_St. Thomas of Trunnions._--Who was this saint, and why is he frequently
mentioned in connexion with onions?
"Nay softe, my maisters, by _Saincte Thomas of Trunions_,
I am not disposed to buy of your _onions_."
_Apius and Virginia_, 1575.
"And you that delight in trulls and minions,
Come buy my four ropes of hard _S. Thomas's onions_."
_The Hog hath lost his Pearl_, 1614.
"Buy my rope of onions--white _St. Thomas's onions_," was one of the
cries of London in the seventeenth century.