[1043] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I., p. 144.
[1044] Probably the mysterious "scotale" was among them (cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist., i. 628).
[1045] Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist., i. 410.
[1046] The ferm of Lincolnshire in 1130 was rather over £750 (£40 "numero" plus £716 16s. 3d. "blanch").
[1047] We have a precisely similar illustration, ninety years later, in the case of Carlisle. In 5 Hen. III. (1220-21) the citizens of Carlisle obtained permission to hold their city ad firmam for £60 a year payable to the Crown direct, in the place of £52 a year payable through the sheriff ("per vicecomitem") and his ferm of the shire (Ninth Report Hist. MSS., App. i. pp. 197, 202).
[1048] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I., p. 149.
[1049] Compare Henry III.'s charter to John Gifard of Chillington, conceding that during his lifetime he should not be made a sheriff, coroner, or any other bailiff against his will (Staffordshire Collections, v. [1] 158).
[1050] History of London, ii. 88. Compare Mr. Loftie's London ("Historic Towns"), p. 28: "The exact date of the charter is given by Rymer as 1101."
[1051] Vol. iii. p. 4.
[1052] The Charters of the City of London (1884), p. xiiii.: "To engage the citizens to support his Government he conferred upon them the advantageous privileges that are conferred in this charter."