This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...and became a proverb for a riotous assemblage. Instead of roundabout phrases about "hubbub and confusion," men said of any great tumult, "It's as bad as Moorfields." Thus a royalist writer, speaking of the Parliament, in King Charles I.'s time, says, "By the noise they made at every factious resolve, you would ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...and became a proverb for a riotous assemblage. Instead of roundabout phrases about "hubbub and confusion," men said of any great tumult, "It's as bad as Moorfields." Thus a royalist writer, speaking of the Parliament, in King Charles I.'s time, says, "By the noise they made at every factious resolve, you would take it to be a Moorfields tumult at a wrestling, rather than a sober council at a debate."1 Not that the assemblies gathered here were at all times drawn together to look at a wrestling. The fields were the meeting ground of the apprentices, the place where workmen met to discuss the fall of wages and the rise in price in the necessaries of life, the spot used for political gatherings of all kinds when folk-motes had ceased, and discontent or patriotism could find no sufficient outlet in the Cemmon Hall.2 8 Chamberlain--The Hew State of England, 1693; also, Stow's Chronicle, p. 302. A more motley assemblage, indeed, than that which thronged Moorfields can hardly be imagined. The small pent-house shops which soon after 1600 began to spring up on the outskirts of the Moor, were tenanted by botchers, 8 as they were called: jobbing tailors, and renovators of old clothes, always ready to leave their shop boards and to join in the scuffles which went on before their doors. Under trees planted across the lower part of the Moor were stalls of second-hand booksellers,4 where antiquaries rummaged for black-letter tracts, and sometimes, as Ralph Thoresby tells us, found treasures.6 On 1 Lloyd's Worthies. Or, to take an earlier instance from Shakes-pear's Henry VIII., see act v. scene 3: " The Palace Yard" has this stage direction: " Noise and tumult, within; " and the porter exclaims, " You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals; Do you take the court...
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