Note 574 — THE BLACK BOOK.

Woolners] Our old writers occasionally mention a person named Woolner, or Wolner, as a notorious gormandiser: Dekker calls him “that cannon of gluttony,” The Owles Almanacke, 1618, p. 53; and in The Life of Long Meg of Westminster, 1635, the seventh chapter relates “how she used Woolner the singing man of Windsor, that was the great eater, and how she made him pay for his breakefast.”