History of the Company. 41 



In the tenth year of Richard II. we find the 

 A D 1386. Saddlers' Company championing the 

 A despotic Lord Hbertles of the City, which were as- 

 ^^^^' sailed by the then Mayor, Sir Nicholas 

 Brembre. Sir Nicholas Brembre was elected 

 Lord Mayor in 1377, and re-elected In 1383, and 

 the two following years. A Chronicle of London^ 

 has the following account of his proceedings : — 

 ''Also In this year (1385-6) Sir NIcholl Brembre 

 was chosen maire ageyne be the said craftes and 

 be the men of the contre at Harrowe, and the 

 contre there aboughte, and not be fre elecclon of 

 the citee of London as It oweth to be ; and the 

 oolde halle was stuffed with men of armes overe 

 even be ordlnaance and assente of S^ NIcholl 

 Brembre for to chese hym maIre on the morwe ; 

 and so he was." 



A further account of the 111 deeds of this mag- 

 nate Is furnished in a petition by the Saddlers' 

 Company to the King and Parliament, which Is still 

 preserved In the Public Record Office, among the 

 Rolls of Parliament,'^ although unfortunately it Is 

 in a very fragmentary condition ; It Is In Norman 

 French, and the following Is a translation of as 

 much as can be deciphered : — 



" To the most excellent and most powerful Lord our 

 most dread Lord the King and to the most noble and 



^ A Chronicle of London from 108 9- 148 3, written in the 

 fifteenth century, and printed from MSS. in the British 

 Museum; Ed. by Sir W. H. Nicolas, 1827. There is a copy 

 in the Guildhall Library. 



^ Parliamentary Petitions, No. 7,484. 



