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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Whitney, Isabella ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - The Will and Testament of Isabella Whitney T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WILL10.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/WILL10.xml ER - Whitney, Isabella. The Will and Testament of Isabella Whitney. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WILL10.htm. Whitney, Isabella. The Will and Testament of Isabella Whitney. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/WILL10.htm. Whitney, I. 2022. The Will and Testament of Isabella Whitney. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/WILL10.htm. Lucas Simpson Lucas Simpson LS

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Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

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Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

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Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Stewart Arneil Stewart Arneil

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.

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 Richard Jones Richard Jones 1564/65-1613/14

Bookseller and printer. Not to be confused with Richard Jones.

BBTI ODNB Isabella Whitney Isabella Whitney 1566/67-1573/74

Poet. Daughter of Geoffrey Whitney. Sister of Geoffrey Whitney.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Worshipful Company of MercersMercers’ Company

The Mercers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Mercers were first in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Mercers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.mercers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Mercers’ Company, from Stow (1633).[Full size image]
Worshipful Company of GoldsmithsGoldsmiths’ Company

The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Goldsmiths were fifth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is still active and maintains a website at https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and explains the company’s role in the annual Trial of the Pyx.

The coat of arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of Merchant TaylorsMerchant Taylors’ Company

The Merchant Taylors’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. Since 1484, the Merchant Taylors and the Skinners have alternated precedence annually; the Merchant Taylors are now sixth in precedence in odd years and seventh in even years, changing precedence at Easter. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is still active and maintains a website at http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and a list of historical milestones.

The coat of arms of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of BakersBakers’ Company

The Bakers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Bakers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.bakers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

 Worshipful Company of BrewersBrewers’ Company

The Brewers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Brewers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.brewershall.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

 Worshipful Company of ButchersButchers’ Company

The Butchers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Butchers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.butchershall.com/ that includes a history of the company.

 Worshipful Company of PlaisterersPlaisterers’ Company

The Plaisterers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers is still active and maintains a website at https://plaistererslivery.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

 Early English Books Online–Text Creation PartnershipEEBO-TCP

The EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database. Website.

 Source: Whitney, Isabella. Sweet nosegay gathered in a philosophicall garden. Pleasant posye. London: Printed by R. Jones, 1573. STC 25440. London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.

(STPA2.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) Watling Street

Watling Street ran east-west between St. Sythes Lane in Cordwainer Street Ward and Old Change in Bread Street Ward. It is visible on the Agas map under the label Watlinge ſtreat.

Stow records that the street is also commonly known as Noble Street (Stow 1598, sig. O4v). This should not lead to confusion with Noble Street in Aldersgate Ward. There is an etymological explanation for this crossover of names. According to Ekwall, the name Watling ultimately derives from an Old English word meaning king’s son (Ekwall 81-82). Watling Street remains distinct from the Noble Street in Aldersgate Ward.

(WATL1.xml) Candlewick Street

Candlewick, Candlewright, or, later, Cannon Street, ran east-west from Walbrook Street in the west to the beginning of Eastcheap at its eastern terminus. Candlewick Street became Eastcheap somewhere around St. Clements Lane, and led into a great meat market (Stow 1:217). Together with streets such as Budge Row, Watling Street, and Tower Street, which all joined into each other, Candlewick Street formed the main east-west road through London between Ludgate and Posterngate.

(CAND1.xml) Friday Street

Friday Street passed south through Bread Street Ward, beginning at the cross in Cheapside Street and ending at Old Fish Street. It was one of many streets that ran into Cheapside Street market whose name is believed to originate from the goods that were sold there.

(FRID1.xml) Cheap Ward

Cheap Ward is west of Bassinghall Ward and Coleman Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Cheapside, are named after West Cheap (the market).

(CHEA1.xml) Royal Exchange

Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in 1570 to make business more convenient for merchants and tradesmen (Harben 512). The construction of the Royal Exchange was largely funded by Sir Thomas Gresham (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 718).

(ROYA1.xml) Stocks Market

The Stocks Market was a significant market for fish and flesh in early modern London, located south of Poultry, north of Bucklersbury, and west of Walbrook Street in Cornhill Ward (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). The building of the Stocks Market was commissioned by Henry le Wales in 1283 and, according to the editors of The London Encyclopedia, is named after the the only fixed pair of stocks in the city (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt, and then replaced in 1739 by the Mansion House, which is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.

(STOC1.xml) Birchin Lane

Birchin Lane was a short street running north-south between Cornhill Street and Lombard Street. The north end of Birchin Lane lay in Cornhill Ward, and the south end in Langbourne Ward.

(BIRC1.xml) St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand)

St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand) ran north-south between St. Anne’s Lane and Cheapside Street and was located at the western edge of Aldersgate Ward. The street takes its name from the church of St. Martin’s le Grand located to the east of the street. This portion of the Agas map is labelled S. Martins referring to either or both the church and the street. This street is not to be confused with St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) or St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward).

(STMA158.xml) Bow Lane

Bow Lane ran north-south between Cheapside Street and Old Fish Street in the ward of Cordwainer Street. At Watling Street, it became Cordwainer Street, and at Old Fish Street it became Garlick Hill. Garlick Hill-Bow Lane was built in the 890s to provide access from the port of Queenhithe to the great market of Cheapside Street (Sheppard 70–71).

(BOWL1.xml) Temple Bar

Temple Bar was one of the principle entrances to the city of London, dividing the Strand to the west and Fleet Street to the east. It was an ancient right of way and toll gate. Walter Thornbury dates the wooden gate structure shown in the Agas Map to the early Tudor period, and describes a number of historical pageants that processed through it, including the funeral procession of Henry V, and it was the scene of King James I’s first entry to the city (Thornbury 1878). The wooden structure was demolished in 1670 and a stone gate built in its place (Sugden 505).

(TEMP1.xml) Tower Hill

Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution; there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hill for the execution of such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of London (Stow).

(TOWE1.xml) Fleet Street

Fleet Street runs east-west from Temple Bar to Fleet Hill or Ludgate Hill, and is named for the Fleet River. The road has existed since at least the twelfth century (Sugden 195) and known since the fourteenth century as Fleet Street (Beresford 26). It was the location of numerous taverns including the Mitre and the Star and the Ram.

(FLEE6.xml) The Steelyard

The Steelyard was the chief outpost of the Hanseatic League in the city of London. Located on the north side of the River Thames, slightly west of London Bridge, the Steelyard was home to many wealthy German merchants from the thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century. Although it was a powerful economic force in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, by the time of Elizabeth’s reign, piracy and economic sanctions had rendered the once great Steelyard obsolete (Lloyd 344-345).

(STEE2.xml) Wood Street Counter Information is not yet available. (COUN1.xml) Southwark Counter Information is not yet available. (SOUT4.xml) Newgate

The gaol at Newgate, a western gate in the Roman Wall of London, was constructed in the twelfth century specifically to detain fellons and trespassors awaiting trial by royal judges (Durston 470; O’Donnell 25; Stow 1598, sig. C8r). The gradual centralisation of the English criminal justice system meant that by the reign of Elizabeth I, Newgate had become London’s most populated gaol. In the early modern period, incarceration was rarely conceived of as a punishment in itself; rather, gaols like Newgate were more like holding cells, where inmates spent time until their trials or punishments were effected, or their debts were paid off.

(NEWG1.xml) Holborn Hill Information is not yet available. (HOLB5.xml) Fleet Prison Information is not yet available. (FLEE4.xml) Ludgate

Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Ludgate was a gate built by the Romans (Carlin and Belcher 80). Stow asserts that Ludgate was constructed by King Lud who named the gate after himself for his owne honor (Stow 1:1).

(LUDG1.xml) Smithfield

Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).

(SMIT1.xml) Bethlehem Hospital

Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Stow tells us, Saint Mary of Bethlehem began as a Priorie of Cannons with brethren and sisters, founded in 1247 by Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffes of London (Stow 1:164). We know from Stow’s Survey that the hospital, part of Bishopsgate ward (without), resided on the west side of Bishopsgate Street, just north of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate (Stow 1:165).

(BETH1.xml) Bridewell

Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the City of London in 1553, when it was converted to function as an orphanage and house of correction. Bridewell is located on the Agas map at the corner of the Thames and Fleet Ditch, labelled as Bride Well.

(BRID2.xml) The Inns of Court

The four principal constituents of the Inns of Court were: Gray’s Inn Inner Temple Lincoln’s Inn Middle Temple

(INNS1.xml)

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The Aucthour (though loth to leaue the Citie) vpon her Friendes procurement, is constrained to departe: wherfore (she fayneth as she would die) and maketh her VVYLL and Testament, as foloweth: VVith large Legacies of such Goods and riches which she moste aboundantly hath left behind her: and therof maketh LONdon sole executor to se her Legacies performed.

ℂ A comunication which the Auctor had to London, before she made her VVyll.

THe time is come I must departe, from thee ah famous Citie: I neuer yet to rue my smart,I.e., rue my smart = ease my pain. did finde that thou hadst pitie, Wherefore small cause ther is, y͑ I should greeue from thee go: But many Women foolyshly, lyke me, and other moe, Doe such a fyxed fancy set, on those which least desarue, That long it is ere wit we get, away from them to swarue,I.e., swarue = swerve (i.e., go). But tyme with pittie oft wyl tel to those that wil her try: Whether it best be more to mell,I.e., mell = literally, to meddle, but meaning to have dealings with. The speaker says that Time will tell those who wait whether it’s better to continue to stay with an undeserving lover or to renounce one’s faith in them. See OED mell v.1, meaning I.a.a and OED defy v.1, meaning 1.a. or vtterly defye. And now hath time me put ĩ mind, of thy great cruelnes: That neuer once a help wold finde, to ease me in distres. Thou neuer yet, woldst credit geue to boord me for a yeare: Nor with Apparell me releue except thou payed weare. No, no, thou neuer didst me good, nor euer wilt I know: Yet am I in no angry moode, but wyll, or ere I goe In perfect loue and charytie, my Testament here write: And leaue to thee such Treasurye, as I in it recyte. Now stand a side and geue me leaue to write my latest Wyll: And see that none you do deceaue, of that I leaue them tyl.
The maner of her Wyll, & what she left to London: and to all those in it: at her departing. I Whole in body, and in minde, but very weake in Purse: Doo make, and write my Testament for feare it wyll be wurse. And fyrst I wholy doo commend, my Soule and Body eke: To God the Father and the Son, so long as I can speake. And after speach: my Soule to hym, and Body to the Graue: Tyll time that all shall rise agayne, their Judgement for to haue. And then I hope they both shal méete, to dwell for aye in ioye: Whereas I trust to see my Friends releast, from all annoy. Thus haue you heard touching my soule, and body what I meane: I trust you all wyll witnes beare, I haue a stedfast brayne. ℂ And now let mée dispose such things, as I shal leaue behinde: That those which shall receaue the same, may know my wylling minde. I firste of all to London leaue because I there was bred: Braue buildyngs rare, of ChurchesFor a list of churches in early modern London, see Churches in the Placeography. store, and Pauls to the head. Betweene the same: fayre streatsFor a list of streets in early modern London, see Streets in the Placeography. there bée, and people goodly store: Because their keeping craueth cost, I yet wil leaue him more. First for their foode, I Butchers leaue, that euery day shall kyll: By Thames you shal haue Brewers store, and Bakers at your wyll. And such as orders doo obserue, and eat fish thrice a weeke: I leaue two Stréets, full fraught therwith, they neede not farre to seeke. Watlyng Stréete, and Canwyck stréete, I full of Wollen leaue: And Linnen store in Friday stréete, if they mée not deceaue. And those which are of callyng such, that costlier they require: I Mercers leaue, with silke so rich, as any would desyre. In Cheape of them, they store shal finde and likewise in that streete: I Goldsmithes leaue, with Iuels such, as are for Ladies méete. And Plate to furnysh Cubbards with, full braue there shall you finde: With Purle of Siluer and of Golde, to satisfye your minde. With Hoods, Bungraces, Hats or Caps, such store are in that streete: As if on ton side you should misse the tother serues you forte, For Nets of euery kynd of sort, I leaue within the pawne:I.e., Royal Exchange. French Ruffes, high Purles, Gorgets and (Sléeues of any kind of Lawne. For Purse or Kniues, for Combe or Glasse, or any néedeful knacke I by the Stoks haue left a Boy, wil aske you what you lack. I Hose doo leaue in Birchin Lane, of any kynd of syse: For Women stitchte, for men both Trunks and those of Gascoyne gise. Bootes, Shoes or Pantables good store, Saint Martins hath for you: In Cornwall, there I leaue you Beds, and all that longe thereto. For Women shall you Taylors haue, by Bow, the chiefest dwel: In euery Lane you some shall finde, can doo indifferent well. And for the men, few Stréetes or Lanes, but Bodymakers bee: And such as make the swéeping Cloakes, with Gardes beneth the Knée. Artyllery at Temple Bar, and Dagges at Tower hyll: Swords and Bucklers of the best, are nye the Fleete vntyll. Now when thy Folke are fed and clad with such as I haue namde: For daynty mouthes, and stomacks weake some Iunckets must be framde. Wherfore I Poticaries leaue, with Banquets in their Shop: Phisicians also for the sicke, Diseases for to stop, Some Roysters styll, must bide in thée, and such as cut it out: That with the guiltlesse quarel wyl, to let their blood about. For them I cunning Surgions leaue, some Playsters to apply. That Ruffians may not styll be hangde, nor quiet persons dye. For Salt, Otemeale, Candles, Sope, or what you els doo want: In many places, Shops are full, I left you nothing scant. Yf they that kéepe what I you leaue, aske Mony: when they sell it: At Mint, there is such store, it is vnpossible to tell it. At Stiliarde store of Wines there bée, your dulled mindes to glad: And handsome men, that must not wed except they leaue their trade. They oft shal séeke for proper Gyrles, and some perhaps shall fynde: (That neede compels, or lucre lures to satisfye their mind. And neare the same, I houses leaue, for people to repayre: To bathe themselues, so to preuent infection of the ayre. On Saturdayes I wish that those, which all the wéeke doo drug: Shall thyther trudge, to trim them vp on Sondayes to looke smug. Yf any other thing be lackt in thée, I wysh them looke: For there it is: I little brought but nothyng from thée tooke. Now for the people in thee left, I haue done as I may: And that the poore, when I am gone, haue cause for me to pray. I wyll to prisons portions leaue, what though but very small: Yet that they may remember me, occasion be it shall: And fyrst the CounterPossibly the Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter. they shal haue, least they should go to wrack: Some Coggers and some honest men, that Sergantes draw a back. And such as Friends wyl not them bayle, whose coyne is very thin: For them I leaue a certayne hole, and little ease within. The Newgate, once a Monthe shal haue a sessions for his share: Least being heapt, Infection might procure a further care. And at those sessions some shal skape, with burning nere the Thumb: And afterward to beg their fées tyll they haue got the some. And such whose deedes deserueth death, and twelue haue found the same: They shall be drawne vp Holborne hill, to come to further shame: Well, yet to such I leaue a Nag shal soone their sorowes cease: For he shal either breake their necks or gallop from the preace. The Fléete, not in their circuit is, yet If I geue him nought: It might procure his curse, ere I vnto the ground be brought. Wherfore I leaue some Papist olde to vnder prop his roofe: And to the poore within the same, a Bore for their behoofe. What makes you standers by to smile. and laugh so in your sléeue: I thinke it is, because that I to Ludgate nothing geue. I am not now in case to lye, here is no place of iest: I dyd reserue, that for my selfe, yf I my health possest. And euer came in credit so a debtor for to bée. When dayes of paiment did approch, I thither ment to flée. To shroude my selfe amongst the rest, that chuse to dye in debt: Rather then any Creditor, should money from them get. Yet cause I féele my selfe so weake that none mée credit dare: I héere reuoke: and doo it leaue, some Banckrupts to his share. To all the Bookebinders by Paulles because I lyke their Arte: They ery weeke shal mony haue, when they from Bookes departe. Amongst them all, my Printer must, haue somwhat to his share: I wyll my Friends these Bookes to bye of him, with other ware. For Maydens poore, & Widdoers ritch, do leaue, that oft shall dote: And by that meanes shal mary them, to set the Girles aflote. And wealthy Widdowes wil I leaue, to help yong Gentylmen: Which when you haue, in any case be courteous to them then: And sée their Plate and Iewells eake may not be mard with rust. Nor let their Bags too long be full, for feare that they doo burst. To ery Gate vnder the walles, that compas thée about: I Fruit wiues leaue to entertayne such as come in and out. To Smithfeelde I must something leaue my Parents there did dwell: So carelesse for to be of it, none wolde accompt it well. Wherfore it thrice a wéeke shall haue, of Horse and neat good store. And in his Spitle, blynd and lame, to dwell for euermore. And Bedlem must not be forgot, for that was oft my walke: I people there too many leaue, that out of tune doo talke. At Bridewel there shal Bedelles be, and Matrones that shal styll See Chalke wel chopt, and spinning plyde; aud turning of the Mill. For such as cannot quiet bee, but striue for House or Land: At Th’innes of Court, I Lawyers leaue to take their cause in hand. And also leaue I at ech Inne of Court, or Chauncerye: Of Gentylmen, a youthfull roote, full of Actiuytie: For whom I store of Bookes haue left, at each Bookebinders stall: And parte of all that London hath to furnish them withall. And when they are with study cloyd: to recreate theyr minde: Of Tennis Courts, of dauncing Scooles, and fence they store shal finde. And euery Sonday at the least, I leaue to make them sport. In diuers places Players, that of wonders shall reporte. Now London haue I (for thy sake) within thee, and without: As coms into my memory, dispearsed round about Such néedfull thinges, as they should haué héere left now vnto thée: When I am gon, with consience. let them dispearced bee. And though I nothing named haue, to bury mee withall: Consider that aboue the ground, annoyance bee I shall. And let me haue a shrowding Shéete to couer mee from shame: And in obliuyon bury mee and neuer more mee name. Ringings nor other Ceremonies, vse you not for cost: Nor at my buriall, make no feast, your mony were but lost. Reioyce in God that I am gon, out of this vale so vile. And that of ech thing, left such store, as may your wants exile. I make thee sole executor, because I lou’de thée best. And thée I put in trust, to geue the goodes vnto the rest. Because thou shalt a helper neede, In this so great a chardge, I wysh good Fortune, be thy guide, least thou shouldst run at lardge. The happy dayes and quiet times, they both her Seruants bee. Which well wyll serue to fetch and bring, such things as néede to thee. ℂ Wherfore (good London) not refuse, for helper her to take: Thus being weake and wery bōth an end héere wyll I make. To all that aske what end I made, and how I went away: Thou answer maist: like those which heere, no longer tary may. And vnto all that wysh mee well, or rue that I am gon: Doo me comend, and bid them cease my absence for to mone. And tell them further, if they wolde, my presence styll haue had: They should haue sought to mend my luck; which euer was too bad. So fare thou well a thousand times, God shéelde thee from thy foe: And styll make thée victorious, of those that séeke thy woe. And (though I am perswade) that I shall neuer more thée see: Yet to the last, I shal not cease to wish much good to thee. This, xx. of October I, in ANNO DOMINI: A Thousand: v. hundred seuenty three as Alminacks descry. Did write this Wyll with mine owne hand and it to London gaue: In witnes of the standers by, whose names yf you wyll haue. Paper, Pen and Standish were: at that same present by: With Time, who promised to reueale, so fast as she could hye The same: least of my nearer kyn, fōr any thing should vary: So finally I make an end no longer can I tary. ¶ FINIS. by IS. VV.