Note 9 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
Stow’s Survey of London, Edit. 4to. 1618, P. 616. An Engraving of it is inserted in Dugdale’s Hist. of St. Paul’s, Edit. 1658, P. 290, and under it are given Lydgate’s Verses, which he observes at the End he had translated,
“Not Word by Word, but following in Substance.”
The Characters, as may be collected from the Titles to the Verses, are the Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, King, Patriarch, Constable, Archbishop, Baron, Princess, Bishop, Squire, Abbot, Abbess, Bailiff, Astronomer, Burgess, Canon Secular, Merchant, Chartreux, Serjeant, Monk, Usurer, Physician, Amorous Squire, Gentlewoman, Man of Law, Mr. John Rekill Tregetour, [i. e. Jugler. See the Glossary to Urry’s Chaucer, Art. Treget] Parson, Juror, Minstrel, Labourer, Friar Minor, Child, Young Clerk, Hermit, the King eaten of Worms, Machabree the Doctor.—Dugdale, P. 132, says that Carpenter was a Citizen of London, and that the Painting at St. Paul’s was in Imitation of that in the Cloister adjoining to St. Innocent’s Church-Yard, in Paris.