[128] Historical and Topographical Account of the Parish of Fulham, 1813, p. 271. [129] Boswell’s Johnson, vol. iv. p. 60. [130] Hawkins’s Life of Dr Johnson, p. 433. [131] This corncutter was probably the antique statue of the boy picking a thorn out of his foot, and was usual with pedicures. See under the sign “Old pick my toe.” [132] Diary of the Rev. John Ward, M.A., 1648-1679. London, 1839. [133] Diary of Rev. John Ward, M.A., 1648-1679, p. 122. [134] Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Esq. By J. F. Kirkman. Vol. ii. p. 419. [135] “A dragon in the manner of a banner, of a certain red silk embroidered with gold; its tongue like a flaming fire must always seem to be moving; its eyes must be made of sapphire, or of some other stone suitable for that purpose.” [136] Peter Langtoffe’s Chronicle of Robert of Brunne, p. 217. [137] “The king’s place was between the Dragon and the standard.” [138] Caxton’s Chronicle at the end of Polychronicon, lib. ult. chap. vi. [139] Hist., lib. ix. cap. vi. [140] Nat. Hist., lib. viii. cap. ii. [141] Chronicle of the Grey Fryars, Camden Society, p. 19. [142] _Grub Street Journal_, Sept. 2, 1736. [143] Badges of Cognizance of Richard, Duke of York, written on a blank leaf at the beginning of Digby MS. 82. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Archæologia xvii. 1814. [144] The Cat, William Catesby; the Rat, Sir Richard Ratcliffe; Lovell our dog, Lord Lovel. [145] Sir Roger Twisden’s Commonplace Books, 1653, as quoted _in extenso_ in _Notes and Queries_, Aug. 8, 1857. Mr James Thompson, in his “History of Leicester,” informs us that one man was hanged and a woman burned for this crime, and not seven persons capitally executed, according to the popular tradition. [146] Harl. MS. 5910; of this printer Bagford says: “I do not find he prented many books, or at lest few of them have come to my hand.” [147] Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft, b. xii. ch. xviii. p. 268, 1584. [148] Archæologia. vol. xxix. 1840. [149] Aubrey, iii. 438. [150] Owen Glendower also bore a lion rampant sable, “the black lion of Powyss;” his arms were Paly of eight, arg. and gules, over all a lion sable. The black lion was the royal ensign of his father Madoc ap Meredith, last sovereign prince of Powyss; he died at Winchester in 1160. The black lion consequently might sometimes be set up by Welshmen. [151] _Daily Courant_, January 1, 1711. [152] “And observe that such a white feather was borne on his crest by Edward the eldest son of K. Edward; and this feather he conquered from the King of Bohemia whom he killed at Cressy in France, and so he assumed the feather, called the ostrich feather, which that most noble king had formerly worn on his crest.”--_Sloane MSS._ No. 56. [153] Added to this were two vultures, sprinkled all over with finely-gilt linden leaves. Therefore I know this is King John of Bohemia. [154] See the engraving in Pennant’s History of London, vol. i. p. 100. [155] Lyson’s Berkshire, vol. i. p. 442.