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Beit remembered, that in time previous precept had been often
given in the Guildhall, before all the people, in behalf of his lordship the
King, under pain of life and limb, and proclamation had been made throughout
all the City to a like effect, that no persons should hold any parley,
conventicles by themselves, or covins, whereby the peace of his lordship the
King and of the City might in any way be disturbed ; but that all persons
of the City, rich as well as poor, should be, as it were, one body and one
man, faithfully and in fealty to maintain the peace of the King and of the
City ; that so, through such conventicles' and covins the City might not
again be put to confusion ; as had happened in the times of Thomas Fitz-
Thomas, the"'then Mayor of London, and of Thomas de Piwelesdone, his
confederate ; under whose rule the common people, by means of such
covins and confederacies made among them, had arisen against the
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principal men of the City, and had held all power in the City, so that the
superiors could neither appease them nor bring them to justice ; and such
was the beginning of confusion to the City. Besides which, command
was given and proclamation made, in like form, that no persons should
take revenge for battery or other injury inflicted upon him; but he was
to make complaint thereof unto the Bailiffs of the City, who were to do
such persons full justice thereupon. |