Scarce were the Pageants over, and Master _Hewet_, that is to say Sir _William_, set to his daily and hard Work—(for a Lord Mayor, _Hew_, hath no lazy Time on't! He presides at the Sittings of the Court of Aldermen, Common Council, and Common Hall, is Judge of the _London_ Sessions at _Guildhall_, Justice of the Peace for _Southwark_, Escheator in _London_ and _Southwark_, Conservator of the _Thames_, signs notarial Documents, presides at Public Meetings, founds Charities, is Trustee for Hospitals, attends the Privy Council on the Accession of Sovereigns, and—not to weary thee with the hearing of what I've had the doing,—sits daily in his own Justice Room by the Space of four or five Hours). Well, but, to begin a new Parenthesis, have we not had some fine Fellows among us? Look at _Fitz-Alwin_ resisting one Sovereign, _Walworth_ defending another, _Picard_ feasting four Kings at his Table, _Philpot_ raising a thousand Men at his private Charges to put down Pirates, _Bamne_ relieving a great Dearth by importing foreign Corn, _Falconer_ supplying _Henry_ the _Fifth_ with the Wherewithal for his _French_ Wars, _Whittington_ founding Divinity Lectures and building _Newgate_, _Wells_ supplying the City with fresh Water, _Eyre_ building _Leadenhall_ for a Public Garner, and bestowing five thousand Marks on the Poor, _Stockton_ knighted on the Field by his King for good Service in Battle, _Fabian_ compiling Chronicles, _White_ founding a College, and defending our Bridge; and, not to be farther tedious unto thee, Sir _William Hewet_, the Benefactor of every Hospital, and of the Poor of every Parish, besides bequeathing a Dowry to every poor Maid in the Parish of _Wales_ or _Hartshill_ in _Yorkshire_ that should marry within a Year of his Decease. These Men, _Hew_, were Worthies in their Generation! And if Master _Hewet_ had a hard Shrievalty, he had a joyous Mayoralty, under the early Rays of that fostering Sun, our glorious Sovereign Lady _Elizabeth_! There is great Peace in the Land. I say not we are better than we were, but we are happier and more prosperous. Sometimes I think those Days of Trial did us good: they tried us even as Silver is tried; the baser Metal perished. Let us not settle on the Lees, lest a worse Thing come upon us. Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. Edinburgh & London Works by the Author of "Mary Powell" _In crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, illustrated by_ JOHN JELLICOE _and_ HERBERT RAILTON, _price 6s. each_. 1. The Household of Sir Thos. More. 2. Cherry & Violet: A Tale of the Great Plague. 3. The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mrs. Milton; with the Sequel thereto, Deborah's Diary. 4. The Old Chelsea Bun-Shop: A Tale of the Last Century. 5. The Colloquies of Edward Osborne, Citizen and Clothworker of London. _The many other interesting works of this author will be published from time to time uniformly with the above._ _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_