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A New History of London
… get drunk for a penny, dead drunk for two-pence, and have straw for nothing. Accordingly cellars with straw were provided, for the repose of those who took the …
A New History of London
… houses should be covered with slates or tiles, instead of straw, more especially those that stood close together; and …
A New History of London
… the poor knew little of. When Edward himself lay upon straw 13, the husbandman could hardly be supposed to thresh …
A New History of London
… under leaders who assumed the names of Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, Hob Carter, and Tom Miller, as glorying in their low … happened in England, or perhaps in any other kingdom: Jack Straw was condemned and executed soon after; and the …
A New History of London
… hemp, flax, tallow, pitch, tar, turpentine, hay, straw, fodder of all kinds, and corn unthrashed. To this …
A New History of London
… the patient is found capable of using one; or with clean straw every day when the patient is mischievous. The …
A New History of London
… of the twelfth century. It is also a market for hay and straw. The name is thought to be derived from its being a …
A New History of London
… ready money, jewels, plate, pictures, gunpowder, hay, straw, and corn unthrashed: and for assurance of lives. This …
A New History of London
… the name of the Haymarket, as being a market for hay and straw, every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. On the west side …
A New History of London
… that the rebels of Kent and Essex under Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, anno 1381, consumed this stately edifice by fire. …