. 508 
in the ‘¢ Itinerarium fratris Simonis Si- 
meonis, et Hugonis Illuminatoris, 1322.” 
‘They were two'Francifcan friars that came 
from Treiand;:and pafled through Wales 
to Londen, Canterbury, Dover, and {> 
to France, in their way to Jerufalem. 
ce eidem monafterio Weftm. 
quafh immediaté, conjungitur illud famofit- 
fimum paiatiam regis, in quo eft iila vul- 
gaia camera, in cujus parietibus funt om- 
nes hitoriz bellice totius Biblic ineffabi- 
liter depidle, atque in Gallico.completif- 
fime et perfectifiime con!cripte, in non 
modica intuentium admiratione et maxima 
regali magnificent. 4.” 
Previous to this time, in 1268, we have 
the following anecdote in Fabian: tnat 
during the troublcs of that year ** the 
fouldyors lyenge in Southwerke made ma- 
ny robboryes in Southery and other places, 
and rowed over to Weitmyniier, and 
fooyied there the Kinge’s paleys, and de- 
vouxed hys wyne, and brake the glajje of 
the wyndcwes, and ail cther necefiaryes 
to thai paicys they deitroyed and walied. 
ROTHERSITHE. 
Lambarde, in his Topographical Dic- 
tionary, p. 306, ftates that Henry the 
Fourth was ledged in an *¢ old fione noufe 
here, whiles he was cured of his leprofy.”’ 
‘Two charters were dated from it in 1412, 
whence fome have inferred it was a royal 
palace, or reguiar refidence of our kings. 
ANCIPNT PENANCES. 
¢¢ In 3383, the 7th of Richard the fe- 
cond,”’ fays Stow, “ the citize»s.o! Lon- 
don: firft imprifoned fuch women as were 
taken in fornication er adultery, in the 
Tusn (a prifon at Cornhiil), and after 
caufed them to be brought forth in 
fight of the worid. They caufed their 
heads to be fhaven, after the manner ef 
thieves, whom they named appellaiors, and 
fo to be led about the city, in fight of all 
inhabitants, with trumpets and pipes 
fourding before them, that their perfons 
might be more largely known. Neiher 
did they fpare the men.” An idea, per- 
haps, of the ceremonial attending this 
punifhment may be beit ob:ained from the 
following extract from the ‘* Proceedings 
of the Court cf Aldermen,” 1552:— 
; 
tis 
tas 
“© Novemb. 23. Item. Itwas this day orderyd 
and agryed, that Sir Thomas Sowdeley, clerk, 
who did not deny but playnely confefs this 
day in the full corte that he Aathe kept and 
vicioufly and carnaily ufed an harlot in his 
hhowfe of a long tyme, namynge herto be 
hys wyfe, fhall to morrowe be caryed abowte 
the cytie ina carte, with a ray hode on his 
heade, a whyt rode in his hande, and bafons 
and pannes tinginge before hym, according 
Lond :n ana. 
[J ie 1, 1 
to the lawes and taunciente cuftomes of ‘this 
cytiein fuch cafe made, provyded, and ufed.” 
A punifhment not unfimilar is directed 
for the woman. 
PAGEANTS. ain 
The fir Paceants we meet with in Lon- 
don weve exhibited when Henry IiL.’s 
queen, Eleanor, rode through the city te 
her coronation, 1236, and fer Edward 
the Firfi’s victory ,over the ‘Scots, 1298. 
Another when the Black ‘Prince made his 
entry with ‘his reyal ‘priferer, 1357. A 
fourth, when his fon, ‘Richard IY. ‘pafied - 
along Cheapfide, 1392, after the citizens 
had made their fubmiffion, and by the 
gueen’s interceffion recovered their  char- 
ter. A‘fifth, when Henry V. mace his 
entry, 14:5, after the battle of Agin- 
court. A fixth, when Henry VIII. re- 
ceived the Emperor Charles V. 1522. A 
feventh, when he and Anne Bulien paffed 
through the city 'o her corenation.—See 
the ‘* Britith Topography,” vel. 1. p. 
674. . 
BAYWNARD:s CASTLE 
Was firuated upon the very bank of the 
river, near the weft end of Thames fireet, 
and took its name from a Norman noble- 
man wioeretted the original fortrefs there, 
which was fortified by him, or ene of bis 
defcendants, ‘in itz; and granted to 
Robert Fitzeichard, {on of Gilbert Earl 
-of Clare, in whofe family it remamed for 
three centuries. In 1428, being then 
(probably by another forfeiture) a part of 
the royal poffefions, it was almoft en- 
tirely deftroyed by fire, but was foon af , 
ter granted to, and rebuilt by, Humphrey 
Duke of Gloucetier, by whofe attainder it 
reverted tothe crown, and falling into the 
hands of Richard Duke of York, was 
ufed on many cceafions of formality asa 
regal palace, till thercign of Queen Eli- 
zsbetn, to whom, and to hér tuccefior, 
the Earls of Pembroke appear to have 
been tenants at will_—Lodge, Til. 344. 
aE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
{ HE meaning of the word incenje, in 
the <* Much ado about Nothing” of 
our immortal dramatic Coryphzeus, weuld 
not have’ been ambiguous to the claffical 
friend of your cerrefpondent ** M. M.” 
had he but reflected how often in Shak- 
fpeare’s time words were employed in 
their frict Latin fenfe. 
_ For inftance; izcendo, to incenfe, to 
animate, to encourage: attango, attach, 
folarari, to folace (a perfon in forrow), 
to 
