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St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
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This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed That it may be this day read over in Paul’s. And mark how well the sequel hangs together[.]
Though it was still a functioning church, St. Paul’s was
also a centre of trade and socializing for early modern Londoners. Paul’s-walking
:
It was the fashion of those times, and did so continue till thesefor the principal gentry, lords, courtiers, and men of all professions not merely mechanic, to meet in Paul’s Church by eleven and walk in the middle aisle till twelve, and after dinner from three to six, during which times some discoursed on business, others of news. Now in regard of the universal commerce there happened little that did not first or last arrive here And those news-mongers, as they called them, did not only take the boldness to weigh the public but most intrinsic actions of the state, which some courtier or other did betray to this society.
This is the atmosphere in which
Paul’s-walkingtaking in the hot gossip of the day, which was, thankfully, preserved for us in his letters.
The din and clamor of Paul’s secular uses was a serious
annoyance to those who still wanted to use the church as a
church.Pilkington
gives a testimony of the state of Paul’s in 1561, with a
perspective less tolerant than
the south alley for usury and poperey, the north for sorcery, and the horse fair in the midst for all kinds of bargains, meetings, brawlings, murders, conspiracies, and the font for ordinary payments of money, are so well known to all men as the beggar knows his dish.
We must take such an account with a grain of salt, but
there is an essential truth conveyed in it; the combination of sacred and secular at St. Paul’s was a marriage made in hell. In the time of
For better or for worse, Paul’s was the centre for the
dissemination of news, true or false, in early modern London. In all likelihood, its vast
throngs of tradespeople and gossipers grossly outnumbered its parishioners on any given
day. truth
was Paul’s. An inveterate
gossip like
See also: Gossip and Gossips; St. Paul’s Cathedral.