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A29941	Camera regis, or, A short view of London containing the antiquity, fame, walls, bridge, river, gates, tower, cathedral, officers, courts, customs, franchises, &c. of that renowned city / collected out of law & history and methodized for the benefit of the present inhabitants by John Brydall ...	Brydall, John, b. 1635?	1676 (1676)	Wing B5253; ESTC R2537	44,312	135

l. 3. s c 6. Touching the Lord Mayor of London I shall present to the Reader these particularities worthy of his observation sc 1. That the Citizens or Burgesses of London were before and after the conquest governed by Port-graves or Port-greves until the Reign of Rich. I. by whose Charter they were governed by two Bailiffs Co. 4. Instit 253. and yet King R. in the first year of his Reign appointed them a Mayor who continued therein until the eighth year of King John and then King John appointed them a Mayor And forasmuch as sometimes the Mayor appointed by the King was no Citizen of London King John in the tenth year of his Reign granted to the Citizens Liberty And Authority to choose de seipsis a Mayor c. And so it continueth unto this day Thus far Sir Edward Coke and to the same effect are the words of Mr. Stow in his survey of London King William the Conqueror sayes he found a Port-Reve at London whose name was Godfrey and his office was no other then the charge of a Bailiff or Reve as by the self same continuing yet at Gravesend and certain other places may well appear But the Normans using their owne Language called him sometimes a Provost and sometimes a Bailiff whatsoever his name and Office were he was Perpetuus Magistratus given by the Prince and chosen by the Citizens as it seemeth for what time King Ric. I. needed money towards his expedition in the Holy Land they first purchased of him the liberty to choose yearly from amongst themselves two Bailiffs and King John his successor at the like suit changed their Bailiffs into a Mayor and two Sheriffs Co. 3. Inst 73 2. That the Lord Mayor ought to be principal in all Commissions of felony c. Perpetrated within the City of London by the charter of the City Co. 4. Inst 250. 3. That in all Commissions touching the water of Ley the Lord Mayor of London is alwaies one 4. H. 7. C. 15. 4. That the Lord Mayor of London for the time being hath the conservation and rule of the water and River of Thames 49. E. 3.16 a. Cro. 2. part f. 531. 5. That his Lord-ship is perpetual Coroner and also Escheator within the City of London Bulstrods Rep. 3. part f. 21. 6. That the Lord Mayor of London is chief Butler to the King at his Coronation And in 1. H. 4. this was so allowed unto him when Fitz-Allen was Lord Steward who then allowed this unto him 21. E. 4.14 7. That if the Commonalty of the City do choose a Mayor at the Feast of St Michael in the absence of the ancient Mayor t is a voyd Election Stow. 8. That there be certain Officers appertaining to the Lord Mayors house and they are these following The Sword Bearer the Common Hunt the Common Cryer the Water-Bayliff Esquires four Sergeants Carvers 3. Sergeants of the Chamber 3. Sergeant of the Channel Yomen of the Waterside 4. under-Bayliffs Yeomen of the Chamber two Meale-Weighers 3. Yeomen of the Wood-Wharfs two Gentlemens men 7. The Sword-Bearers Man Common Hunts men 2. Common Cryers man Water-Bayliffs men 2. The Carvers man Whereof nine of these have Liveries of the Lord Mayor viz. The Sword-Bearer and his Man the three Carvers and the four Yeomen of the Water-side All the rest have their Liveries from the Chamber of London 9. That there are dayes of Mendance the Fellow-ships do give to the Lord Mayor at his going to Pauls and they are in number 7. viz. 1. Alhallowen day Stow. 2. Christmass day 3. St Stevens day 4. St Johns day 5. New years day 6. Twelf day 7. Candlemas day To conclude as touching this grand officer Stow in his Annalls reporteth that Henry Picard vintner Mayor of London in one day did sumptuously Feast Edw. III. King of England John King of France the King of Cyprus David King of Scots and Edward Prince of Wales 2. The Aldermen IN relation to Aldermen three things are worthy of notice sc 1. The Etymology of the words Alderman and Senator An Alderman is among the Romans Laticlavius Senator and Optimas An Alderman from the Saxon word Ealderman i. e. Senex quod Senes solummodo illum dignitatis gradum accipiant Hence among the Latins he is called Senator Gothofredus tells us that Senatores dicti non sunt ab assentiendo as Hugolinus and Bartolus suppose but à senili aetate or à virtute for heretofore Senes apud Romanos Viri optimi appellati sunt Olim apud Britones sayes one temporibus Romanorum in regno isto Britanniae vocabantur Senatores qui postea temporibus Saxonum vocabantur Aldermanas non propter aetatem sed propter sapientiam dignitatem cùm quidam adolescentes essent Jurisperiti tamen super hoc experti 2. Their election The Aldermen of London were changed by election every year until 28. E. 3. Then it was ordered that they should not be removed without some special cause Co. 4. Inst 253. But Rot. Parl. 17. R. 2. nu 25. it is enacted that the Aldermen of London shall not from thenceforth be yearly chosen but remain till they be put out for reasonable cause notwithstanding the Ordinances of Ed. II. Ric. III. And so it still continueth Yearly on the Feast of St Michael the Arch-Angel on of these Aldermen is elected to be Mayor Stow. for the year following to be begun on the 28. of October the other Aldermen his brethren are to him assistents in Counsels Courts c. With what has been said agrees the Description given by another Author that I have read Aldermannus Civitatis Londinensis saies he est unus ex Senatu Civitatis cui Regimen Civitatis praecipuè incumbit ex quorum numero praefectus annuus eligitur 3. The priviledge of these Aldermen in respect of offices in the Countrey which will appear by this following case John Abdy Alderman of London having a House at .... in the County of Essex where it was pretended that Constables should be elected out of the Inhabitants in every house by presentment every year in Leet of Sir William Hickes Lord of the said Manor and Leet the said Alderman Abdy by the name of John Abdy Esquire was nominated in a Leet such a day Cro. 3. part Alderman of London's case to be Constable for the year following and because he refused the Steward of the Court imposed a fine upon him and denyed him any priviledge to be freed by reason of his being Alderman of London whereupon this being suggested It was moved to have a writ out of the Kings Bench directed to the Lord of the said Manor to his Steward to discharge him because he being an Alderman of London ought to be there resident the greatest part of the year and if absent is fineable and all the Court of the Kings Bench held that he ought to be discharged by his priviledg

Charter the soyle and ground of the River of Thames granted to them by vertue of which grant the City at this day receive Rents of them that six posts or make wharses or other Buildings upon the soyle of the said River Davys Reports le case de Royal Pischary Priviledge 25. Lands c. in South-wark In the year 1550. King E. 6. granted to the Mayor and Commonalty all his Lands and Tenements in Southwark except and reserved the Capital Messuage two Mansions called Southwark place and all the gardens and Lands to the same appertaining the Park and Messuage called the Antelope He gave them the Lordship and Mannor of Southwark with all members Rights thereof late pertaining to the Monastery of Bermondsey All messuages places buildings Rents Courts waifs and strayes to the same pertaining in the County of Surry He granted to them in and through the Borough and Town of Southwark and in all the parishes of St Savior St Olave and St George and the Parish of St. Thomas Hospital and elsewhere in the said Town and Borough of Southwark and Kentish street Bermondsey street in the Parish of Newington all waifs and strays Treasure Trove all felons goods c. within the Parishes and precincts aforesaid c. The Return of writs processes and warrants c. Together with a Fair in the whole Town for three dayes with a Court of Pypowders a view of frankepledg with Attachents Arrests c. Also to arrest all felons other Malefactors within their precinct and send them to ward and to New-gate Stow. Priviledge 26. Bridewell In the year 1553. Ed. 6. gave unto the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens his house of Brid-well and 700. marks Land late of the possessions of the house of the Savoy and all the Bedding and other furnitute of the said Hospital of the Savoy towards the maintenance of the said work-house of Brid-well and the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark Stow. Priviledge 27. King John gave the City of London Authority Sheriffs to chuse and deprive their Sheriffs at their pleasure Stow. Priviledge 28. The Citizens of London are by a Charter of King Ed. 3. excepted from paying of prisage Prisage Touching this Franchise or Liberty of Prisage I shall present to the Reader these resolutions shewing who shall be a reputed Citizen and who not as to the being exempted of paying Prisage A Question was in the Court of Exchequer 44. Eliz. If a Citizen of London that had not a family and did not pay Scot and Lot but sojourne in another house shall have the benefit of the Kings Charter In the argument of the case Coke then Atturney General put this difference of Citizens viz. That there was A Citizen Nomine Re. Re nomine It was said that a Citizen Re nomine He that is a Freeman of London and an Inhabitant and one that paid Scot and Lot there shall be discharged of prisage by the said Charter c. Davys Reports le Case de Customs f. 10. b. He that is to have benefit and advantage of this Charter ought to be integre Civis and an intire Citizen as it was adjudged in 4. H. 6. in one Knowls case a Citizen and Free-Grocer of London removed his house-hold cum pannis and did dwell at Bristol but yet kept his shop at London and he having a ship laden with wines which was unladen in the port of London would have had the benefit of this Charter of discharge of prisage But it was ruled against him for that he was not such a Citizen as was capable of this discharge for that he ought to be Civis Incola Commorans 4. H. 6. Knowls Case 14. H. 6. c. A private Act of Parliament Complaint was made that the Lord Mayor would make strangers Citizens it was there declared that this benefit to be discharged from payment of prisage did not extend unto such Citizens as were Dotati made free but unto those Citizens only which are Commorant Incolant and Resiant within the City A person disfranchised before the arrival of his ship shall lose the benefit of prisage he was intitled to at the lading and a person made free after the lading shall have the benefit of discharge Bulstrodes Reports 3. part The King and Sir Thomas Waller vers Francis Hanger A Woman cannot be capable of this Immunity though a Citizen to what end say I She cannot bear Civilia or publicae onera of the City she cannot doe any thing for the benefit of the City she cannot perform Watch and Ward she can bear no office in the City neither can she be of any of the Companies she cannot be an Attorney she may be a Free-Woman but this is only to have her will as many so have but to no other purpose Thus much of the Franchises granted to the Londoners by Charters Royal and such as are allowed to be good agreable to the Laws of England I shall now put a Case or two of such singularities or Priviledges as have been adjudged to be contrary to the freedom of the subject and consequentially the Kings grants are deemed void in Law King H. 6. granted to the Corporation of Dyers within London power to search c. and if they found any Cloth died with Logge wood that the Cloth should be forfeit and it was adjudged this Charter concerning the forfeiture was against the Law of the Land For no forfeiture can grow by Letters Patent Co. lib. 8. Trin. 41. Eliz. f. 125. le Case de Londres So the Company of Merchant Taylots of England having power by their Charter to make Ordinances made an Ordinance Co. 2. Inst 47. Tr. 41. Eliz. coram Rege ●ot 92. in Tr. inter Davent Hurdes that every Brother of the same Society should put the one half of his Clothes to be dressed by some Cloth-worker free of the same Company upon pain to forfeit 10 s. c. and it was adjudged that this Ordinance was against Law because it was against the Liberty of the Subject for every subject hath freedom to put his Clothes to be dressed by whom he will sic de similibus And so it is if such or the like grant had been made by his Letters Patents So if a grant should be made to a Londoner to have the sole making of Cards Trin. 44. Eliz. Coram Rege Co. lib. 11 fol. 84. 85 c. Edward Darries Case or the sole dealing with any other Trade that grant is against the Liberty and freedom of the Subject that before did or lawfully might have used that trade and consequently is against the Great Charter of England Hitherto of franchises granted by the Charters of the Kings of England we proceed to those that have been given to the Citizens of London by our Kings in their several Parliaments 2. Of the Franchises Liberties or Singularities which the Londoners have obtained from the favor of our

the midst of the shaft or spire and in the year 1462. this Steeple was repaired and the weather Cock again erected In the year 1561. the fourth of June betwixt the Hour of three and four of the Clock in the afternoon the great Spire of the Steeple of S. Pauls Church was fired by Lightning which brake forth as it seemed two or three yards beneath the foot of the Crosse and from thence it brent downeward the Spire to the Battlements stone worke and Bells so furiously that within the space of four hours the same Steeple with all the Roof of the Church were consumed After this mischance the Queens Majesty directed her Letters to the Lord Mayor willing him to take order for speedy repairing the same And she of her princely and gratious disposition for the furtherance thereof did presently give and deliver in gold 1000. marks with a warrant for a thousand Loads of Timber to be taken out of her woods or elsewhere Stow. The Citizens also gave first a great benevolence and after that 3. fifteens to be speedily paid The Clergy of England likewise within the Province of Canterbury granted the fourtieth part the value of their benefices charged with first fruits the thirtieth part of such as were not so charged but the Clergy of London Diocess granted the thirtieth part of such as paid their fruits Six Citizens of London and two Petty Canons of Pauls Church had charge to further and over see the work In the year 1650. c. It was made a stable for Horses and a Denn for Thieves and Rebells In the year 1666. it was burnt again to the ground together with all the City and there is now this being the year 1675. began the Foundation of a new Church of St Paul so that the foundation of this London Cathedral has been thrice laid God Speed the work SECT XII Of the distribution of this renowed City into parts and likewise of its extent AS for the Division of this City for the better Regiment thereof I shall vouch three several Authors viz. Sir Edward Coke Fitz-Sephen and Stow. 1. Sir Ed. Coke tells us Co. 4. Iust 249. that in this City there are twenty and six wards divided for the government of the Trenobants or Citizens of London amongst the 24. Aldermen of the City 2. Fitz-Steven saith that this City even as Rome is divided into wards It hath yearly Sheriffs instead of Consuls it hath the Dignity of Senators and Aldermen it hath under Officers and according to the Quality of Laws it hath several Courts and general Assemblies upon appointed daies 3. Stow informeth us that this City of London is divided into Wards or Aldermanries and the number of them in London were both before and in the Reign of H. 3. twenty four in all and in the year of Christ 1393. the 17. R. 2. Faringdon Ward which was then one entire Ward but mightily increased of buildings without the Gates was by Parliament appointed to be divided into twaine and have two Aldermen to wit Faringdon within and Faringdon without and so the number was 25. Moreover in the year 1550. the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London purchasing the Liberties of the Borough of Southwarke appointed the same to be a Ward of London which in all arise to the number of 26. and 26. 4. E. 4.17 Cro. 3. pant Adams vers Hiske Aldermen of London Note the City of London is a County and every Ward is an hundred in the County and the Parishes are as Vills or Towns But note likewise Co. Litt. 109. b. that it is not necessary that a. City be a County of it selfe as Cambridge Ely Westminster c. are Cities but are no Counties of themselves but are part of the Counties where they be Thus much of the Division of this Metropolis I now proceed to shew 5. E. 4.1.41 E. 3.26.11 E. 4.5.26 Eliz. Dyer 38. Co lib. 7. Bulwers case what I have found in our books of Law touching the extent thereof It is said that London extendeth into 2. Counties London and Middlesex But sc London cannot joyn with Middlesex or with any County in Trial. 4. E. 4.17 Part of the Tower of London is within London but not within the Jurisdiction of it The ancient Wall of London saith Coke extendeth through the Tower of London and all that which is on the West part of the Wall Co. 3. Inst 136. Co. 4. Inst 251. is within the City of London viz. in the Parish of Barbing in the ward of the Tower of London and all that is on the East part of the Wall is in the County of Middlesex And this upon view and examination was found Mich. 13. Jac. Regis in the case of Sr Thomas Overbury who was poysoned in a Chamber in the Tower on the West part of that wall And therefore Weston the principal murderer was tryed before Commissioners of Oyer and terminer in London and so was Sr Gervais Elvis Lieutenant of the Tower as Accessary SECT XIII Of the reason why the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury never makes any visitation in London Diocess THe reason why the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury never makes any visitation in London Diocess appears in one Gobbets Case where it was said by Mr Justice Jones that he was informed by Doctor Ducke Chancellor of London that there hath been for a time a composition betwixt the Bishop of London and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that if any suit began before the Arch-Bishop it shall be alwaies permitted by the Bishop of London so as it is quasi a general Licence and so not sued there but with the Bishops assent and for that Reason the Arch-Bishop never makes any visitation in London Diocess Having hither-unto handled the Antiquity Walls River Bridge Gates the Cathedral Church the Division Extent c. of this most glorious and renowned City I am now to proceed to speak of its Magistrates and Officers of its Courts or Assemblies its Customs and lastly of the Franchises Liberties and singularities of this noble City SECT XIV Of the Magistrates and Officers of this Precellent City THe Governors and Chief Officers of this City are these sc The Lord Mayor the Aldermen the Recorder the Sheriffs the Chamberlain the common Clerk or Town Clerk the common Sergeant The Coroner the Escheater and Constable Of these in their order The Lord Mayor A Mayor of a Town is termed among the Latin Godw. Antiq. Lib. 3. sect 2. c. 4 c. 20. Praefectus Vrbis Praefectus annuus Urbis Praefectus Praetorio and Praetor quasi praeitor à praecunde vel à praeessendo quod aliis praesit vel quod praeiret populo Pomponius saith thus In Civitate Romae duo olim fuerint Praetores Vrbanus peregrinus qui peregrinorum causas agebat quorum hic Major unde Major dictus est ille Minor Praetor Vrbanus seu Major and Praetor peregrinus sive minor Vide more Godw. Ant.