The Survey of London

by John Stow

OFFICERS BELONGING TO THE LORD MAYOR’S HOUSE

Sword-bearer, Common hunt, Common crier, Water bailiff.

esquires, four.

The sword-bearer’s man. Common hunt’s men, two. Common crier’s man. Water-bailiffs’ men, two. The carver’s man.

gentlemen’s men, seven.

Whereof nine of these have liveries of the lord mayor, viz., the sword-bearer, and his man, the three carvers, and the four yeomen of the water side; all the rest have their liveries from the chamber of London.

Thus far after my notes delivered by an officer of the lord mayor’s house, but unperfected; for I remember a crowner, an under-chamberlain, and four clerks of the mayor’s court, and others.