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discoursed on business, others of news. Now in regard of the universal 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. Amongst whom divers being very rich had great sums owing them by such as stood next the throne, who by this means were rendered in a manner their pensioners. So as I have found little reason to question the truth of which I heard then, but much to confirm me in it.
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209:(1599) in Paul's walk. As Cavalier Shift enters and begins posting up advertisements, Cordatus introduces the scene with the words: "O, marry, this is one for whose better illustration we must desire you to presuppose the stage the middle aisle in Paul's, and that the west end of it". The west end of the aisle was where advertisements, known as
241:(1609), was another who wrote about Paul's walk. He recorded its use as a venue for fashion, saying of a gallant: "He that would therefore strive to fashion his legs to his silk stockings, and his proud gait to his broad garters, let him whiff down these observations; for, if he once get to walk by the book . . . Paul's may be proud of him".
143:(d. 1605) described Paul's walk as a kind of "open house" filled with a "great store of company that do nothing but go up and down, and go up and down, and make a grumbling together". Infested with beggars and thieves, Paul's walk was also a place to pick up gossip, topical jokes, and even prostitutes.
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It was the fashion of those times, and did so continue till these . . . for 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
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King James was aware of Paul's walk and referred to it in his poem about a comet, seen in 1618, which was talked of as signalling doom for the monarchy: "And that he may have nothing elce to feare/Let him walke Pauls, and meet the
Devills there". Chamberlain reported that the comet "is now the only
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Majesty's subjects who shall walk up and down, or spend the time in the same, in making any bargain or other profane cause, and make any kind of disturbance . . . during divine service . . . pain of imprisonment and fine". Scholar Helen Ostovich has called
181:(1553–1626) walked to St. Paul's each day to gather news on behalf of his correspondents. His main purpose in his letters was to relate news of events in the capital to his friends, especially those posted on the continent, such as
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subject almost of our discourse, and not so much as little children but as they go to school talk in the streets that it foreshows the death of a king or queen or some great war towards".
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367:
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269:
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153:
148:
136:
117:Ludgate Hill
115:Standing on
114:
109:
101:
64:
63:
47:
15:
1375: /
1286:Paul's walk
1249:Rachel Weir
1220:James Milne
1088:Late modern
963:William May
958:John Incent
907:William Say
887:Thomas More
397:Notestein,
324:Notestein,
268:Notestein,
160:Elizabeth I
133:booksellers
125:Reformation
69:Elizabethan
65:Paul's walk
1390:Categories
1360:51°30′50″N
1178:David Ison
1160:John Moses
1155:Eric Evans
999:John Donne
973:Henry Cole
943:John Colet
691:(disputed)
605:Ben Jonson
584:Cathedrals
300:Cathedrals
201:Ben Jonson
145:John Earle
71:and early
1363:0°05′56″W
1207:(current)
1064:John Hume
219:microcosm
211:siquisses
191:the Hague
85:grapevine
1333:Category
1173:(acting)
437:Jonson,
245:See also
1343:Commons
1266:Burials
1259:Related
979:(again)
552:Letters
512:, 301n.
452:si quis
93:mongers
1232:Vacant
1205:Clergy
683:Wulman
611:
590:
562:
543:
469:Orange
428:, 147.
401:, 106.
386:Venice
345:, 31n.
156:Mary I
668:Deans
603:, by
554:, by
535:, by
504:From
495:, 59.
474:Shift
464:Shift
375:, 59.
315:, 61.
302:, 53.
283:Works
272:, 31.
257:Notes
609:ISBN
588:ISBN
560:ISBN
541:ISBN
289:, 1.
185:and
158:and
89:News
77:nave
32:nave
87:. "
79:of
67:in
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572:.
139:,
652:e
645:t
638:v
615:.
594:.
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547:.
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