...thy late ringing, thy head shall have knockes.' The clerk followed suit: ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will.' Cockney, or native of Cocaigne, the land of gastronomy, was an epithet applied to such Londoners as...

...late ringing thy head shall have knockes.' To which the Clerk replies : ' Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will."' 1 Chapman (1605), V. i. 1 'Tis merry when Gossips meet (1609), H. 3. 1 W. Haughton, Englishmen for...

...ringing thy head shall have knockes." Whereunto the Clerk replying wrote : "Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at yonr will." which said to the poor runaway boy as he was resting on Highgate milestone — " Turn again,...

...Bell, the same to be rung as aforesaid, and other things to be observed as by the will appeareth. — Stow, p. 96. People born within the sound of Bow-bells...within the sound of Bow-bell." The present set of 10 bells were cast 1762, the smallest weighing 8 cwt. 3 qr. 7 lb., and the largest 63 cwt. 22 Ib. Pope...

...ringing, thy head shall have knockes." To which the clerk thus replies : — "Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will." Nearly fifty years later, in 1515, when bluff Harry was just beginning his eventful reign, William...

...ringing thy head shall have knockes." Whereunto the Clerk, replying, wrote: — "Children of Cheape, hold you all still, For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will." Many other stories are told of the Bow Bells. The church is called St. Mary Le Bow from having been...

...thy head shall have knockes." Whereunto the Clerk, replying, wrote : — "Children of Cheape, hold you all still. For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will." Many other stories are told of the Bow Bells. The church is called St. Mary Le Bow from having been...

...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 pounds...

...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...it, " children born within the sound of Bow-bell." 2 Anthony Clod, a countryman, addressing Gettings, a citizen, in Shirley's Contention for Honour and...

...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...properly explains it, " children born within the sound of Bow-bell."2 Anthony Clod, a countryman, addressing Gettings, a citizen, in Shirley's Contention for...