Excerpt from De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cronica Maiorum Et Vicecomitum Londoniarum Et Quedam, Que Contingebant Temporibus Illis Ab Anno MCLXXVIII Ad Annum MCCLXXIV, Cum Appendice The dwelling of Henry Fitz Aylwin, the first Mayor of London, a very fair house, Mayor of London, who was the first Mayor in the city, and who continued Mayor up to the close of his life, namely, well nigh for twenty-five years. The day of the election of the Mayor was on the 28th day of October, the feast of St. Simon and Jude, and as he was deceased before the 5th day of October 1212, 14th John, it wanted but a few days of the completion of the twenty-fifth year of his mayoralty, if elected in 1187. In the Appendix to the Introduction prefixed to the Rotuli Curim Regis by Sir Francis Palgrave is copy of a deed by which Henry Fitz Ailwin grants to William Lafaite the land which Emma, sister of the aforesaid William, had held in Lime-street, which lay next the land of the Abbot of Ramsey, to be held of him and his heirs by the grantee and his heirs in fief and in inheritance for ever at the annual rent of 1 2d., for which concession the aforesaid William gave to him half a mark of silver by way of boon. Witnesses, - Peter son of Alan, Ralph Brand, Jordan son of Sperling, Robert the Chamberlain, Jordan son of Jordan. Appendant to this deed is a seal of yellow wax, varnished, impressed with the representation of a man on horseback, a hawk perched on his fist, with an inscription round its circumference, but so defaced as to be illegible, and is now in the Treasury of the Exchequer. In the same Appendix is also copy of a convention and concord made in the Curie Regis at Westminster on the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, third year of the reign of King Richard, before John Comte of Mortain, brother of the King, and before Walter Archbishop of Rouen, then J ushciary of England, and Richard Bishop of London, then Treasurer of the Lord the King, and the Barons of the Exchequer, between William son of Reiner and Henry his brother, concerning lands in Middlesex and London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.