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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

heresay cannot be good since misreport hath wronged many defer your guar●el therefore till you are fuller satisfied of the grounds of it and if William hath done you wrong no doubt but he will acknowledge it and given you satisfaction Ralph herewith as half perswaded but principally because he could not do otherwise in the presence of his Captain put up his sworn res●rving his r●venge tell another season and so without speaking any more words he went his way Sir John Hawkwood perceiveing that Ralphs malice was implacable perswaded William to list himself under some other Captain till such time as he had gotten some experience when he would not be wanting to use his best endeavour to give him preferment William according to his directions went and listed himself under that renowned Champion Edward the black Prince where in a short space through his industry and Sir John Hawkwoods good word who loved him entirely he attained to an Ensigned place This vexed Ralph to see his Rival advanced for where envy is harboured in the brest of a man he takes anothers good to be his hurt and now his only studdy was revenge but wanting other means to effect it he sent him a challenge in these words If thy heart be as good to fight as it hath been to invent mischeif then meet me to morrow morning at thy own appointed place and weapon where I shall attend ye to revenge those injuries and affronts offer●d unto me and to the fair Arabella which if thou shalt refuse to perform I shall proclaim thee a Coward and not fit to bear Armes or to usurp the name of a Souldier Ralph William having received the challenge was very much discontented for though he was of an invincible courage not dreading any danger yet being conscious to himself of the injury he had offered to Ralph he could willingly have wished the challenge might have been waved yet being loath to undergo the aspertion of a Coward he resolved what ever hapned to undertake it and thereupon returned him this answer Lievtenant Ralph What passion moves you to these extreame I know not but seeing you will needs be so fool hardy as to venture a Duel upon it your challenge shall be answered and since you have put it to me for the choice of the place and weapon I shall appoint the field on the North side of the Camp for the one and back-sword for the other so till I see you farewel William The next morning accer●ing to appointment they met with a full resolution the sword should end all difference betwixt them but Sir John Hawkword having some inkling of the business was in the field as soon as either of them where seeing them come fully resolved to fight he spake unto them in this manner What desperate folly or madness rather hath thus bewitched you as I am not of your counsel so I wish it had never come to my knowledge If your stock of valour be so surpassing great bestow it upon the common enemy and let it not be employed to private disadvantage there you may fight your belly full with honour whereas here he that gains the victory purchases only disgrace and danger what is your feud so deadly that nothing can wash it away but blood or is your malice so irreconcilable that the breaches may not be made up again is life of so little worth to throw it away thus idlely and doe you set so slieght a price of your souls as to hazard them thus for a thing of nothing what is there no other remedy but that one of you must dye and can death only make expiation I you can no better command your own passions then thus you will never be fit to command others CHAP. VII The valiant Acts of Sir John Hawkwood in Italy and how he married with the Daughter of Duke Barnaby THe renowned Marchant Taylor Sir John Hawkwood having now compleated his army consisting of sir thousand Horse and Foot took his march towards Italy making great spoyl all the way he went in the East harts of the Kingdome of France his name carrying such a terrour before it as struck dead the hearts of all opposers coming into Italy he joyned himself with the Marquess of Mountferrat under whom he ●ectormed such noble services as equalled if not exceeded that of the Antient Romans he having an exceeding ripe and quick conceit to force occasions to frame his resolutions and to make speedy execution being also as occasion required both hot in his fights and notable for his delays so that he soon grew to be the wonder and admiration of all that Nation for martial Discipline Soon after Lionel Duke of Clarence sonne to Edward the third King of England came into Italy to marry the Lady Violent● Daughter to Galeasins Lord of Millain Sir John Hawkwood hearing thereof resolved to make one in that royall solemnity and thereupon forsook the Marquess and attended the Duke to his marriage At which time Barnaby the brother of Galeasius had great warrs with the State of Mantua who having heard of the noble acts of Sir John Hawkwood humbly desi●ed his assistance for he being himself a warlike Prince had a great desire to make some tryal of the discipline prowess of the Englishmen Sir John accepted of his proffer in a short time gave such proofs of his manhood valour as made Duke Barnaby highly to admire him defeating his Enemies in several skirmishes so that those who before were almost Conquerers now became humble suppliants and them who ere while stood on high demande now come to as lowly terms Duke Barnaby having now found by experience that Fame was sar short in the praises of the noble Hawkwood he grew into such a likeing of him and that likeing producing such love that he greatly desired to have him his sonne in law and thereupon bestowed on him in marriage his daughter Domnia a Lady of a most transcendent beauty and whose wit and eloquence ran paralel with her beauty one in whom he found such ●acts as he l●st in his Arabella who could not choose but beleved being an lovely one of such a rare fortune and composition that had the Trojan Paris seen her naked he would have strighted his Hallen of Grece for her This alliance bring made in respect of his valour in war was the occasion of the encrease both of his pay and of the renown of the Englishmen throughout all Italy that a most pulssant Prince in war●● had not without sufficient cause to induce him conceived so good opinion of the valour of a man that was a stranger and for this cause his hel● was desired by all the Princes and free Cities of Italy For at that time all marital affairs amongst the Italians were managed by forrain forces and Captains But Prince Barnaby growing ungrateful for those many benefits received by the English men the noble Hawkwood notwithstanding their alliance revolted from him and joyned

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 their Combating with Forraign Enemies And glorious successes in honour of the English Nation Together with their Pious Acts and large Ben●volences their building of publick Structures especially that of BLACKWELL-HALL to be a Market place for the selling of Woollen Cloaths For bounty valour and for buildings fair What Trade with Merchant-Taylors may comp●●e Of this Famous Company have been free 7 Kings of England besides Princes Dukes Earls and Lords a great number Written by VVilliam VVinstanley LONDON Printed by P. L. for William Whitwood at the Sign of the Golden-Lyon in Duck-lane 1668. The true Effigies of that Valiant Kt. and March ●●ant Taylor Sir RALPH BLACKWELL TO The worthy Society of the Worshipful Company of MERCHANT-TAYLORS Gentlemen THe famous Acts of your noble Progenitors hath awakened my Pen to set them forth though not in so full manner as they do deserve What person skill'd in History that can be ignorant of the Worthy exploits of Sir John Hawkwood whose honour'd praise sounds thorow the Territories of all Christendom and whose heroick acts hath by Fames Trumpet been sounded forth to the utmost parts of the earth This Honoured person with several other magnanimous Hero's being of the Worthy Merchant-Taylors Trade I thought a History of them would not be unwelcome to you considering things of this Nature have been well entertained by those of other Trades inferior to you The Book of the Gentle Craft hath had a general acceptance of the Cordwainers and the History of the Six Worthy Yeomen of the West and Jack of Newle●y the like from the Weavers Daign therefore to accept of this and the good will of him that wrot it who is a Lover of your Society ambitious of the encrease of your honour and one that subscribes himself Yours to serve you William Winstandly To the Courteous Readers I Suppose that there is not any one who is skilfull in History that can be ignorant of the Honourable Atchievements of Merchant-Taylors a Chronicle may as well be found without words as without matter wherein in all Ages they have performed such Acts as have eternized their names in Fames Bead-roll whether by Martial Discipline bountiful liberality sumptuous structures or Honourable Love still we find this noble Company of Heroick spirits to equall if not exceed any of those Trades who claim the priority of chief and may in words boast much but must in deeds come far behind them Now there is nothing encourages young men so much to vertuous resolutions as by reading the Noble Acts of their famous predecessors which stirs in them an emulation of the like performances as we read of Themistocles that the tryumph of Miltiades would not let him sleep and the Houour of our Nation gallant Sir Phillip Sidney reports of himself that the only hearing of that old song of Piercy and Dowglas though sung no better then by an ordinary Chanter but it stirred up his valour more then the sound of the Trumpet or beat of the Drum such is the powerfull force of History that it infuses valour above all other means whatsoever nor hath it less effect in inciting persons to the building of famous structures for the beautifying of Cities or relief of decayed persons wherein none have been more eminent then this Noble Company of Merchant-Taylors as you may in part read at the latter end of this book and might be instanced in many more particulars such worthy Acts being recorded to posterity that others by reading what they have done might be incited to imitate their worthy examples and such is or should be the chief end of writing Books and was the main end intended in this the basis or foundation whereof thou wilt find courteous Reader to be a real truth though imbelished with such flowers of Poesy as I could gather out of Apollo's Garden that thou mightest be won with delight in the reading thereof But I shall not inlarge myself anyfurther nor detain thee any longer at the Porch of the History be ple●sed to enter in and view the rarities where with it is stored I question not but thou wilt find something therein which will give thee content which being obtained I have my wish W. W. Licensed May 18. 1668. Roger L'Estrange THE HONOUR OF Merchant Taylors CHAP. I. The birth of Sir John Hawkwood how he was bound Prentice at London to a Merchant Taylor how he fell in Love with his Masters daughter with other things that ensued thereon IN the days of that Famous and magnanimous Prince King Edward the Third there was born at Sible Henningham in the County of Essex a Right worthy Knight known afterwards to the world by the Name of Sir John Hawkwood who though born of mean and despicable Parents yet by his skill in Arms and fortunate success attained to such high Renown and Dignity that his name became most em●●ently famous throughout the compass of the whole world In his very infancy he was of a quick and pregnant capacity and showed many signs of a magnanimous inclination so that this early spring of gassant resolutions promised a golden Harvest of heroick performances and that in time he should become the admired Champion of his age Having attained to some perfaction of years he was bound Prentice at London to one of the worthy So●lety of M●rchant Taylors wher● though be endured a hard Prentice-ship yet pains in youth ●nured him to undergo hard-ship afterwards when being a Souldier he was forced to extremities whereas those that never felt the miseries of want being brought into necessity wanted no kind of misery as being not inured to suffer Calamity whilest he who had been habituate● to hardship under went all within invincible and ●illing patience So that ●●inual 〈◊〉 in time ●id make his labour● ease and pains pleasure Thus did his Apprentice-ship glide away undiscerned and Time which devours all things had now consumed above sir years of the seve● he had to serve his Master but 〈◊〉 when his time of 〈…〉 nigh 〈◊〉 and that he ●●●an as it were to have an entrance into fréedom he off a sudden became a thral to Cupid being Captivated by the inchanting beauty of Ara●●lla his Masters Eldest daughter but she had before so strongly placed her affection on Ralph her Fathers journey man that there was no corner of her heart lest to entertain the least love of young Hawkwoods yet notwithstanding he knew which way he affections were bent and that she had wholly resigned up her self to the disposal of Ralph yet did he not doubt but that his love and unfeigned service would in process of time so alienate her thoughts that at length he might become Master of her affections for well he knew that Ralph was of a froward peevish disposition irreconcileable in anger and apt upon the least

with their Enemies giving thereby a shrewd turn of the scale to the other side taking by force the strong Towns of Fuera and Banacanalo with many other places of importance all which he sold and disposed of at his pleasure William under him acting his part so well that he was promoted from a Captain of frot to a Collonel of Horse and now new adventures pre●enting themselves to their hands they went to aid Pope Gregory recovering for him many Cities and places of importance with were revolted from his obedience afterwards he aided the Florentiques against the Pisans doing such noble feats of arme● that the ver● dread of his name was enough to make his Enemies ●un all Princes courtted his friendship he having as it were chained the Goddess Victoria to his side wheresoever he came those who loved not his person maligned his perfections for virtue is alwaies attended on by envy yet was he of such an affable carriage that he wan both love and respect together thus seated on the top of Fortunes wheel● we will leave him for a while to speak of Williams Return into England and how he was entertained by his dea●est Dorothy CHAP. VIII Williams return into England his proof of Dorothies constancy and how they were married together THe renowned William having thus in Italy by his extraordinary valour purchased to himself an honorable Character being reputed next to Sir John Hawkwood the most experienced Commander of that age He having now béen absent from England the space of seven years and remembring the promise he had made unto Dorothy which was to return in a little space knowing how far he had d●viated from that his promise he therefore resolved with all exp●dition to return into England and there withal acquainted Sir John Hawkwood with his determination who was vary loath to part with his company being a person of an exquesite carriage and approved valour and therefore to disswade him from his purpose he used these expressions William you are now mounting on the Theater of Honour have already gained an indifferent good blast in the Trumpet of Fame but what should make you now have off running when you have almost attained to the Goale what shall deter you now from the pursuit of that which hitherto you have been so forward in what strange resolution hath thus on a suddain allter'd your determination what are you resolved to throw off the Name of a Souldier and to take up that of a Lover to abandon the Camp of Mars and to follow the Court of Cupid to put off your steely Cors● and to put on a silken Robe will you thus bury your ●orme ●ur to lye in a Ladies lap who ha●e the tears of ●reckadiles and the songs of Syren● to enchant men from the pursuit of honourable Atchievements remember your self then William and stain not the reputation of the noble society of Marchant Taylors whose fame or deeds of Armes hath hitherto remained unblemished But no persw●sions 〈…〉 the resolutions of William who thought every minute 〈…〉 he had enjoye a si●ht of his beloved Dorothy and the 〈…〉 of Sir John Hawkwood he emb●r● 〈◊〉 England 〈…〉 banks he had not beheld in man 〈…〉 by Neptune and Eolus having a ●air wind and 〈…〉 he in short time arrived at London the happ● Port 〈…〉 his ●●ishes were directed Being come on Land he resolved not to discover himself at the first instant to his beloved Dorothy which he might well canceal his commenance by the length of time end difference of Climate being much alter'd He therefore went to a Tavern ha●d by from whence he informed her by a messenger that a Gentleman from a friend of hers in Italy would gladly speak with her Dorothy at the hearing of the news was much overjoyed and promised the Messenger to be with him presen●ly which she accordingly performed and entring the chamber where he was being almost perswaded yet not fully confident it was her dearest William she began with kind words to bid him welcome home but William with a counterfeit spéech giving her to understand that she was mistaken spake to her in this manner I do not wonder dear Mistres that you are so mistaken since many times before the like hath hapned even by those who knew us both very well the most percingest eye hardly discerning any difference betwixt us either in height phisyogmony couller of the hair or other outward part long time were we acquainted together our intimacy producing strong affection betwixt us whether it were that likeness were the cause of Love or what other motive caused the same I cannot tell but so it was that in weal or woe prosperity or adversity nothing could seperate us many times would he discourse to me of the love and affection passed betwixt ye and of the solemn engagement he made to you for his quick return blaming himself for not performing his promise and resolving upon the first opportunity when he had in some measure set his affaires in order to return unto you which no doubt he had performed had not Death by a cross accident cut him off in his determination which hapned in this manner The Duke of Millaine had proclaimed a solemn Justs to be holden in the honour of his birth day to which resorted many Knights and gallant commanders of great renown and valour to exercise their skil in seats of Armes in honour of their Mistresses at the time appointed none was more forward in those laudable encounters then your true and faithful Lover William whose turn being to Just with an Italian Knight named Lopenzo at the third encounter a splinter of the Knights Lance chanced to run into Williams Helmet and peirced his eye-sight so that feeling himself mortally wounded he desired to be carried to some place near at hand where he might in quiet breath his last which friendly curtesie I and some others performed for him and now feeling the near approach of death because of the great love and familiarity betwixt us and of the near likeness of one person he earnestly desired and perswaded me to think of no otherwise but you as the only maid in the world worthy to be beloved for your noble constancy and high deserts which whosoever shall not love shewes himself to be a hater of virtue and therefore by that former affection betwixt you desiring and by the Authority of love commanding you that the love you bore to him you should turn to me assuring you that nothing could please his soul more then to see you and I matched together wherefore according to his desire Iam come with faithful love built upon your deserts to offer myself and to beseech you to take the offer Here he made a stop to hear what Dorothy would say who first making most hearty sighs doing such obsequies as she could to her supposed dead ●riend William thus answered him Sir for the great love you shewed to my dear Friend I give

who endeavour'd all she could to perswade him to she contrary but upon his promise that he would return in a short time with déep protestations of his fidelity unto her she at last gave her consent so having provided all things ready he took ship and having a prosperous wind he in short time arrived in France CHAP. V. How Sly the Lawyer was deceived in his Bedfellow by the means of Dorothy THere was an old Country Lawyer named Sly that was near of kin to Dorothies Master who coming to London every Term to save charges used to lye there this Lawyer was a stale ●atchelor but very leacherous and yet so penurious that he was loath to be at the changes to maintain a wife for he thought it was more saving not to kéep a Cow of his own so long as he could have a quart of Milk for a penny Now it was his chance to be at London soon after that William was gone into France and Dorothy using to tend on him in his Chamber the old Leather thought to draw her to his will and having presented her with some slight gifts more gaudy then costly he at last brake his mind vnto her promising her Mountains if she would fulfill his desire Dorothy at first gave him very snappish answers threatning to make his business known to her Master but the ●awrer still persisted in his suit adding still more gifts to the former so that at the last as overcome she séemingly condescended unto him and promised the next Night when her Master and Mistress was in ●ed to come and lie with him The leach●rous Goat was over-joy'd at these words hugging himself in his supposed delight and perswading himself that she meant unfeignedly But Dorothy against the appointed time had provided him a bedfellow which proved very litt●e to his content There was a deformed lame woman which used to do the drudgery belonging to the house this Creature had Dorothy perswaded to act her part and gave her instructions how to mannage it wisely greatly charging her not to speak to him for●ear of discovery which she might well do under a vail of modesty and so having taught her her lesson at the time appointed she conducted her so the Lawyers Chamber who was gotten to bed with a longing exp●cta●ion of Dorothies company but now hearing the Chamber door open and the woman coming to his beds side his heart was overjoy'd and putting his arm out of the bed claspt it about her neck and gave her a kiss saying Now I see Dorothy thou art as good as thy word come prethee make hast and pull off thy cloath for I have kept thy place warm against thy coming The woman was soon unready and went into the bed but when the Lawyer began to imbrace her he thought he smelt an ill favour'd favour and therefore he said prethy Dorothy what hast thou been doing off thou smellest so strong of Kitchin-stuff I am not able to indure good sweet-heart go to the window where stands a glass of Rose-water wherewith thou most make thy self swéeter The woman hereupon rose out of the bed and went to the window intending to make her self all honey for the Lawyer but instead of the Rose-water she took up an ink-glass and powring it into the palm of her hand she rubbed therewith her face neck and breasts wherewith she made her self so amiable that had it been in the light she would have frighted the Lawyers leachery away having done this she went to bed again and though she were not much the swéeter yet the heat of lust made him bear with all ill-favour'd smells now first against the time they should rise Dorothy went and called up her Master Mistriss and Arabella telling them the Lawyer lay a dying and that he was just now giving up the Ghost whereupon half unready they ran to his Chamber with all the speed they could the Lawyer and his bedfellow were much frighted at this sudden intrusion but when he had drawn the Curtain and saw what manner of Creature he had lain with all night he began to cry out the Devil the Devil Arabella with her Father and Mother were as much frighted thinking it had béen the Devil indéed but when they heard the woman speak calling him old leacherous Rogue with all the Billingsgate terms she could reckon up they then perceived who it was whereupon their great fear was turned into an excessive laughter Dorothy who had practised all this mischief was now most busie in laughing at it but the Lawyer was so ashamed that getting up he bid them adien and never after that time came to the house any more CHAP. VI. William kindly entertained in France by Sr. John Hawkwood Ralph challenges him to fight and upon discontent returns into England VVIlliam having prosperously arrived in France went the next way to the English Camp being conducted thither by the trumpet of Fame which loudly sounded forth their Heroick praises where he found Sr. John Hawkwood like the Son of Bellona intentive upon his Martial affairs instructing his men in their Military postures and shewing them both how to receive and avoid the shock of the Enemy But upon the coming of William he committed his charge to the managing of Ensigne for Ralph upon some necessary occasions was then absent from his company and kindly entertained his old companion being as familiar with him as when they used to sit cross leg'd on the Shop-board together for he was free from that haughty pride which now adaies possesses some of our upstart Gallants who being raised from a low though but to an ordinary fortune forget not only their old acquaintance but also themselves After some repast William acquainted him with the passages betwixt himself and Arabella yet pretending that what he●●d was only in revenge of the denial she had given to Sir John not out of any hat●ed to Ralph although said he she cast him off for ●oth He and Sir John were still ignorant of their reconcilements and the●efore said he I desire that Ralph should not know thereof But w●●●ies they were thus ●●ccursing Ralph came in who seeing William and remembring how by his means that from of discention had béen raised betwixt him and Arabella the fire of revenge strait sparkled out of his eyes and drawing his sword false man said he now shall thy life pay for thy treachery and there withall offered to strike at him but Sir John-Hawkwood interposed betwixt them and laying hold on Ralph commanded him to put up his s●ord or else said he you will force me to draw mine what is this your valour to strike an unarmed man or is this your greatest courtesie to welcome an old campanion Noble Captain said Ralph if you knew the falsehood that was lodged in that breast you would think his life too small a recompence to expiate his faults but said Sir Hohn passion is no competent judge of mens actions and to build your knowledge upon