He thereupon dismissed the mayor from office, committing him to Windsor Castle. The sheriffs were likewise dismissed, one being sent to Odyham Castle, and the other to the Castle of Wallingford. The rest of the citizens were ordered to return home.(712) (M383) At nine o’clock in the morning of the 1st July, Sir Edward Dalyngrigge appeared in the Guildhall, and there, before an immense assembly of the commons, read the king’s commissions appointing him warden of the city and the king’s escheator. The deposed sheriffs were succeeded by Gilbert Maghfeld, or Maunfeld, and Thomas Newton, who remained in office, by the king’s appointment,(713) until the end of the year, when they were re-elected, the one by the warden and the other by the citizens.(714) Dalyngrigge was soon afterwards succeeded in the office of warden by Sir Baldwin de Radyngton.(715) (M384) By way of inflicting further punishment upon the citizens, Richard had already removed the King’s Bench and Exchequer from London to York;(716) but the removal proved so much more prejudicial to the nation at large than to the City of London that the courts were soon brought back.(717) He would even have waged open war on them had he dared.(718) Instead of proceeding to this extremity, he summoned the aldermen and 400 commoners to Windsor(719) and fined the City £100,000. This was in July (1392). In August the king notified his intention of passing through the city on his way from Shene to Westminster. The citizens embraced the opportunity of giving him a magnificent reception, which the king acknowledged in the following month by restoring to them their liberties and setting free their late mayor and sheriffs.(720) The fine of £100,000 recently imposed, as well as other moneys which the king considered to be due to him from the city, were also remitted.(721) (M385) Once more restored to their liberties, the citizens in the following year (1393), with the assent of parliament, effected a reform in the internal government of the city which the increasing population had rendered necessary. The Ward of Farringdon Within and Without had increased so much in wealth and population that it was deemed advisable to divide it into two parts, each part having its own alderman. Accordingly, in the following March (1394), Drew Barantyn was elected Alderman of Farringdon Within, whilst John Fraunceys was elected for Farringdon Without. A more important reform effected at the same time was the appointment of aldermen for life instead of for a year only.(722) (M386)