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- The Ch. Acs. contain numerous entries relative to Chapman, as 
1655 ‘Item paid Mr. Henry Chapman for 2 
pottles of canarie sent for to Mr. 
Bigge’s 16 Aprill oo — 08 — 00” 
Item paid him wch he laid out for 
cleansing the passage of water by 
Gaskin’s (Gascoigne’s) tower 00 — 04 — 00” 
The M. B. records on October 1st, 1657 :—“Mr. Henry 
Chapman bids ( ) for a Coppie of Lycense to sell 
y* tenem* Called y® red Lyon now in his posson—Agreede a 
coppie of Lycense shall be granted to Mr Chapman as aforesayd 
for y° Sum of tenne shillings.” The Ch. Ac. for 1657 contains 
the entry : 
“Ttm of Mr Henry Chapman for his 
Coppie Licence 00 — 10 — 00” 
The Red Lyon was situated near the Hot Bath (present old 
Royal Baths). In March, 1660 (John Bigges, Mayor) the 
Chamber “ Agreede Willm Prynn Esq’ be one of y® Cittizens for 
this Cittie to serve in y® next Parliam'” with “Collonell Alexander 
Popham Esq*” as a colleague. 
Prynne from his early education at the Grammar School, then 
held in the secularized Church of St. Mary, in the Market Place ; 
only a few houses separating the building from the Sun, and from 
his later connection with the City, was well acquainted with 
Henry Chapman. The enmity between them possibly commenced 
in 1647, on the removal of Chapman and his friends from the 
Council. Prynne who just then was especially active in prosecu- 
ting ‘‘malignants” seems to have been instrumental in this. 
He was chosen as Recorder at the same meeting (displaced in 
September 1652) and took a prominent part in electing their 
successors. Prynne’s action in the Parliament or Convention to 
which he was returned in 1660, doubtless increased the animosity. 
Chapman, as a conspicuous adherent of the Royalist cause, had 
been greatly impoverished by the action of the Commonwealth 
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