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" ... seven or eight ; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their... "
The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ... - Page 249
by J. S. Forsyth - 1825
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The cavalier songs and ballads of England, from 1642 to 1684, ed. by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1863 - 354 pages
...drinking for Rumps, there being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The butchers at the Maj Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." By this time death and hell appear'd in the ghastly looks Of Scot and Eobinson (those...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...

Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side. 12th. (Lord's day.) In the morning, it being Lord's day, to White Hall, where Dr. Holmes4...
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Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet street, and the parishes ...

Theophilus Charles Noble - 1870 - 152 pages
...knives when they were ' going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit, that had a ' rump tied upon it, and another...basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination both the great' ness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 4

Charles Knight - 1874 - 504 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and BO hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." Charles and his Court were at Brussels when...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.: From His ..., Volume 1

Samuel Pepys - 1875 - 552 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side. Thence home and sent my letters to the post-house in London, and my wife and I went out...
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, with a life and notes by ..., Volume 1

Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1875 - 650 pages
...their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side. Thence home and sent my letters to the post-house in London, and my wife and I went out...
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The Dramatic Works of John Tatham: With Introductions and Notes

John Tatham - 1879 - 326 pages
...knives when they were going to sacrifice their rumps. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street yon would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the farther...
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The Popular History of England, Volumes 3-4

Charles Knight - 1880 - 1256 pages
...knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Luclgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting...it was past imagination, both the greatness and the suddeness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot...
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The Popular History of England, Volumes 3-4

Charles Knight - 1880 - 1274 pages
...it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the greatness and the sucldeness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lime of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." Charles and his Court were...
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Hudibras, Parts 2-3

Samuel Butler - 1883 - 422 pages
...to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate-hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied to it, and another basting of it. Indeed, it was past...fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the other side.' — PEPYS' Diary. 1690. all spurs. Horses trained thus to race at the Carnival at Rome....
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