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the image of St. Paul, gold; the face, hands, feet, and 
fword, of filver. And, as foon as the faid Robert (hall fee 
the mayor, aldermen, and fheriffs, come on foot out of 
the church, armed with fuch a banner; he fhall alight 
from his horfe and falute the mayor, and fay to him, Sir 
mayor, / am come to do my fervice which l owe to the city. 
And the mayor and aldermen (hall anfwer, We give 
to you, as to our banneret of fee in this city, the banner of this 
■city, to bear and govern the honour of this city to your power. 
And the faid Robert and his heirs fhall receive the ban¬ 
ner in his hands, and go on foot out of the gate, with the 
banner in his hands; and the mayor, aldermen, and fhe- 
riffs, (hall follow to the door, and fhall bring an horfe to 
the faid Robert, worth twenty pounds, which horfe fhall 
be faddled with a (addle of the arms of the faid Robert, 
and fhall be covered with fndals of the faid arms. Alfo 
they fhall prefent to him twenty pounds (terling, and de¬ 
liver it to the chamberlain of the faid Robert, for his ex- 
penfes that day. Then the faid Robert fhall mount upon 
the horfe which the mayor prefented to him, with the 
banner in his hand ; and, as foon as he is up, he fhall fay 
to the mayor, that he mull caufe a marfhal to be chofen 
for the hoff, one of the city ; which being done, the faid 
Robert fhall command the mayor and burgeffes of the 
city to warn the commons to affemble, and all go under 
the banner of St. Paul; and the faid Robert fhall bear it 
himfelf to Aldgate, and there the faid Robert and mayor 
fhall deliver the faid banner of St. Paul to whom they 
think proper. And, if they are to go out of the city, then 
the faid Robert ought to choofe two out of every ward, the 
molt fage perfons, to look to the keeping of the city after 
they are gone out. And this counfel fhall be taken in 
the priory of the Trinity, near Aldgate. And before 
every town or caftle which the holt of London fhall befiege, 
if the liege continue a whole year, the faid Robert Pnall 
have, for every fiege, of the commonalty of London, one 
hundred (hillings, and no more. Thefe be the rights that 
the faid Robert hath in time of war. 
“ Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwalter, and to his 
heirs, in the city of London, in the time of peace, are 
thefe: that is to fay, The faid Robert Fitzwalter had a 
Poke or ward, in the city, where was a wall of the ca- 
nonry of St. Paul, which led down by a brewhoufe of 
St. Paul to the Thames, and fo to the fide of the 
mill, which was in the water, coming down from Fleet- 
bridge, and went by London-wall, betwixt the Friars- 
preachers and Ludgate, and fo returned by the houfe of 
the faid friars to the wall of the canonry of St. Paul ; 
that is, all the parifh of St. Andrew, which was in the 
gift of his anceltors, by the faid feigniority ; and fo the 
faid P^obert had, appendant unto the laid foke,all the things 
underwritten : That he ought to have a fokeman, and to 
place what fokeman he will, fo he be of the fokemanry, or 
the fame ward ; and if any of the fokemanry be impleaded, 
in the Guildhall, of anything that toucheth not the body 
of the mayor that for the time is, or that toucheth the 
body of no fheriff, it is lawful for the fokeman of the 
fokemanry of tIre laid Robert Fitzwalter to demand a 
court of the faid Robert; and the mayor, and his citizens 
of London, ought to grant him to have a court; and in his 
court he ought to bring his judgments, as it is affented 
and agreed upon in the Guildhall that firal 1 be given him. 
If any, therefore, be taken in his fokemanry, he ought to 
have his flocks and imprifonment in his l'oken ; and he 
fhall be brought from thence to the Guildhall, before 
the mayor, and there they fhall provide him his judg¬ 
ment that ought to be given of him; but his judgment 
fir all not be publifhed till he come into the court of the 
faid Robert, and in his liberty. And the judgment fhall 
be fuch, that, if he have delerved death by trealon, lie be 
tied to a polt in the Thames, at a good wharf, where boats 
are faflened, two ebbings and two flowings of the water. 
And, if he be condemned for a common thief, he ought 
to be led to the elms, and there fuffer his judgment, as 
other thieves. And fo the faid Robert, and his heirs, 
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hath honour, that he holdeth a great franchife within the 
city, that the mayor of the city, and citizens, are bound 
to do him right; that is to fay, that, when the mayor will 
bold a great council, he ought to call the faid Robert, 
and his heirs, to be with him in council of the city; and 
the laid Robert ought to be fworn to be of council with 
the city, againft all people, faving the king and his heirs. 
And, when the laid Robert conreth to the huftings of the 
Guildhall of the city, the mayor, or his lieutenant, ought 
to rife again ft him, and fet him down near unto him; and, 
fo long as he is in the Guildhall, all the judgments ought 
to he given by his mouth, according to the record 
of the recorders of the faid Guildhall; and fo many waifes 
as come fo long as he is there, he ought give them to the 
bailiffs of the town, or to whom he will, by the council 
of the tnayor of the city.’’ 
The old caftle was deftroyed by fire in 1428 ; after which 
it was rebuilt by Humphrey duke of Gloucefter. At his 
deceafe, Henry VI. gave it to Richard duke of York, who 
refided here, with his armed followers, to the number of 
four hundred, during the important convention of the 
great men of the nation, in 1458, the forerunner of the 
civil wars between the houfes of York and Lancafter- 
This was alfo the refidence of Richard III. when he took 
upon him the title of king. It was afterwards beautified, 
and made more commodious, by Henry VII. who fre¬ 
quently lodged here; and the privy-council met here, on 
the 19th of July, 1553, for the purpofe of proclaiming 
queen Mary; at which time it was the property and refi¬ 
dence of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke. There 
are feveral prints exifting at this time, of this famous 
place; but they give fo inadequate an idea of the caftle, 
and reprefent it fo much like a prifon, that we did not 
think a copy of them, as we could not find any thing ori¬ 
ginal, would be acceptable to our readers. The fite is 
now occupied by wharfs; and no remains of the old fa¬ 
bric, we underftand, are to be found. In faft the whole 
ground has been turned up fo many times, and fo little 
notice has been taken of the old caftle by our modern an- 
nalifts, that it is not to be wondered at if this ancient, 
and, as it was ftyled, magnificent building, the feene 
of lo many eventful tranfaftions, is now erafed from the 
memory of man, and exifts only in the name which it 
gave to the ward.—The caftle of Montfitchet, and ano¬ 
ther caftle, built by Edward II. which, from being after¬ 
wards appropriated for the reception and refidence of the 
pope’s legates, was called Legates Inn ; and alfo Beamont’s 
Inn, afterwards Huntingdon-houle, a very noble palace, 
built in Thames-(freet, oppofite St. Peter’s Hill, in the 
30th of Edward IV. the city manlion of the family of 
Scroop, on the weft fide of Paul’s Wharf; Berkeley’s inn, 
or palace, in Addle-ftreet 5 and the ftately palace belong¬ 
ing to the priors of Okeburn, in Wiltfhire, which ftood 
in Caftle-lane, with many others of lefs note, in this neigh¬ 
bourhood ; have all (hared the fame fate. 
Theafcent from Thames-ftreet to Doftors’ Commons is 
cut into fuch a number of narrow lireets clofe and paraliel 
to each other, and indeed farther on, nearly to Fifh-ltreet 
Hill and London Bridge, that on the map they look like 
the teeth of a comb. On the eaft of .Bennet’s Hill we 
have St. Peter’s Hill, fo called from a church once ex¬ 
ifting there, but deftroyed with others in 1666; and the 
parii'li of which was, as we mentioned above, united to 
St. Bennet’s. This hill is fteep, and yet of an ealier afeent 
than St. Bennet’s; but, having no direct opening or outlet 
in St. Paul’s-church-yard, is lefs annoyed by the paffage of 
carts from Thames-ftreet. It is neaily oppofite to Ser¬ 
mon-lane, probably fo called as a near uay to the Pulpit- 
crofs ; near which, and parallel to it, is Do.little-alley ; 
which feems to have been fo called in allufion to its nar- 
rownefs, admitting of no trade or of very few paffengers. 
However, the oddity of the name, and fome improper 
allufions having been made on account of it, caufed the 
inhabitants of the ward to change it into Knight-rider's- 
court. 
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