Now our's lie downward, here, close to the flank, Brought up your paned hose first, which ladies They love a doublet that's three hours a buttoning, Ibid. Old Law, p. 486. "BEFORE the general introduction of books, our ancestors were careful to dole out instruction in many ways; hangings, pictures, trenchers, knives, wearing apparel, everything in a word, that was capable of containing a short sentence was carried to account."-GIFFORD. MASSINGER, Vol. 4, p. 489. See the plan for example. "MADAME, said Whitelocke to Queen Christina, Monday next is the first day of May, a great day in England; we call it May-day, when the gentlemen use to wait upon their mis tresses abroad, to bid the spring welcome, and to have some collation, or entertainment for them. Now, your majesty being my mistress if you will do me the hopour, that, after the custom of England, I may wait on you on May. day, and have a little treatment for you after the manner of England; this I call going into England, and shall take it as a very great favour from your majesty. Queen. If this be your meaning of going into England, I shall be very willing, as your mistress, to go with you on Monday next, and to see the English mode." He began this subject by asking—“Will your majesty be pleased on Monday next to go into A TAILOR appears as one of the domestics in England? a wealthy family.-Old Law, p. 509. "Q. Hardly so soon; yet perhaps I may one day see England. But what is your meaning "THE butler before the cook, while you live; there's few that eat before they drink in a morn-in this? ing."-Ibid. p. 511. "WHAT will that fan, tho' of the finest feather, Stand thee the brunt of winds and storms to bear ?" QUARLES. "W. Ut supra." Journal, vol. 2, p. 118. AT this May-day collation, the queen, "among other frolics, commanded Whitelocke to teach School of the Heart, p. 22. | her ladies the English salutation, which, after some pretty defences, their lips obeyed, and Whitelocke most readily."-Ibid. p. 126 CREDULOUS, in CARTWRIGHT'S Ordinary, says of his son when the sharpers are predicting splendid fortunes for him, "The Turkish monarchy's a thing too big Old Plays, vol. 10, p. 189. "To Grave Eric's lady, Whitelocke presented a clock of the new make, to hang by the wall, set in ebony, with rich studs of silver. "To other ladies he presented English gloves, ribbons, silk stockings, and the like, which are of great account with them."-Ibid. p. 221. "HowIT, in noticing that curious philosophical traveller, Sir Henry Blount's 'Organo: Salutis,' 1659," observed, that "this coffee drink hath caused a great sobriety among all nations. Formerly, apprentices, clerks, &c. used to take their morning draughts in ale, beer, or wine, which often made them unfit for business. Now they play the good fellows in this wakeful and civil drink. Sir James Muddiford, who introduced the practice hereof first in London, deserves much respect of the whole nation."D'ISRAELI, Curiosities, vol. 4, p. 99. LILITH, who kills children. The name by which the Jews call this she-devil "is taken from the night, for so the word signifieth first. And it will be something to you, when you remember yourself of that ordinary superstition of the old wives, who dare not entrust a child in the cradle by itself alone, without a candle. You must not think those people know what they do; and yet you may perceive their silly ways to be derived from an original much bet ter and more considerable than can be guessed' desirous that a register of titles to land should at from their prone and uninstructed way of per- be settled, and he worked seriously upon it. formance."-JOHN GREGORY, p. 97. Lord Chief-Justice Hales feared 'more holes might be made than mended by it' but Lord Keeper Guildford thought it not only practicable, but absolutely necessary, and if it were not done, that forgery would soon be the best trade in England. That used to be his expression." "Ir hath been a custom, and yet is elsewhere, to whip-up the children upon Innocents'-day morning, that the memory of the murder of the innocents might stick the closer; and in a mod--Ibid. vol. 1, p. 210. erate proportion to act over the cruelty again in kind."-Ibid. 113. THE Duchess of Newcastle says, "teeth that are dirty and foul may be rubbed with china, and brick, or the like."-Annual Parliament. Poems and Fancies, p. 208. "As foolish and unnecessary customs brought from foreign parts, she complains of boring the ears for pendants; pulling up the hedges of the eyebrows by the roots, leaving none but a narrow and thin row, that the eyes can receive no shade therefrom; and peeling the first skin off the face with oil of vitriol, that a new skin may come in its place, which is apt to shrivel the skin underneath."-Ibid. p. 209. Charles the Second. JOSSELYN, speaking of the Moose Deer in North America, says, "the flesh of their fawns is an incomparable dish, beyond the flesh of an ass's foal, so highly esteemed by the Romans, or that of young spaniel puppies, so much cried up in our days in France and England.”—New England's Rarities, p. 19. See Green Book, p. 12. "If what I've said can't from the town affright, 1663. "THE piety, of the Christian church hath made some little provision towards an artificial immortality for brave and worthy persons; and the friendships which our dead contracted while they were alive, require us to continue a fair memory as long as we can, but they expire in monthly minds, or at most in a faint and declining anniversary."-JEREMY TAYLOR'S Sermon at the Funeral of Abp. Bramhall. These ceremonies then appear not to have been abrogated by the Reformation, nor obsolete in his time. FROM a story in this book, vol. 1, p. 226, of a dissenter who invited the judges to her house, near Exeter, and "had not the manners to engage the parish-minister to come and officiate with any part of the evening service before supper," this sort of family service seems to have been usual. BRISTOL "It is remarkable there, that all men that are dealers, even in shop trades, launch into adventures by sea, chiefly to the West India plantations and Spain. A poor shopkeeper that sells candles, will have a bale of stockings, or a piece of stuff for Nevis or Virginia, &c.; and, rather than fail, they trade in men, as when they sent small rogues taught to prey, and who accordingly received actual transportation, even before any indictment found against them, for which my Lord Jeffries scoured them. In a word, pride and ostentation are publicly professed. Christenings and burials pompous beyond imagination. A man who dies worth £300 will order £200 of it to be laid out in his funeral procession."—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 234. "In these churches (York and Durham) wind music was used in the choir, which I apprehend might be introduced at first for want of voices, if not of organs; but as I hear, they are now disused. To say the truth, nothing comes No sewers in Chancery-lane.-Life of Lord so near, or rather imitates so much an excellent Keeper North, vol. 1, p. 156. voice, as a cornet-pipe: but the labour of the lips is too great, and it is seldom well sounded." was extremely-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 263. WOODEN railroads at Newcastle described.-| Ibid. vol. 1, p. 265. "FROM Newcastle his lordship's road lay to Carlisle. The Northumberland sheriff gave us all arms; that is, a dagger, knife, penknife and fork, all together. And because the hideous road along by the Tyne, for the many and sharp turnings and perpetual precipices, was, for a coach not sustained by main force, impassable, his lordship was forced to take horse, and to ride most part of the way to Hexham."—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 271. KENDAL. "We could not without a chagrin, observe the common people walk barefoot, and the children leaping as if they had hoofs, and those shod with iron; but it is almost the same all over the north. This town so situated, and out of the way, is yet celebrated for much woollen manufacture sent from thence to most parts of England. They could write to most trading towns, and have answers by the packs (for all is horse carriage) with returns, (time being allowed) as certain as by the post."Ibid. vol. 1, p. 277. COFFEE-HOUSES suppressed, because seditious discourses were held there.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 298. See also NORTH's Examen, to which he refers. JUDGES wore point bands. "At his table, a stupid servant spilt a glass of red wine upon his point band and cloaths."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 55. SIR GEORGE COOKE is said to have been the first person who brought the plane-tree into England.-Hist. of Chilton, with KENNETT's Pur. Ant. vol. 2, p. 492. "How cometh it that so many of your church members at this day continue this practice, of going to your public places and temples to say their private prayers?" One place is not better nor more holy than another to pray in, and so to go into any public place and pray privately smelleth strongly either of hypocrisy or else of superstition.-G. KEITH'S Rector Corrected, p. 126. 1680. "THOSE called the commons had their kind of swearing, and those called the gentry had theirs; so that the ordinary way of swearing would not serve their turn; but, as they exceeded the commons in outward greatness, so they thought it a property to exceed them in swearing more great and terrible oaths, and these are called gentleman oaths.”-G. KEITH'S Way Cast Up, p. 35. 1677. "In the cathedral of York an indecent custom, not yet abolished in some other cathedrals, prevailed, of walking and talking loudly in the nave during prayers, so that the congregation were often interrupted in their devotions. Dr. Lake, however, was a resolute disciplinarian, and resolved to break so indecent and profane an usage; but the mob were so much exaspe rated by the attempt, that after breaking open the south door of the cathedral, they assaulted the residentiary in his own house, and having stripped it of part of the tiling, would probably have murdered him, had he not been seasonably rescued by Captain Honeywood, the deputy governor of the castle."-WHITAKER's Loidis and Elmete, p. 37. "THE introduction of brick occasioned a very material step towards modern comfort. The walls were lighter, and therefore the window frames having so much less weight to sustain, expanded in proportion, and the transom window, gloomy as it is thought at present, in the reign of Charles II. conveyed an idea and a feeling of cheerfulness and gaiety."—Ibid. p. 79. Ir appears that boys took their servants to address. The places where it is practised are Westminster.-Spectator, No. 96. charming delicious walks, called bowling-greens, which are little square grass plots, where the Louis XIV. dined at noon. Regnier, in his turf is almost as smooth and level as the cloth 12th Sat. says, 66 qu'il est midi sonné Et qu'au logis du roi tout le monde a diné." Mem. tom. 21, p. 436. "THE Court used to take the water from the stairs at Whitehall Palace, in summer evenings, when the heat and dust prevented their walking in the Park. An infinite number of open boats, filled with the court and city beauties, attended the barges in which were the royal family; collations, music, and fireworks completed the scene."-GRAMMONT'S Mem. vol. 1, p. 203. His banquets, which "even in the midst of London surpassed the king's collations," came from Paris,-like his clothes.-Ibid. p. 203. of a billiard table. As soon as the heat of the day is over, all the company assemble there. They play deep, and spectators are at liberty to make what bets they please."—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 269. LODOWICK ROWZEE, in his treatise upon the Queen's Wills, implies that yellow tiffany was worn, I think. Speaking of brimstone, he says, "never so little of it, burning upon a few coals, when our women dry their tiffanies, filleth a whole room with the strong scent of it."Harl. Mis. vol. 7, p. 451. Or was it not to take out stains? "HARES are grown infamous, and banished from most tables undeservedly, out of a conceit that they are melancholy meat."-LODOWICK RowZEE. Harl. Mis. vol. 7, p. 465-6. "COACHES with glasses were then a late invention. The ladies were afraid of being shut up in them. They greatly preferred the pleasure of shewing almost their whole persons to the convenience of modern coaches. That which was made for the king not being remarkable for its elegance, Grammont was of opinion that something might be invented which should partake of the ancient fashion, and yet prove preferable to the modern. He sent to Paris, and presented Charles with the most magnifi- THE journalists of the Grand Duke Cosmo's cent caleche that had ever been seen. The travels, describing Plymouth, say, "the buildprice which he had fixed to give was one thou-ings are antique, according to the English sand five hundred louis, but it cost two thou-fashion, lofty and narrow, with pointed roofs; sand."-Ibid. p. 207. See Aitzema. "You were as sure to see a guitar on a lady's toilet, as rouge and patches."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 40. An Italian musician, of whom Charles was proud, had brought this instrument into fashion. See his reasons for controverting this opinion. and the fronts may be seen through, owing to the magnitude of the glass windows in each of the different stories."-P. 124. A GARDEN of Lord Paulet's, at Hinton St. George, is described in this volume as "very different from the common style of English gardens these are usually walks of sand, made perfectly level, by rolling them with a stone cylinder, through the axis of which a lever of iron is passed, whose ends being brought forward and united together in form of a triangle, serve to move it backwards or forwards; and between the walks are smooth grass plats, covered with the greenest turf, without any other ornament. This of my Lord Paulet is a meadow divided into several compartments of brickwork, which are filled with flowers."-P. 141. "THERE were several species of aquatic birds on the canal in St. James's Park."-Ibid. p. 168. tacle of the entertainment: nor was the presence of the king sufficient to restrain them from the pillage of those very delicate viands; much less his majesty's soldiers, armed with carabines, who guarded the entrance of the saloon to prevent all ingress into the inside, lest the confinement and too great heat should prove annoying. so that his majesty, to avoid the crowd, was obliged to rise from table, and retire to his highness's apartment."-Ibid. p. 378. THE English women, "when they attend at the discourses of their preachers, write down an abridgement of what they say, having in their letters abbreviations which facilitate to them. and to the men also (thanks to their natural quickness and the acuteness of their genius). the power of doing this with rapidity."—Ibid. A SORT of beer in London, "made with the body of a capon, which is left to grow putrid along with the malt.” What can be meant by this ? 1 "WE went to see the New Exchange, which is not far from the place of the Common Gar-p. 400. den (Convent Garden) in the great street called the Strand. The building has a façade of stone, built after the Gothic style, which has lost its color from age, and is become blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, one above the other, in which are distributed in several rows great numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful description. These are for the most part under the care of well dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although many are served by young men called apprentices."Ibid. p. 296. "THE government of the city finds it necessary by a particular provision, to oblige the heads of the houses in every street to keep on foot a certain number of men armed with spears, at the head of the street, by way of preventing the insolence of the apprentices on the days in which freedom is allowed them."-Ibid. p. 296. THE dancing schools of the metropolis "frequented both by unmarried and married ladies, who are instructed by the master, and practise with much gracefulness and agility various dances after the English fashion."-Ibid. p. 314. THE prize fighters were armed with a round shield and a sword not sharpened, fighting with the edge, not with the point.-Ibid. p. 316. ENGLISH noblemen "do not in general keep French cooks; their tables in consequence. though distinguished by abundance, are deficient in quality, and in that exquisiteness of relish which renders the French dishes grateful to the palate. This is particularly the case with their pastry, which is grossly made, with a great quantity of spices, and badly baked. There is also a great want of that neatness and gentility which is practised in Italy, for on the English tables there are no forks nor vessels to supply water for the hands, which are washed in a basin full of water that serves for all the company: or perhaps at the conclusion of dinner they dip the end of the napkin into the beaker which is set before each of the guests, filled with water, and with this they clean their teeth and wash their hands."-Ibid. p. 464. EXTORTION and cruelty in the prisons.-Somers' Tracts, vol. 7, p. 533. COSMO, while in England, "had plenty of all the portable rarities for food and drink Italy had to afford."-RERESBY'S Memoirs, p. 15. 1667. MIDNIGHT funerals. "When I think ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 66 A private to ease myself at night by sleep, as last night, boat of a noble shape, and ornamented with the about eleven or twelve o'clock, at a solemn ensign of his dignity, is always on the river, in funeral, the bells set out. That men should be which he can at any moment cross over to White-such owls to keep five thousand people awake, hall."-Ibid. p. 320. CHARLES II. Supt with Cosmo. the evening before the Grand Duke's departure. "To the service of fruit succeeded a most excellent course of confectionary, both those of Portugal and other countries famous for the choiceness of their sweetmeats. But scarcely was it set upon the table when the whole was carried off and plundered by the people who came to see the spec with ringing a peal to him that does not hear it!"-SHADWELL'S Sullen Lovers. KISSING was the common salutation among men, as now on the continent. This appears by all the comedies of that age. "I HAD as leave stand among the rabble to see a jack-pudding eat a custard as trouble my1 Porter-brewers can elucidate this Query.-J. W. W. |