Fleet street: the Clothworkers in London have oversight thereof. And thus an end of this ward; which hath an alderman, his deputy, common councillors five, constables eight, scavengers nine, for the wardmote inquest fourteen, and a beadle. It is taxed to the fifteen in London seven pounds, and[231] in the exchequer six pounds nineteen shillings. FOOTNOTES: [227] “It is taxed in London to the fifteene at forty pound, and in the Exchequer at thirty-nine pound ten shillings.”--_1st edition_, p. 242. [228] “Thomas Leichfield.”--_1st edition_, p. 244. [229] R. Grafton. [230] These disjointed syllables, it will be seen, may be so read as to form the following rhyming couplet:-- “_Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulnere stravit, Hos sanguis Christi miro tum munere lavit._” [231] “Likewise in the exchequer.”--_1st edition_, p. 247. FARINGDON WARD INFRA, OR WITHIN On the south side of Aldersgate ward lieth Faringdon ward, called _infra_ or within, for a difference from another ward of that name, which lieth without the walls of the city, and is therefore called Faringdon _extra_. These two wards of old time were but one, and had also but one alderman, till the 17th of Richard II., at which time the said ward, for the greatness thereof, was divided into twain, and by parliament ordered to have two aldermen, and so it continueth till this day. The whole great ward of Farindon, both _infra_ and _extra_, took name of W. Farindon, goldsmith, alderman of that ward, and one of the sheriffs of London in the year 1281, the 9th of Edward I. He purchased the Aldermanry of this ward, as by the abstract of deeds, which I have read thereof, may appear.