The
executed
criminals were buried in
the churchyard (d.
the churchyard (d.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
347).
=5. 8. 133 St. Pulchars Steeple. = St. Sepulchre in the Bailey
(occasionally written St. 'Pulcher's) is a church at the western end
of Newgate Street and in the ward of Farringdon Without. A church
existed here in the twelfth century. The church which Jonson knew was
built in the middle of the fifteenth century. The body of the church
was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
It was the custom formerly for the clerk or bellman of St.
Sepulchre's to go under Newgate on the night preceding the execution
of a criminal, and, ringing his bell, to repeat certain verses,
calling the prisoner to repentance. Another curious custom observed
at this church was that of presenting a nosegay to every criminal on
his way to Tyburn (see Wh-C. ).
The executed criminals were buried in
the churchyard (d. Middleton, _Black Book_, _Wks. _ 8. 25).
Cunningham says that 'the word _steeple_ was not used in the
restricted sense to which we now confine it. The _tower_ of St.
Sepulchre's in Jonson's time, must have been very much like what
we now see it as most carefully and tastefully restored. '
=5. 8. 134 as farre as Ware. = This is a distance of about 22 miles.
Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts, situated in a valley on the
north side of the river Lea. The 'great bed of Ware' is mentioned in
_Twelfth Night_ 3. 2. 51, and the town is characterized as 'durty
Ware' in Dekker's _North-ward Hoe_, _Wks. _ 3.
=5. 8. 133 St. Pulchars Steeple. = St. Sepulchre in the Bailey
(occasionally written St. 'Pulcher's) is a church at the western end
of Newgate Street and in the ward of Farringdon Without. A church
existed here in the twelfth century. The church which Jonson knew was
built in the middle of the fifteenth century. The body of the church
was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
It was the custom formerly for the clerk or bellman of St.
Sepulchre's to go under Newgate on the night preceding the execution
of a criminal, and, ringing his bell, to repeat certain verses,
calling the prisoner to repentance. Another curious custom observed
at this church was that of presenting a nosegay to every criminal on
his way to Tyburn (see Wh-C. ).
The executed criminals were buried in
the churchyard (d. Middleton, _Black Book_, _Wks. _ 8. 25).
Cunningham says that 'the word _steeple_ was not used in the
restricted sense to which we now confine it. The _tower_ of St.
Sepulchre's in Jonson's time, must have been very much like what
we now see it as most carefully and tastefully restored. '
=5. 8. 134 as farre as Ware. = This is a distance of about 22 miles.
Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts, situated in a valley on the
north side of the river Lea. The 'great bed of Ware' is mentioned in
_Twelfth Night_ 3. 2. 51, and the town is characterized as 'durty
Ware' in Dekker's _North-ward Hoe_, _Wks. _ 3.
