[214] 1193. 'Sacramentum Commune tempore regis Ricardi quando detentus erat Alemaniam' (Add. MS., No. 14,252, f. 112 d.), 1205-1206. 'Sacramentum xxiiij factum anno regni regis Johannis viiº.' (Add. MS., No. 14,252, f. 110).--(_The Commune of London_, 1899, pp. 235-237.) [215] _Commune of London_, p. 240. [216] A curious point is that formerly the Leges Britolii were supposed to relate to Bristol, and the great English port obtained credit which it did not deserve. [217] 'The Laws of Breteuil [Britolium],' _English Historical Review_, xv. (1900), pp. 73, 302, 496, 754. [218] The seal is figured in '_Rotuli Curiæ Regis_. Rolls and Records of the Court held before the King's Justiciars or Justices, ed. by Sir Francis Palgrave,' vol. i., 1835 (plate 1), and is here reproduced. [219] _Constitutional History_, chap. xiii. sec. 165. [220] Cal. Letter Book B, p. 244. [221] Cal. Letter Book A, pp. 89, 209. [222] Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 892. [223] Cal. Letter Book C, pp. 27, 212, 213. [224] _Constitutional History_, chap. xxi. sec. 486. [225] Sharpe, _London and the Kingdom_, vol. i. p. 158. [226] Letter Book F, fo. 44. Riley's Introduction to _Liber Albus_, 1859, pp. xcviii., xcix. (note). [227] This church was destroyed in the Great Fire, and rebuilt after the designs of Sir C. Wren. It was cleared away in 1831 to make way for the approaches to the new London Bridge. [228] Stubbs, _Constitutional History_, chap. xxi. sec. 487. [229] Statutes at Large, ed. 1762, ii. 257. [230] Riley's _Memorials_, pp. 473, 474. [231] Riley's _Memorials_, pp. 415, 416. [232] _Rotuli Parl._ iii. 227. [233] Riley's _Memorials_, p. 494. [234] _Ibid._, p. 526. [235] Cal. Letter Book A, p. 64. [236] _Constitutional History_, chap. xxi. sec. 488. [237] See Jewitt and Hope's _Corporation Plate_, 1895, vol. ii., pp. 446, 463. [238] Riley's _Memorials_, pp. 604, 605. [239] _Historical Collections of a Citizen of London_, 1876, pp. 222, 223. [240] _London and the Kingdom_, i. 69. 'Cives vero Lundonie servierunt de pincernaria, et Cives Wintonie de Coquina.'--Roger de Hoveden, Bodl. Laud., MS. 582, fo. 52. (_See_ Wickham Legg's _English Coronation Records_, 1901, p. 50). [241] 'Andrew the Mayor came to serve as butler with 360 cups, on the ground that the City of London is bound to serve in butlery to help the great butler (just as the City of Winchester serves in the kitchen to help the steward). The King said that no one ought to serve by right except Master Michael Belet, so the Mayor gave way and served the two bishops on the King's right hand. '_De Servitiis magnatum in die Coronationis Regis et Reginæ_, Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. by Hubert Hall, pt. ii., 1896, pp. 755-760 (Rolls Series). The germ of the Court of Claims will be found in this MS. _See_ also Wickham Legg's _English Coronation Records_, 1901, pp. 60, 63. [242] _English Coronation Records_, 1901, pp. 140, 159.