 | George Godwin - 1839 - 774 pages
...late 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
...late 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 - 254 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 147B, gave to the new work of that steeple forty... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...his 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 Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 pages
...For 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... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 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.' " The term Cockney (native of Cocaigne, or the land of gastronomy, a name anciently earned by the city... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - 1853 - 386 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...the sound of Bow-bell." The present set of bells, ten in number, were cast and set up in 1762. All differ in weight, — the smallest weighing 8 cwt.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1853 - 416 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.' " Mathieu Paris says, that " in 1256, when certain workmen in London were struck with'lightning, some... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 pages
...ringing 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... | |
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Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will. 
