Note 326 — Chapter VII · FLOWERS, TREES, HERBS, ETC.
Reading edition
“The Country Carbonadoed,” by D. Lupton, 1632. Voce “Alehouse.”
[327]
“The tavern opened With signboard and bush; The landlady’s hair neatly dressed. Tied up in a knot.”
[328] Be thou, rose, queen of flowers, the cure of my diseases.
[329]
Through thee, rose, sins are taken away, Through thee, gladness is given to the sorrowing.
[330] Blount’s “Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Ancient Tenures,” p. 248.
[331] See Boynes’ Tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland.
[332] Like the rose in spring, hidden in its bud, so must the mouth be closed and restrained with strong reins, enforcing silence to the loquacious lips.
[333]
All that is done here, under the Rose, Leave it here and do not divulge it.
[334] Memoirs by Samuel Sainthill, 1659, Gent. Mag., lxxxiii. p. 520.
[335] London Gazette, Nov. 6, 1673.
[336] Ibid., Oct. 20, 1673.
[337] See the “Little London Directory, 1677,” recently reprinted.
[338] Domestic Intelligencer, Sept. 9, 1679.
[339] Banks’s Bills in the British Museum.
[340] Hereford Journal, January 7, 1775.
[341] Stow’s Survey, p. 340.
[342] Daily Courant, July 1, 1718.
[343] Banks’s Bills.
[344] Harl. MSS., 279, p. 47, a cookery book of that period.
[345]
Lansdowne MS., No. 1, fol. 49. Three weeks’ diet of the Lords of the Star Chamber. These lords appear to have lived very well, as we may learn from some of the items of one day’s dinner:— ffirst for bread, xijd.; ale, iijs. iiijd.; and wine, xvjd. Item to viijd.vjd. vd. ijd. xiiijd. xd. loyne of moton; maribones and beef; powdered beef; ij capons; ij geese; v conyes; iiijd. xviijd. vd. xijd. vjd. xd. j leg moton; vj places; vj pegions; ij doz. larkes; salt and sause; butter and eggs, &c., &c., &c.
[346] Machyn’s Diary.
[347] Archæologia, vol. xii.
[348] Prefixed to Collectanea, 1770, p. lxxv.; there is also a paper on Vines in England in Archæologia, i. p. 321; and Roach Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua, vol. vi., p. 78, et seq. may be consulted with advantage upon this subject.
[349] Curiously enough, until about 1820, a public-house, the sign of the Vine, in Dobie Street, St Giles, occupied the very site assigned to this vineyard in Domesday Book, A.D. 1070.
[350] Hollinshed’s Description of Britain, p. 3.
[351] Faulkner, Antiquities of Kensington.
[352] Grosley, vol. i., p. 83.
[353] He lived then in Exeter Street, at a stay-maker’s. Boswell’s Johnson: London, 1819, p. 67.
[354] “In spring-time the fig-tree does not make any show of beautiful flowers or precocious fruit to deceive mankind with idle hope; but in autumn it generally produces exceedingly sweet fruit, with flowers as it were contained within them.”—Joachimus Camerarius, “Symbolorum Centuriæ Quatuor,” 1697, Centur. i., p. 18.
[355] “Among the many curious properties which the writers on natural history attribute to the palm tree, it is not one of the least singular that this tree cannot well thrive unless it be properly basked by the beams of the sun, and watered by some neighbouring stream.”—J. Camerarius, “Centuria,” i., 1697.
[356] Defoe’s Journey through England, p. 168.
[357] Horace Walpole’s Letters to Mr Mann, February 6, 1780.
[358] As quoted in Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature, ii. p. 326.
[359] Publick Advertiser, Tuesday, June 16-22, 1657.
[360] Hatton’s New View of London, 1708, p. 36.
[361] Bagford Bills.
[362] Evelyn’s Miscellaneous Writings, p. 735.
[363] Gent. Mag., March 1842.
[364]
“Christ is represented here After his death and resurrection, As a great gardener Whom every body must praise. This is at the Three Radishes.”
[365]
“Adam and Eve lived in Paradise, They rarely ate stock fish, but a great deal of hotchpotch, lettuce, and radishes. All sorts of vegetables sold here for human food.”
A similarly dull joke occurs in an old English comedy, “Law Tricks,” by John Day, 1608. “I have heard old Adam was an honest man and a good gardener, loved lettuce well, salads and cabbage reasonably well, yet no tobacco.”