"Yclose by _Aldersgate_ there dwelleth one Wights clypen _Robert Moth_; now _Aldersgate_ Is hotten so from one that _Aldrich_ hight; Or else of Elders, that is, ancient men; Or else of Aldern trees which growden there; Or else, as Heralds say, from _Aluredus_." [329] Inns were not so plentiful at this time as they afterward became. Perhaps the establishment here referred to was the celebrated _Bell_ Inn, which was still standing in the time of James the First, and which is mentioned by Taylor the Water-Poet in his _Penniless Pilgrimage_, 1618 (_Works_, 1630, i. 122):-- "At last I took my latest leave, thus late At the Bell Inn, that's _extra_ Aldersgate." [330] _i.e._ it were a charity to thruste, &c. The original and Singer have, "it were almes _it_ thruste." [331] In the original this is printed as prose, perhaps to economize space. _Array_, or _araye_, as it is here spelled, signifies obviously disturbance or clamour. So in the _History of King Arthur_, 1634, Part iii. cap. 134:--"So in this rumour came in Sir Launcelot, and found them all at a great aray;" and the next chapter commences with, "Aha! what aray is this? said Sir Launcelot." + _How the image of the dyuell was lost and sought._ cxxxiiii. + In the Goldesmithes hall, amonge theyr other plate, they had a fair standyng cuppe, with an image of S. Dunstane on the couer, whiche image hadde an image of the dyuell at his foote.[332] So it chaunced at a banket that the sayed image of the dyuell was lost and gone. On the morow after, the bedyll of the company was sent about to serche amonge the goldesmythes, if any suche came to be sold. And lyke as of other[333] he enquired of one, if any man had brought to hym to be solde the foole that sate at sainct Dunstanes foote vpon the couer of the cuppe? What foole meane you? quoth he. Mary, the diuell, sayde the bedill. Why, quoth the other, call ye the diuell a foole; ye shal find him a shrewd foole, if ye haue ought to do with hym? And why seke you for him here amonge vs? Where shoulde I els seke for hym? (sayde the bedill). Mary in hell, quoth he, for there ye shall be sure to fynde the dyuell. FOOTNOTES: [332] Probably the cup bequeathed by Sir Martin Bowes to the Goldsmiths' Company, and still preserved, is here meant. See Cunningham's _Handbook of London_, art. _Goldsmiths' Hall_, and for some account of the Bowes family, which intermarried with that of D'Ewes, see _Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes_, ii. 17, 18. It seems to have been a rather common practice formerly to engrave figures of Saints, representations of the Passion, &c. on the bottom of drinking cups.--See Rowlands' _Knave of Clubbs_, 1600. (Percy Soc. repr. p. 64.) [333] In the same manner that he inquired of others, &c. + _Of Tachas, kyng of Aegypt, and Agesilaus._ cxxxv.