[125] Compare "portmeadows" and lands belonging to citizens elsewhere. At Colchester in 1086 there was a strip eight perches wide surrounding the town wall. As late as 1833 the borough of Bedford _included_ "a broad belt of land." For a full account of the commonable fields of Cambridge and a discussion of the subject generally, see Maitland's _Township and Borough_. The London boundary was called the Line of Separation. [126] The common pasturage of Westminster is mentioned in a charter. [127] _London and Middlesex Archæological Society Trans._, vol. v. See also for these documents Dr. Sharpe's _Letter Book C_. [128] See also Stow's account of the alienation of common lands. Mile-End, according to Froissart, was "a fair plain place where the people of the city did sport them in summer." [129] Fenchurch also seems to have been connected with this land, or at least the eastern suburb. [130] The Friday fair of horses still lasted when Froissart wrote his account of Wat Tyler. [131] _Township and Borough and Village Community._ [132] Hudson Turner. [133] _Making of England._ [134] See Green's _Conquest of England_. [135] In the summary of reigns at the end of Florence's Chronicle he speaks more than once of "London and the adjacent country" as going together. [136] See L. Gomme, _Village Community_, p. 212. [137] Munday. Loftie says there was another Romeland at Dowgate. [138] _Calendar of Ancient Deeds._ [139] See J. H. Round, _Commune of London_, p. 99. [140] Riley, Sharpe, Loftie's two books, _French Chronicle of London_, notes. [141] Or Langbourne and Fenny-about, as the east and west halves of this ward seem to have been sometimes called. [142] Sharpe's _Calendar of Wills_, vol. i. [143] _Calendar of Ancient Deeds_, vol. iii. [144] _Riley's Memorials._ [145] The _Liber Trinitatis_ states that the precinct of Holy Trinity Aldgate was "of old" (pre-Conquest) one parish of Holy Rood. Two adjoining parishes are mentioned in a twelfth century charter (_Commune of Lond._ p. 253)--St. Laurence de Judaismo and St. Marie de Aldermanebury. [146] _Judicia civitatis Londoniæ._ [147] _Liber Albus_, p. 80. [148] A document of about 1120-30 at St. Paul's gives us the name of "Salidus, Bedellus Warde." [149] _Liber Albus_, p. 32. [150] _Archæological Journal_, vol. iv. p. 278. [151] Kemble, _Codex Dip._ 685. [152] See Dugdale, who is wrong, however, in saying it was called a "Palatine tower." Stow applies this grant to Bridewell by mistake. [153] See the genealogy as given by Mr. Round. It is interesting to find that the arms of Fitzwalter, the banner-bearer of London, a fess between two cheverons, is but a difference from the three cheverons of Clare. [154] The arms of the Munfichets were similar to the arms of Clare, with the difference only of a label of five points. From this fact we may suppose that the families were allied. Munfichet Castle afterwards fell into the hands of the Fitzwalters.