X. The Office of the Cryers.
THere be six Cryers at the grates, which divide the week amongst them, and by their days
Ludgate, what it is, not what it was, or, A full and clear discovery and description of ... that prison also, an exact catalogue of the legacies now belonging to the said prison, the names of the several donors, and the persons appointed to pay them ... / humbly presented to the Right Honorable Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor of this honorable city by M. Johnson ...
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- Ludgate, what it is, not what it was, or, A full and clear discovery and description of ... that prison also, an exact catalogue of the legacies now belonging to the said prison, the names of the several donors, and the persons appointed to pay them ... / humbly presented to the Right Honorable Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor of this honorable city by M. Johnson ...
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- Johnson, Marmaduke, d. 1674.
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- London :: Printed by and for Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Fr. Gossinet ...,
- 1659.
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"Ludgate, what it is, not what it was, or, A full and clear discovery and description of ... that prison also, an exact catalogue of the legacies now belonging to the said prison, the names of the several donors, and the persons appointed to pay them ... / humbly presented to the Right Honorable Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor of this honorable city by M. Johnson ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2025.
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and their houres, as they have so ordered the business, that they have mutual time of begging al∣lowed them: As for example: A Box is let down in the Hole at the Gate, at five in the afternoon, the man begs till about nine, and then it is taken up and open'd, and the Master of the Box takes an account thereof: in the morning the same Box is let down again, and the same man begs till twelve a clock; then another Box is let down, and another man begs till two, then the same goes in again till five; at which time the time the Box is open'd again, and the Cryer re∣ceives the fourth part of what is begged: The like decorum is held at the window toward Blackfriers, onely because of the little that is there, the Cryer hath half of what he gets. Thus go they by turns,
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and what they so crave, and how it is bestowed, I shall hereafter make appear in the Chapter of Priviledges.