. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures. TAm^mo^ I^ ( D (Uim. ^6 tfjC duCnC. The antiquarian REPERTORY. fjjr. • ? (For the A N T I q^u arian Repertory. TO perfons unacquainted with the unpoliflicd manners of this country inancitnt times, accounts of che rude fports and low buffoonery formerlyrelifhed, and even rewarded, by people in high rank, ieem hardly credible ;neverthelcfs, ancient records irrefragably prove, that lands were held, byroyal charters, under fuch co
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures. TAm^mo^ I^ ( D (Uim. ^6 tfjC duCnC. The antiquarian REPERTORY. fjjr. • ? (For the A N T I q^u arian Repertory. TO perfons unacquainted with the unpoliflicd manners of this country inancitnt times, accounts of che rude fports and low buffoonery formerlyrelifhed, and even rewarded, by people in high rank, ieem hardly credible ;neverthelcfs, ancient records irrefragably prove, that lands were held, byroyal charters, under fuch conditions, and by fuch feats, as would now bereckoned infufferably low even in St. Giless, Billingfgate, Wapping, orRag Fair. A ftriking inftance of thefe rude manners occurs in a very curious andauthentic manufcript, a copy of which is in the pofiefTion of Thomas Aftle,£fq. containing, among other things, the private cxpcnces of King Edwardthe Second, wherein it appears that crofs and pile, or toHlng up heads ortails (as it is now called) was a royal diverfion -, that the King travelled in areturned barge, which had conveyed faggots to his court, and was not onlyhighly delighted with the coarf
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