Note 134 — A C. MERY TALYS. (continued 2)

The celebrated Sir Richard Whittington. In his If you know Not me you know No Body, Part ii. 1606, Heywood introduces the following dialogue respecting Whittington between Dean Nowell and Old Hobson, the haberdasher of the Poultry:— "Dr. Now. This Sir Richard Whittington, three times Mayor, Son to a knight, and 'prentice to a mercer, Began the library of Gray-friars in London, And his executors after him did build Whittington College, thirteen almshouses for poor men, Repair'd Saint Bartholomew's, in Smithfield, Glared the Guildhall, and built Newgate. Hob. Bones a me, then, I have heard lies; For I have heard he was a scullion, And rais'd himself by venture of a cat. Dr. Now. They did the more wrong to the gentleman."