Note 179 — CANDLEWICK STREET WARD
Reading edition
“Fripparia, upholders upon Cornhill, sellers of old apparel and household stuff in Eastcheape.”—Stow.
The following is the stanza alluded to by Stow (see Lydgate’s Minor Poems).
“Then into Corn hyl anon I rode, Where was much stolen gere amonge; I saw where honge myne owne hoode, That I had lost amonge the thronge: To by my own hoode I thought it wronge; I knew it well as I did my crede, But for lack of money I could not spede.”