“The English in general are cheerful and great lovers of music, for there is no church, however small, but has musical service performed in it. They are likewise great drunkards; for if an Englishman would treat you, he will say in his language, _yis dring a quarta rim gasquim cim hespaignol, oim malvoysi_; that is, will you drink a quart of Gascoigne wine, another of Spanish, and another Malmsy. In drinking or eating they will say to you above an hundred times, _drind iou_, which is, I am going to drink to you; and you should answer them in their language, _iplaigiu_, which means, I pledge you. If you would thank them in their language you must say, _god tanque artelay_, which is to say, I thank you with all my heart. When they are drunk, they will swear blood and death that you shall drink all that is in your cup, and will say thus to you, _bigod sol drind iou agoud oin_. Now remember, if you please, that in this land they commonly make use of silver vessels when they drink wine, and they will say to you at table, _goud chere_, which is good cheer. The servants wait on their master bareheaded, and leave their caps on the buffet. It is to be noted, that in this excellent kingdom there is, as I have said, no kind of order; the people are reprobates, and thorough enemies to good manners and letters, for they don’t know whether they belong to God or the Devil, which St. Paul had reprehended in so many people, saying, be not transported with divers sorts of winds, but be constant and steady to your belief. [Illustration: REFERENCES. _1. The first S^T. GILES CHURCH._ _2. Remains of the Walls, antiently enclosing the Hospital precincts._ _3. Site of the Gallows and afterwards of the Pound._ _4. Way to Uxbridge. now OXFORD S^T._ _5._ ELDE-STRATE, _since called HOG-LANE_. _6._ LE-LANE _now MONMOUTH S^T._ _7. Site of the_ SEVEN DIALS _formerly called COCK and PYE FIELDS_. _8._ ELM CLOSE _since called LONG-ACRE_. _9. Site of_ LINCOLNS INN FIELDS _formerly called FICKETS-FIELDS_. A VIEW _of part of the Northwest Suburbs_ OF LONDON, _as they appeared, anno 1570. Including the whole of the parish of S^T. GILES in the FIELDS and its immediate Neighbourhood, its_ PAROCHIAL CHURCHES, _erected at different periods &c._ THE PARISH OF S^t. Giles in the Fields, LONDON.