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Amusements, Networks Boxes

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• Brooke Meadows

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Home Entertainment

• Elizabeth enjoyed card games such as gleek and
  primero, especially if she won.
• It could be expensive to play against her.
• Embroidery was a safer and more productive
  activity.
• Women could make pleasant house decorations.
• The printing press was constantly turning out
  books and ballads.
• Books were popular form of home entertainment.

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• The Secrets and Wonders of the World mentioned
  the dragons of Ethiopia, which had a bad
  reputation.
• Elephants were more popular amongst children.
• Books for adults were obscene Italian books that
  were sold in every shop in London.
• Almanacs were bought for a penny and were useful
  to have in any house.
• They were used to tell you things such as when to
  marry, cut your nails, or have a bath.
• There were also travel books, such as Merchant of
  Venice and Into the East India in 1588.

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• Of course, there were plays that could be read at
  home as well.
• Marlowes Tamburlane the Great was published in
  1590 and Ben Johnsons Every Man in his Humour
  was published in 1601.
• When it was too dark to read, dancing began!
• Any man of reasonable education would be expected
  to sight read and sing.
• People danced around a fire in gem-studded
  costumes to tunes made by someone who could play
  an instrument.
• Elderly people would sit around the fire and
  gossip.

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Free Shows

• There was a free concert at the Royal Exchange
  every Sunday during the Summer, at 4 oclock.
• The Lord Mayor judged shooting and wrestling
  contests every Sunday in August.

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Bear and Bull Baiting and Cock Fighting

• The Queens palace, in Whitehall, held the bear
  and bull baiting.
• In 1559, the French ambassadors attended the bear
  and bull baiting.
• A cock pit was added by Henry VIII, as well as,
  tennis courts and bowling alleys.
• Ordinary people went to the cock pit near
  Smithfield, where for a penny they could watch or
  pay more to bet.

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Theatre-Going

• Plays were presented in the galleried courtyards
  of inns, which were squarely under the Lord
  Mayors disapproving eye.
• The city disapproved of players, plays and all
  that went with them and the Lord Mayor would have
  closed them down if he could.
• the ordinary places of meeting for all vagrant
  persons in masterless men thieves and horse
  stealers..
• Lord Mayor was prepared to allow plays to be
  given on Sundays but only after evening service.
• Yet all the afternoon they took in hearers and
  filled the place with such as were thereby absent
  from church time.

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• Burbage built Londons first purpose- built
  playhouse, which he called the theatre a mile
  outside the Citys jurisdiction in 1577.
• It was soon joined by a rival playhouse called
  The Curtain.
• The Fortune opened in 1600.
• In a full house people were certainly crowded an
  estimated 18 inches per seat in the galleries,
  with men being allowed 30 inches of leg room
  while women only being allowed 24inches.
• The capacity in the pit for the Globe and The
  Fortune was about 600 to 800 people.
• Of course, the female characters were played by
  men

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Sport

• Archery was going out of fashion as a weapon of
  war but Elizabeth required all her male subjects
  aged between 7 and 60 to possess bows and arrows
  and know how to use them.
• Boys between 7 and 17 were supposed to have a bow
  and 2 arrows, while adult males were to have a
  bow and 4 arrows.
• There were 200 archery targets in Finsbury
  Fields.
• There was another archery ground at Mile End.
• In 1562, 35 men were prosecuted because they
  neglected to have bows and arrows.

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• When Sir Thomas Ramsey, who had been Lord Mayor,
  died in 1590 the inventory of his household goods
  included 6 bows and arrows.
• When Earl of Leicesters died in 1588 he had 280
  bows and arrows in his household goods.
• Small-arms shooting was more fashionable for the
  young.
• The Artillery Yard had a brick wall around it and
  a clearly defined target at each end, this was to
  prevent accidents.
• Tennis was played by noblemen and gentlemen, the
  tennis balls were stuffed with hair of poor
  women.

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• Swimming was enjoyable in the hot summer.
• People would swim in the Thames River or in pools
  such as the Perilous Pond out past Finsbury.
• Wrestling was another sport men did to work off
  energy.

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The Lottery

• In 1567, A lottery was held at London in St.
  Pauls Churchyard 400,000 tickets went on sale.
• The draw went from January 11th to May 1st.
• Any ticketholder could travel to London and stay
  without question for 7 days to oversee his
  progress in the draw.
• The next Lottery was in 1585, the drawing only
  took 3 days.

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Inns and Taverns

• Inns were placed near markets which made it
  convenient for travelers
• In taverns there would often be a blind Harper
  singing new ballads to familiar tunes
• If you wanted to remember the words, you could
  buy a copy on sale or the words might be put up
  on the wall

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Recreational Drugs

• At the playhouses the English were constantly
  smoking tobacco, they smoked out of clay pipes
  and would smoke in through their mouths and out
  through their nostrils.
• to drink tobacco was to inhale- a Swiss
  medical student described in 1599.
• William Turner listed cannabis in his garden as
  good for an earache.

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The Livery Companies

• Commercial and craft status involved the Livery
  companies, religious affiliations were shown by
  the parish church, and civic duties and rights
  depended on the ward.
• A man could not hope to amount to anything in
  London unless he belonged to a Livery company.
• There were nearly 100 companies and trade
  associations in 16th century London.

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The 12 Great Companies with Power and Wealth

• Mercers
• Grocers
• Drapers
• Fishmongers
• Goldsmiths
• Skinners
• Merchant Taylors
• Haberdashers
• Salters
• Ironmongers
• Vintners
• Clothworkers

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• Since 1347, the Mercers have controlled the wood
  trade and the export of cloth
• The Grocers controlled the import of spices and
  drugs since 1189
• The Drapers concentrated on wool cloth trade
• The Fishmongers supplied fish
• Goldsmiths had sole responsibility for overseeing
  the quality of gold and silver articles
• The Skinners dealt with fur

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• The Merchant Taylors made tents and padded
  garments worn under armour
• The Haberdashers made and sold hats also imported
  luxury articles from Italy
• The Salters supplied salt to the countrymen
• The Ironmongers supplied and made the bars and
  rods essential in building work.
• The Vintners controlled the import of wines
• The Cloth workers were the 4th of the Great
  companies to depend on the textile trade

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• The Carpenters regulated all dealings in timber
• The Stationers controlled the publication of
  books and ballads
• The Bakers had to operate the Assize of Bread,
  producing loaves that satisfied the regulations
• Members of the Parish Clerks Company were
  responsible for many civic duties including the
  compilation of the Bills of Morality
• The Goldsmiths were the richest, then came the
  Skinner and the Fishmongers followed by the
  Salters and the Clothworkers who were about
  equal, The Mercers came only 6th in wealth

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• The dropout rate during apprenticeship was about
  40 to 50 especially when the apprentice was
  about halfway through his term.
• Apprentices usually spent more than a quarter of
  their lives in that status
• Once apprentice successfully completed his term
  he became a company man and a freeman of London
• The status of a freeman of the City was important
  because only freemen could acquire property
  there.

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Parishes

• There were 110 parishes in the city.
• They varied in size and prosperity.
• St. Mary Colechurch in Cheapside had about 50
  households and was a fairly typical size for an
  inner-city parish.
• The clerk was the most important job and they
  kept records of christenings, weddings, and
  funerals.

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Wards

• The third way of classifying Londoners was by
  ward.
• There were 26, including since 1550 the borough
  of Southwark.
• A ward included several parishes between 4 and 8.
• It elected an alderman, who held office for life
  and was a member of the Lord Mayors Court of
  Common Council. This administered the by-laws and
  street regulations.
• Alderman had 2 or 3 assistants who helped with
  the work while he was at Guildhall.