| George Godwin - 1839 - 774 pages
...ringing, thy head shall have knockes." As well as the clerk's reply ; " Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." William Copeland, Churchwarden, either gave a new bell for this purpose, or caused the old one to be... | |
| George Godwin, John Britton - 1839 - 380 pages
...ringing, thy head shall have knockes." As well as the clerk's reply ; " Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." William Copeland, Churchwarden, either gave a new bell for this purpose, or caused the old one to be... | |
| John Stow - 1842 - 252 pages
...ringing thy head shall have knocks." Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote, " Children of Cheape, hold you all still. For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will •." Robert Harding, goldsmith, one of the sheriffs 1478, gave to the new work of that steeple forty... | |
| John Stow - 1842 - 250 pages
...ringing thy head shall have knocks." Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote, " Children of Cheape, hold you all still. For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will *." Robert Harding, goldsmith, one of the sheriffs 1476, gave to the new work of that steeple forty... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 pages
...thy late ringing thy head shall have knocks. And the clerk replies : — Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will. Allusions to " Bow-bells " may be found in many of our old writers ; and Pope exclaims, in a wellknown... | |
| 1850 - 790 pages
...opponents, whose character he well knew, replied in the same way, — " Children of Cheape, hold you all still ; For you shall have the BoW bell rung at your will," In the olden timo, against the northern side of this church, stood a shed, darkening the windows, and... | |
| John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...thy head shall have knocks.' Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote:— • Children of Cheape, hold you all still. For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.' " The term Cockney (native of Cocaigne, or the land of gastronomy, a name anciently earned by the city... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1853 - 416 pages
...thy head shall have knocks.' Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote — ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will.' " Mathieu Paris says, that " in 1256, when certain workmen in London were struck with'lightning, some... | |
| John Weale - 1854 - 1004 pages
...thy head shall have knocks.' Whereunto the clerk replying, wrote:— ' Children of C'hcape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.' " • Jewry. 7- St. Olave's, Jetery, one of the smallest and poorest of Wren's erections, and we believe... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...have knockes^ To which the clerk appended this good-humoured reply : — " Children of Cheape, hold ye all still, For you shall have the Bow bell rung at your will." The new steeple was finished in the year 1512. It was constructed of Caen stone, and was raised upon... | |
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