40 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



S. Austin, at the side of the gate of S. Paul's churchyard, in 

 London, there to sell the garden produce of their said masters, 

 and make their profits as heretofore they have been wont to 

 do, seeing that they have heretofore been in the said place un- 

 molested, and that as they assert they cannot serve the com- 

 monalty, nor yet their masters, as they were wont to do. As 

 to which they pray for 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 afore- 

 said 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. 



