THE
HISTORY
OF
The King and the Cobler.
CHAP I.
How King Henry VIII. used to visit the
Watches in the City, and how he became acquainted with a merry jovial Cobler.
IT was the custom of King Henry the eight, to walk late in the night into the city disguised, to observe and take notice how the constables and watch per- formed their duty, not only in guarding the city gates, but also in diligent watch- ing the inward parts of the city, that so they might in a great measure prevent those disturbances and casualties which too often happen in great and populous cities in the night; and this he did oftentimes, without the least discovery
