Trivia Or the Art of Walking the Streets of London
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" Charles II, for whom the Mall in the park was formed, was very fond of the game ' (L. P. P. ). 28. Oyster Cries. For a description of 'brown Ostrea' see Book III, 185-94. ' A great critic, ' in a treatise against operas, ' has made a very elaborate digression upon the London cries, wherein he has shown from reason and philosophy why oysters are cried . . . With an accent and tone neither natural to man or beast ' (T. 4). In Lauron-Tempest's Cryes of the City of London (171 1) one of the engra...vings represents a man with a wheelbarrow of oysters, and the cry is ' Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters. ' 30. Spanish Hide. Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses (ed. Turnbull, p. 72), speaks of women's shoes as 'some of Spanishc leather, and some of Englishe. ' Howell, Familiar Letters (ed. Jacobs, p. 87), 'they ruffle in Silks and Sattins, and wear good Spanish leather shoes. ' Cf. Massinger, The City Madam, I, i, 97. Planchc, Cyclopaedia of Costume, quotes from Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Cus- toms of London in the Eighteenth Century, to the efFe6t that Spanish leather shoes laced with gold were common about this time.
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