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Though it was still a functioning church, St. Paul’s was also a centre of trade and socializing for early modern Londoners. This phenomenon, known as Paul’s-walking
, made Paul’s the centre for the dissemination of news, true or false, in early modern London.
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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
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It was the fashion of those times, and did so continue till these
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. 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