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But the town possesses a very charming Cloth Hall, which tells of the palmy days of the Newbury cloth-makers, or clothiers, as they were called; of Jack of Newbury, the famous John Winchcombe, or Smallwoode, whose story is told in Deloney's humorous old black-letter pamphlet, entitled The Most Pleasant and Delectable Historie of John Winchcombe, otherwise called Jacke of Newberie, published in 1596.
II and V. The first of these was published in 1597 and the other soon afterwards and both went through several editions by 1600. For the East Anglian woollen industry see especially the Victoria County Histories of Essex and Suffolk. Deloney's Works, ed. F.O. Mann, p. 213. Thomas Fuller, The Worthies of England , p. 318.
Elizabethan Prose. Good selections from Ascham, Hakluyt, Raleigh, Holinshed, Stow, Camden, North, Sidney, Foxe, Hooker, Lyly, Greene, Lodge, and Nashe are given in Craik, I. Chambers, I. and Manly, II. also give a number of selections. Deloney's The Gentle Craft may be found in the Clarendon Press edition of his Works. For Bacon, see Craik, II.
It was on the verge of being destroyed some years ago when it was bought and restored to its present fine condition by Mr Noel Buxton, a direct lineal descendant of the Charles Buxton who sold it. See Power, op. cit., pp. 38-40. Deloney's Works, ed. F.O. Mann, p. 213.
We may borrow once again from Deloney's idyll, to recreate the scene: The Bride being attyred in a gowne of sheepes russet and a kertle of fine woosted, her head attyred with a billiment of gold and her haire as yeallow as gold hanging downe behinde her, which was curiously combed and pleated, according to the manner in those dayes; shee was led to Church betweene two sweete boyes, with Bridelaces and Rosemary tied about their silken sleeves.
See Power, The Paycockes of Coggeshall, pp. 33-4. Quoted in Lipson, Introd. to the Econ. Hist, of England , I, p. 421. Quoted ibid., p. 417. On John Winchcomb see Power, op. cit., pp. 17-18; and Lipson, op. cit., p. 419. Deloney's Works, ed. F.C. Mann, pp. 20-1. Ibid., p. 22. Quoted in C.L. Powell, Eng. Domestic Relations, 1487-1563 , p. 27.
A highly idyllic picture of work in one of these miniature factories, which we may amuse ourselves by applying to Thomas Paycocke's, is contained in Deloney's Pleasant History of Jack of Newbery. In 1597 Thomas Deloney, the forefather of the novel, enshrined them in a rambling tale, half prose and half verse, which soon became extremely popular.
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