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The pleasant vvalkes of Moore-fields Being the guift of two sisters, now beautified, to the continuing fame of this worthy citty.
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Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?
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findes Nor wants she not that bringes her gaine and good Within her walles there lyeth close concealed That wealth by tongues can hardly be reuealed London hath likewise foure tearmes of law most fit The foure fould yeare in equall parts deuide In which the Iudges of the law do sit Depending matters iustly to deside The poore mans plaint and eke the rich mans cause And sentence giuen by righteous dooming lawes First of the foure fresh spring doth intertaine The second is in sweating summer plast The third With windy haruest doth remaine And freezing Winter doth delight the last When these times come and Courts of law vnlocke T is strange to marke how men to London flocke These be the Bees by which my being is England the Orchard London is the Hiue Their toyle her tryumph and their fruit her blisse When most they labour London most doth thriue The lofty Courtyor and the Country Clowne By their expence brings London rich renowne And thus from all sides doth much substance flow By Thames by tearmes by Sea and by the Land So rich a masse whole kingdomes connot shew In this estate faire London still doth stand Foure-piller tearmes and Thames be the fift Which tane away then farewell Londons thrift Gen. By these verses Sir you haue highly honored your city and no doubt but therin haue bin many worthy Citizens which hath thus brought her glorie to this height Cit. The Citty of it selfe Sir is the most Noble Populous and richest in all the Land for it is most glorious in manhoode furnished with munitions insomuch as in the troublesome time of King Stephen when it was not halfe so populous it hath shewed at a Muster twenty thousand armed Horse-men and thrée score thousand foote men seruiceable for the wars Moreouer the Cittizens hereof wheresoeuer they become bee regarded before all other Citizens both for ciuilitie of manners attire companie and talke The women or rather Matrons of this Citie resemble the verie modest Sabine Ladies of Italy Gent. Now I pray you sir discourse the gallant minds of some of your Citizens in times past for I haue séene many records of them and such as bee most memorable Henrie Picard Maior 1357. did in one day sumptuously feast at his owne charge 4 Kings 3 Princes and one Quéene which was Edward the third King of England Iohn King of Fraunce Dauid King of Scots the King of Cypresse then all in England the blacke Prince his Princesse and the Dolphin Prince of France with many other noble men and kept his Hall open for all commers to reuell and dice in Iohn Barnes Maior 1371 gaue a Chest with thrée locks and a Thousand Markes therein to the Citie to be lent to young men vpon sufficient suertie or vpon pawne Iohn Philpot Maior 1378 hiered at his owne charge 1000 Soldiers to defend the Land from the incursion of the enemie so in short time his hiered 〈◊〉 tooke many sea Rouers with fiftéen Spanish Ships laden with great riches William Walworth Maior 1381 most valiantly with his owne hands slew the Kebell Wat Tyler for which hée was knighted in the field and the bloody Dagger giuen to Londons armes to his great honour and praise Richard Whittington thrée times Maior in the yeare 1421 began the Schoole of Christs Church in London he builded Whittington Colledge with Almes houses for 13 poore men and diuine lectures to be read there for euer he repaired Saint Bartholmewes Hospitall in smith field he glazed and paued part of Guild-hall hee builded the West gate of London called Newgate Iohn Allen Mercer Maior of London one of the Councell to King Henrie the Eight he deceased 1544 and he was buried at Saint Thomas of Achars in a faire chappel by him builded he gaue to the Citie of London a rich coller of gold to be worne by the Lord Maior for euer hée gaue 500. li. to be a stock for Sea coale for the Citie his Lands purchased of the King the rent thereof to be giuen to the poore in the wards of London for euer He gaue besides to prisons hospitals lazer-houses and all other poore in the Citie or two miles about verie liberaily too long to be recited Sir Thomas Gresham Mercer 1466 builded the Royal Exchange in London and by his testament left his dwelling house in Bishops-gate stréete to be a place for readings of the seuen liberall Sciences allowing large stipends to the readers and certaine Almes houses for the poore Thus haue I made a briefe of some of our worthy Citizens and their charitable actions some done in their liues the rest left to their executors I haue heard some of them hardly or neuer performed wherefore I wish men to make their owne hands their executors and their eyes their Ouerséers not forgetting this old and true prouerbs Women be forgetfull children be vnkinde Executors couetous and take what they finde If any one aske where the Legaâ—â—es became They answere so God helpe me he died a poore man There is now liuing one Master Doue a Marchant-taylor hauing many yeares considered this old prouerbe hath therefore established in his life time to twelue aged men Marchant-taylors 6 pounds 2 shillings to each yerely for euer he hath also giuen them gownes of good brode cloth liued through out with bayes and are to receiue at euerie thrée yeres end the like gownes for euer He likewise in charitie at Saint Sepulchres Church without Newgate allowes the great bell on euery execution day to be toled till the condemned prisoners haue suffered death also a small hand-bell to be rung at midnight vnder newgate the night after their condemnation and the next morning at the Church wall with a prayer to be savd touching their saluation and for the maintayning thereof he hath giuen to Saint Sepulchers a certaine summe of money for euer Gent. This is my minde it is a charitable deuotion and deserues eternall praise I haue much béene delighted not only in these your walkes but also in your pleasant discourses which now we are forced to end by reason of the night drawing on Therefore I humbly take my leaue FINIS
builded by Water Browne Deane of Paules in the yéere 1197. first named by him Domus Dei but at the suppression of Abbies bring surrendred to King Henry the eight it was valued to bee worth yéerely 478 pound wherein was found besides the ornaments of the Church and other goods belonging to the Hospital a hundred and fourescore Beds well furnished for the receate of poore people for it was an Hospitall of great releefe but now touching the custome why thrée Sermons be made there in the thrée Holydayes of Easter wéeke I finde that in the yeare 1398. King Richard hauing procured from Rome confirmation of such statutes ordinances as were made in the Parliament begun at Westminster and ended at Shrew bury he caused the same confirmation to bee read and pronounced at Paules Crosse and at Saint Mary Spittle in the Sermons before al the people Phillip Malpas one of the Shriefes in the year 1439. gaue twenty shillings by the yéere to the thrée Preachers at the Spittle Steuen Foster Mayor in the yeare 1454. gaue forty poundes to the Preachers at the Spittle and Paules Crosse I find also that the said house wherein the Mayor and Aldermen doe fit at the Spittle was builded for that purpose of the goode and by the executors of Richard Rawson Aldermen and Isabell his wife in the yeare 1488. Likewise in the yeare 1595. the Pulpet being olde was taken downe and a new set vp the Preachers face turned toward the South which was before towards the west Also a large House on the East side of the said Pulpet was then builded for the gouernors and Children of Christes Hospitall to sit in and this was done of the goods of William Elkins Alderman lately deceased but within the first yeare the same house decaying and like to haue fallen was againe with great cost repated at the Cittyes charge And now héere is to bee noted that time out of mind it hath béene and is a lawdable custome in London that on good Fryday in the after-noone some especiall learned man by appoyntment of the Bishops hath Preached a Sermon at Paules Crosse treating of Christes passion and vppon the thrée next Easter Hollydaies Monday Teusday and Wednesday the like learned men by the like appointment haue vsed to preach on the fore-noones at the saide Spittle to the same effect and then on low sunday one other learned man at Paules Crosse to make rehearsal of those foure former Sermons either commending or reproouing them as to him by the iudgement of the learned Deuines was thought conuenient and that done he was to make a sermon of his owne study which in all were fiue Sermons in one At these Sermons so seuerally preached the Mayor with his breathren the Aldermē are acustomed to be present in their violet gownes at Paules on good Fryday in their Scarlet gownes at the Spittle vpon Monday and Teusday on the Wednesday in their violets and on Low sunday in their Scarlets againe at Paules Crosse which is vsed to this day Gent. These are lawdable customes but haue your Aldermen no place to sit in at the Spittle if it should chance to raine Cit. There is prouided for the Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffes a faire house of two stories hie to sit in and in the lost ouer them where the Bishoppe of London and other Prelates were wont to sit now stand the Ladies and Aldermens Wiues in a faire window where they may likewise sit at their pleasure And this is all the antiquity that I euer read of the Spitle Sermons And now sir considering the tediousnes of this my long discourse I will reuiue you with a few verses writ in the honor of London Londons Description That famous off-spring of downe raced Troy King Brute the Conqueror of Giants fell Built London first these mansion Towers of ioy As all the spacious world may witnesse well Euen he it was whose glory more to vaunt From burned Troy sur-named this Troynouant This name if that antiquities proue true Full many yeares in Maiesty she bore Till princely Lud did christen her anew And changd her name from that it was before So kingly Lud did shape a second frame And called this Luds Towne by his princely name Luds-towne it was and yet is tearmed so But that for briefenesse and for pleasant sound Few letters of that name it doth forgoe And London now which was once called Luds-Towne Thus Brute and Lud London parents were Since fosterd vp by many a royall peere But since that time fiue conquests haue insewd And all saue one beene glutted with red goare Yet nere were London streets with bloud imbrewd Yet still retaind the state it held before Such was her beauty and the victors pitty That spard their swords from spoyling this faire Citty From her first founders thus hath she increased Fauord of those the Diadem aduanced Scarce with their deaths their large diuosions ceased Yet by their deathes her better fortunes chanced As one gaue place and left what he intended The next successor what he found amended One famous King this Citty doth indew With wished freedomes and innimities The next confirmes augmenting it with new And graunts more large and ample liberties And thus faire Londons members strongly knitteth When Kings adorne what fame and honor fitteth From Lud vnto King Iames thus London fared Sacred Monarcke Emperour of the West To whom the world yeeldes none to be compared By Londons loue thou art heere earthly blest Mirror of mankind each lands admiration The worlds wonder heauens true contemplation Long mayst thou liue faire Londons wished blisse Long mayst thou raigne great Britaines happinesse Liue raigne and be when there no being is Triumphant ouer all that wish thee lesse In earth ador'd with glorie and renowne In heauen adorned with an Angels crowne Of Londons pride I will not boast vpon Her gold her siluer and her ornaments Her Gems and Iewels pearles and precious stone Her furniture and rich habilliments Her cloth of siluer tissue and of gold Which in her shops men dayly may behold What mynes of gold the Indian soyle doth nourish Within the secrets of her fruitfull wombe London partakes it and doth dayly flourish Ordayn'd thereto by heauen and heauenly doome All forraine Lands whome maiestie doth mooue Doe still contend to grace her with their loue What Ciuill Spaine or Portugale affordeth What Fraunce what Flaunders or what Germanie What Creet what Scicile or what Naples hoordeth The Coasts of Turkie or of Barberie The boundlesse Seas to London walles presenteth Through which all Englands state she much augmēteth If Rome by Tiber substance doth attaine Or Euphrates to Babylon brings plentie If golden Ganges Egypt fils with gaine The Thames of London surely is not emptie Her flowing channell powreth forth much profit For Londons good yet few knowes what comes of it Thus by the bounty of imperious mindes Furthered by nature with a noble floud Proud wealth and welthy pride braue London