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The Tomb Of John Stowe.
THE TOMB OF JOHN STOWE .
THAT was truly an evil May-Day when , in the reign of Henry the Eighth , in the year 1517 , an insurrection of the city apprentices broke out , and created a A'ery serious disturbance of the public peace . Some days previously a quarrel had taken place between several of these youngsters and the foreigners AVIIO happened to be located in different parts of the city , and the
then Lord Mayor had committed the principal ringleaders to prison , —a proceeding Avhich so greatly incensed their felloAvapprentices that they determined , on the ensuing first of May , to take the laAv into then OAvn hands , and slay every alien they could find . The insurrection at one time threatened to become a very formidable affair ; and Ave read in the pages of old Stowe ,
the historian , that it Avas only by the most energetic and prompt measures being adopted that the tumult Avas quelled . To so great a pass had this outbreak arrived , that Ave are told that Councils were specially summoned to deliberate upon Avhat Avas best to be done , —that the Cardinal Wolsey Avas in constant communication with the King's Majesty , and also Avith the City authorities , —that Sir Thomas More was commissioned to exhort
the riotous young gentlemen to abstain from their violent Avays , —that the Lieutenant of the Tower fired off pieces of ordnance , though he did not appear to do much hurt , —and that the finale of the Avhole business consisted in some three hundred of these fast youths being consigned to the tender mercies of the gaolers of NeAvgate , the Counter , and the dungeons of the ToAver . On
the thirteenth of the same month they Avere brought before the King , Avho sat in great state in Westminster Hall , and Avho , after * a suitable admonition , was graciously pleased to pardon them all . After this period the May-games Avere not so popular , and by degrees appear to have lapsed in the city . The pole or shaft round which these unruly gentlemen Avere wont to
assemble Avas erected in Leadenhall Street , close to the church of St . AndreAV , and from that circumstance arose the name that edifice has ever since borne of St . AndreAV Undershaft . It is to be noted that the shaft , instead of remaining erect in the ground , as the custom Avas , from that unlucky clay lost its position , and Avas suspended over the doors of the surrounding houses on a row of hooks purposely constructed to receive it . Thus it continued until the third year of Ed-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Tomb Of John Stowe.
THE TOMB OF JOHN STOWE .
THAT was truly an evil May-Day when , in the reign of Henry the Eighth , in the year 1517 , an insurrection of the city apprentices broke out , and created a A'ery serious disturbance of the public peace . Some days previously a quarrel had taken place between several of these youngsters and the foreigners AVIIO happened to be located in different parts of the city , and the
then Lord Mayor had committed the principal ringleaders to prison , —a proceeding Avhich so greatly incensed their felloAvapprentices that they determined , on the ensuing first of May , to take the laAv into then OAvn hands , and slay every alien they could find . The insurrection at one time threatened to become a very formidable affair ; and Ave read in the pages of old Stowe ,
the historian , that it Avas only by the most energetic and prompt measures being adopted that the tumult Avas quelled . To so great a pass had this outbreak arrived , that Ave are told that Councils were specially summoned to deliberate upon Avhat Avas best to be done , —that the Cardinal Wolsey Avas in constant communication with the King's Majesty , and also Avith the City authorities , —that Sir Thomas More was commissioned to exhort
the riotous young gentlemen to abstain from their violent Avays , —that the Lieutenant of the Tower fired off pieces of ordnance , though he did not appear to do much hurt , —and that the finale of the Avhole business consisted in some three hundred of these fast youths being consigned to the tender mercies of the gaolers of NeAvgate , the Counter , and the dungeons of the ToAver . On
the thirteenth of the same month they Avere brought before the King , Avho sat in great state in Westminster Hall , and Avho , after * a suitable admonition , was graciously pleased to pardon them all . After this period the May-games Avere not so popular , and by degrees appear to have lapsed in the city . The pole or shaft round which these unruly gentlemen Avere wont to
assemble Avas erected in Leadenhall Street , close to the church of St . AndreAV , and from that circumstance arose the name that edifice has ever since borne of St . AndreAV Undershaft . It is to be noted that the shaft , instead of remaining erect in the ground , as the custom Avas , from that unlucky clay lost its position , and Avas suspended over the doors of the surrounding houses on a row of hooks purposely constructed to receive it . Thus it continued until the third year of Ed-