London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; London (England) -- Surveys
Thus much for the Tun in Cornhill have I read. Now for the punishments
of priests in my youth: one note and no more. John Atwod, draper,
dwelling in the parish of St. Michael upon Cornehill, directly against
the church, having a proper woman to his wife, such an one as seemed the
holiest among a thousand, had also a lusty chantry priest, of the said
parish church, repairing to his house; with the which priest the said
Atwod would sometimes after supper play a game at tables for a pint of
ale: it chanced on a time, having haste of work, and his game proving
long, he left his wife to play it out, and went down to his shop, but
returning to fetch a pressing iron, he found such play to his misliking,
that he forced the priest to jump out at a window over the penthouse
into the street, and so to run to his lodging in the churchyard. Atwod
and his wife were soon reconciled, so that he would not suffer her to
be called in question; but the priest being apprehended and committed,
I saw his punishment to be thus:--He was on three market days conveyed
through the high street and markets of the city with a paper on his
head, wherein was written his trespass. The first day he rode in a
carry, the second on a horse, his face to the horse tail, the third led
betwixt twain, and every day rung with basons, and proclamations made
of his fact at every turning of the street, as also before John Atwod’s
stall, and the church door of his service, where he lost his chantry of
twenty nobles the year, and was banished the city for ever.
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