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344. They say that the canons of St. Paul's London obstructed a lane in Dycereslane opposite [the convent] of the Friars Minor in the ward of Anketin de Auverne [Farringdon ward] to the nuisance. The canons proffer a charter' of King Henry testifying that the king granted to Master Robert de Barton formerly precentor2 of St. Paul's permission 'to enclose the lane and keep it closed, provided that there should be a gate with locks at each end of the lane to allow free entrance and exit by the gates in case of fire and other mishaps which frequently occur in the City.
1. C.P.R. 1247-58, 166, 25 Nov. 1252; cf. Historical MSS. Commission, 9th Report, Appendix (1883), 10, nos. 486, 507.
2. 1245 x 6- 1257; subsequently dean (J. Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 10661300, i. St. Paul's, ed. D. E. Greenway (1968), 24). |