an of
eighty-nine who was found guilty at Monmouth Assize of adultery with
a woman over sixty. It is well known that under the Commonwealth the
outskirts of London were crowded with brothels, and the license of
Restoration days pales before the moral evils and cankers existing
under Cromwell. The officially recognized independent diurnals
_Mercurius Democritus_, _Mercurius Fumigosus_, have been described
as 'abominable'. In 1660, when the writers of these attempted to
circulate literature which had been common in the preceeding decade,
they were promptly 'clapt up in Newgate'.

p. 414 _Peters the first_, _Martin the Second._ Hugh Peters has been
noticed before. Henry Martin was an extreme republican, and at one
time even a Leveller. He was a commissioner of the High Court of
Justice and a regicide. At the Restoration he was imprisoned for
life and died at Chepstow Castle, 1681, aged seventy-eight. He was
notorious for profligacy and shamelessness, and kept a very seraglio
of mistresses.

p. 415 _Tantlings._ St. Antholin's (St. Anthling's), Budge Row,
Watling Street, had long been a stronghold of puritanism. As early
as 1599, morning prayer and lecture were instituted, 'after the
Geneva fashion'. The bells began at five in the morning. This church
was largely attended by fanatics and extremists. There are frequent
allusions to St. Antholin's and its matutinal chimes. The church was
burned down in the Great Fire. Middleton and Dekker's _Roaring
Girl_ (1611): 'Sha's a tongue will be heard further in a still
morning than Saint Antling's bell.'

She will outpray
A preacher at St. Antlin's.
--Mayne's _City Match_ (1639), iv, v.

Davenant's _News from Plymouth_ (fol. 1673, licensed 1635), i, I:--

Two disciples to St. Tantlin,
That rise to long exercise before day.

p. 416 _Lilly._ William Lilly (1602-81). The famous astrologer and
fortune-teller. In Tatham's _The Rump_ (1660), he is introduced on
the stage, and there is a scene between him and Lady Lambert, Act
iv.

p. 416 _sisseraro._ More usually sasarara. A corruption of
_certiorari_, a writ in law to expedite justice. 'If it be lost or
stole ... I could bring him to a cunning kinsman of mine that would
fetcht again with a sesarara,' --_The Puritan_ (1607). 'Their souls
fetched up to Heaven with a sasarara.' --_The Revenger's Tragedy_,
iv, 2 (1607), _