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 Horseydown on some festive occasion, to enjoy a fête champêtre on some bright clay in summer.

The principal figure is evidently a man of worship, for whom and his company a feast is preparing in the kitchen of the hostelry, while the table is laid in the adjoining apartment, which is decorated with boughs and gaily coloured ribbons.

It may be Henry Leke, son of the founder of the school, who succeeded his father as a brewer here, or Vassal Webling, who, as well as Leke the elder, was a Fleming and a brewer, both of them having come into this country from the Netherlands, with thousands of their country people, to avoid the persecution of the Protestants under the Duke of Alva.

These Flemings settled in great numbers in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, which comprised Horseydown, and from them a churchyard nearly opposite to St. Olave's Church was called "The Flemish Churchyard."

Vassal Webling or Weblincke dwelt hard by Horseydown, having become possessed of the house of Sir John Fastolfe, called Fastolf Place. Webling was a man of some consequence, and bore for his arms azure, a saltire flory, and in chief a griffin passant.

Or it may be Richard Hutton, armourer, and an alderman of London, who represented Southwark in Parliament from 27 to 39 Elizabeth, an inhabitant of St. Olave's. Whoever it is, he appears to be a man in the prime of life, and he is accompanied by a comely dame, probably his wife, and by two elderly women, and followed by a boy and girl with a greyhound, a servant carrying an infant, and a serving man with sword and buckler. Near them is a yeoman of her majesty's guard, with the queen's arms on his breast.

The citizen in his long furred gown, accompanied by a