1806. | 
bably very much in the Italian tafte, 
which had then been recently introduced. 
Peacham, in The Compleat Gentleman, 
1622, (4to., p.109,) fays, ** I have 
feene many pieces of his (Holbein’s,) in 
oile, and once of his owne drauzht with 
a penne a moft curious chimney-peece K. 
Henry had befpoke for his new- built pal- 
lace at Bridewell”’ 
MOORFILELDS. 
It was in thefe fields that Richard IITI., 
immediately previous to his Coronation, 
muftcred four thoufand foldiers from the 
North. 
the Queen, and after his coronation dif- 
miffed them with rewards. (See Fabian’s 
Chronicle, ed. 1539, ps7, c.. 225.) A 
circumftance which does not feer tou have. 
been noticed in any of the Hivozies of cur 
metropolis 
THEATRE AND CURTAIN, 
The Theatre and Curtain were the two 
firft rewular play-hovfes in London. The 
exact ipot shey ftocd upon is hardly 
known ; but a ftreet in the neighbourhood 
of one ftill retains the name of the Cur- 
tain-road. They were built about or foon 
after 1570. Ben Jonfon the celebrated 
poet entered at the Curtain very early in 
life, and alfo wrote for it ; but never made 
any figure there, either as a writer or an 
actor. Other of the players at thefe 
houfes were, Tarleton, Underwood, Cow- 
ley, and Burbage, the moft celebrated tra- 
gedianof the time of Shakfpeare. 
~ When the Theatie was fuppreffed is 
unknown ; and the laft we hear of the 
‘Curtain is ia 1615, when the ‘* Hector of 
Germany” was performed at it by a com- 
pany of young men. The bdblack-letier 
pamphlets, fo much fought after by the 
lovers of Shak{peare, throw fome light 
upon their hiftory and abufts. 
LONDON-BRIDGE.. 
The father of Lord-Treafurer Oxford 
palling over Londoit-bridge, was caught 
Ina thower; and ftepping into a gold- 
fmith’s fhop for fhelter, he found there a 
picture of Holbein (who had lived in that 
houle;) and his family. He offered the 
goldfmith an hundred pounds for it, who 
confented to let him have it, but defired 
firft to fhew it to fome pesfons. Immedi- 
ately after happened the fire of London, 
and the picture was deftroyed. (See Lord 
Orford’s Works, vol. iii., p. 72, note 7.) 
LONDON PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &c., 
IN THE TIME OF Q. ELIZABETH. 
‘Part of an old houfhold accompt be- 
longing to a ptrion in the parifh of St. 
Monturtxy Mac No. 142, 
Londiniana, 
He raifed them from jealouly of — 
‘(Paid fora fide or veals ("> 1a" 
For a calve’s head, E 
8313 
Michael Bafifiaw, for the years 1594.and — 
1595, prefents the following items. 
fe Se Be 
1594. Paid unto Thomas Fran- 
cis his quartcr’s wages, due 
March 25, - - 
Paid to Margaret Jurden as 
aforelaid, = at, SG), 60 ee 
Paid 26 March for’ 104 Ib. of 
butter received out of Giou- 
cefterfhire, whereof 16 Ib. at 
3d. ob. the pound and the reft 
at 3d the lb., det I 
For falre for the faid butter, fo) 
Paid for cairiage of the faid but- — 
ter from Brittoll to London, o 
Paid 29 Marche for a fore-quar- 
ter of Jambe with the head, o 
Paid tor a capon, rel 
Nine ftoné of beef at 18d. the~. 
fione, ieee - fe) 
For a quart of Malmefey, fo) 
For 4.1b, of foape, : ° 
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Paid April 3d for a lambe, 
For adezen of pigeons, 
For 2% egges, . 
Paid April 6 to My Storie for 3 
peckes of fine flour, - 
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For 3 pints of ftrawberries, June 
6, ae % 
Fora pecke of peafe, June 8, 
For another pecke, June 14, 
A pint of olives, i ihbe 
‘A buthell of bay falt, = 
A pint of claret wine, - 
A quart of firawberies, June 29, 
Six Art chokes, Aug. 3, 
A pecke of oyfters, July 31, 
Two roapes of onyons,: 
Half a pecke of filbirdes, Aug. 
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Half a hundred of oranges, Feb. 
9» 1595» = o 
SIR THOMAS GRESHAM’S CREST, THE 
GRASSHOPPER. 
Mr, Pennant, in the Hiftory of Lon- 
don, p.477, {pcaking of Lombard-free', 
fays, ‘© The fhop of the great Sir Tho- 
mis Grefham ttood in this fireet ; it ts 
now held by Mefirs. Martin, bankers, who 
are ftill in poffeffion of the original figa of 
that illu&iious perfon, the grafshopper.” 
Sic Thomas Gretham, however, did not 
adopt the graf:hopper himéelf. The feal 
of James Grefham, affixed to one of the 
Patton letters fo long back as 1455, 3a. 
Henry VE., has tiie fame device. (See 
Fenn’s Palton Letters,’ vol. is, p.atg-) 
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