The King's City: A History of London During The Restoration: The City that Transformed a Nation by Don Jordan

Author:Don Jordan [Jordan, Don]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

It was a fine silken thing which I spied walking the other day through Westminster Hall, that had as much Ribbon on him that would have plundered six shops, and set up twenty country pedlars: all his body was dres’t like a May-Pole . . . the motion was wonderful to behold, and the colours were Red, orange and Blew, of well-gum’d satin,9

According to the brewer, importer and East India Company panjandrum ]osiah Child, the lot of Londoners had improved greatly over the preceding fifty to sixty years:

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