29) speaks of being
'turnd to a Turk, and set in
Finsburie
for boyes to shoot at',
and Nash (_Pierce Pennilesse_, _Wks.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
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.' (_Ibid._
2. 109). See also Stow, _Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 159.
Dekker (_Shomaker's Holiday_, _Wks._ 1.
29) speaks of being
'turnd to a Turk, and set in
Finsburie
for boyes to shoot at',
and Nash (_Pierce Pennilesse_, _Wks.
_ 2. 128) and Jonson (_Bart.
Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 507) make precisely similar references. Master
Stephen in _Every Man in_ (_Wks._ 1. 10) objects to keeping
company with the 'archers of Finsbury.' Cf. also the elaborate
satire in _U._ 62, (_Wks._ 8. 409).
