. London . - room ; the house is warmed with fires ; the sideboardsare loaded with plate or are bright with Murano glass. Thereare coffers of ivory and wood to hold the good mans treasure ;and in an upper chamber you shall see hanging up the cloaksand doublets, the gowns and petticoats, of this worthy andworshipful merchant and his family, in silk and velvet, preciousand costly. Fifty years ago there would have been none ofthese things, but trcen platters ; of arras none ; and but onepoor silver mazer for all his plate. Hut we are not ashamedto see the tenements of the craftsmen side by side w
. London . - room ; the house is warmed with fires ; the sideboardsare loaded with plate or are bright with Murano glass. Thereare coffers of ivory and wood to hold the good mans treasure ;and in an upper chamber you shall see hanging up the cloaksand doublets, the gowns and petticoats, of this worthy andworshipful merchant and his family, in silk and velvet, preciousand costly. Fifty years ago there would have been none ofthese things, but trcen platters ; of arras none ; and but onepoor silver mazer for all his plate. Hut we are not ashamedto see the tenements of the craftsmen side by side with thegreat houses of the rich. For we are all brothers in this city ; TUDOR ?57 one family are we, rich and poor together; we are united inour companies and in our work ; our prentices are taughttheir trade ; to our maids we give marriage portions ; we. OLD FOUNTAIN INN IN THE MINOKIES Taken down in 1793 258 /.ON DON suffer no stranger among us ; our sick and aged arc kept fromwant and suffering. • But you have great Lords and noblemen among they are not of your family. • Sir, the time was when it was a happy circumstance forthe city to have the nobles within her walls. That time ispast. They are fast leaving our bounds. One or two aloneremain, and we shall not lament their departure. There isno longer any danger that the city will be separate in feelingfrom the country, and it is true that the rufflers who follow ina noble lords train are ever ready to turn a silly girls head orto lead a prentice into dissolute ways. In this street therewere once no fewer than three parish churches. Yonder ruinat the north end was St. Augustine on the Wall : here of oldtimes was the house of the old and sick priests, called thePapey. King Henry turned them out, and who took in thepoor old men I know not. Twas a troubled time. Yonder w
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