London in the Time of the Tudors

A list of people includes carpenters, plumbers, gardeners, lawyers and stewards, and the text says that when the House was closed all these people were turned adrift, certainly, without pensions. The text says London was flooded for fifteen years with the people of the monasteries turned adrift, who were not people who swelled the ranks of the vagabond and the masterless but respectable and honest folk. The text names people who lived by the making and selling of things no longer wanted under the new order, among them the makers of ecclesiastical vestments and robes, altar cloths, wax tapers, instruments required in the celebration of Mass, crosses and crucifixes, beads, reliquaries and images.

Strype's remarks, as the text gives them, say that Apprenticeship in London is no Dishonour, nor Degradation, but rather an Honour, and a Degree. The text says the Mayor shut the doors, picked his men, and before noon had raised his thousand men. The text says that in 1597 first 500 men, then 300 more, were raised, and £60,000 was sent to the Queen.