. London . t is, thingsnot made as they should be made, either of bad materials orof inferior materials—was always punished by destruction ofthe things. What should be done to a man who spoke disrespectfullyof the Mayor ? One Roger Torold, citizen and vintner, inthe year of grace 1355, and in the twenty-eighth year of ourSovereign Lord King Edward III., said one day, in the pre-sence of witnesses, that he was ready to defy the Mayor, andthat if he should catch the Mayor outside the City, then the o 2 LONDON Mayor should never come back to it alive. These thingsbeing reported, the Mayor caused
. London . t is, thingsnot made as they should be made, either of bad materials orof inferior materials—was always punished by destruction ofthe things. What should be done to a man who spoke disrespectfullyof the Mayor ? One Roger Torold, citizen and vintner, inthe year of grace 1355, and in the twenty-eighth year of ourSovereign Lord King Edward III., said one day, in the pre-sence of witnesses, that he was ready to defy the Mayor, andthat if he should catch the Mayor outside the City, then the o 2 LONDON Mayor should never come back to it alive. These thingsbeing reported, the Mayor caused him to be brought beforehimself, the Aldermen, and Sheriffs at the Guildhall. The prisoner confessed his crime, and put himself upon the favourof the Court. He was committed to prison while the Courtconsidered what should be done to him. Being brought tothe bar, he offered to pay a fine of one hundred tuns of winefor to the favour of the Mayor. This was accepted, t&smm^k-- -~-=z£^*7— ^^. BLACKWELL HALL, KING STREET on the condition that he should also make a recognizance of40/. sterling to be paid if ever again he should abuse or insultthe name or person of the Mayor. For perjury, the offenderwas, for a first crime, taken to the Guildhall, and there placedupon a high stool, bareheaded, before the Mayor and Alder-men. For the second offence he was placed in pillory. Forwomen, the thew was substituted for the pillory. One Alice,wife of Robert dc Causton, stood in the thew for thickeningthe bottom of a quart pot with pitch, so as to give short PLANTAGENET 197 measure. The said quart pot was divided into two parts, ofwhich one half was tied to the pillory in sight of the people,and the other half was kept in the Guildhall. Bcath by hanging or pillory. These were almost the onlypunishments. The cases before the Mayors Court remindus of the remarkable resemblance we bear to our are monotonous because they read like the cases in amodern Police Court. Gi
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