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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44299	The honour of the taylors, or, The famous and renowned history of Sir John Hawkwood, Knight containing his many rare and singular adventures, witty exploits, heroick atchievements, and noble performances relating to love & arms in many lands : in the series of which history are contained likewise the no less famous actions and enterprizes of others of the same art and mystery : with many remarkable passages relating to customs, manners &c., ancient and modern : illustrated with pictures and embelished with verses and songs wonderfully pleasant and delightful : to which, as an appendix, is added a brief account of the original of the Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors, as to their being incorporated &c., ...; Honour of the Merchant Taylors	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1687 (1687)	Wing H2599; ESTC R7888	66,825	61

to her House where finding what they little expected they with Tears of Ioy embraced their Daughter and being made fully sensible of all that had happened freely consented That as their Hearts was joyned their Hands should not be kept asunder So that the Ceremony being performed in the presence of a great number of worthy persons a Feast of ten days ensued with such Mirth and Iollity as beseemed the consummation of so great a Happiness Nor were Gilbert and the fair Lucrina wanting to express the many obligations they had laid upon them nor less did she wonder when she knew how she had been mistaken yet not repenting of what she had done Songs and Musick with all manner of Varieties spoke the welcome of the Guest who resorted from all parts to behold these Miracles of Constant Love. The Solemnity and Feastival being over whilst the whole Kingdom rung of their Constancy and Fame they provided them Houses and lived in great Splendor encreasing in Riches and in the Love of All so that coming to great Preferment and behaving themselves couragiously in the Wars abroad for the Honour of their Country and in their great Offices and Trust at home John Hawkwood and Francis Lovewell for their good Services received the Honour of Knighthood carrying afterward the Fame of true English Valour into many Lands and being blest with a happy Off-spring ended their days in Peace and left their Memories blessed to Posterity So Worthies live although They lose their breath Their Fame does live and even conquers Death The End of the History c. THE APPENDIX OR A Recital of several Worthy Magnificent and Charitable Acts of the Merchant-Taylors as they are found upon Record and visibly extant to the no small Honour of that Worshipful Society c. HAving delivered a History in it self as I take it not a little pleasant I shall now come to a more serious Relation of many things worthy of note which I have chosen to fix as an Appendix not think●ng it so convenient to bring it into the foregoing Pages which take as followeth The Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors have been a Guild or Fraternity time out of mind by the Name of Taylors and Linnen-Armourers For I find that Edward the First in the 28th Year of his Raign confirmed this Guild under the Names aforesaid and gave to the B●ethren thereof Leave and Licence every Midsummer to hold a Feast and then to chuse them a Governour or Master with Wardens Whereupon on the said day in the Year 1300. they chose Henry de Rayl to be their Pilgrim for the Master of this Mystery as one that travel'd for the whole Company was so called until the Eleventh Year of Richard the Second and the four Wardens then called Purve●ors of Alms now known by the Name of Quartridge of the said Fraternity The stately Hall belonging to the Company of Merchant-Taylors is scituate in Threadne●dle-street sometimes the House of a Worshipful Gentleman named Edmond Crepin who in the Sixth of Edward the Third Anno 1331. for a certain Sum of Money made his Grant thereof by the Name of his Principal Messuage to John Yakely the King's Pavilion-maker and was thereupon called New-Hall or Taylors-Inn And in the 21. Year of Edward the Fourth Sir Thomas Holm one of the Kings of Arms granted by his Patent this Company for their Arms Viz. In a Field of Silver a Pavilion between two Royal Mantles Purple garnished with Gold in a chief Azure a Holy Lamb incircled with Rayes the Crest upon the Helm a Pavilion purple garnished with Gold c. As a further mark of Honour King Henry the Seventh favoured this Company with condescending to be free of it as many of his Predecessors the Kings of England had been Viz. Richard the Second Henry the Fourth Henry the Fifth Henry the Sixth Edward the Fourth Richard the Third c. And for that divers of that Fraternity trading in Merchandise abroad and at home to the great enriching and advantage of the Kingdom c. Therefore did the said Henry the Seventh by his especial Grant Incorporate them by the Names of Masters and Wardens Merchant-Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John Baptist in the City of London Thus having spoken briefly of the Original Rise and Encrease of this worthy Company I now proceed to tell of what more redounds to their Honour Viz. They have in their Care and Protection a famous Grammar-School known by the Name of Merchant-Taylors Free-School founded by the Master and Wardens of that Company Anno 1561. in Suffolk-lane in the Parish of St. Lawrence Pountney and near to it divers Alms-houses in which are generally placed Seven decayed Men of the Company and their Wives if they have any and had at first the Allowance of Fourteen pence a week each but since encreased to the Sum of Five pounds four shillings the Year to each pay'd Quarterly besides Firing and yet more to each of them Twenty shillings yearly being the Gift of Walter Fish sometime Master of the said Company At the West-End of Hog-street by Tower-Hill they have divers fair Alms-houses wherein live fourteen poor single Women who receive better than Sixteen pence a week each being pay'd weekly beside Eight pound Fifteen shillings pay'd yearly out of the common Treasury for the provision of Fewel Nor has the bounteous Liberality of private Members of this Company at any time been inferiour to the best of which that their Fame may live as a Pattern to others to emulate or imitate I shall particularize a few Viz. Robert Thorn Merchant-Taylor dying Anno 1532. bequeathed by his Testament to sundry charitable uses in Goods and Moneys upward of the value of Four Thousand pounds together with Five Thousand One Hundred and Forty pounds to his Relations and yet proceeding to a Charity no less than the former he over-and-above forgave his Debtors all they owed him Sir Thomas Whirt who was Lord Mayor of the Honourable City of London Anno 1534. and a Brother of this Society founded St. John Baptist College in Oxford erected Schools at Bristol Reading and another College at Higham Fer●ies and distributed several Thousands of pounds to other Charitable Vses Sir Thomas Row Knight Lord Mayor of the honourable City of London Anno 1568. a Member of this Society erected the new Church-Yard in Bethlehem and gave an Hundred pounds to be sent to Eight poor men without Vse and Forty pounds a Year for ever to maintain Ten poor Men to be chosen out of five several Companys Viz. Cloth-workers Armourers Tylers Carpenters and Plaisterers Sir Thomas Offly Merchant-Taylor and Mayor of London who dyed Anno ●●80 appoin●ed by his Testament the one half of his Goods and Two hundred pound to be deducted out of the other half to be given to charitable Vses And thus I might name many more who have not only been Famous for Deeds of Charity and Conduct in Magisterial Affairs and encouraging Arts and Sciences but for Loyalty and valiant Vndertakings for the service of their King and Country have approved themselves not only Men but such men as have been an Ornament to the English Nation Whose Names in Fame's Record shall ever stand Whilst Seas begirt our happy Fruitful Land And prove them such as durst attempt to do Whate'er their Prince or Fortune call'd 'em to Who both in War and Peace Applause have gain'd Righting the wrong'd and the Just Cause maintain'd A SONG to be sung by the Merchant-Taylors on St. William's Day To the Tune of Now now the Fight 's done 1 THe Taylor 's a Man come deny it who dare He'as Wit Wealth and Courage enough and to spare He 'l shew those dull Noddys that scoff at his Trade That to him 's beholden both Fool Spark and Blade Each Lady that 's gallant depends on his Skill The Peasant and Prince do both come in his Bill Warm he does keep one and make t'other shine Without him all Pomp and all Grandeur decline 2 As his Trade was the first and in Paradice found So since with Esteem e'ry Age has it crown'd Kings and great Potentates daigning to be Members of us as in Records we see The coyest bright Beauties for whom Gallants mourn And sigh all in vain still requited with scorn Freely their Bodies commit to o●r hands And readily yield to our modest Demands 3 Whilst we the soft Char 〈◊〉 do ●lasp in our Arms They strive not nor bl●●t ●s fearing no harms Our Virtue they trust w●●●om others they fly Who languish and sigh s●●lance of the Eye Then a Health to our T● Boys and let it encrease Whilst we prove good S● 〈◊〉 in War and in Peace Live merry and jolly w●●rink love and sing Cloath well our Count● 〈◊〉 fight for our KING FINIS