caused the blanch
charters
made by
Richard II.
Richard II.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
61_, _Wks.
_ 8.
408.
See also Dekker,
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 2.
=1. 1. 56 Standard in Cheepe. = This was a water-stand or conduit
in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where executions were
formerly held. It was in a ruinous condition in 1442, when it was
repaired by a patent from Henry VI. Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p.
100) gives a list of famous executions at this place, and says that
'in the year 1399, Henry IV.
caused the blanch charters made by
Richard II. to be burnt there. '
=1. 1. 58 a needle of Spaine. = Gifford, referring to Randolph's
_Amyntos_ and Ford's _Sun's Darling_, points out that 'the best
needles, as well as other sharp instruments, were, in that age, and
indeed long before and after it, imported from Spain. ' The tailor's
needle was in cant language commonly termed a _Spanish pike_.
References to the Spanish needle are frequent. It is mentioned by
Jonson in _Chloridia_, _Wks. _ 8. 99; by Dekker, _Wks. _ 4. 308; and by
Greene, _Wks. _ 11. 241. Howes (p.
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 2.
=1. 1. 56 Standard in Cheepe. = This was a water-stand or conduit
in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where executions were
formerly held. It was in a ruinous condition in 1442, when it was
repaired by a patent from Henry VI. Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p.
100) gives a list of famous executions at this place, and says that
'in the year 1399, Henry IV.
caused the blanch charters made by
Richard II. to be burnt there. '
=1. 1. 58 a needle of Spaine. = Gifford, referring to Randolph's
_Amyntos_ and Ford's _Sun's Darling_, points out that 'the best
needles, as well as other sharp instruments, were, in that age, and
indeed long before and after it, imported from Spain. ' The tailor's
needle was in cant language commonly termed a _Spanish pike_.
References to the Spanish needle are frequent. It is mentioned by
Jonson in _Chloridia_, _Wks. _ 8. 99; by Dekker, _Wks. _ 4. 308; and by
Greene, _Wks. _ 11. 241. Howes (p.
