[126] _Inq. p. m._, 6 Rich. II., No. 41. [127] _Fines_, 1 Ed. VI., Hil. [128] _P.C.C._ Humphry Cade, 21 Nodes. [129] _Ibid._, John Devereux, 47, Alen. [130] _Notes and Queries_, ser. vii., vol. ii. [131] _Inq. ad quod dam._, 32 Hen. VI., file 451, No. 37. [132] _Inq. p. m. Chan._, Series i., 9 Hen. VI., 54. [133] _Inq. p. m._, 20 Ed. IV., No. 65. [134] _Court of Hustings Wills._ R. R. Sharpe. [135] _Cotton MS._, Faust., B. viii., ff. 247, 247b, 248. [136] _Inq. ad quod dam._, 247, No. 14. [137] _Cotton MS._, Faust., B. viii., f. 248. [138] _Pat. Rolls_, 17 Ed. III., pt. i., m. 25d. [139] _Close Rolls_, 23 Ed. III., m. 20d. [140] _Pat. Rolls_, 6 Ed. II., pt. ii., m. 5. [141] _Stat. of Realm_, 27 Ed. III., ii., c. i. [142] _Rolls of Parl._, xxxiii., 28 Ed. III. [143] _Selden Soc._, vol. x., 53. [144] _Gray's Inn Pension Book_, p. 247. R. J. Fletcher. [145] _Court of Hustings Wills._ R. R. Sharpe. [146] _Ibid._ [147] _Memorials of London._ H. T. Riley. [148] _Inq. ad quod dam. Chan._, f. 451, No. 36. [149] _Add. MS._ 25,590. [150] _Pat. Rolls_, 3 Ed. II., mm. 19, 8. [151] _Ibid._, 19 Ed. III., part iii., mm. 3, 11; 20 Ed. III., part i., m. 25. [152] _Ibid._, 8 Ed. IV., part i., m. 12. [153] _Lords' Journals_, viii., p. 50. THE GUILDHALL BY CHARLES WELCH, F.S.A. Guildhall, the home of civic government and the battle-ground of many a hard-won fight for civil and religious liberty, was built anew by the self-denying efforts of a generation of London citizens just five hundred years ago. This great work took ten years and more in building, and, like its sister edifices of still earlier days, the Tower of London, London Bridge, and Westminster Hall, tested to the utmost the energy and resources of the Londoners of those times. We learn from Fabyan, the alderman chronicler, that the building was begun in the year 1411 by Thomas Knowles, then mayor, and his brethren the aldermen. He tells us:-- "The same was made of a little cottage a large and great house as now it standeth, towards the charges whereof the companies gave large benevolences; also offences of men were pardoned for sums of money church for the maintenance of a chaplain to celebrate fines, amercements, and other things employed." [Illustration: THE GUILDHALL.]