[176] “In London at fifty pounds, and in the Exchequer at forty-nine pounds ten shillings.”--_1st edition_, p. 169. [177] “The king’s sons beaten to Eastcheape; there was no tavern then in Eastcheape.”--_Stow._ [178] “In Westcheape linen cloth sold, but no silks spoken of.”--_Stow._ [179] “Fripparia, upholders upon Cornhill, sellers of old apparel and household stuff in Eastcheape.”--_Stow._ The following is the stanza alluded to by Stow (see Lydgate’s _Minor Poems_). “Then into Corn hyl anon I rode, Where was much stolen gere amonge; I saw where honge myne owne hoode, That I had lost amonge the thronge: To by my own hoode I thought it wronge; I knew it well as I did my crede, But for lack of money I could not spede.” [180] “Wike is a working place.”--_Stow._ [181] “In Smithfield, and there to have been knighted by the king, but that is not true.”--_1st edition_, p. 172. [182] “Fable of William Walworth and Jack Straw reproved. Praise of W. Walworth for his manhood in arresting of Wat Tyler. The mayor was well armed, and had on his head a basonet.”--_Stow._ [183] Dunthorne. [184] “The armies of this citty were not altered, but remayne as afore; to witte, argent, a playne crosse gules, a sword of S. Paul in the first quarter, and no dagger of W. Walworth, as is fabuled.”--_Stow._ WALBROOK WARD Walbrook ward beginneth at the west end of Candlewick street ward. It runneth down Candlewick street west towards Budge row. It hath on the north side thereof St. Swithen’s lane, so called of St. Swithen, a parish church by London stone. This lane is replenished on both the sides with fair built houses, and is wholly of Walbrook ward. The said parish church of St. Swithen standeth at the south-west corner of this lane. License was procured to new build and increase the said church and steeple in the year 1420. Sir John Hend, draper, mayor, was an especial benefactor thereunto, as appeareth by his arms in the glass windows, even in the tops of them, which is in a field silver, a chief azure, a lion passant silver, a cheveron azure, three escalops silver: he lieth buried in the body of this church, with a fair stone laid on him, but the plates and inscriptions are defaced. Roger Depham, alderman, Thomas Aylesbourgh, William Neve, and Matilda Caxton, founded chantries, and were buried there; John Butler, draper, one of the sheriffs, 1420; Ralph Jecoline, mayor, a benefactor, buried in a fair tomb; William White, draper, one of the sheriffs, 1482, and other.