentioned ; the Fazianz, the Sozietas de 
Spines, the Frifcombaldi of Florence (who 
were the King’s bankers for foreign parts), 
the Mercatores de Lucca, and others, were 
almott equally concersed_in the trade and 
money-contraéts of the metropolis, and 
alicmabled twice every day on the fite of 
what ts pow called Pope’s Head-alley, to 
traniaét their, bubnets. 
Nor among the fucceflors of the Lom- 
bards, at adater period,gmua we forget 
Londintana. | - | SOG 
Sir Thomas Grefham, whofe fhop in this 
ftreet_ was that now cccupied by Mefirs. 
Mariin, who are fill in the poffeffion of 
is original fign, the Grafshopper. 
The three blue balls ufled as'a fign by 
pawnbrokers, were originally no other 
than the arms of the Lombards. 
BANQUETING-HOUSE, WHITEHALL. 
M. Miffon, a con'emperary writer, 
favs that James II. was ex remely reftle{s 
and uneafy during ou e apprehenfions of 
the landing of the Prince of Grange; and 
that he ordered a eae te -k to be placed 
where he might fee it from hts apartment, 
that he mi ight learn by his own eyes whe- 
ther the wind was Pioteftant or Popifh.— 
“This,” fays Miff.n, ‘* was the way of 
talking both at ccurt and in the city: the 
Eatt wind was called Proteftant, and the 
Weft Pepith, The weathercock, large, 
handfome, aad high, is ftrill to be (eon: at 
one end of the Banqueting-houle. 
SPITAL. FIELDS, 
They who have pafled through thofe 
parts of Sp'tal fizlds chiefly in: nabited by 
weavers muft have often heard them fing- 
ing at their looms. Singular as it may 
feem, this praéiice came with their fore- 
fathers fromthe Low Countries; and was 
alfo the cafe «ith {uch of tne Proteftants 
as at an earlier period came over ino 
England from Flanders, and brought with 
them the woollen manu factory. To ths 
cuftom of theirs Falflaff alludes: <‘* EF 
would I were a weaver; I could fing 
plalms, and all monner of fongs.”— 
(Henry 1V. part i. aét 2.) And Ben 
Jonfon, in the S:lent Woman, has another 
allufion (aét iii. fcene 4.) : ** He got this 
cold with fitting up late, and fing: ng 
catches with the cloth-workers.” 
ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARK. 
In Rymei*s Foedera, vol. xvi. p. 656, 
we meet with a pardon from Unhee i. to 
one Read, ‘for pracifing the black art. 
< Simon Be of St, George's, Soath- 
wark, Profefr of » Phytic, who was in- 
difted for the invocation of wicked (pi- 
rits, in order to find oug the name of the 
perfon who had ftole 371. uos. trom ‘F9- 
bias Matthews, of Sr. May Steynings, 
Jiondon.” “Fhis was:n 1608. 
OLD JEWRY. 
In Ben Jonfon’s tans, a houfe enticed 
the Windmit ft cd at the cofner of the. 
Old Jewiy, towards Lethbury, and was, 
remarkable for the changes.i¢ had fap. 
ceflively uncergone. The Jews wlea ib ak 
‘firtt for a Synagogue ; afterwards it came. 
into the pefi freficn of a gertain order of 
friars called De Paenitentia Fefu, or Freér. 
tres de Saccz, from their bewg clothed: im, 
E 2 * fackeclotlts, 
