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Accordingly, on the morrow, being the day of Our Lord's Ascension,
which on this occasion fell upon the Feast of Saint John Port Latin [6
May], the citizens met at the Guildhall, and William Fitz-Richard was
elected by them and sworn, to attend to the office of Sheriff of Middlesex
and the Wardenship of the City of London, in form in the aforesaid letters
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contained: and on the morrow was presented to the Barons of the
Exchequer at Saint Paul's, and there admitted and sworn.
Be it remarked, that many of the common people, on the day that
the aforesaid election took place, gainsayed the same, crying
"
Nay, nay," and saying,
" We will have no one for Mayor,
" save only Thomas Fitz-Thomas, and we desire that he be released
" from prison, as well as his companions, who are at Windleshores."
Such base exclamations did the fools of the vulgar classes give utterance
to, on the previous Monday, in the same Guildhall. |