. London . J 7i^rLL~. OLD ST. PAULS right nor left. Hucksters and peddlers not only walkedthrough but lingered on their way to sell their stood and sat about a certain pillar to be hired ;scriveners sat about another pillar writing letters for thosewho required their services ; clergymen in quest of a curacyor vicarage gathered at another pillar. Remember theverses, said Stow : Who wants a churchman that can service say,Read first and faire his monthlie homilic,And wed and bury and make Christian soules ?Come to the left side alley of St. Pauls. -»— -» LONDO V 1 The poor clergym
. London . J 7i^rLL~. OLD ST. PAULS right nor left. Hucksters and peddlers not only walkedthrough but lingered on their way to sell their stood and sat about a certain pillar to be hired ;scriveners sat about another pillar writing letters for thosewho required their services ; clergymen in quest of a curacyor vicarage gathered at another pillar. Remember theverses, said Stow : Who wants a churchman that can service say,Read first and faire his monthlie homilic,And wed and bury and make Christian soules ?Come to the left side alley of St. Pauls. -»— -» LONDO V 1 The poor clergymen, he went on, have fallen upon eviltimes ; there is not preferment enough for all of them, andmany of the country parishes are too poor to keep a man,even though he live more hardly than a yeoman. This, he added, is an exchange where almost as muchbusiness is done as at Sir Thomas Greshams Burse, but of ::. MONUMENTS OF ST. PAULS WHICH SURVIVED THE EIRE (EAST ENDOF THE NORTH CRYPT) another kind. Here are houses bought and sold ; here ismoney lent on usury ; here are conspiracies hatched, villaniesresolved upon ; here is the honour of women bought andsold ; here, if a man wants a handful of desperadoes for theSpanish Main, he may buy them cheap—look at those menstanding by the tomb that they call Duke Humphreys. TUDOR 273 They were three tall, lean fellows, each with a long rapierand a worn doublet and a hungry face. Only to look uponthem made one think of John Oxenham and his companions. ^These men should be taking of Panama or Guayaquil,said *Stow. The time grows too peaceful for such as see, this is Pauls Walk ; this is the Mediterranean. The long middle aisle was crowded with a throng of menwalking to and fro, some alone, some two or three of them were merchants or retailers, some were country-men looking about them and crying out for the loftiness ofthe roof
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