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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

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