ridiculous a matter it is, I will leave to themselves to thinke on." And that the fashion prevailed some years after Mrs Turner's death may be proved from Sir Simon D'Ewes's relation of the procession of King James from Whitehall to the Parliament House, Westminster, 30th January 1620 [_i.e._, 1621]: "In the king's short progresse from Whitehall to Westminster, these passages following were accounted somewhat remarkable--And fourthlie, that, looking upp to one window, as he passed, full of gentlewomen or ladies, all in _yellow bandes_, he cried out aloud, 'A pox take yee, are yee ther?' at which, being much ashamed, they all withdrew themselves suddenlie from the window." [275] When the king visited the different parts of the country. When the court made those excursions, which were called Progresses, to the seats of the nobility and gentry, waggons and other carriages were impressed for the purpose of conveying the king's baggage, &c.--_Pegge._ This privilege in the crown was continued until the civil wars in the reign of Charles the First, and had been exercised in a manner very oppressive to the subject, insomuch that it frequently became the object of Parliamentary complaint and regulation. During the suspension of monarchy it fell into disuse, and King Charles II at the Restoration consented, for a consideration, to relinquish this as well as all other powers of purveyance and pre-emption. Accordingly, by stat. 12, Car. II. c. xxiv. s. 12, it was declared that no officer should in future take any cart, carriage, or other thing, nor summon or require any person to furnish any horses, oxen, or other cattle, carts, ploughs, wains, or other carriages, for any of the royal family, without the full consent of the owner. An alteration of this act was made the next year, wherein the rates were fixed which should be paid on these occasions, and other regulations were made for preventing the abuse of this prerogative. [276] A burlesque on the speech of Hieronimo in "The Spanish Tragedy." See also note to "Green's Tu quoque," and the addition to it [xi. 248.] [277] _i.e._, Towards bedtime. So in "Coriolanus"-- "And tapers burn'd to _bedward_." --_Steevens._ [278] Pounded. See note to "The Ordinary," act v. sc. 4, [vol. xii.] [279] [Edits., _appear speck and span gentlemen_.] _Speck and span new_ is a phrase not yet out of use; _span new_ occurs in Chaucer's "Troilus and Creseide," bk. iii. l. 1671-- "This tale was aie _span newe_ to beginne, Til that the night departed 'hem at winne."