. Punch . he ticket-porters, while the king treatedwith some of the insurgents atMile End, so that it appearshis Majesty was within a six-penny omnibus fare of themetropolis. The king having come up toSmithfield to parley with WatTyler, found the latter suchan awkward customer, thathe turned to Walworth, say-ing, This is within thy juris-diction, Walworth, executethou justice on this rebel. Whereupon Walworthfetched Tyler such a crackon the skull, that Wat wasdone for before he could askwhat it was for. The king, in considerationof this service, made Wal-worth a knight, and the Fishmongers had
. Punch . he ticket-porters, while the king treatedwith some of the insurgents atMile End, so that it appearshis Majesty was within a six-penny omnibus fare of themetropolis. The king having come up toSmithfield to parley with WatTyler, found the latter suchan awkward customer, thathe turned to Walworth, say-ing, This is within thy juris-diction, Walworth, executethou justice on this rebel. Whereupon Walworthfetched Tyler such a crackon the skull, that Wat wasdone for before he could askwhat it was for. The king, in considerationof this service, made Wal-worth a knight, and the Fishmongers had placed in their Hall a woodenstatue of him—wood being then, as it is now, a suitable material forrepresenting mayoral dignity. Sir William Walworth died in 1381, his mayoralty and himselfhaving both expired at about the same period. He used to live inCrooked Lane, so that a Lord Mayors getting out of the straightforwardpath is nothing new, the custom being as old as Walworth, and asmodern as— liabilities of an Editor. Lord Denman has laid down the law recently, that an Editor has noright to insert any paragraph befora ho has ascertained that the asser-tion made in it is absolutely true. So then, in the case of the late dis-coveries made by the Earl of Rosses Telescope, an Editor ought tohave proceeded to the different planets mentioned before he inserted anystatement respecting them. According to Lord Denman, The Man inthe Moon and Orion would both recover swinging damages from almostevery Editor in the United Kingdom for the reflections cast by the Earlstelescope on their characters as planets.
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