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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66697	The honour of merchant-taylors wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick performances of merchant-taylors in former ages, their honourable loves, and knightly adventures ... together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell-Hall, to be a market place for the selling of woollen cloaths ... / written by VVilliam VVinstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3064; ESTC R41412	58,050	83

the eminent danger of my Native Country shall perswade me any more to arms rest then thy self contented my dearest Dorothy Nothing but Death our company shall sover Thine I am now and will be so for ever According to this loving agreement Sir William fell freshly again close to his Trade continued his old customers gained every day more new ones so that he increased in his estate exceedingly He still maintained the same number of Journey-men that he did before added to the number of his Prentices and kept such a bountiful house that his fame rang all over London none being so much spoken off as Sir William Elsing for so was his sirname Thus did he spend his dayes In much joy his wife loving his servants singing and his estate thriving But what condition in this world is long permament how soon ●it the pleasures of this life being like to flowers flourishing in the morning and withered in the Evening For not long after it pleased God to send agrievous Pestilence and mortality quite thorough London which swept away many thousands amongst others Sir William Lady his Children and all his Servants leaving himself alone of his numerous family so that beeing brought now into a disconsolate condition he uttered to himself this dolorous complaint Oye immortal powers said he why ha●e ye laid this heavy punishment upon me O why was I born unto this day to be so suddenly deprived of that sweet society which should make life comfortable unto me Oh how vain is whatsoever we hear do possess nothing certain but uncertainty Ounconstant world unstable fortune mutable prosperity with how many changes do we turn upon the binges of our uncertain Fate to day flourishing full of friend and acquaintance tomorrow disconsolate left alone and deprived of all In this manner complained the woful Knight filling each corner of the house with his sad lamentations at last he resolved with himself to bid adien to the worlds vanities and to spe●d the res●oue of his dayes in a religious course of life according to this Godly purpose no sooner was the City free from infection but he began to put his resolutions into performance and at the North end of Gay-spurlane in the parish of Alderman-bury where formerly was a ruined house of Nuns he purchased the same and built thereon an hospitall for the number of a hundred poor blind people which for a long time after was called Elsings spitle and is now the same that is called Sion Colledge at the end of this hospital he built a Cell wherein he became an Anchorite living therein till the day of his death which hapned on the twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord 1340. After his death he was canoni●ed for a Saint and the day whereon he dyed for a long time after celebrated by the Company of Merchant Taylors as the twenty fift of October is by the Company of Cord-wayners or Shoomakers in the honor of St. Crispin and Crispianus but now through the continuance of long time the celebration of this twenty third of May is discontinued CHAP. XIII How Sir John Hawkwood in releif of the Citizens of Florence encountred with a Sagitary Hun and overcame him how he killed a Dragon and afterwards dyed in great love and honour in the City of Florence COme we next to speak of the renowned Merchant Taylor Sir John Hawkwood whom we left in the Court of Pardinando King of Cilicia of whose praise sufficiently to speak would wear a pen of steel to the stumps and tire the hand of the most industrious writer long had he not been there after the marriage of the Prince Arrialdo with the Lady Mariana as you have heard but he received Letters out of Italy from the State of Florence imploring his assistance against the Huns a barbarous people who had invaded their Province having to their Leader a certain Saggitary who was half man and half horse by whose invincible strength and swiftness of body they had over run all the Country and had then laid siedge to the cheif City of Florence it self The Letters contained these words Most renowned Knight Having had experience of your eminent valour of which each Country in the world rihgs with the fame thereof and knowing the nobleness of your mind ever ready to assist those that are in distress this spoke aloud unto us to desire your aid against a merciless enemy who with savage cruelty hath harazed our Country being as monstrous in his proportion as in his actions make haste great Prince unto our rescue then which no action can be attended with more honour and which shall be accompanied with the prayers off Your deplorable servants the people of Florence Sir John Hawkwood having received this Letter acquainted King Fardinando therewith as also his resolution to hasten to their releife The Kingthough loath to part with his company yet it being upon so honorable an account most willingly condescended rewarding him very liverally for his noble atcheivements and to the rest of the Captains and Officers he gave Iewels and store of money yea the meanest of the souldiers tasted liberally of his bounty so that every one praised him for a most honorable and renowned Prince At the prefired day for his departure the Prince Arnaldo presented him 〈◊〉 a rich sword the hilt whereof was all cu●io●sly enchased with diamonds of an inestimable value and the most beautiful Mariana gave him a rich Diamond King of so great price that it was esteemed to be worth a Kings ransome So after many complemental expressions of acknowledgement and gratitude the renowned Knight took his leave marching with all the speed he could to Italy and ceased not till he came within the borders of Florence where he found all things turned toysy turvy stately buildings converted into ruinous h●aps of ashes Towns lay desolate and Villages without inhabitants the fruitful fields crowned with corn and the fat pastures covered with cattel were now destitute of both the harbarous foe spareing nothing which had either life in it or which was for the sustentation and maintenance of life Sir John Hawkwood marching into the City of Florence was received by the C●tizens with great joy hoping now they should be able to deal with the insulting enemy who regardless of being encountred with kept not themselves in an entire body but dispersinglylay in several companies Sir John Hawkwood having notice of this their careles security resolved not to let slip so golden an opportunity wherefore the next morning he marched out against them when not four miles off he found a party of them of about two thousand some of which were singing some dancing some brinking but none of them prepared or siting to fight the English souldiers encompassing them round killed them all leaving not one of them alive to carry the sad tidings to the rest of their fellows how they sped Then marched they with their Army five miles further where was