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After a quarter of an hour's absence from court, the jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and sentence was pronounced against
him. He was stripped of his canonical habit; forced to walk
through all the courts of Westminster Hall proclaiming his
crimes; to stand an hour on the pillory opposite Westminster Hall
gate on Monday; an hour on the pillory at the Royal Exchange on
Tuesday; and on Wednesday he was tied to a cart and whipt at the
hands of the common hangman from Aldgate to Newgate, in the
presence, says Eachard, "of innumerable spectators, who had a
more than ordinary curiosity to see the sight."
CHAPTER XIX.
London under Charles II.--Condition and appearance of the
thoroughfares.--Coffee is first drunk in the capital.--Taverns
and their frequenters.--The city by night.--Wicked people do
creep about.--Companies of young gentlemen.--The Duke of Monmouth
kills a beadle.--Sir Charles Sedley's frolic.--Stately houses of
the nobility.--St. James's Park.--Amusement of the town.--At
Bartholomew Fair.--Bull, bear, and dog fights.--Some quaint
sports.
During the first six years of the merry monarch's reign, London
town, east of Temple Bar, consisted of narrow and tortuous
streets of quaintly gabled houses, pitched roofed and plaster
fronted. Scarce four years had passed after the devastating fire
which laid this portion of the capital in ashes, when a new and
stately city rose upon the ruins of the old. Thoroughfares lying
close by the Thames, which were wont to suffer from inundations,
were raised; those which from limited breadth had caused
inconvenience and bred pestilence were made wide; warehouses and
dwellings of solid brick and carved stone, with doors, window-
frames, and breastsummers of stout oak, replaced irregular though
not unpicturesque habitations; whilst the halls of companies,
eminent taverns, and abodes of great merchants, were now built
"with fair courtyards before them, and pleasant gardens behind
them, and fair spacious rooms and galleries in them, little
inferior to some princes' palaces.
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