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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
THE Pleasant Walkes OF Moore-fields Being the guift of two Sisters now beautified to the continuing fame of this worthy Citty Printed at London for Henry Gosson and are to be sold at the Signe of the Sun in Pater noster Row 1607. To the Right Worshipfull the Knights and Aldermen of this Honorable Citty of London THose sweet and delightfull walks of More fields right Worshipfull as it seemes a Garden to this Citty and a pleasurable place of sweet ayres for Cittizens to walke in now made most beautiful by your good vvorships appointment hath emboldened me to search for the true antiquity thereof and furthermore to satisfie the desires of many I haue giuen here a true light of the late glorie doone vnto the same and withall briefly set downe a fewe notes of ancient recordes of their beeing a kinde of morish ground in times past and by whome and in what maner they were brought to this beneficial vse togither with manie other Honors done to this citty If your vvorships vouchsafe to thinke vvel of my labors I attaine my vvished hopes So ending I commit you all to the ioy of your ovvne harts By your Worships to be commanded Rich Iohnson The pleasant walkes of Moore Fields The Speakers names in this discourse a Countrey Gentleman and a London Citizen Gentleman THis Citty of London sir in my mind both for antiquity and scituation may challenge glory with any Citty in the World Cit. Most true sir for it is reported that Brute lineally descended from the Demy-god Aeneas son of Venus daughter of Iupiter about the yeare of the world 2855 and 1108. before the Natiuity of Christ builded this citty and named it Troynouant But in processe of time K. Lud not onely repayred it but also increased the same with faire buildings towers and wals and after his own name called it Luds towne and by corruption of spéech it is now called London which king lyeth buried at a gate in the West part of the Citty which hee likewise built in the honor of his name caling it Ludgate Gent. Since that time I perceiue in euery Princes raigne it hath bin much beautified but of all pleasurs that contents me these swéet walkes of Moore fieldes are the chiefest and the causers thereof deserue much commendations Citi. Those be the worthy Aldermen and Common-counsell of London who seeing the disorder vsed in these fieldes haue bestowed this cost and as occasion requires intends further to beautifie the same Gent. In so dooing they purchase same after Death and much pleasure to posterity But to what vse are these Fieldes reserued Citi. Only for Cittizens to walke in to take the ayre and for Merchants maides to dry clothes in which want necessary gardens at their dwellings gent. By whom was these fields giuen to the citty Cit. Marry sir by two mayds the only daughters to Sir William Fines a knight of the Rhodes in the time of Edward the Confessor who dying left these Fieldes of Fines-berry after his owne name to his two daughters Mary and Katharine who refusing the pleasures of this world betooke themselues to a deuout kind of life and became two Nuns in the Monastery of Bedlem wher hauing spent their daies in the seruice of God at their death gaue these aforesaid fieldes to the Citty of London for an ease to the Cittizens and a place for their seruants to dry clothes in and likewise builded the two Crosses the one at Bedlem gate the other at Shoredich Gent. These walkes Sir as it seemes beares the fashion of a crosse equally diuided foure wayes and like wise squared about with pleasant wals the trees thereof makes a gallant shew and yeelds vnto mine eye much delight Citizen They may well for the like border of trees are not at this day in al the land again for they be in number within these walles two Hundred foure-score and eleauen beside those other standing west-ward without to the number of some foure or fiue and thirtie Gent. I haue heard that many of these trees doe carry proper names Citiz. According to the planting thereof they doe and those which I remember so called now stand on the the west side within these walles the first of them at the corner of the middle walke west-ward was first of all placed by Sir Leonard Hollyday then Lord Maior the next on the corner north-ward at the steppes comming downe by a Captaine being a Gentleman of good reputation the third by a Citizen and Sonne to Sir Leonard Hollyday which standeth next to his Fathers trée There standeth néere vnto that a trée called the two brothers planted by two little boyes and sonnes to a Citizen here in London there is likewise a trée called the thrée sisters by the name of thrée maydens that set it and another the thrée brothers there is a trée likewise on the north-west corner which I saw set vp called Stubs his trée by one Christopher Stubs one of the principal Porters of Black-well hall a man well beloued and of good credit Many others were set vp by our Citizens which I thinke néedlesse to speake of nor tell of the bountie they shewed to the worke-men at the planting of these same trées Gent. The charges hereof shew their liberall mindes and no doubt but this field will be maintained time out of minds in as good order as it is nowe kept for what you Citizens meane to giue glory too neither cost nor care can be wanting But I pray you how many Akars may this plot of ground containe Citiz. Marry Sir within the walles some ten Akars which was so measured out and by a Plough made leuell as it is now a thing that neuer hath béen séene before to goe so néere London Gent. But why are these stockes of wood here prouided with such a huge chaine of yron lockt to the wall Citiz. Onely as a punishment for those that lay any filthy thing within these fields or make water in the same to the annoyance of those that walke therein which euill sauors in times past haue much corrupted mans sences and supposed to be a great nourisher of diseases Gent That beares good reason and the maner of this punishment I like well and pitie it were but it should be maintained for it is one of the best things that euer your Citie bestowed cost vpon Citiz. The cost hereof they regard not and the more they bestow hereon the more honour they tye vnto our Citie and the causers of these walkes hath deserued high commendations making their posterities famous by these their déeds Gent. It séemes they intend a further grace to these fields Citiz. Their purpose is not fully knowne but surely their intents are inclined to bountifull procéedings as I heare the building of certaine houses for shelters for maidens hauing their clothes lying there a drying if at any time it should chance to raine Gent. All England may take example at your London Citizens who not onely séeke for