44 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



redress." But the mayor would not give way at first, though it 

 appears that he afterwards held "a conference between his 

 aldermen," at which it was agreed that "all the gardeners of the 

 city, as well aliens as freemen, who sell their pulse, cherries, 

 vegetables, and other wares aforesaid in the city, should have as 

 their place the space between the south gate of the churchyard 

 of S. Austin's, and the garden wall of the Friars Preachers at 

 Baynard's Castle, in the same city, that so they should sell their 

 wares aforesaid in the place by the said mayor and aldermen 

 thus appointed for them, and nowhere else."* 



* Letter Book F, fol. cxi, of the Guildhall, and Riley's Memorials of 

 London Life. 



