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The Siſters of the Scabards HOLIDAY: OR, A Dialogue between two reverent and very vertuous Matrons, Mrs. Bloomesbury, and Mrs. Long-Acre her neare Neighbour.
Wherein is Diſcourſed how terrible, and coſtly and Civill Law was to their Profeſſion; and how they congatulate the welcome Alteration.
PRINTED, 1641.
Long-acre, you are very happily met.
My large friend Miſtris Blomsbury, not ſo great as your ſelf, thogh (thanks to our fat-feeding ale) I am prettie well growne, I am prettie plump I'faith.
So it ſeemes, for your belly is plumped up as big as a Bucking-tub.
And yours is not much leſſe, for in my opi
Better news then ever I looked for.
I pray thee kind ſiſter proceed let's heare it.
All the Civil Lawyers, the Judges, Doctors, Advocates, Proctors, Regiſters, and all their Co
Why neighbour Bloomsbury, did not your Ci
But what had you alwaies ready money of their Clerks too?
No apoxe on'em, thoſe were the baſeſt fellowes, they were worſe then Apparators eſpecially in a long vacation, yet many times (to give the Devill his due) at the latter end of a Michaelmas Terme, they were more liberall then their Maſters.
Good neighbour Long-acre, tell me what theſe Gent. in the cut-finger'd gloves would doe in a long vacation.
Why I tell you, in either terme or vacation, theſe Gentlemen were more curious with what ware they dealt then their Maſters, for many times wee could put off any Commodities to them, and they
Truly they uſed you unconſcionably.
Nay this was not all, the very next day they would ſend an Apparator, who would warne both me and my whole harmleſſe houſhold to appeare in Pauls the next Court day, to anſwere for keeping a common bawdy-houſe, ready furniſhed with merce
Truſt mee Miſtris Long-acre, I have beene ſerved in the like manner; but I pray how came you off.
Firſt I muſt pay the Apparator his whole fees, with large conſiderations for his extraordinary pains and attendance, then muſt I repaire to theſe GentleBlomsbury, there is I know not how many of thoſe Clerks about Doctors-Commons that live upon nothing elſe every long vacation, then upon ſuch projects as theſe; but now (thankes to the impartiall Parliament) their trading begins to faile them.
Is that poſſible, ſiſter Long-acre?
'Tis true as I tell you: And all the ſmel-ſmock crew of Meſſengers, Sumners, Apparators, and Promooters whatſoever muſt now either turne ſhoul
As I am heere, I ſhould rejoyce more at the downfall of theſe Gentlemen you named laſt, then of all the reſt, for I paid them conſtantly ten pound a year, and yet ſtill was in feare of them for all that, and was ſure to ride once a yeare in a ſingle Coach with two wheeles up Cheapſide, where I make no queſtion but you know how I was uſed.
Yes truly, for it hath been my owne caſe many times. But let theſe things be forgotten, lets think how to increaſe our trading: for my part I intend to do this for the renewing of my trade, what GentleHenry Hackeſter my chiefe pimpe to collect, gather, and bring home all my fugitive and ſtraid Gentlewomen, viz. Miſtris Lacy, Miſtris Skinner, Miſtris Butler, Miſtris Webſter, Miſtris Glover, Miſtris Symmons, and Miſtris Clayton, if ſhee be not ſpoyled already, for ſhee hath great reſort to her lodging at a Barbers
Fetterlane) with many others, whereof hee hath a catalogue; And for the further upholding of our trade, if it pleaſe you to joyne with me (ſweet Mrs. Blomsbury) when wee grow rich which I doubt not but it will be ere long, wee will build an Hoſpitall for all of our ſocietie that are old and not able to keepe up trade, and for theſe that are young and faile in their trade by their over-much practiſe or im
But ſtay there ſweete Miſtris Long-acre, for though the Civill Law be likely to have a fall, and the greateſt part of our enemies breake, yet I beleeve our profeſſion (though never ſo neceſſary) wil have new enemies, our proſperity wil be envied; we ſhall ſtand in awe to one or other, by whom we ſhalbe cor
That is to be conſidered truly: However lets at the downefall of our enemies, rejoyce and ſend proTurnmill-ſtreet, Goulding-lane, Beech-lane, Pick-hatch, and in all other places where any of our ſocietie remaines to proclaim a generall feaſt, and