Although the feature was called "'The Convent "'or "'Weathercock Hill "'by the whalers operating from Deception Island in the period before 1930, these names have not been used recently.
32.
Field's second play " Amends to Ladies " his only other solo creation had already been staged by the time " A Woman is a Weathercock " was printed, probably by October 1611.
33.
From the latter years of this period come the first of his plays : " A Woman is a Weathercock " and " The Honest Man's Fortune " ( the latter with Fletcher and Philip Massinger ).
34.
"A Woman is a Weathercock " was among the Jacobean plays revived by the Duke's Company at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667 when the London theatres reopened 18 years after their closure at the start of the English Civil War.
35.
The copper weathercock is 63.5 cm high, 95.25 cm long and weighs 5 kg, and was made for the new spire in 1788, and is inscribed with the name of the vicar, John Cole Galloway . ( Re-gilded 1994)
36.
"A Woman Is A Weathercock " was one of the first plays the company performed at Whitefriars, most probably in December 1609 before being presented at Court over Christmas 1609-10, one of five plays the boys performed before the Prince Henry at Whitehall.
37.
Commentators like Peery have called " A Woman is a Weathercock " a remarkable achievement for a first-time dramatist who was not yet 22 and ascribed this to the practical experience Field had amassed performing on the stage since the age of 11 or 12.
38.
Alternative theories about the origin of weathercocks on church steeples are that it was an emblem of the vigilance of the clergy calling the people to prayer, that it was derived from the Goths and is only possibly a Christian symbol, and that it is an emblem of the sun.
39.
The lessons to be learnt from Russell's foreign policy, Salisbury believed, were that he should not listen to the opposition or the press otherwise " we are to be governed & by a set of weathercocks, delicately poised, warranted to indicate with unnerving accuracy every variation in public feeling ".
40.
The central hall is encircled by bedrooms to the east and west, a large lounge to the north, a dining room to the north east, kitchen to the south east and several smaller service rooms to the south, the latter including the southern entry belfry and weathercock flanked by two red brick chimneys.
