Stow agrees with the chronicle, and puts the institution of the mayoralty in the first year of Richard I.; but under 1208 we find an echo of the version as printed by Hearne, for Stow makes King John, in this year, grant the citizens a patent "to chuse to themselves a mayor." Be the explanation of this what it may, contemporary documents show that Fitzalwin was already known as mayor in 1193; he probably took up the office in 1191. Stow tells us that the first mayor was Henry Fitzalwin Fitzleofstan of London Stone, and there is ample confirmation that his father was called Alwin. That his grandfather was Leofstan, Stow must have learnt from the list of sheriffs as in the copy printed by Hearne. There is some confusion between many Leofstans and Alwins, one of whom signs as moneyer the coins of Henry II. about 1160--ALWIN ON LUND. Mr. Round has shown that in 1165 a Henry Fitzailwin Fitzleofstan with Alan his brother were landholders, apparently in Essex.[209] Stow says that Leofstan was a goldsmith; but here he may be confusing another Leofstan, as this fact does not seem to have been given in the list of sheriffs. Munday contradicted Stow as to Mayor Henry's grave being at Holy Trinity, and says he was buried at St. Mary Bothaw, and not as "avowed by Mr. Stow." Stow's authority, however, must have been this same list of sheriffs, for that notes that "he was buried at the entrance to the chapter of the Church of Holy Trinity, under a marble slab." Mr. Round has done much to clear up the history of our first mayor in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, the _Archæological Journal_, and his _Commune of London_; but every detail is valuable of the head of the City Republic of whom the citizens said, "Come what will, in London we will never have another king except our mayor, Henry Fitailwin of London Stone."[210] Henry was mayor for nearly twenty years, and was followed in 1212 by Roger Fitz Alan--can he have been Henry's nephew? * * * * *