1246-7
A.D. 1246. Sheriffs.: Symon Fitz-Mary,; Laurence de Frowyk,
In this year, the citizens of London took Queen-Hythe, they paying a
yearly rent of fifty pounds to (fn. 1) Earl Richard, and sixty shillings to the
Sick of Saint Giles's without London. In the same year, Peter
Fitz-Alan was made Mayor; and in the same year, that is to
say, in the year of Grace 1246, on the 20th day of February, there
was an earthquake at London about the (fn. 2) ninth hour. In this year, on the
16th day of April, namely, the sister of his lordship the King, on the
mother's side, the daughter of the Count de la Marche, came to London,
and was married to the Earl of Warenne.
In the same year, on the Monday next after (fn. 3) Hokeday, it was adjudged
in the Guildhall that a woman who has been endowed with a certain and
specified dower may not, nor ought to, have of the chattels of her deceased
husband, beyond the certain and specified dower assigned to her, unless
in accordance with the will of her husband. And this befell through
Margery, the relict of John Vyel the Elder, who, by numerous writs
of his lordship the King, demanded in the Hustings of London the
third part of the chattels belonging to her said husband.
In this year, the Prior and Canons of Saint Bartholomew's, by counsel
and aid of William de Haverille, Treasurer of his lordship the King, and of
Johnde Koudres, their (fn. 4) Sokereve, and of Nicholas Fitz-Jocey, set up a new
(fn. 5) tron, on the Vigil of Saint Bartholomew [24 August], refusing to allow
any one to weigh except with that tron; and this, in contravention of
the liberties and customs of the City. Wherefore the principal men of
the City, together with their Mayor, Peter Fitz-Alan, and a multitude
of the citizens, on the morrow went to the Priory of Saint Bartholomew,
and advised the Prior and Canons of that place to make amends for that
act of presumption, and to desist therefrom; whereupon, they forthwith
gave up the practice, and by the Mayor and Sheriffs of London it was
published that every man was to sell, buy, and weigh in that market, just
as they previously had been wont to do. In the same year died Ralph
Eswy, (fn. 6) Mercer, on the Feast of Cosmas and Damicanus [27 September].