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Wednesday before the Feast of St. Laurence [10 Aug.],
1 6 Edward II. [A.D. 1322], certain good men of the City
informed Hamo de Chig[welle], the Mayor, and the Aldermen
that John Waldeshef, a sworn serjeant of the City, was opposed
to the grant of an aid to the King for the war in Scotland, and
was spreading false reports, &c., and asked that he might be
attached to answer for his conduct. On a day named he fails
to appear before the Mayor, and Nicholas de Farndone,
Richard de Gloucestre, Elias de Suffolk, Roger de Frowik,
Richard de Betoigne, Edmund Lambyn, John Cotoun, Robert
de Swalclyve,' Hamo Godchep, R[eginald] de Conduit, John de
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Prestone, Hugh de Gartone, Robert le Callere, Robert Sely,
Roger le Palmere, Henry de Secch[ford], W[illiam] de Hedersete,
John Poyntel, and John Priour, Aldermen, and Richard
Costantyn, Alderman, and Richard de Hakeneie, the Sheriffs,
and a great number of the Commonalty assembled in the Guildhall
to hear his defence. |