Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. — John Shaqi
Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Malcolm, James Peller
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
in the City would fly from it with indignation; and yet with all our
modern mildness the faith in question gains no proselytes:--a memorable
_memento_ of the liberality of the age[15:A]!
"Upon the 17th of November the bells began to ring about
three o'clock in the morning in the City of London; and
several _honourable_ and _worthy_ gentlemen belonging to the
Temple as well as the City, (remembering the burning both
of London and the Temple, which was apparently executed by
Popish villainy[16:A]) were pleased to be at the charge of
an extraordinary triumph, in commemoration of that blessed
Protestant Queen, which was as follows: In the evening of the
said day, all things being prepared, the _solemn_ procession
began from Moorgate, and so to Bishopsgate-street, and down
Hounsditch to Aldgate, through Leadenhall-street, Cornhill,
by the Royal Exchange, through Cheapside, to Temple-bar, in
order following.
1st. Marched six whifflers, in pioneers' caps and
red waistcoats.
2. A bellman, ringing his bell, and with a
_dolesome_ voice crying all the way "Remember
Justice Godfrey."
3. A _dead body_, representing Justice Godfrey in
the habit he usually wore, and the cravat wherewith
he was murdered about his neck, _with spots of
blood_ on his wrists, breast, and shirt, and white
gloves on his hands, his face pale and wan, riding
upon a white horse, and one of his murderers behind
him to keep him from falling, in the same manner as
he was carried to Primrose-hill.
4. A Priest came next, in a surplice and a cope
embroidered _with dead men's sculls_ and bones and
_skeletons_, who gave out pardons very plentifully
to all that would murder Protestants, and
proclaiming it meritorious.
5. A Priest alone, with a large silver cross.
6. Four Carmelite Friars, in white and black habits.
7. Four Grey Friars, in their proper habits.
8. Six Jesuits, carrying _bloody daggers_.
9. Four wind-musick, called the waits, playing all
the way.
10. Four Bishops, in purple, with _lawn_ sleeves,
and golden crosses on their breasts, and crosiers
in their hands.
11. Four other Bishops, in their _pontificalibus_,
with _surplices_ and rich-embroidered copes, and
golden mitres on their heads.
12. Six Cardinals, in scarlet robes and caps.
13. Then followed the Pope's chief Physician, with
Jesuits powder in one hand and an _urinal_ in the
other.
14. Two Priests in surplices, with two golden
crosses.
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