Vulgar words in London and the Kingdom - Volume II (Page 1)
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(200) Jerome Heydon, described as an "iremonger at the lower end of Cheapeside," was ready to sell corslets, comprising "brest, backe, gorgett, taces and headpeece," at 15_s._; pikes with steel heads at 2_s._ 6_d._; swords, being Turkey blades, at 7_s._; "bastard" muskets at 14_s._; great muskets, with rests, at 16_s._; a headpiece, lined and stringed, at 2_s._ 6_d._, and a bandaleer for 1_s._ 6_d._ Henry White and Don Sany Southwell were prepared to do corslets 6_d._ cheaper, and the same with swords, but their swords are described as only "Irish hilts and belts to them."
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Their bastard muskets, "with mouldes," could be had for 13_s._, or 1_s._ cheaper than those of Jerome Heydon.
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The sniffling Whig-mayor Patience Ward To this damn'd lie paid such regard, That he his godly masons sent, T' engrave it round the Monument: They did so; but let such things pass- His men were fools, himself an ass."