Declaration that whereas the Mayor and commonalty of London have in right of the...

Declaration that whereas the Mayor and commonalty of London have in right of the city of a yearly rent of 8s. issuing from the tenement of the prior and convent of Holy Trinity within Alegate in the parish of St, Mary Colchirche, and the latter have a yearly rent of 10s. issuing from a tenement of the Mayor and commonalty in the parish of St. Swithin Candelwikstrete: on the 13 Octobber, 9 Henry V., William, the prior, and the said convent came into the Common Council before William Cauntbrigge, Mayor, and the commonalty, and desired that if they pulled down a bulging stone wall, enclosing their churchyard, they might put up a new erect wall by taking in a piece of common soil about the middle of the wall 4 ft. 4 ins, wide by 20 ft. long, and they would not exact the said 10s. rent so long as the commonalty allowed them quietly to possess their new wall and did not exact the 9s. rent. The commonalty considering that the leaning wall is ugly and very dangerous to passers by, unanimously granted their requests: [Middx.]. 9 Henry V.