Chronicles of the Mayors and Sherrifs of London
p16-17
the mayor took his Aldlermanry into his own hands [Simon son of Mary], and wholly removed him there-from; and the men of that Ward, receiving liberty to elect on the Monday / before Mid-Lent chose Alexander le Ferrun, and that too in his absence; but he, afterwards appearing at the Husting, was on the Monday following admitted Alderman