At the same time it must be remembered that there were quarters assigned to foreigners, and that the people must have been accustomed to see these residents going about the streets. Perhaps they were only insolent to foreign nobles, and those whose dress and language were not familiar to them. The Hanse merchants had their house beside Dowgate, Petty Almaigne; the Flemings had theirs on the east side of the Bridge, Petty Flanders: the French had a place in Bishopsgate Ward called Petty France. It was in Petty Flanders that certain Jews resided under the guise of Flemings, just as in the fourteenth century they passed themselves off as Lombards. The Flemings built the Exchange: it was designed after the Antwerp Bourse, by a Fleming; the workmen were specially brought over, and appear to have been unmolested. [Illustration: _W Knight del^t._ _J^s. Basire sculp._ INTERIOR VIEW OF QUEEN ELIZABETH’S BATH From _Archæologia_.] In February 1831 there was swept away, with all the buildings in the place called the King’s Mews, where Trafalgar Square now is, a small building called Queen Elizabeth’s Bath. It was a square building of fine brick. It was certainly a Bath, and had a groined roof ascribed by Mr. William Knight who sketched it to the fifteenth century. It was an interesting building of which nothing seems known. Nobody has noticed it except a writer in _Archæologia_ (vol. xxv.), who gives a plan and drawing of the curious place. Like the Sanctuary at Westminster it would have been entirely forgotten but for the hand of a single antiquary, who rescued it from oblivion at the last moment. GOVERNMENT AND TRADE OF THE CITY CHAPTER I THE MAYOR [Illustration: MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE PERIOD From an MS. in British Museum.] In the year 1500 a change of some importance was effected by Sir John Shaw, Mayor of that year. Before his time the civic feasts had been held at the Hall of the Grocers or the Taylors. Sir John Shaw built kitchens and offices at the Guildhall and began the custom of holding the Lord Mayor’s feast in that place. The election of Sheriffs was formerly conducted by the citizens, who, by the Charter of King Henry IV., could appoint Sheriffs from their own body “according to the tenor of the Charters granted by the King’s progenitors and not in any other way” (_Liber Albus_, p. 148), and in the first book of the same work the manner of the election of the Sheriff is described in greater detail (_Liber Albus_, 1861 edition, p. 39):—