The armourer's prentices

Charlotte Mary Yonge

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ARMOUKEK'S PRENTICES
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE,
" KNOWN TO HISTORY," ETC., ETCAUTHOR OF "the HEIR OF REDCLTFFE," ON
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
Uontion
AND CO.MACMILLAN
1884.
Translation and Reproduction is Reserved-Tlu Right o]:
IV.
LONDON
R. Cr,AY, Sons, and Taylor.
BBKAD BTUEEr HILI.PREFACE.
theI HAVE attempted here to sketch citizen life in
Surveyearly Tudor days, aided therein by Stowe's of
supplemented by Mr. Loftie's excellent history,London,
English Meixliants.and Dr. Burton's
ofStowe gives a full account of the relations
thatapprentices to their masters though I confess
;
could haveI do not know whether Edmund Burgess
apprentice-become a citizen of York after serving an
London. Evil May Day is closely describedship in
said to be byin Hall's Chronicle. The ballad,
Churchill, a contemporary, does not agree with it in
; but the story-teller may surely haveall respects
thelicense to follow whatever is most suitable to
purpose. The sermon is exactly as given by Hall, who
also responsible for the description of the King'sis
the Field of the Cloth of Gold and ofsports and ofPREFACE.
Ardres. Knight's admirable Pictorial History of
Barlow, the archer, dubbed byEngland tells of
Shoreditch.Henry VIII. the King of
Historic Winchester describes both St. Elizabeth
of Hyde Abbey. TheCollege and the Archer Monks
tales mentioned as told by Ambrose to Dennet are
really New Forest legends.
The Moresco's Arabic Gospel and Breviary are
mentioned in Lady Calcott's History Spain, butof
she does not give her authority. Nor can I go
.
further than Knight's Pictorial History for the King's
adventure in the marsh. He does not where itsay
"happened, but as in Stowe's map Dead Man's Hole"
appears in what is now Regent's Park, the marsh
was probably deep enough in places for the ad-
venture there. Brand's Popular Antiquities are the
authority for the nutting in St. John's Wood on
Holy Cross Day. Indeed, in some country parishes
have heard1 tliat boys still think they have a license
to crack nuts at church on the ensuing Sunday,
Seebohm's Oxford Puformcrs and the SirLife of
Thomas More, written by William Roper, are my other
authorities, though I touched somewhat unwillingly