Peacham's
_Compleat
Gentleman_, 1627 (p.
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2.
35 Scarfes.
= 'Much worn by knights and military
officers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. '--Planche.
=3. 2. 35 Cornehill. = Cornhill, between the Poultry and Leadenhall
Street, an important portion of the greatest thoroughfare in the
world, was, says Stow, 'so called of a corn market time out of mind
there holden. ' In later years it was provided with a pillory and
stocks, a prison, called the Tun, for street offenders, a conduit of
'sweet water', and a standard. See Wh-C.
=3. 2. 38 the posture booke. = A book descriptive of military
evolutions, etc. H.
Peacham's _Compleat Gentleman_, 1627 (p. 300,
quoted by Wheatley, _Ev. Mall in_), gives a long list of 'Postures of
the Musquet' and G. Markham's _Souldier's Accidence_ gives another.
Cf. _Tale Tub_, _Wks. _ 6. 218:
--All the postures
Of the train'd bands of the country.
=3. 2. 41 Finsbury. = In 1498, 'certain grounds, consisting of
gardens, orchards, &c. on the north side of _Chiswell-street_, and
called _Bunhill_ or _Bunhill-fields_, within the manor of _Finsbury_,
were by the mayor and commonalty of _London_, converted into a large
field, containing 11 acres, and 11 perches, now known by the name
of the _Artillery-ground_, for their train-bands, archers, and other
military citizens, to exercise in. '--Entick, _Survey_ 1. 441.
In 1610 the place had become neglected, whereupon commissioners were
appointed to reduce it 'into such order and state for the archers as
they were in the beginning of the reign of King Henry VIII.
officers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. '--Planche.
=3. 2. 35 Cornehill. = Cornhill, between the Poultry and Leadenhall
Street, an important portion of the greatest thoroughfare in the
world, was, says Stow, 'so called of a corn market time out of mind
there holden. ' In later years it was provided with a pillory and
stocks, a prison, called the Tun, for street offenders, a conduit of
'sweet water', and a standard. See Wh-C.
=3. 2. 38 the posture booke. = A book descriptive of military
evolutions, etc. H.
Peacham's _Compleat Gentleman_, 1627 (p. 300,
quoted by Wheatley, _Ev. Mall in_), gives a long list of 'Postures of
the Musquet' and G. Markham's _Souldier's Accidence_ gives another.
Cf. _Tale Tub_, _Wks. _ 6. 218:
--All the postures
Of the train'd bands of the country.
=3. 2. 41 Finsbury. = In 1498, 'certain grounds, consisting of
gardens, orchards, &c. on the north side of _Chiswell-street_, and
called _Bunhill_ or _Bunhill-fields_, within the manor of _Finsbury_,
were by the mayor and commonalty of _London_, converted into a large
field, containing 11 acres, and 11 perches, now known by the name
of the _Artillery-ground_, for their train-bands, archers, and other
military citizens, to exercise in. '--Entick, _Survey_ 1. 441.
In 1610 the place had become neglected, whereupon commissioners were
appointed to reduce it 'into such order and state for the archers as
they were in the beginning of the reign of King Henry VIII.
