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Mayors and Sheriffs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1876

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page 243 note a Fabyan inaccurately places the sheriffs (or bailiffs) of this ninth year before those of the eighth; but calls both years “Anno ix.” H. and J. give the names of the sheriffs for the tenth year as those of the ninth, and so misdate by a year the officers during the rest of the reign.

page 243 note b According to the Liber de Antiquis Legibus his mayoralty began in 1188, the first year of Rfchard I.

page 244 note a Our Chronicle leaves the date of the thirteenth year blank, and dates every succeeding year of John's reign one year too early.

page 250 note a The sheriffs for the fifteenth and sixteenth years are transposed in our chronicle.

page 251 note a The sheriffs for the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years are transposed by onr chronicler.

page 254 note a F., J., and G. give the same Christian name to both the sheriffs of this year; but H. gives their names as Thos. Forster and Walter Brandon; Arnold as Walter Forster and Thos. Brandon.

page 255 note a It is very strange that not only G., but F., J., and H. all give a fifty-second year to Edward III., though he died in the fifty-first year of his reign. The confusion doubtless arose from the election of a new mayor in the middle of the fifty-first year; and, as the mayor so elected was re-appointed in the first year of Richard I., the sheriffs of that year are named along with him.

page 256 note a Ebote in J., which agrees with F.; Enote in H. and V., which Nicholas has misread Cnote; Emot in Arnold.

page 257 note a William in J. and in Arnold; but John in F., G., and H.

page 257 note b Stowe and Orridge both give his Christian name as John, but the other authorities all call him Robert.

page 258 note a G. makes his Christian name John, and Arnold makes it Robert; but it is Richard in F. and J.