They are the Registers and Chronicles of the Age they were made
in, and speak the truth of History better than a hundred of your printed
Commentaries.

I wonder, Sir, unless you were Time's Secretary, how you should
arrive to this intelligence.

THE ANTIQUARY, BY SHAKERLEY MARMION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1828.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

A.D. 1571 to A.D. 1689.

I. A.D. 1571. THE LAST TRIAL BY BATTLE: a Le-

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TALES OF AN ANTIQUARY.

THE LAST TRIAL BY BATTLE:

A LEGEND OF TOTHILL-FIELDS.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

Then hyed I me to Belynges Gate,

And one cryed "Hoo! go we hence;"

I pray'd a Bargeman for God's sake

That he would spare me mine expense:

"Thou step'st not here," quo' he, "under two-pence,

I lyst not yet bestow my almes dede,"

Thus lacking money I could not spede.

LYDGATE'S LONDON LYCKPENNY.

In turning over the story of Ancient London, it is particularly interesting to note the exaltation, decline, or fall of it's several districts;